VOYAGER LECTURE SERIES

The Ancient Life of Washington County

With Jerry Harris

Tuesday, October 29, 7:30pm

Social Hour begins at 6:30pm

The Lorraine Boccardo Theater

Join fan-favorite presenter, Jerry Harris, for an exploration of ancient life in Washington County. Jerry Harris is the Director of Paleontology Science Department at Utah Tech University, and is an advisor to the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm.

Southwestern Utah is a desert today, but throughout prehistory, it’s been many different environments: under the ocean, a “sea” of sand dunes, a forested river floodplain, a freshwater lake, and more. Evidence for each of these comes from the layers of rocks preserved in Washington County. Each of these environments hosted its own unique fauna and flora, some of which are preserved as fossils. Their stories tell us about the ever-changing nature of our backyard.

This year’s Voyager Lecture Series follows “The History of This Land,” from the deep time studied in geology, through modern concerns related to our changing environment.