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Celebrating Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve: Art, Science, and Conservation

Friday, 5 December 2008. 69 p.m. George Washington University, Room 113,
1957 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. The nearest Metro station is
GWU/Foggy Bottom (at 23rd Street and Eye Street, N.W.). Street parking
should be available though paying a meter is required until 6:30 p.m.

Introduction by Ms. Glenda Booth (President, Friends of Dyke Marsh), plant
photo essay by Professor Elizabeth F. Wells (George Washington
University), overview of biodiversity and arthropod research in DMWP by
Professor Edward M. Barrows (Georgetown University), art by Mrs. Maria
(Mania) Panayotopoulos, and the thought-provoking film

On the Edge: The Potomac River, Dyke Marsh (2006, 43 minutes).

Light refreshments. Free, open to the public!

Contacts are Dr. Elizabeth Wells, efwells@...; Ms. Glenda Booth,
gbooth123@...; and Dr. Edd Barrows, barrowse@....

Cosponsors are Friends of Dyke Marsh, George Washington University BiSc
158 (Field Botany) and Department of Biological Sciences, Mr. and Mrs.
Nick Afentakis, and the Georgetown University Center for the Environment
and Department of Biology.