{"id":73377,"date":"2021-03-19T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowelllandtrust.org\/?p=73377"},"modified":"2021-03-19T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:04:54","slug":"webinar-why-do-we-need-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowelllandtrust.org\/webinar-why-do-we-need-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar: Why Do We Need Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chain, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, UMass Lowell<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4>Join us for a lively presentation and discussion about science.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uml.edu\/sciences\/biology\/faculty\/chain-frederic.aspx\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dr.\u00a0Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chain<\/span><\/strong><\/a> will take us through some short activities to explore how to think about science.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll explore further the following questions: Why do we need science? What is the scientific process and some misconceptions? How can we apply scientific thinking to navigate the world with the often overwhelming and conflicting information that we consume?\u00a0 To close out the webinar, Dr. Chain will end with an exercise simulating the <a href=\"https:\/\/fredericchain.weebly.com\/\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">eDNA research<\/span><\/strong><\/a> that we are doing to monitor aquatic biodiversity in Lowell.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for a lively presentation and discussion about science &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-educ","category-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Webinar: Why Do We Need Science? 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