January Society General Meeting + Speaker: Franco Mariotti
January 26, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join us for our next public meeting at the Parkside Centre on Durham Street in Sudbury. Doors open at 1:15 pm for socializing and light refreshments. Please bring your own coffee mug or travel mug.
The meeting at 2 pm will feature our guest speaker Franco Mariotti, Naturalist and Science Communicator on the topic: “Hope in a Changing Landscape: The Sudbury Rewilding Story”
About Franco’s presentation:
The city of Greater Sudbury was just a few decades ago surrounded by a black landscape that looked like the Moon. The city had serious image problem that prevented new people and businesses from moving here. The Sudbury of today is a very different and attractive place to visit. The restoration of life to the landscape has positively changed the future of the city and has inspired hope locally and abroad. Explore through images and story what has happened to make that incredible positive change and what can be learnt from it.
About Franco:
Franco is a Biologist, Naturalist and a Science Communicator.
He was employed as a Staff Scientist and Science Communicator at Science North for 32 years. He was there at the birth of the science centre where he developed exhibits, programs, videos and presentations for the public. During his time at Science North he has delivered hundreds of presentations and developed content for in-house exhibits. He was also part of the development team that over the years has created many travelling exhibits that travelled to major science centres and museums throughout North America. With his work and background in Natural History he has also travelled to Tanzania in the making of an IMAX film on Dr. Jane Goodall and to Borneo in another IMAX film on Orangutans.
Franco is an avid traveller having visited ‘wild places’ in North and South America as well as Africa.
For decades Franco has been involved with numerous environmentally based community and provincial groups all dealing with the protection and restoration of the natural environment.
Upon retiring at Science North, he has been involved in the production of documentary films dealing with environmental issues and acts as a Naturalist and Guide for Polar Expeditions Cruise Ships in both the Arctic and in the Antarctic.
