Actualitatea patrimoniului științific și de explorare a lui Emil G. Racoviță

Acest eveniment, este organizat virtual la Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, în 17 noiembrie 2022 la ora 15:00, și este deschis publicului (comunicat de presă).

Evenimentul este transmis online pe canalul YouTube.

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Programul (desfășurat în limba engleză)

Opening Remarks (15:00 EEST)

  • Acad. Ioan-Aurel Pop (President, Romanian Academy)

  • Prof. Daniel David (Rector, Babes-Bolyai University; Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy)

  • Acad. Octavian Popescu (President, E.G. Racoviță Foundation)

Belgica’s Legacy (15:15 EEST)

  • Acad. Prof. Emeritus Patrick De Dekker (Australian National University, Canberra; Australian Academy of Sciences)
    On the extraordinary achievements by the biologist Emil Racoviță during and after the Belgica expedition

  • Anders Bache (The Roald Amundsen House, Norway)
    Roald Amundsen’s House and the Belgica expedition

  • Carol Smith (Executive Director, Frederick A. Cook Society, New York, USA)
    Frederick Cook reimagined

  • Olivier de Schrevel and Charlotte Rolin Jacquemyns (Georges Lecointe Family, Belgium)
    The Belgica expedition: some highlights of Emile Racovitza

  • Julian Sancton (book author)
    “Madhouse at the End of the Earth” - live Q&A with the author

  • Prof. Peter Convey (British Antarctic Survey, NERC, UK) & Dr. Iryna Kozeretska (Natl. Antarctic Sci. Center of Ukraine)
    Belgica antarctica – the Antarctic continent’s only true insect

Marine Biology, Biospeleology, Speleology, and beyond (17:00 EEST)

  • Prof. Angel Ginés (University of Balearic Islands, Mallorca)

  • Coves del Drac and the beginnings of biospeleology*

  • Prof. Emeritus David Culver (American Univ., Washington, USA)
    E.G. Racoviță, the father of biospeleology

  • Prof. Bogdan P. Onac (Univ. South Florida and E.G. Racoviță Institute of Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
    Speleology: A look into its past and future

  • Dr. Penelope Boston (NASA Astrobiology Institute, USA)
    Alien worlds beneath our eet

Closing Remarks (18:00 EEST)

  • Dr. Călin Cașcaval (Co-founder, E.G. Racoviță Foundation, and great grandson of Emil G. Racoviță)
    E.G. Racoviță Foundation - Opportunities for New Generations