13 February 2012
"Geeky Garbage" Lecture
Howard will be speaking at an upcoming gathering sponsored by Gelf magazine. "Geeky Garbage" is a "look at the most overlooked aspect of the overlooked--civilization's waste. We'll have on hand the New York City sanitation department's resident anthropologist and an expert on some of the city's earliest landfills to talk about what really happens when we throw something in the trash, and how it impacts everyone."
"Geeky Garbage" will be held Monday, 20 February 2012, at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.) at the Gallery at La Poisson Rouge at 158 Bleecker Street in Manhattan. Attendees must be twenty-one or older.
For more information, visit http://www.gelfmagazine.com/gelflog/archives/february_20_geeky_garbage.php.
01 June 2011
Howard Warren Lecture on Barren Island and Dead Horse Bay
Howard is giving a lecture called "Learning from Barren Island and Dead Horse Bay" on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Metropolitan Exchange at 33 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn. The lecture is part of the Freshkills Park Talks lecture series.
For over twenty years, Howard has been taking his students to Barren Island and Dead Horse Bay to study, and he has become one of the City's leading experts on the history and present condition of the area. He will be sharing some of his reflections on his studies with the students and how the site has been changing.
More information about the event can be found at http://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2011/06/14/freshkills-park-talks-learning-from-barren-island-and-dead-horse-bay.
Courtney C. Armstrong ’11, Alyssa M. Jimenez ’11, Elizabeth M. Morton ’19, and other fourth graders examine the external attributes of a fish to determine its natural history.
06 December 2010
Science Curriculum Presentation
Howard and Linda D’Apolito (Science) presented a curriculum piece that Howard wrote entitled “You Can’t Judge a Book by its Cover… But a Fish is a Different Story” at the National Science Teachers Association Convention in Baltimore, Maryland.