CVAS Lecture-April

Lectures are held the 3rd Thursday of each month with the exception of the months June, July and August, when no lectures are held

Guest Speaker: Francois Gohier-Nature Photographer

Program Titled: Whale Watching and Inca Culture

Lecture Date: April 17th

Lecture Time: 7:00 pm

Lecture Location: CEU Prehistoric Museum (in the classroom upstairs in the Hall of Man)

                                155 East Main Street-Enter from the rear parking lot, one door will be unlocked

This program is free and open to the public.

BIO: Francois Gohier, who has been based in San Diego, California, since 1988, grew up in the Basque Country in Southwest France where he developed an interest for nature and photography while hiking and climbing in the Pyrenees, the mountain range between France and Spain. He studied mathematics and physics but after taking a class of natural history photography with the Photo and Cinema Service at the National Museum in Paris, he decided to travel and document the natural world and spent several years in South America.

While sailing in the Gulf of California in 1977, Francois met Dr Theodore Walker, a specialist of the California Gray whale, and later joined him on trips to Laguna San Ignacio in Baja California, Mexico. Since then Francois has returned to Baja California almost every winter. He has photographed marine mammals along the coasts of North and South America, Australia, and Europe.

Francois has also spent a great deal of time visiting and photographing archaeological sites in the Southwestern US, and in South America.