Elgin High School Biodiversity Teach-in

Elgin High School's monthlong series of biodiversity webinars begins at 8 a.m. Friday. The schedule:

Friday, Feb. 3• 8 a.m., Dr. Deborah Giles, lecturer and research associate in the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology at the University of California, leads a discussion on "Southern Resident Killer Whales: Past, Present and Future Conservation and Recovery"; 9 a.m., Ric O'Barry, Dolphin Project; 10 a.m., Sam Wasser, Center for Conservation Biology, University of Washington; 11 a.m., Professor Darren Croft, marine mammal behavioral ecologist; 12 p.m., Lindsay Hirt, humpback whales; 1 p.m., Candace Crespi, Ocean Preservation Society; 2 p.m., Rick Wood, wildlife poaching; 3 p.m., Captain Paul Watson, whaling industry; 4 p.m., Ann Froschauer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Friday, Feb. 10• 8 a.m., Thomas Lovejoy, biodiversity conservation scientist; 9 a.m., Nancy Knowlton, coral reefs; 10 a.m., Elizabeth Bach, soil biodiversity; 11 a.m., Holly Holt, pollinators; 12 p.m., Dr. Kelly Jaakkola, "Studying Dolphins Up Close and Why it Matters"; 1 p.m., Michael Robinson, predators; 2 p.m., Corey Romberg, lemur conservation and Madagascar; 3 p.m., Geoffrey A. Landis, climate change; 4 p.m., Laura Faye Tenenbaum, "Global Climate Change; Vital Signs of the Planet."

Tuesday, Feb. 14• 9 a.m., Melissa Stewart, "No Monkeys, No Chocolate"; 10 a.m., Patricia Newman, "Sea Otter Heroes: Predator that saved an ecosystem"; 11 a.m., Samia Khan, "The shapes of Eid, According to Me"; 12 p.m., Sy Montgomery, "Researching Biodiversity is an Amazing Adventure!"; 1 p.m., Leslie Bulion, "At the Sea Floor Café and Uncharted Waters"; 2 p.m., Sneed B. Collard III, "A Life Full of Biodiversity"; 3 p.m., Nancy Castaldo, "Nature as Inspiration"; 4 p.m., Lola Schaefer, "Lifetime, Because of an Acorn, and An Island Grows."

Friday, Feb. 17• 11 a.m., Dawn Bazely, amazing plant defenses; 12 p.m., Cory Suski, Asian carp-invasive species; 1 p.m., Dorie Stolley, "Egrets to Eagles: An Introduction to Wild Bird Identification"; 2 p.m., Peggy Doty, predators.

Friday, Feb. 24• 10 a.m., Sandra Postel, "The Worth of Water"; 11 a.m., Neeshad V. Shafi, "Youth for Climate Action and Solution"; 12 p.m., Dr. Katherine Hayhoe, "The Science of Climate Change."

Register: nationalbiodiversityteachin.com.