A free community talk with Anne Lacy, Coordinator of Crane Research for the International Crane Foundation, presenting "The Trumpet in the Orchestra of Evolution; the Story of the Sandhill Crane in North America." Sandhill Cranes are the most numerous of the world’s 15 crane species. They inhabit many varied places in North America – and Asia! – in both migratory and non-migratory populations. During her talk, Lacy will follow this species from tropical forests to arctic tundra, and the places they go in between.

About the speaker
Anne Lacy grew up in Madison, Wisconson before attending college in Eau Claire. She received a bachelor's in psychology (1991) and returned to get a bachelor's in biology (1994). After working various jobs while taking graduate level Geographic Information Systems courses at the University of South Carolina, Anne was accepted to the graduate program in biology at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. After finishing coursework in Duluth in 2000, Anne accepted an internship at the International Crane Foundation while finishing her thesis. After completion of her master's, Anne accepted a full-time position at ICF as a research associate in the Field Ecology Department (now the North America Programs), working on an ongoing long-term study of Sandhill Cranes. In 2009, she added Whooping Cranes to her work. This work with the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership, of which ICF is an active member, focuses on the monitoring and management of the newly reintroduced Whooping Cranes in Wisconsin.