Tue, Apr 22
|Washington
Profs & Pints DC: The Lives and Minds of Potomac Dolphins
Come to Penn Social this Earth Day for a fascinating talk by one of the world's leading dolphin experts and her research team, who will describe what their local research project has found.
Time & Location
Apr 22, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Washington, 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA
About the event
Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Lives and Minds of Potomac Dolphins,” with Janet Mann, professor of biology and psychology at Georgetown University and author of Deep Thinkers: Inside the Minds of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, and Verena Conkin, currently a lead researcher on the Potomac-Chesapeake Dolphin Project.
Having spent over 30 years studying wild bottlenose dolphins 13,000 miles away, off Western Australia, Janet Mann was overjoyed to encounter them in the Potomac River, literally in her backyard. She responded by launching the Potomac-Chesapeake Dolphin Project, a research project that has documented more than 2000 individuals, including one they watched being born in the Potomac.
Come to Penn Social this Earth Day for a fascinating talk by one of the world's leading dolphin experts and her research team, who will describe what their local research project has found.
You'll learn how bottlenose dolphins, which have brains similar in size to…