Lunch with a Scientist is an ongoing monthly lecture series at Cedar Creek. Each month, scientists present a general-audience lecture about their work at or related to Cedar Creek and take questions from the audience.
The series has been running since January 2019 as an in-person program. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was shifted online in April 2020, from which point recordings are available. Programs take place on the second Tuesday of each month (11:30am central time), either in-person at Cedar Creek, via zoom, or both. Details about speakers and delivery mode are at https://cbs.umn.edu/cedarcreek/public-programs/lunch-scientist
August's Lunch with a Scientist featured Landscape Architecture professor Rebecca Krinke, discussing a new collaborative project. Funded by the UMN’s Institute for Advanced Study, “Two-Eyed Seeing and Third Spaces” is a Research-Creative Collaborative that is based at Cedar Creek. "Two-eyed seeing" means to see from both an Indigenous perspective and the lens of Western science at the same time. Our interdisciplinary group is both indigenous and settler; we are now beginning our second year together. Dr. Krinke highlighted the group's explorations and discussions into "two eyed seeing”, and making or finding “third spaces” at Cedar Creek to facilitate new understanding of the Earth together. After the talk, the audience was invited to walk to Cedar Bog Lake where a ”third space” installation will be on view.