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 cedarcreek.umn.edu/lwas

October was an online-only program given by Dr. Sarah Hobbie, lead investigator for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Long Term Ecological Research site (MSP LTER). She discussed the goals of this new collaboration of scientists and their work studying topics of ecological importance along an urban-rural gradient.