Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Isaac Klapper (Math / Biology, College of Science and Technology) on The Secret Lives of Marble Monuments.

In his talk, Dr. Klapper focuses on the scale of a stone monument, which can still be thought of, almost literally, as a living, breathing object – photosynthesizing cyanobacteria living on stone breathing in carbon dioxide and water to produce food, and exhale oxygen as a byproduct. To an individual cyanobacterium living on an air-exposed stone surface, however, environment is destiny in the sense that, at least in relatively slowly changing conditions, survival is coupled to local chemical and physical conditions.

Be sure to check out one of Dr. Klapper’s early publication on outdoor monuments, “Subaerial Biofilms on Outdoor Stone Monuments: Changing the Perspective Toward an Ecological Framework,” 66, no. 4 (2016): 285-294.

This talk is open to the public.