Museum events in June

"BASEBALL AS AMERICA"

Lecture 6/4: "Baseball on the Moon." Physicist Peter Brancazio, Brooklyn College. Kaufmann Theater, 7:00 P.M. Panel 6/11: "New York Stories: Willie, Mickey, or Duke?" Moderator: Marty Appel, author of Now Pitching for the Yankees. Panelists: Robert Creamer, Sports Illustrated; Maury Allen, baseball biographer; Ira Berkow, New York Times. Kaufmann Theater, 7:00 P.M.

AMNH BOOK CLUB

Monthly meeting 6/9: Salt: A World History, by Mark Kurlansky. Details at (212) 769-5200. Portrait Room, 3:00 P.M.

INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE MUSEUM

Children's workshop 6/2: "Dinosaur Expedition" For ages 9-10. Museum instructor Lisa Breslof. 10:30 A.M.-1:30 P.M.

University Without Walls 6/3-6/27 (telephone courses): "Sharks: Denizens of the Deep"; "Myths of Masks and Symbols"; and "Seeds of Change." Advance registration required. Details from DOROT at (212) 769-2850 or toll-free at (877) 819-9147.

Identification Day 6/8: Bring in your curios, natural and cultural objects, and baseball treasures. Museum scientists and Joshua Leland Evans, of Leland's sports auction house, will help you learn more about them. Note: no appraisals; no identification of gemstones. Details at (212) 769-5176. Hall of Birds of the World and Leonhardt People Center, 1:00-4:30 P.M.

Games 6/8: Participate in or watch demonstrations, workshops, and other activities (including a day-long "pro" game of Strat-O-Matic). Leonhardt People Center and Calder Lab, 1:00-4:30 P.M.

Workshops 6/6, 6/20: Introductory talk and instruction provides a basic understanding of genomics and DNA sequencing procedures. Calder Lab, 6:00-9:00 P.M.

Children's workshop 6/9: "Crime Lab Investigation." For ages 8-9. Museum instructor Lisa Breslof. 10:30 A.M.-1:30 P.M.

Field trip 6/11: "Up the Hudson River Toward the Tappan Zee." Sidney Horenstein, Museum coordinator of environmental programs. 6:00-9:00 P.M.

Panel discussion 6/12 (Reports From the Field series): "Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca." Author and environmentalist Benjamin Orlove and Museum scientists Craig Morris and Melanie Stiassny. Linder Theater, 7:00 P.M.

Field trip 6/18: "Down the Hudson River Into the Bay." Sidney Horenstein. 6:00-9:00 P.M.

Other expeditions: Inwood Hill and Henry Hudson Bridge; birds of Jamaica Bay; Thacher State Park and Mohonk Preserve.

Information and reservations for all programs: (212) 769-5200.

ACOMA PUEBLO POTTERY

Lecture 6/3: "Acoma Pottery." AMNH anthropology curators David Hurst Thomas and Peter Whiteley. Kaufmann Theater, 7:00 P.M.

Workshops 6/4, 6/5: Basics of Acoma pottery, with Emma and Dolores Lewis. Held at YMCA, 5 W 63rd St., 7:00-10:00 P.M.

Film 6/6: Daughters of the Anasazi. Documentary on Acoma potter Lucy Lewis and her daughters. Discussion with Emma and Dolores Lewis and AMNH anthropologist Lori Pendleton. Kaufmann Theater, 7:00 P.M.

Three-day workshop and lectures 6/7-6/9: More techniques of Acoma pottery, with Emma and Dolores Lewis. YMCA, 5 W. 63rd St., 10:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M. Information and reservations: (212) 769-5200.

ASTRONOMY & COSMOLOGY

Lecture 6/3 (Frontiers in Astrophysics series): "Einstein's Biggest Blunder? The Case for Cosmic `Antigravity.'" Astronomer Alex Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley. Space Theater, Hayden Planetarium, 7:30 P.M.

Isaac Asimov Memorial Panel Debate 6/10: "The Search for Life in the Universe." LeFrak Theater, 7:30 P.M.

July's Celestial Highlights 6/25: Joe Rao, meteorologist and Natural History columnist. Space Theater, Hayden Planetarium, 6:30 P.M. Planetarium information: (212) 769-5200 or www.amnh.org/hayden/.

The American Museum of Natural History is located at Central Park West and 79th Street in New York City. For listings of events, exhibitions, and hours, call (212) 769-5200 or visit the Museum's Web site at www.amnh.org. Space Show tickets, retail products, and Museum memberships are also available online.

IMAX FILMS

"The Best of IMAX" festival 6/2-6/23: Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets; To Fly!; and Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure.

Regular IMAX screenings resume 6/24: Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa and Bears.

The 950-seat Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak Theater, first constructed in 1900, reopens 6/2 after an $8 million renovation funded by the Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak Charitable Foundation.

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Robert S. White ("The Ice Above, the Fire Below," page 42), left, is a professor of geophysics at the University of Cambridge and leads a research group investigating volcanism and rifting in a variety of geological environments. In recent years, their work has involved terrestrial investigations (in Iceland, the Faeroe Islands, India, East Africa, and New Zealand) as well as surveys at sea (in the Indian Ocean and the Sea of Marmara and on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the rifted continental margins of Europe). During his twenty-seven-year career, photographer Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson has amassed an archive of 130,000 images, many related to the geology of his native Iceland. He has also repeatedly been drawn to the Faeroe Islands, Greenland, and Canada's far northwest.