Upcoming Programs: Some past programs and links
May 16th 2023
RAIN: A History for Stormy Times
A talk on the weather witchcraft trials of the Little Ice Age at Edinburgh Castle
BlueTech Forum
Edinburgh, Scotland
IN PERSON
September 26th to 27th 2023
Eckerd Gulf Scholars Program
Eckerd College
St. Petersburg, Florida
IN PERSON
March 22nd 2023
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
FAU public lecture series
Florida Atlantic University
Wimberly Library
Boca Raton, Florida
IN PERSON, 3 p.m.
February 7th 2023
Keynote: RAIN: A History for Stormy Times
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
Winter Symposium
1800 Lakeside Avenue
Richmond, Virginia
IN PERSON, 9 a.m.
January 19th 2023
REEF'S Into the Blue Book Club
REEF Environmental Education Foundation
Read The Sound of the Sea, join Cynthia and readers from around the world for a virtual discussion
Please pre-register at the link
VIRTUAL, 8 p.m. EST
August 13th 2022
East Hampton Author's Night 2022
Herrick Park
East Hampton Village, NY
IN PERSON, ticketed
July 30th 2022
"Water Ethics and Challenges to Water Conservation"
International Symposium on Water Sustainability 2022
University of Hong Kong
VIRUTAL, please register here; this great conference is free
June 10th 2022
Pulitzer Center 2022 Annual Conference
Interconnected: Reporting on the Climate Crisis
National Press Club
Washington D.C.
IN PERSON & VIRTUAL
June 4th 2022
Keynote presentation
Florida Wildlife Federation
Celebration of the Wild
Annual Conservation Banquet
Hutchinson Island, Florida
IN PERSON, ticketed
April 19th 2022
Sea Secrets Lecture Series
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Virginia Key, Florida
IN PERSON, 7 p.m.
Free & open to the public but register here!
April 10th 2022
Word of South
Literature and Music Festival
Flamingo Magazine stage with author Diane Roberts
Tallahassee, Florida
IN PERSON, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
April 1st 2022
Broward Literary Feast
Broward Public Library Foundation
Authors Dinner at Lobster Bar Sea Grille
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
IN PERSON, purchase tickets here
March 22nd 2022
The Urgency of Water:
Women, Climate, and Sustaining the World
World Water Day conversation
with Barnard President Sian Beilock
Barnard College
New York, New York
IN PERSON, 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
March 9th 2022
Listening to Lead Ethically
The Power of Listening in Environmental Change
Clemson University TIDE
(Tigers for Inclusion, Diversity, and Ethics) Conference
Clemson, South Carolina
IN PERSON, 5 p.m.
February 24th 2022
Florida Conservation Voters Book Club
Read The Sound of the Sea together,
then join us for a book talk & virtual signing!
VIRTUAL, 6 p.m.
February 10th 2022
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
Evenings at the Whitney Lab
The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
9505 Ocean Shore Blvd.
St. Augustine, Florida
IN PERSON, 6 p.m.
January 21st 2022
The Sound of the Sea
Book Program & Celebration for Sanibel
The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
Sanibel Island, Florida
IN PERSON, 5:30 p.m.
November 20th 2021
Miami International Book Fair
Ocean writers panel & signing
Miami Dade College
Miami, Florida
IN PERSON, 10 a.m.
November 12th 2021
Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading
Environmental authors panel with Craig Pittman
VIRTUAL, 2 p.m.
November 5th 2021
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
Lovers Key State Park Speakers Series
Lovers Key State Park
Fort Myers Beach, Florida
IN PERSON (ticketed), 6:30-8 p.m.
October 22nd 2021
THE OUTFALL Book Club
Clemson University
All water nerds are invited to read The Sound of the Sea!
VIRTUAL, 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
October 8th 2021
The Nature Conservancy: Women in Climate
Webinar with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, Nadege Green and Alex Harris
VIRTUAL, 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
August 5th 2021
Cynthia in conversation about The Sound of the Sea and telling the story of science with Dr. Faith Kearns
Warwick's
La Jolla, California
VIRTUAL, 4 p.m. PST, 7 p.m. EDT
July 19th 2021
"Listening to Seashells"
Cynthia in conversation with WLRN environmental reporter Jenny Staletovich
Books & Books
Miami, Florida
VIRTUAL, 7 p.m.
July 20th 2021
"The Sound of the Sea:
Seashells, the Gulf & the Writing Life"
Cynthia in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jack E. Davis
Tombolo Books
St. Petersburg, Florida
VIRTUAL, 6:30 p.m.
July 15th 2021
"The Sound of the Sea:
Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans"
Special program with ReMain Nantucket
1st Congregational Church
Nantucket
IN PERSON please RSVP here, 6 p.m.
July 13th 2021
The Sound of the Sea Book Talk
Point Reyes Books
Point Reyes, California
VIRTUAL, 7 p.m.
April 22nd 2021
Special Earth Day Lecture
Blue Revolution: A Water Ethic for Florida & America
The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
Sanibel, Florida
February 14th 2020
Rain: A history for stormy times
J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge
Sanibel, Florida
March 26th to 28th 2019
Embracing Uncertainty
2019 Ten Across Water Summit
Arizona State University
Phoenix, Arizona
March 29th to 30th 2019
The Colorado River Basin: Managing for Sustainability
2019 Journalists Forum
Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy
At the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Phoenix, Arizona
April 23rd 2019
Blue Revolution: A Water Ethic for Florida & America
Florida Humanities Council speakers series
WSRE Public Square
Pensacola State College, 7 p.m.
Pensacola, Florida
March 2018
Telling Earth's Story: How can the visual arts, journalism and science intersect to tackle environmental issues?
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas
February 2018
Rain: A History for Stormy Times
Seattle University Search for Meaning Festival
Seattle, Washington
February 2018
"Telling Water's Story: Storytelling and a New Water Ethic"
Plenary Panel with Jenny Adler, Sandra Postel and Margaret Ross Tolbert
6th Annual UF Water Institute Symposium
University of Florida
November 2017
Community One-Book Event, Blue Revolution
Hesston College/Hesston Mennonite Church
Hesston, Kansas
October 2017
"Rain: A history for stormy times"
TED talk
TEDx Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida
June 2017
"Understanding the Environmental Stakes"
National Press Club
Washington, D.C.
April 2017
"Nature As Truth in a Post-Truth World"
Earth Day keynote
Cal State Northridge
Los Angeles
February 2017
"Rain: A history for stormy times"
NASA Earth Sciences Division
Washington D.C.
November 2016
"Rain: A history for stormy times"
Baruch College Climate Change Seminar Series
New York, N.Y.
October 2016
Keynote speaker
4th Annual Kent State Water and Land Symposium
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
January 2016
Keynote speaker
California Irrigation Association
Sacramento
September 2015
Featured speaker
Escape to the Clouds
The Royal Geographical Society
London
September 2015
Keynote speaker
The International RiverSymposium
Brisbane, Australia
April 2015
Keynote speaker
Water Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Conference
D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership
Viterbo University
La Crosse, Wisconsin
October 2014
"Blue Revolution: A Water Ethic for America"
Xavier University Campus Sustainability Day
Cincinnati, Ohio
February 2014
"Putting Faith in a Water Ethic"
frank Gathering
University of Florida
February 2014
"Drought as Opportunity for Change"
Keynote speaker
Xeriscape Council of New Mexico
Land & Water Summit 2014
Albuquerque, New Mexico
January 2014
Blue Revolution: A water ethic for America
Wallace Stegner Lecture
S.J. Quinney College of Law Wallace Stegner Center
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
October 2013
2013 NAWC Water Summit
Water book authors panel
San Diego, California
October 2013
University of Florida "Gators Read" Program
Blue Revolution: A Water Ethic for America
September 2013
Sayfie Review Florida Leaders Summit
"Disrupt Florida: Water"
JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes
Orlando, Florida
May 2013
Keynote, 2013 Water Is Life! Conference
Southeast RCAP
Roanoke, Virginia
March 2013
Author keynote
Summit County Reads!
Community-wide read of Blue Revolution
Summit County, Colorado
March 2013
Keynote, Water & Florida's Future
Lou Frey Institute Spring Symposium
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida
February 2013
Horizons 2013 Spring Lecture Series
Tallahassee Scientific Society
Challenger Learning Center
Tallahassee, Florida
December 2012
Blue Revolution: A water ethic for America
Environmental science lecture series
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Dearborn, Michigan
November 2012
A Water Ethic for America
Special program
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
November 2012
A Water Ethic for America
Special program
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, Oklahoma
November 2012
Keynote speaker
Oklahoma Governors Water Conference
Tulsa, Oklahoma
October 2012
Keynote speaker
Arkansas Watershed Conference
Fort Smith, Arkansas
October 2012
Keynote speaker
Alliance for Water Efficiency 2012 annual meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada
September 2012
Keynote speaker
Moscow, Idaho
June 2012
Speaker
Water Justice and the Blue Revolution
Unitarian Universalist General Assembly 2012
Phoenix, Arizona
May 2012
On the Caring Middle
Commencement address to the Class of 2012
Unity College
Unity, Maine
March 2012
Guest speaker, Charlottesville World Water Day 2012
Virginia Festival of the Book
Charlottesville, Virginia
March 2012
"Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis
National read of Blue Revolution
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Get Together
Boston, MA
February 2012
"Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis"
William J. Clinton Distinguished Lecturer
Clinton School of Public Service
University of Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
February 2012
"The Secret Watershed: Restoring History and Nature in a Lost Landscape"
Keynote speech
Sarasota Bay Watershed Symposium
New College of Florida
Sarasota, Florida
February 2012
"The Hypertext of Water"
TED talk
TEDxUF 2012
University of Florida