Speaker: Dr. Susan Nash, American Association of Petroleum Geologists

Dr. Susan Nash will present on how the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History inspired her to write two books. In Residuals: Cotylorhynchus Rises, Nash connects the energies between the mass casualties of Permian extinction and of the Griffin Memorial Hospital fire. In her memoir, Shells and Shadows, Nash recalls growing up in Norman, Oklahoma in the 60s and 70s when the land that the Sam Noble Museum is positioned on was a long-abandoned WWII naval base. During the writing process of these books, Nash studied the Sam Noble Museum’s collection of Permian synapsids and land history.