Science Talks

Name: Science Talk! Northern Bobwhite Quail and Managing Land for Wildlife
Start: 2026-09-08T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-09-08T20:30:00-04:00
Location: The Wayne Theatre

January 2025
Science Talk: Belmont Vineyard and the 19th Century Wine Industry in the Virginia Blue Ridge with Carole Nash, Ph.D.
Featured January 21, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Wayne Theatre 521 West Main Street, Waynesboro, Virginia
Speaker: Carole Nash, Ph.D. Topic: Belmont Vineyard and the 19th Century Wine Industry in the Virginia Blue Ridge Please join us at at 7 pm on Tuesday, January 21st, at the Wayne Theatre in Waynesboro for our first Science Talk of 2025! Our speaker will be Carole Nash, Ph.D., James Madison University Professor of Geography […]
February 2025
Science Talk! Water is Water: the Fuzzy Distinction between Surface and Groundwater in the Shenandoah Valley with Wil Orndorff
Featured February 18, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Wayne Theatre 521 West Main Street, Waynesboro, Virginia
Speaker: Wil Orndorff Topic: Water is Water: the Fuzzy Distinction between Surface and Groundwater in the Shenandoah Valley Please join us at at 7 pm on Tuesday, February 18th, at the Wayne Theatre in Waynesboro for his presentation on the effect extended periods of drought have on groundwater. Wil Orndorff is the Karst Protection Coordinator […]
Free
March 2025
Science Talk: Dr. Angel Garcia, JMU Assistant Professor, Ethnogeology & Karst Science
Featured March 18, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Wayne Theatre 521 West Main Street, Waynesboro, Virginia
Speaker: Dr. Angel Garcia Topic: To Be Determined Please save the date to join us at at 7 pm on Tuesday, March 18th, at the Wayne Theatre in Waynesboro for a Science Talk by Dr. Angel Garcia, JMU Assistant Professor of Ethnogeology & Karst Science. Dr. Garcia is a Boricua (Puerto Rican) geologist interested in […]
April 2025
Science Talk! Revitalizing an EPA Brownfield: South River Preserve and Rockfish Run
Featured April 29, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Wayne Theatre 521 West Main Street, Waynesboro, Virginia
Speaker: Jessica Slagle, Stormwater Engineer at Timmons Group Topic: Revitalizing an EPA Brownfield - South River Preserve and Rockfish Run Join us at 7 pm on Tuesday, April 29th, at the Wayne Theatre for a Science Talk presented by The Timmons Group. Jessica Slagle will give a presentation on the creation and revitalization of the […]
Free
September 2025
Science Talk! Marshall Boyd, VMNH: What’s in a Name? How Taxonomy Fuels Museums
Featured September 16, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Wayne Theatre 521 West Main Street, Waynesboro, Virginia
We're kicking off the series on Tuesday, September 16th with Marshall Boyd, Research & Collections Technician at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. His talk is titled What’s in a Name? How Taxonomy Fuels the World of Museums. Topic: Taxonomy (the science of naming, describing, and classifying organisms into groups based on shared characteristics) plays […]
Free
October 2025
Science Talk! Dr Joe Keiper, VMNH – Historic Bird Collections: A Time Machine for Bird Conservation and a Gateway for Avian Appreciation
Featured October 21, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Wayne Theatre 521 West Main Street, Waynesboro, Virginia
Our second Science Talk of the series on Tuesday, October 21st features Dr Joe Keiper, Executive Director at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. Historic Bird Collections: A Time Machine for Bird Conservation and a Gateway for Avian Appreciation Topic Details: Dr. Keiper will talk about how to get into birding and citizen science, and delve […]
Free
November 2025
Science Talk! John E. Ross: Here’s to the Weather Warriors!
Featured November 11, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Wayne Theatre 521 West Main Street, Waynesboro, Virginia
Please join us on Tuesday, November 11th, at 7 pm for a special Veteran's Day Science Talk at the Wayne Theatre. John E. Ross will give a talk titled Here’s to the Weather Warriors! All was ready for D-day. Aboard ships steaming in the English Channel, thousands of troops waited anxiously. In their camps by […]
Free
January 2026
Science Talk! Storytelling and Watershed Science: Premiering “Chessie’s Big Adventure”
Featured January 20 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Wayne Theatre 521 West Main Street, Waynesboro, Virginia
Storytelling and Watershed Science: Premiering “Chessie’s Big Adventure” Update: the first 50 people to arrive at the Wayne Theatre will receive a small "Chessie" duckie! Tell your friends! Yellow rubber duckie with SRWC logo - first 50 arrivals to the Science Talk get one free! High in the Blue Ridge Mountains south of Waynesboro, water […]
Free
February 2026
Science Talk! Rare and Unique Plants of Augusta County and the Central Appalachian Mountains with Chris Ludwig and Gary Fleming
Featured February 17 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Wayne Theatre 521 West Main Street, Waynesboro, Virginia
Chris Ludwig, former Chief Biologist for the State of Virginia, and Gary P. Fleming, Ecologist Emeritus with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation Division of Natural Heritage, will give a Science Talk about the Rare and Unique Plants of Augusta County and the Central Appalachian Mountains in Virginia Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 @ 7 […]
Free
March 2026
Science Talk! Native Bees in Local Landscapes with UVA’s T’ai Roulston
Featured March 17 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Wayne Theatre 521 West Main Street, Waynesboro, Virginia
Appreciating and Promoting Native Bees in Local Landscapes with T'ai Roulston March 17, 2026, 7 pm at the Wayne Theatre Topic: The University of Virginia's T'ai Roulston will highlight research on and explore the natural history of Virginia's native bee species. Wild bee species pollinate the bulk of native plants in Virginia's wild areas, are […]
Free
April 2026
Science Talk! Forest Forensics with Chris Bolgiano
Featured April 21 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Wayne Theatre 521 West Main Street, Waynesboro, Virginia
Join us at the Wayne Theatre on Tuesday, April 21st at 7 pm for Chris Bolgiano’s Science Talk Forest Forensics: Finding Clues to the Past in Our Woods Today. Well over a century after the establishment of national forests across the Appalachian Mountains, their origin story has faded from common memory. After all, trees blanket […]
Free
September 2026
Science Talk! Northern Bobwhite Quail and Managing Land for Wildlife
September 8 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The Wayne Theatre 521 West Main Street, Waynesboro, Virginia
The first Science Talk of the 2026-27 Season will be presented on Tuesday, September 8th, at 7 PM at the Wayne Theatre by Caty McVicker, a Wildlife Biologist with Quail Forever. Since the 1960s, Northern bobwhite populations in Virginia have been in steep decline. Caty's presentation will cover the natural lifecycle and habitat requirements of […]
Free

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