Yosemite Forum

The Yosemite Forum is a free interactive lecture series designed to bring evolving knowledge of the Sierra Nevada to the public and the park.

• Lectures are 3:30 to 4:30 pm on the second Tuesday of the month (unless otherwise noted).

• All lectures will be available virtually, while some will also take place in person in the Yosemite Valley Auditorium (behind the Exploration Center). See below for more details.

If you have questions about how to attend, send us an email.

Schedule for 2024

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title/Topic	In Person Option
March 26* note special date	Dr. Kurt Cuffey	UC Berkeley	When did Yosemite Valley become a deep canyon?	Yes
April 9	Dean King	Author	Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the friendship that saved Yosemite	No
May 21* note special date	Dr. Timothy Babalis	NPS	Environmental History of Tuolumne Meadows	Yes
June 11	Dr. Keith Bouma-Gregson	USGS	Cyanobacterial toxins in Yosemite creeks and rivers	Yes
July 8 at 10 am note updated date/time	Brett Milligan	UC Davis	Pyro Futures: Imagining our evolving relationship with fire	Yes
August 13	Dr. Jeffrey Jenkins	UC Merced	The effect of climatic conditions, disturbance, and displacement on changing visitor use patterns in Yosemite National Park	Yes
September 10	Dr. Van Kane & Liz van Wagtenkdonk	University of Washington	Remote sensing of Yosemite’s forests	Yes
October 8	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
November 12	Rolf Diamant	Author / University of Vermont	Beyond the myths: A fresh look at the origin of our National Parks	No
December 10	Rachel Friesen	Cal Poly San Luis Obispo	Yosemite's alpine plants in a changing climate	Yes

*Special date

The Yosemite Forum is a partnership among:

• National Park Service
• Yosemite Conservancy
• USGS, Western Ecological Research Center Yosemite Field Station
• University of California, Sierra Nevada Research Institute
• USFS, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Sierra Nevada Research Center

Learn more about the park's research and studies.