Professional Slide Presentations & Lectures

by D. Bruce Means

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Dr. Means is available to deliver lectures on a wide selection of natural history topics based on his professional research, teaching, documentary filmmaking, and travel. Lectures are accompanied by high quality 35 mm color slides. Normally lectures run about one hour, but the length of each presentation can be tailored to the needs of the audience (one-half to four hours). CUSTOM LECTURES can be tailored to a specific audience’s interest based upon Means’s 40+ years as a naturalist in the Southeastern U. S., South and Central America, Australia and other places. Dr. Means draws from his extensive bank of 75,000 color slides. Fee is negotiable, depending upon time involved and distance traveled, size of the audience, and other factors. Please contact him at Coastal Plains Institute, 1313 Milton St., Tallahassee, FL 32303 (phone 850-681-6208; fax 850-681-6208).

• Lost Worlds of Ancient Gondwanna: Recent Explorations
• U. S. Diversity Hotspot - The Overlooked Southeastern U. S. Coastal Plain
• King Rattler - Natural History of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
• Quest For The Rainbow Serpent - World's Oldest Story and Snakes of Australia
• Islands In The Sky - Lost Worlds of West Gondwana, the Tepuis of South America
• Galapagos Islands - Evolutionary Boiling Pot
• Ephemeral Life - Natural History of Temporary Ponds
• Fire Forest - Natural History of the Vanishing Longleaf Pine Ecosystem
• Making Documentary Wildlife Films - Experiences of a Naturalist
• Cottonmouth! - The Most Feared Southern Snake
• Amphibian Paradise - The Salamanders and Frogs of Florida
• They Creep and Crawl - Snakes of Florida
• Wildlife of Southern Africa - Treks in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa
• Madagascar - Wildlife and Ecology of an Ancient Landmass
• Expeditions to Guyana - The Search for Frogs in A World Biodiversity Hotspot

Slide/Lecture Presentations under Development

• Southern Swamps - Last of the Dinosaurs
• Quetzlcoatl - Mayan Iconography and Natural History of the Neotropical Rattlesnake
• Priceless Florida - Presentation to accompany promotion of book by same title, co-authored with EllieWhitney and Ann Rudloe
• Secrets Of The Little Known Southern Wildlife
• Seepage Bogs and Wet Flats - Fire Ecology and Management
• Evolutionary Ecology of Plethodontid Salamanders - Lessons from 30 Years’ Research in the Coastal Plain
• Carnivorous Plant Ecosystems, Worldwide
• Other Lectures can be tailored to a specific audience’s interest based upon Means’s 35 years as a naturalist in the Southeastern U. S., South and Central America, Australia and other places.
• Neotropical Rattlesnake - Natural History and Mayan Mythology
• Quest for the Rainbow Serpent - Snakes of Australia
• Paleoecology of Southeastern North America [megafauna, diving, underwater, etc.]
• Southern Swamps - Last of the Dinosaurs
• Madagascar - Wildlife and Ecology