A conversation about what trees and the deep ocean can teach us about endurance, adaptation, and the limits of human scale. In their books In Trees and The Dark Frontier, Robert Moor and Jeffrey Marlow enter worlds where life unfolds according to rhythms radically different from our own -- rooted, submerged, ancient, and largely invisible to the tempo of modern life. From forests that record time in rings and branching forms to seafloor organisms that survive by slowing almost to a standstill, their books ask what happens when we encounter forms of life that force us to rethink time itself.
Presented in Association with Damascus Citizens for Sustainability.
Date
Jun 19, 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Featuring
Robert Moor
Robert Moor is an award-winning writer and New York Times-bestselling author. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, Harper’s, the Atlantic and Granta, among others. Moor’s first book, On Trails, won the National Outdoor Book Award, the William Saroyan Prize and the Pacific Northwest Book Award. It was named The Telegraph’s Best Travel Books of 2016 and the Guardian Bookshop’s Best Nature Writing of 2016. He lives in British Columbia.
Jeffrey Marlow
Jeffrey Marlow is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Boston University, where his lab studies the links between microbes and their surroundings in a range of extreme environments, from active volcanoes to the deep sea. He has led or participated in ten deep-sea research expeditions, and worked on the science team of three of NASA’s Mars rover missions. Jeff has served as a science advisor at the United Nations’ negotiations for the High Seas Treaty, and is a member of the National Academies of Sciences New Voices leadership program. As a science writer and journalist, he has written for publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Scientific American. His first book, The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea, has been named a BBC Book of the Week and one of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2026. Jeff is a National Geographic Explorer and a fellow of The Explorers Club and the Royal Geographical Society.
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