Join us to welcome Dr. Joe Roman, who will discuss his latest publication “Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World.” Roman will highlight some of the research being conducted worldwide on the role of animals in building ecosystems. If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains—eating, pooping, and dying along the way—are its heart and arteries, pumping nitrogen and phosphorus from deep-sea gorges up to mountain peaks, from the Arctic to the Caribbean. Without this conveyor belt of crucial, life-sustaining nutrients, Earth would look very different.