{"id":30002,"date":"2014-07-10T15:50:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T19:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2014\/07\/10\/necc-professor-to-present-on-the-amazon-basin\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:32:27","slug":"necc-professor-to-present-on-the-amazon-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/07\/10\/necc-professor-to-present-on-the-amazon-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"NECC Professor to Present on The Amazon Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ken Thomas, professor of biology at Northern Essex Community College, will give a presentation titled \u201cJungle Talk\u2014The Amazon Basin\u201d at the South Branch of the Peabody Institute Library, 78 Lynn St, Peabody, on Tuesday, July 15 at 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Free and open to the public, this program is suitable for ages 7 &amp; up. Thomas will explore the Amazon Basin in South America and share how it is like a huge bowl that collects water and sends it thousands of miles to the Atlantic. He will also talk about his time spent in Rio Napa, a tributary in Ecuador including photographs of animals and plants that thrive in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kenneth Thomas, professor of biology at Northern Essex Community College, earned his Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Arts from NECC, a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from UMass Lowell, and a Master\u2019s of Science in Zoology and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to teaching at NECC he taught for eight years at Hillsborough Community College in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>His special interests include marine biology, student travel, science literacy, sailing, kayaking, and canoeing.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation is made possible through the Northern Essex Community College Speakers Bureau. For more information on the speakers\u2019 bureau, visit the college\u2019s website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/\">www.necc.mass.edu<\/a>\u00a0or contact Ernie Greenslade, director of public relations, at 978-556-3862 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:egreenslade@necc.mass.edu\">egreenslade@necc.mass.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on this presentation, contact Alysa Hayden at the library, <a href=\"mailto:hayden@noblenet.org\">hayden@noblenet.org<\/a> or 978-531-3380.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ken Thomas, professor of biology at Northern Essex Community College, will give a presentation titled \u201cJungle Talk\u2014The Amazon Basin\u201d at the South Branch of the Peabody Institute Library, 78 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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