HBMF 2022 | Biomimicry in the Brazilian Amazon: How animals’ Scales, Beaks, Fins, and Wings Inspire Manmade Innovations

On Thursday, October 13th at 4:00pm Hawaii Time, Oceanit’s Tarah Sullivan Suiter will host a HBMF Innovation Session conversation with Dr. Marc Meyers, a pioneer of biomimicry, engineering tech solutions based on natural structures.

Part of the Hawaii Book & Music Festival 2022, the session is titled: Biomimicry in the Brazilian Amazon: How animals’ Scales, Beaks, Fins, and Wings Inspire Manmade Innovations

Marc André Meyers is an American materials scientist, engineer and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Meyers studies and writes about the dynamic behavior of materials, synthesis, processing, impact testing, and characterization of new materials. He also studies the properties of biological materials, and in particular the protective coverings of animals. Abalone shells, toucan beaks, the scales of exotic fish, feathers, and pangolin scales are some of the biological materials studied by his group.  Meyers was born in Brazil. In the summer of 2014, he organized a group to follow the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition along the “River of Doubt.”