[Coral-List] World Ocean Day
Judith Lang
jlang at riposi.net
Sat Jun 5 08:10:44 EDT 2010
Thanks to Elizabeth Ban for reminding us that World Ocean Day is this
coming Tuesday, June 8th.
Celebrations in Jamaica will include the opening at the Island Village
in Ocho Rios of Florida State University's (2008) revision of Our
Reefs:Caribbean Connections traveling exhibit. (Jeremy Jackson is
acknewledged as having directed the original, 1996, bilingual version
of this exhibit.)
Judy Lang
Begin forwarded message:
From: Elizabeth Ban <elizabeth.ban at aya.yale.edu>
Date: June 2, 2010 4:39:28 PM EDT
To: List Coral <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Subject: [Coral-List] Brave New Ocean - Dr. Jeremy Jackson
Apologies for cross-posting...
*Brave New Ocean, a talk by Dr. Jeremy Jackson*
*Tuesday, June 8*
*6:00 pm*
*Baird Auditorium (Ground Floor), Smithsonian's Museum of Natural
History*
*Free and open to the public*
The ocean is essential to all life but experts agree that there are
changes affecting the ocean and how it functions. On World Ocean Day,
join us for an evening of deep thinking with *Dr. Jeremy Jackson* from
Scripps Institution of Oceanography as he discusses ocean biodiversity
loss in his talk “Brave New Ocean”
Dr. Jackson’s lecture will kick off *Changing Tides: A Series of
Ocean Discussions* in which top ocean scientists talk about current
research and how it is helping to change the tide in ocean science and
conservation.
This series is brought to you by Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural
History and the Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence
(COSEE) and made possible through a grant from the National Science
Foundation.
Live webcast of “Brave New Ocean” on the award-winning Ocean Portal http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-videos/changingtides
elizabeth.ban at aya.yale.edu
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