Beginning tonight, Friday, September 29th, the Stony Brook-Southampton Marine Sciences Research Center will host the first of four monthly lectures as part of the inauguaral East End Public Lecture Series. MSRC Dean and Director David Conover will kick off the series with a talk entitled: “The Marine Fisheries Crisis: Not Just Another Fish Story.” Conover is one of the world’s leading experts on the ecology of marine fishes and fisheries sciences.
Dr. Carl Safina, Co-founder and President of the Blue Ocean Institue and MSRC Adjunct Professor, will give next month’s lecture on Friday, October 27th, entitled “Voyage of the Sea Turlte.” His talk will include readings from his new book “Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth’s Last Dinosaur,” as well as stories and images fro his explorations of the world’s oceans. Dr. Christopher Gobler, MSRC Associate Professor, will give November’s lecture on Friday, November 17th, on “Harmful Algal Blooms: A Threat to Coastal Ecosystems,” and Dr. Henry Bokuniewicz, MSRC Professor, will give December’s lecture on Friday, December 17th, on the “Erosion of Long Island’s Ocean Shoreline: Problems, Solutions, and More Problems.”
All of the lectures will be held in the Duke Lecture Hall-Chancellors Hall at the Stony Brook-Southampton Campus at 7:30 pm and they will be followed by a reception with the evenings speaker. For further details, see MSRC’s web site at the link below: http://msrc.sunysb.edu/news/SBSLS.html
