by Danica Warns | Dec 5, 2014 | News, Speakers
Marine Conservation and Policy students had an exciting opportunity to meet with the current Policy Program Manager, Noah Chesnin, for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) New York Seascape Program, which operates out of the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn. Chesnin...
by Danica Warns | Dec 5, 2014 | News, Speakers
Marine Conservation and Policy students recently had the pleasure of meeting Liz Smith, an environmental economist who works with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), an international non-profit organization dedicated to environmental conservation. Smith described the unique...
by Danica Warns | Nov 6, 2014 | Speakers
Dr. Ari Friedlaender, an Associate Professor at Oregon State University whose research focuses on the foraging ecology of baleen whales in Antarctica, gave a seminar on Friday as part of the Oceans and Atmosphere Colloquium series at the School of Marine and...
by Danica Warns | Nov 6, 2014 | Speakers
Dr. Carl Safina, an award-winning author who is working on his seventh book, met with Marine Conservation and Policy students in October to give career advice to up and coming students, and to share his story about how he got to where he is now. Safina, whose books...
by Danica Warns | Nov 6, 2014 | Speakers
Jeff Kassner, SoMAS alum and former Director of the Town of Brookhaven Department of Environmental Protection, met with Marine Conservation and Policy students on Thursday, October 2nd, 2014 and gave helpful advice on pursuing a future career in local government....
by Sara Hugentobler | Jan 31, 2014 | Speakers
Marine Conservation and Policy students were given the unique opportunity to speak with Sandra Whitehouse, Senior Policy Advisor for the Ocean Conservancy. Whitehouse, who had given a lecture as part of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Science noon seminar series,...
