Lecture Archive 2013

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Lecture Archive: Dr. Robert Ballard

2013-12-3001:01:57

Lecture date: October 16, 2013. Dr. Robert Ballard is a former United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. He is most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998.

Lecture Archive: Jesse Ausubel

2013-12-0201:17

Lecture date: December 5, 2013. Jesse Ausubel is one of the founders of the Census of Marine Life, a ten-year scientific initiative to determine the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the ocean.

Lecture Archive: Sandy Trautwein

2013-12-0200:47

Lecture date: November 20, 2013. Sandy Trautwein, Aquarium of the Pacific curator of fishes and invertebrates, received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, for her research on coral crabs.

Lecture Archive: Laurence Madin

2013-12-0200:59

Lecture date: November 12, 2013. Laurence Madin is the executive vice president, director of research, and a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Lecture Archive: Bernard David

2013-12-0250:17

Lecture date: November 6, 2013. Bernard David is a partner in Energy Management International, Inc. and a senior fellow at The Wharton School’s Initiative on Global Environmental Leadership.

Lecture Archive: Samuel Wasser

2013-12-0249:13

Lecture date: October 9, 2013. Dr. Samuel Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, has developed non-invasive wildlife monitoring methods, including genetic, endocrine, and detection dog techniques.

Lecture Archive: Shirley Pomponi

2013-09-2543:36

Lecture date: September 24, 2013. Dr. Shirley Pomponi is a senior research professor at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution at Florida Atlantic University.

Lecture Archive: Michael Latz

2013-09-1758:14

Lecture date: September 11, 2013. Michael Latz is the principal investigator at the Latz Laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he is also a senior lecturer.

Lecture Archive: Edith Widder

2013-09-1654:01

Lecture date: August 27, 2013. Edith Widder is a deep-sea explorer, oceanographer, marine biologist, and co-founder of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association.

Lecture Archive: Bruce Robison

2013-09-1659:23

Lecture date: August 13, 2013. Bruce Robison is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.

Lecture Archive: Larry Mayer

2013-08-2901:01:02

Lecture date: August 29, 2013. Larry Mayer discusses advances in using sonar to map the seafloor and the water column.

Lecture Archive: Jim Hellemn

2013-08-0555:16

Lecture date: April 23, 2013. Jim Hellemn's photography has appeared in National Geographic magazine and at the American Museum of Natural History.

Lecture Archive: Jesus Reyes

2013-08-0251:44

Lecture date: July 25, 2013. Jesus Reyes discusses pressures on California’s coastal aquatic environments derived from highly developed urban and residential zones and their diverse, extensive activities.

Lecture Archive: Nicholas Fisher

2013-08-0257:24

Lecture date: June 19, 2013. Nicholas Fisher discusses the release of long-lived radionuclides from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan into the Pacific and the subsequent bioaccumulation of these contaminants in diverse marine biota.

Lecture Archive: Napoleon Chagnon

2013-08-0201:19:34

Lecture date: April 8, 2013. Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon discusses his recently published memoir, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—The Yanomamö and the Anthropologists.

Lecture Archive: Richard Theiss & Victor Douieb

2013-08-0101:06:30

Lecture date: March 7, 2013. Underwater cinematographer Richard Theiss and sculptor Victor Douieb discussed their personal experiences with sharks, shark conservation, and their work documenting sharks.

Lecture Archive: Dawn Wright

2013-08-0147:16

Lecture date: July 16, 2013. New sophisticated technologies developed in the last ten to twenty years hold tremendous potential for mapping and interpreting the ocean in unprecedented detail. This talk focused on recent technical advances in mapping the deepest parts of our planet.

Lecture Archive: Don Walsh

2013-08-0156:50

Lecture date: July 9, 2013. Don Walsh spoke about his many experiences in exploring the deep ocean.

Lecture Archive: Asila Ghoul

2013-08-0143:36

Lecture date: June 25, 2013. Asila Ghoul discussed a recent study of the sensory systems of sea otters and how these amphibious animals are adapted for an aquatic lifestyle.

Lecture Archive: Richard Ellis

2013-08-0158:41

Lecture date: June 13, 2013. Richard Ellis discussed the broadbill swordfish, whose scientific name Xiphias gladius means “gladiator.”

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