Lecture Archive 2013 Aquarium of the Pacific
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Through its year-round Guest Speaker Series, the Long Beach, California-based Aquarium of the Pacific helps visitors to learn about the most current and pressing issues related to the ocean and environment. These experts share stories from the field, new insights about ocean science and predictions for the future, and knowledge they have gathered about the ocean and its inhabitants over years of study. Speakers include university researchers, explorers, acclaimed authors, journalists, nature photographers, and more. These hour-long video podcasts present the lectures in full, including the speakers’ slideshow presentations.
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Lecture Archive: Dr. Robert Ballard
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.
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Lecture Archive: Jesse Ausubel
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.
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Lecture Archive: Sandy Trautwein
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.
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Lecture Archive: Laurence Madin
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.
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Lecture Archive: Bernard David
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.
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Lecture Archive: Samuel Wasser
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.