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Topic
Dates
Location
Marine Protected Areas: Where do the fish come from?
With guest speaker
Dr. Jennifer Caselle,
University of California Santa Barbara
Wed 9 May 2012
6:30 - 7:30 pm
Public lecture and Q&A
7:30 - 8:30 pm
Educators' Session

Santa Monica Pier Aquarium
1600 Ocean Front Walk, Santa Monica, CA 90401

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Natural History and Conservation of Kelp Forests
With guest speaker
Dr. Matt Edwards,
San Diego State University
Wed 7 Mar 2012
6:30 - 7:30 pm
Public lecture and Q&A
7:30 - 8:30 pm
Educators' Session

California State University, Long Beach
Room PH2-110, 1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90840

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What hit me? The biological effects on marine life of hurricanes and extreme storm events
co-sponsored by Boeing with guest speaker Michelle Gierach, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Wed 15 Feb 2012
Introductory activity
5:45 - 6:30 pm
Public Lecture and Q&A
6:30-7:30 pm
Educator's Session
7:30-8:30 pm

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena
von Karman Auditorium

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Some like it Hot…and toxic
Co-sponsored by Boeing with guest speakers Dr. Jan Amend, University of Southern California

Wed 30 Nov 2011
Public lecture and Q&A 6:30pm-7:30pm
Educator's Session 7:30pm-8:45pm

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
San Pedro

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Community Science
Co-sponsored by Boeing with guest speakers Edward Murphy, Heal the Bay and Dr. Kristy Morris, Council for Watershed Health
Wed 16 Nov 2011
Public lecture and Q&A 6:15pm-7:45pm
Interact with local community science organizations including Heal the Bay, Surfrider and Council for Watershed Health 7:45-8:30

Santa Monica Public Library
Santa Monica, Ca.

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Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations
co-sponsored by Boeing with guest speaker Dr. Jason Sylvan, USC

Wed 23 Mar 2011
Public lecture and Q&A 6:15pm - 7:15pm
Educators' Session 7:30pm - 8:30pm

Aquarium of the Pacific Long Beach, CA

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A case of a harmful algal bloom in a freshwater ecosystem
 and
 Amnesic shellfish poisoning in California coastal waters
co-sponsored by Boeing with guest speakers Ms. Adriane Jones and Ms. Erica Seubert, USC graduate students

Wed 16 Feb 2011
Public Lecture: 6:00pm - 7:15pm
 Educators' Session: 7:30pm - 8:30pm

The SEA Lab
Redondo Beach, CA

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Global Warming Guaranteed: What the oceans tell us about climate change
co-sponsored by Boeing with guest speaker Dr. Joshua Willis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Wed 26 Jan 2011
Public Lecture: 6:15pm - 7:15pm
Educators' Session: 7:30pm - 8:30pm

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena
von Karman Auditorium

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Evolution and Fisheries Management: Gone Fishing or fishing gone?
Dr. Patrick Krug, CSULA

(Sat) 6 Nov 2010
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

University of California, Los Angeles, Life Sciences Building

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Weather and Climate in Southern California and the role of the Pacific Ocean
by Eric Boldt, NOAA Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather
Service

29 Sept 2010
Public Lecture: 6:30-7:30pm
Educators' Session: 7:30-8:30pm

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

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Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP)
Autumn-Lynn Harrison, UC Santa Cruz

4 Aug 2010
Public Lecture: 1:00 - 2:00pm

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, San Pedro

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Green Chemistry: bills SB 509 and AB 1879
Patrick Movlay, Ocean Pollution Prevention team, California State Department of Toxic Substances Control

28 April 2010
Public Lecture: 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Educators’ Session: 7:30 - 8:30 pm

Ivy Academia Charter School
Woodland Hills, CA
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Fisheries in the Southern California Bight
Dr. Daniel Pondella, Occidental College

17 March 2010
Public Lecture: 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Educators’ Session: 7:30 - 8:30 pm

Sea Lab, Redondo Beach, CA
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Cloud Structure, Composition, and Feedbacks in the current climate and a warming world
Dr. Terence Kubar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

3 February 2010
Public Lecture: 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Educators’ Session: 7:30 - 8:30 pm

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
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Humboldt Squid
Dr. William Gilly, Stanford University

27 January 2010
Public Lecture: 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Educators’ Session: 7:30 - 8:30 pm

California State University, Long Beach, CA

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Visioning Southern California Watersheds Through Time: How did we get here? Where are we now? And what does the future hold?
Dr. Eric Stein, SCCWRP

2 December 2009
Public Lecture: 6:30 - 7:30pm
Educators’ Session: 7:30 - 8:30 pm

Southern California Coastal Water Research Project offices, Costa Mesa

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Asking the Auks about Climate Change in the Arctic
Dr. Nina Karnovsky, Pomona College

28 May (Thu.) 2009
Lecture: 6:30-7:30 pm
Educators’ Session: 7:30-8:30 pm

The Huntington Library

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Conserving Fish from the Mountains to the Sea
Dr. Sabrina Drill, University of California Cooperative Extension

25 February (Wed.) 2009
Lecture: 6:30-7:30 pm
Educators’ Session: 7:30-8:30 pm

Los Angeles River Center

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The Ocean in a Warming Climate
Dr. Josh Willis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

4 February (Wed.) 2009
Lecture: 6:30-7:30 pm
Educators’ Session: 7:30-8:30 pm

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

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Phase Shifts, Alternative Stable States, and the Loss of Ecosystem Function in Southern California Lagoons
Dr. Peggy Fong, University of California, Los Angeles

21 January (Wed.) 2009
Lecture 6:30 - 7:30pm
Educators Session 7:30 - 8:30pm

Philips Waite Hall
(WPH), University of Southern California

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Marine Protected Areas
Dr. Satie Airame,
University of California, Santa Barbara

21 October (Tues.) 2008
Lecture & discussion
7:00 - 8:30 pm

Santa Monica Public Library
Santa Monica

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How ‘Green’ is your Seafood?  Making Ocean-Friendly Seafood Purchases
Sheila Bowman
Seafood Watch Outreach Manager, Monterey Bay Aquarium

21 August, 2008 (Thu.)
Lecture & discussion
7:00 - 8:30 pm

Santa Monica Public Library
Santa Monica
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From the Tidepools to the Stars: The Pioneering Ecology of Ed Ricketts
Eric Enno Tamm
author of
Beyond the Outer Shores (2004), a biography of Ed Ricketts

14 May, 2008 (Wed.)
Lecture & discussion
7:00 - 8:30 pm

Santa Monica Public Library
Santa Monica
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Exploration & Evolution: Discoveries in the Lakes of Palau & the Deep Basin of the Celebes Sea
Dr. William Hamner
UCLA

12 March, 2008 (Wed.)
Lecture & discussion
7:00 - 8:30 pm

Santa Monica Public Library
Santa Monica
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Elephant Seals:
Masters of the Depths

Drew Wharton
President, Wharton Media

08 February, 2008 (Fri.)
Educators' session
5:30 - 7:15 pm
Lecture & Film
7:30 - 9:00 pm

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
San Pedro
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Public Health Issues
in Coastal Waters

Dr. Mark Gold,
Heal the Bay
Santa Monica, CA

28 November,2007 (Wed.)
Lecture & discussion
7:00 - 8:30 pm

Santa Monica Pier Aquarium
Santa Monica
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Polar Ecology

Speakers TBA

14-28 April, 2007
Online Workshop

Krill in the Southern Ocean

Dr. Robin Ross,
University of California, Santa Barbara

21 March, 2007 (Wed.)

Educators' session
5:45 - 6:45 pm

Lecture
7:00 - 8:00 pm

Santa Monica Alternative School House (SMASH)
Santa Monica

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Coral Reefs:
Trouble in Paradise

Dr. Karla Heidelberg,
University of Southern California

28 February, 2007 (Wed.)

Educators' session
5:45 - 6:45 pm

Lecture
7:00 - 8:00 pm

Aquarium of the Pacific
Long Beach

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Changing Climate and the California Coastal Ocean

Dr. Yi Chao,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

24 January, 2007 (Wed.)

Lecture
6:00 - 7:00 pm

Educators' session
7:15 - 8:15 pm

Los Angeles Co. Museum of Natural History
Exposition Park, Los Angeles

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The Future Is Uncertain, & the End is Always Near:
Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vent Animals & Communities

Dr. James Childress,
University of California,
Santa Barbara

29 November, 2006 (Wed.)

Lecture
6:00 - 7:00 pm

Educators' session
7:15 - 8:15 pm

University of California
Los Angeles
Westwood

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Wings without Borders: Tracking Albatrosses Around the Globe

Dr. David Hyrenbach,
Duke University
Marine Laboratory

25 October, 2006 (Wed.)

Lecture
6:00 - 7:00 pm

Educators' session
7:15 - 8:15 pm

Los Angeles Co. Museum of Natural History
Exposition Park, Los Angeles

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Genetics / Aquaculture

Dr. Dennis Hedgecock

University of Southern California

LIVE webcast

26 April, 2006 (Wed.)

Lecture
6:00 - 7:00 pm

Educators' session
7:15 - 8:15 pm

Santa Monica College, Santa Monica

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Hurricanes

Dr. Anthony Michaels

University of Southern California

LIVE webcast

22 March, 2006 (Wed.)

Lecture
6:00 - 7:00 pm

Educators' session
7:15 - 8:15 pm

 

University of California Los Angeles, Westwood

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Harmful Algal Blooms

Dr. Dave Caron
University of Southern California

Dr. Mary Silver
University of California Santa Cruz

4-19 March, 2006

Online Workshop

Mysteries in the Mud:
Coping with Stress
in the Deep

Dr. Lisa Levin

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

8 February, 2006 (Wed.)

Lecture
6:00 - 7:00 pm

Educators' session
7:15 - 8:15 pm

Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Exposition Park, Los Angeles

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Recent Discoveries in the Midwater Realm using Modern Technology

Dr. William Hamner

University of California, Los Angeles

 

25 January, 2006 (Wed.)

Educators' session
6:00 - 7:15 pm

Lecture
7:30 - 8:30 pm

Hollenbeck Middle School,

Los Angeles (Boyle Heights)

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Glaciers and
Global Sea Level Rise

Dr. Eric Rignot

Jet Propulsion Lab

16 November, 2005 (Wed.)

Lecture
6:00 - 7:00 pm

Educators' session
7:15 - 8:15 pm

Los Angeles Co. Museum of Natural History

Exposition Park, Los Angeles

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Ice Science & Satellites:
a Natural Partnership

Dr. Frank Carsey,

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

13 April, 2005 (Wed.),
6:00-7:00 pm

(Educators' session 7:00-8:00 pm)

University of California Los Angeles, Westwood

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Science, Policy, and Protecting Our Coastal Oceans

Dr. Steven Murray,

California State University

2 March, 2005 (Wed.)
6:00-7:00 pm

(Educators' session 7:00-8:00 pm)

California State University, Northridge

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Seabirds Living on the Edge

Dr. Mike Horn,

California State University Fullerton

12 January, 2005 (Wed.),
6:00-7:00 pm

(Educators' session 7:00-8:00 pm)

Museum of Natural History, Exposition Park, Los Angeles

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Hands-On Learning in the Ballona Wetlands

Dr. John Dorsey,

Loyola Marymount University

19 November, 2004 (Fri.),
7:30-8:30 pm

(Educators' session
6:00-7:15 pm)

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, San Pedro

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Discovering the Mysteries of Whales

Dr. John Heyning,

Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles Co.

13 October, 2004 (Wed.),
6:00-7:00 pm

(Educators' session
7:00-8:00 pm)

Museum of Natural History, Exposition Park, Los Angeles

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Antarctica

Donal Manahan,

University of Southern California

21 April, 2004
(6:00 pm)
L.A. County Natural History Museum

Oceans and Human Health

Dave Caron,

University of Southern California

10 March, 2004
(6:00 pm)
Santa Monica Pier Aquarium

Coral Reefs

Richard Murphy,

Ocean Futures Society

3 February, 2004
(7:00 pm)
Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific

Deep Sea

Dr. George Matsumoto,

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

12 December, 2003
(6:00 pm)
California State University Northridge

Artificial Reefs

Milton Love,

University of California Santa Barbara

14 November, 2003
(6:00 pm)
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium

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