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Upcoming Events

AlumNites Lecture presentation featuring
MBF's Dr. Chris Langdon

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts - Cohen Pavilion
701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Global Climate Change and its Effect on Corals

Dr. Chris Langdon, Associate Professor, Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Associate Director of the National Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research (NCORE) and Co-Founder of the South Florida Coral Reef and Climate Change Laboratory at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, is a leader in studying the impact of global warming and ocean acidification on coral reefs. To understand the effects of these combined environmental stressors, Dr. Langdon conducts experimental studies on coral specimens at the Rosenstiel School’s first-of-its-kind Coral Reef and Climate Change Laboratory, and observes naturally occurring scenarios in the Florida Keys reef tract and other reefs around the Caribbean.

Langdon’s presentation will outline his team’s experimental approach to understanding the effect of global climate change on corals and coral reefs, and groundbreaking research to protect and conserve these beautiful creatures. AlumNites is a complimentary educational program sponsored by the University of Miami Alumni Association designed to offer lifelong learning opportunities to alumni and the community.

To RSVP or for more information, please contact the University of Miami Alumni Association at 305.284.2872 or 1.866.UMALUMS (862.5867) or via email at alumni@miami.edu. Please include “AlumNites” in the e-mail subject line.

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Alumni Weekend UM Experience Lecture Series to feature MBF's Lynne Fieber, MS ’82, PHD ’89

Friday, October 24, 2008
9 – 10 a.m.
Casa Bacardi
Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies
531 Brescia Avenue
Coral Gables, FL.
$20 per person, includes lunch

Animal Model Discoveries at the Aquatic Threshold

The simplicity of most marine animals makes them ideal models for understanding everything from how we evolved to how our bodies work. The simple design of the brain of Aplysia, sea slugs, makes them ideal models for shedding light on how our own brains work. The National Resource for Aplysia at UM’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is the only place in the world where Aplysia californica are cultured and raised for research purposes. Aplysia from the facility are used in experiments that help us to understand how we learn and what memories are. Join Lynne Fieber, M.S. ’82, Ph.D. ’89, associate professor of marine biology and fisheries, for an inside look at her research on Aplysia and a personal encounter with the simple yet beautiful creatures.

For more information, contact Karen Wilkening at 305.421.4612 or alumni@rsmas.miami.edu.

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RSMAS Alumni Happy Hour

The RSMAS Alumni Association invites you to celebrate Alumni Weekend the RSMAS way…waterfront at the Commons!

Friday, October 24, 2008
4 p.m. onward
$10

Join us for hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar from 4 to 6 pm. Feel free to stay longer and relax on the patio with old friends, or head on to the Gables campus for the Alumni Weekend festivities.

All RSMAS alumni, students, faculty, staff and affiliates are welcome!

For more information and to RSVP, contact Karen Wilkening at 305-421-4612 or alumni@rsmas.miami.edu.

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Alumni Board Meeting

Thursday, October 16, 2008, 5:30pm, in the Dean’s Conference Room, SLAB Building at RSMAS. All alumni are welcome to attend - RSVP to alumni@rsmas.miami.edu.

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Past Events

RSMAS Alumni Social at ICRS!

The RSMAS Alumni Association hosted a RSMAS alumni social the evening of July 8 at the Southport Raw Bar during the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS) in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Drs. Peter Glynn (MBF) and Peter Swart (MGG) hosted the event with help from Alumni Board V.P Jen Schull, AB ’97, MA ’00 (MAF). A lively crowd of more than 80 RSMAS alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends attended, enjoying food, drinks and a spirited raffle to benefit the RSMAS Alumni Fellowship Fund. The raffle prizes were two autographed “Dr. Peter Glynn is my homeboy” t-shirts. As luck would have it, past Alumni Fellows Tyler Smith, PHD ’06 (MBF) and Johnathan Kool (MBF) won! View photos here.

Hosts Peter Glynn and Peter Swart

Johnathan Kool (left) and Tyler Smith (right) donning their raffle prizes with Peter Glynn (center)

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UM vs UF Game Watching Party

View photos from that evening here.

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5^th Annual RSMAS Alumni Lecture

Friday, May 9, RSMAS alumnus Chuck Messing, MS ’75, PHD ’79 (MBF) presented “Hidden Oases” Florida’s Deep-Sea Reefs’ as the 5th annual RSMAS Alumni lecturer. Alumni, students, faculty and members of the South Florida community attended the lecture and enjoyed a reception afterward in the Commons.

Chuck earned his M.S. under Frederick M. Bayer and his Ph.D. under Harding Owre Michel, both in Biological Oceanography. He is a professor at Nova Southeastern University’s Oceanographic Center in Dania Beach, FL. His area of expertise is in the classification, ecology, distribution and evolution of crinoids (sea lilies and feather stars). Research on these animals has taken him to the Bahamas, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Micronesia, Australia and Malaysia. Messing headed teams that were the first to directly record growth rates and crawling in crinoids.