SEMINAR: TONIGHT: Sea Secrets Lecture: The Secret Crisis of the Global Ocean by Alanna Mitchell

[Laura Bracken <lbracken@rsmas.miami.edu>]

Please join us for the second presentation of the

2011 Sea Secrets Lecture Series:

THE SECRET CRISIS OF THE GLOBAL OCEAN

Alanna Mitchell

Award-winning Journalist & Author

 

Just how sick are our oceans? Hear the answer from Alanna Mitchell whose second book Sea Sick: The Hidden Crisis in the Global Ocean won last year’s prestigious Grantham Prize for best for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment. As a journalist with the Canadian Globe and Mail, she specialized on the environment and was widely recognized for her incisive reporting on the vanishing forests of Madagascar. To assess the health of our oceans she traveled the planet interviewing scientists and fisheries managers to discover what plans are underway and what the social and political challenges are to developing a plan to sustain marine resources.  No wonder that the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the Reuters Foundation named Mitchell the world’s best environmental journalist of 2000. Come to hear a first-hand report on the hidden crisis and what might be done to mitigate it.

 

SEA SECRETS LECTURE SERIES

 Presented by the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and The Ocean Research and Education Foundation

 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2011

 Reception begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by the lecture at 6:00 p.m.

Rosenstiel School Auditorium

4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Virginia Key, FL 33149

 

 All events are free and open to the public; however seating is limited.