SEMINAR: Sea Secrets Lecture (Kenny Broad) and the Photo Contest results - April 20th

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

Please join us for the fourth presentation of the 2011 Sea Secrets Lecture Series and the announcement of the Underwater Photography Contest winners:

BLUE HOLES' ON OUR BLUE PLANET

By

Dr. Kenny Broad

Director, Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, University of Miami

 

Absolute darkness, dramatic reversing currents, extreme depths, poisonous gasses, tight squeezes… these are just some of the challenges that make ‘blue holes’ or sink holes under the sea, one of the least understood extreme ecosystems on the planet. Last year, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Kenny Broad designed an expedition to the Bahamas that included more than 150 dives and involved unique collaboration between cave divers, scientists, and a specialized film team from the National Geographic Society. Come to hear about the unknown microbes they discovered, the bones of extinct animals and see images of how they squirmed through the labyrinthine passages.

 At the lecture’s conclusion, the winners of this year’s Rosenstiel School Underwater Photography Contest will be announced.  We’ll then adjourn to the Rosenstiel Library for a winners’ reception featuring the Contest photographs, desserts and coffee.

SEA SECRETS LECTURE SERIES

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

 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2011

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

Photo Contest Reception will begin once the winners are announced at the conclusion of the lecture.

Rosenstiel School Auditorium

4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Virginia Key, FL 33149

 

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