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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KEY!Notes for Key Biscayne Families

Rosenstiel School lecture series to highlight local marine/atmospheric issues

VIRGINIA KEY, FL (September 7, 2005) — Rosenstiel School hopes to help its neighbors get to know Rosenstiel School better in a new series of family-friendly talks that begins this month: KEY!Notes. The series kicks off Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 6 p.m. in the school's auditorium with “Coral Reefs: Our Underwater Rain Forests,” featuring Dr. John McManus, the director for the National Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research (NCORE).

Native Florida elkhorn coral has had an 80-98 percent decline in population throughout Florida and Caribbean waters. Along with staghorn coral, it has been proposed to be the first coral species ever considered threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). The NCORE at the Rosenstiel School will work with NOAA and EPA in considering the design of coral regulatory protections under ESA. Dr. McManus will provide a beautifully visual, interesting presentation on his own coral reef studies, highlighting the important research being done at the Rosenstiel School currently.

Designed to showcase the school's own esteemed faculty, KEY!Notes is a new series of free, hour-long talks that will feature issues that specifically interest those on Key Biscayne and Virginia Key. Parking is available on campus. Light refreshments will be served.

Upcoming talks include:

Sept. 27 Coral Reefs: Our Underwater Rain Forests, featuring Dr. John McManus, professor and director of the National Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research (NCORE)
Oct. 25. Not Just Folks, but Folk Heroes, featuring Virginia Key and Key Biscayne local legends Mabel Miller and James “Jimbo” Luznar. The two will talk about their life and times on Virginia Key and Key Biscayne.
Nov. 29 Toxic Autumn Colors: Red Tide, featuring Dr. Lora Fleming, MD, co-director of Rosenstiel School's Oceans and Human Health Center funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Science and National Science Foundation
Feb. 28. Handling the Hurricanes, featuring Dr. David Nolan, assistant professor of meteorology involved in the Rosenstiel School's RAINEX and Hurricane Futures Market projects.

Rosenstiel School is part of the University of Miami and, since its founding in the 1940s, has grown into one of the world's premier marine and atmospheric research institutions.

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Media Contacts:
Ivy Kupec, Communications Director
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science
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