Next Pardee House Seminar: Coastal Conservation and Development
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on ‘Coastal Conservation and Development’ on Wednesday, December 9, 2009, featuring Prof. Les Kaufman, Dr. Stuart Sandin and Dr. Stuart Banks.
The shallow waters of tropical oceans are reeling under local and global human impacts. These waters harbor the lion’s share of earth’s biological diversity, and right next door is where most of the world’s people live, heavily dependent upon ocean resources. The speakers will present and discuss ecological insights gained over the last five years from the Marine Management Area Science Program, a network of monitoring experiments spread across Brazil, Belize, Panama, Fiji, Galapagos, and the remote atolls of the Central Pacific and explore how these monitoring efforts can help in coastal conservation and development efforts.
Prof.Les Kaufman is Professor of Biology at Boston University and Senior Investigator for Marine Management Area Science at Conservation International.
Dr Stuart Sandin is Assistant Researcher of Marine Ecology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Dr Stuart Banks is an Oceanographer with the Charles Darwin Research Station at the Galapagos.
The Seminar will be held at Pardee House (67 Bay State Road, Boston) on Wednesday, December 9, 2009.
The Pardee Seminar Series focuses on a variety of issues and invites experts from different disciplines to discuss the long-range challenges and trends in that particular issue. This seminar is being organized in collaboration with the Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology and Boston University Marine Program. This seminar is part of a week-long Marine Management Area Science Scientific Workshop held at the Pardee Center from 7 to 11 December. The Workshop is co-organized by the Boston University Marine Program and Conservation International.
Lunch will be available from 11.30am, and the seminar itself will start at 12.00pm. Please RSVP to pardee@bu.edu by Monday, December 7, 2009. Seating is limited to 30 participants.