Charles & Marie Fish Lecture

The Search for the Last Virgin Coral Reefs

Dr. Enric Sala, National Geographic Fellow
Friday, December 4th at Noon
Coastal Institute Auditorium
URI Narragansett Bay Campus

Dr. Sala's public lecture will focus on his National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expeditions. Sala believes what we think are natural coral reefs are not, because most scientific studies have been conducted on degraded reefs. A series of recent expeditions to a few remote, pristine reefs in the central Pacific have revealed a world that was unknown to most people, including reefs where predators are more abundant than their prey. His research has provided clues to what is truly natural in the ocean, offering important implications for their future.

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World Ocean Census Booksigning
Dr. Sala is also a member of the Census of Marine Life International Scientific Steering Committee. World Ocean Census, a book chronicaling Census research written by Darlene Crist, Gail Scowcroft, and James Harding of the URI Office of Marine Programs, will be available for signing before and after the lecture.
 

The Charles and Marie Fish Lecture
The annual Charles and Marie Fish Lecture is supported by income from the Charlie and Bobbie Fish Endowment for Oceanography. The endowment was established in 1989 by Marilyn Munro and family in memory of her parents, Drs. Charles and Marie Fish. Through their joint efforts, the Fishes established the University’s first marine biological program in 1935, and eventually a graduate program in oceanography at the Narragansett Marine Laboratory, which later became URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography.