Spring Lecture Series at Birch Aquarium

Attend the Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series this spring at Birch Aquarium.

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will give presentations on their research and new finds under the sea.

Each lecture is $8 and you can RSVP for them at the number listed below. Birch Aquarium admission and parking are included. Light refreshments will be served.

March 12
Seismic Networks: Observing Earthquakes from Near and Far
Frank Vernon, seismologist

• Vernon will describe various earthquake projects that began here when a massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck Japan last March.

April 9
From Titanic to the Tiny
Jules Jaffe, oceanographer and engineer

• In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic, Jaffe will recount his experience as a member of the science team at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution that discovered the wreckage in 1985.

May 14
Third Annual Keeling Lecture

• This third annual Keeling Lecture feature environmental author Bill McKibben. Lauded by Time Magazine as the planet’s best green journalist, McKibben is the author of dozens of books about the environment and will bring deep insight into the human dimensions of climate change.