Tuesday, Feb. 10, 7 p.m., Emmanuel Parish Hall
— from the SeaDoc Society —
The SeaDoc Society and YMCA Camp Orkila Present “Tides: The Ocean’s Dance With the Moon” on Tuesday, Feb. 10 with local author Jonathan White. The free lecture starts at 7 p.m. at Emmanuel Parish Hall, Eastsound.
How far would you go to understand the tides? Local author Jonathan White interviewed the monks at the Mont St Michel monastery in France, went under the ice with an Inuit elder in the Arctic, and traveled to Panama, Chile, Italy, and China.
Our daily experience of tides is of the slow rise and fall of water in a 12 hour cycle, but did you know that the tide is actually a wave that sweeps along our coast at the speed of a modern jet? We don’t perceive it this way because the distance from crest to crest is half the distance around the earth — 10,000 miles.
Jonathan White has spent over a decade researching and writing his soon-to-be-released book, Tides. He is a writer, sailor, educator, marine conservationist, and custom homebuilder. His first book, Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity, featured interviews with the likes of Gretel Ehrlich, David Brower, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gary Snyder, and Peter Matthiessen. His writing on a variety of topics has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Sun, Sierra, The Whole Earth Review, and Fine Homebuilding. His photographs have been published in several magazines, including Orion and Sailing.
On February 10, Jonathan will talk about tides and the journeys he made to write his new book. The talk is free and starts at 7pm at the Emmanuel Episcopal Parish Hall on Main Street in Eastsound.
The 2014-15 Marine Science Lecture Series is designed to inspire the general public and to highlight the amazing fish and wildlife of our region. Lectures are free.
The Lecture Series is presented by program partners The SeaDoc Society and YMCA Camp Orkila. It has been made possible through generous sponsorship by Tom Averna (Deer Harbor Charters), Barbara Brown, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Glenn Prestwich and Barbara Bentley, Audrey and Dean Stupke, West Sound Marina, WWW Foundation (Bryce and Sue Rhodes), and Martha Wyckoff in honor of Lee Rolfe.
For more information visit https://www.seadocsociety.org/events
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