Tuesday, October 14, 7 p.m., Emmanuel Parish Hall
— from Joe Thoron, SeaDoc Society —
Photo from Paul Photo: Paul Dayton’s faculty page at Scripps / UC San Diego
Renowned oceanographer Paul Dayton comes to Orcas Island on Tuesday, October 14 to kick off the SeaDoc Society/YMCA Camp Orkila annual Marine Science Lecture Series.
In a 44 year career at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Dayton has studied kelp forests, sea urchins, sea otters, pollution, fisheries collapse, and ecosystem-level disturbances in Washington, California, and Antarctica.
Dayton is considered one of the founders of the field of ecology, and has been described as having an “overwhelming resolve to direct science toward sustaining and conserving marine ecosystems.”
His colleague, Enric Sala, says, “Paul Dayton is one of the last true naturalists, a scientist who thinks broadly, a poet of science… Paul knows how ecosystems function from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from coral reefs to kelp forests, from the Sierras to the desert.”
Paul Dayton will be speaking about his decades of research in the Antarctic Ocean.
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, Bryce and Sue Rhodes, Audrey and Dean Stupke, West Sound Marina, and Martha Wyckoff in honor of Lee Rolfe. For more information visit www.seadocsociety.org.
