Seminar on Soviet Whaling

Gray whale breaching. | Photo by Merrill Gosho (NOAA)

The Oregon Institute of Marine Biology (OIMB) in Charleston continues its summer lecture series with a talk titled “Soviet cetology and the destruction of the world's whales” on Wednesday, Aug. 16, at 4 p.m., in the Boathouse Auditorium. All OIMB lectures are free and open to the public, but this talk is particularly aimed at general audiences.

The speaker is Ryan Jones, a Professor from the Department of History at the University of Oregon.

About Ryan:

"Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Ryan Tucker Jones holds a PhD in history from Columbia University in the City of New York. He is the author of Empire of Extinction: Russians and the Strange Beasts of the Sea (Oxford, 2014) as well as the forthcoming Red Leviathan: The Soviet Union and the Secret Destruction of the World’s Whales (University of Chicago Press)."

The OIMB Boathouse Auditorium is located at the end of Boat Basin Rd. in Charleston. Park at OIMB or along Boat Basin Rd. and walk past the Coast Guard housing to the auditorium.

For more information about this talk or the lecture series, contact Maya Watts, (541) 346-7277, mwolf1@uoregon.edu.

If you want to attend remotely, contact Maya Watts to request a Zoom invitation and password (24-hour notice).