Date wrapper:
Jun
17

Webinar on Ocean Life and Climate

When
June 17, 2021 - 7:00 PM
Where
Online
Sponsors
Oregon Shores
Cost
Free

Steve Palumbi.

In celebration of our 50th anniversary this year, Oregon Shores is hosting a series of talks by leading marine and coastal scientists, who are helping us to envision the ecological changes and conservation challenges we may see in future decades.

As part of this series, we are honored to present a talk on “Extreme Life in the Sea and Climate Change” by Stephen Palumbi, the Jane and Marshall Steel Professor of Marine Science in Stanford University’s Department of Biology.  The event, taking place online on Thursday, June 17, at 7 p.m., is free and open to all.

Dr. Palumbi’s latest book for non-scientists, The Extreme Life of the Sea (written with Anthony Palumbi, a novelist and Steve’s son), is about the amazing species found in the marine world. In this webinar, he will consider what the adaptability revealed by these species tells us about their likely success in coping with climate change as it increasingly affects marine habitats.

Life in the world’s oceans has faced many changes in the past, but faces even stronger, faster changes in the future. What does this adaptability tell us about the future of species as the oceans warm and become more acidified? Steve Palumbi will give his audience a look at what we know from sea urchins and corals and kelp about the adaptive capacity of species in the sea, and if this will help us help them through the next century.

Dr. Palumbi's research group at Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station is engaged in study of the genetics, evolution and systematics of marine species from corals to sharks to whales. A major focus of Steve’s research is on the conservation and management of marine populations, the identification of seafood products available in commercial markets, and strategies for finding and protecting the world’s strongest Pacific corals. Recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Steve is a board member for several conservation organizations and a Fellow of the Woods Institute of the Environment. His work has been used in design of the current network of marine protected areas in California, seafood labelling laws in Japan and the United States, and in numerous TV and film documentaries including the 2017 PBS series Big Pacific.

His previous books were The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival and The Evolution Explosion.

To register for this event, go to https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8ZQq57jnQdSoLZ_vJ8dA3w.