Full Title:
What’s Wrong with our Oceans and Estuaries? A Discussion of How Humans are Imperiling These Amazing Ecosystems
Presenter:
Walters, Linda
When:
Wednesday, 3 October 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Where:
Taste
- Street:
- 717 W. Smith Street
- City:
- Orlando
, - Province:
- Florida
- Postal Code:
- 32804
- Country:
- United States
Linda Walters, PhD, will provide vignettes of some of the ways humans have altered marine systems, including ocean acidification, coral bleaching, fisheries, invasive species, and habitat destruction. She will also discuss community-based education and outreach campaigns that her lab at UCF has successfully started.
Dr. Walters’ is currently a Pegasus Professor in the UCF Biology Department, Director of UCF’s Fellers House Field Research Station in Canaveral National Seashore, and Interim Director of the UCF Women’s Research Center. She has been a faculty member at UCF for 15 years with a Ph.D. from Univeristy of South Carolina and post-doctoral research experience in Hawaii, Quebec and Cochin, India. Her research program focuses on many of the diverse ways humans impact the marine environment. She is interested in both pure ecology questions and goal-based conservation issues for a wide range of marine and estuarine habitats in the Caribbean and the southeastern US, especially the Indian River Lagoon system and the Florida Keys.
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