Dr. Ellen Prager
Dr. Ellen Prager will present stories and images from her new book, Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime, highlighting the strange cast of characters that inhabit the oceans’ depths and how they are connected to our food supply, the economy, jobs, and in biomedical research and biotechnology.
These sea creatures include the tiny voracious arrow worms, whose predatory ways may lead to death by overeating, the hagfish that ties itself into a knot to keep from suffocating in its own slime, and the sea slug, whose sexual encounters can truly turn into a dangerous liaison due to untimely cannibalism.
Prager is formerly the chief scientist for the Aquarius Reef Base program in Key Largo, Florida. She also served as a faculty scientist at Sea Education Association (SEA) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; the resident director of the National Undersea Research Center in the Bahamas; a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey; chairman of the Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel for the federal government; and assistant dean at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. She remains an adjunct faculty member at the school.
Copies of Prager’s book will be available for purchase, and there will be a book signing after the lecture.
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Thursday, Jan 19, 2012 | 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
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| Cost | $5 for public; FREE for Aquarium members, teachers, and students with valid ID and advanced reservations. |
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| RSVP | (562) 590-3100, ext. 0 |
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