Guest Speakers

August 3, 2010

Ian Shive  

Storytelling with Nature Photography

Ian Shive is an award-winning photographer whose images have appeared in Time Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, National Geographic, Popular Science, The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Popular Photography and Outside Magazine. Shive’s profession has taken him around the world and he has become an active advocate for the causes he photographs.

Guest Speakers

June 24, 2010

Ed Humes  

Eco Barons

A journalist and author of ten narrative nonfiction books, Edward Humes has received the Pulitzer Prize for his newspaper coverage of the military and a PEN Center USA Award for NO MATTER HOW LOUD I SHOUT: A Year In the Life of Juvenile Court. His latest book is ECO BARONS: THE DREAMERS, SCHEMERS & MILLIONAIRES WHO ARE SAVING OUR PLANET. Humes has written for numerous magazines and newspapers and is presently writer at large for Los Angeles Magazine.

Guest Speakers

June 24, 2010

Tim Tinker  

Sea Otters: Iconic Indicators of Coastal Ecosystem Health

Dr. Tim Tinker is a Research Wildlife Biologist with the Western Ecological Research Center of the U.S. Geological Survey, and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California Santa Cruz. Dr. Tinker is the project leader for Federal research on sea otters in California, and currently heads a multi-agency study investigating the factors limiting the recovery of this threatened sub-species.

Guest Speakers

June 23, 2010

Rikk Kvitek  

Peeling Back the Blue: State Efforts to Map California’s Seafloor

Rikk Kvitek is a Professor in the Division of Science and Environmental Policy, CSU Monterey Bay, where he also directs the CSUMB Seafloor Mapping Lab and CSU COAST Technology Center for Spatial Information Visualization and Analysis. Rikk obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in zoology from the University of Michigan, his Masters in Marine Science at Moss Landing Marine Labs, and a PhD in zoology from the University of Washington.

Guest Speakers

May 18, 2010

George Benz  

Shark Research at the Top of the World

George W. Benz is a Professor of Biology at Middle Tennessee State University. A native of New England, George earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Connecticut and was employed for 5 years as a Fisheries Biologist with the Connecticut Bureau of Fisheries. He has authored and edited over 100 scientific publications and his research has been the focus of articles in Discover, National Geographic, and Highlights for Children as well as other magazines and popular books.

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