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Lecture date: November 30, 2017. Kim Steinhardt and Gary Griggs discuss their book, The Edge: The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California’s Coast. The book examines the California coast’s past, present, and probable future in a time of climate change and expanding human activity.
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Lecture date: November 14, 2017. Dr. Judith Kildow discusses the development of a “Blue Economy” movement to change how we treat and think about our oceans.
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Lecture date: November 9, 2017. Nancy Knowlton discusses the Ocean Optimism initiative, whose goal is to recognize, learn from, replicate, and celebrate our successes.
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Lecture date: November 2, 2017. Chris Lowe, professor of marine biology and director of the Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach, discusses what researchers think makes for a good white shark nursery and predictions of where the next ones might develop.
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Lecture date: October 26, 2017. Sergio Gamberini, owner of SCUBA gear company Ocean Reef Group, has developed Nemo’s Garden, a method for growing plants underwater in a biosphere.
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Lecture date: October 24, 2017. Elizabeth Keenan discusses novel tools to improve our ability to tackle some of our most pressing environmental issues, including how to foster and motivate environmentally friendly choices and communicate concerns about climate change to general audiences.
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Lecture date: October 19, 2017. Murray Fisher discusses the Billion Oyster Project and its goal to restore one billion live oysters to New York Harbor by 2035 and to engage the community in that effort.
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Lecture date: October 12, 2017. Rebecca Tarvin discusses how animals like poison dart frogs evolve genetic resistance to toxins and how this can affect whether they become toxic.
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Lecture date: June 19, 2017. Debut novelist David Osborne discusses and sign copies of his book, "The Coming", a fictionalized account of the life of Daytime Smoke, the real-life son of explorer William Clark and a Nez Perce woman.
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Lecture date: April 27, 2017. Mark Martinez of Southern California Edison discusses the water-energy nexus, a key topic of conversation, policy, and legislation across all levels of government and industry.
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Lecture date: September 19, 2017. Dr. Ruth Gates unveils the complex biology that underpins natural variation in the response of corals to stress. She discusses how this knowledge can be harnessed to develop tools that build resilience on reefs, arresting and improving the prognosis for coral reefs.
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Lecture date: September 7, 2017. Dr. Michael Prather shares a behind-the-scenes account of the IPCC assessments, a unique interaction between governments and the world’s leading scientists.
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Lecture date: August 29, 2017. Kerry Kriger discusses amphibian conservation, providing an introduction to the natural history of amphibians, the threats they face, why amphibians are important and worth saving, and ways his organization protects amphibians and empowers citizens to make contributions to the betterment of the planet.
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Lecture date: August 23, 2017. Aquarist Alexandra Lawlor discusses the Aquarium's abalone conservation efforts, shares photos of the Aquarium’s current brood stock and juveniles, and describes the abalone life cycle.
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Lecture date: August 3, 2017. Dr. Gregory Stone, executive vice president and chief scientist for oceans at Conservation International, discusses the book he co-wrote with Nishan Degnarain, Soul of the Sea in the Age of the Algorithm: How Tech Start-Ups Can Heal Our Oceans.
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Lecture date: July 26, 2017. Scientist and author Agustín Fuentes discusses his book, The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional.
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Lecture date: July 18, 2017. Robert Schallmann provides an overview of how the military’s natural resources programs are balanced with its defense mission, while highlighting the successes and opportunities for conservation in our backyard.
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Lecture date: June 22, 2017. UCLA professor Alex Hall and his research team have produced first-of-their-kind projections of future impacts of climate change on mountain landscapes and the snowpack. Dr. Hall presents key findings from the study.
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Lecture date: June 8, 2017. Dr. Lee Kats of Pepperdine University discusses changes and challenges ahead for local frogs and salamanders.
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Lecture date: May 30, 2017. Writer, sailor, and marine conservationist Jonathan White discusses his latest book, Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean—the result of his search for the world’s largest and fastest tides.
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