Visiting Scholar from MIT to talk about the World’s Oceans

Two presentations coming up for you to attend!

(1)  Join the College of Charleston Office of Sustainability for a Green Bag Lunch featuring Deborah Cramer, Visiting Scholar of the Earth Systems Initiative at MIT

Thursday, November 17th
12:00 Noon
Stern Center Ballroom

http://spinner.cofc.edu/~environ/GreenBagLunchCramer.pdf

Deborah Cramer will be discussing her work on the world’s ocean systems and how these issues relate to our concerns.

Snacks and Drinks will be provided, but bringing a lunch is encouraged.  Please email any questions to sustainability@cofc.edu

(2) Public Lecture: “The Sea Around You:  What Does the Health of the Sea Have to Do with Us”

Thursday, November 17, 7:00-8:00 pm
Speaker:    Deborah Cramer
Title:            The Sea Around You: What Does the Health of the Sea Have to Do with Us?
Location:  New Science Center room 129 (auditorium)
When:          Thursday, Nov. 17, 7-8 pm

The Charleston community depends on the ocean – economically, recreationally, gastronomically. Ever wonder how the health of the ocean will impact you? The College of Charleston will host author and scientific thought leader Deborah Cramer on Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in room 129 of the School of Sciences and Mathematics building. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Cramer is a visiting scholar at MIT’s Earth System Initiative.   She will be presenting some of the world’s finest marine photography from her book Smithsonian Ocean:  Our Water Our World (Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins) and will discuss the many ways all life, including ours, depends on the ocean; how we, a single species are altering the nature of the ocean itself, and why that matters. This book shines new light on the meaning of the sea in our lives, inviting people to consider how all life, including
ours, depends on the sea.

Two-time Pulitzer prize-winning biologist E.O. Wilson calls this book, “best in its class.” It was published to coincide with the opening of the new, permanent Sant Ocean Hall at
the National Museum of Natural History, the country’s most visited museum. Ideas and themes from Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water Our World are now being adapted in school science curricula. More information is available at a website emerging from the book and recommended for teachers, www.seaaroundyou.com

“The MES program is honored to host Deborah Cramer at the College of Charleston,” says Tim Callahan, MES program director. “She speaks about her writing and the sea
on both sides of the Atlantic, at science and maritime museums, and at major environmental and teachers’ organizations. We hope her lecture will provide the opportunity for a larger discussion, both on campus and in the community, about the issues she raises.”

Deborah Cramer writes about science, nature, and the environment. Nobel prize winner Al Gore said of her natural history of the Atlantic, Great Waters, (W.W. Norton), “I urge everyone to read this book, act on its message and pass on its teachings.” Marcia McNutt, head of the United States Geological Survey, wrote in Science, “I would recommend it to anyone who proposes to be an informed citizen of Planet Earth.”

For more information, contact Tim Callahan at 843.953.2000 or callahant@cofc.edu

Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Graduate Program, the Environmental Studies Minor Program, the Graduate Program in Marine Biology, and the CofC Office of Sustainability.

Flyer online at: http://spinner.cofc.edu/~environ/DeborahCramerEvent.pdf

Map and Directions online at: http://calendar.cofc.edu/EventList.aspx?eventidn=4509&view=EventDetails&information_id=12261