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January 22, 1999
Current Topics in Marine Science

Contact:
Jane Finalborgo
Virginia Bennett
(516) 287 8313
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Seminars will be held on Thursdays in the Angier B. Duke Lecture Hall at 6:30 PM. All lectures are free and open to the public. For additional information on any of the speakers please call Professor Sandra Shumway, at (516) 287-8407.

Thursday, Feb. 4, 6:30 PM THE WORLD'S IMPAIRED FISH Dr. Carl Safina, director, Living Oceans Program, National Audubon Society and author of Song for the Blue Ocean - Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas. Sponsored by the John P. McGrath Fund.

Thursday, Feb 11, 6:30 PM TROPICAL AQUACULTURE Leroy Creswell of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution.

Thursday, Feb. 18, 6:30 PM PFIESTERIA AND SCIENTIFIC ETHICS Joann Burkholder of North Carolina State University.

Thursday, Feb 25, 6:30 PM SEA BIRDS Kevin Brown of Cornell University.

Thursday, March 4, 6:30 PM DEAD ZONE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO Nancy Rabalais of Louisiana University Marine Consortium.

Thursday, March 11, 6:30 PM GULF OF MEXICO RED FISH Joe Tomasso of Clemson University.

Thursday, March 25, 6:30 PM OYSTER MODELING Eileen Hofmann of Old Dominion University.

Thursday, April 1, 6:30 PM TOPIC TBA Judith Grassle of Rutgers University.

Thursday, April 8, 6:30 PM GIANT TUNA Molly Lutcavage of the New England Aquarium.

Thursday, April 15, 6:30 PM FISH AND SHELLFISH DISEASE Rod Getchell of Cornell University.

April 22 TBA

Thursday, April 29, 6:30 PM Topic TBA Diana Padilla of SUNY Stony Brook.

Thursday, May 6, 6:30 PM FISH EVOLUTION Melanie Stiassy of the American Museum of Natural History.