Illustration by Yuko Shimizu Fragile Edge the Fate of the Ocean Julia Whitty Naturalist & Documentary Writer Hardy Jones/Julia Whitty Productions Friday, May 18, 2007 10:30 a.m., Red Auditorium

Assaulted by pollution, overfishing, climate change, trash, and noise, our oceans are approaching a point of no return. The health of the world they feed and protect won't be far behind.  A master diver and filmmaker on the mystery, fragility – and heart stopping adventure – of underwater life, Whitty will describe some of her experiences exploring the South Pacific ocean world and some of the latest ways in which science extends our understanding of unfathomable waters, including the sonar tracking of a huge, unknown loner with a voice louder than that of any known species.

 

Anyone outside NIST wishing to attend must be sponsored by a NIST employee and receive a visitor badge. For more information, call Kum J. Ham at 301-975-4203.

Colloquia are videotaped and available in the NIST Research Library.