10:00 am EDT, Friday, June 8th - Live Education Webinar
Classrooms and
schools are invited to participate in a live presentation by the Living
Oceans Foundation’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Andy Bruckner, as he discusses
the Foundation’s mission to survey coral reef communities, entitled The Galápagos: a unique field laboratory to assess the effects of climate change on marine environments.
The
Galápagos Islands are in a unique oceanic location and are considered
to be a living laboratory of evolution. The 19 islands and surrounding
waters are characterized by fragmented, isolated landscapes, a high
numbers of species found nowhere else in the world, and dramatically
variable climatic conditions. During the 1982-83 El Nino Southern
Oscillation (ENSO) event, most of the coral reefs died and the framework
disintegrated to rubble and sand. Remarkably, the reef systems have
shown unusually high resilience, rebounding from this catastrophe, with
only minimal subsequent damage from the 1997-98 ENSO event. Our research
in the Galápagos is helping determine what makes these reefs so
resilient, and whether they are likely to survive future climate change
perturbations.
Come back on June 8th at 10:00 am EDT for the Live Webinar
with Chief Scientist Dr. Andy Bruckner aboard the Golden Shadow.
with Chief Scientist Dr. Andy Bruckner aboard the Golden Shadow.
3:30 pm EDT Friday, June 8th - Live Conversation with Sylvia Earle
Famed ocean
explorer, Sylvia Earle, will have a live conversation from the
Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History with the researchers on board
the Golden Shadow as they discuss the status of the coral reefs
in the Galápagos Islands. The Foundation will give an update on their
current studies on rare coral reefs at the north of the Galápagos
archipelago. Dr. Earle and the science team will also discuss how the
Galápagos species respond to El Niño driven temperature fluctuations and
why that may give us hope for corals’ ability to be resilient to future
climate change.
The conversation will include photos and videos of from the seas round Galápagos. Join us online or in person at the Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian Institute’s National museum of Natural History in Washington DC.
The conversation will include photos and videos of from the seas round Galápagos. Join us online or in person at the Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian Institute’s National museum of Natural History in Washington DC.
Come back on June 8th at 3:30 pm EDT for a
LIVE conversation with Sylvia Earle and the Golden Shadow.
LIVE conversation with Sylvia Earle and the Golden Shadow.
