Cuba Begins Oil Drilling 40 Miles Off U.S. Shores Saturday October 22: 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. INTERCONTINENTAL MIAMI 100 CHOPIN PLAZA ? MIAMI, FL, 33131 Cuba Begins Oil Drilling 40 Miles Off U.S. Shores If you think the BP spill did serious damage to fishing and tourism, imagine an unregulated drilling project just 40-50 […]
Caribbean Environment: From Cuba's Paradise to Haiti's Nightmare, and Everything in Between Saturday October 22: 10:45 a.m. to 12:00 noon INTERCONTINENTAL MIAMI 100 CHOPIN PLAZA ? MIAMI, FL, 33131 Caribbean Environment: From Cuba's "Paradise" to Haiti's Nightmare From deforestation and pollution, to overpopulation, loss of resources and lack of protection, many of the Caribbean nations […]
37th annual Hefner?Lecture featuring Dr. David E. Guggenheim Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) Named for Dr. Robert A. Hefner, a much-loved professor?throughout the 1950s and '60s and founder/first director of the museum?that now bears his name (the Hefner Zoology Museum) ?the Hefner Lecture?is Miami's premier biological sciences lecture. Established for a?general-public audience, the Hefner Lecture traditionally […]
The CBS News Magazine 60 Minutes focuses on the plight of world's coral reefs. Correspondent Anderson Cooper visits Cuba's Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen) with The Ocean Foundation's Senior Fellow, Dr. David E. Guggenheim to marvel at this unique ecosystem and understand what healthy coral reef ecosystems looked like before they were […]
The Ocean Doctor, Dr. David E. Guggenheim, joins Dr. Kirsten Sanford's as her guest on Dr. Kiki's Science Hour, December 22nd, 2011 at 7pm Eastern (4pm Pacific). Dr. Kiki's Science Hour is an in-depth exploration of scientific topics ranging from climate change to nanotech. Every week neurophysiologist Dr. Kirsten Sanford talks with leading experts in […]
Dr. David E. Guggenheim will deliver the keynote address to the Alliance for New Jersey Environmental Education's (ANJEE's) 27th Annual Environmental Education Conference, Exploring our Blue Planet. The conference takes place January 27 and 28, 2012 (Preconference workshops: January 26, 2012) at the Wyndham Princeton Forrestal Hotel and Conference Center, Plainsboro, NJ. While many around […]
Dr. David E. Guggenheim will kick off the 2012 Great Decisions Foreign Policy Series, an annual event hosted by the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan. Dr. Guggenheim will speak on the State of the Oceans on February 6th, 2012. The Great Decisions Foreign Policy Lecture Series was launched in the early 1960s and is […]
Can social media influence climate change? As environmental concerns are brought to the forefront of the public eye, how can social media educate, inform, and provoke meaningful conversation? And what can climate change scientists gain from it? Attend this session to see how social media might provide the bridge for parties on both sides of […]
BEYOND POLLUTION (USA, 2012, 90 min.) World Premiere A firsthand investigation of BP's disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, this film uncovers what really happened, why it happened and who benefited from the catastrophe. The production team traveled across the gulf coast interviewing environmental experts, government authorities, fishermen, scientists, drilling engineers and key […]
Turtle: The Incredible Journey (United Kingdom/Austria/Germany, 2009, 81 min.) March 20, 2012 10:30am FREE THEARC Town Hall Education Arts & Recreation Campus 1901 Mississippi Ave., SE (Metro: Southern Avenue) This is the story of a loggerhead turtle as she follows the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural […]