OCEAN LECTURE SERIES

"From the Slopes of Mauna Loa to the Shores of Sandgerdi: A Larval Ecology Retrospective" • Dr. Craig M. Young

About the Lecture

Ever since its inception 30 years ago, Harbor Branch has built a strong, world-wide reputation as a center of excellence for studies of animal life histories and larval biology. For more than half of this time, many of these studies have been centered in the Department of Larval Ecology, with the involvement of 15 postdoctoral fellows, more than 20 graduate and undergraduate students, and innumerable collaborators from other institutions. These hard-working individuals made numerous discoveries of phenomena new to science, thereby contributing a substantial body of work to the permanent body of scientific literature. Dr. Young, who will soon be leaving Harbor Branch for a new position at the University of Oregon, will use this opportunity to summarize and to reflect upon the grand adventure of discovery he and his colleagues and students have enjoyed over the past 16 years.

This lecture will include video highlights from past HBOI Associates Lectures, plunging the audience into undersea explorations off Scotland, France, Sri Lanka, Oman, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and the Bahamas, and ending with the latest discoveries on the Hawaiian Slope and at deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the tropical Eastern Pacific. Dr. Young will introduce the audience to a wide variety of interesting creatures, as well as their colorful and diverse babies.

About the Speaker

Dr. Craig M. Young received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Alberta in 1982. After a short stint at Florida State University, he came to HBOI in 1985. He has published more than 140 scientific papers and has edited 12 books, the most recent being Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae.

Dr. Young currently serves as an Honorary Fellow at the Southampton Oceanography Center in the United Kingdom, as Visiting Professor of Biology at Kings College London, and as a member of the NSF Ridge-2000 Steering Committee, which oversees work on the geology, chemistry, and biology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents worldwide. In June of this year, he will assume the directorship of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Oregon.