PUBLIC EDUCATION - OCEAN SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES The Ocean Science Lecture Series provides a forum for Harbor Branch's scientists to share their most recent discoveries with our neighboring communities. All lectures are held in the auditorium of the J. Seward Johnson Marine Education and Conference Center on the Harbor Branch campus, 5600 U.S. 1 North, Fort Pierce. Presentations are at 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm and are followed by a meet-the-speaker reception. For the first time, the lecture series will be free of charge to all attendees. January 8 - Shirley Pomponi & Don Liberatore - Submersible Science at Harbor Branch: Looking from the Inside Out January 15 - John Tucker - Marine Foodfish Culture and Stocking January 22 - Edie Widder - Bioluminescent Oddities and Wonders January 29 - Ned Smith - What Goes Around Comes Around: The Gulf Stream and the Circulation of the North Atlantic Ocean February 5 - Greg Bossart - Emerging Diseases in Marine Mammals: Should "Flipper" Be Worried? February 12 - Tammy Frank - Lifestyles of the Very Hot, the Very Cold and the Very Deep: How Do They Survive There? February 19 - Clay Cook - "Hunger Makes Strange Bedfellows": Symbiosis of Algae with Corals, Sea Anemones and other Marine Organisms February 26 - Joe Lopez - The World as a Classroom: Molecular Studies of Marine Biodiversity in the Field March 5 - Lee Frey - Robot Explorers: A Look at Unmanned Underwater Vehicles March 12 - Amy Wright - DBMR: The Deep Sea-Link to Drug Discovery March 19 - Megan Davis & Ken Riley - A Fish Eye's View of Aquaculture March 26 - Dennis Hanisak - "The Gleaming Indian River with Its Waves of Blue": Poetic License or Remembrances of Things Past? (Kermit Returns) Check out other lecture topics 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004• 2005 • 2006 All Lectures are held in the auditorium of the Johnson Education Center on the campus of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, 5600 U.S. 1, North, Fort Pierce. Sponsorship opportunities are available. If you are interested in sponsoring a speaker or if you have any questions about the 2002 Ocean Science Lecture Series, please contact the Marine Education Office at 772-465-2400, ext. 506, or email education@hboi.edu.