THE VERY COLD AND THE VERY DEEP |
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Ever wondered how whales can hold their breath for over an hour, why fish in freezing water don't freeze,
or why worms living at super-hot hydrothermal vents don't cook? On Wednesday, Feb. 12, for the next event
in the ongoing HARBOR BRANCH Ocean Science Lecture Series, Dr. Tammy Frank, head of the institution's
Visual Ecology Program, will answer these and other puzzling questions. She will describe some of the many
novel adaptations marine animals have come up with to allow them to survive in their own particular and
oftentimes harsh niches in the sea.
Dr. Frank's own research involves studying how light from the surface controls the behavior and distribution of animals in the ocean's midwaters during the day and how it triggers legions of them to migrate toward the surface at night. She has spent countless hours studying ocean animals in the depths from HARBOR BRANCH's Johnson-Sea-Link submersibles, and her work has taken her to such locations as the Bahamas, Cuba, the Canary Islands and Hawaii. Dr. Frank also teaches in the HARBOR BRANCH-Florida Atlantic University "Semester by the Sea" program held each year at HARBOR BRANCH. Dr. Frank will give her talk at both 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 12 at the main auditorium of the Johnson Education Center at HARBOR BRANCH Oceanographic Institution, 5600 U.S. 1 North, Fort Pierce, FL. The talk is free to the public. For information, please contact the Marine Education Office at 772-465-2400, ext. 506, or email education@hboi.edu. FULL SCHEDULE FOR 2003 OCEAN SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES: 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 - 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) HARBOR BRANCH Oceanographic Institution, Inc., is one of the world's leading nonprofit oceanographic research organizations dedicated to exploration of the earth's oceans, estuaries and coastal regions for the benefit of humankind. CONTACTS: Mark Schrope - Science Writer 772-465-2400 x433) • schrope@hboi.edu Jan Petri - Government and Public Relations 772-465-2400 x241 • petri@hboi.edu |