Published April 12, 2010
by iris_author
2010 Morris Katz Memorial Lecture in Environmental Research
Dr. Ronald Keith O’Dor
Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Washington, DC., USA
and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Changing Life in a Changing Ocean
Abstract: New technologies demonstrated by Census of Marine Life projects have transformed the ocean from dark and mysterious to transparent and understandable. The Canadian led Ocean Tracking Network is one example that allows us to know when commercial fish and conservation icons go where and records the conditions they experience. Changes in atmospheric chemistry are warming and acidifying the ocean. Where life have to go to survive is still open to debate. Corals can’t move and perhaps even coral sands will dissolve! Traditional knowledge about fish distributions will change dramatically with warming. Why subsidize fuel burning vessels to search the ocean for fish when we could subsidize the tagging of fish so that they tell us where they can be caught cheaply with minimum impact on the environment?
Time: Monday, May 10, 2010
2:30 p.m.
Location: Senate Chamber, N940 Ross Bldg., York University
4700 Keele Street, Toronto
For more information please refer to the attached poster.
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