<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><img src="cid:ii_1437e261be0ea74c" alt="Inline image 1" width="96" height="96"><b><i><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.35pt">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.35pt"><br>
</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Calibri;font-variant:small-caps;color:rgb(54,95,145);letter-spacing:0.35pt">2014 Spring Lecture Series</span></b><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(54,95,145);letter-spacing:0.35pt"> <br>
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For more information, contact: <br>
Jennica Deely, Marketing Coordinator, SEA | </span></i><a href="mailto:jdeely@sea.edu"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black;letter-spacing:0.35pt">jdeely@sea.edu</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black;letter-spacing:0.35pt"> | 508-540-3954<br>
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</span></i><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.35pt">SEA faculty lecture series to
cover topics from SEA Voyages on the Global Ocean</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.35pt"><br>
<span style="color:rgb(54,95,145)"><br>
January 19 - May, 2014 | 1pm</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(54,95,145)"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Sea
Education Association<br>
<b><i>James
L. Madden Center Lecture Hall<br>
</i></b>171 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA<br>
<b>508-540-3954</b></span><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Calibri;font-variant:small-caps;color:rgb(196,18,47);letter-spacing:0.35pt"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><b><i><span style="font-family:Calibri;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Free
and open to the public<br>
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</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">January 19</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> | Dr. Kara Lavender Law, <i>Plastics
in the Ocean</i></span><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">February 16</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> | Dr. Jeff Schell, <i>Caribbean
Sketchbook: a journey through history, culture and conservation</i></span><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">March 16</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> | Dr. Amy NS Siuda, <i>The
Importance of Sargassum Species Distribution</i></span><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">April 13</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> | Dr. Chuck Lea, <i>Deep Sea
Fish and Squid & the Open Ocean Environment</i></span><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">May 18</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> | Captain Elliot Rappaport, <i>Leadership
Training in the Marine Environment</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.35pt">Lecture #1</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(39,100,148);letter-spacing:0.35pt"><br>
Plastics at SEA: <br>
The science of ocean “garbage patches”</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family:Calibri;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><br>
Dr. Kara Lavender Law</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">WHEN:</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri"><br>
January 19, 2014 at 1pm</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">WHERE:</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri"><br>
Sea Education Association<br>
James L. Madden Center Lecture Hall<br>
171 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA<br>
<b>508-540-3954</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><i><span style="font-family:Calibri;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Free
and open to the public</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(39,100,148);letter-spacing:0.35pt"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(54,95,145);letter-spacing:0.35pt">Presentation
Summary</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Ocean pollution by plastic
and other man-made debris is a pressing environmental problem that has captured
the attention of marine conservationists, anti-plastic activists, the media and
the general public. Though first described in the 1970s, scientific attention
to the topic has increased only recently and misconceptions about the problem
are common. SEA has been at the forefront of plastics research, with data
collection on floating plastic debris beginning in the 1980s. Since then,
SEA has collected nearly 10,000 measurements of plastic debris in the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans, and research efforts have expanded to include dedicated
research expeditions to the North Atlantic and North Pacific "garbage
patches", as well as federally-funded research programs to study the
behavior of plastic in the marine environment and its ecological impacts.
Dr. Law will discuss the state of scientific research on marine debris in
the world's oceans, with an in-depth look at the research carried out for more
than 25 years by undergraduate students and faculty scientists on sailing
oceanographic research vessels at SEA.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(54,95,145);letter-spacing:0.35pt">About the
lecturer</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Dr. Kara Lavender Law is a
research professor at Sea Education Association with a PhD in physical
oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and a BS in mathematics
from Duke University. With more than 12 months of sea time on
oceanographic and sailing research vessels, Dr. Law’s research interests
include large-scale and meso-scale ocean circulation, intermediate and deep
water formation in the North Atlantic and its role in the meridional
overturning circulation, and more recently the distribution and behavior of
plastic marine debris.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Formerly on the teaching
faculty at SEA, Dr. Law has taught oceanography to more than 200 students in 10
SEA Semester classes onshore in Woods Hole, MA and at sea in the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans, and the Caribbean Sea. For the past several years Dr. Law
has been researching plastic marine debris using SEA's 25-year data set consisting
of plastic counts from nearly 10,000 plankton net tows that were carried out by
more than 7000 SEA students and scientists. Her interests include understanding
how ocean physics determines the distribution of plastic and other marine
debris, and the degradation and ultimate fate of different plastic materials in
the marine environment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri">For
more information on the lecture series and specific lectures/lecturers, please
contact Jennica Deely, Marketing Coordinator with SEA<br>
</span></i><a href="mailto:jdeely@sea.edu"><span style="font-family:Calibri">jdeely@sea.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri"><br>
508-540-3954</span></p>
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