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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;color:#44546A">Public Lecture to investigate the mysteries of the ‘White Shark Café’</span></b><b><span style="color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:4.5pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Sea Education Association (SEA) will host a public lecture, “Voyage to the White Shark Café,” on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 2 pm. Jan Witting, Professor
of Oceanography, will deliver the lecture, the final of SEA’s Fall Lecture Series. The lecture will be held at James L. Madden Center Lecture Hall, Sea Education Association, 171 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth. It’s free and open to the public. Light refreshments
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt">Thanks to the use of electronic tags and blue ocean research voyages, researchers are shedding new light on the behavior of great white sharks.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt">After feeding along the West Coast, adult great white sharks join in a massive, long-distance migration every winter to a remote sub-tropical patch of ocean midway between Hawaii and Baja that researchers have
dubbed the “White Shark Café.” We know about this migration thanks to the use of satellite tags on these top predators, however the question of why they go there remains unanswered.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt">Is there something special about this tract of the open Pacific Ocean that attracts the sharks? SEA Professor of Oceanography Jan Witting recently returned from a research cruise aboard the R/V Falkor with the
Schmidt Ocean Institute, where a multi-institute team of scientists used an unprecedented array of tools from autonomous drones to ROVs to study the ocean around the sharks to shed new light on this mysterious pilgrimage.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Professor of Oceanography
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Jan Witting joined the Sea Education Association in 2001 after receiving his BS and his PhD in Marine Biology at Northeastern University, with a research focus
on coral feeding ecology, an important link in benthic-pelagic coupling in tropical waters. Jan’s background includes designing and constructing autonomous underwater vehicles, teaching at the Discovery Bay Marine Lab in Jamaica and at Northeastern University,
and extensive participation in research cruises in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><b><span style="color:black">About
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.sea.edu/?utm_source=press_release&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=lecture"><span style="color:black">Sea Education Association/SEA Semester®</span></a></span></span>
</span></b><span style="color:black">Sea Education Association (SEA) is an internationally recognized leader in undergraduate ocean education. For 45 years and more than one million nautical miles sailed, SEA has educated students about the world’s oceans through
its Boston University accredited study abroad program, SEA Semester. SEA/SEA Semester is based on Cape Cod in the oceanographic research community of Woods Hole, Massachusetts and has two research vessels: the SSV
<i>Corwith Cramer</i>,<i> </i>operating in the Atlantic Ocean, and the SSV <i>Robert C. Seamans</i>, operating in the Pacific. In 2016, SEA was honored with the
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.sea.edu/sea_currents/single/sea_honored_with_national_science_board_award?utm_source=press_release&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=lecture"><span style="color:black">National Science Board’s
Public Service Award</span></a></span></span> for its role in promoting the public understanding of science and engineering.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#4A4A4A">Doug Karlson</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#4A4A4A"><br>
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P.O. Box 6 • Woods Hole, MA 02543<br>
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