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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#5A5A5E;letter-spacing:.05pt">April 25, 2019</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#5A5A5E">
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<span style="color:#404040">Contact:</span><span style="color:#404040;letter-spacing:1.2pt">
</span><span style="color:#404040">Doug Karlson, Marketing & Communications Coordinator,</span><span style="color:#404040;letter-spacing:1.6pt">
</span><span style="color:#404040">508-444-1918</span><span style="color:#595959;letter-spacing:-1.25pt">
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</span><a href="mailto:dkarlson@sea.edu">dkarlson@sea.edu</a> | www.sea.edu<span style="color:#404040;letter-spacing:1.6pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;color:#44546A">SEA to Host Public Lecture on Environmental Lessons of
<i>Moby-Dick</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Sea Education Association (SEA) will host a public lecture, “</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">Did the Whale Diminish?,” examining what
<i>Moby-Dick</i> teaches us about today’s eco guilt, extinction, and whale populations,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> on Sunday, May 19, at 2 pm. Richard King, visiting associate professor at SEA, will deliver the lecture, the second of
SEA’s Spring Lecture Series. The lecture will be held at James L. Madden Center Lecture Hall, Sea Education Association, 171 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth. It is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><span style="color:black">America's most famous and profound work of sea fiction provides an ideal benchmark for our perception of the ocean at the opening of the Anthropocene. Herman Melville was not only an avid
reader of sea narratives and natural history texts of the 1850s, but he spent more than three years at sea in the Pacific, much of that time hunting whales. As we approach Melville’s 200<sup>th</sup> birthday, this presentation examines Melville's understanding,
only a few years before <i>On the Origin of Species, </i>of extinction and the reduction of sperm and right whale populations and individual size in response to human hunting. We compare this to what whale biologists have traced since - and what effect this
has on our collective psyche, our "eco-guilt," and our motivation to act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><b>About the Lecturer</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><span style="color:black;background:white">Richard King is a visiting associate professor at SEA, who focuses on the intersections between sea voyage narratives, environmental history, and marine biology. He's
the author of<i> Lobster; The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History;</i> and the forthcoming <i>Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick.</i> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><b><span style="color:black">About
</span></b><a href="http://www.sea.edu/?utm_source=press_release&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=lecture"><b><span style="color:black">Sea Education Association/SEA Semester®</span></b></a><b><span style="color:black">
</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><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 style="color:black">
for its role in promoting the public understanding of science and engineering. Last year, the National Maritime Historical Society presented Sea Education Association with the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Maritime Education.<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>
Marketing & Communications Coordinator<br>
Sea Education Association <br>
P.O. Box 6 • Woods Hole, MA 02543<br>
<b>t:</b> 508.540.3954 x523<br>
www.sea.edu | #SEASemester<br>
<a href="https://www.sea.edu/documents/e_signatures/dkarlson.html"><span style="color:blue">SEA Fact Sheet</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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