Celebrate 25 Years of Ocean Science at Birch Aquarium
Some anniversaries get a plaque. The Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation is getting three Monday nights at Birch Aquarium instead.
The Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series has run for more than two decades. This fall it returns for CMBC’s 25th anniversary, three nights on how the Center started, what its scientists study now, and where the ocean goes next.
Nancy Knowlton Opens With the Origin Story
The series opens with Science and Solutions for Our Ocean Planet, and it belongs to Nancy Knowlton, the founder and first director of CMBC at Scripps.
She is a National Academy of Sciences member and the former Sant Chair for Marine Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Expect the long view: how CMBC went from an early idea to a center that reshaped how ocean science gets done.
CMBC Students, Then a Director’s Case for Optimism
The second night hands the room to CMBC students and alumni for Current Research, Future Impact: Student Perspectives of CMBC. They cover their own research and what the Center has meant for their work and their careers.
The series closes with Vision for A Thriving Ocean, led by Stuart Sandin, CMBC’s current director. Sandin covers where the Center sits in today’s research landscape and why he is optimistic about what comes next.
Free for Members, $12 for Everyone Else
Birch Aquarium members get in free. Everyone else pays $12.
Seating is limited and reservations are required for every seat, members included. Registration is open now for the opening lecture, with the other two to follow.
The aquarium sits on a bluff over the Pacific in La Jolla, so come early and make an evening of it before the lights go down.
See you there!
Three Mondays, three angles on the same 25-year story, and one of the better rooms in San Diego to hear it in. Lock in your seat before they run out.
📆 September 14, October 12, & November 9
📍 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla
🎟️ Grab your tickets here | Free for Birch Aquarium Members
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See you there, San Diego!
