{"id":61741,"date":"2011-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/oceans-and-human-health-the-topic-of-next-uri-vetlesen-lecture-mar-1\/"},"modified":"2011-02-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T00:00:00","slug":"oceans-and-human-health-the-topic-of-next-uri-vetlesen-lecture-mar-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/02\/oceans-and-human-health-the-topic-of-next-uri-vetlesen-lecture-mar-1\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Oceans and Human Health\u2019 the topic of next 溏心vlog免费B站 Vetlesen lecture, Mar. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 22, 2011 \u2013 Edward Laws, professor of environmental sciences at Louisiana State University, will present a lecture entitled \u201cOceans and Human Health: The Urgent Need for Sustainable Resource Management\u201d at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Mar. 1 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n


\n\tHis presentation, in Edward\u2019s Auditorium on the 溏心vlog免费B站 Kingston campus, is part of the University\u2019s Vetlesen lecture series on \u201cThe State of the Oceans\u201d in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Graduate School of Oceanography. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn his lecture, Laws will discuss how to maintain the oceans in the face of increasingly damaging exploitation.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWhat is disturbing about the climate changes projected for the next several centuries is the abruptness of the changes and the fact that the changes reflect non-sustainable use of natural resources by human beings,\u201d he said. \u201cFurthermore, the projected changes in the ocean\/atmosphere system will persist for thousands of years because natural restoring forces are unresponsive on a timeframe of decades to centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAfter teaching for 30 years at the University of Hawaii, Laws joined the faculty at the LSU School of the Coast and Environment, where he serves as chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences. He also serves as the director of the Pacific Research Center for Marine Biomedicine, one of four centers of oceans and human health supported by the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. <\/p>\n


\nLaws has published more than 140 papers in scholarly journals and is the author of a textbook on aquatic pollution that has been translated into numerous languages. He received his B.A. in chemistry and his Ph.D. in chemical physics from Harvard University.<\/p>\n


\nThe lecture series is sponsored by the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation, with individual lectures supported by the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Arts & Sciences, the Harrington School of Communication and Media, and Rhode Island Sea Grant. The series is coordinated by Professors Steven D\u2019Hondt, Arthur Spivack and Judith Swift, and Sunshine Menezes, director of the Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting.<\/p>\n


\nThe remaining speakers in the series are:<\/p>\n


\nMar. 8 \u2013 Christopher Reddy, senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, on \u201cCommunicating Science: Lessons Learned from an Environmental Crisis.\u201d

\nMarch 29 \u2013 Robert Ballard, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of oceanography, on \u201cThe Last Great Frontier.\u201d

\nApr. 5 \u2013 Norbert Wu, independent filmmaker and photographer of the marine environment, on \u201cExploring the World\u2019s Notable and Threatened Underwater habitats.\u201d

\nApr. 12 \u2013 Deborah Kelley, professor of marine geology and geophysics at the University of Washington, on \u201cMeasuring Change Across the Global Ocean.\u201d

\nApr. 26 \u2013 Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. senator, on \u201cSteering a Course Toward a National Ocean Policy.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nFor more information about the lecture series, visit www.uri.edu\/vetlesen or contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Center at 401-874-2381 or debg@uri.edu.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 22, 2011 \u2013 Edward Laws, professor of environmental sciences at Louisiana State University, will present a lecture entitled \u201cOceans and Human Health: The Urgent Need for Sustainable Resource Management\u201d at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Mar. 1 at 7:30 p.m. His presentation, in Edward\u2019s Auditorium on the 溏心vlog免费B站 Kingston […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}