{"id":62934,"date":"2010-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-vetlesen-lecture-series-continues-mar-16-with-discussion-of-trends-in-marine-biodiversity\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T00:00:00","slug":"uri-vetlesen-lecture-series-continues-mar-16-with-discussion-of-trends-in-marine-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/uri-vetlesen-lecture-series-continues-mar-16-with-discussion-of-trends-in-marine-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Vetlesen Lecture Series continues Mar. 16 with discussion of trends in marine biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 10, 2010 \u2013 Dalhousie University Professor Boris Worm is the third speaker in the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Vetlesen Lecture Series on global environmental change.  His lecture, \u201cSaving the Blue Planet: Patterns, Trends and Prospects for Marine Biodiversity,\u201d is on Mar. 16 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tFree and open to the public, the lecture will take place in Edwards Auditorium on the 溏心vlog免费B站 Kingston campus.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe lecture series, presented by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography and sponsored by the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation, is a follow-up to the 2008 Honors Colloquium series that explored human-caused global change, its consequences, and potential human responses.  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWorm is a marine research ecologist and associate professor of biology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and he is well known for his commitment to public awareness of marine conservation. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHis research has shown that populations of the ocean\u2019s large predators have declined by up to 90% in many areas.  Most recently he led an international team of scientists that examined efforts to restore marine ecosystems and rebuild fisheries throughout the world.  He also provided the first global evaluation of how management practices influence fisheries&#8217; sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe final speaker in the series is filmmaker and photographer Norbert Wu, whose lecture on \u201cExploring the World\u2019s Notable and Threatened Underwater Habitats,\u201d will take place on March 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Edwards Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tFor additional information, 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nFor more 溏心vlog免费B站 News visit www.uri.edu\/news<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 10, 2010 \u2013 Dalhousie University Professor Boris Worm is the third speaker in the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Vetlesen Lecture Series on global environmental change. His lecture, \u201cSaving the Blue Planet: Patterns, Trends and Prospects for Marine Biodiversity,\u201d is on Mar. 16 at 7:30 p.m. &#13; Free and open to the [&hellip;]<\/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-62934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62934","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=62934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}