{"id":70694,"date":"2002-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/bob-ballard-to-speak-on-the-future-of-ocean-exploration\/"},"modified":"2002-10-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-30T00:00:00","slug":"bob-ballard-to-speak-on-the-future-of-ocean-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2002\/10\/bob-ballard-to-speak-on-the-future-of-ocean-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Ballard to Speak on the Future of Ocean Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tMEDIA CONTACT: Lisa Cugini, (401) 874-6642
\nlcugini@gso.uri.edu
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\nBob Ballard to Speak on the
\nFuture of Ocean Exploration
\nat 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography
\n2002 Fish Lecture
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\nNarragansett, R.I. — October 30, 2002 — The public is invited to attend the thirteenth annual Charles and Marie Fish Lecture in Oceanography hosted by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO). This years lecture features famed oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard, who joined the GSO faculty earlier this year and launched the 溏心vlog免费B站 Institute for Archaeological Oceanography. His talk will focus on “Ocean Exploration in the 21st Century.” The free lecture will be held on Thursday, November 14, at 11 a.m. in Corless Auditorium at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Narragansett Bay Campus. <\/p>\n

\tNext July, Ballard, a 1974 GSO alumnus, and his research team will travel to the Black Sea and Mediterranean to oversee the first ever deep water excavation of ancient shipwrecks. Previous expeditions led by Ballard discovered vast numbers of amphorae and other artifacts, an extremely well preserved 1,500-year-old wooden ship from the Byzantine period, plus other similar shipwrecks and submerged archaeological sites that will be the focus of his July expedition. <\/p>\n

\tBallard has led or participated in more than 100 deep sea expeditions including the use of the deep-diving submersibles Alvin, Archimede, Trieste II, Turtle, Ben Franklin, Cyana, and NR-1. These expeditions involved the first manned exploration of the Mid-Ocean Ridge, the discovery of warm water springs and their unusual animal communities in the Galapagos Rift, the first discovery of polymetallic sulfides, the discovery of high temperature “black smokers,” and the discovery of R.M.S.Titanic, the German battleship Bismarck, 11 warships from the lost fleet of Guadalcanal, and the U.S.S Yorktown, He has also explored the luxury liner Lusitania. <\/p>\n

\tThe annual Charles and Marie Fish Lecture in Oceanography is supported by income from the Charlie and Bobbie Fish Endowment for Oceanography, established in 1989 by Marilyn Fish Munro in memory of her parents. <\/p>\n

\tAn oceanographer who specialized in marine zooplankton, Charles J. Fish started 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s first marine biological program as part of the Department of <\/p>\n

Zoology. His wife, Marie Poland Fish, well known for her pioneering work on the fish of Lake Erie, later became a world expert in marine acoustics. It was through their joint efforts that a graduate program in oceanography was established at the Narragansett Marine Laboratory, which later became 溏心vlog免费B站s Graduate School of Oceanography. <\/p>\n

\tPast presenters of the prestigious Fish Lecture include Sir Crispin Tickell, British permanent representative to the United Nations and the Security Council; Charles Alexander, senior editor at Time magazine; Dr. Sylvia Earle, advisor to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Dr. Bruce Robison, senior scientist at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute; educator and naturalist Richard Wheeler; Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA Chief Scientist and former astronaut; Dr. Orrin Pilkey, Professor of Geology at Duke University; Dr. John Morrissey, president of the American Elasmobranch (shark and rays) Society; Dr. Carl Safina, founding director of the Audubon Society\u2019s Living Oceans Program for marine conservation; Sandy Tolan, freelance journalist and independent radio producer; and Dr. Cindy Lee Van Dover, a faculty member in the Biology Department at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. <\/p>\n

\tThe lecture is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and available on a first come-first serve basis. Call the 溏心vlog免费B站 Office of Marine Programs at (401) 874-6211 for more information or directions.\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MEDIA CONTACT: Lisa Cugini, (401) 874-6642 lcugini@gso.uri.edu Bob Ballard to Speak on the Future of Ocean Exploration at 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography 2002 Fish Lecture Narragansett, R.I. — October 30, 2002 — The public is invited to attend the thirteenth annual Charles and Marie Fish Lecture in Oceanography hosted […]<\/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-70694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70694","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=70694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}