Cafe Sci Orlando announcements for 2012-10: Marine Ecosystems In Peril

[Chad MILLER]

Contents:
* Topic, "Marine Ecosystems In Peril"
* January Cafe is one week later



Topic, "What's Wrong with our Oceans and Estuaries? A Discussion of How Humans
are Imperiling These Amazing Ecosystems"

Hi. This month we will have a fascinating discussion at our Cafe Sci at
7PM on Wednesday 3 October, at Taste, in College Park.

Linda Walters, PhD, will provide vignettes of some of the ways humans
have altered marine systems, including ocean acidification, coral
bleaching, fisheries, invasive species, and habitat destruction. She
will also discuss community-based education and outreach campaigns that
her lab at UCF has successfully started.

Dr. Walters' is currently a Pegasus Professor in the UCF Biology
Department, Director of UCF's Fellers House Field Research Station in
Canaveral National Seashore, and Interim Director of the UCF Women's
Research Center. She has been a faculty member at UCF for 15 years with
a Ph.D. from Univeristy of South Carolina and post-doctoral research
experience in Hawaii, Quebec and Cochin, India. Her research program
focuses on many of the diverse ways humans impact the marine
environment. She is interested in both pure ecology questions and
goal-based conservation issues for a wide range of marine and estuarine
habitats in the Caribbean and the southeastern US, especially the
Indian River Lagoon system and the Florida Keys.

Directions

Taste
717 W. Smith Street
Orlando, United States
32804

Taste is near the corner of Princeton Street (really Smith Street after
the fork) and Edgewater Drive, so about 2 minutes from I-4 to parking.
One can park on the street or in the parking lot behind Taste.
* From Downtown and south, drive north ("east") on I-4 through
downtown. At the exit for Princeton Street, exit and turn
left/west.
* From Altamonte Springs and north, drive south ("west") on I-4
toward downtown Orlando. At the exit for Princeton Street, exit and
turn right/west.

From I-4, drive a few blocks to Edgewater Drive. At the intersection,
you should see a orange building ahead of you, labeled "Taste". Park on
the street or behind Taste.


January 2013 Cafe is one week later

Though we have cafes on the same day of the month for several years,
the first Wednesday of January 2013 is the day after New Year's Day,
and we will instead meet a week later, on January 9.