The Revolution of Science through Scuba Symposium
Larry
The Revolution of Science through Scuba Symposium
May 24-25, 2010
The Smithsonian Institution, the National Science Foundation, and the
Ocean Studies Board of the National Research Council announce a
symposium in May 2010 to celebrate the scientific contributions and
value of scuba as research methodology. The symposium will present
research findings by U.S. scholars and international collaborators
with particular focus on the scientific contributions accomplished by
placing the trained scientific eye into the underwater environment on
self-contained compressed gas. This symposium is the first major
effort to
highlight and validate the use of scuba as research methodology.
The symposium is scheduled for May 24 and 25, 2010 at Smithsonian's
Baird Auditorium in the
National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. The two-day event
will feature over 50 oral presentations and a formal reception at the
Sant Ocean Hall. The expected audience includes research scientists,
postdoctoral fellows, and research staff, students, program managers
and representatives from federal agencies, congressional staff, news
media and the general public.
More than 50 scholars will discuss their papers on research findings
from around the world on coral reefs, blue-water environments, under-
ice polar habitats, temperate kelp forests and other sites of
interest.
Results will be disseminated to scholars and the public through
publication of the symposium
proceedings volume in the Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine
Sciences series by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Web sites,
and the news media.
Symposium Co-Chairs: Michael Lang, Roberta Marinelli, Susan Roberts
and Phillip Taylor
Please visit WWW.SI.EDU/SDS for no-fee registration, agenda, abstracts
and speaker bios.
Michael Lang, Symposium Program; LA...@SI.EDU (202) 633.6887