Jazz at the Labs!
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Illg Lectureship
Dr. James Carlton
June 27 to July 5, 2008
FHL Research Symposium:
Planning for Research, Monitoring, and
Policy Responses to Ocean Acidification in the
Northeastern Pacific
August 24 - 28, 2008
FHL Research Symposium:
How Do Ocean Circulations Matter
for Climate Change?
September 14 - 17, 2008
Supporting SJI's K-12 Programs through its Science Outreach Program
On Saturday night, June 7th, Friday Harbor Laboratories will hold its 8th annual ‘Jazz at the Labs,’ an evening of food, fun and great music at the Labs. As in the past, proceeds from ‘Jazz at the Labs’ will benefit the Friday Harbor Laboratories K-12 Science Outreach Program in the San Juan Island Elementary, Middle and High Schools and the Spring Street School.
This year’s program will begin with dinner from 6:00 – 7:00 P.M. During dinner, music will be provided by Dennis Willows and the San Juan Jazz Sextet.
Starting at 7:00 P.M. Jay Thomas and Jazz Coalescence, the outstanding jazz band from Seattle will perform featuring jazz standards with their own special edge. These guys can play! That's what people said about last year's Jazz at the Labs. And they were right about both the San Juan Jazz Sextet and Seattle's Jazz Coalescence, two groups featuring some of the Pacific Northwest's most prominent jazz musicians who play terrific jazz. And they're back again.
Best of all, Jazz at the Labs raises money to support a great cause. The Friday Harbor Laboratories K-12 Science Outreach Program which partners students with scientists and offers hands-on encounters with science. In the current school year, the Science Outreach Programinvolves more than 900 students and will log more than 5,000 science/student contact hours.
So be sure to save the date for an unforgettable evening on Saturday night, June 7th, when Friday Harbor Laboratories will hold its 8th annual ‘Jazz at the Labs’ - an evening of food, fun and great music at the Labs.
Reservations are required. (Last year was sold out!)
This year’s Jazz at the Labs is co-sponsored by:
Coldwell Banker San Juan Islands, Inc
Friday Harbor Drug
Islanders Insurance
Island Petroleum Services - IPS
San Juan Interiors
San Juan Propane
San Juan Masonic Lodge
San Juan Vineyards
Alex Shapiro and Charles Richards
Spring Street Dentistry - Dr. Susan Kiraly, DDS
Libby Thompson, V.P., Morgan Stanley, SJI
Waterworks Gallery - Ruth Offen
Wells Fargo Bank
Wilson Motors of Bellingham
Dinner and music 6:00 – 9:30 p.m.: $30 per person.
Music only from 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.: $15 per person.
For reservations and information, call Friday Harbor Laboratories at 378-2165 ext 0.
Public Lecture. Sunday, June 29, 2008. 7:00 p.m. San Juan Community Theater.
"Extinctions in the Sea: The Deletion of Species from the World's Oceans"
Scientific talk: Tuesday, July 1, 2008. 7:00 p.m. FHL Commons.
"Invasions in the Sea: The History, Science and Policy of Adding Species to Marine Communities"
 Photo: Anna Sawin. |
Dr. James Carlton is Professor of Marine Sciences at Williams College. He has directed the Williams-Mystic Program since 1989 and also teaches Marine Ecology. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in Ecology, and was a postdoctoral scholar at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research is on global marine bioinvasions (their ecosystem impacts, dispersal mechanisms, and management strategies) and on marine extinctions in modern times. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Biological Invasions. He is a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Distinguished Research Fellow of the University of California, and a Duke University Conservation Scholar. In 1999 he was the first scientist to receive the federal government's Interagency Recognition Award for his national and international work to reduce the impacts of exotic invasions in the sea. |
Dr. Carlton was Co-Chair of the Marine Biodiversity Committee of the National Academy of Sciences, which produced Understanding Marine Biodiversity: A Research Agenda for the Nation. Jim has testified eight times before the United States Congress (Senate and House subcommittees) concerning legislation involving invasive species in his capacity as an expert in the field. Jim was featured in 2005 in the nationally broadcast PBS-National Geographic series "Strange Days on Planet Earth," is annually heard on NPR, and was named by the Smithsonian Institution as an "Ocean Hero." As Director, Jim is committed to a curriculum that inspires undergraduates to pursue integrated investigations in the field of maritime studies.
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This endowed lecture series is presented in honor of Professor Paul L. Illg, who made many important contributions as a scientist, teacher, mentor, and friend. Paul excelled as a faculty member of the UW Zoology Department from 1952 - 1982. An expert in the biology of crustaceans, he participated in many summer sessions at Friday Harbor Laboratories. He invited world-renowned scholars to FHL to join him in teaching invertebrate biology and thus greatly enhanced the quality of the graduate program and research at the Laboratories. The lectureship endowment was established through memorial gifts by Paul's family, many friends and colleagues. Photo: Trish Morse |
August 24 - 28, 2008
Symposium organizers: Dr. Terrie Klinger, Dr. Jennifer Hoffman, Dr. Chris
Harley
Details to follow.
September 14 - 17, 2008
Dr. Christopher Bretherton, Symposium Organizer
A 2008 Friday Harbor Labs Research Symposium
organized by
the UW Program on Climate Change
On 14-17 Sept. 2008, internationally-renowned guest speakers will join forces with distinguished faculty and students from UW's Program on Climate Change to discuss how ocean circulation changes feed back on past and future climate changes. Four half-day talk/discussion sessions and a poster session will address the following issues:
(1) Is heat transport by the MOC crucial for variability of glacial climate and sea-ice extent?
(2) Can we confidently model how ocean circulation changes affect global CO2 uptake and storage through physical and biological mechanisms?
(3) Will Europe care about 21st century changes in Atlantic overturning?
(4) Are tropical ocean circulation changes
a primary feedback on past and future climate changes? Are these predictable
with current earth system models?
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