On January 19, 2011 Dr. Ellen Prager will be at the Aquarium of the Pacific for an evening lecture. She has graciously offered to spend time with a high school class via videoconferencing that morning. Dr. Prager will be discussing her work with the students and answering any questions they may have. Sex, Drugs and Sea Slime highlights the strange cast of characters that inhabit the oceans’ depths and how they are connected to our food supply, the economy, jobs and in biomedical research and biotechnology. These sea creatures include the tiny voracious arrow worms, whose predatory ways may lead to death by overeating, the hagfish that ties itself into a knot to keep from suffocating in its own slime, and the sea slug, whose sexual encounters can truly turn into a dangerous liaison due to untimely cannibalism.
Prager is formerly the chief scientist for the Aquarius Reef Base program in Key Largo, Florida. She also served as a faculty scientist at Sea Education Association (SEA) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; the resident director of the National Undersea Research Center in the Bahamas; a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey; chairman of the Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel for the federal government; and assistant dean at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. She remains an adjunct faculty member at the school.
This program will take place from 10 am to 11 am PST (1:0pm - 2:00pm Eastern Time) on January 19, 2011. Participants MUST be available at this time.
This opportunity is $125 and we will be connecting with two high school classes. If you are interested please contact Sarah Swain at sswain@lbaop.org
Sarah Swain
Education Technology and Media Coordinator
Aquarium of the Pacific
100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA 90802
