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ROOKERY BAY

DR. KEVIN BOSWELL

LUNCH & LEARN

LECTURES

R ookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve has announced COME AND JOIN US!
the schedule of lectures for the monthly Lunch & Learn lecture
series at Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center. In
celebration of the recently-established partnership between the research • March 21:
reserve and Florida International University (FIU), this year’s series focuses
"The Epigenetics Revolution Reaches the
on research underway by scientists at the university. Ocean," Dr. Jose Maria Eirin-Lopez
The February lecture features Dr. Kevin Boswell, who received his Ph.D.
degree in Oceanography and Coastal Sciences from the Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge, LA, in 2006. He is now an Assistant Professor at • April 5:
the Florida International University. He is a marine ecologist, with general "Green Turtles Graze Down Bermudian
Seagrass Meadows on the Move to South
interests in the ecology and behavioral dynamics of coastal and marine
nekton and surface oriented vertebrates. His research program broadly Florida," Dr. Jim Fourqurean
focuses on the interacting factors that mediate the distributional patterns,
The cost to attend the lectures is $15, or
behavior, habitat use, energetics and natural ecology of coastal and oceanic
animals, including the implications of ecosystem variability for rapidly $10 for Friends of Rookery Bay members,
and includes lunch with dessert. For more
changing environments. He has authored and coauthored more than 40
peer-reviewed publications, received more than $12M in funding for information about the lecture series go to
research in the Gulf of Mexico, sub-Arctic and Arctic ecosystems. rookerybay.org.

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