January 29, 2009
Series examines how new technology transforms way we see planet
Miles Logsdon, a UW oceanographer who specializes in understanding Puget Sound, coastal Washington and the Pacific using instruments mounted on earth-observing satellites, is the kick off speaker Feb. 10 of the lecture series, “Dynamic Depths: Measuring our Oceans from Above and Below.”
The series examines how new technology is transforming the way we see the planet and how people may, or may not, be effected by the changes being detected.
Logsdon’s talk, Oceans Above, will be at 7 p.m. in 120 Kane. The second lecture, Oceans Below, is scheduled March 10 at 7 p.m. and features UW’s André Punt.
Both talks in the series are free and open to the public but registration is required, visit https://go.washington.edu/uwaa/events/2009cofs_lectures/details.tcl. The talks are sponsored by the UW College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences and the UW Alumni Association.
Logsdon is a senior lecturer of oceanography and director of the UW’s Spatial Analysis Lab. The lab not only gathers information remotely but ties it all together into Global Information Systems for analysis. The interactive seminar will use satellite images of Earth to look at how ocean change is measured.
Punt is a professor of aquatic and fishery sciences whose lab develops methods for assessing fish and marine mammal populations, methods that have been used by national and international fisheries commissions. With more than a billion people depending on fish as their primary source or protein, policy makers need the best available science from below the surface to find the delicate balance between feeding a hungry globe and preserving ocean ecosystems for the future, according to information about the lecture.
