Event Calendar
Please join us for Stanford’s acclaimed Summer science lecture series on the lawn adjacent to Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center on four Thursday evenings. You are invited to come early and wander through the museum, and have dinner at the Art Center’s Cool Café or bring your own picnic. You can then settle on the lawn outside to hear informal lectures about cutting-edge research from four of Stanford’s most esteemed professors. All of the talks will be delivered in terms understandable to the general public. So bring your entire family (high school age and up) and enjoy!
The Outdoor Science Talks are sponsored by the Stanford Office of Science Outreach and Stanford Continuing Studies.
Outdoor Science Talk 3 - Shark and Awe: The Extreme Life of the Sea
The thin surface of the sea is a sharp curtain between the marine and terrestrial worlds. And below this curtain lie thousands of amazing species that live in some of the more stressful places on earth. Some need to produce two million offspring a year in order to have any that survive. Others live at incredible pressures or temperatures. Some live their whole lives in a day, others can live for 10,000 years. This talk will present the panoply of marine habitats and the species that have uniquely been able to live in them. It will be arranged around scientific knowledge but presented in narrative story form that concentrates on the conflicts and tradeoffs that all life grapples with.
Stephen R. Palumbi
Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor in Marine Sciences
Stephen R. Palumbi’s research group studies the genetics, evolution, conservation, population biology, and systematics of a diverse array of marine organisms. He has published on the genetics and evolution of sea urchins, whales, cone snails, corals, sharks, spiders, shrimps, bryozoans, and butterflyfishes. Palumbi has received numerous awards for research and conservation, including a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation. He received a PhD from University of Washington in marine ecology.
Free and open to public.