This is a free presentation seminar and discussion event hosted by the Center for Student Coastal Research (CSCR), a non profit organization located in Cohasset on Boston's South Shore. CSCR educates students in environmental sciences, encourages environmental awareness, and promotes activism. Details are available at www.ccscr.org.

General attendance and participation is complimentary, tax deductible donations are welcome.

The upcoming guest speaker of the CSCR seminar and discussion series is George D. Buckley, MS, Assistant Director of the Sustainability program at the Harvard University Extension School.

Dr. Buckley will present and discuss 'Ocean Acidification: Are coral reefs and clams fizzing away?'

Seminar Abstract

The world's oceans face an uncertain future with the threats from Global Climate Change. One of the effects of increased carbon dioxide over decades can lead to ocean acidification which can cause serious impacts on the ocean ecosystem. Join us as we discuss those impacts on sea life from Coccolithophores and coral reefs to snails and clams.

Biography:

George Buckley is an award winning environmental consultant, film maker and conservationist whose field work includes bay ecology, coral reef conservation and environmental management as well as horseshoe crabs, land snails and fresh water clams; as Assistant Director of the Sustainability program at the Harvard University Extension School he has helped to create a widely recognized Masters degree program that provides courses on campus as well as online to hundreds of students from across the US and around the world.