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World Oceans Day Virtual Event

The United Nations celebrates World Oceans Day every year on June 8th. The groundswell grows each year, as countries and communities use this day to celebrate all the ocean gives us. This year’s theme is “Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean.” We invite you to join us on Monday, June 8 at 6:00 PM for a special OSU Science Pub World Oceans Day Virtual Event. This evening event will feature a screening of Oregon State Productions’ Heceta Bank and a companion short OSU produced film, guest Q&A panel, trivia, art, music, and a special reading of a children’s ocean storybook.

General Show Schedule

• 6:00 PM – Welcome and Opening Remarks by Jack Barth, OSU Marine Studies Initiative Executive Director
• 6:05 PM – Sense of Place short film
• 6:12 PM -- Ocean Trivia hosted by Ocean11
• 6:17 PM – Heceta Bank: Oregon’s Hidden Wonder-26 min
• 6:48 PM – Guest Panel and Q&A
• 7:15 PM -- Special children’s book reading
• 7: 25 PM-- Close with “Currents” slideshow with art
• 7:30 PM – Event concludes

Guest Panelists

• Jack Barth - Executive Director, Marine Studies Initiative, and Professor of Oceanography, Oregon State University
• Bill Pearcy - Professor Emeritus, College of Earth, Ocean, & Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
• Ana Spalding - Assistant Professor of Marine and Coastal Policy – School of Public Policy, Oregon State University
• Waldo Wakefield - Courtesy Associate Professor in Marine Resources Management at Oregon State University and in the Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies
• Saskia Madlener - Science Documentary Producer, Oregon State Productions, Oregon State University
• Tom McCambridge - Biology Undergraduate Student, Oregon State University

For more information about the panelists, please visit us at the MSI World Oceans Day Virtual Event Page.

Contact MSI for accommodations for disabilities at marinestudies@oregonstate.edu

Event brought to you by Oregon State University's Marine Studies Initiative, Oregon State University Events, Oregon State Productions and OSU-Cascades.

Production by Connect Central Oregon, a collaborative program with the OSU-Cascades Innovation Co-Lab.