Discovery Speaker Series: Sea Star Wasting
Schedule
Thu, 08 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Olympia Timberland Library | Olympia, WA
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About the presentation: We’ll hear about her team’s recent developments with sea star wasting disease and an update on her newly released book, The Ocean’s Menagerie.About the speaker:
Drew Harvell, Professor Emerita of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University and Affiliate Faculty in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Science, University of Washington. Her research on the health and sustainability of marine ecosystems has taken her from the reefs of Mexico, Indonesia, Palau and Hawaii to the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest and resulted in over 190 academic articles in journals such as Science, Nature, and Ecology. Her current research, based at the University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, is focused on the health of foundation and keystone species in the Salish Sea.
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Olympia Timberland Library, 313 8th Ave SE, Olympia, WA 98501-1307, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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