Thank the Ocean for Every Other Breath You Take

Name: Thank the Ocean for Every Other Breath You Take
Start: 2024-05-23T17:00:00-04:00
Location: 3945 Museum Dr, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Florida 32310

Schedule

Thu May 23 2024 at 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

3945 Museum Dr, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Florida 32310 | Tallahassee, FL

Dr. Bill Landing will be discussing the ocean as a garden, what grows where and why, explaining that the oxygen in every other breath you take comes from photosynthesis in the ocean and how the oceans play a huge role in the Earths carbon dioxide cycle.
Dr. Landing grew up in Burbank, CA and earned a BS in 1975 and Ph.D. in 1983 in Chemistry at UC Santa Cruz, where he was a founding member of the Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra. He earned an MS in 1978 in chemical oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle. After finishing his Ph.D. in 1983, Dr. Landing spent a year living in Gothenburg, Sweden where he studied the Swedish and Norwegian fjords, while also learning to speak a little Swedish. Dr. Landing then joined the faculty in the Department of Oceanography at FSU in 1985 and retired in 2020 f from the Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, formed in 2010 via merger of the departments of Oceanography, Geological Sciences, and Meteorology. Dr. Landing taught a variety of courses at FSU including Global Climate Change: Its Scientific and Human Dimensions.
Participants for this one of a kind lecture must register online by visiting tallahasseemuseum.org/events. This program is free for members and regular admission for non-members.