MEDIA CONTACT: Lisa Freed
561-297-3022, lfreed@fau.edu

FAU Frontiers in Science Lecture Series - Part Two
Seeing the Secret Lights in the Sea: A Personal Account by a Marine Bioluminescence Junkie

WHAT: Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science presents the second lecture of its Spring 2006 series - "Seeing the Secret Lights in the Sea: A Personal Account by a Marine Bioluminescence Junkie."

WHEN: Thursday, January 19, 2006
3:30 p.m.

WHERE: FAU Boca Raton Campus
Charles E. Schmidt Biomedical Center
Room 126

COST: Free and open to the public

CONTACT NUMBER: Patsy Jones - 561-297-1307

DESCRIPTION: Join Dr. Edith "Edie" Widder for a peek at her life as a deep-sea adventurer and learn how she is using glow-in-the-dark creatures to help protect the Indian River Lagoon, which encompasses more than 30 percent of Florida's Atlantic coastline. Widder has been exploring the depths of the ocean using deep-diving submersibles since 1984, and will share her many fascinating stories and unique video footage of bizarre denizens of the depth. A senior scientist and director of the bioluminescence department at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution since 1989, Widder developed her interest in bioluminescence from her experience piloting the single-person submersibles Wasp and Deep Rover.

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