Center for Marine Science
presents
The Planet Ocean Seminar Series
The Planet Ocean Seminar Series is offered to the general public to provide an opportunity for the greater
Wilmington community to benefit directly from the topics of information available to the center in its study areas.
The Planet Ocean Seminar Series is free and open to the public. However, due to limited seating,
reservations are required. The seminar will be presented in the main auditorium at the UNCW
Center for Marine Science , which is located off of Masonboro Loop Road. The seminar will
begin promptly at 6:30 P.M. in the auditorium. A reception will follow the seminar at 7:30 P.M.
To make reservations or for further information, please call: UNCW Center for Marine Science at
(910) 962-2300.
Center for Marine Science
5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane
Wilmington, NC 28409
Squid Pro Quo:
The Behavioral Ecology of Cephalopod
Predators in a Fish-dominated Ocean
Dr. Roger Hanlon
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Squid Pro Quo:
The Behavioral Ecology of Cephalopod Predators in a Fish-dominated Ocean
with Dr. Roger Hanlon
D
r. Roger Hanlon, Senior Scientist at the Woods
Hole Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), has
made over 5,000 research dives during his 30 years as
a marine biologist. He was inspired first when an
octopus on a coral reef in Panama scared him out of
his wits during his junior year in college. He survived
that experience -and an athletic scholarship - to
receive a B.S. Degree in
Biology at Florida State
University. He then
served as Lieutenant in
the US Army for two
years before obtaining
the MS and PhD
degrees from the University of Miami, and conducted
a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of
Cambridge, UK. Field work combined with laboratory
experimentation has helped to satisfy his continuing
curiosity about how cephalopods (squid, octopus,
cuttlefish, and nautilus) survive and thrive in an ocean
dominated by fishes and mammals. Along the way, he
has been employed in academic research centers, first
at the University of Texas Medical Branch in
Galveston (where he achieved full professorship in the
School of Medicine) and since 1995 at the nation’s
oldest marine laboratory, the Marine Biological
Laboratory in Woods Hole on Cape Cod. Dr. Hanlon
Please join us for the second seminar in the
2002-2003 series:
Squid Pro Quo:
The Behavioral Ecology of Cephalopod
Predators in a Fish-dominated Ocean
with Dr. Roger Hanlon
NOVEMBER 12, 2002
UNCW Center for Marine Science
Auditorium
Seminar 6:30 P.M. / Reception 7:30 P.M.
is Director of the Marine Resources Center at the
MBL and still follows the mantra of Louis Agassiz,
whose famous quote hangs in the library in Woods
Hole: “Study nature, not books.” His underwater
video that he will present- often seen on television attests to the beauty and sophistication of these
marvelous marine invertebrates.
hroughout his career, he has received grant
support from the National Institute of Health
(NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF),
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant, and
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) among several other
organizations.
long with his duties as Senior Scientist and
Director of the Marine Resources Center of the
MBL, Dr. Hanlon currently serves as a member of the
Editorial Review Board for The Biological Bulletin, an
executive member of the National Association of
Marine Laboratories (NAML), an adjunct professor of
the Boston University Marine Program, President of
the Woods Hole Chapter of Sigma Xi, and a member
of the Advisory Committee for Grass Fellows at the
MBL.
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Center for Marine Science
5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane
Wilmington, NC 28409
To reserve seats call: Center for Marine Science
910-962-2300
For directions or more information about CMS,
please visit our website:
http://www.uncwil.edu/cmsr
Accommodations for disabilities may be requested by
contacting CMS three days prior to the event.
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