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Sea Otters Take Center Stage in September, Feature in USGS Podcasts and Public Lecture During Sea Otter Awareness Week
To help celebrate the California sea otter and bring more attention to the issues surrounding its ongoing recovery from near extinction, lead sea-otter researcher Tim Tinker of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will be interviewed for a series of podcasts to air during Sea Otter Awareness Week (September 21-27). Among the topics of discussion will be the findings of the spring 2008 census of southern sea otters (see "California Sea Otters: Population Recovery Continues at Slower Rate," this issue). The first of the Sea Otter Awareness Week podcasts will be released September 22 on the USGS CoreCast Web site, where you can also find more than 60 other podcasts about USGS science. You can even subscribe to receive e-mails when new CoreCasts are released, or automatically download them using iTunes. In addition to the USGS CoreCasts, Tinker will give a lecture on "What We Have Learned from Spying on Sea Otters: How Scientists Use Behavioral Studies to Provide Insights into Population Status, Disease Dynamics, Food-Web Interactions, and Ecosystem Shifts" at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, California, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 24. To learn more about the lecture, visit URL http://www.defenders.org/take_action/upcoming_events/ and scroll down to click on the link "Sea Otter Lecture at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (CA)." For information about Sea Otter Awareness Week nationwide, visit URL http://www.defenders.org/seaotter/awareness/.
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Scientists Map Arctic Sea Floor Tribal Canoes Gather Water-Quality Data
Sea Otter Awareness Week Diversity in the USGS Workforce Kvenvolden Honored at International Conference |