Highline
Community college
FOR RELEASE: IMMEDIATELY
DATE: October 22, 2009
CONTACT: Woody Moses: (206)
878-3710, ext. 3649; wmoses@highline.edu
Lisa Skari: (206) 870-3705; lskari@highline.edu
Highline’s MaST
Center hosts fall speaker series
Event: Science on the Sound speaker series
Date: Nov. 7 and 21, Dec.
5
Time: Noon to 1 p.m.
Price:
Free
Location:
Highline Community College’s Marine Science &
Technology
(MaST) Center
Highline’s MaST Center is located on Redondo Beach in Des Moines;
address: 28203 Redondo Beach Drive S., Des Moines, WA 98198.
Website:
www.highline.edu/mast/
Description: Science on the Sound is a
semimonthly seminar that features experts discussing issues pertinent to the
Puget Sound and the region.
Upcoming speakers for Science on the Sound include:
Nov.
7
Our Underwater Neighbor: A Video Tour of Puget Sound
Underwater videographer John Williams discusses how protecting and preserving
the health of the Puget Sound involves art, science, education and recreation.
Williams, director for Still Hope Productions, will also show excerpts from
“SEA-Inside: Pacific Northwest,” a local TV series about what’s below the
surface.
Nov.
21
Introduction to Footloose Disabled Sailing
Bob Ewing, one of the original founders of the Footloose Sailing Association, shares
amazing success stories of people with disabilities who discover the wonders of
sailing. Ewing encourages people to join the sport to help them move beyond
disability and into empowerment.
Dec.
5
New Tools to Inform Nearshore Restoration
Doug Meyers, director of science for People for Puget Sound, shares the results
of a comprehensive analysis for the restoration of Puget Sound’s nearshore ecosystem. This 10-year, multi-agency
investigation combined cutting edge physical and social science to identify
spatially explicit disruptions to natural ecological processes in the last 150
years.
Sponsored by: Marine Science & Technology (MaST) Center
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Highline
Community College was founded in 1961 as the first community college in King
County. With approximately 18,300 students and 350,000 alumni, it is one of the
state’s largest institutions of higher education. The college offers a wide
range of academic transfer and professional-technical education programs, with day,
evening and weekend classes. Alumni include former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice,
entrepreneur Junki Yoshida and Washington state poet
laureate Sam Green.