Aquarium Lecture Series: Meet Your Local Garbage Patch

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Hours:	7:00pm
Ages:	Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	Free see below
Category:	Lectures/Discussions

The Aquarium Lecture Series is presented free to the public through the generosity of the Lowell Institute, which has been providing funding for free public lectures at universities and museums since 1836.

Rachael Z. Miller, Founder and Executive Director, The Rozalia Project

The oceanic garbage patches get a lot of press, but do you know what is floating right here in Boston Harbor?

The Rozalia Project uses underwater robots, nets and hands to clean our ocean from surface to seafloor while studying the problem and running education programs.

They operate from aboard the 60-foot sailing vessel American Promise in the Gulf of Maine and Massachusetts Bay as well as from partner docks and vessels throughout the U.S.

Rachael Miller, Rozalia Project's founder and executive director, will lead an introduction about the problem of marine debris in our waters here in New England (as well as those thousands of miles away) and follow up with Rozalia Project's trash-hunting adventures, including getting attacked by a lobster, freeing an octopus and making some unusual finds while picking up over 500,000 pieces of ocean trash with 10,500 participants all over the U.S.

COST

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Lectures are free and open to the public.

WEBSITE

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www.neaq.org/education_and_activities/programs_and_classes/aquarium_lecture_series/index.php

LOCATION

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1 Central Wharf, Boston, MA, 02110 map
Phone: 617-973-5200