Sea Secrets 2024

S E A S E CRE T S 2024

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FIVE LEADING EXPERTS SHARE THEIR DISCOVERIES. JOIN US.

Presented By: The Shepard Broad Foundation

Key Biscayne Community Foundation

William J. Gallwey, III

Joan McCaughan Family Foundation

Sheryl Gold

Nicole and Myron Wang

KB Life Enhancement Fund

Sain-Orr, DeForest, Steadman Foundation

Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits

Leading Earth System Science. Transforming Lives and Minds.

Established in 1943, the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science unites cutting-edge technology with top-notch minds to tackle global challenges, including weather, climate, sea level rise, hurricanes, marine conservation, and sustainable aquaculture.

Through transformational research, dynamic interdisciplinary academics, and support for the establishment of sound environmental policy, we explore the Earth’s great mysteries, improve the quality of human life, and educate tomorrow’s leading scientists.

Photo Credit: Andy Mann Andy Mann is the featured speaker on February 27

Join us as we travel the world with distinguished scientists and explorers at the edge of discovery during this series of evening programs designed for the non-scientific community.

All lectures are free and open to the public. To register for one or more lectures, please go to the link for each speaker. For further information, email: development@earth.miami.edu or call 305-421-4061.

Programs will take place at the Rosenstiel School Auditorium, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149-1031.

The lectures will also be offered virtually for those who cannot attend in person.

Kurt Shickman Thriving in a Rapidly Warming World: How We Create a Just and Prosperous Future by Building Resilience to Heat Tuesday, January 23, 2024 Reception 6:30pm, Program 7:00pm

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Founder, KS Advisory We are increasingly aware of the threat that extreme heat presents to our lives, our communities, our society, and all the systems we rely on to survive and thrive. On the other side of that coin, strategies and technologies that build resilience to heat significantly contribute to progress across a broad range of important issues that we face today. This discussion will highlight what communities, cities, and countries are already doing to deal with the heat and what we can do to spur action on a global scale.

Kurt Shickman is the founder of KS Advisory, a consulting practice providing insights to cities, companies, and civil society organizations as they approach the challenge of extreme heat and climate resilience. Prior to launching KS Advisory, Kurt was the Director of Extreme Heat Initiatives at the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center. There, he led the center’s mission to protect people and livelihoods from the risks and impacts of extreme heat by building global partnerships, connecting communities, developing policies and programs, and supporting implementation.

In 2011, Kurt launched the Global Cool Cities Alliance and built it into a global network of over 70 cities focused on implementing passive cooling solutions to combat rising urban heat. He is the lead author of World Bank’s Primer for Cool Cities and has led projects for the Department of Energy, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, the United Nations, and the Clean Energy Ministerial.

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Laura Trethewey Inside the Race to Map and Mine the Deep Sea Tuesday, February 6, 2024 Reception 6:30pm, Program 7:00pm

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Rosenstiel School Auditorium 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Virginia Key

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Environmental and ocean journalist and author Five oceans—the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Southern—cover approximately 70 percent of the Earth. Yet we know little about what lies beneath them. Approximately 25 percent of the ocean’s floor has been charted, most close to shorelines, and over three quarters of the ocean lies in what is called the Deep Sea. Now, the race is on to completely map the ocean’s floor by 2030—an epic project involving scientists, investors, militaries, and private explorers who are cooperating and competing to get an accurate reading of this vast terrain and understand its contours and environment.

In her new book The Deepest Map, Laura Trethewey chronicles global mapping efforts around the world and the increasingly fraught question of whether and how to mine the Deep Sea. In this talk, Trethewey covers the history and future of deep-sea mining, as well as the science, industry, and political developments taking place today.

Lecture is followed by a book signing supported by Books & Books.

Laura Trethewey is an award-winning ocean and environmental journalist and author of two books: The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans (2023) and The Imperiled Ocean: Human Stories of a Changing Sea (2020). Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine, Courrier international, The Guardian, The Walrus, Toronto’s Globe and Mail, Hakai Magazine, and Canadian Geographic. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and won Canada’s Writers’ Trust Rising Star Award in 2020.

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Andy Mann The Wavemaker: A Quest to Save the Ocean, One Story at a Time Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Reception 6:30pm, Program 7:00pm

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Photographer and Co-Founder of SeaLegacy Andy Mann’s voyage from rock climber to marine photographer and filmmaker is an unlikely story overflowing with adventure. His work has brought him face-to-face with crocodiles, sharks, and icebergs —all on his quest to protect and share the fragile, fascinating, and fierce stories of our ocean. A dedicated conservationist, Andy uses his compelling imagery to raise awareness about our seas and has helped create marine protected areas around the world. Andy’s stunning visuals have captured groundbreaking marine science and the awe of wild places. His work inspires change and brings us to places we have never seen before.

Andy Mann is an Emmy-nominated director, 12-time Telly Award winner, National Geographic photographer, and marine conservationist. In 2013, while Andy was working with National Geographic Pristine Seas, the Russian Geographic Society awarded the program the Crystal Compass Award for the storytelling that led to the designation of the world’s largest Arctic national park, in Franz Josef Land, Russia. In 2015, he directed the first Oceano Azul Foundation expedition to the Azores, resulting in the declaration of 150,000 square kilometers of a new marine protected area in the Azorean Sea. His work in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean in 2018-2021 helped create the world’s first international marine protected area. A public speaker and songwriter, Andy also helped launch the nonprofit SeaLegacy with Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier and leads the organization’s impact media team.

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Rebecca Gruby, Ph.D. The Global Experiment with Massive Marine Protected Areas Tuesday, March 19, 2024 Reception 6:30pm, Program 7:00pm

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Robert K. Johnson Professor of Marine Conservation and Director, Johnson Center for Marine Conservation, Rosenstiel School We have entered a new era of marine conservation. In 2005, less than 2% of the world’s oceans were conserved in marine protected areas. Today, 8.17% of the world’s oceans are formally protected, with 44 large-scale marine protected areas accounting for a majority of this increase. Large-scale marine protected areas can provide unique conservation benefits by encompassing biologically connected ecosystems and habitats not often included in smaller, coastal marine protected areas. Yet, they pose significant implementation challenges, ranging from surveillance and enforcement to budget and capacity shortfalls and shifting political climates. This presentation will draw from a decade of social science research to explore the unprecedented promise and challenges of the global experiment with massive marine protected areas. It will conclude with a forward-looking discussion of how the newly established Johnson Center for Marine Conservation will advance policy-relevant research on large-scale marine protected areas and other critical marine conservation issues in our region and around the world.

Dr. Rebecca Gruby is an interdisciplinary social scientist focused on marine governance – the rules, processes, politics, and actors that shape collective action and human-environment interactions in the oceans. Her goal is to identify transformations in marine governance that can advance ocean health, human well-being, and social justice. Dr. Gruby holds a B.S. in natural resource conservation from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Before joining the Rosenstiel School's Department of Environmental Science and Policy in 2023, she was an associate professor in the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University. Her commitment to ocean sustainability and coastal communities stems from growing up surfing along Florida’s coasts.

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Brian Soden, Ph.D. Climate Engineering Tuesday, April 9, 2024 Reception 6:30pm, Program 7:00pm

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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Rosenstiel School Within the next five years, global temperatures are likely to exceed the 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 degree Fahrenheit) warming threshold established in the 2015 Paris Agreement. Despite international pledges to cut climate-warming emissions and move to cleaner sources of energy, the global emissions of greenhouse gasses continue to rise. Sometimes referred to as “a bad idea whose time has come,” climate engineering is the intentional modification of Earth’s climate in an attempt to counteract the effects of global warming.

Scientists have proposed a number of approaches that could modify the flow of energy into and out of the Earth’s atmosphere and potentially offset some of the climatic impacts of increasing greenhouse gases. Dr. Brian Soden will present an overview of various approaches to climate engineering, including work being done at the Rosenstiel School. His lecture will discuss the pros and cons of each, and touch on the potential ethical considerations that climate engineering presents.

Dr. Brian Soden received a B.S. degree from the University of Miami, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. Before joining the Rosenstiel School's Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Dr. Soden was a visiting scientist and Lecturer at Princeton University, and a physical scientist with NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He specializes in the use of satellite observations to test and improve computer simulations of Earth's climate. His research focuses on understanding the sensitivity of Earth's climate to increasing greenhouse gases and the response of extreme weather events to the resultant warming. Dr. Soden is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and American Geophysical Union and served as a lead author of the 2007 and 2013 reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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