Dr. Audrey Meyer to Deliver Lecture at Sea Education Association Event

COURTESY OF SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF WOODS HOLE
The SSV Corwith Cramer.

FALMOUTH – Sea Education Association’s free public lecture series resumes on Sunday at 1 p.m. with “Voyaging Transatlantic: Gales and Whales!” by SEA professor Audrey Meyer.

The lecture will be held at the James L. Madden Center Lecture Hall at the Sea Education Center on Woods Hole Road in Falmouth.

It is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.

SEA has made several voyages across the Atlantic during its 45 year history, including the month-long transatlantic expeditions from Woods Hole to Cork, Ireland over the past three summers.

Students aboard these voyages studied spatial patterns in ocean ecology and the shifting state of the North Atlantic marine ecosystem.

They examined the richness and variety of marine life across the Atlantic basis in conjunction with the underlying physical and chemical conditions influencing those populations.

In the lecture, Meyer will present some of the scientific research completed during these voyages, highlight the weather challenges of sailing across the North Atlantic, as describe the exciting sightings of numerous megafauna along the way.

Meyer is a professor of oceanography at SEA where she has worked in various capacities for 20 years.

She served as Chief Scientist on two crossings of the North Atlantic, as well as on a number of other SEA Semester programs in the Pacific.