This Spring Aquarium Evening Course Will Examine Humanity’s Impact as a Global Force

February 11, 2019

A new evening course at the Aquarium this spring will explore creating model for balancing human impact on the environment, with input from experts in food, water, and energy production. We are in the Anthropocene, the geologic epoch in which humans have become a global force for the first time in our 200,000 year history. We are a dominant force, not only in changing Earth’s climate, but also in affecting the cycling of nutrients, the hydrologic cycle, and a number of ocean processes and phenomena. California is experiencing all of the major impacts and has the opportunity to develop a model of how to thrive in the Anthropocene that could serve other states and other nations. Enacting this model would have great environmental and economic benefit to California.

Speakers will include Ted Nordhaus, president, Breakthrough Institute; Peter Kareiva, director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles; Jerry Schubel, president and CEO, Aquarium of the Pacific; Luke Gardner, aquaculture specialist, California Sea Grant ; Kim Thompson, program manager, Seafood for the Future; and Marshall Toplansky, professor of management science, Chapman University.

When: Wednesdays, March 6, 13, 20, & 27, 2019, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Where: Aquarium of the Pacific, 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA 90802

Info/RSVP: (562) 590-3100, Ext. 0 or event page

Cost: $40 per person and $35 per Aquarium member, $20 for students with ID card. CEU credit through California State University, Long Beach, is available for an additional $10.

Sponsors: Ralph and Hazel Osborn and Lois J. Roork Charitable Trust and Stephen and Brenda Olson.