Saturday, July 14: Tracking Sharks in the Waters off Southern California
Free Lecture with Dr. Chris Lowe
Co-hosted with the Solvang Library
Saturday, July 14, 7:00 p.m.
St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church
2901 Nojoqui Avenue, Los Olivos
Featured banner photo courtesy of the CSULB Shark Lab
Great white shark face-to-face. Photo courtesy of CSULB Shark Lab.
Join us for a timely summer presentation about underwater exploration and research into the natural history of sharks with Dr. Chris Lowe, Director of the Shark Lab at California State University Long Beach (CSULB). Established in 1966, the Shark Lab has long been on the cutting edge of scientific inquiry into the behavior and ecology of these enigmatic animals. Dr. Lowe and his students in marine biology are working with state-of-the-art acoustic and satellite telemetry techniques to study the movement, behavior, and physiology of sharks, rays, and gamefish.
Dr. Chris Lowe. Photo courtesy of the CSULB Shark Lab
Dr. Lowe earned his BA degree in marine biology at Barrington College in Rhode Island and his MA degree in biology at CSULB. In 1998, he achieved a doctorate in zoology, studying bioenergetics of juvenile hammerhead sharks, at the University of Hawaii. He returned to CSULB to teach marine biology and oversee the Shark Lab. As the climate and the environment continue to change, Dr. Lowe has become adept at speaking to media about how fluctuations in water temperatures and weather patterns have affected ocean life. He has appeared in many articles and on TV and radio broadcasts, including the PBS/BBC special “Big Blue Live,” “TODAY,” “Al Jazeera America,” “CBC News,” Newsweek, KNX Radio, the Orange County Register and the Long Beach Press-Telegram, to name a few.
