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[PAST EVENT] VIMS Wachapreague Public Seminar: Skating By? A coastal elasmobranch and climate change

July 5, 2017
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location
VIMS - Seaside Hall (Eastern Shore Laboratory)
40 Atlantic Avenue
Wachapreague, VA 23480Map this location

Join Gail Schwieterman, VIMS graduate student, as she discusses how climate change is affecting our oceans in three mains ways: rising temperatures, increases in hypoxia, and ocean acidification. In this presentation, Ms. Schwieterman will describe why these three variables matter so much to fish, and how a common species here on the Eastern Shore of Virginia is responding to environmental change.

There is no charge for this presentation. Seating limited to 60 people.


Contact

Linda Ward 757-787-5816