What are the impacts of overfishing? (10:55)
What if the world's garbage, sewage and toxic waste had been piled up on land instead of dumped in the ocean? (17:40)
Global Warming: Are the penguins and polar bears doomed? (28:22)
How much will the sea level rise in the 21st Century? (41:07)
Can we avoid Ocean Apocalypse? (54:35)
Jeremy
Jackson is Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution and
Professor of Oceanography Emeritus at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography. He studies human impacts on the oceans and the ecology and
paleoecology of tropical and subtropical marine ecosystems. Jackson is
author of more than 150 scientific publications and eight books. He is a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Jackson has received
numerous prizes and awards including most recently the Peterson Medal
from Harvard University, the Paleontological Medal, the BBVA
International Prize in Ecology and Conservation, and the Society for
Conservation Biology LaRoe Award for Outstanding Contributions to
Conservation Biology. Jackson's work on historical overfishing and the
collapse of coastal ecosystems was chosen by Discover magazine as the
outstanding scientific achievement of 2001. Island Press just published
his latest book, Shifting Baselines: The Past and Future of Ocean
Fisheries, in August 2011.
Jeremy Jackson's presentation, "Ocean
Apocalypse" is the College's academic year 2012-2013 International
Lecture. The lecture is sponsored by the Naval War College Foundation in
memory of Edgar W.B. Fairchild, a former Foundation Trustee, through
the generosity of Mr. Fairchild's estate.
