Visit SF State’s marine research campus in Tiburon for our 22nd annual open house. Learn about our research from scientists and graduate students by exploring interactive science displays and listening to fascinating lectures (see Speakers). Touch live organisms at our touch tanks, combine art and science with ceramics and other creative art projects, listen to underwater sounds at our monitoring pier, and witness a live salmon release from our spectacular bayside location. Food and event t-shirts to benefit our students will be available for purchase.
Carpooling and cycling to the event is encouraged. Directions and public transit information are at http://www.rtc.sfsu.edu/directions.html. A free shuttle will pick up passengers at the Tiburon Ferry, but reservations are required, and space is limited. Call 415-338-3757 to make a reservation.
When: Sunday, October 30th, 11 AM-4 PM
Where: San Francisco State University, Romberg Tiburon Center, 3152 Paradise Drive, Tiburon, CA 94920
Cost: FREE
Partner Organizations: SFSU
Speakers:
Dr. Katharyn Boyer is a wetland ecologist and Associate Professor at SF State. Her lab at Romberg Tiburon Center (RTC) studies species interactions and nutrient cycles in coastal habitats such as salt marshes and seagrass beds, and restoration techniques for these habitats. Current investigations include the potential for spread and impacts of non-native plants in San Francisco Bay natural and restored marshes, effects of nonnative crustaceans grazing on native eelgrass, and factors controlling establishment of rare plants in tidal marshes.
Dr. Edward Carpenter is a microbial ecologist and Professor of Biology at SF State. His lab at RTC studies the ecology of microbes such as single-celled algae (phytoplankton) and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) from the Amazon to Antarctica, including current National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research on the effects of ocean acidification on shelled phytoplankton called coccolithophores.
Dr. Newell (Toby) Garfield is a physical oceanographer, and Director of RTC. His lab studies ocean and estuarine circulation in coastal regions out to the continental shelf, using remote sensing (radar and satellite) and free-drifting buoy technologies. The Garfield lab has developed a state-funded monitoring infrastructure for coastal and estuarine currents and water quality critical to commercial enterprise and the environmental health of San Francisco Bay, and continues to maintain and monitor portions of the Central & Northern California Ocean Observing System.
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