What:            Community Forum on the Deepwater Horizon Event
                     What are scientists learning about its impact?

When:            Saturday, December 3 – 10:00am to 12:00pm

Where:           Dauphin Island Sea Lab Shelby Center
                     101 Bienville Blvd, Dauphin Island
                     251-861-2141

                      Auburn High School
                      405 South Dean Rd, Auburn
                      334-887-497

                      Southern Environmental Center
                      Birmingham Southern College, 900 Arkadelphia Rd, Birmingham
                      205-226-4934

All sites will be networked via video-conferencing technology, and audiences will hear from and be able to ask questions of scientists at each location

Admission:    FREE; open to the general public, families, students and teachers. 
No pre-registration is required.

The Deepwater Horizon event stimulated a great deal of scientific research in the Gulf of Mexico region.  On Saturday December 3, join the Dauphin Island Sea Lab for a conversation with some of the scientists doing this research. Three locations across Alabama will host the event and will be networked via video-conferencing technology.  Audiences will hear from and be able to ask questions of scientists at each location. 

Scheduled speakers and talks are:

• Dr. Marcus Drymon, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Implications of the Deepwater Horizon explosion on Alabama's fisheries.
• Dr. Asim Bej, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Little things rule the world: microbial responses to oil.
• Dr. Ken Halanych, Auburn University, Oil spill impacts on sediment dwelling animals in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Dr. Thane Wibbels, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Oil spill impacts on terrapins and turtles in coastal waters.

Please visit http://cosee-central-gom.org/community_forum_al.htm for more information on the speakers and their research interests.  For further event details, please call the listed locations or the Dauphin Island Sea Lab at 251-861-2141.

This Community Forum is sponsored by the National Science Foundation through the Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence, Central Gulf of Mexico Program (COSEE:CGOM). For more information on COSEE, please go to http://cosee-central-gom.org.