2002
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February 6, 2002 "Diving for Dinner: How Seals Survive Under Water," is the topic of a free lecture Monday, February 11 at 7:30 p.m. at Centennial Hall. Dr. Jennifer Burns' multimedia presentation will include slides of seals and sea lions and describe how they survive in Alaska's arctic waters. In addition Burns will explain how these air-breathing mammals make a living foraging under water and what strategies seals and sea lions use to capture their prey. Burns is an assistant professor of biological science at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Her research has focused on understanding how the age and physiological status of juvenile marine mammals influences their diving and foraging capacities and how differences in rates of development impact life history traits. The presentation is the second of four, free weekly lectures on Monday evenings in February. The 2002 Science for Alaska lecture series is coordinated by the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute and sponsored by the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation and the University of Alaska. The February 19 lecture is "The Birth of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes," and the February 25 lecture is "Tracking Caribou by Satellite."
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