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Lecture Series: Tara Oceans : A Modern Scientific Cruise Around the World

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The research schooner Tara is crisscrossing the planet in a three-year expedition with scientists--joined by visiting artists and journalists--to investigate the impact of climate change on marine ecosystems, our life support system.

Presentations by Romain Trouble, Chairman Tara Research Foundation USA
Eric Karsenti, Senior Scientist TARA OCEANS
Mara Haseltine MR’08, Visiting Artist TARA OCEANS. She will unveil her sculpture “La Boheme” based on her TARA voyage and talk about plankton and how she incorporates science into her art.

The research schooner Tara is crisscrossing the planet in a three-year expedition with scientists, artists and journalists to investigate the impact of climate change on marine ecosystems, the life support system for all of us on planet Earth.

The schooner Tara has a long history as she belonged to renowned explorer Jean-Louis Etienne and it is onboard that Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand sailing legend, undertook expeditions and was tragically killed in Manaus 10 years ago in 2001. After a two-year mission drifting across the Arctic Ocean, Tara is now circumnavigating the ocean in the wakes of the Beagle, Challenger, and others. As a unique common endeavor the Tara team has developed a common approach shared by twelve different disciplines to try and understand how our life support system on earth works. How is plankton--this dynamic microscopic ecosystem--making our atmosphere breathable? How does plankton feed the fisheries throughout the world? What will be the fate of plankton in the changed ocean of the future? This team of international scientists is sailing onboard together with sailors, journalists and artists for the progress of science, outreach, and the arts.

Romain Trouble holds a double degree in biotechnology and business management, and is a former America's Cup sailor who sailed two Cups in New Zealand in 2000 and 2003. After several years of organizing polar expedition logistics in the Arctic and Antarctic, he has been coordinating the Tara Arctic 2007-2008 project since the very beginning. He is now Chairman of the Tara Foundation for Marine Research in the United States.

Eric Karsenti obtained a PhD in Immunology and cell Biology at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1979. Then he moved to San Francisco to work on the cell cycle and mitosis in the laboratory of Marc Kirschner between 1981 and 1984, before establishing his own group in the Cell Biology department of EMBL at Heidelberg in 1985. Since then he contributed to the understanding of the cell cycle clock and developed a new approach of Cell Biology involving statistical physics and modeling to understand how cell shapes and the mitotic spindle form. Over the past 15 years and before starting the Tara Oceans expedition, he created the Cell Biology and Biophysics unit of EMBL in which he hired an interdisciplinary team of group leaders working on cell and organisms morphogenesis.
Research director at the CNRS and Senior Scientist at EMBL, he is a member of EMBO and of the French Academy of Sciences and since 2009 he is the Scientific Director of the Tara Oceans expedition.

Mara Haseltine MR’08 received her undergraduate degree in Studio Art and Art History from Oberlin College in Ohio, and her master's degree from The San Francisco Art Institute with a double degree in New Genres and Sculpture. She has exhibited and worked worldwide. Haseltine is currently a professor at The New School in NYC, a member of Sculptor's Guild of New York, and a member of Genspace Lab in Brooklyn. She was honored at ECAD 2011 with Flag #75 Return for her voyage on Tara Oceans. She currently works out of her studio in Brooklyn, New York.

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$5 w/ ID

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