THIS IS THE RESCHEDULED LECTURE FROM 2/12

“Perry's Revenge: The story and discovery of the wreck of the USS Revenge”
Charles C. Buffum, Jr., Owner/Manager of Cottrell Brewing Co. (Pawcatuck); Craig Harger, Retired, Industrial Gas Specialist

“Water Quality and (In)equality: Protecting Tribal Sustenance Fishing Rights in Maine”

By Allison M. Dussias, Associate Dean and Professor at New England Law, Boston
Allison M. Dussias teaches American Indian Law, Business Organizations, Civil Rights, First Amendment, and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights. Her scholarship focuses on Indian law and the rights of indigenous peoples. She has published extensively on topics that include Indian religious freedom, cultural preservation, tribal environmental regulation, and tribal sovereignty. Prior to joining the New England Law faculty, she practiced corporate law at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City. She received an A.B. from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

“From Pacific Outposts to Biological Hotspots: Ocean History in the Age of Climate Change”

By Anthony Medrano, Harvard University Center for the Environment/Department of History, Harvard University
Anthony Medrano is a Ziff Environmental Fellow at Harvard University, where he has affiliations with the Department of History and the Center for the Environment. In his research and book in progress, Dr. Medrano explores the interplay between science, technology, and the marine environment in Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the long twentieth century, with particular interest in the history of economic life and knowledge production. This presentation uses the career of Alvin Seale (1871-1958) to show how the overlooked study of fish was central to bringing the ocean ashore and knowing—up close—the wealth and wonders of the Pacific environment. Through Seale’s currents in and around this great ocean, the talk suggests that today’s national marine monuments not only stem from the historical interplay between fish, science, and infrastructure but that the legacy of these interactions is also, and more importantly, at the heart of knowing these Pacific waters and the threats they face in the age of climate change.

This biennial conference highlights diverse research occurring in Long Island Sound and its watershed. Sponsored by New York Sea Grant, Connecticut Sea Grant and the Long Island Sound Study. Register at: https://seagrant.sunysb.edu/articles/t/2019-long-island-sound-research-conference-research-news

“Long-term effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on bottlenose dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico”

By Sylvain De Guise, Professor of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science and Director, Connecticut Sea Grant, University of Connecticut
Sylvain De Guise completed his veterinary medicine (DMV) at Université de Montréal in 1988, as well as a combined residency and MSc in veterinary pathology at the same institution, completed in 1993. His research was on the pathology and toxicology of St. Lawrence beluga whales. He then pursued a PhD in immunotoxicology of beluga whales at the Université du Québec à Montréal, which he completed in 1996. He pursued a three-year post-doctoral fellowship on marine mammal immunology at the University of California Davis. He is now an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, where he studies pathology, immunology, toxicology and immunotoxicology of aquatic organisms, including marine mammals, oysters and lobsters. He also studies new approaches to risk assessment resulting from exposure to environmental contaminants such as PCBs in target species such as humans and marine mammals. Dr. De Guise also serves as Director for the Connecticut Sea Grant College Program.

“Shallow Thinking: Science, Violence, and American Imperializing Along the Littoral”

By Jason W. Smith, Southern Connecticut State University
*book signing* - books will be available for purchase onsite

Jason W. Smith is an assistant professor of history at Southern Connecticut State University. He has published in Environmental History,` the Journal of Military History, the International Journal of Maritime History, and the New England Quarterly. He is the author of To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire, published in 2018 from University of North Carolina Press. At the intersection of military power, the natural environment, and science and cartography, this talk will examine the role of the U.S. Navy, and naval science in particular, in extending American commercial and, later, strategic power over foreign coastlines through hydrographic surveying, chart-making, and narratives of science and exploration. These staked potent American claims to coastal waters even as they were continuously undermined and undone by the agency of the marine environment.