Sea Sick is the first book to explain how the global ocean — 99 per cent of the planet's living space — is undergoing vast chemical changes at the hand of humanity and why that matters. The evening will feature lecture and discussion with Alanna Mitchell on her internationally

acclaimed book. A special opening performance by the Getting’ Higher Choir and a brief presentation by Dr. Martin Taylor, President of Ocean Networks Canada, about the transformative science made possible by VENUS and NEPTUNE Canada ocean observatories.”

BIO

Alanna Mitchell is a Canadian author and journalist who writes about global science issues. She specializes in investigating changes to the earth's life-support systems and travels the world in search of scientists at the centre of what's going on.

Her second book, Sea Sick: The Hidden Crisis in the Global Ocean, was first published to great acclaim in Australia in 2008. It has since been published in Canada, the United Kingdom and in the United States.

Her first book, Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World's Environmental Hotspots, came out in 2004 in Canada and in 2005 in the rest of the English-speaking world, to international praise.

The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the Reuters Foundation named Mitchell the best environmental journalist in the world in 2000 after an international competition. The prize was a fellowship at Oxford

University, which Mitchell took up in the Hilary term of 2002, studying with the eminent ecologist Norman Myers.

Sponsors:  The Greater Victoria Water Watch Coalition, KAIROS, Ocean Networks Canada | Centre for Enterprise and Engagement, Programs in Earth Literacy, The Good Planet, The Soap Exchange, Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre, UVic Office of Campus Planning & Sustainability

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