ACS Monterey Bay Program for February 2007

Eat Or Be Eaten:
How Fish Make A Living In Their Cool, Wet Worlds

Thursday, February 22, 2007 7 p.m. Refreshments, 7:30 p.m. Program Lecture Hall, Monterey Boatworks, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove (Across from American Tin Cannery Outlet Stores) Speaker: Dr. Lara Ferry-Graham

Marine food webs can be extraordinarily complex especially in places such as Monterey Bay where the marine life is so rich and diverse. Certainly fishes make up a significant part of many food webs including those of cetaceans. Whether a fish is prey or predator in any particular relationship depends in large part on their functional morphology -- how they are built and how they work.

This presentation will focus on the "tools" that fishes in Monterey Bay and other marine habitats have for capturing prey. It will also provide insight into the incredible technology used to study how fishes work, including high-speed video and 3-D CAT scans. Finally it will include a summary of what has been learned from these sorts of studies about patterns in ecology and evolution.

Dr. Ferry-Graham is a member of the Research Faculty and Lecturer at San Jose State University / Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. She received her B.S. in Biological Sciences from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, M.S. in Marine Science from San Francisco State University / Moss Landing Marine Labs, and her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of California, Irvine.

Please join us to learn more about how these denizens of the sea make their living.

Related web pages:

• Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

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