VERO BEACH — The Ocean Research and Conservation Association announces that it will launch a new speakers series in January 2013. The series, which will feature three extraordinary women, will be held at the Emerson Center, which is located at 1590 27th Ave. in Vero Beach.
Schedule:
Dr. Edie Widder
Wednesday, Jan. 30
Dr. Widder will reveal secrets behind finding the giant squid, a Discovery Channel Expedition that she just completed.
Dr. Edith Widder is a biologist, deep-sea explorer, and the founder and CEO of the Ocean Research & Conservation Association (ORCA.) Her work locally on the Indian River lagoon is well known to residents along the Treasure Coast, and her deep sea research is known worldwide.
It has been featured on the BBC, PBS, National Geographic, and most recently in the news on the Discovery Channel’s MONSTER SQUID: THE GIANT IS REAL, which premieres on Jan. 27 at 8 p.m.
During her talk, Dr. Widder will share footage and some of the secrets behind how a team of scientists, herself included, achieved finding the holy grail of natural history filming and obtaining footage of a never seen before giant squid in its natural habitat.
Céline Cousteau
Wednesday, Feb. 20
Filmmaker/explorer & granddaughter of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Céline Cousteau is an explorer, filmmaker, and founder of the non-profit organization CauseCentric Productions. She has worked as field producer, on-camera presenter, and photographer on numerous television documentaries including PBS’s “Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures,” CBS’s “Mind of a Demon,” and Discovery Channel’s “Mysteries of the Shark Coast.”
Most recently she cohosted a 12-part documentary series produced by the Chilean based NuevoEspacio Producciones during which she explored both diving under water and trekking on land from Antarctica to northern Chile and westward to Easter Island.
Cousteau’s talk will include her experiences as well as a discussion on the many connections between people and nature and why protecting our environment is vital. Cousteau seeks to educate and inspire through adventure and visual storytelling.
Roz Savage
Wednesday, Mar. 20
National Geographic’s Adventurer of the Year
Roz Savage was the first woman to row across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Coupled with her solo row across the Atlantic in 2005-2006, she has now rowed over 15,000 miles and spent cumulatively nearly a year and a half of her life at sea in a 23- foot rowboat.
She is a United Nations Climate Hero, an Athlete Ambassador for 350.org, and she holds four Guinness World Records for ocean rowing.
In her discussion as well as her book, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean, she talks about her life before she rowed across three oceans. She was stuck in a corporate job rut and realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasn’t going to end up with the life she wanted.
So she turned her back on an eleven-year career to reinvent herself as a woman of adventure. She invested her life’s savings in an ocean rowboat and became the first solo woman ever to enter the Atlantic Rowing Race.
Today, Savage is an environmental advocate, writer, and speaker.
All programs start at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $75 for the series of three or $35 if purchased individually in advance.
Tickets will be $40 at the door, but just $25 for students.
Please call (772) 778-5249 for tickets or order online at www.TheEmersonCenter.org.
All proceeds benefit the Ocean Research & Conservation Association, a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization.
