The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis invites you to the live broadcast of Science for Everyone!
Lake Baikal, the Sacred Sea of Siberia Dr. Stephanie Hampton, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Thursday, September 13, 5:30-6:30 PM Pacific Time Catch the live broadcast on the web: http://new.livestream.com/nceas/baikal Intended for everyone! Join us for a journey to the other side of the planet to Siberia. Our tour guide is ecologist Dr. Stephanie Hampton who will lead us on an ecological tour of Lake Baikal, where she conducts her research. Lake Baikal is a lake of superlatives; it is the world's deepest, most ancient, most biologically diverse, and largest freshwater lake by volume. Home to the world's only freshwater pinniped, the Baikal seal, and an astonishing diversity of freshwater creatures and underwater landscapes, this unique ecosystem depends on long periods of ice cover and cold temperatures. As Siberia rapidly warms, Dr. Hampton and her colleagues are working to understand Baikal's unique biology, primarily through the use of 60 years of detailed data that have been collected by three generations of a single family of Siberian scientists and their dedicated colleagues. Join us on September 13th to pierce the veil that surrounds one of the most fascinating places on the globe.
