Name: Living on the Urban Ocean: Planning for the Expected and Unexpected with Dr. Alan Blumberg
Start: 2024-09-26T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-26T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Boca Raton Library Downtown Branch

Living on the Urban Ocean: Planning for the Expected and Unexpected with Dr. Alan Blumberg

THURSDAY NIGHT SPEAKER SERIES
Join Dr. Alan Blumberg for a discussion on the characteristics of the urban ocean from the standpoint of how human populations seek advantage from being located at the ocean and in so doing how they have altered the natural system, with attendant consequences for the risks of disrupting it!
The urban ocean is the place where the ocean, the land, and the people all come together. Each of these component “systems” has a profound effect on the others. The tide creates complex dynamics, often in the context of an estuary environment, that influence the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the region and thereby define its capability and capacity to support human life. The coastal ocean and weather patterns drive processes and events that range from highly supportive of human populations to highly threatening. This balancing act between ocean-as-sustainer and ocean-as-threat has produced a very wide range of coastal ocean “management” strategies that have themselves often resulted in significant short and long-term changes to the balance.
AGES: Adults
DATE: September 26
TIME: 6-7:30pm
LOCATION: Boca Raton Public Library - Downtown Location (400 NW 2nd 2nd Ave)
COST: Free!