Highline College’s MaST Fall Speaker Series Continues Dec. 5th

Highline’s Marine Science & Technology 
(MaST) Center’s fall speaker series continues with the next session on Dec. 5th, from Noon to 1pm, featuring New Tools to Inform Nearshore Restoration with Doug Meyers.

Meyers, director of science for People for Puget Sound, will share the results of a comprehensive analysis for the restoration of Puget Sound’s nearshore ecosystem. This 10-year, multi-agency investigation combined cutting edge physical and social science to identify spatially explicit disruptions to natural ecological processes in the last 150 years.

Here are the details:

WHAT: MaST’s “Science on the Sound” speaker series

WHEN:  Saturday, Dec. 5th, from Noon to 1 p.m.

WHERE:  Highline Community College’s Marine Science & Technology 
(MaST) Center, which is located on Redondo Beach in Des Moines; address: 28203 Redondo Beach Drive S., Des Moines, WA 98198.

COST: Free

INFO: Science on the Sound is a semimonthly seminar that features experts discussing issues pertinent to the Puget Sound and the region.
Upcoming speakers for Science on the Sound include:

• Nov. 21st: Introduction to Footloose Disabled Sailing; Bob Ewing, one of the original founders of the Footloose Sailing Association, shares amazing success stories of people with disabilities who discover the wonders of sailing. Ewing encourages people to join the sport to help them move beyond disability and into empowerment.
• Dec. 5th: New Tools to Inform Nearshore Restoration; Doug Meyers, director of science for People for Puget Sound, shares the results of a comprehensive analysis for the restoration of Puget Sound’s nearshore ecosystem. This 10-year, multi-agency investigation combined cutting edge physical and social science to identify spatially explicit disruptions to natural ecological processes in the last 150 years.

For more information, visit the MaST website here.