Tabor Academy is pleased to welcome David Remsen, Director of Marine Research Services at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA. This last lecture of the 2017-2018 Series is entitled “What biodiversity tells us about ourselves and the world around us: the MBL way.”
The Marine Biological Laboratory has been hosting scientific research and advanced educational topics for 130 years. As Director of Marine Research Services, Remsen oversees the marine biological operations at the laboratory including the collection and welfare of a wide range of marine species.
Remsen grew up in and around Woods Hole and first started his career at the MBL as an undergraduate SCUBA diver for the facility he now directs. For more than two decades, Remsen has combined and applied his love of marine biology within the field of biodiversity informatics, the applied use of technology on data and information pertaining to biodiversity. Dave returned to the Cape in 2012 after working in Copenhagen, Denmark, as a senior officer of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, a multi-governmental organization dedicated to providing access to the world’s biodiversity data. He is also a senior member of the board of the Catalogue of Life, an international effort to document all of the world’s species.
Employing the marine biodiversity of our region as a menu of biological systems, Remsen will present familiar and perhaps not-so-familiar marine species and introduce us to how and why they hold the key to some of the biological mysteries that can affect our lives.
Please join the Tabor Community for this free and open lecture held at the school’s Lyndon South Auditorium at 232 Front Street, Marion, in the Stroud Academic Center at 6:30 pm on April 23.