[Ecolunch] Special MONDAY Ecolunch next week 6/18

[Allen Hurlbert]

A reminder that today's Ecolunch seminar will be given by Dr. Amber 
Budden at 12:15 p.m.

Next week will be the final Ecolunch of the spring quarter.

Please join us for a SPECIAL MONDAY ECOLUNCH seminar on Monday, June 
18th at 12:15 p.m. The speaker will be Ken Weiss, who covers the coast 
and oceans for the Los Angeles Times. He was the lead writer of the 
five-day series entitled Altered Oceans that appeared last summer in the 
newspaper and remains on the web site: www.latimes.com/oceans 
<http://www.latimes.com/oceans>. The series has won a number of national 
and international awards including the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory 
reporting, The Overseas Press Club Award for online journalism, George 
Polk Award for environmental reporting, Columbia Journalism School’s 
John B. Oakes Award, the Scripps Howard Foundation’s National Journalism 
Award, and American Geophysical Union’s Walter Sullivan Award for 
Excellence in Science Journalism. Before coming to the L.A. Times, Weiss 
spent six years in Washington, D.C., as a correspondent for newspapers 
owned by the New York Times and as a reporter for States News Service. 
Weiss was born and raised in the Southern California. He received a 
bachelor’s degree in folklore from UC Berkeley, where he was editor of 
the college newspaper. Like /way /too many Californians, he suffers from 
an incurable addiction to surfing.


Allen

GENERAL INFORMATION Ecolunches are Thursdays, at 12:15 pm (Brown Bag Lunch) National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State St., Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Phone: (805) 892-2500


A schedule of upcoming Ecolunch seminars is available on the web at: 
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/fmt/doc?/nceas-web/center/local/ecolunch.html

DIRECTIONS FROM UCSB BY BUS: You can get to NCEAS by taking the 11:40 
a.m. bus (# 24x) from campus. From the transit center, walk one block 
east to State Street and two blocks south to the Balboa Building at 735 
State Street. To return to campus, you can take the 1:30 p.m. bus (#24x) 
from the transit station and be back on campus by 1:49 p.m. Or you can 
take the 2:20 p.m. bus and arrive on campus at 2:39.

BY CAR: take Highway 101 South. Once in Santa Barbara, exit on Carrillo 
Street. Turn left onto Carrillo. Drive 5 blocks and turn right on State 
Street. NCEAS is located on the right side at 735 State St., Suite 300. 
To Park: Drive past NCEAS on State Street and make your first right on 
Ortega Street. Drive 1 block and turn right on Chapala Street. Park in 
the underground Mall parking lot on your right. (First 75 minutes free). 
Once you are at the Balboa Building: We are on the third floor in the 
lounge area.