Lowell Lecture
Up Close with the Northern Fur Seal
Date & Time
Sept. 13, 2018 at 7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Location
New England Aquarium
1 Central Wharf Boston, MA 02110
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Roger L. Gentry, Ph.D., Director, ProScience Consulting, LLC
Presenting Organization
Topics
Contact
Maggie See (msee@neaq.org, 617-973-6596)
In 1974, Roger Gentry started gathering detailed information about the lives of the individual fur seals on land and at sea. This talk focuses on the social behavior of this species as seen from observation blinds, some laboratory experiments using captive adults to study their mating system, and pioneering work on their diving behavior at sea. The first-ever Time-Depth Recorders, invented by Gentry's colleague Jerry Kooyman, will be shown.