Wed, September 25, 2013 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). n/a. Please don’t forget to RSVP (via Doodle http://www.doodle.com/8ift6hhuipzf3c7d) for the upcoming 2013 Larkin lecture on Thursday September 26, at 5pm. This year’s speaker is Dr. Patricia Majluf from Cayetano Heredia University, Peru, and her talk is titled “The little brown fish on your pizza and an ecosystem-based view of the world”. More information is in the attached poster.
Patricia Majluf is a conservation biologist and the founder and current director of the Conservation Biology Unit (CBU) and of the Center for Environmental Sustainability (CSA) of the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima, Peru. She obtained her degree in Biology at UPCH in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Cambridge in 1988. Since 1982, she has directed the longest-running research program in coastal Peru, studying the impacts of El Niño and fisheries on marine wildlife populations. From 1996 she has led marine conservation efforts in Peru, promoting the establishment of marine protected areas and developing public awareness of the large-scale ecosystemic and socioeconomic impacts of the industrial anchovy fisheries and other extractive industries to the Humboldt Upwelling System.
For her work in marine conservation, she received the Charlotte Wyman Trust Award for Women in Conservation (1993-96), the Lindbergh Award (1996), the first CAMBIE Award in Peru (2002), and, in 2006, the Whitley Gold Award and the Natasha and George Duffield Award from the Whitley Fund for Nature.