Earth Day Talk – Underwater Eden: Saving the Last Coral Wilderness on Earth

My friend Randi  is an Associate Research Scientist at the New England Aquarium in Boston. She conducts research on coral reefs all over the world, trying to understand what makes healthy reefs healthy. On Saturday, April 20th, at 1PM, she will be giving an Earth Day talk at Bestsellers Cafe in Medford Square on one of the largest marine protected areas on our planet: The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA). PIPA is a natural laboratory to study climate change, and it is also an amazing location - in the middle of the Central Pacific, days away from anywhere.

People from Medford may be particularly interested in this area, because it is where one of Medford's famous residents, Amelia Earhart,  is thought to have gone down.

Randi, along with other scientists, lawyers, and conservationists, recently published a beautiful coffee-table book about the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, called "Underwater Eden: Saving the Last Coral Wilderness on Earth"

Please come celebrate Earth Day at Bestsellers, with a talk about the oceans! She will be showing photos by 2 National Geographic photographers who have traveled to the Phoenix Islands and will tell an amazing story about how actions in Medford can impact a remote and isolated coral reef on the other side of the globe.

If you can’t make the talk, check out these awesome photos and the book!

Happy Greening!

Alicia