Author @ the Library presents: "The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival, with Stephen R. Palumbi, Ph.D.

Join the author, a Stanford marine biologist and director of the Hopkins Marine Station, whose work with National Geographic in a hotel-room DNA lab proved Japan was selling illegal whale meat, for a fascinating discussion of the way that ordinary citizens matter and how sustainable ecosystems - and otters - stimulate the economy.  It is a biography of a place and of the residents who reclaimed it.  The foresight and efforts of a handful of students with vision, an unconventional scientist, and a pioneering, rabble-rousing female mayor, whose story has never been told, but who established the first marine reserve in the United States, provide a road map for the way trashed environments of all kinds can actually recover - and the way that can lead to economic revival.