Sourdough Speaker #5: Around the Americas with Captain Mark Schrader (31) October 16 – 17, 2010 (Sat afternoon - Sunday morning) Learning Center T$95, D$95, S$95      On May 31, 2009, veteran long-distance sailor Mark Schrader and his crew left Seattle on the Ocean Watch for a 25,000-mile sailing circumnavigation of the American continents. With the mission of inspiring, educating, and engaging citizens of the Americas to protect our fragile oceans, the team studied and reported on issues including polar ice melt, coral reef health, ocean acidification, changing sea levels and coastal erosion. Their clockwise route included ports of call in Juneau, Nome, Newfoundland, New York City, Miami, San Juan, Rio de Janeiro, the Galapagos Islands, San Francisco and back home to Seattle. Join us for an evening of riveting stories of adventures and discovery on the high seas, vivid photographs and first-hand accounts on the state of ocean health as Mark shares the high- and low-points of his visionary expedition. As one crew member wrote, "The journey would dramatize and symbolize the notion that the American continents were a single island surrounded by a common ocean; that what happened on the land would ultimately effect the watery world that surrounded it; and that it was in the best interests of all of us to protect and conserve this most precious, life-sustaining resource." Learn more about the Ocean Watch's environmental journey at www.aroundtheamericas.org.

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