Sacramento
Speakers Series Rounds out This Year’s Season with the Man Who Discovered the
Titanic, Dr. Robert Ballard on Tuesday, April 2nd
The Sacramento Speakers Series welcomed one of the world’s most
accomplished and well known deep-sea explorers, Dr. Robert Ballard to Sacramento as he spoke at the Community Center Theater on Tuesday, April
2nd. The six-part lecture
series showcases contemporary insights from some of today’s most influential
figures in a candid and relaxed setting.
Dr. Ballard is probably best known for his discovery of the RMS Titanic
wreckage in 1985.
Dr.
Ballard impressed the audience by saying that his mission is to go where no one has gone
before…on planet Earth. Ballard encouraged the exploration of our oceans as he believes our planet’s future to be here on
Earth, not in space. This is evident
through his historic discoveries of hydrothermal vents near the Galapagos
Islands in 1977, the German battleship Bismarck in 1989, the aircraft carrier
USS Yorktown in 1998 and the wreckage of John F. Kennedy’s PT-109 in 2002.
In
addition to his field work, Dr. Ballard is also an educator. He is a professor of oceanography at the
University of Rhode Island and has pioneered distance learning in American
classrooms and around the world with the JASON Project. The
JASON Project is an award-winning program that provides educational
materials, courses and workshops to more than 1 million students and 25,000
teachers annually. The program is
designed to motivate and inspire students to pursue interests and careers in
science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Dr.
Robert Ballard’s talk is sure to inspire those in attendance through his
natural storytelling ability and animated presentation skills.
For more information about the Sacramento Speakers Series and the
2013-2014 Season visit them online at sacramentospeakers.com
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