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Elder Learners An Association of Life Long Learners Lectures are held at St Mary's University. You will find yourself engrossed in one of our many fascinating lectures with entertaining and well-informed presenters who make their stories come alive. Come and enjoy the fellowship and stimulating topics on lecture day. A further advantage of membership is your invitation to join in the fun of tours, visiting interesting locations in the company of friends. Winter 2020 Lectures DEMENTIA/FRAILTY AND NEW RESEARCH. Lindsay Wallace, Geriatric Medicine, Dalhousie University. Saturday, January 18th, 2020. McNally Theatre - 9:45am THE UNDERWATER WORLD: WHALES, SHARKS, RAYS, etc. Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark, Dalhousie University. Saturday, February 22nd, 2020. McNally Theatre - 9:45am LYME DISEASE, TICKS, NEW RESEARCH Jane Bailey,Mount Allison University . Saturday, March 28th, 2020. McNally Theatre - 9:45 am |
THE UNDERWATER WORLD: WHALES, SHARKS, RAYS, etc.
Saturday February 22nd. ScotiaBank Theatre, Saint Mary's University Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark will include film and videos of many recent diving expeditions in his talk, showing the Big-Eyed Thresher Shark, the secretive Greenland Shark and the first ever satellite tagged Atlantic Torpedo Ray. He founded a Whale School Public Lecture Series in 2018, which focuses on experiential learning around the recovery, restoration, display and interpretation of an 18 metre Blue whale found stranded in 2015 on the shore near Liverpool, NS. Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark is a veterinarian in Dalhousie University’s Animal Ethics department. He enjoys diving and travelling around the world, filming underwater while exploring the lives of interesting, and sometimes endangered, marine animals. He teaches in Marine Biology. |
If you would like to attend the February talk, please contact Elderlearners c/o Jennifer MacKeigan at j.mackeigan@bellaliant.net, or phone at 902-883-9766. The fee for each lecture is $20 for members and $25 for non-members, including coffee break and lunch. Click the link below to download the registration form. 
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