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Coast Day 2021 will actually take place over two days, October 2nd and 3rd. On Saturday the 2nd, Delaware Sea Grant staff will host in-person events in all three Delaware counties. Then on Coast Day proper, Sunday the 3rd, Sea Grant staff and University of Delaware faculty—primarily from the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment—will present five virtual sessions around the theme “Storytelling and Science.”
The end of Saturday’s in-person events will set up the start of Sunday, when author of The Meg, Steve Alten, will have a conversation with UD shark expert Aaron Carlisle. Both will take some submitted questions from the audience.
To gain access to the scheduled webinars and information about in-person events, please register for Coast Day using this form.
Saturday, October 2
In-person activities will take place in all three counties. Delaware Sea Grant Marine Advisory Service specialists will lead a kayak tour in Laurel, an aquaculture tour in Dover, and mobile touch tanks at two libraries in New Castle County.In addition, Coast Day is partnering with the
Saturday night Coast Day will host screenings in Lewes and Newark of The Meg, the 2018 blockbuster based on the book by Steve Alten, UD alumnus and Coast Day special guest.
Register for more information and to sign up.
Sunday, October 3
Welcome (10am EST)With Delaware Sea Grant Director Joanna York and other dignitaries.
Shark Stories, True and Fantastic
With UD alumnus Steve Alten, author of The Meg, and Aaron Carlisle (Assistant Professor, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment)
The Unknown Deep (11am EST)
With Suni Shah Walter (Assistant Professor, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment)
Connecting to Climate Change (11:30am EST)
With co-directors of the new Gerard J. Mangone Climate Change Science and Policy Hub at UD, Jules Bruck (Professor, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources) and Dana Veron (Associate Professor, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment)
Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change (Noon EST)
With Lindsay Naylor (Associate Professor, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment)
Exploring the Underwater World with Robots (12:30pm EST)
With Art Trembanis (Professor, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment)