Hutton Honors College

Underwater Worlds:
Diving for Exploration, Research, and Conservation
With Charles Beeker, the Director of IU's Office of Underwater Science

Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007 * 6:30-8 p.m. * Honors House, 324 N. Jordan Ave. * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Join Charles Beeker, director of IU's Office of Underwater Science and Educational Resources, for an explorationof the environments and artifacts he and his fellow divers have discovered, documented, researched, and in some cases, restored. Beeker has directed projects throughout the United States and the Caribbean that include studies of shipwrecks and efforts to preserve them as underwater museums, studies of coral reefs and efforts to protect and restore them, and other work relating to underwater resource management. Likened to Indiana Jones, he and his team have discovered artifacts believed to be from the era of Christopher Columbus’ travels to the New World, including an ancient city of the Taino Indians, “the people who greeted Columbus.” His work in the Dominican Republic has been featured in a documentary for Discovery Channel’s Animal Planet; and he is a member of the Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration created to help establish a national system “for the protection of submerged cultural and biological resources.” Refreshments served.

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