Marc Mangel of the University of California-Santa Cruz, professor of environmental studies, will be guest lecturer at the 27th annual Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium tomorrow through Friday at the East-West Center. Longevity researcher
to speak at UH symposiumUH graduate students will also
present their research papersStar-Bulletin staff
He will give a keynote address at 3:30 p.m. Friday in Jefferson Hall's Keoni Auditorium on "What Does the Evolutionary Theory of Aging Tell Us About the Limits of Human Life Span."
His first lecture will be at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the University of Hawaii Marine Science building, Room 114, on "Growth, Maturity and Longevity in Fish and Implications for Management."
Mangel, who has a doctorate in applied mathematics and statistics from the University of British Columbia, specializes in research on quantitative and behavioral ecology and marine fisheries, particularly salmonids, rockfish and krill.
UH graduate students also will make oral presentations from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday and from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday in Keoni Auditorium.
Their topics will range from plate tectonics and morphology of open-channel lava flows to studies on marine animals such as squids, sharks and dolphins.
An awards banquet Friday night at the Waikiki Aquarium will conclude the event, with awards given for the best papers, judged on quality, originality, importance of research and the public presentation.
The symposium honors Albert Tester, a noted marine researcher and UH-Manoa senior professor of zoology, who died in 1974.
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