Entitled "It's a Small World Ocean -- Better Ocean Management Through Science", Crawford's presentation focuses on many challenges facing the world's oceans today and the new and exciting ways in which scientists are collaborating to understand and solve these problems.
The problems range from local ones (like local water pollution) to the global scale (including global warming and sea level rise). The solutions, therefore, require looking at the ocean and its inhabitants at several scales as well: local, regional, national, and international.
Crawford then shows how one area in rural northern California is both contributing to, and benefiting from, a developing ocean monitoring and modeling effort known broadly as ocean observing systems (OOS). Can't wait? You can watch it now online. Visit the Research Channel's Web site, www.researchchannel.org. In the Search box, type in "Small World Ocean". Click on the appropriate link.
You can then choose to watch the show in streaming video (Windows Media Player or Quicktime) or download it in MPEG4 format. The presentation was produced by California State University, Monterey Bay, in collaboration with Humboldt State University.