Seaweed's Role in Saving World from Climate Change and Starvation Focus of Talk Today in Bantry

19th May 2023

Dr Julie Maguire, research director of Bantry Marine Research Station

Seaweed’s role in saving the world from climate change and starvation is the title of a talk today (Friday) in Bantry, Co Cork, as part of National Biodiversity Week.

The talk by Dr Julie Maguire is one of a number of marine events in the National Biodiversity Week programme published yesterday.

Dr Maguire is research director of the Bantry Marine Research Station, and has managed the station since 2005.

She was awarded the Copernicus Masters Award from the European Space Agency for “Best service for European citizens”.

Her talk takes place at 4 pm today, Friday, May 19th, in The StreamSchool’, Coomhola, Bantry, Co. Cork P75 TY47

It is being hosted by StreamScapes in cooperation with Seabed Sanctuary Collective.

As numbers attending are restricted, advance booking is advised by contacting tel 027 50453 or emailing [email protected]

Liam McWatt from Dingle Oceanworld hosts a rock pooling adventure on Ventry Beach, Dingle, Co Kerry, on Saturday at 11am, also as part of the programme.

Participants should bring nets and buckets and meet at Ventry Beach car park at 10 am.

Children should be accompanied by an adult at this event.

More details of the National Biodiversity Week programme are here

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Lorna Siggins

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Lorna Siggins is a print and radio reporter, and a former Irish Times western correspondent. She is the author of Search and Rescue: True stories of Irish Air-Sea Rescues and the Loss of R116 (2022); Everest Callling (1994) on the first Irish Everest expedition; Mayday! Mayday! (2004); and Once Upon a Time in the West: the Corrib gas controversy (2010). She is also co-producer with Sarah Blake of the Doc on One "Miracle in Galway Bay" which recently won a Celtic Media Award

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