Aquarium Lecture: Counting Seal Pups in the Pribilofs April 6, 2011

Patty Schilling, Mammal Trainer, New England Aquarium

The New England Aquarium is home to six Northern fur seals, half of the U.S. aquarium population. A majority of Northern fur seals migrate to the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea for their annual breeding season. Every two years, the National Marine Mammal Laboratory studies the rate of pup production on the Pribilof Islands. This August, through the John G. Cunningham Award, Patty Schilling helped with the 2010 fur seal pup count.

The Aquarium has been providing free lectures and films by scientists, environmental writers, photographers and others since 1972. The Aquarium Lecture Series is presented free to the public through the generosity of the Lowell Institute, which has been providing funding for free public lectures at universities and museums since 1836.

Lectures are free and open to the public. Registration is requested. All programs start at 7 p.m. in the Aquarium's Harborside Learning Lab, unless otherwise noted below. Programs last approximately one hour followed by a reception.

Official Website: http://www.neaq.org/education_and_activities/programs_and_classes/aquarium_lecture_series/index.php