Friends Lecture Highlights from Previous Years

2012 Dr. Myra Finkelstein, UC Santa Cruz
Can California Condors survive in a polluted world? The role of terrestrial and marine contamination on an endangered bird's recovery.

2012 Dr. Carol Lynn McKibben, History Department, Stanford University
Racial Beachhead: Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town, Seaside California

2011 Dr. Larry Crowder, Hopkins Marine Station & Center for Ocean Solutions
Pacific leatherbacks and loggerheads: Forging a future for sea turtles

2011 Dr. Jeff Boehm, Marine Mammal Center
Marine Mammal Medicine and the California Coastline

2010 Dr. Frank Longo, Stanford Medical Center
Alzheimer’s Dementia: Recent advances in Prediction, Diagnosis and Treatment

2010 Dr. John Felstiner, English Department, Stanford University / Bill Rose, Producer & Director
This Dust of Words – film screening & discussion

2009 Dr. John Rick, Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University
Discovering Ancient Authority in the Monumental Temples of Chavin de Huantar, Peru

2009 Dr. Eva Harris, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Doing Science where it's Needed: Building Partnerships in Developing Countries

2008 Dr. Elissa Epel, Department of Psychiatry, UC San Francisco
Stress, Eating and Aging

2007 Amanda Brock, Water Standards Company
Seawater Desalination Vessel Technology: a Global Water Solution in Partnership with Nature

2006 Meg Caldwell, California Coastal Commission Chair
An Insider's View of the California Coastal Commission

2005 Dr. Philippe S. Cohen, Director
Walking the Talk and the Challenges Facing Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

2004 Dr. Robert Sapolsky, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford University,
Sushi and Middle Age

2003 Tara VanDerveer, Stanford Women's Basketball Coach,
Teamwork in Sports and Beyond

2002 Dr. Daniel Pauly, Fisheries Centre, Univeristy of British Columbia,
The Unfolding Collapse of Global Fisheries and its Implication for Food Security

2002 Dr. Barbara Stein, author,
Annie Montague Alexander: intrepid explorer and extraordinary patron

2001 Norbert Wu, Wildlife Photographer,
Under Antarctic Ice

2000 Tim Thomas, Maritime Museum of Monterey,
The Other Doc--J.B . Phillips and the Department of Fish and Game

2000 Dr. Marcia McNutt, President & CEO of Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute,
Discoveries in the Deep Sea

2000 Dr. Harold McGee, author,
Playing with food: 3 centuries of science in the kitchen

1999 Dr. Carl Safina, National Audobon Society,
Song for a blue ocean

1998 Timothy McCarthy, Senior Analyst, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, MIIS,
Fear and loathing in Iraq: confessions of a UN weapons inspector

1998 Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Provost, Stanford University,
An American foreign policy for the 21st century

1997 Mark Shelley, Producer & Director, Sea Studios,
Sea nasties - a Sea Studios film and its making

1997 Dr. W.C. Dement, Director, Sleep Disorders Research Center, Stanford University,
Everything you ever wanted to know about sleep, but were too tired to ask

1996 Gordon Jones, Chairman of the Board,
MIRA - Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy

1995 Dr. Susan Shillinglaw, Steinbeck Research Center, San Jose State University, 1932,
"Our Year of Crazy Beginnings" Joseph Campbell, Edward Ricketts and John Steinbeck at the lab

1994 Dr. Wanda Corn, Humanities Center Director, Stanford University,
Uses and abuses of Grant Wood's "American Gothic"

1994 Dr. Sandy Lydon, History Department, Cabrillo College,
The Unnatural history of Point Lobos