Contacts:

• Jeff Levinton, Living World Lecture Series: 631.632.8602
  
• Al Dove, Marine Disease Pathology & Research Lab, MSRC: 631.632 9251
• Barbara Branca, NY Sea Grant: 631.632.6956
  

Stony Brook, NY, Tuesday, January 07, 2003- Dr. Jeff Levinton of Stony Brook University's Department of Ecology and Evolution and host of "The Living World" lecture series, has invited Dr. Alistair Dove to speak about Long Island Sound's lobster catastrophe and its causes. Dr. Dove, adjunct assistant professor at the new collaborative marine disease pathology and research laboratory at the Marine Sciences Research Center at Stony Brook University, is trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the recent lobster mortalities in Long Island Sound.

The lecture is cosponsored by New York Sea Grant, a member of the federal, state and local coalition steering the LIS Lobster Research Initiative and manager of six federally-funded research projects to address the massive lobster die-off in Long Island Sound in 1999.

The free lecture, "What We Can Learn from the Long Island Lobster Catastrophe: Marine Diseases and the Changing Environment" is open to the public and will be held Friday, January 24, 2003 at 7:30 PM in SBU's Earth and Space Sciences Lecture Theater, Room 001.