4:30pm
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Brought to you by Coney Island U.S.A.
CIUSA's summer lecture series returns with a series of scholarly talks about the things you want to know! With the people you want to know them from! Sunday afternoons at 4:30pm all summer long! $5, Free for Coney Island USA Members.
August 8
Jon Dohlin of the New York Aquarium, Sea Change at the New York Aquarium.
Jon Forrest Dohlin, Director of the New York Aquarium, has been with the Wildlife Conservation Society since 1997 and was appointed Director in January of 2008. Both a Biologist and an Architect by training, Dohlin has worked for WCS as an Exhibit Designer, and as a Project Manager in both the Design and Capital Construction Departments. He was involved in the design and planning of many of our award winning exhibits at the Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium, including the Congo Gorilla Forest, Alien Stingers, Tiger Mountain, Glovers Reef, and the new Madagascar! exhibit. He graduated from Humboldt State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and went on to receive his Master of Architecture from the Parsons School of Design in 1997.
As Director, Dohlin oversees the care and exhibition of over 12,000 specimens representing 395 species.
