GLIN==> Ask a Scientist: How Not to Make a Lake

["Marie E. Zhuikov" <mzhuikov@d.umn.edu>]

                              MN SEA GRANT
                              NEWS RELEASE
11/26/07
Contact: Marie Zhuikov, mzhuikov@umn.edu, (218) 726-7677

              Ask a Scientist: How Not to Make a Lake

Come to a free screening of the independent film, "Plagues & Pleasures 
on the Salton Sea." Delving into the importance of clean water to 
communities and wildlife, this offbeat film gets friendly with the 
natives of the Salton Sea, a saltwater lake located just minutes from 
urban Southern California. Created through a civil engineering mistake 
a century ago, the sea is plagued by massive fish kills, rotting 
resorts, and 120-degree nights. The award-winning film details the 
sea's progression, from its heyday as the "California Riviera" where 
boaters and Beach Boys mingled in paradise to its present state as a 
decaying, forgotten ecological disaster that contains lessons for us on 
the shores of Lake Superior.

Stay afterwards for a Q&A session with California director Chris 
Metzler and water experts Rich Axler (UMD's Natural Resources Research 
Institute) and Jesse Schomberg (Minnesota Sea Grant) who will relate 
the movie's message to freshwater lakes.

The screenings, hosted by Minnesota Sea Grant, will take place on:

Tuesday, December 4, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Cook County High School Auditorium
Arrowhead Center for the Arts
51 W 5th St., Grand Marais, MN

Wednesday, December 5, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.
University of Minnesota Duluth
Life Sciences Bldg., Classroom Auditorium 185
1110 Kirby Dr., Duluth, MN

Learn more about the free "Ask a Scientist" discussions, visit 
www.seagrant.umn.edu/news/aas. "Ask a Scientist" is inspired by the 
internationally successful Café Scientifique and backed by Nova 
scienceNOW.

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