Oceans: a valuable resource, a vulnerable habitat

Course Programme

10:00 Oceans resources and the effects of fishing
11:15 Coffee
11:45 Science, discovery and adventure during the Sindbad Voyage
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Environmental damange and compensation after the 1991 Gulf War oil spill
15:15 Tea
15:30 Safeguarding ocean health
16:45 Day school ends

Tutor biography

Professor Andrew Price is a marine biologist, environmental consultant and writer. He has specialist knowledge of the Gulf, Middle East and wider Indian Ocean. His recent research has focused on biodiversity, robustness/resilience, environmental disturbance and compensation.  For his evaluation of coastal damage from the 1991 Gulf War, Andrew received the British Consultant of Year Award ~ a prize open to entries from industry and academia.  He is currently an emeritus professor at Warwick University and honorary professor at York University.  In 2003, Professor Price was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society.  He has written or co-authored over 100 scientific publications, including 3 books on the Gulf/Middle East, several book chapters and many journal articles.  His most recent book is Slow-Tech: Manifesto For An Overwound World (Atlantic Books, 2009).  This shows how robustness helps ensure smooth-running in nature, in what we do and in the things we create.  Professor Price teaches on BSc and MSc courses at the Universities of Warwick, York and London.

Accommodation
Although this is a non-residential course, students requiring accommodation may be able to book B&B at Madingley Hall, as availability permits. Please contact reservations@madingleyhall.co.uk or +44 (0)1223 746222 for availability and booking enquiries.

Dietary Requirements
If you have any specific dietary requirements or allergies please inform our Admissions Team on ice.admissions@ice.cam.ac.uk or +44 (0)1223 746262 if you have not already advised us of your requirements.

Additional Requirements
Further information about student support

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This course takes place at Madingley Hall, home to the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.Day schools run from 10.00am to 4.45pm and include four teaching sessions of 75 minutes each. The course fee includes tea, coffee and a buffet lunch.

About Madingley Hall

Madingley Hall itself is an impressive manor house dating back to the mid-16th century. The decoration of the Saloon and the formal Stair Hall was carried out 200 years later, and the whole fabric was renovated with great care around 1900. About four miles from the centre of Cambridge, the Hall stands in several acres of beautifully-maintained gardens and overlooks a landscape which has changed relatively little since it was laid out by Capability Brown. It is just four miles from the centre of Cambridge, and only 60 minutes from London, with excellent links to London airports.

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