The director of the Montego Bay Marine Park (see their tours) forwarded this to me and I thought I'd pass it along.

Its a link to a Webcast of "Brave New Ocean" at the University of Texas, Austin, that you can watch Friday, Mar 3 2006.

From their website (http://www.esi.utexas.edu/outreach/ols/lectures/Jackson/index.php):
"What is the Lecture About?
The biodiversity of the oceans is in critical decline. Major drivers of the Brave New Ocean include over-exploitation, destruction of habitats, globalization of species, ocean warming, poisoning of food webs, and the rise of slime. The future of coral reefs is threatened by over fishing, trawling, introduced species, warming, and pollution, along with many other drivers of change. There is little public or general scientific awareness of the scale of the changes that have occurred or their implications for the future. The challenge for sustainability in the oceans is to develop successful management and conservation strategies."

Note that you have to download a plugin to watch.

-TBNet