BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org
PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:Indybay-18631875
SEQUENCE:18692896
CREATED:20091209T032500Z
DESCRIPTION: \nThe evening begins with an optional social hour and pot luck supper at 
 6:30 pm,\nfollowed by the film at 7:30 pm, followed by a discussion at the 
 end of the film.\n \nSEASONAL SEAS\n \nThis beautiful film, another part of 
 the Blue Planet: seas of life series, surveys the effects of the seasons on 
 the world's temperate seas ─ the most productive on Earth.  Sable Island 
 near Nova Scotia boasts the largest colony of grey seals which breed there 
 when the weather is at its worst.  The pups remain marooned for weeks until 
 the spring, when they are strong enough to swim.  Spring also heralds the 
 bloom of phytoplankton:  it provides food for copepods, and they in turn 
 are prey to jellyfish, which assemble in vast, million-strong swarms.  On 
 the Californian coast, giant kelp flourishes and by summer grows at the 
 rate of a meter a day.  Shafts of sunlight radiate through a green sea.  
 The blazing light is the vital source of energy used by the countless 
 billions of plankton.  The temperate sea provides a sanctuary for shoals of 
 fish and sea otters, the latter anchoring themselves to the seaweed when 
 resting and keeping its grazers in check by eating them.  Late summer in 
 Alaska sees Pacific salmon heading inshore to breed.  However, the level of 
 their favored river is too low and they are forced to wait in the open sea, 
 where they fall prey to a salmon shark.  Early autumn near Vancouver 
 Island, and the temperature drops slowly.  There, the last of the year's 
 baby herring become the focus for a feeding frenzy by diving auks and 
 murres and marauding rockfish.  Pacific white-sided dolphins also inhabit 
 these waters and, when not hunting nocturnally, socialize during the day.  
 As winter arrives in the north, adult herring seek shelter but are hunted 
 by orca which club the fish with their tails to subdue them by creating 
 waves of pressure.\n \nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  
 28th  Street\n \n$5 donations are accepted\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/08/18631875.php
SUMMARY:Seasonal Seas
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nmidtown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/08/18631875.php
DTSTART:20091217T033000Z
DTEND:20091217T053000Z
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR