The School of the Environment is offering the low down on the high seas with its upcoming keynote: What We Don’t Know About the Oceans Can Kill Us featuring Wendy Schmidt, president of the Schmidt Family Foundation and co-founder of the Schmidt Ocean Institute.
Schmidt will bring her optimistic approach to addressing critical ocean issues with a framework for viewing the ocean as part of an interactive living system — crucial to life on land.
Schmidt will also walk through how her investment in innovative solutions and support for scientific and technological breakthroughs is creating momentum for ocean health leading to the restoration of the vital planetary resource.
We are standing on the edge of a frontier in terms of our ability to see, understand and share information about the oceans – Wendy Schmidt
Date & Time
Location
Health Sciences Building
155 College Street
610 Auditorium, 6th Floor
Toronto, ON M5T 1P8
Free & Open to Public
This event is free, but advanced registration is required.
Keynote speaker
Wendy Schmidt is president of the Schmidt Family Foundation, which support programs in renewable energy, healthy food and agriculture, and human rights.
The foundation supports more than 150 non-profit organizations around the world using traditional philanthropic grants, as well as the tools of impact investing. Schmidt Marine Technology Partners, an additional foundation program, supports the development of new ocean technologies with applications for conservation and research in areas including habitat health, marine plastic pollution, and sustainable fisheries.
Schmidt also is the co-founder of the Schmidt Ocean Institute, which operates the research vessel Falkor, a mobile platform to advance ocean exploration and discovery, using open source data to catalyze the sharing of information about the oceans.
In 2017, Schmidt, alongside husband Eric, launched the Schmidt Science Fellows program, a post-doctoral fellowship that provides the next generation of leaders and innovators with the tools and opportunities to drive world-changing advances across the sciences and society.