Journey to Earth's Inner Space with Dr. Carole Baldwin, a marine biologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and star of the Smithsonian 3D IMAX film Galapagos.  This illustrated lecture will take the audience from the ocean surface to the deep, highlighting some of the amazing life forms that inhabit the various ocean zones as well as some of Baldwin's personal experiences with them.  A highlight is video footage from Baldwin's submersible dives off the Galápagos Islands to 3000 ft., ocean depths where organisms never before seen by humans are being discovered every time scientists venture there. 
 
Considering that the global ocean covers 70% of Earth and occupies most of the livable space on the planet, our lack of knowledge about the ocean in general is surprising. Yet, as Baldwin will explain, one aspect of the ocean that we know a lot about is the significant impact humans are having on it.  Once thought to be a limitless source of food and a body so large that it could absorb anything humans added to it, the ocean is now showing signs of trouble. 
 
Baldwin's recently published book, One Fish, Two Fish, Crawfish, Bluefish – The Smithsonian Sustainable Seafood Cookbook, explains how consumers can help ocean health by making environmentally friendly seafood choices. As Baldwin will point out, ocean health is critical not only because of the resources we obtain from it: A healthy ocean is essential to all life, including yours.
 
Carole has been featured in National Geographic, Smithsonian, Rodale Scuba Diving, and More magazines, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, and on CNN, the ABC television special Planet Earth 2000, and the PBS documentary State of the Ocean's Animals (2007).
 
Dr. Baldwin resides in the Division of Fishes at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, where she has worked as a research zoologist since 1992.