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Connecting the Dots of our Environment While Rowing the High Seas
This page updated September 1, 2010
Chair’s Air Pollution Seminar
Thursday, September
30,
2010
10:30 - 11:30 am, PDT
Coastal Hearing Room, Second Floor
1001 I Street, Sacramento
This event is
being Webcast, click here to view
Webcast viewers: Please send your questions during broadcast to: coastalrm@calepa.ca.gov
Connecting
the Dots of our Environment
While Rowing the High Seas
Rosalind (Roz) Savage
United Kingdom
to reduce ocean pollution, habitat destruction, and global warming.”
In this seminar Roz Savage will discuss her efforts to
identify and reinforce positive actions we can all take to make a
difference, while connecting
science with her ongoing first-hand observations on the open waters of
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Rosalind (Roz) Savage, a Fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society, United Nations Climate Hero, and an
Athlete Ambassador for 350.org, is a British ocean rower and
environmental campaigner, who in 2010 became the first woman to row
solo across the Pacific Ocean in efforts to gain further awareness of
global warming and ocean plastic pollution. Coupled with her
solo row
across the Atlantic in 2005-6, she has now rowed over 11,000 miles,
taken 3.5 million oarstrokes, and spent cumulatively nearly a year of
her life at sea in a 23-foot rowboat. Roz Savage has been
listed amongst the Top 20 Great British Adventurers by the Daily
Telegraph, and the Top 10 Adventure Twitters by Outside
Magazine. Her book, “Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons
Learned on
the Open Ocean,” is published by Simon & Schuster.
Roz took up competitive rowing at University College, Oxford, and went
on to gain two half-blues in representing Oxford against Cambridge,
and to win blades with the University Women's 1st VIII in 1988 and
1989.
By 2001, at age 34, she was a management consultant and
investment banker whereby she took on a new life of discovery.
In 2003 she became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical
Society and took part in an Anglo-American expedition that discovered
Inca ruins in the Andean cloudforests near Machu Picchu. She
then spent an additional three months in Peru, travelling solo and
researching her first book "Three Peaks in Peru." Roz ran in
the London and New York marathons, finishing in the top 2% of women in
each, and has run a personal best of 3 hours 19 minutes. Roz'
story was filmed as "A Little Silver Boat in a Big Silver Sea" as part
of the ITV1 documentary television series "Is It Worth It?," first
broadcast in March 2007 in the UK.
For information on this seminar
please contact:
Doug Grandt at
(916) 324-0317 or send email
to : dgrandt@arb.ca.gov
For information on this
Series please contact:
Peter Mathews at (916)
323-8711 or send email to:
pmathews@arb.ca.gov
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