![]() 'We pay a lot of attention to lakes and streams, which are important, but we don't pay a lot of attention to our aquifers. It's out of sight, out of mind,' he said. 'Most of the world's drinking water is beneath our feet. How we think about and relate to the water beneath us is a large part of what he's interested in. ![]() An environmental anthropologist, he's interested in the different ways humans and the environment interact, and he's studied everything from the wildlife trade to how people think about climate change. ![]() He grew up in Florida, working on and in the water, and then got into commercial diving. When he's not exploring underwater, he is a professor at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and is director of the university's Abess Center for Ecosystem Science, as well as co-director of Columbia University's Center for Research on Environmental Decisions. 'I want to show people there are still places to explore on our planet that are literally right under our noses or our feet.' 'It's a little bit about taking people on an adventure to part of the world we don't really know much about,' he said. The Gazette is the presenting sponsor for the events.īroad said his appearance at the Paramount will be more than a simple talk, with plenty of video and visuals to draw people into the underwater world with him. In addition to Broad's appearance, the series includes 'On the Trail of Big Cats: Tigers, Cougars and Snow Leopards' with Steve Winter on July 12, and 'Exploring Mars' with Kobie Boykins on Sept. He will share his deep-water adventures at the Paramount Theatre in Cedar Rapids on April 26 with his program, 'Extreme Cave Diving: Exploring the Bahamas' Blue Holes,' part of the 'National Geographic Live!' series. 'A lot of underwater caves are sort of time capsules for fossils, because there's no oxygen in salt water,' Broad said. They can also find evidence of life that is long since gone. That means the accumulation of minerals provides a sort of map of past weather patterns, which lets scientists study how the climate has changed over thousands of years. The structures inside are often cavernous vistas of stalagmites and crystals, formed during periods when the caves were dry and water dripped down through the earth. The caves he visits are actually aquifers, deep reserves that provide much of humanity's drinking water.
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