Please join us for today's Environmental Seminar! “Lake Baikal: Protecting Russia’s Sacred Sea” Jean MacGregor, Director of Curriculum for the Bioregion The Evergreen State College SCI 309, 12:30-1:25PM Monday, May 5, 2014 Lake Baikal is the world’s oldest, largest, deepest, and most biologically unusual lake. The lake offers breathtaking scenery and fascinating endemic wildlife, including the Baikal Seal, the only freshwater seal in the world. However, this “Galapagos of Asia” is located in remote southern Siberia, one of the poorest regions in Russia. In the face of a variety of environmental threats, local citizen organizations are doing all they can to protect this magnificent place. BIO: Jean MacGregor directs Curriculum for the Bioregion at The Evergreen State College, a regional sustainability-across-the-curriculum initiative. Since 2005, she has been volunteering with Earth Island Institute and the Great Baikal Trail organization on building the first environmental trail system in Russia and fostering environmental education projects. Cheers, Jim James E. Gawel, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. of Environmental Chemistry and Engineering Environmental Science and Studies Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program University of Washington Tacoma 1900 Commerce St Campus Box 358436 Tacoma, WA 98402 Phone: 253-692-5815 E-mail: jimgawel@uw.edu