The College of the Florida Keys continues its 2024 VIP Series with “State of the National Marine Sanctuary” on Thursday, April 18 at 7 p.m. in the Tennessee Williams Theatre on the Key West campus. The presentation will be led by Sarah Fangman, superintendent of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Now in its 10th season, the VIP (Views, Ideas and Perspectives) Series invites the community to learn from speakers of local, regional and national prominence.
Fangman will discuss managing the sanctuary under stress and how marine researchers and the community have responded in novel ways to try to protect threatened resources. Topics will include the impacts from the current temperature stress on the whole system — including corals, seagrass, fish and sponges — and how the marine community is answering the cry for help.
Fangman became Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary superintendent in 2017, transitioning from the same position with Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary in Georgia. She began working with the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries in 1998 after serving as a U.S. presidential management fellow with NOAA Fisheries at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center and the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response program in Washington, D.C.The series is sponsored by First Horizon Bank. Tickets are $5 at the door. Admission is free for CFK and Monroe County students. More information is available at 305-296-9081 or cfk.edu/vip.
