Reading, Pa.- Albright College will host a lecture by environmentalist David J. Yozzo, Ph.D., on Monday, November 15, 2010 at 4 p.m. The lecture, “A Marsh Grows in Brooklyn: Ecological Restoration in New York City,” will be held in Klein Lecture Hall and is free and open to the public.
This event will document how environmental professionals are attempting to restore natural ecosystems within one of the most urbanized centers of the world, New York City and its five boroughs. Yozzo has been intimately involved with the ecological restoration efforts in the city and will speak about his participation in this project.
During Yozzo’s 15 years of professional experience in the environmental field, he has conducted research on invasive species ecology in the Hudson River Estuary and Long Island Sound, and has participated in the planning and evaluation of coastal habitat restoration projects in New England, Jamaica Bay, Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, South Florida’s Everglades and East Anglia, England. Yozzo is a member of the Conservation Advisory Board of the Town of Hurley, N.Y., past president of the Atlantic Estuarine Research Society and has served on the Governing Board of the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation.
Klein Lecture Hall is located in the Center for the Arts on the Albright College campus at 13th & Bern Streets, Reading, Pa. For more information or disabled assistance please call College Relations at 610-921-7256.
Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Two-thirds of students graduate with dual/individualized majors in more than 200 different combinations. Albright enrolls about 1,660 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 500 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.
