An initiative of the COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE
With major support from the ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION
Prior to the film, Baylor Fox-Kemper, Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University, will give a presentation entitled
“The Real-Life Aquatic with Sea Level, Heating, and Acidification (and What You Can Do)”
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Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned (Owen Wilson), a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane (Cate Blanchett), a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou’s past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor (Anjelica Huston).
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“…A minor masterpiece” – The List
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Baylor Fox-Kemper
Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University
Baylor studies the physics of the ocean and how the ocean fits into the Earth’s climate system, using climate models, satellites, and autonomous observations. In 2013, Baylor joined the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University, after working in other roles at Princeton, the University of Colorado, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and MIT. He co-led the “Ocean, Cryosphere, and Sea Level Change” chapter of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, and he is presently co-chair of a World Climate Research Program Core Project.
