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Skinny Cod
4/27/2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FreeScience on Screen strives to connect great science talks with great movies, offering free admission to all.
Ichthyologist Elizabeth Figus talks about SKINNY COD AND ANGRY FISHERMEN: How the most boring fish in the world has the most interesting lifestyle near Poland due to its unique morphology and history of being a saltwater codfish in a brackish water/freshwater environment
Elizabeth Figus is a fisheries researcher and lecturer with extensive experience working in and researching electronic monitoring. Elizabeth has worked as a Fishery Analyst at the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and holds a PhD in Fisheries from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
SYNOPSIS: Looking for the father who deserted him as a baby, a sailor named Popeye (Robin Williams) journeys to the port town of Sweethaven. Popeye befriends an assortment of eccentrics and falls in love with Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall), who already has a suitor, Bluto. Popeye also discovers an abandoned baby, Swee’Pea, whom he raises as his own. But when the spurned Bluto kidnaps Olive and baby, Popeye takes action, with the help of magic spinach!
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Thur. Apr 27 at 6:30pm (talk & movie)
Sat. April 29 at 4pm (movie only)
Sun. April 30 at 1pm (movie only)