Vol. 17, No. 5	Oct. 2, 1997

Coast Day in Lewes Sunday

The 21st annual Coast Day festival will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 5, at the Hugh R. Sharp Campus, 700 Pilottown Rd., in Lewes.

Sponsored by the Sea Grant College Program and the College of Marine Studies, the day is designed for fun and discovery, focusing on the ocean and the area's coastal resources.

This year, more than 100 activities are planned, ranging from lectures about the fish-killing microbe Pfiesteria to a walk through a coastal habitat, research demonstrations, hands-on science projects and tours of the 72-foot teaching ship Mimi. Seafood demonstrations will be held and seafood will be for sale.

A presentation about the fish-killing microorganism Pfiesteria piscicida by leading expert JoAnn Burkholder, from North Carolina State University, will headline the lecture series at Coast Day, beginning at 2:30 p.m. in the Virden Center's Harbor Room.

Burkholder, a botanist, identified Pfiesteria in 1988 and conducts research on the fish killer in her Raleigh laboratory.

The University community is invited to a special seminar on Pfiesteria featuring Burkholder at 3 p.m., Friday, Oct. 3. Her presentation in 203 Cannon Lab at the College of Marine Studies in Lewes will be transmitted by instructional television (ITV) to Studio A in Pearson Hall on the Newark campus.

The program also will be shown at sites on the Georgetown campus. For more specific information, call 831-8083.

For a complete Coast Day schedule, pick up a free program at the event. Admission is free; parking is $2.

For more information, contact the University's Marine Communications Office at 831-8083. Or visit "What's New?" at www.udel.edu/cms on the web