Renowned oceanographer Paul Dayton comes to  Emmanuel Episcopal Parish Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. to kick off the SeaDoc Society/YMCA Camp Orkila Marine Science lecture series. He will be speaking about his research in the Antarctic ocean.

In a 44-year career at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Dayton has studied kelp forests, sea urchins, sea otters, pollution, fisheries collapse, and ecosystem-level disturbances in Washington, California, and Antarctica. Dayton is considered one of the founders of the field of ecology.