University of North Carolina Wilmington
Benjamin Frankin: In search of a better world
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World

Randall Library, UNCW
August 22 - october 3, 2008

"Benjamin Franklin: The First Marine Scientist"

by Dr. Fred Bingham

Randall Library Coffee Shop
Wednesday, October 1, 7:00pm

Free and open to the public.

Photograph of Dr. Fred Bingham.

 

Dr. Fred Bingham is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His research interests include large-scale regional physical oceanography: the Kuroshio, the western North and Equatorial Pacific, the Hawaiian Islands and Onslow Bay, North Carolina; and global distributions of sea surface salinity.

Dr. Bingham also teaches courses on physical oceanography, physics, global climate change, and frehsman seminar.

Photo credits:
Header:Franklin Urging the Claims of the American Colonies before Louis XVI. George Peter Alexander Healy, ca. 1847. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. Photo by Frank Margeson
Body: Courtesy Smithsonian National Postal Museum http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/outofthemails/franklin.html
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