CORVALLIS - The Oregon Public Affairs Network, or OPAN, will broadcast a lecture with video and slides by Eddie Bernard, a tsunami expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, on Thursday, July 7.

The lecture, "The December 2004 Asian Tsunami: Lessons Learned for Improved Tsunami Preparedness," was originally given on the Oregon State University campus in May as part of the John Byrne lecture series, sponsored by Oregon Sea Grant and the OSU College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences.

Bernard is director of the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, in Seattle.

OPAN is broadcast on channel 27 in Corvallis, Philomath, and Lewisburg. The Bernard lecture will begin at 6 p.m. Other channels and times can be located online at www.opan.org.

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Larry Pribyl, 541-737-3817

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