Marine mammal advocate Joel Reynolds will offer a free, public talk on "Lethal Sound: Submarines, Sonar and the Death of Whales" at UC Davis on Oct. 2.

Reynolds is senior attorney and director of the Marine Mammal Protection Project at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Since 1994, he has filed a series of lawsuits challenging the U.S. Navy's use of high-intensity military sonar and its environmental consequences.

He currently is lead attorney on an NRDC lawsuit opposing high-intensity sonar training off the Southern California coast near the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

Reynolds will speak in the AGR Room of Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center on Tuesday, Oct. 2, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. A reception will follow from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

This event is sponsored by the UC Davis John Muir Institute of the Environment and the Environmental Law Society. The John Muir Institute of the Environment is a collaboration of UC Davis experts working on solutions to complex environmental challenges. The Environmental Law Society is a forum for students at the UC Davis School of Law to explore their interest in environmental and natural resources issues.