Dr. Lee Fuiman will present a lecture on “Ocean’s Goliaths and the Economy of Scale: The world’s largest fish closely manages its swimming costs” Thursday, March 15.

The lecture is part of a series offered to the public by the University of Texas Marine Science Institute each week. Each lecture is free and open to the public.

Doors open at the UTMSI Visitor’s Center auditorium at 6:30 p.m., and the talk begins at 7 p.m.

The center is located on Cotter Street, on the way to the beach.

Fuiman is a marine biologist and behavioral ecologist who studies fish and marine mammals in Texas and around the world. He served as director of the UTMSI until 2011. Now he is director of the institute’s Fisheries and Mariculture Laboratory. To learn more about his work, visit www.utmsi. utexas.edu/people/faculty.