The Whale Museum is featuring Shawn Larson as part of the 2015 Lecture Series on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m.  Dr. Larson will discuss her research on the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker as well as share videos of this little fish.

Divers describe Pacific Spiny Lumpfish as bizarre, cute, comical, entertaining, and as a ping pong ball with fins. All are appropriate descriptions of these tiny almost spherical fish whose pelvic fin is a modified suction disk with which a Spiny Lumpsucker attaches itself to rocks or other substrate such as kelp.

Dr. Larson has a doctorate from the school of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington and has been working at the Seattle Aquarium for more than 20 years. She conducts conservation research on sea otters, sixgill sharks, Giant Pacific Octopus, rockfish and Hawaii fish.

The Sept. 15 lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information, call (360) 378-4710 ext. 30 or visit their website here.