subject of a lecture at Bermuda High School tonight.

Ms Esta Lee Albright will give the illustrated talk on the Southern Sea Otter.

An avid diver, snorkeller and sailor, Ms Albright is returning to Bermuda where she learned to dive in 1964. She now lives in Monterey, California, and is a faculty member and librarian at Hartnell College in Salinas.

She has done academic work in the field of marine biology at San Jose State University and at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Ms Albright was one of the first members of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Cetacean Society, of which she is a past president and now a board member.

In 1981, she organised "Beachwatch'' to monitor stranded marine mammals. She was a volunteer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium prior to its opening in 1984, working in the fields of education and Sea Otter care.

She is a speaker, trainer and writer for local environmental publications and has, for 10 years, been on boat trips in Monterey Bay for gray whale migration trips.

The lecture, organised by the Bermuda Zoological Society, will be held in the school's Queen Elizabeth Hall tonight at 8 p.m.