With its mini-fleet of ocean research vessels, underwater robotics, deep-diving submersibles and tools to operate on the ocean floor, the University of Hawai'i-Manoa is staking out a leadership role in underwater technology.

Find out how scientists at the Undersea Research Laboratory at UH are addressing problems of climate change and global warming from a deep ocean perspective, and what we can do to change our energy use, in a talk tomorrow by John Wiltshire, acting director of NOAA's Undersea Research Center for Hawai'i and the Western Pacific.

"The deep sea is a new frontier," Wiltshire said. "Discoveries are showing us a new world just beyond our shore." The talk, part of the UH-Manoa Outreach College Sakamaki Extraordinary Lectures Series, is at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Krauss Hall, Yukiyoshi Room 012, UH-Manoa; 956-8248.

— Chris Oliver

ACTING WORKSHOPS

TRADE INSIGHTS FROM COACH

Rebecca Kitt, a Hollywood acting coach who provided training for actors in the filmed-in-Hawai'i "Tropic Thunder," will share trade insights and performing skills in two acting workshops: a lecture and Q&A session from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Seto Hall, 'Iolani School, 653 Kamoku St., $50; and classes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Seto Hall, $300, or $50 daily to audit. Information: info@rebeccakitt.com, www.rebeccakitt.com, 818-257-4184.

— Wayne Harada

FINAL WORD

"I've been invited to hang out with the cool kids and I don't want to do anything to get kicked out. Like by being in 'Teen Wolf III.' "

Jason Bateman | co-star of "Hancock," in Best Life