Current Schedule | Past Seminars

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Date	Speaker	Institution	Title of Talk	Host	Venue
Fall 2006
8-September	Jennifer Collins	USF-Tampa Department of Geography	Hurricane Activity in the NE Pacific and Atlantic Oceans	Al Hine	MSL Conference Room
15-September	Al Hine	USF-College of Marine Science	Scientific Ocean Drilling and the Hubble Telescope; Some New Thoughts on Some Old Results	Al Hine	MSL Conference Room
Tuesday 19-September 12:00Noon	Tom Guilderson	Center for AMS at UC Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and Department of Ocean Sciences & Institute of Marine Sciences, UC Santa Cruz	Windows in the Deep: Deep-Sea Coral Longevity and Utility in Oceanographic Studies	Paula Coble	Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium
6-October	Don Wright	VIMS	Recent Advances in Understanding Continental Shelf Sediment Transport	Abby Sallenger	Normile Conference Room, USGS Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies
20-October	Mark Bush	Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne	Paleoecology and Climate Change in the Neotropics: The View From a Hotspot	Dick Poore	MSL Conference Room
27-October	Robert Twilley	LSU	Studies of the Ecosystem, Ecology, and Management Practices of Mangrove Wetlands on the Coast of the Gulf of Mexico	John Brock	MSL Conference Room
3-November	Richard Langton	Buccoo Reef Trust, Tobago, West Indies	Establishment of the Buccoo Reef Trust - Lessons Learned	John Brock	Normile Conference Room, USGS Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies
17-November	Rick Salmon	Scripps Institute of Oceanography	How Rossby Waves Drive Ocean Currents	Boris Galperin	MSL Conference Room
Thursday 7-December	Mark Kulp	University of New Orleans	Subsidence, Shoreline Change, and Sand: Geology and Restoration of the Louisiana Coastal Zone	Lisa Osterman	Normile Conference Room, USGS Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies
Spring 2006
13-January	Daniel H. Yeh	Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, USF	Contaminated Sediment Remediation	Al Hine	MSL Conference Room
20-January	Frank Muller-Karger	USF-CMS	An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century: The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and the President's U.S. Ocean Action Plan	Al Hine	MSL Conference Room
3-February	Ellen Prager	Earth2Ocean, Inc.	Media Madness: The Pitfalls and Triumphs When Working With the Media as a Scientist	Al Hine	MSL Conference Room
10-February	Charles Hall	State University of New York - Environmental Science and Forestry	Energy-The Great Scientific Cover Up of the Most Important Event in Contemporary Western Culture	Frank Muller-Karger	Normile Conference Room, USGS Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies
17-February	Todd LaJeunesse	Florida Institute of Technology	Coral Symbionts	Jose Torres	MSL Conference Room
			Eminent Scholars Lecture Series "Our Changing Coastal Ocean Environments: Natural and Anthropogenic Forcing"
1-March 1:30 pm	Simon Jennings	Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) CEFAS Lowestoft Laboratory, Suffolk, UK	Fishing Effects on Marine Ecosystems		Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium
1-March 3:15 pm	Harry H. Roberts	Director, Coastal Studies Institute, & Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University	Natural and Human Impacts on Deltas: Emphasis on the Mississippi River System		Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium
2-March 1:30pm	Thomas Bianchi	Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University	Anthropogenic and Natural Effects on the Biogeochemistry of Organic Carbon Cycling in a River-Dominated Margin: The Mississippi River System		Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium
2-March 3:15pm	Hugh Willoughby	International Hurricane Center, Florida International University	Hurricanes in the 21st Century		Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium
10-March	Lauri Richardson	Florida International University	Physiological Ecology of Microorganisms in Black Band Disease of Corals	Ginger Garrison	MSL Conference Room
17-March			NO SEMINAR-SPRING BREAK
24-March	Kirk Maasch	Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Bryand Global Sciences Center	Holocene Climate Variability	David Hollander	Normile Conference Room, USGS Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies
31-March	George Denton	University of Maine--retired; member of NAS	The Role of Seasonality in Abrupt Climate Change	Ben Flower	MSL Conference Room
7-April	Susan Cutter	Hazards Research Lab, University of South Carolina	Coastal Hazards	Barbara Poore	Normile Conference Room, USGS Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies
14-April	Lisa Osterman	US Geological Survey	Record of Hypoxia on the Louisiana Continental Shelf	Dick Poore	MSL Conference Room
21-April	Michael P. Lesser	University of New Hampshire	Solar Radiation, Temperature, and Oxidative Stress in Corals: Are There Good Biomarkers for Predicting Bleaching?	Pamela Hallock Muller	MSL Conference Room
28-April	Rana Fine	RSMAS, University of Miami	The Brain Drain: Why do Women leave Oceanography?	Frank Muller-Karger	MSL Conference Room