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Date	Speaker	Institution	Title of Talk	Host	Venue
Fall 2007
31-August	Eberhard Gischler	Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Universitát Frankfurt-Am Main	Late Quaternary Reef Growth and Sea-Level in the Maldives, Indian Ocean	TBA	MSL Conference Room
7-September	Chuck Connor	USF-Geology	Volcanic Hazard Assessment for Nuclear Facilities: A Global Perspective	Hine	MSL Conference Room
14-September	Bernd Würsig	Texas A&M University - Galveston	Marine Mammals of the Gulf of Mexico	Mann	MSL Conference Room
21-September	Jamie Pierson	University of Maryland, Horn Point	Foray Foraging Behavior in Marine Copepods	Daly	MSL Conference Room
28-September	Max Teplitski	University of Florida	Underground and Underwater Communications - Who Listens When Microbes Talk?	Kellogg	Normile Conference Room, USGS Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies
5-October	Willie Wilson	Bigelow Lab. for Ocean Sciences	Berry Stone Viruses: 30-Years of Climate Control and face Cream	Breitbart	MSL Conference Room
12-October	Patricia Miloslavich Daniel Suman	Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela RSMAS, University of Miami	Census of Marine Life in the Caribbean: A Regional Commitment in a Biodiversity Program Bocas del Toro, Panama: Experiences in Coastal Management	Lonenzoni	Poynter Institute for Media Studies Barnes Pavillion
19-October	Christopher Kendall	University of South Carolina	Holocene Cyanobacterial Mats and Lime Muds: Links to Middle East Carbonate Source Rock Potential	Shinn	MSL Conference Room
26-October	Lee Karp-Boss	University of Maine	The Round, the Tall and the Squat: Does Phytoplankton Morphology Matter?	Byrne	MSL Conference Room
2-November	James Casey	Cornell University	Cancers Induced by Piscine Retroviruses	Breitbart	MSL Conference Room
9-November	Laurel S. Collins	Florida International University	Biotic Trends in Foraminifera Associated with the Closure of the Central American Seaway	Hallock-Muller	MSL Conference Room
30-November	Craig McClain	Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute	Seamounts: Identity Crisis or Split Personality?	Kellogg	MSL Conference Room
Spring 2007
12-January	Janet Siefert	Rice University	Bacterial IQ: Who's the Smartest Microbe in a Desert Oasis?	Mya Breitbart	MSL Conference Room
Wednesday 17-January 11:00 am	James ZachosVideo only	University of California, Santa Cruz	Global Warming and Ocean Acidification across the P-E boundary	Ben Flower	Normile Conference Room, USGS Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies
19-January	Sandra Brooke	Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute	Habitat Characterization of a Deepwater Coral, Lophelia pertusa, in the Northern Gulf of Mexico	Gene Shinn	MSL Conference Room
26-January	Forest Rohwer	San Diego State University	Microbial Roles in Coral Reef Decline	Zawada	MSL Conference Room
2-February	Brent Yarnal	Penn State University	Interested in Buying Beach-Front Property? Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Storm Surge	Barbara Poore	Normile Conference Room, USGS Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies
9-February	Forrest Masters	University of Florida	Hurricane Reconnaissance and Simulation	Bob Weisberg	MSL Conference Room
16-February	Mary Ann Moran	University of Georgia	Ecological Genomics in the Coastal Ocean	John Paul	MSL Conference Room
23-February	Tim Ourbak	USF-CMS Post Doc	A Five Century Multiproxy Reconstruction from a South Pacific Coral	Byrne Hallock Hollander	MSL Conference Room
			Eminent Scholar Lecture Series "Frontiers in Marine Science"		Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium
1-March 1:30 pm	Richard Spinrad	NOAA	The Future of US Oceanographic Research: Plans and Strategies
1-March 3:00 pm	Robert T. Paine	University of Washington	Experimental Ecology and the Challenge of Ecosystem Repair and Management
2-March 10:00 am	Charlie Paull	Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute	Detecting and Monitoring Recent Sediment Transport Activity in Monterey Canyon
2-March 1:30 pm	David Archer	University of Chicago	From Here to Eternity: Global Warming in Geologic Time
2-March 3:00 pm	Carl Wunsch	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The Changing Ocean Circulation
9-March	Mike Blum	Louisiana State University	Holocene Sea-Level Change, Northern Gulf of Mexico, and the Ups and Downs of Mississippi Delta	Dick Poore	MSL Conference Room
Tuesday 20-March Noon	Karl K. Turekian	Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University	Evidence for Meteorite Impact as Cause of Extinctions at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary	Paula Coble	Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium
Tuesday 20-March 3:00 pm	Peter Madsen	University of Aarhus, Denmark	Echolocation Based Foraging in Deep Diving Toothed Whales	David Mann	Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium
23-March	Dave Cacchione	USGS	Sediment Movement by Internal Waves and Tides on Continental Margins	Sallenger	Normile Conference Room, USGS Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies
Thursday 29-March 3:00 pm	Rene Price	Florida International University	P Concentrations in Groundwater Effected by Seawater Intrusion	Thomas J. Smith	Normile Conference Room, USGS Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies
30-March	Jim Fourqurean	Florida International University	Evidence for Regional Increases in Nutrient Availability Causing Decadal-Scale Change in Seagrass Beds in the Florida Keys	Thomas J. Smith	MSL Conference Room
Thursday 5-April Noon	Steve Macko	University of Virginia	Understanding Ancient Humans and their Environment through Stable Isotope Analysis	Ernst Peebles	MSL Conference Room
6-April	Steve Macko	University of Virginia	Compound Specific Isotope Analysis: New Perspective on the Winds of Africa to the Origins and Maintenance of Life	Ernst Peebles	MSL Conference Room
Tuesday 17-April 2:00 pm	Conrad C. Lautenbacher	Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator	NOAA - Where Science Gains Value	Frank Muller-Karger	Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium
20-April	Jim Hendee	NOAA/AOML	Integrating Near Real-Time Data for Coral Reef Ecological Forecasting	Frank Muller-Karger	MSL Conference Room
27-April	Emmanuel Boss	University of Maine	Particle Dynamics, Scattering and Remote Sensing in the Coastal Ocean	Ken Carder	MSL Conference Room
Monday 30-April	Philip Meyers	University of Michigan	Paleocenographic Patterns in the Evolution of Coastal Ocean Upwelling Systems	David Hollander	MSL Conference Room