Seminars Spring 2008 - College of Marine Science - University of South Florida

SEMINARS - Spring 2008

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January 2008

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title of Talk	Host	Location
11-Jan	Mya Breitbart David Hollander	USF, College of Marine Science	The Desert Oases of Cuatro Ciencegas, Mexico: At the Intersection Where Primitive Organisms and Humans Converge	CMS	MSL Conference Room
18-Jan	Chris D’Elia Jyotika Virmani	Prof and VP Research USF-SP Exec Director FCOOS, FIO	Ocean Science Initiatives for Florida and the World's Oceans	CMS	MSL Conference Room
25-Jan	Benjamin Van Mooy	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute	Membrane Lipid Substitutions are a Widely Distributed and Quantitatively Significant Biochemical Mechanism for Phytoplankton to Alter Nutrient Requirements	Hollander	MSL Conference Room

February 2008 - February pdf flyer

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title of Talk	Host	Location
1-Feb	J. Murray Roberts	Scottish Association for Marine Science	Cold-water Coral Ecosystems: Review and Prospects for Integrated Ocean Basin-Scale Research	Kellogg	MSL Conference Room
8-Feb	Jean Lynch-Stieglit (no video on web)	Georgia Tech University	Abrupt Climate Change and North Atlantic Circulation	Flower	MSL Conference Room
15-Feb	Doug Biggs	Texas A& M University	Cooperative Research on Sperm Whales and Their Response to Seismic Exploration in the Gulf of Mexico	Remsen, Hopkins	MSL Conference Room
22-Feb	Tim Eglinton	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute	Exploring Temporal Aspects of Organic Matter Transfer from Biological Source to Sedimentary Sink	Hollander	MSL Conference Room
29-Feb	Richard A. Feely (no video on web)	NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory	Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem.	Byrne	MSL Conference Room

Eminent Scholars Lecture Series: "INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR" view pdf flyer

Wednesday - February 27
Date	Speaker	Institution	Title of Talk	Host	Location
1:30 pm	Robert Bindschadler	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Some Like it Hot - But Not Ice Sheets		Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium
3:15 pm	Kate Moran	University of Rhode Island	The Cenozoic Arctic Ocean revealed through drilling at the North Pole		Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium
7:30 pm	John Farrell	Arctic Research Commission	A Dramatic Year in the Arctic		Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium
Thursday - February 28
1:30 pm	Dan Costa	University of California Santa Cruz	Animals as Polar Oceanographers: Using Animals to Define and Describe Their Habitat		Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium
3:15 pm	Greg Holloway	Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia	What's New in Pphysics for this IPY? 1) Observing, 2) Computing, 3) Ideas		Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium

March 2008 - March pdf flyer

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title of Talk	Host	Location
14-Mar	Jelle Atema	Boston University	Multi sensory information guiding shark hunting behavior	David Mann	MSL Conference Room 134
21-Mar	Kai Lorenzen	Imperial College, London, England	Population dynamics of fisheries stock enhancement: ecological insights and new tools for managements		MSL Conference Room 134
28-Mar	Andrea G. Grottoli	Ohio State U.	Stable Carbon Isotopes in Corals and Sclerosponges: Implications for Paleoceanography and Biology	Kuffner	MSL Conference Room 134

April 2008 - April pdf flyer

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title of Talk	Host	Location
4-Apr	W. K. Dewar	Florida State U.	Heretical thoughts on Ocean Mixing	Virmani	MSL Conference Room 134
11-Apr	Wei-Jun Cai	University of Georgia	Air-sea CO2 flux, inorganic carbon export and metabolic state in the U.S.	Robbins	MSL Conference Room 134
18-Apr	Graduate Student Symposium				Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium
25-Apr	Alison Murry	Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV	Ecological genomics reveals a high degree of temporal variation in Antarctic marine bacterioplankton assemblages	Breitbart	MSL Conference Room 134