2017 Spring Tentative Seminar Schedule
* Fridays at 3:30 PM, MSL Conference Room, (MSL 134)
Note: Some seminars are scheduled for Thursday (3:30PM, MSL 134)
Jan. 13, 2017
Jan. 20, 2017
Speaker: Karl Havens
Affiliation: University of Florida/Florida Sea Grant
Title: Florida Sea Grant College Program Overview
Host: Philip Kramer (FIO)
Jan. 27, 2017
Speaker: Ke Chen
Affiliation: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Title: Heat Balance and Temperature Variability in the Northeast US Coastal Ocean
Host: Yun Li
Feb. 3, 2017
Speaker: Changsheng Chen
Affiliation: Univ. of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
Title: Downscaling Simulation of Oceanic Responses to Climate Change: A Global-Basin-Coastal-Estuarine Resolving FVCOM System
Host: Chuanmin Hu
Feb. 10, 2017
Speaker: Katie Schreiner
Affiliation: Large Lakes Observatory at the University of Minnesota Duluth
Title: Sources and Reactivity of Terrestrial Organic Carbon to the Colville River Delta, Beaufort Sea, Alaska
Host: Brad E. Rosenheim
Feb. 13, 2017
Speaker: Greg Johnson (note: special date, same time as usual)
Affiliation: NOAA PMEL
Title: Improving Estimates of Earth’s Energy Imbalance
Host: Don Chambers
Feb. 14, 2017
Speaker: Luanne Thompson (note: special date, same time as usual)
Affiliation: University of Washington
Title: Linkages between the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the Gulf Stream and the Atmosphere: circulation, heat content and air-sea interaction
Host: Amelia Shevenell
Feb. 20, 2017
Speaker/Affiliations: Masanobu Yamamoto (Hokkaido University) & Leonid Polyak (Byrd Polar Research Center, the Ohio State University)
Title: Detection of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and tropical storm activity during the last 2900 years using Beppu Bay anoxic sediment cores
Host: Brad E. Rosenheim
Feb. 21, 2017
Speaker/Affiliation: Angela Rosenberg, President, ANGARI Foundation, Inc.
Title: Announcing ANGARI: A New and Innovative Platform for Ocean Research and Public Outreach
Host: Mark E. Luther
Feb. 23, 2017
Speaker: Alan Blumberg
Affiliation: Stevens Institute of Technology
Title: Coastal and Operational Forecasting Research at The Davidson Laboratory
Host: Robert Weisberg
Mar. 2, 2017
Speaker: Joel Fodrie
Affiliation: UNC Chapel-Hill
Title: Has warming, oil pollution, and fishing dramatically altered coastal ecosystems in the northern Gulf of Mexico?
Host: Chris Stallings
Mar. 9, 2017
Speaker: Kiho Kim
Affiliation: American University
Title: Nitrogen Dynamics in Tropical Coastal Ecosystems: A Case Study in Guam
Host: Chris Simoniello
Mar. 24 2017
Speaker: Andreas Thurnherr
Affiliation: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
Title: Vertical Kinetic Energy, Turbulence and Mixing in the Ocean
Host: Xinfeng Liang
Mar. 27 2017
Speaker: Peter Hamilton
Affiliation: NC State University
Title: Recent Gulf of Mexico Loop Current studies performed by BOEM
Host: Robert Weisberg
Mar. 30 2017
Speaker: Stephani Gordon
Affiliation: Open Boat Films, LLC
Title: Science Communication in the current landscape- a filmmakers perspective
Host: Brad Seibel
Apr. 6-7 2017
Eminent Scholars Lecture Series
Apr. 21 2017
Speaker: Allison K. Smith
Affiliation: Univ. Washington
Title: Projections of climate driven changes on blood oxygen affinity in pelagic habitats
Host: Brad Seibel
Apr. 28, 2017
Speaker: Lisa Beal
Affiliation: Univ. of Miami, RSMAS
Title: Broadening not strengthening of the Agulhas Current since the early 1990’s
Host: Mark Luther
