Faculty Candidate Seminar Steven Cadrin
NOAA/ University of Massachusetts Cooperative Marine Education & Research Program
Hubbs Hall 4500
1:30 p.m.
Title: "Understanding Variability in Fishery Production: Overfishing, Dynamic Ecosystems and Complex Populations"
The speaker is a candidate for a faculty position in the Biology Section at Scripps.
Feb 1st, 2010 (Mon)
3:15 PM
Earth Section Weekly Seminar Dr. Victor Tsai
U.S. Geological Survery
Hubbs Hall 4500
3:15 p.m.
Title: "Applying Mechanical Models to a Melting Greenland Ice Sheet"
Feb 2nd, 2010 (Tue)
11:00 AM
Polar Seminar Greg Mitchell
Integrative Oceanography Division
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
IGPP 4301
11 a.m.
Title: "Shelf-derived Iron and the Drake Passage Plankton Ecology Transition"
Feb 3rd, 2010 (Wed)
12:15 PM
Ecology Seminar Grant Galland
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: "The History of the United Nations Involvement with Climate Change"
Feb 3rd, 2010 (Wed)
3:30 PM
CASPO Seminar Burkard Baschek
UCLA
Nierenberg Hall 101
3:30 p.m.
Title: "Aerial and in situ Measurements of Submesoscale Eddies, Fronts, and Filaments"
Feb 4th, 2010 (Thu)
4:00 PM
Applied Ocean Science Pierre Gernez
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ocean Optics Research Lab
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Spiess Hall 330
4 p.m.
Title: "BOUSSOLE bio-optics time-series project in the Mediterranean Sea"
Feb 5th, 2010 (Fri)
9:30 AM
Dissertation Defense - Fueri Dissertation Defense
Evelyn Fueri
Scripps Seaside Forum
9:30 a.m.
Title: "New insights into the origin, transport and behavior of noble gases:
Examples from Monterey Bay, Costa Rica, Iceland, and the Central Indian Ridge"
Feb 5th, 2010 (Fri)
12:15 PM
Marine Biology Seminar Gretchen Hofmann
UCSB
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: "Predicting the Consequences of Ocean Change – How Ecological Physiology and Genomics Can Contribute"
Feb 8th, 2010 (Mon)
1:30 PM
Faculty Candidate Seminar Yan Jiao
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Hubbs Hall 4500
1:30 p.m.
Title: "Simulating Population Dynamics with Intra- and Inter-specific Variation: New Models and Strategies"
The speaker is a candidate for a faculty position in the Biology Section at Scripps.
Feb 8th, 2010 (Mon)
3:15 PM
Earth Section Weekly Seminar Robert Wheatcroft
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
Oregon State University
Hubbs Hall 4500
3:15 p.m.
Title: "The Role of Bioturbation Along the Source-to-Sink Sediment Continuum"
Feb 8th, 2010 (Mon)
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Tony Koslow
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Birch Aquarium
6:30-8 p.m.
(Doors open at 6:30p.m., presentation begins at 7 p.m.)
Topic: Climate has enormous impacts on the marine life off California, influencing its major fisheries and the abundance of krill, seabirds, and mammals. Join Tony Koslow as he shows how a 60-year ocean observation program, the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (or CalCOFI) is unraveling the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña cycle, decadal-scale climate cycles, and human-induced climate.
SOS Members: Free.
General public: $8. Students, educators, and UCSD: $5.
Free admission to the first 30 UCSD students; must RSVP.
Aquarium admission, parking, and refreshments are included.
RSVP by calling 858-534-5771
Feb 9th, 2010 (Tue)
1:00 PM
Polar Seminar Laura Herraiz-Borreguero
University of Tasmania
IGPP 303
1 p.m.
"The Distribution, Circulation and Variability of Subantarctic Mode Water"
Feb 10th, 2010 (Wed)
12:15 PM
Ecology Seminar Anne-Elise Neiblas
Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization
University of Tasmania
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: "Implications of Climate Change for Physics, Phytoplankton and Fish in a Historically Low-wind Upwelling Ecosystem"
Feb 10th, 2010 (Wed)
3:30 PM
CASPO Seminar Akira Kasahara
NCAR
Nierenberg Hall 101
3:30 p.m.
Title: "Eckart’s Conjecture:Theory of inertio-gravity Waves without the “Traditional Approximation"
Feb 11th, 2010 (Thu)
4:00 PM
Applied Ocean Science Bill Hagey
Pisces Design
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Spiess Hall 330
4 p.m.
Title: "Developing an Animal-Borne Video tag with CTD, Heading, GPS and more"
Feb 12th, 2010 (Fri)
12:15 PM
Marine Biology Seminar Jeff Crooks
Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: "Science-based Management of San Diego's Estuarine Wetlands"
Feb 17th, 2010 (Wed)
12:15 PM
Ecology Seminar Martha Sutula
Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
(SCCWRP)
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Topic: Ecology and Restoration of Southern California Wetlands and Watersheds
Marine Biology Seminar Mark Steele
Cal State Northridge
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: TBA
Feb 19th, 2010 (Fri)
3:00 PM
Special Seminar Robert M. Hazen
Geophysical Laboratory
Carnegie Institution of Washington
and
Clarence Robinson
Professor of Earth Science
George Mason University
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Hubbs Hall 4500
3 p.m.
Title: "Mineralogical Co-evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere"
Feb 24th, 2010 (Wed)
12:15 PM
Ecology Seminar Marie Roch
San Diego State University
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: "Acoustic Detections of Cetacean Calls and How to Manage Them"
Feb 26th, 2010 (Fri)
12:15 PM
Marine Biology Seminar David McClay
Duke
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: TBA
