Earth Section Seminar Dr. Julia Cole
ASU
Hubbs Hall 4500
3:15 p.m.
Title: "Southwest Hydroclimate Variability from the Last Millennium to the Last Interglacial: A Bat's-Eye View"
Apr 4th, 2012 (Wed)
12:15 PM
Ecology Seminar Dr. George Hunt
University of Washington
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: “Marine Ornithology: Some Thoughts on the Development of a Young Discipline”
Apr 5th, 2012 (Thu)
2:00 PM
Special CASPO Seminar Sumant Nigam
University of Maryland
Spiess Hall 330
2 p.m.
Title: "Hydroclimate Variability and Change over Indo-China in the 20th Century: Observations, Simulations, and Origin"
Apr 5th, 2012 (Thu)
4:00 PM
Applied Ocean Science Seminar Guangming Zheng
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Title: "A Model Based on Stacked-Constraints Approach for Partitioning the Light Absorption Coefficient of Seawater into Phytoplankton and Non-Phytoplankton Components"
and
Simon Freeman
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Title: "Simultaneous Horizontal and Vertical Direction-of-Arrival Characterization of Water-Borne Seismic Phases Using Adaptive Processing Methods"
Spiess Hall 330
4 p.m.
Apr 6th, 2012 (Fri)
12:00 PM
Special Seminar Steve McNutt
Alaska Volcano Observatory (USGS)
University of Alaska Fairbanks
IGPP 303
12 p.m.
Title: "Volcanic Lightning"
Apr 6th, 2012 (Fri)
12:15 PM
Marine Biology Seminar Andrea Bodnar
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: "Sea Urchins and the Secret to a Long and Healthy Life"
Apr 9th, 2012 (Mon)
12:15 PM
Special Seminar Diane Adams
National Institutes of Health
Scripps Seaside Forum
12:15 p.m.
Title: "Larvae Rise to Meet Environmental Challenges from Deep-Sea Volcanic Eruptions to Coastal Famine"
Apr 9th, 2012 (Mon)
3:15 PM
Earth Section Seminar Cin-Ty Lee
Rice University
Hubbs Hall 4500
3:15 p.m.
Title: "Long-Term Climate Change Revisited"
Apr 10th, 2012 (Tue)
12:30 PM
CMBC Seminar Carl Nettleton
OpenOceans Global
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:30 p.m.
Title "Linking People to the World's Oceans"
Apr 10th, 2012 (Tue)
3:30 PM
CASPO Seminar Dr. Rebecca Dell
MIT
Nierenberg Hall 101
3:30 p.m.
Title: "Boundary Layers and Mixing in Abyssal Canyons"
Apr 11th, 2012 (Wed)
12:15 PM
Ecology Seminar Dr. Brad Seibel
URI
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: "Metabolic Suppression and Vertical Migration in Oxygen Minimum Zones: A Case Study of Humboldt Squids"
Apr 11th, 2012 (Wed)
3:30 PM
CASPO Seminar Matthew Spydell
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Nierenberg Hall 101
3:30 p.m.
Title: "Surfzone Lagrangian Dispersion: Observations and a Lagrangian Stochastic Model"
Apr 12th, 2012 (Thu)
12:15 PM
Special Seminar Sheekela Baker-Yeboah
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scripps Seaside Forum
12:15 p.m.
Title: "Role of Mesoscale Dipoles in Inter-Ocean Exchange and Meridional Overturning"
Apr 12th, 2012 (Thu)
4:00 PM
Applied Ocean Science Seminar Justin Haag
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Spiess Hall 330
4 p.m.
Title: "Marine Animal Reflectance Measurement: Preliminary Results and Future Directions"
Apr 13th, 2012 (Fri)
12:15 PM
Marine Biology Seminar Dr. David Traver
Associate Professor
University of California, San Diego
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: "Development of the Zebrafish Hematopoietic System"
Apr 16th, 2012 (Mon)
12:15 PM
Special Seminar Jennifer Taylor
Indiana University
Purdue University Fort Wayne
Sumner Auditorium
12:15 p.m.
Title: "Balloons, Punching Bags, and Guiros: Untold Roles of the Arthropod Exoskeleton"
Apr 16th, 2012 (Mon)
3:15 PM
Earth Section Seminar Doug Dreger
University of California, Berkeley
Hubbs Hall 4500
3:15 p.m.
Title: "Sources of Exotic Seismic Events"
Apr 17th, 2012 (Tue)
12:30 PM
CMBC Discussion Damien Cie
Scripps Graduate Student
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:30 p.m.
Topic: Discussion on Global Warming Issues Throughout the Pacific Island Communities
Apr 17th, 2012 (Tue)
4:00 PM
Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture Eddie Bernard
Scientist Emeritus for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA)
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)
Former Director of NOAA’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
Robert Paine Scripps Forum for Science, Society and the Environment (Scripps Seaside Forum)
4 p.m.
Title: “Tsunamis: Are We Underestimating the Risk?”
The presentation is free. The public is invited.
Apr 18th, 2012 (Wed)
9:30 AM
Dalai Lama at UC San Diego Dalai Lama, Dr. Richard Somerville, and Dr. V. Ramanathan
UC San Diego
RIMAC Arena
9:30 a.m.
Title: "The Global Impact of Climate Change: Balance through Universal Responsibility, Compassion and Human Consciousness"
The Scripps community is invited to view the live stream in the Scripps Seaside Forum auditorium starting at 9 a.m.
Apr 18th, 2012 (Wed)
12:15 PM
Ecology Seminar Carolyn Kurle
UC San Diego
Division of Biological Sciences, Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution Section
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: "Moving Beyond 'You Are What You Eat:' Broader Applications of Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry to Ecological Questions"
Apr 18th, 2012 (Wed)
3:30 PM
CASPO Seminar Hanne Sagen
Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller
Nierenberg Hall 101
3:30 p.m.
Title: "ACOBAR: The Integrated Fram Strait Ocean Observatory"
Apr 19th, 2012 (Thu)
12:15 PM
Special Seminar Anna Gannet Hallar
Desert Research Institute
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: "Persistent Daily New Particle Formation at a Mountain-Top Location"
Apr 19th, 2012 (Thu)
4:00 PM
Applied Ocean Science Seminar B. Greg Mitchell
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Spiess Hall 330
4 p.m.
Title: “Computer Vision Coral Ecology - An Interdisciplinary Project for Rapid Automation of Coral Community Classification”
Apr 20th, 2012 (Fri)
11:00 AM
Special Seminar Jennifer S. Haase
Purdue University
Hubbs Hall 4500
11 a.m.
Title: "Moisture Variations in a Developing Cyclone as Measured by Airborne GPS Remote Sensing"
Apr 20th, 2012 (Fri)
12:15 PM
Marine Biology Seminar Andrew Gracey
Associate Professor
University of Southern California
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: "Biological Rhythms in a Tidal Environment"
Apr 23rd, 2012 (Mon)
11:00 AM
Special Seminar Adrian Borsa
UNAVCO
Visiting Scholar
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
IGPP 303
11 a.m.
Title: "Crypto-Topography: Employing New Geodetic Techniques in the Hunt for Elusive Signals"
Apr 23rd, 2012 (Mon)
3:30 PM
CASPO Seminar Brian Dushaw
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
Nierenberg Hall 101
3:30 p.m.
Title: "On the Predictability of Mode-1 Internal Tides"
Apr 24th, 2012 (Tue)
12:30 PM
CMBC Seminar Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:30 p.m.
Topic: "The Cycle of Insanity: The Real Story of Water," Surfrider Film, and Discussion with Joe Geever, Surfrider Foundation, about the potential fresh water shortage and what can be done to prevent it.
Apr 25th, 2012 (Wed)
12:15 PM
Ecology Seminar Paul Koch
UCSC
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: "The Rise and Fall of Elephant Seal Breeding Colonies on Antarctica: Insights from the Fossil Record"
Apr 25th, 2012 (Wed)
3:30 PM
CASPO Seminar Charles Cox
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Nierenberg Hall 101
3:30 pm.
Title: "Contributions of Gravity-Capillary Waves to Wind Stress and Wave Growth"
Apr 26th, 2012 (Thu)
4:00 PM
Applied Ocean Science Seminar Alfred J. Crosby
Polymer Science & Engineering Department
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Spiess Hall 330
4 p.m.
Title: “Mechanics of Squishy Materials"
Apr 27th, 2012 (Fri)
12:15 PM
Marine Biology Seminar William Gerwick
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Hubbs Hall 4500
12:15 p.m.
Title: "Integrating Chemical, Pharmacological, Biochemical, and Genomic Approaches for Drug Discovery from Marine Cyanobacteria"
Apr 30th, 2012 (Mon)
3:15 PM
Earth Section Seminar Alejandro Hinojosa-Corona
Fulbright-Garcia Robles visiting scholar
Geology Department, Earth Sciences Division
CICESE
Hubbs Hall 4500
3:15 p.m.
Title: "Exploring the Effects of El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake Through Remote Sensing Data and Techniques"
