Oceans and Atmosphere Colloquium 2012 Spring Schedule

12 Noon - Endeavour Hall 120

• 01/27/12
  • Title: “A method for estimating future hurricane flood hazards and associated uncertainty”
  • Speaker: Jennifer L. Irish
  • Affiliation: Virginia Tech
  • Host: Henry Bokuniewicz
• 02/03/12
  • Title: "Mercury Cycling and Bioavailability in the Global Oceans: Implications for Human Exposures"
  • Speaker: Elsie Sunderland
  • Affiliation: Harvard University
  • Host: Nick Fisher
• 02/10/12
  • Title: "Research Frontiers in Coupled Human and Natural Systems"
  • Speaker: Les Kaufman
  • Affiliation: Boston University
  • Hosts: Kamazima Lwiza, Ellen Pikitch
• 02/17/12
  • Title: "How can the chemical composition of atmospheric particles affect cirrus cloud formation?"
  • Speaker: Daniel Cziczo
  • Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Host: Daniel Knopf
• 02/24/12
  • Title: "Temporal and spatial influences of environmental factors on fish distributions"
  • Speaker: Adrian Jordaan
  • Affiliation: SoMAS
  • Host: Mike Frisk
• 03/02/12
  • Title: "Why is advocate a dirty word for most scientists?" The talk will focus on the role scientists play in public policy.
  • Okubo speaker Michael Hirshfield
  • Affiliation: Oceana
  • Host: SoMAS Graduate Students
• 03/09/12
  • Title: "The Evolution of Organic C from Uplands to the Ocean: A Grand Unified Model"
  • Speaker: Neil Blair
  • Affiliation: Northwestern University
  • Host: Bob Aller
• 03/16/12
  • Title: "Using digital archival tags to learn about pilot whale foraging behavior and related studies on bycatch and depredation in the longline fishery off of Cape Hatteras."
  • Speaker: Andrew Read
  • Affiliation: Duke University Marine Lab
  • Host: Lesley Thorne
• 03/23/12
  • Title: "Confessions from the Cariaco Basin: Climate Change in the Caribbean and Other Tales"
  • Speaker: Gordon Taylor
  • Affiliation: SoMAS
  • Host: Josie Aller
• 03/30/12
  • Title: "Promised Land. New York's Menhaden Fishery since 1900."
  • Speaker: William Wise
  • Affiliation: SoMAS
  • Host: Josie Aller
• 04/01/12 NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK: MONDAY, APRIL 2 - SUNDAY, APRIL 8

• 04/13/12
  • Title: "The Down, Up, and Out Dynamics of Carbon in a Productive Shelf Sea: The Gulf of Maine"
  • Speaker: Cynthia Pilskain
  • Affiliation: UMASS Dartmouth
  • Host: Cindy Lee
• 04/20/12 NO SEMINAR - EARTH DAY APRIL 22 / EARTHSTOCK 2012

• 04/27/12
  • Title: "Infaunal Hydraulic Ecosystem Engineers"
  • Speaker: Nils Volkenborn
  • Affiliation: University of South Carolina
  • Host: Bob Aller
• 05/04/12
  • Title: "Biogeochemical processes that have changed the state of our oceans throughout the geologic past, as well as those driving critical changes in the immediate future"
  • Speaker: Justin Ries
  • Affiliation: University of North Carolina
  • Host: John Carroll