Fall 2011 MASC Seminar Series

Seminars (unless otherwise indicated) will take place in Venable/Murray G201 and begin promptly at 3:00 p.m. Refreshments will follow immediately in the Marine Sciences Lobby on the 3rd floor of Venable Hall. Please Contact Prof. Adrian Marchetti (amarchet@email.unc.edu) with any questions.

 August 31:     Adrian Marchetti, UNC Marine Sciences

Using functional genomics to interpret the language of phytoplankton

September 7:     Jennifer Prairie, UNC Marine Sciences- Post-doctoral Research Fellow

New insights into small-scale vertical distributions of phytoplankton

September 14:     Jaye Cable, UNC Marine Sciences

The Subsurface Paleochannels as Zones for Transport and Reactivity in River Deltas 

September 21:     Anna Jalowska, UNC Marine Sciences - Student Interdisciplinary Seminar

Predicting the effects of global climate change on populations of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba)

(FRIDAY) September 23: John Gunnell, UNC Marine Sciences - Student Interdisciplinary Seminar

Assessing the Bioavailability of Iron Sources

September 28:     Seth John, University of South Carolina

3D ocean: Iron isotopes and the marine biogeochemical cycling of Fe

October 5:     Walker Smith, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences

Phytoplankton Growth and Oceanographic Variability in the Ross Sea: An Illusion of Knowledge? 

October 12:     William Sunda, NOAA- Beaufort Marine Labs

Evolutionary Strategies in Marine Phytoplankton: Interrelated Influence of Nutrients, Cell Size, and Grazing Defense

(TUESDAY) October 18:     Ginger Armbrust, University of Washington- Seattle

Comparative Genomics of Marine Microbes

Date & Time: Tuesday, October 18 @ 12:30pm

Room: Wilson 107

October 26:     Barbara MacGregor, UNC Marine Sciences

Why are orange Beggiatoa orange? A venture into seafloor microbiology

November 2-3:     Jeremy Jackson, SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography (Blanton Lecturer)

 Brave New Ocean

 Room: Chapman 201

Panel Discussion: 7:30-9:00 p.m., Gardner 105

November 9:     Winnie Yu, Institute of Marine Sciences - Student Research Seminar

Controls of varying antecedent topography and lithology on barrier-island evolution and facies architecture, Onslow Beach, NC.

November 16:     Dan Hoer, UNC Marine Sciences - Student Interdisciplinary Seminar

Algal Turf Scrubbers: A Geoengineering Approach to the Remediation of Eutrofied Estuaries

November 23: No seminar scheduled

November 30: Karl Castillo, Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC Marine Sciences

(FRIDAY) December 2: Winnie Yu, Institute of Marine Sciences - Student Interdisciplinary Seminar

Influence of methane seeps on deep-water corals

Time: 2:00p.m.

December 7:     Linghan Dong, Institute of Marine Sciences - Student Interdisciplinary Seminar

Modern climate change: do we really see it? Regional evidence explored from the eastern coastal regions of China and the United States