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Spring 2008 Seminars at IMS

Fridays, 3:00pm in the seminar room of the Institute of Marine Sciences (unless otherwise noted)

IMS will broadcast seminars via video (h.323) if requested. Please make your request to Kar Howe (kar_howe@unc.edu) by noon the Tuesday before the seminar you'd like to see.

January

Jan. 18 - Dr. Michael Piehler, UNC-CH Institute of Marine Sciences and UNC Coastal Studies Institute, Manteo. How will sea level rise and shoreline stabilization affect shallow water estuarine nitrogen cycling
Jan. 25 - Dr. Jonathan Grabowski, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME. The lobster explosion: why are there so many lobsters in the Gulf of Maine?

February

Feb. 1 - Dr. Thomas Bianchi, Texas A & M University, Dept. of Oceanography, College Station, TX. Hypoxia on the Louisiana shelf: A Tale of Muddy Waters and Politics
Feb. 8 - Dr. Dina Leech, UNC-CH Institute of Marine Sciences. Tales of the Coastal Lakes of the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula, North Carolina
Feb. 15 - Dr. Enrique Reyes, Dept. of Biology, East Carolina University. Forecasting Long-term Ecosystem Response to Climate Change in North Carolina
Feb. 22 - Dr. Antonio Rodriguez, UNC-CH Institute of Marine Sciences. Bay-head Deltas Do The Backstep
Feb. 29 - Dr. Carolyn Currin, NOAA-NOS Beaufort Laboratory. Salt marsh response to sea level rise and shoreline stabilization structures

March

Mar. 7 - No Seminar (ASLO meetings)
Mar. 14 - Mary O’Connor, UNC-CH Dept. of Marine Science. Linking physiological rates and community ecology: Effects of ocean temperature on dispersal and species interactions
Mar. 21 - Dr. Joel Fodrie, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL. Connectivity of estuarine and coastal populations of fish and bivalves
Mar. 28 - Dr. Tammi Richardson, Marine Sciences Program and Biological Sciences, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Phytoplankton Community Composition, Marine Food Webs, and Carbon Cycling

April

Apr. 4 - Dr. Mark Brush, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA. Balancing precision, realism, and generality in estuarine ecosystem models: a tour from the practical to the esoteric and back again
Apr. 11 - Dr. Todd Kellison, NOAA Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, FL. Spatial and temporal trends of reef fish communities and fishery-targeted species in the FL Keys

Apr. 18 - Dr. Lawrence Harding, Horn Point Environmental Lab, Univ. of MD. Long-term trends of phytoplankton in Chesapeake Bay from remote and in-situ observations
Apr. 25 - Dr. Rick Luettich, UNC-CH Institute of Marine Sciences. High Resolution Hurricane Storm Surge and Inundation Modeling along the North Carolina and Gulf Coasts

May

May 2 - Dr. Judson Kenworthy, NOAA-NOS Beaufort Laboratory. Seagrass Meadows Before Columbus: Can manatee grazing provide clues to the past structure of seagrass communities in the Caribbean?
May 9 - Dr. Stephen Fegley, UNC-CH Institute of Marine Sciences. Filling in the gaps: meiofaunal associations in nourished and unnourished beaches