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UNC-CH MASC Fall 2010 Seminar Series
All seminars (unless otherwise indicated) take place in G201 Venable Hall and commence at 3:00 pm sharp. Refreshments will follow from 4-4:30 pm in the Marine Sciences lobby on the 3rd floor of Venable Hall. Contact Prof. Justin Ries (jries@unc.edu) with any questions.
MASC Seminar Series - Fall 2010
Sept 1: Dr. Justin Ries (Asst. Professor; Department of Marine Sciences; UNC-CH):
“Sulfur isotope fractionation at the dawn of animal life”
Sept 8: Dr. Shuhai Xiao (Professor; Dept. of Geosciences; Virginia Tech):
“The Doushantuo Formation as a window onto Neoproterozoic life and environment”
Sept 15: Ms. Lisa Nigro (UNC-CH)*:
“The Exploration of Extraterrestrial Oceans: Results of the Galileo Spacecraft Mission”
Sept 22: Dr. Chris Osburn (Asst. Professor, Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; North Carolina State University):
“Resolving sources of dissolved organic matter in the Baltic-North Sea transition zone”
Sept. 23 (GEOLOGY Dept.): Dr. John Milliman (Professor; Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences) –
"Episodic watershed and discharge events and their importance to small mountainous rivers and their coastal zones"
Special Seminar Joint with Geological Sciences (NOTE: 005 Mitchell Hall location)
Sept 29: Dr. Amy Ringwood (Professor; Dept. of Biology; UNC - Charlotte):
“Biomarkers and the muddy waters of the real world.”
Oct 6: Dr. Orrin Pilkey (Professor Emeritus; Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences; Duke):
“The sea also rises”
Oct 13: Dr. Inna Sokolova (Professor; Dept. of Biology; UNC - Charlotte):
“When It Rains, It Pours": Interactive effects of multiple stressors on energy metabolism and stress response of marine bivalves”
Oct 20: Mr. Sam Perkins (UNC-CH)*:
“Hot Science -- Piecing together the causes and effects of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum”
Oct 27: Dr. Elana Leithold (Professor; Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; NCSU)
"Teasing apart the organic geochemical stratigraphic record on continental margins—what marine sediments can tell us about terrestrial environmental change”
Nov 3: Dr. Andreas Andersson (Assistant Scientist; Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)
Net Dissolution and Net Loss of CaCO3 Reefs in a High CO2 World
Nov 10 (NOON, brown bag, GEOLOGY Dept.): Dr. Linda Kah (Professor; Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Univ. of Tennessee at Knoxville):
“What do weird carbonate fabrics tell us about Paleozoic biospheric evolution?” (NOTE: 005 Mitchell Hall location)
Nov 10: Dr. Linda Kah (Professor; Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Univ. of Tennessee at Knoxville):
“Ocean chemistry in the Ordovician: investigating the evolution of an Early Paleozoic greenhouse world”
Nov 17: Ms. Lindsay D’Ambrosia (UNC-CH)*
"Offshore windfarms: Ecosystem Interactions"
Nov 24: Thanksgiving
Dec 1: Dr. Gary Dwyer (Senior Research Scientist; Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences; Duke):
“Ocean temperatures, continental ice volume and sea level during the mid-Pliocene warm interval (3.0-3.3 Ma)”
Dec 8: Mr. Ben Von Korff (UNC-CH)*:
“Role of the Southern Ocean in Glacial-Interglacial CO2 Cycles”
*student presentation