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Spring 2009 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. 9 - Nathan Hall, UNC-CH Institute of Marine Sciences and Dept. of Marine Sciences. The vertical world of phytoplankton in a shallow lagoonal estuary
Jan. 16 - Dr. David Kimmel, Department of Biology/Institute for Coastal Science and Policy, East Carolina Univ. What is forcing long-term changes in marine and estuarine populations?
Jan. 30 - Dr. Cathy Conn, UNC-CH Institute of Marine Sciences. Sex, Drugs, and Water: Endocrine-disrupting compounds and pharmaceuticals in our aquatic resources

February

Feb. 6 - Dr. Gavin Smith, UNC-CH Center for Natural Hazards and Disasters, Chapel Hill, NCOverview of the Center for the Study of Natural Hazards and Disasters: Opportunities for collaboration
Feb. 13 - Dr. Joseph Rudek, Environmental Defense, Raleigh, NC. Managing North Carolina’s nutrient sensitive waters: Cap and trade
Feb. 20 - Dr. Tammi Richardson, Marine Sciences Program and Biological Sciences Department, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Spectral Fluorescence - A useful tool for characterizing phytoplankton communities?
Feb. 27 - Dr. Iris Anderson, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Goucester, VA. Benthic autotrophy across the Chesapeake Bay estuarine gradient: how effective are benthic microalgae in removing and retaining nitrogen?

March

Mar. 6 - Dr. Wayne Litaker, NOAA-NOS Laboratory, Beaufort, NC. Why Do Toxic Karenia blooms initiate off the West Coast of Florida? The controversy over hydrodynamic accumulation versus land-based nutrient inputs
Mar. 13 - Dr . Richard Miller, UNC Coastal Studies Institute, Manteo, NC. Monitoring dynamic coastal processes using remote sensing
Mar. 20 - Dr. Ian Hewson, Dept. of Microbiology, Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY. Investigations of microbial biogeochemistry and biogeography through metatranscriptomics in the open ocean
Mar. 27 - Dr. William Boicourt, Horn Point Environmental Laboratory, Univ. of MD, Cambridge, MD. Wind effects on estuarine circulation

April

Apr. 3. Dr. Tony Gutierrez, UNC-CH Dept. of Environmental Sciences & Engineering. Novel bacterial processes influencing the fate and cycling of PAHs and metals in marine waters
Apr. 10. Dr. Chris Osburn. Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, NC State Univ. Chasing terrestrial dissolved organic matter in the coastal ocean: Do optical and chemical measurements tell us the same thing about its flux and biogeochemistry?
April 24. Dr. Carol Arnosti, UNC-CH Dept. of Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill. Speed Bumps in the Carbon Cycle: Substrate Structural Effects on Carbon Cycling

May

May 8. Dr. Julian Smith, Winthrop University Dept. of Biology. Evolution of metazoan epidermal replacement: What Hydra, "Flatworms" and Annelida can tell us
May 12. Dr. Phillip Levin, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle. Injecting science into ecosystem-based management
May 15. Dr. Peter Macreadie, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Life on the edge of seagrass fragments: the stomach rules the mind