Spring 2012 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. Brent McKee (bamckee@email.unc.edu) with any questions. 

 January 18: Isaac Westfield, UNC Marine Sciences- Student Interdisciplinary Seminar

Ecology and Dynamics of Whale Falls: Large Carbon Inputs in and Otherwise Carbon Deficient World

January 25: No Seminar

February 1: Sungduk Yu, UNC Marine Sciences- Student Research Seminar

Particles settling through stratification and application to marine snow

February 8: Luke Dodd, UNC Marine Sciences- Student Research Seminar

Oyster-Mud Crab Ecology Under Ocean Acidification

February 15: Brian Connolly, UNC Marine Sciences- Student Interdisciplinary Seminar

The Permian Mass Extinction- When Life Almost Died

February 22: Ocean Sciences Meeting... No Seminar

February 29: Stefan Gary, Duke University

The Interior Pathway of the Deep Limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation 

March 14: Sara Coleman, UNC Marine Sciences- Student Interdisciplinary Seminar

Blue Carbon: What is it and Why Does it Matter?

March 21: Nicolas Cassar, Duke University

Multiple Constraints on Net Community Production and its Regulating Factors in the Southern Ocean

(THURSDAY) March 29: John Anderson, Rice University (Gussenhoven Lecturer)

Accelerated Sea-Level Rise and the Future of the Texas Coast

Time: 3:30-5pm

Room: Chapman 201

April 4: Luke Dodd, UNC Marine Sciences- Student Interdisciplinary Seminar

Feasibility of Wetland Restoration to Ameliorate Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia

April 11: Dan Hoer, UNC Marine Sciences- Student Research Seminar

Temporal Changes in Respiration and Nitrogen Cycling by the Dominant Coral Reef Sponge Xestospongia muta

April 18: Tingting Yang, UNC Marine Sciences- Student Research Seminar

Microbial Community Dynamics of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Room: 3204 Venable/Murray (3rd floor conference room)

(THURSDAY) April 19: Erika Young, UNC Marine Sciences- Student Research Seminar

Time: 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Room: 3204 Venable/Murray (3rd floor conference room)