Date

Speaker and Title

Host

January 16

Dr. Larry Mayer, Professor, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine, “Light and Particulate Organic Matter: The Deconstruction Side of the Equation.”

Fei Chai

January 23

Don Perkins, President, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, “Strategic Research in the Gulf of Maine Through Cooperation and Competition.”

Pete Jumars/Andy Pershing

January 30

Dr. Kevin Aheam, UMaine at Machias, “Judging a Fish By Its Cover: Can MSC Certification & Labeling Improve Marine Conservation?”

Jim Wilson

February 6

Dr. Mark Borsuk,  Assistant Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College, “Exploring Causes of Shellfish Toxicity in the Gulf of Maine Using Bayesian Pattern Recognition.”

Andy Thomas

February 13

Dr. Ben Twinning, Sr. Research Scientist, Bigelow Labs, “Examining the Role of Plankton in Ocean Biogeochemistry, One Cell at a Time.”

Fei Chai

February 20

Dr. Gary Saunders, Professor, Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton, “Molecular Methods Expose Morphological Mayhem Among Marine Macroalgae.”

Susan Brawley

February 27

Dr. Deirdre Byrne, Research Assistant Professor, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine, “The Warm-water Route: Indian-Atlantic Interocean Transport Measured During ASTTEX.”

Neal Pettigrew

March 6

SPRING BREAK  --  NO SEMINAR

March 13

SPRING BREAK  -- NO SEMINAR

March 20

Dr. Constanza Ocampo-Rae, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UMaine “The Waterless Realms of the Human Seascape.”

Fei Chai or Jim ?

March 27

Dr. Brad Siebel, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, “Extreme Animals in an Extreme Environment: Diel Vertical Migration of the Jumbo Squid Dosidicus Gigas, in an Oxygen Minimum Zone.”

Bruce Sidell

April 3

Dr. Erik Chapman, University of New Hampshire, “The Effect of a Warming Climate on Adélie Penguin (Pygoscelis Adeliae) Foraging Behavior and Chick Growth Off the Western Antarctic Peninsula: A Modeling Study.”

Andy Pershing

April 10

Dr. Mike Dadswell, Professor, Acadia University, “The Good News and the Bad: The Role of Minas Basin, Bay of Fundy in the Aggregation of Coastal Migrant Fishes and the Continuing Threat of Tidal Power Development.”

Gayle Zydlewski

April 17

SEMINAR CANCELED

April 24

**Dr. Paul Falkowski, Board of Governors, Professor of Marine & Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Inst. Of Marine Marine & Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, “The Once and Future Oceans.”

Graduate Students

(Nathan Rebuck)

May 1

Dr. Doug Campbell, Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, Mount Allison University, “Photosynthesis in a Variable Ocean; Illuminating Niche Partitioning Among Phytoplankton.”

Susan Brawley

Date

Speaker and Title

Host

September 5

Dr. MaryJane Perry, Professor, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine,

“A New Way to Study Carbon Flux in the Ocean: Early Results From Autonomous Studies of the 2008 North Atlantic Spring Bloom.”

Andrew Pershing

September 12

Dr. Sam Hanes, Rutgers University, “A History of Oyster Aquaculture, 1878-1917: Scientists’ Role in Progressive Era Conservation.”

Sara Lindsay

September 19

Dr. Laurenz Thomsen, Professor of Geosciences, Jacobs University, Bremen Germany, “The Importance of Submarine Canyons for the Transfer of Labile Organic Carbon to the Deep Sea.”

Pete Jumars

September 26

Dr. Nancy Denslow, Professor, University of Florida, “The Fathead Minnow as a Model for the Action of Estrogens and Androgens in the Environment.”

Becky Van Beneden

October 3

 TBA

October 10

Dr. Gary Burr, Research Geneticist,  National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center, USDA, Franklin, ME, “Effects of Prebiotics on Growth Performance, Nutrient Utilization and the Gastrointestinal Tract Microbial Community of Hybrid Striped Bass (Morone Chrysops x M. Saxatilis) and Red Drum (Sciaenops Ocellatus)”

Susan Brawley

October 17

**Dr. Keith Cooper, Professor of Toxicology, Rutgers University, “Impacts of Legacy and Emerging Contaminants on Coastal Aquatic Ecosystems.”

Adria Elskus

October 24

Dr. Mark Fast, Professor of Marine Disease & Pathology Research SUNY Stony Brook

October 31

Dr. Graham Sherwood, Research Scientist in Demersal Ecology, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME, “Can Foodweb/Ecotype Considerations Help to Explain the State of Cod in the Northwest Atlantic?”

Andrew Pershing

November 7

Dr. Dvora Hart, Operational Research Analyst,  NOAA Fisheries, “When do Marine Reserves Increase Fishery Yields?”

Danielle Brzezinski

November 14

Dr. Catherine Schmitt, Communications Coordinator, UMaine Sea Grant, “Communicating Science to the Rest of the World: Lessons From the Field.”

Andrew Pershing

November 21

Dr. Phil Yund, Director, University of New England  Marine Science Education and Research Center, “Sex in the Sea: Is Fertilization in Sea Urchins Limited by Sperm Availability?”

Susan Brawley

November 28

Thanksgiving break, no seminar

December 5

Dr. Joe Salisbury, Research Assistant Professor Ocean Process Analysis Lab, UNH, “What Causes the Interannual Variability in Surface CO2 dynamics in the Western Gulf of Maine?”

December 12

Dr. Moira Brown, Aquarium Scientist, New England Aquarium, Science Based Conservation: Moving Ships in Atlantic Canadian Waters to Protect Right Whales.”

Andrew Pershing

December 19

Final exam week, no seminar

Date

Speaker and Title

Host

January 18

Dr. Ian Bricknell, Professor, School of Marine Sciences, “Finding Sea Lice in the Sea.”

Pete Jumars

January 25

Dr. Andrew Thomas, Professor of Oceanography, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine "Time and Space Patterns of Alexandrium-Induced Toxicity Along the Maine Coast."

Susan Brawley

February 1

Dr. Hwan Su Yoon, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences,   

“Plastid evolution in chlorophyll c-containing algae and Paulinella"

Susan Brawley

February 8

Dr. Edward P. Laine, Bowdoin College, “Using Service Learning to Deliver Problem-Based Learning in Undergraduate Oceanography Courses: Engaging Non Science Majors.”

Collin Roesler

February 15

Dr. Sue Elston, Post-Doc Research Associate, Nat’l Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, “Event Exploration And Characterization Using Data From The Gulf Of Maine Observing Network.”

Ryan Weatherbee

February 22

Dr. Lew Incze, Bioscience Research Institute, “Internal Waves, Euphausiid Patches and Surface Feeding Predators on Platts Bank, Gulf of Maine.”

David Townsend

February 29

Dr. Santosh Lall, Biochemist, Nat’l Research Council in Canada, “Nutrition and Reproduction in Fish.”

Linda Kling

March 7

SPRING BREAK

March 14

SPRING BREAK

March 21

Dr. Charles Tilburg, University of New England, “Larval Transport”

Paul Rawson

March 24 ***

Dr. Les Kaufmann, Boston Univ., Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, "The Emperor's New Wet Suit:  Marine Science in Conservation and Ecosystem-Based Management"

Wildlife/SMS

March 28

Dr. Mark Wells, Professor of Oceanography, UMaine, “The Limits on Carbon Sequestration from Natural Iron Fertilization”

Larry Mayer

April 4

Dr. Nancy Denslow, College of Veterinary Sciences, Univ. of Florida, “Changes in gene expression in fathead minnows exposed to a model estrogen, androgen or to their antagonists.”

Becky Van Beneden

April 11

Dr. Oscar Schofield, Marine Biology and Ocean Optics, Rutgers Univ.

Emmanuel Boss

April 18

Dr. Dick Feeley, Earth Science Research Laboratory, Dept. of Commerce, “Ocean Acidification: the Other CO2  Problem.”

Fei Chai

April 25

***Dr. Ken Dunton, Dept. of Marine Sciences, Univ. of Texas at Austin, “The Ecology of Arctic Estuaries in a Changing Climate: the Critical Linkages to Watersheds.”

Susan Brawley/ Bob Vadas

May 2

Dr. Gayle Zydlewski, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine,

“Penobscot River, Penobscot Bay: State of the Watershed.”

Jim McCleave

Date

Speaker and Title

Host

September 7

Dr. Malcolm Shick, Professor, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine, “Where Corals Lie.”

Susan Brawley

September 14

Dr. Walker Smith, Professor of Marine Sciences, VIMS College of William and Mary, “Primary Productivity of the Southern Ocean: From Species to Satellites.”

Fei Chai

September 21

**Dr. Nancy Baron, Science Research Director for SeaWeb/COMPASS, NCEAS, Univ. of California in Santa Barbara(UCSB),

Robert Steneck

September 28

Dr. Kevin Stokesbury, Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of Fisheries Oceanography, UMass at Dartmouth, “Astonishment, Stupefaction, and a Naturalist's Selectivity Approach to Ecosystem Studies.”

Yong Chen

October 5

Dr. Nicholas Brown, Operations Manager, UMaine Franklin Center, “New Candidates for Marine Aquaculture in Maine.”

Susan Brawley

October 12

Dr. Di  Jin, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI)  “Two Issues in Marine Resource Management in the Gulf of Maine: Red Tide and Offshore Aquaculture.”

Fei Chai

October 19

Dr. Richard Barber, Harvey W. Smith Professor Emeritus of Biological Oceanography, Marine Science & Conservation, Earth & Ocean Sciences, Duke University, “Environmental Prediction: Worthless or Priceless.”

Fei Chai

October 26

Dr. D. Whitney King, Miselis Professor of Chemistry, Colby College, “Free Radicals in the Ocean and New Methods for Detecting Antioxidants.”

Eric Roy

November 2

Dr. Brenda Hall, Assistant Professor, Climate Change Institute, UMaine, “Reconstructing Seal Populations and Sea-Ice Patterns Using Abandoned Southern Elephant Seal Colonies.”

Susan Brawley

November 9

Dr. Mary Rumpho, Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMMB), UMaine, “Photosynthetic Sea Slugs: From Aquaculture to Horizontal Gene Transfer.”

Susan Brawley

November 16

Dr. Yong Chen, Professor of Marine Sciences, UMaine, “An Assessment of American Lobster Stock in the Gulf of Maine.”

Jim Acheson

November 23

Thanksgiving break, no seminar

November 30

Dr. W. Brian Dade, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, “Understanding Mass Transfer at the Sediment-Water Interface.”

Pete Jumars

December 7

Dr. Thierry Chopin, Biology Dept., Univ. of New Brunswick, “Towards Better Environmental, Economic and Social Management Practices: The Development of Integrated Multi-Trophic Aaquaculture (IMTA) in the Bay of Fundy, Canada?”

Susan Brawley

December 14

Dr. Edward P. Laine, Bowdoin College, “Using Service Learning to Deliver Problem-Based Learning in Undergraduate Oceanography Courses: Engaging Non Science Majors.”

Collin Roesler

December 21

Final exam week, no seminar