
For many of the seminars listed below, we have obtained permission to post videos. They are linked for download where indicated in the usual fashion by colored highlighting.
School of Marine Sciences Seminar Series, Spring 2009
Except as noted with ‘**’, all seminars are in Room 354, Aubert Hall
at 11:10 am on Fridays. Refreshments are available at 10:55 am
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 |
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March 13 |
SPRING BREAK -- NO SEMINAR |
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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 |
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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 |
** Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium, Room 165 (Formally Barrows Hall) at 11:15 am
School of Marine Sciences Seminar Series, Fall 2008
Except as noted with ‘**’, all seminars are in Room 354, Aubert Hall
at 11:10 am on Fridays. Refreshments are available at 10:55 am
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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?” |
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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 |
** Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium, Room 165 (Formally Barrows Hall) at 11:15 am
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 |
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March 14 |
SPRING BREAK |
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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, |
Jim McCleave |
** 107 Norman Smith Hall – 11:00 – 12:30
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 |
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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 |
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