Date

Speaker and Title

Host

September 4

Dr. Jim Wilson, Professor, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine,"Model Learning & Adaptation in Coupled Natural and Human Systems."

Adria Elskus

September 11

Dr. Beatrice Crona, Assistant Professor, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, & Dr. Tim Daw, Lecturer, School of Development Studies, Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, UK "Social-Ecological Linkages in Coastal Communities: Networks, Trade, and Responses to Changing Fisheries."

Robert Steneck

September 18

Dr. Annette Muttray, Research Associate, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, "The Role of Genetics in Leukemia: Bay Mussels as Models."

Becky Van Beneden

September 25

Dr. Frederick Maps, UM/GMRI, "Application of the Genetic Algorithm Tuning Procedure to the Development of an Individual-Based Model of Calanus finmarchicus Life Cycle."

Jeff Runge

October 2

Dr. Charles Trick, Professor, University of Western Ontario, "An Ecosystem Health Approach to Marine Coastal Developments: Dubai vs the Arabian Gulf."

Mark Wells

October 9

Dr. Rubao Ji, Assistant Scientist, Biology Dept., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, "Plankton in a Changing Climate: Gulf of Maine Case Study."

Mark Wells

October 16

Drs. Karen Alexander & William Leavenworth, University of New Hampshire, Gulf of Maine Cod Project "Nineteenth-century Cod Fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic."

October 23

Dr. Emmanuel Boss, Associate Professor, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine, "Some New Insights Into the Use of Optical Properties to Study the Workings of the Ocean."

Adria Elskus

October 30

Dr. John Kocik, NOAA Fisheries, "Ecology of Atlantic Salmon in Gulf of Maine Estuaries and Coastal Ecosystems of West Greenland."

Andy Pershing

November 6

Dr. David Conover, Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC)/SUNY, "The Spatial and Temporal Scales of Adaptive Divergence in the Ocean: Do Fishery Harvests Cause Evolutionary Changes?"

Adria Elskus

November 13

Dr. Jon Grabowski, Research Scientist, Gulf of Marine Research Institute (GMRI), "A 20-yr Perspective of Groundfish, Area Closures, and Lobsters in the Gulf of Maine."

Andrew Pershing

November 20

Dr. Michele Dionne, Wells NERR, "What's Fishy in Gulf of Maine Salt Marshes? Overview of Research on Fish Ecology in Marsh-Estuarine Ecosystems at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve."

Kristin Wilson

November 27

Thanksgiving break, no seminar

December 4

Dr. Dan Pendleton, Research Assistant, UM/GMRI Cornell/, "Models of North Atlantic Right Whale Habitat."

Andrew Pershing

December 11

TBA

December 19

Final exam week, no seminar