UMaine School of Marine Sciences
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Welcome
SMS Seminar Series
Spring 2013
Fridays at 11:15 a.m. in 354 Aubert Hall
Date |
Speaker and Title |
Host |
January 18 |
Dr. Jeff Runge, Professor in Marine Sciences at UMaine & Gulf of Maine Research Institute, “Climate change and the Gulf of Maine pelagic ecosystem: whither Calanus and how will we know?”
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Andrew Pershing |
January 25 |
Dr. Phil Yund, Sr. Scientist, Downeast Institute, “Across-shelf mixing, larval transport, and the range boundary of Mytilus trossulus.” |
Pete Jumars |
February 1 |
Steve Eayrs, Research Scientist, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, “Having cake and eating it too: Applying an Environmental Management System to improve profitability and reduce environmental impact in the NE ground fish fishery.” |
Andrew Pershing |
February 8 |
John Kocik, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, “Maine’s Atlantic Salmon at Sea: Lessons from Tagging, Trawling, and Tracking.” |
Gayle Zydlewski |
February 15 |
Dr. Bruce Bourque, Chief Archaeologist & Curator of Ethnography, Maine State Museum, “Swordfish Hunters: The Social Factors That Drove Fishing Patterns in Prehistoric Maine.” |
Warren Riess |
February 22 |
Dr. Stuart Goldberg, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, “From the Open Ocean to Washington, DC: Experiences of a Marine Biogeochemist and Ocean Acidification Science Policy Fellow.” |
Fei Chai |
March 1 |
Beth Orcutt, Sr. Research Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory, “Buried Alive: Life Beneath the Seafloor.” |
Ivona Cetinic |
March 8 |
SPRING BREAK -- NO SEMINAR |
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March 15 |
SPRING BREAK -- NO SEMINAR |
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| March 22 | Dr. Victoria Braithwaite, Professor of Fisheries and Biology, Pennsylvania State University, “Do Fish Feel Pain and Does It Matter?” | Ian Bricknell |
| March 29 | Dr. Jamie Pringle, Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire, “What’s Physics Got to Do With It? The Evolution of Retention, the Dynamics of Biogeographic Boundaries, and Larval Dispersal in an Ocean With Currents.” | Andrew Pershing |
April 5 |
Dr. Huijie Xue, Professor of Oceanography, Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, “Tidal Energy Resource Assessment: Considering Feedbacks From Energy Extraction by MHK Devices to Hydrodynamics.” |
Gayle Zydlewski |
April 12 |
Dr. Jeremy Jackson, Professor of Oceanography, Scripps Institution, “Is There Hope for Caribbean Coral Reefs?” |
Bob Steneck |
April 19 |
Dr. Peter Thomas, Professor, University of Texas-Austin, “Widespread Endocrine Disruption and Reproductive Impairment in Atlantic Croaker the Northern Gulf of Mexico.” |
Damian Brady |
April 26 |
Dr. Steven Lohrenz, Dean of School for Marine Science and Technology, Univ. of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, “Land-Ocean Exchanges and Implications for Optics and Biogeochemistry of the Large River-Influenced Northern Gulf of Mexico Coastal Margin.” |
Mary Jane Perry |
| May 3 | David Ralston, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, “Estuarine Sediment Transport During Extreme Discharge Events.” | Stacy Knapp |
For more information, contact Teresa Johnson teresa.johnson@maine.edu or Gayle Zydlewski gayle.zydlewski@umit.maine.edu |
SMS Seminar Series
Fall 2012
Fridays at 11:15 a.m. in 354 Aubert Hall
Date |
Speaker and Title |
Host |
September 7 |
Sigrid Lehuta, Post-Doc at Gulf of Maine Research Institute, “Resolving Complexity Through interdisciplinary Modeling: The Herring and Lobster Fisheries in the Gulf of Maine.” |
Andrew Pershing |
September 14 |
Dr. Patrick Martin, WHOI, “Polyphosphate and phospholipids in Marine Microbial Phosphorus Physiology.” |
Mary Jane Perry |
September 21 |
Dr. David Secor, Univ. of Maryland, “Life Cycle Portfolios in Coastal Fishes.” |
Gayle Zydlewski |
September 28 |
Dr. Rick Murray, Boston University, “Martin’s Fe Hypothesis at Age 25, Back to the Future and Back Again for Fe, Productivity, Carbon Drawdown, and Climate.” |
Fei Chai |
October 5 |
Dr. Carrie Byron, Post-Doc GMRI, “Environmental Variability on Migration and Survival of Post-smolt Atlantic Salmon.” |
Andrew Pershing |
October 12 |
OPEN |
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October 19 |
Dr. Jenny Sun, GMRI, “Combining Markets Analysis to Enhance Sustainability and Viability of Fisheries.” |
Andrew Pershing |
October 26 |
Dr. Geoff Jones, James Cook University, “Closing the Generation Gap: Parentage Analysis Unlocks Secrets of Larval Fish Dispersal on Coral Reefs.” |
Robert Steneck |
November 2 |
NO SEMINAR -- SMS RETREAT at DMC |
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| November 9 | Dr. Mark Bertness, Brown University, "TBA" | SMS Grad Students |
| November 16 | Dr. Catherine West, UMaine Climate Change, "Alaska's Prehistoric Fisheries: Human Responses to Resource Abundance and Climate Change." | Fei Chai |
November 23 |
THANKSGIVING BREAK, NO SEMINAR |
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November 30 |
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Teresa Johnson |
December 7 |
Dr. Barry Costa-Piece, University of New Hampshire, “Ecological Aquaculture: The Evolution of the Blue Revolution.” |
Ian Bricknell |
December 14 |
Dr. Flaxen Conway, Oregon State University, “The Peopled Seascape: Using Social Science to Plan and Understand Marine Use.” |
Teresa Johnson |
For more information, contact Teresa Johnson teresa.johnson@maine.edu or Gayle Zydlewski gayle.zydlewski@umit.maine.edu |
SMS Seminar Series
Spring 2012
Fridays at 11:00 a.m. in 354 Aubert Hall
Date |
Speaker and Title |
Host |
January 13 |
Dr. Jasmine Saros, Climate Change Institute and School of Biology & Ecology, UMaine, “Reconstructing Thermal Stratification from Diatom Fossils: Examples from Lake Ecosystems.” |
Lee Karp-Boss |
January 20 |
Ted Ames, Stonington, Maine, “Alewives, Dams, and Local Populations of Gadids: Their Relationship During the 1920s.” | Jim Wilson |
January 27 |
David Newman, National Cancer Institute, “The Marine Environment: Source of Novel Drugs for Humans?” |
Emily Lyczkowski & Stacy Knapp |
February 3 |
Zhong-Ping Lee, Dept. of Environmental, Earth & Ocean Sciences, UMass, “Products From Ocean Color Remote Sensing and Its Spatial Interpretation.” | Emmanuel Boss |
February 10 |
Nicholas Record, SMS, "Linking Copepod Biodiversity Patterns to Ecological First Principles." |
Andy Pershing |
February 17 |
Aurora Ellmore, Marine Science Center, University of New England, "Ventilation of the Interior Southern Ocean - from a Benthic Foraminiferal 13C Transect Since the Last Glacial Maximum." |
Joe Kelly |
February 24 |
Dr. Susan Brawley, SMS, University of Maine, "Science and Commerce from the Porphyra Genome Project to the Porphyra Farm (and Your Stomach)" |
David Townsend |
March 2 |
SPRING BREAK -- NO SEMINAR |
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March 9 |
SPRING BREAK -- NO SEMINAR |
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March 16 |
Dr. Sarah Barker, SMS, "Delving Into the Amazing World of Two Economically Important Parasitic Copepods: Lepeophtheirus salmonis (salmon louse) & Lernaeocera Branchialis!" |
Ian Bricknell |
March 23 |
Dr. Cynthia Riginos, University of Queensland,"Reproductive Strategies of Reef Fishes Predict Both Within-species Genetic Differentiation and Within-family Species Richness." |
Paul Rawson |
March 28 |
***Dr. James Estes, Univ. of California – Santa Cruz, “The Aleutian Archipelago: Understand Carnivory From Patterns of Variation in Space and Time” |
Bob Steneck |
March 30 |
Dr. Walter Adey, Smithsonian Institute, “Seaweeds as Climate Archives in the Arctic and Subarctic.” |
Susan Brawley |
April 6 |
Dr. Peter Jumars, SMS, "Boundary trapping of siphon flows: The pipe entrance problem revisited." |
Andy Thomas
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April 13 |
Dr. Øyvind Fiksen, University of Bergen, "The Annual Routines of Fish and Plankton." |
Jeff Runge |
| April 20 | Dr. Willie Wilson, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, "A War We Need." | Susan Brawley |
| April 27 | Madeleine Hall-Arber, Sea Grant, MIT, "A Web of Stakeholders." | Teresa Johnson |
For additional information, contact the seminar organizers:
Mary Jane Perry <perrymj@maine.edu> or Teresa Johnson <teresa.johnson@umit.maine.edu>
*** SPECIAL SEMINAR - Different Day of Week
SMS Seminar Series
Fall 2011
Fridays at 11:00 a.m. in 354 Aubert Hall
Date |
Speaker and Title |
Host |
September 2 |
NO SEMINAR - LABOR DAY WEEKEND |
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September 9 |
Mr. Artur Palacz, Ph.D. Candidate Defense, SMS UMaine, "Controlling Mechanisms in Nutrient Dynamics and Biological Productivity in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean." |
Fei Chai |
September 16 |
Dr. Sara Barker, Post-Doc of SMS, "TBA" |
Ian Bricknell |
September 23 |
Dr. Richard Karsten, Acadia University, "Tidal Energy Resource Assessment in the Bay of Fundy." |
Huijie Xue |
September 30 |
Dr. Kenneth Denman, Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Univ. of Victoria, "How Will Marine Ecosystems Adapt to the Future Ocean?" |
Mary Jane Perry |
October 7 |
Sebastian Belle, Director, Maine Aquaculture Association, "TBA" |
Ian Bricknell |
October 14 |
Dr. Virginia Weis, Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University, "The Regulation of Cnidarian-dinoflagellate Symbioses: In Sickness and in Health." |
Mary Rumpho, MMA co-host |
October 21 |
Dr. Victoria Braitwaite, Penn State University, "TBA" |
Ian Bricknell |
October 28 |
Dr. Amala Mahadevan, Professor of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), "TBA" |
Mary Jane Perry |
November 4 |
Dr. Katherine Mills, Post-Doc., Gulf of Maine Research Institute & SMS, "TBA" |
Andy Pershing |
November 11 |
Dr. Michael Fogarty, Ecosystem Assessment Program of NE Fisheries Center (NOAA), "TBA" |
Yong Chen & Jim Wilson |
November 18 |
Dr. James Fleming, Professor and Director of Science Technology and Society, Colby College, "TBA" |
Fei Chai |
November 25 |
NO SEMINAR -- THANKSGIVING BREAK |
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December 2 |
Dr. Aleck Wang, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, "TBA" |
Mary Jane Perry |
December 9 |
Dr. James McCleave, Professor Emeritus of SMS, "Anguillid Eels: The Quintessential Catadromous Fishes? And Other Migratory Eel Tales." |
Teresa Johnson |
For additional information, contact the seminar organizers:
Mary Jane Perry <perrymj@maine.edu> or Teresa Johnson <teresa.johnson@umit.maine.edu>
SMS Seminar Series
Spring 2011
Fridays at 11:00 a.m. in 354 Aubert Hall
Date |
Speaker and Title |
Host |
January 14 |
Dr. L. Mahadevan, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University |
Pete Jumars |
January 21 |
Dr. Paul K. Dayton, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, |
Malcolm Shick |
January 28 |
Dr. Yi Chao, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, “Ocean observing, forecasting and energy harvesting.” |
Fei Chai |
February 4 |
Dr. Mick Follows, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT, “Modeling diverse populations of nitrogen fixers in the ocean.” |
Andrew Pershing |
February 11 |
Dr. Bonnie McCay, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University, “Clams in a Jam: a socio-ecological perspective on Atlantic surfclams.” |
Teresa Johnson |
February 18 |
Drs. Nuri ÇELI˙K and Murat TOPLU, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Turkey, “Turkish Fisheries: General overview, legal instruments, fisheries administration and resource management.” |
Yong Chen |
February 25 |
Dr. Lilibeth Miranda, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, “Intragenomic rDNA polymorphism (IRP) can lead to overestimation of species/population diversity in Alexandrium tamarense/fundyense/catenella complex.” |
Susan Brawley |
March 4 |
SPRING BREAK -- NO SEMINAR |
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March 11 |
SPRING BREAK -- NO SEMINAR |
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March 18 |
Dr. Alan Critchley, Acadian Sea Plants, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, “Sustainable Management of a Marine Resource by Acadian Seaplants, Ltd.” |
Paul Anderson |
March 25 |
Dr. Michael L. Jones, Quantitative Fisheries Center, Michigan State University, “Making good decisions in an uncertain world: the risky business of fishery management.” |
Yong Chen |
April 1 |
Annual Speaker Invited by Graduate Students: Dr. Victor Smetacek, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany, “Combining evolutionary and ecological approaches to make sense of pelagic ecosystems from phytoplankton to whales.” |
Nathan Briggs |
April 8 |
Dr. Stefan Helmreich, Anthropology Program, MIT, “Alien Ocean: Life at Sea.” |
Malcolm Shick |
April 15 |
Dr. Annette deCharon, School of Marine Sciences and Darling Marine Center, University of Maine, “Deconstructing and sharing your complex science.” |
Mary Jane Perry |
April 22 |
****Dr. Samantha [Mandy] Joye, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, “Undersea impacts of the BP Blowout: plumes of oil and dissolved gas and sedimented oil along the seafloor alter the ocean system.” |
Susan Brawley |
April 29
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Dr. Karen Kidd, Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, “Is the birth control pill an effective form of contraception for wild fish?”
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Rebecca Van Beneden
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**** Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium, Room 165 (formally Barrows Hall) at 11:00 a.m.
For additional information, contact the seminar organizers:
Mary Jane Perry <perrymj@maine.edu>, Rebecca Van Beneden <rebeccav@maine.edu>
SMS Seminar Series
Fall 2010
Fridays at 11:00 a.m. in 354 Aubert Hall
Date |
Speaker and Title |
Host |
September 3 |
LABOR DAY WEEKEND - NO SEMINAR |
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September 10 |
Dr. Andrew Levings, Commercial Fisherman & Visiting Research Scientist, Deakin University School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Australia, “Australian Fishermen Participate in Research to Create a Sustainable Giant Crab Fishery.” |
Rick Wahle |
September 17 |
Dr. Joseph Kelley, Department of Earth Sciences, Chair, UMaine, “Terrestrial landscapes (with evidence of people) preserved beneath the Gulf of Maine.” |
Becky Van Beneden |
September 24 |
Dr. Randy Olson will be on campus to present seminars and films – NO SMS seminar this week |
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October 1 |
Dr. Steve Cadrin , Department of Fisheries Oceanography, UMass-Dartmouth –SMAST, “Fisheries Science and Management: victims of our own success?” |
Jim Wilson & Yong Chen |
October 8 |
Dr. Nick Makris, Director of the Laboratory for Undersea Remote Sensing , MIT, “Rapid Formation of Vast Oceanic Fish Shoals Observed Using Ocean Acoustic.” |
Pete Jumars |
October 15 |
Dr. Heather Deese, Island Institute, “Environmental Challenges of Offshore Wind Energy: Current Understanding and Ongoing Studies." | Pete Jumars |
October 22 |
Dr. Charles Mazel, Physical Sciences Inc., Andover, MA, “Fluorescence of Corals and Other Marine Organisms: What it Means to Them and to Us.” |
Warren Riess |
October 29 |
Dr. Walt Golet, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, "Somatic Condition, Growth and Distribution of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the Gulf of Maine." |
Andrew Pershing |
November 5 |
Dr. Graham Shimmield, Executive Director, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, “The Impact of Oil Exploration and Production on the Ocean: Lessons from the North Sea.” |
Mary Jane Perry |
November 12 |
Dr. Peter Countway, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, “Microbial Eukaryotes at deep-sea hydrothermal vents: Diving into their diversity, activity and ecosystem function.” |
Ivona Cetinic |
November 19 |
Dr. Fei Chai, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine “Development and Issues of Climate Intervention Technologies.” |
Becky Van Beneden |
November 26 |
THANKSGIVING BREAK, NO SEMINAR |
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December 3 |
Dr. Marcel Babin, Université Laval, “Trend in pan-Arctic production of phytoplankton biomass, Université Laval and Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche." |
Emmanuel Boss |
| December 10 | Dr. James Pierson, University of Maryland, “From Individuals to Ecosystems: Zooplankton
behavior and trophic
dynamics at disparate scales, Horn Point Laboratory University of Maryland Center." |
Jeff Runge |
For more information, contact
Mary Jane Perry <perrymj@maine.edu> or Becky Van Beneden <rebeccav@maine.edu>
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