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OCEAN SCIENCES DEPARTMENT SEMINAR SERIES

Wednesdays 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Earth & Marine Sciences Bldg. A340

(unless otherwise stated)

SPRING  2008 — Seminar Coordinator: ANDY MOORE     ammoore at (@) ucsc.edu

Schedule is subject to change ...


Wednesday
April 2

"Improving ecosystem model predictions: what works and what doesn't"
Dr. Jerome Fiechter
UC Santa Cruz

Note:  Special Day/ Special Time/Place
Tuesday, April 8
Nat Sci Annex, Rm 101
at 4:00 PM

Joint Seminar with Whole Earth Seminar
Refreshments:  Dreiss Lobby (1st floor A wing E&MS Bldg.) at 3:30 PM

"Pore Pressure, Sedimentation, and Submarine  Landslides (click here for Abstract)
Peter Flemings               http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/staff/flemings/
JOI Distinguished Lecturer, University of Texas, Austin

Wednesday
April 9

"Sailing with Style: An Energy Scavenging Autonomous Ocean Vessel"
Gabe Elkaim          
Engineering
UC Santa Cruz              

Wednesday
April 16

"Application of a data assimilation method to improve the description of the California Current System"
Gregoire Broquet
Ocean Sciences
UC Santa Cruz 

Wednesday
April 23

No Ocean Sciences Seminar Today
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Wednesday
April 30

No Ocean Sciences Seminar Today
ACADEMIC SENATE MEETING

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Wednesday
May 7

Graduate student presentations:

"At-sea mortality of Monterey Bay seabirds"
Kelly Newton

"Describing picocyanobacterial diversity, distributions and potential ecotypes based upon the assimilatory nitrate reduction gene, narB."
Ryan Paerl

"Oceanographic Influences on the seasonal distribution of loggerhead sea turtles off Baja California, Mexico"
Dana Wingfield

Wednesday
May 14

"The abundance, distribution, and metabolic interactions of diazotrophs in the Gulf of Guinea and beyond"
Rachel Foster                      
UC Santa Cruz

Wednesday
May 21

"The coastal algal toxin /domoic acid/: also present in oceanic ecosystems"
Mary Silver                       
UC Santa Cruz

Wednesday
May 28

"Modeling Microbial Populations at Station ALOHA and Along the California Coast"
Nicole Goebel                      
UC Santa Cruz

Wednesday
June 4, 2008

OCEAN SCIENCES END-OF-THE-YEAR CELEBRATION
For Students, Faculty, Staff and Friends


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