Fall 2008 IMCS Seminar Series

Philip Alampi Auditorium

Marine and Coastal Sciences Building
71 Dudley Road, (corner of College Farm and Dudley Rd)
on Rutgers Cook Campus in New Brunswick
Refreshment will be served

If you wish to schedule a meeting with the seminar speakers, please contact the seminar series organizers, Donglai Gong at 732-887-3514, or Robert Sherrell at 732-932-6555 x 252.

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Monday at 3:45 PM. Refreshment will be served beginning at 3:30 PM. Watch the seminars online during the scheduled time using Quicktime Player or RealPlayer.

Date Speaker/Affliation Seminar Title
September 8 Andrew Revkin
New York Times
The Hot Seat: Making Sense of Climate Change, from the North Pole to the White House
September 15 Kim Cobb
Georgia Tech
Coral records of climate change: the last millennium to the last decades
September 22 Dove Guo, Xinzhong Zhang
Student Talks
1) The Effect of Meteorological Forcing on the Hudson River Flow
2) The numerical simulation of tides and tidal currents in the Jiaozhou Bay and adjacent waters
September 29 Gillian Lewis
University of Auckland
Bacterial Population Diversity and the Microbial Foodweb: Human development means everything is no longer everywhere
October 6 Mak Saito
WHOI
Cobalt and Vitamin B12 Biogeochemistry: a Comparison Between Marine Environments
October 13 Monica Bricelj
Rutgers University
Are picoplanktonic algal blooms a factor in controlling the hard clam fishery? From feeding mechanics to population modeling
October 20 Doug Martinson
Columbia University
The role of ocean heat in the dramatic climate change on the Antarctic Peninsula
October 27 Naomi Fleming, Nicole Abdul
Student Talks
A 3-D Climatology of the Mid-Atlantic Bight
TBA
November 3 Tim Shank
WHOI
Connectivity and Conservation of Cold-Water Coral Communitites Inhabiting Seamounts of the North Atlantic
November 10 Jack Barth
Oregon State University
Upwelling-Driven Shelf Hypoxia off the Oregon Coast
November 17 Elizabeth North
University of Maryland
Investigating interactions between physical conditions and larval ecology
December 1 Ron Errico
U. of Maryland GEST
The Changing Culture of Atmospheric Science
December 8 TBA
TBA

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