January 23
Adrienne Sutton, (NOAA), "Ocean Issues in the 110th Congress and Why Washington Needs More Scientists", host, T. Fisher  

January 30

February 6
Whitley Saumweber, (NOAA-National Estuarine Research Reserve Program), "The National Estuarine Research Reserve observations pipeline: Improving coastal management with assessments, capability, and delivery", host, J. Pierson

February 8 (TGIF seminar, AREL)
Bill Ball, (Johns Hopkins University), "Putting pumps in pretty places with poor people -- Making a difference, one community at a time", host, M. Kemp

February 13
Brian Bradley, (UMBC), "Environmental proteomics: it started with copepods", host, D. Kimmel

February 20
John Jacobs, (NOAA-Cooperative Oxford Laboratory), "COL's Ecosystem Health Assessment: A multivariate approach linking source to resource", host, B. Crump

February 27
Lora Harris, (UMCES/CBL), "Applying fundamental laws to estuarine ecosystems", host, D. Kimmel

March 5
No Seminars ~ Ocean Sciences Meetings

March 12
Alexander Bochdansky, (Old Dominion University), "Basin-scale distribution of eukaryotic microbes in the deep sea", host, D. Kimmel

March 19
No Seminars ~ Spring Break

March 26
Tim Targett, (University of Delaware), "Ecophysiological and behavioral responses of young fishes to hypoxia: a laboratory and field journey examining impacts on estuarine nursery habitat quality", host, E. North

April 2
Meng Zhou, (University of Massachusetts, Boston) "What we can learn from size spectra of plankton in oceans", host, D. Kimmel

April 9
Charles Stock, (Princeton University) "A mechanistic model for the biomass spectrum in aquatic ecosystems", host, D. Kimmel

April 15 (Note ~ this is on a Tuesday at 11:00)
Russell Hill, (Center of Marine Biotechnology), "Bacterial symbionts of marine sponges: Diversity, roles and biotechnological potential", host, J. O' Neil

April 16
Debbie Steinberg, (Virginia Institute of Marine Science), "Zooplankton and sinking particle dynamics in the ocean's 'twilight zone' ", host, D. Kimmel

April 23
Debbie Shafer, (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center), "Large-scale submerged aquatic vegetation restoration in the Chesapeake Bay: 2003-2006", host, E. Koch

April 25 (Note ~ this is on a Friday at 11:00)
Daniel Conley, (Lund University, Sweden), "Hypoxia in the Baltic Sea: is engineering the solution?", host, M. Kemp

April 30
Sophia Fox, (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole) "Relative role of bottom-up and top-down controls on macrophyte and consumer community structure in temperate estuaries", host, M. Roman

May 2 (Note ~ this is on a Friday at 11:00)
Rebecca Bell, (Maryland Department of Education), "Science education and environmental issues investigations: using a nationally recognized environmental curriculum model to improve environmental literacy - connections to UMCES Science and the MD voluntary state curriculum", Trudi L. Volk (Center for Instruction, Staff Development and Evaluation), Harold R. Hungerford, (Center for Instruction, Staff Development and Evaluation), host, D. Stotts

May 5 (Note this is a Monday at 11:00)
Laurie Van Heukelem, (UMCES/HPL) and Stan Hooker (NASA/GSFC), "HPLC uncertainties: A case study for establishing guidelines and review procedures for essential climate data record analyses", host, T. Fisher

May 7
Todd Lookingbill, (UMCES/AL), "It's a small world: connectivity and conservation", host, V. Coles

May 14
No Seminars ~ UMCES FACULTY CONVOCATION - CBL

May 21
Howard Townsend, (NOAA-Chesapeake Bay Office), "Multi-species and ecosystem models for fisheries Management", host, D. Kimmel

May 28
Brady Olson, (University of South Florida), "Exploring Irigoien's phytoplankton 'loophole' hypothesis with data", host, J. Pierson

June 4
Sarah Kolesar, (UMCES/CBL), "The effects of low oxygen on food web interactions between ctenophores and larval fish in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem ", host, C. Palinkas