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Faculty Seminars ~ Spring Series, 2010                                                                                Student Seminars
Seminars are on Wed. at 11:00am in the HPL auditorium unless otherwise specified.

January 27
Elizabeth North (UMCES/HPL), "Biological-Physical Interactions: From Processes to Prediction", host, Mike Roman

February 3
Brad Stevens (UMES),"The Rise and Fall of Kings: Hatch Timing, Climate Change, and Recruitment of Bering Sea King Crabs", host, Mike Roman

February 11* (Note, this ia a Thursday)
Roberta Hamme (Univ of Victoria), "Dissolved gases as tracers of water mass formation and transformation", host, Tom Fisher

February 17
Dennis Whigham (SERC), "Phragmites Invasion in Chesapeake Bay Tidal Wetlands -Old Story & New Paradigms", host, Court Stevenson

February 24
Andy Baldwin (UMCP), "Wetlands Across Estuarine Gradients: Controls on Plant Diversity and Response to Sea Level Changes", host, Court Stevenson

March 3
John Steele (WHOI), "Ecosystem Based Fishery Yields from Georges Bank", host, Mike Roman

March 10
Wayne L. Newell (USGS Reston), "Geological Framework of the Mid-Eastern Shore Region from Miocene into the Holocene Periods", host, Court Stevenson

March 24
Ken Staver, (UMD-WREC ), "Agriculture, Bio-fuels & Environment", host, Court Stevenson

April 1 (Thurs.)
Roberta Hamme, (Univ of Victoria), "Dissolved gases as tracers of water mass formation and transformation", host, Tom Fisher

April 7
Paulinus Chigbu (UMES), "Climate variability, fecal coliform bacteria dynamics, and shellfish management in Mississippi Sound", host, Vic Kennedy

April 14
UMCES faculty Convocation

April 21
Linda Blum (UVA) "Getting Below the Marsh Surface to Understand Response to Sea-Level Rise in Virginia Coastal Bays", host, Court Stevenson

April 28
Heidi M. Nepf (MIT),"Current Research in Aquatic Plant Canopies", host, Eva Koch

May 5
Marguerite Koch (FAU) "Climate Change Effects on Seagrass Stressors, Nutrient Cycling and Reproduction: A perfect storm in Florida Bay?", host, Court Stevenson

May 12
Mark Brush (VIMS) "Modeling through the macroscope: a tale of two lagoons and a potpourri of
estuaries", host, Mike Roman

May 17 (note this is a Monday and will be in AREL)
Craig Carlson, Ian Morris Scholar (UCSB) "Linking Variability of Bacterioplankton Lineages to Biogeochemical Patterns: Results from an Open Ocean Microbial Observatory", host, Judy O'Neil

May 26
Matt Fitzpatrick (UMCES/AL) "Promising > the future: how well can we forecast climate change impacts on > biodiversity?"", host, Mike Roman

June 2
Jack Greer (MD Sea Grant) "Jack will read  from  his new book “Abraham’s Bay and Other Stories”", host, Court Stevenson

June 9
Bill Boicourt (UMCES/HPL) "Classical Estuarine Circulation: on a dark and stormy night", host, Mike Roman