Fall 2006 seminar series

Date	Speaker	From	Title
09/07	Dr. Richard Barber	Duke University	Impact of Pacific Climate Variability on Ocean Circulation, Marine Ecosystems and Living Resources: A Multi-Scale Modeling and Data Assimilation Approach to Forecasting.
09/14	Dr. Pete Strutton	Oregon State University	Primary productivity and air-sea CO2 fluxes in equatorial and coastal upwelling systems.
09/21	Dr. Rik Wanninkhof	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory	Improving estimates of global air-sea CO2 fluxes
09/28	Dr. Mak Saito	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	The Interactions Between the Marine Biogeochemical Cycles of Cobalt and Vitamin B12
10/05	Dr. Rachel Noble	University of North Carolina	The use of Quantitative PCR for model development and management of coastal and estuarine waters
10/12	Dr. Craig McNeil	University of Rhode Island	Observations of Air-Sea Gas Fluxes during a Hurricane
10/19	Dr. Robert Andersen	Columbia University	Control of Glacial-Interglacial CO2 Variability by the Ocean's Biological Pump and by Shelf-Basin Fractionation
10/26	Dr. Wei-Jun Cai	University of Georgia	Cancelled
*10/31	Dr. Faradeh Jalilehva	University of Calgary	A New Battle for Historical Shipwrecks!
11/02	Dr. Alex Isern	National Science Foundation	The Ocean Observatories Initiative: Wiring the Ocean for Interactive Scientific Discovery
11/09	Dr. Ricardo Letelier	Oregon State University	Cancelled
11/16	Dr. Steve Ackleson	Office of Naval Research	Small-Scale Observations of Suspended Sediment Concentration and Size Distribution in the Connecticut River Plume and Adjacent Long Island Sound
11/23	Thanksgiving	No seminar
11/30	Dr. Karen E. Fisher Favret	Los Alamos National Lab	Plankton patchiness, internal waves, and how the simple quest to    separate biological and physical contributions to high frequency acoustic backscatter leads to new insight about physical/biological interactions
12/07	Dr. Bess Ward	Princeton University	Seasonal Variation in Phytoplankton Community Composition and Gene Expression Evaluated Using Functional Gene Microarrays
*12/08	Dr Ian MacLeod	Western Australian Maritime Museum	Cape Hatteras to Pearl Harbour: Saving America's iron shipwreck heritage
* Joint Physics/OEAS seminars

Light refreshments are served in the Interaction Area (4th floor of the Oceanography/Physics Building) at 4:00 p.m.

All seminars begin at 3:00 p.m. and are held in room 200 of the Oceanography/Physics building.