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  Department of Marine Science | Seminar Schedule
Seminar Schedule

Each semester, the Department of Marine Science hosts seminars in Classroom 104, Building 1020 and in Classroom 101, Building 1022 at Stennis Space Center, from 11 a.m. to 12 noon. (Deviations from this time frame will be noted in bold on the schedule.) All are welcome. Please join us for coffee and cookies and a stimulating presentation. Off-site visitors to Stennis Space Center should contact Linda Downs in the Department of Marine Science at 228-688-3177 at least 24 hours prior to the seminar for security clearance to the installation. For more information, contact Dr. Charlotte Brunner.

A calendar of seminars is listed below.

Day Date Room/Time Speaker/Title Host Note(s)
UPCOMING SEMINARS
FRI 7/22/05 Building 1022, Classroom 101, 9-10 a.m. Ms. Vanessa Wright, thesis defense, "Seasonal dynamics of colored dissolved organic matter in the Mississippi River plume and the Northern Gulf of Mexico" Steve Lohrenz  
THU 7/21/05 Building 1022, Classroom 101, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Chuanmin Hu, Institute for Marine Remote Sensing, University of South Florida, "Coastal ocean color from space: A problem-driven approach" Stephan Howden  
WED 7/13/05 Building 1020, Classroom 104, 1-4 p.m. Workshop: "Prospects and Techniques for Eddy-Resolving Acoustic Tomography in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico." Jerry Caruthers  
MON 01/31/05 Building 1005, A-32 Conference Room, 10:30 a.m. Dr. Arnold L. Gordon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, "Characteristics of the Indonesia Throughflow" Harley Hurlburt  
RECENT SEMINARS
TUE 11/30/04 Building 1020, Classroom 104, 2-3 p.m. Sergey V. Vinogradov, dissertation defense on the topic, "Use of ocean acoustic tomographic observations in simulations of mesoscale oceanic circulation in the north Gulf of Mexico" Jerry Caruthers Dr. Caruthers is Mr. Vinogradov's faculty adviser.
THU 12/2/04 Building 1022, Classroom 101,
11 a.m. - noon		 Dr. Rebecca Green, Tulane Department of Earth and Environmental Science and LUMCON, "Scale closure in upper ocean optical properties: from single particles to ocean color" Charlotte Brunner  
THU 10/7/04 Building 1022, Classroom 101, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. Nadya T. Vinogradova, dissertation defense on the topic, "Instability of shelf-break fronts and cross-shelf exchange in the northern Gulf of Mexico" Dr. Dmitri Nechaev Dr. Nechaev is Ms. Vinogradova's faculty adviser.
FRI 10/15/04 Building 1022, Classroom 101, 11 a.m. to noon Ingrid Garcia-Hansen Honkala, Southern Miss Department of Marine Science, "Dynamics of Diatoms and Dinoflagellates in Tumaco Bay (Columbia) under the influence of Climatic Changes during the Period 1995-2001" Charlotte Brunner  
FRI 10/22/04 Building 1022, Classroom 101, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. Michael Vera, College of Science and Technology at Gulf Park, "Modeling the North Pacific Acoustic Laboratory (NPAL) Experiment" Charlotte Brunner  
FRI 10/29/04 Building 1022, Classroom 101, 11 a.m. - noon Hoon Hyun, USM Department of Marine Science and NRL, "Effect of Submarine Canyon Width on Across Shelf Exchange" Charlotte Brunner  
FRI 11/12/04 Building 1022, Classroom 101, 11 a.m. to noon Hugh MacIntyre, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, "Benthic-pelagic coupling and microalgal dynamics in shallow waters" Charlotte Brunner  
FRI 9/24/04 Building 1022, Classroom 101, 11 a.m. to noon David Ufnar, Department of Geology, Southern Miss, "Evidence for Increased Latent Heat Transport during the Cretaceous (Albian) Greenhouse Warming" Charlotte Brunner  
MON 9/20/04 Building 1020, Classroom 104, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Robin McCall, thesis defense, "The Importance of Seagrass Epiphytes in Big Lagoon, Florida, with Emphasis on the Diatoms (Bacillariophyceae)" Cynthia Moncrief  
FRI 9/10/04

Building 1022, Classroom 101, 11 a.m. to noon

 Robert H. Stavn, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina - Grennsboro, "Biogeo-optics: What drives the coastal ocean remote-sensing reflectance?" Charlotte Brunner  
MON 8/16/04

Building 1022
Classroom 101, 1-2 p.m.

 Ms. Xuemei Bai, doctoral candidate in biological oceanography in the Department of Marine Science, will defend her dissertation "Linkages Between Biochemical Fluxes and Migration Behavior in Populations of the Red Tide Dinoflagellate, Karenia Brevis." Dr. Steven Lohrenz Dr. Lohrenz is Ms. Bai's faculty adviser.