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Oceanography hosts weekly seminars during Fall and Spring Semesters featuring presentations by faculty and special lecturers. The seminars are held on Mondays at 4 p.m. in Eller O&M Room 112 unless otherwise indicated.

Spring 2008

For information about seminars, contact: Dr. Bryant
Date Speaker Title Division
2.4.2008 Peter Clift The Marine Stratigraphic Record of Evolving Cenozoic Asian Monsoon and Orogenesis University of Aberdeen
2.11.2008 Thomas S. Bianchi Hypoxia on the Louisiana Shelf: A Tale of Muddy Waters and Politics Texas A&M
2.18.2008 Arne Winguth Millenia Scale Interactions between Marine Carbon Cycle and the Climate University of Texas at Arlington
2.25.2008 Lixin Wu Global Warming, Themohaline Circulation and High-Low Latitudinal Teleconnections Ocean University of China
3.3.2008 Adam Klaus Long-Term Sub-Seafloor Obervatories
(aka CORKS)
IODP
3.10.2008 SPRING BREAK
3.17.2008 Dongliang Yuan Variability and Dynamics of the Kuroshio in the Luzon Strait
Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
3.24.2008 Patrick Louchouarn
Historical Reconstruction of Reduced O2 Levels in Deep Waters of Puget Sound:Biochemical and Physical Contraints on Hypoxia Conditions OCNG/Galveston
3.31.2008 Robert Aller Sedimentary Carbon Cycling, Incineration, and Burial in Tropical Oceania: The Gulf of Papua Deltaic COmplex
SUNY School of Atmospheric Sciences
4.7.20087 Ian McDonald Satellites, Sonar, and Seafloor Photographs: A Tripod APproach to Mapping Marine Hydrocarbon Seeps
TAMU CC Physical Life Science
4.14.2008 William R. Bryant The Permeability of Fine-Grained Marine Sediments Department of Oceanography, TAMU
4.21.2008 Richard J. Behl Using Active Tectonics to Extend the Amazing Santa Barbara Basin Record a Million Years Further Back in Time California State University Long Beach
4.28.2008 Wen-An Chiou From Nanometers to Kilometers: The Application of Transmission Electron Microscopy in Oceanography Maryland Nanocenter, University of Maryland

Fall 2007

Date Speaker Title Division
8.27.07 Bryant Orientation Ocean
9.03.07 Chang Oceanic Control of Abrupt Changes in the African Monsoon: Evidence from the Past and Implications for Future Climate Change
CONFIRMED
 
9.10.07 Mitch Lyle A Tectonic-Climate Connection? The Eocene-Oligocene Boundary and the Glaciation of Antarctica
CONFIRMED
OCNG
9.17.07 Robin Brinkmeyer Diversity of Bacterial Communities in Arctic versus Antarctic Sea Ice: A Tale of Two Poles
CONFIRMED
Galveston
9.24.07 Leslie C. Bender The Effects of Mobile Scatterers on Horizontal ADCP Current Speeds
CONFIRMED
GERG
10.01.07 Peter Hitchcock Mardi Gras Shipwreck Project Ocean
10.08.07 Larry Mayer Burial of Organic Matter in Marine Sediments: How, Where and When Univ of Maine
10.15.07 Ann Oliver Cheek Biological Impacts of Hypoxia on Estuarine Fish
CONFIRMED
UT Health Sci Center
10.22.07 Cedric John North American Continental Margin Records of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Implications for Global Carbon and Hydrological Cycling
CONFIRMED
IODP
10.29.07 Mary Feeley ExxonMobil's Energy Outlook
CONFIRMED
Exxonmobil
11.05.07 Carlos Alvare-Zarikian Glacial-Interglacial Variations in Ostracod Assemblage Composition at IODP Site U1314 in the North Atlantic
CONFIRMED
IODP
11.12.07
4 p.m.
John D. Kessler Oceanic Methane Clathrate Hydrates and their Response to Climate Change
CONFIRMED
Princeton
Dept. of
Geosciences
11.19.07 Kusali Gamage Fluid Flow and Pore Pressure Generation in Accretionary complexes
CONFIRMED
IODP