Seminars and Thesis Defenses ( 2003)

The Seminar Schedule lists seminars and thesis defenses at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and Friends of MLML Community Seminars. MLML seminars are usually held on Fridays at 4:00pm while classes are in session (Sept. - May).

January - 2003

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	30	Jon Grabowski University of Maine at Orono, Darling Marine Center The influence of trophic interactions, habitat complexity, and landscape setting on community dynamics and restoration of oyster reefs. Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.

February - 2003

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	6	Clare Dominik MLML PHYCOLOGY LAB Dynamics of carbon allocation in a deep water population of the deciduous kelp, Pleurophycus gardneri (Laminariales). Place:MLML Seminar Room, Noon
	6	Tim Stanton Naval Postgraduate School Effects of internal solitons on the water column and bottom boundary layer over the continental shelf. Place:Seminar Room, 4pm.
	13	Ellen Hines San Francisco State University Dugongs in Thailand and Cambodia Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	20	Frank Schwing PFEL Regime Change in the North Pacific: Implications for Marine Ecosystems Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	25	Mark Hixon Oregon State University Mechanisms of demographic density dependence in marine fishes Place:Seminar room,4 pm
	27	Frances Michaelis NOAA United Nations Atlas of the Oceans: Catching NOAA Fisheries in the Net Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.

March - 2003

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	5	Jonathan Hagstrum USGS Infrasound and the Avian Navigational Map Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	10	Mary Yoklavich NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, SWFSC Expedition into the Deep: Counting Rockfishes in Their Own Backyard Place:MLML Seminar Room, 7pm.
	12	Todd O'Hara Univeristy of Alaska, Fairbanks Bowhead Whale Health & Physiology: Insights Via Contaminants and Life History Research Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	19	David Ainley & H. T. Harvey Evidence for top-down forcing in the Ross Sea food web Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	26	Krista Kamer MLML Primary production in aquatic systems: Nutrient effects and mitigating physical factors. Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.

April - 2003

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	9	Andrew Oliphant SFSU Micrometeorological measurements of ecosystem-atmosphere exchange of CO2, water vapor and energy Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	16	Ali Whitmer From Bust to Boom: The population dynamics and genetics of the intertidal kelp Postelsia palmaeformis. Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	22	Mary Livingston Ichthyology Lab From Hobbits to Hoki Place:MLML Seminar room,Noon
	23	Lisa White SFSU A new fossil cold seep locality in the Great Valley Group, Guenoc Ranch, Lake County, CA. Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	29	Josh Adams MLML - Bird, Mammal & Turtle Lab THESIS DEFENSE - "Foraging ecology and reproductive biology of Cassin’s Auklet in the Channel Islands" Place:MLML Semainr Room, 4pm.
	30	Matt Forrest MLML - Phycology Lab THESIS DEFENSE - The Geology, Geochemistry, and Ecology of a shallow water submarine hydrothermal vent in Bahia Concepcion, B.C.S., Mexico Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.

May - 2003

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	4	Jeff Paduan Physical Oceanography Candidate from Naval Postgraduate School “The Scale Factor: Monterey Bay Circulation from a Number of Perspectives” Place:MLML Seminar Room, NOON
	6	Shaun Johnston Physical Oceanography Candidate from Scripps, UCSD “Thin Layer Formation by Eddies of the Central California Coast” Place:MLML Seminar Room, NOON
	7	Lisa Balance NOAA "Frequent Fliers: Seabird Ecology in the Eastern Tropical Pacific" Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	12	Gustavo Hernandez-Carmona MLML "Kelp Forest Ecology" Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	12	Kevin Weng Hopkins Marine Station - Stanford University FoMLML Community Seminar - "Life Styles of White, Mako, Salmon and Blue Sharks in the North Pacific" Place:MLML Seminar Room, 7pm.
	13	Jessica Lacy Physical Oceanography Candidate from US Geological Survey, Santa Cruz "Complex bathymetry and estuarine hydrodynamics" Place:Semainar Room, Noon
	17	Margaret McManus Physical Oceanography Candidate from University of Hawaii “Coupling Biological and Physical Processes Across a Range of Scales in the Coastal Ocean” Place:MLML Seminar Room, NOON
	19	Dr. Judith Kildow CSUMB "The Environment and the Economy." Place:MLML ,6:30

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