Seminars and Thesis Defenses ( 2004)

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).

July - 2004

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	14	Milton Love University of California, Santa Barbara FoMLML Community Seminar - "Tons O’Fun in the Little Yellow Submarine: What We Have Learned About Fishes and Oil Platforms in Southern and Central California" Place:MLML Seminar Room, 7pm

September - 2004

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	3	Shaun Wilson School for Field Studies Small bodied detrivorous fish: implications for coral reef trophodynamics. Place:MLML Seminar Room, 3:30pm.
	8	Aroon Melwani MLML Benthic Lab Community Patterns in Hydrothermally Influenced Sediments: An Infaunal Perspective Place:Seminar Room,12pm
	10	Larry Breaker MLML What's Happening in Monterey Bay on seasonal to interdecadal time scales? Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	17	Tomoharu Eguchi NMFS The B word in animal abundance estimation for line-transect sampling. Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	21	Joe Sisneros University of Washington Steroid-dependent plasticity of auditory tuning in the Plainfin Midshipman fish: getting in tune for the summer Place:MLML Seminar Room, NOON

October - 2004

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	1	Erik Sotka Hopkins Marine Station/Stanford University Genetic and geographic variation in the ecology of nearshore marine invertebrates. Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	4	Jennifer Fisher MLML Invertebrate Zoology Lab MLML THESIS DEFENSE -- Larval dynamics of brachyuran crabs in a glacial fjord: a tale of two species Place:MLML Seminar Room, NOON
	4	Michael Donnellan MLML Phycology Lab MLML THESIS DEFENSE -- Spatial and temporal patterns of kelp canopies in central California Place:MLML Seminar Room, 5pm.
	8	Don Strong UC Davis The ecological and evolutionary misadventures of non-native Spartina in Pacific estuaries. Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	15	Rebecca Fisher UCSC/NMFS NOTE:: CANCELLED Place:MLML Seminar Room
	21	Hannahrose Nevins Bird and Mammal Lab Student MLML THESIS DEFENSE: Diet, Demography, and Diving Behavior of the Common Murre in central California Place:Seminar Room,4:30 PM
	22	Sarah Cohen SFSU Effects of contamination on an estuarine fish: evolved changes at specific loci. Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm
	27	Robert Feldman SymBio Corp Metagenomics of an extreme deep sea symbiosis Place:MLML Seminar Room,Noon
	29	Myra Finkelstein UC Santa Cruz Using seabirds to understand regional trends and impacts of marine Place:MLML Seminar Room,4PM

November - 2004

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	5	John Warrick USGS River Plumes - Dispersal of Mud, Nutrients, and Other Stuff into the Coastal Ocean Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	10	Dr. Ivano Aiello Adjunct Professor, Geological Oceanography Lab The Monterey Formation of California: A Gelogical Record of Past and Future Climate Changes Right at your Doorstep Place:Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Seminar Room, 8272 Moss Landing Rd., Moss Landing, CA, ,7 - 9pm
	12	NO SEMINAR Place:
	19	Liane Guild NASA Ames Clues ot Coral Reef Health: Radiative Transfer Modeling and Spectra Analyses Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm
	26	NO SEMINAR -- THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY Place:

December - 2004

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	3	Mike Beck The Nature Conservancy The Nature Conservancy Place:MLML Seminar Room 4pm.
	10	Janet Tilden MLML THESIS DEFENSE - Marine Geology Lab Marine Geology and Potential Adult Rockfish Habitat of the Southwestern San Juan Islands, WA Place:MLML Seminar Room, NOON

Seminars at other institutions: