Seminars and Thesis Defenses ( 2005)

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 - 2005

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	12	John O Sullivan Curator of Field Operations - Monterey Bay Aquarium The Great White Shark Project at the Monterey Bay Aquarium: The First Three Years Place:MLML Seminar Room, 7:00 PM RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED Please call Friends of MLML at (831) 771-4100 to RSVP
	28	Brian Wells NMFS Santa Cruz Modeling and the relationship between growth of Pacific salmon and the environment Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm

February - 2005

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	4	George Divokey U. Alaska, Fairbanks Climate Change and Arctic Seabirds Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	9	Ravi Vaidyanathan Assistant Professor NPS Introduction to Biologically Inspired Engineering Systems in Robotics and Autonomous Systems Place:MLML Seminar Room,4:00 pm
	11	Zbiginiew Kolber MBARI Fluorescence Technology and Aerobic Anoxygenic Photosynthesis in the Upper Ocean Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4 pm.
	18	Andres Aguilar UCSC Molecular evolution of the salmonid MHC: Short and long-term processes Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm
	25	Leslee Parr SJSU Phylogeny and Conservation of Manatees and Dugongs Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.

March - 2005

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	2	Johnathan Trent NASA A NASA scientist Place:MLML Seminar Room, NOON.
	4	Bill Shaw Naval Postgraduate School The role of the upper ocean in the thermodynamics of Arctic Ocean ice cover Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	9	Andrea Woolfolk, Eric Van Dyke, Dr. Rikk Kvitek Elkhorn Slough Foundation. CSUMB A Glimpse Into the Past and Below the Surface of Elkhorn Slough Tidal Habitats Place:MLML Seminar Room, 7:00 PM RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED Please call Friends of MLML at (831) 771-4100 to RSVP
	11	CANCELLED Place:
	16	Cristina Linares Phycology Lab guest Demography and Conservation of the Mediterranean Gorgonian (Paramuricea clavata) Place:Wet Classroom (214),12 pm (noon)
	18	Jonna Engel NMFS, Channel Isl. Natl. Marine Sanctuary Population Genetic Structure of the Mussel, Mytilus californianus: Influence of the Pleistocene, Biogeography, and Micro-evolutionary processes Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	21	Andrew Thurber MLML Thesis Defense - Benthic Lab Fatty acids and stable isotopes in Antarctic sponges: Diet analysis of gutless animals Place:MLML Seminar Room, 2pm.
	23	Dominique Didier Daget Go Fish! "Hooked" on Chimaeras - An Ichthyologists "tail" Place:MLML Seminar Room, NOON
	23	Stori Oates MLML Thesis Defense - Bird, Mammal & Turtle Lab Survival, movements, and diet of juvenile harbor seals along central California Place:Seminar room,2:00 pm
	25	Josh Pederson NMFS, Monterey Bay Natl. Marine Sanctuary The Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN) Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.

April - 2005

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	1	NO SEMINAR -- SPRING BREAK Place:
	8	Rick Starr MLML, SeaGrant Predictability of Nassau Grouper (Epinephelus striatus) Movements Related to Spawning - Implications for Conservation of an Over-fished Species Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.
	14	Wade Smith MLML Thesis Defense - Ichthyology Lab Life history and population dynamics of a commercially exploited stingray, Dasyatis dipteura Place:Seminar Room, 4pm
	15	John Largier UCD - Bodega Marine Lab Bays and upwelling areas Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm
	21	Brooke Flammang MLML Thesis Defense - Ichthyology Lab Distribution and reproductive ecology of deep-sea catsharks (Chondrichthyes: Scyliorhinidae) of the eastern North Pacific Place:Seminar Room,4pm
	22	Lou Zeidberg MBARI California Market Squid, Loligo opalescens, fishery and early life history, and the trophic structure of midwater organisms as revealed by stable isotope ratio analysis Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm
	26	Louise Brooks MLML Thesis Defense - Bird, Mammal & Turtle Lab Foraging ecology of East Pacific green turtle (Chelonia mydas) in Mexico Place:Seminar Room, 4pm.
	29	Matt Reidenbach UCB Mixing and mass transport processes in coral reefs Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm

May - 2005

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	6	Carl Hager NPS Whales and Acoustics Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm
	6	Matt Levey MLML Thesis Defense - Ichthyology Lab Patterns of reef fish distribution and abundance among select locations in the Gulf of California Place:MLML Seminar Room, NOON
	9	Christy Schnitzler MLML Thesis Defense - Invertebrate Lab Discovery, cloning and analysis of novel fluorescent proteins from various color morphs of Corynactis californica Place:Seminar room,4 pm
	11	Elizabeth Phillips MLML Thesis Defense - Vertebrate Ecology Lab Results of a captive feeding study with the Pacific harbor seal: Implications for scat analysis Place:Seminar Room, 2pm
	13	Cheryl Baduini Claremont Colleges Geographic Structure Among Sooty Shearwater Populations from the Eastern and Western Pacific Ocean Using Mitochondrial DNA Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.

June - 2005

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	27	Jeff Field MLML Thesis Defense - Ichthyology Lab Small-scale analyses of subtidal fish assemblages and associated habitat characteristics off central California Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.

August - 2005

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	18	Rob Leaf MLML Thesis Defense - Ichthyology Lab Survivorship, Demography, and Growth of the red abalone, Haliotis rufescens, in northern California Place:MLML Seminar Room - NOON
	24	Matt Huber MLML Thesis Defense - Biological Oceanography Lab CO2 effects on marine phytoplankton: Inhibition of photosynthetic processes Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm
	25	Timothy Schaadt MLML Thesis Defense - Phycology Lab Patterns and causes in the variation of cover, biomass, and total abundance of Ulva spp. in Elkhorn Slough, CA Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm.

September - 2005

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	2	Barbara Bekins USGS The Influence of Hydrogeology on Microbial Activity in the Subsurface Place:Seminar Room, 3:30pm.
	6	Tonatiuh Trejo MLML Thesis Defense - Ichthyology Lab Global phylogeography of thresher sharks (Alopias spp.) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences Place:Seminar Room, 4pm.
	8	Colleena Perez MLML Thesis Defense Age, growth and reproduction of the sandpaper skate, Bathyraja kincaidii Place:Seminar Room, 4pm
	9	Lita Proctor G. and B. Moore Foundation Why Marine Bacteria? And Why Now? Place:Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	14	Michael Graham MLML Diversity Benefits from the Bottom Up: How Seaweeds Structure Rocky Shores Place:Seminar Room, 7pm
	16	Robyn Stoddard Gulland Laboratory, UCD Northern Elephant Seals as a Potential Sentinel and Source of Fecal Bacteria in the Marine Environment Place:Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	22	Daniele Ardizzone MLML Thesis Defense - Ichthyology Lab Application of Bomb Radiocarbon Chronologies to Shortfin Mako (Isurus oxyrichus) Age Validation Place:Seminar Room, NOON
	23	Matt Bracken UCD, Bodega Marine Lab Causes and consequences of changes in macroalgal diversity Place:Seminar Room, 3:30pm.
	27	Joe Bizzarro MLML Thesis Defense - Ichthyology Lab Fishery biology and feeding ecology of a ray assemblage in Bahia Almejas (Baja California Sur, Mexico) Place:Seminar Room, 4pm
	30	Gage Dayton MLML Factors influencing the distribution of desert amphibians: landscape, pools, competitors, and predators Place:Seminar Room, 3:30pm.

October - 2005

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	7	George Watters NMFS, Monterey TBA Place:Seminar Room, 3:30pm.
	10	Samuel Hulme MLML Thesis Defense - Geological Oceanography Lab Sepentine Mud Volcanoes: Windows into the Upper Mantle and Subduction Recycling Place:Seminar Room, 4pm.
	14	Kevin Lafferty UCSB Ecology of Parasites in Marine Systems Place:Seminar Room, 3:30pm.
	21	Jon Erlandson University of Oregon Archaeology as Historical Ecology on California's Channel Islands: 10,000 years of human impacts on a marine ecosystem Place:Seminar Room, 3:30pm.
	26	Jodi Brewster MLML Thesis Defense - Evolution of Iron Enriched Waters during the Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiment Place:Seminar Room - 2:30pm
	28	Leslie Rosenfeld Naval Postgraduate School Tidal currents in Monterey Bay Place:Seminar Room, 3:30pm

November - 2005

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	4	Susan Chivers SWFSC TBA Place:Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	9	Mark Shelley Executive Director - Sea Studios Foundation "Strange Days on Planet Earth" A National Geographic Series Place:MLML Seminar Room - 7 PM
	11	Mae Gustine "Are vegetation and soils sources or sinks for atmospheric Hg?" Place:Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	18	- - CANCELLED - NO SEMINAR Place:MLML Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	22	William Watson MLML Thesis Defense - Physical Oceanography Lab Elkhorn Slough Tidal Observations and Predictions Place:Seminar Room, 4pm
	25	- - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY - NO SEMINAR Place:

December - 2005

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	2	John Field UC Santa Cruz "Spatial and temporal variability in rockfish recruitment in the California Current" Place:Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	9	Joe Needoba MBARI Implementation of an Aquatic Sensor Network to Study the Biogeochemistry of Elkhorn Slough Place:Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	14	Eric Sandoval MLML Thesis Defense, Geological Oceanography Lab Topographic Complexity and Benthic Community Variability Within a Kelp Forest in Monterey Bay, CA Place:Seminar room,4:00

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