Seminars and Thesis Defenses ( 2006)

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 - 2006

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	30	Tiffini Brookens MLML Thesis Defense, Marine Birds & Mammals Lab Trace Element concentrations in the Pacifc harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsii, in central and northen California Place:Seminar Room, 4pm

February - 2006

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	3	Bernat Hereu MLML The role of trophic interactions between fishes, sea urchins and algae in the northwest Mediterranean rocky infralittoral Place:MLML Seminar Room, 3:30 pm
	10	Jeff Boore DOE Genome Institute Whole genome evolutionary analysis and the orgin of the vertebrates Place:MLML Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	17	Cara Wilson Southwest Fisheries Science Center : Late summer Chlorophyll blooms in the oligotrophic Pacific: What are their biological and physical forcings? Place:Seminar Room,3:30 pm
	24	Larry Breaker MLML Detecting regime shifts in the North pacific based on coastal sea surface temperature Place:MLML Seminar Room, 3:30pm

March - 2006

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	3	Diane Gifford-Gonzales UC Santa Cruz 8000 Years of Human History on Moss Landing Hill: Archaeological Findings and Ecological Questions Place:MLML Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	10	Bernie Tershey UC Santa Cruz Biodiversity conservation on islands Place:MLML Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	17	Zach Peery UC Berkeley Ecology and Conservation of Marbeled Murrelets Place:MLML Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	24	Max Boykoff UC Santa Cruz Anthropogenic Climate Change and United States Mass Media: Investigations at the Interface of Science and policy Place:MLML Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	24	Tom Kimball MLML Thesis Defense - Chemical Oceanography Lab Mercury methylation in sediments from Coastal and Sierra watersheds: Implications for methyl mercury mitigation in the San Francisco Bay-Delta Complex Place:MLML Seminar Room, Noon
	29	William Ober University of Virginia The Marine Environments of Galapagos and the Invertebrates that Inhabit them. Place:MLML Seminar Room, Noon
	31	- - - **SPRING BREAK - NO SEMINAR** Place:-

April - 2006

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	7	Jason Smith MLML Molecular Mysteries - Domoic Acid Production in the diatom genus Pseudonitzschia Place:MLML Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	14	Michael O'Donnell MSI, UC Santa Barbara Hydrodynamics and habitats on wave-swept rocky shores Place:MLML Semainr Room, 3:30 pm
	21	Craig McClain MBARI The Island Rule and the Evolution of Body Size in the Deep Sea Place:MLML Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	25	Kristen Rasmussen MLML Thesis Defense - Bird, Mammal & Turtle Lab Comparison of two distinct humpback whale populations off Pacific Central America Place:MLML Seminar Room, 4pm
	28	Paul Dayton Scripps Institution of Oceanography The loss of nature and the nature of the loss: A sense of place, biophilia, and the importance of education Place:MLML Seminar Room, 3:30pm

May - 2006

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	5	Larry Riley CSU Fresno Growth in the Tilapia: Investigating the Roles of Sex and Ghrelin Place:MLML Seminar Room, 3:30pm
	10	Slattery Peter MLML Restoration of the California Coast: Landscaping in a Sustainable Way Place:Seminar Room, 7:00 PM
	12	Phil Levin - Baby Steps to Ecosystem-based Management of the California Current Place:MLML Seminar Room, 3:30 pm
	12	Pam Parker Vertebrate Lab Maternal Attendance and Pupping Site Fidelity of Steller sea lions in the Northern Gulf of Alaska Place:Seminar room,12:00 pm
	15	Ivano Aiello Geological Oceanographer Candidate Seminar From Milankovich to El Nino, Rocks, Faults and Deep Biota: the history of past climates is sleeping with the fishes at the bottom of Monterey Bay Place:Seminar Room, 4pm
	19	Katherine Farnsworth Geological Oceanographer Candidate Seminar Spatial and Temporal Variability of Fluvial Sediment Discharge to the Ocean: Global and Regional Perspectives Place:Seminar Room, 4pm
	22	Bruce Finney Geological Oceanographer Candidate Seminar Paleoceanographic perspectives on climate-ocean-ecosystem linkages in the Northeast Pacific Place:Seminar Room, 4pm
	24	Thomas Naehr Geological Oceanographer Candidate Seminar Seeps, Salt, and Hydrocarbons - The Discovery of Asphalt Volcanism on the Campeche Escarpment, Southern Gulf of Mexico Place:Seminar Room, 4pm
	26	Silke Severmann Geological Oceanographer Candidate Seminar The Fe isotope proxy in oceanography...a tool without a problem? Place:Seminar Room, 4pm

July - 2006

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	12	Rick Starr MLML Adjunct Faculty & Advisor New Marine Reserves in Centeral CA? Place:MLML Seminar Room, 7pm

September - 2006

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	1	Anne Salomon UCSB Synergistic serial depletion leads the decline of a keystone grazer and the alteration of a coastal ecosystem Place:Seminar Room, 4:00 pm
	1	Aaron Carlisle MLML Thesis Defense - Ichthyology Lab Movements and Habitat Use of Female Leopard Sharks in Elkhorn Slough, CA Place:Seminar Room, NOON
	8	Dave Siegel UCSB Flow, Fish and Fishing Place:WET CLASSROOM (214), 4:00 pm
	15	Heather Robinson MLML Thesis Defense - Ichthyology Lab Food Habits of the longnose skate, Raja rhina (Jordan and Gilbert, 1880), in central California waters Place:Seminar Room, 4:00 pm
	22	Mike O'Farrell NMFS Including space in fisheries management: progress and future challenges Place:Seminar Room, 4:00 pm
	29	Ellen Hines MLML/SFSU Research and conservation issues for dugongs in Cambodia and Vietnam Place:Seminar Room, 4:00 pm

October - 2006

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	6	Peter Wiess UCSC Identification and quantification of mercury source regions from year-long observations at a mountain-top site in the free troposphere Place:Seminar Room, 4:00 pm
	13	Jon Stern SFSU Lévy Flights: Optimal Search in Minke Whales Place:Seminar Room, 4:00 pm
	20	Alexandria Boehm Stanford Blue Crush: Science and Policy of Beach Pollution Place:Seminar Room, 4:00 pm
	20	Laura Bodensteiner MLML Thesis Defense - Environmental Biotechnology Lab The impact of light availablilty on benthic oxygen release by the seagrasses Thalassia testudinum and Zostera marina Place:Seminar Room, NOON
	26	John Moir Friends of MLML Public Seminar Return of the Condor Place:Seminar Room, 7pm
	27	Steven Ramp Naval Postgraduate School First results from the Adaptive Sampling and Prediction Experiment (ASAP) in the Monterey Bay Place:Seminar Room, 4:00 pm
	27	Allison Meyers MLML Thesis Defense - Chemical OCeanography Lab A multi-proxy paleoclimatic reconstruction of Monterey Bay, CA during the past 32,000 years Place:Seminar Room, NOON

November - 2006

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	2	Vince Christian MLML Thesis Defense - Phycology Lab The flora and fauna of boulders in a kelp forest: Description and variation with boulder size Place:Seminar Room, 4pm
	3	Frank Cipriano SFSU Tools of the trade: advances in technology for "field" molecular genetic analysis Place:Seminar Room, 4:00 pm
	3	Gala Wagner MLML Thesis Defense - Biological Oceanography Lab Effects of entrainment and thermal increase on bacteria and phytoplankton in the Moss Landing Power Plant Place:Seminar Room, NOON
	8	Steve Webster Retired Senior Marine Biologist - Monterey Bay Aquarium Hot Times on Coral Reefs Place:Seminar Room, 7pm
	10	- - **NO SEMINAR** Place:
	17	Wil Burns Santa Clara University Law School The current status of the International Whaling Commission Place:Seminar Room, 4:00 pm
	24	- - - **THANKSGIVING - NO SEMINAR** Place:-

December - 2006

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	1	Diana Steller MLML Rolling reefs to shifting sands: the role of coralline algae in subtropical ecosystems Place:Seminar Room, 4:00 pm
	6	Eddie Grannis MLML Thesis Defense - Ichthyology Lab Long-term variability in the distribution, abundance, and taxonomic composition of larval fishes in Elkhorn Slough, California Place:Seminar Room, NOON
	8	Alejandro Buschmann Univ. de los Lagos, Chile Ecology and cultivation of Macrocystis in Chile: An ecosystemic foundation for sustainable aquaculture development Place:Seminar Room, 4:00 pm
	8	Bridget Watts MLML Thesis Defense - Bird, Mammal, & Turtle Lab Respiratory Patterns and Calculated Aerobic Dive Limits of Gray Whale Calves Place:Seminar Room, NOON
	11	Luke Beatman MLML Thesis Defense - Physical Oceanography Lab Design and Performance of the Moss Landing Marine Labs COOPS Sun Photometer Place:Seminar Room, 4pm.

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