Seminars and Thesis Defenses ( 2007)

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).

August - 2007

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	31	Leslee Parr Visiting Scientist from SJSU Casting a wide net: The phylogeography of manatees, dugongs, Dungeness crab and burrowing shrimp...implications for conservation. Place:Seminar Room

September - 2007

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	7	Josh Mackie MLML Changes in direction of selection: Battery powered-evolution in fresh water worms. Place:Seminar Room
	14	Simona Bartl MLML Our efforts to enhance science teaching and inspire future scientists. Place:Seminar Room
	21	Bob Vrijenhoek MBARI Bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males Place:Seminar Room
	28	Cleber Ouverney SJSU The ecophysiology of marine prokaryotes. Place:Seminar Room

October - 2007

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	5	Allen Andrews MLML Radioactivity and the age of deep-sea fishes and corals Place:Seminar Room
	12	Erika McPhee-Shaw MLML Internal waves and the movement of sediment on continental margins. Place:Seminar Room
	19	John Ryan MBARI A redtide incubator in the shadow of Monterey Bay, Ca Place:Seminar Room
	26	Bill Gilly Hopkins Horizontal and vertical migrations of the Jumbo Squid, Dosidicus gigas Place:Seminar Room

November - 2007

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	2	Dan Costa UCSC Foraging strategies of seabirds & marine mammals: Physiological constraints to behavior. Place:Seminar Room
	9	Miles McPhee McPhee Research The role of polar oceans in climate variability: Vanishing perennial sea ice in the Arctic and deep convection in the Southern Ocean Place:Seminar Room
	16	Anthony D'Andrea OSU Burrowing shrimp as geochemical ecosystem engineers in Pacific Northwest estuaries. Place:Seminar Room
	23	Holiday No Seminar, Thanksgiving (Campus closed) Place:MLML
	30	R. Bruce MacFarlane NOAA SW Fisheries Growth and energy dynamics of juvenile Chinook salmon. Place:Seminar Room

December - 2007

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	7	Barbara Block Hopkins Sushi and satellites: Ecological physiology and population structure of Bluefin tuna in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Place:Seminar Room
	13	Holly Lopez MLML Geological Oceanography Characterizing Sedimentary Bedforms as Habitat for Fishes and Invertebrates in the San Juan Archipelago, Washington, USA and the Georgia Basin, British Columbia. Place:Seminar Room, 4pm - 5pm
	17	Lee Murai MLML Thesis Defense-Geological Oceanography Lab Continental Shelf Geomorphology and Trans-Terrestrial Landslide Potential along the Big Sur Coast of California Place:Seminar Room, 4 pm to 5pm
	18	Diana Kohtio MLML Thesis Defense - Phycology Population Biology of the Invasive Kelp Undaria pinnatifida in Central California. Place:Seminar Room, 12:00 pm to 1pm
	21	Lonny Lundsten MLML Thesis Defense - Invertebrate Zoology Lab The Biogeography and Distribution of Megafauna at three California Seamounts. Place:Seminar Room, 11am - 12pm

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