Seminars and Thesis Defenses ( 2008)

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 - 2008

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	25	Michael Parrish SJSU Triassic paleogeography, paleoecology, and the rise of the archosaurs. Place:Seminar Room

February - 2008

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	1	Johanna Rosman Stanford From salt spray and wetsuits to lasers and lab coats: Studying the effects of Giant Kelp on near-shore currents. Place:Seminar Room
	8	Pia Moisander UCSC Diversity and expression of nitrogen-fixing micro-organisms in estuarine and open ocean environments. Place:Seminar Room
	8	Cassandra Brooks MLML Thesis Defense-Ichthyology Lab Age validation and spatial distribution of the Antarctic toothfish, Dissostichus mawsoni: Implications for the most remote fishery on earth. Place:Seminar Room 2pm - 3pm
	15	Raphael Kudela UCSC How to make a red tide--and what happens when you do? Place:Seminar Room
	22	Stephanie Ploen Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa Skunks of the Sea? The composition and function of Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps) "ink." Place:Seminar Room
	29	Steve Lonhart NOAA Dynamics of marine geographic ranges: the role of characterization and monitoring programs. Place:Seminar Room

March - 2008

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	7	Karen Crow-Sanchez SFSU Recipes for diversity: How genomic conflict and genome organization contribute to biodiversity. Place:Seminar Room
	7	Braiana Brady MLML Thesis Defense-Ichthyology Lab Long-term changes in the size, sex, fecundity, and fishery of Loligo opulescens. Place:Seminar Room, 12pm - 1pm
	14	Mario Mota University of Florida Gainsville The impact of beach restoration on sea turtle incubation and hatchling physiology. Place:Seminar Room
	21	Andrew Fisher UCSC Quantifying stream seepage dynamics and impacts: methods and application to streams in the Pajaro Valley, coastal central California. Place:Seminar Room

April - 2008

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	4	David Lindberg UCB From the apex to the shoal: Why history matters Place:Seminar Room
	11	Corey Garza CSUMB A landscape based approach to testing dynamic models of benthic communities Place:Seminar Room
	18	Alan Zarembo L.A. Times Covering climate change (or how to get hate mail from everybody). Place:Seminar Room
	21	Kate Thomas MLML Thesis Defense - Vertebrate Ecology Lab Movement, dive behavior, and survivability of California Sea Lions (Zalophus Californianus) post-treatment for Domoic acid toxicosis. Place:Seminar Room 4pm -5pm
	25	Ted Dewitt EPA Hatfield Marine Science Center Burrowing shrimp as foundation species of Pacific estuarine ecosystem. Place:Seminar Room

May - 2008

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	2	Matt McCarthy Compound-specific amino acid isotope measurements as a new tool for tracing organic nitrogen in the sea. Place:Seminar Room
	5	Francois Cazenave MLML Thesis Defense - Physical Oceanography Lab Internal waves over the continental shelf in south Monterey Bay. Place:Seminar Room 1:30pm -2:30pm
	6	Christopher Scianni MLML Thesis Defense - Biological Oceanography Lab Oxygen-Based Validation of a New Dilution Protocol for Determining Microzooplankton Grazing Rates. Place:Seminar Room 12pm -1pm
	9	Brent Mishler Panel: Bay Area Biosystematicists. UC Berkeley From museums to molecules: is DNA sequence information helping to save the (natural) world? Place:Seminar Room
	9	Ana Pitchon California State University Dominguez Hills Adaptive Strategies to Transitions in Modern Fisheries: The Case of Chiloé, Chile. Place:Seminar Room 12pm -1pm
	15	Lauren Sassoubre MLML Thesis Defense - Chemical Oceanography Lab Biogeochemical Characteristics of Internal Wave Driven Sediment Resuspension in Monterey Bay: Implications for Global New Production. Place:Seminar Room 4pm -5pm

June - 2008

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	9	Lewis Barnett MLML Thesis Defense-Ichthyology Lab Life history, abundance, and distribution of the spotted ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei (Lay and Bennett, 1839). Place:Seminar Room 4pm -5pm

September - 2008

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	12	Aurora Alifano MLML Thesis Defense-Phycology Lab Effects of Algal Drift on Growth, Survival and Reproduction of Intertidal Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Populations in Central California. Place:Seminar Room 12pm - 1pm

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