Jan 1	Jeff Ota, NASA Ames Research Center The conversion of Mars Pathfinder 3D imaging technologies for marine science
Jan 13	William Reeburgh, Ph.D., University of California Irvine Clathrate source for Black Sea Basin methane
Jan 15	Mike Rigsby and Lauralee Alben, Monterey Bay Aquarium Monterey Bay Aquarium E-Quarium overview
Jan 27	Jeff Ota and students: Chad Bulich, Jason Cook, Brad Perkins, Alana Laurence, Calvin Lwin, Aaron Weast, Trevor Wigle, Santa Clara University The Triton underwater ROV project
Jan 29	Bo Barker Jorgensen, Ph.D., Max Plank Institute at Bremen New microsensors and their use in marine research
Feb 3	Tierney Thys, Shape of Life The Shape of Life series
Feb 5	Steven K. Roberts, Nomadic Research Labs From BEHEMOTH to Microship- A Technomadic update
Feb 10	Nicole Crane, Monterey Peninsula College Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center
Feb 12	Christina De La Rocha, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Silicon isotope biogeochemistry- Diatoms and oceans, present and past
Feb 24	Shana Goffredi, Ph.D., Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute How to be the perfect host- The physiology of chemosynthetic invertebrate-bacterial associations
Feb 26	Peter Strutton, Ph.D., Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Biological-physical coupling in the equatorial Pacific during the 1997-1998 El Niño
Mar 3	Jill Pasteris, Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Geochemical analysis in a new Light- Applications of the laser Raman Microprobe
Mar 5	Russell Hopcroft, Ph.D., Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 3/5/99 Mesozooplankton studies in Monterey Bay- A tale of three projects
Mar 10	Steven Haddock, Ph.D., Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 3/10/00Bioluminescence in the deep sea
Mar 17	Brian Schlining, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Seasonal intrusions of equatorial waters in Monterey Bay
Mar 19	Thomas Chapin, Ph.D., Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Long-term in situ chemical analyzers-works in progress
Mar 24	Thomas Naehr, Ph.D., Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Gas hydrate decomposition and carbonate precipitation on the Carolina Continental
Mar 26	Grieg Steward, Ph.D., Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Viruses in the sea- Distribution, dynamics, and consequences
Mar 31	Tom Guilderson, Ph.D., West Coast: Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; East Coast: Harvard University Reconstructing ocean circulation using coral 14C time series
Apr 7	Jennifer Reynolds, Ph.D., Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Construction of submarine volcanic rift zones in Hawai`i
Apr 14	Alistair J. Hobday, Ph.D., Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory Faunal patterns and dispersal on kelp rafts in Southern California
Apr 16	Oscar Schofield, Rutgers University Adaptive sampling of upwelling eddies at the long-term ecosystem observatory—
Apr 21	John Ryan, Ph.D., Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Satellite remote sensing- A tool for biogeochemical insight
Apr 23	Donald Weston, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Assessing bioavailability of particle-associated pollutants by mimicry of digestive processes
Apr 28	Gerald L. Crow, Waikiki Aquarium, University of Hawaii Thyroid hyperplasia in elasmobranchs- Can it be a window to goiter in humans?
Apr 30	Sebastian Lippemeier, University of Kiel, GermanyPhytoplankton fluorescence- From ecophysiology to biotechnology
May 7	Thomas M. Powell, University of California, Berkeley Realistic ocean mixing and coastal upwelling in NPZ models
May 12	Thierry Tonnerre, Geological Survey of Japan Validation of the [TAMU]2 side-scan bathymetry compared to bathymetry along Shinkai 6500 tracks
May 26	Mark Denny, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University Ecology, evolution, and the mechanics of the wave-swept environment
Jun 4	Carolina Fayos, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Inter-annual variability of poleward oceanic currents off Monterey Bay
Jun 9	Mark V. Erdmann, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley New home for "old fourlegs"- The discovery of an Indonesian population of living coelacanths
Jun 11	Maria T. Maldonado-Pareja, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz Biologically-mediated increase of bioavailable Fe in the ocean
Jun 16	Michael L. Domeier, Ph.D., Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research PIERing into the future
Jun 25	Bonnie Carini, Ocean Drifters, Inc., Kealakekua, Hawaii Midwater creatures off the Kona coast of Hawaii—From plankton to whales
Jun 30	Stuart Sumida, Ph.D., California State University, San Bernardino Studying fishes- From Paleozoic paleontology to virtual reality
Jul 2	John O'Sullivan, Monterey Bay Aquarium Employee Conservation Action Fund
Jul 7	E. Dendy Sloan, Jr., Ph.D., Center for Hydrate Research, Colorado School of Mines Measuring hydrate thermodynamics and kinetics
Jul 14	Mario Tamburri, Ph.D., Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Chemical ecology of deep-sea animals- Searching for food in the dark
Jul 21	Lars Tomanek, Hopkins Marine Station Heat shock proteins, thermotolerance, and biogeography in intertidal Tegula snails
Jul 23	Liam Pedersen, Carnegie Mellon University Robotic rock classification and meteorite search
Jul 28	Vicente Cassano, UCLA-OBEE Shiner perch divergence and the phylogeny of the Embiotocidae
Aug 4	Ivars Peterson, Science News The Jungles of Randomness
Aug 6	Karleen Boyle, UCLA; Krista Boyle, UCLA Macroalgal bloom dynamics in a highly eutophic Southern California estuary
Aug 9	K.H. Schleifer, Ph.D., University Muenchen In situ detection and identification of bacteria prior to their cultivation
Aug 11	Kai Hinrichs, Ph.D., Woods Hole Oceanosgraphic Institution Identification of the microbial methane sink in anoxic marine sediments
Aug 18	Laura Hurley, Ph.D., University of Texas Bats on Prozac- Serotonin in the auditory system
Aug 20	Alan Butler, Ph.D., CSIRO Marine Research, Australia Pier pilings to seamounts- Studies of sessile animals in Australia
Aug 25	Karen Osborn, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Effects of Sargassum muticum on native marine communities
Aug 26	Meagan Eagle, Mary Kitazono, Stella Maceri, Amy MacFadyen, Trevor Rivers, Chad Bulich, Alex Derbes, Eric Hulin, Susie Escorcia, J.R. Sosky, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Summer Interns 1999 Annual Intern Symposium
Aug 27	Thomas C. Williams, Duke Engery The modernization of the Moss Landing Power Plant
Sep 1	Marta Gomez-Chiarri, University of Rhode Island Parasitic diseases in Rhode Island oysters
Sep 3	Kurt Schwehr, NASA ARC Intelligent Mechanisms Group & CMU Robotics Institute Autonomous navigation for Mars Rovers
Sep 8	David Farmer, Ph.D., Institute of Ocean Sciences Where the sea meets the sky- Recent studies of the wind-driven ocean
Sep 15	Herman Medwin, Ph.D., Ocean Acoustics Associates; Emeritus Professor, Naval Postgraduate School An acoustical view of the sea- From ocean acoustics to acoustical oceanography
Sep 22	Tony Koslow, Ph.D., CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart, Tasmania Australia, and Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory, Pacific Grove, CA Seamount coral reefs of Tasmania- Community structure, impacts of trawling, and conservation
Sep 29	Michael Begnaud, Ph.D., Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute A seismicity study of the Monterey Bay region using a temporary deployment of three-component digital ocean-bottom and land seismographs
Oct 6	Rob Condon, University of Maryland Morphological variation between Lion's Mane jellyfishes from Australian coastal waters
Oct 13	Edwin Grosholz, Ph.D., University of California, Davis Ecological impacts and evolutionary consequences of the European green crab invasion
Oct 20	Wolfgang Zeidler, South Australian Museum The other 99% from down under- Marine biodiversity in Southern Australia
Oct 27	Sönke Johnsen, Ph.D., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Transparent animals
Nov 3	Marc Stous, Ph.D., Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Anammox- Bad luck or the tip of the iceberg
Nov 10	Andy Hadd, Ph.D., Molecular Dynamics, Sunnyvale, CA Microfluidic enzyme assays and sub-microliter sample preparation for DNA sequencing
Nov 17	Jennifer Gordon, The Critter Company, Alameda, CA Bioremediation- Let the healing begin!
Nov 19	MBARI staff, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Where was the R-V Point Lobos? An intro to MBARI's new Expedition and ROV CTD databases
Dec 1	Robert Vrijenhoek, Ph.D., Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Sex and the single fish—or what good is genetic diversity?
Dec 3	William Graham, Ph.D., University of South Alabama Developing collaboration between ocean scientists and science educators
Dec 8	Malcolm Shick, University of Maine UV sunscreens in marine organisms- Antipodean adventures on the dark side of sunlight,

Last updated: December 19, 2000