Spring Seminars 2008*
MBARI seminars are usually held on Wednesdays (unless indicated otherwise) at 3:00 p.m. in the Pacific Forum and are open to the public. The seminars cover a wide range of topics related to deep-ocean research and engineering. Our speakers include top scientists and engineers from all over the world, as well as from MBARI.
MBARI is located at 7700 Sandholdt Road in Moss Landing, California.
Online directions are available from various Central California areas.
- April 2- John Hocevar
Greenpeace USA
Beauty and Destruction in the World's Largest Underwater Canyons
- Postponed until Fall- Rob Olson, Ph.D.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Phytoplankton Ecology at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory
- April 16- Karen Osborn, Ph.D.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Pelagic Munnopsid Isopods: Phylogenetics, Ecology, and Evolution
- April 30- Alain Berthoz, Ph.D.
College de France
Simplifying Principles for Perception, Action, Locomotion, and Navigation: A Common Problem for Brains and Robots
- May 14 - Stephen Giovannoni, Ph.D.
Oregon State University
The Evolution of Small Bacterial Genomes in the Ultra-Oligotrophic Ocean
- May 21 - Laurie Connell, Ph.D.
University of Maine, School of Marine Science
The use of Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNA) in Biosensors
- Monday, June 2, 2:00 pm - Alex Szalay, Ph.D.
Department of Physics and Astronomy
John Hopkins University
Science in an exponential world: from Sensors to Galaxies
- June 4 - Harbans Dhadwal, Ph.D.
Stony Brook University
Design of Capillary Waveguide Biosensors
* All seminars are at 3:00 p.m. in the Pacific Forum;
unless noted otherwise.
The seminar schedule is subject to change.
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