Spring Seminars 2009*
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 8- Erik Zinser, Ph.D.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Temperature and Reactive Oxygen Species as Ecological Determinants for Prochlorococcus
- April 15- Al Bradley, Ph.D.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The Adventures of the Autonomous Benthic Explorer
- April 22- Mark Benfield, Ph.D.
Louisiana State University
SERPENT: An Academic-Industrial Partnership to Explore Deep-Sea Life
- May 6- Emily Brodsky, Ph.D.
University of California, Santa Cruz
Earthquakes Triggered by Seismic Waves
- May 13 - Steve D'Hondt, Ph.D.
University of Rhode Island
The Mass and Activity of the Life in Subseafloor Sediment
- May 20- Michael Lynch, Ph.D.
University of Indiana
The Origins of Genome Complexity
- June 3 -Deborah Cramer
Visiting Scholar at MIT’s Earth System Initiative
Across the Great Divide: Bringing Complex Science to the Public
- June 10- Anna Cummings and Marcus Eriksen, Ph.D.
Algalita Marine Research Foundation
Synthetic Sea, Synthetic Me: Plastic Debris in the Marine Environment
- June 17- Janet Cushing
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Aquatic Habitat Conservation Through the National Fish Habitat Action Plan
* 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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