13th Annual MBARI Intern Symposium
Thursday, August 20, 2009
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM, Pacific Forum
- 9:00-9:15 George Matsumoto Welcome and introduction
- 9:15-9:30 Harriet Alexander — Exploring picoeukaryotic diversity using small ribosomal subunit sequences.
- 9:30-9:45 Roman Marin — Wave Energy For Vertical Profiling.
- 9:45-10:00 Monika Frazier — Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring.
- 10:00-10:15 Julie Vassar — Characterizing a novel 16s sequence using molecular techniques.
- 10:15-10:30 Break
- 10:30-10:45 Taryn Takahashi — CeNCOOS Harmful Algal Bloom Education.
- 10:45-11:00 Karen Parker — Long range AUV oxygen sensor evaluation.
- 11:00-11:15 Joel Craig — The Ratio: What does CTD fluorescence/bottle chlorophyll tell us about phytoplankton?
- 11:15-11:30 Megan Kelso — CeNCOOS in SF Bay.
- 11:30-13:00 —Lunch
- 13:00-13:15 Bryant Mairs — An Autonomous Surface Vessel: The Missing Piece of MBARI's Robotic Fleet.
- 13:15-13:30 Katherine Elliot — Jellywatch!
- 13:30-13:45 Michelle Schorn — Expressing a Novel Fluorescent Protein from a Mid-water Siphonophore.
- 13:45-14:00 Laura Vollset — Illustrating the Observatory Middleware Framework, The Oxygen Minumum Zone, and Ocean Acidification.
- 14:00-14:15 Break
- 14:15-14:30 Kayelyn Simmons — Observations of the egg cases from the holopelagic polychaete family: Tomopteridae.
- 14:30-14:45 Alhayat Ali Mekonnen — Dynamic AUV Mission and Data Visualization with Google Earth.
- 14:45-15:00 Marco Moreira — Automatic Visual Classification of Events in Underwater Video.
- 15:00-15:15 Alena Dooner — "Carbonated Seas": Communicating the Science of Ocean Acidification to a High School Audience at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.