Previous seminars

Hydrodynamics and morphodynamics of the Carmel River bar built estuary

Deep-sea hydrothermal vents: Oases for life in oceans beyond Earth?

Deep-seabed mining on the horizon: Challenges, perspectives, and next steps

Using virtual reality to share the ocean

The private life of lipid membranes in model organisms

Drivers of coastal acidification in northern California Current estuaries

The physiology of phytoplankton in fluctuating light

Illuminating the seafloor with dark fiber seismology and the MARS cable

Linking lab and field: Physiological ecology in a new age

22nd Annual Intern Symposium

Jellyfish blooms: Beyond the slime

Designing more effective human-robot systems

Using science to change the world

Pteropods under multiple stressor effects in the California Current system

Fathom Antarctica: Drawing inspiration
under the ice as scientist and artist

How to be a science hacker

Eye of the Shoal—exploring the remarkable world of fish

The South Indian Ocean: A tale of physical-biogeochemical interactions

The freest of lunches: Using out-of-domain data to boost oceanographic image classification

Cryptic cycles and power laws in the anaerobic seabed bioreactor

Mālama honua: Bridging traditional knowledge and modern science through observation

Connecting the dots: The biology and conservation of whale sharks

Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust: Working to revitalize a healthy and sustainable fishing economy

Impact of seawater desalination on the marine environment. What do we know (and don’t)?

Diurnal rhythms in phytoplankton physiology and marine snow export observed from a Wirewalker autonomous platform

This talk will cover the biology and ecology of leatherback turtles, the current status of the population, challenges to recovery, and the actions we can take to help.

Ocean acidification impacts on krill and krill predators in the Southern Ocean

From Andean hummingbirds to Antarctic pteropods: Flapping flight mechanics in physically variable locomotor media

Micro-plants and mixing: The movements of 3D-printed phytoplankton

From microplastics contamination through jellyfish metabolism to ocean carbon flux

The secret life of elephant seals: Insights into the at-sea behavior of a mesopelagic predator

Real-time underwater imaging
and microscopy

Underwater Virtual Reality: Introduction to 360 3D and 180 3D technologies

The (climate) evolution will be visualized

Tracking microbial metabolism in the ocean

Autonomy and fault diagnostics of nonlinear (real!) systems

Sea change: Scaling up the emergent ecological effects of global change

Brian Wells's talk will describe the large- and regional-scale environmental conditions of the Pacific Ocean Basin and California Current shelf ecosystem that relate to forage, Chinook salmon, and seabird productivity in central California.

Managing across multiple scales: A case study using blue whales in the Northeast Pacific

Machine learning for scientific data

NSF-OOI Regional Cabled Array: Current infrastructure, operations, and data delivery

Ocean acidification monitoring along the Georgia coast

Population genetics and connectivity
in deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels

Making carbon-14 measurements more accessible

Sex, life, and adaptive matter

21st Annual Intern Symposium

Galapagos Syndrome: Self diagnosis, treatment, and planning for a recurrence

Measuring and modeling ecological interaction in the ocean

Integration of Arctic seafloor observatories and 4D seismic:
Detecting fluid migration pathways from the deep

The first seminar of a special seminar series on the ecology of Monterey Bay. Baldo Marinovic presents his talk, "A Tale of Two Krill in the Central California Current Ecosystem."

The second speaker in the special seminar series on the ecology of Monterey Bay, Dr. Croll’s research examines the impacts of introduced species on islands and the ecology and conservation of large, mobile marine predators.

Detritus, degradation, and diet: Using isotopes to trace the fate of
ocean biomass

Rising anthropogenic nitrate levels in the North Pacific Ocean

Speaking science: How to captivate and connect with any audience

Seeing climate, seeing change: Leveraging social science research to communicate climate risk

Collecting evolution: The Galapagos expedition that vindicated Darwin

Exploring more with less

Artists at sea: Integrating art and science aboard R/V Falkor

A Sea of Glass: Searching for the Blaschka’s models in a sea at risk

Photogrammetry and virtual reality

Exporting a phytoplankton bloom

Acoustic observations of the ocean interior: Stories of gas bubbles

Deep diving odontocetes’ foraging strategies and their prey field as determined by acoustic techniques

A proteinaceous deep-sea coral’s view of biogeochemistry and ecosystem change above

Biophysical impacts on marine trophic structure: Ideas and new directions

How small-scale animal-fluid interactions have large-scale implications

Measuring biodiversity and extinction in deep time and the deep sea

3D reconstruction and video analytics for subsea exploration

Coastal changes resulting from dam removal–Elwha River, Washington

A deep dive into Makerspaces

Recent climate change impacts on the Gulf of Maine

Marine ecomechanics: Exploring the biology of ocean acidification, intertidal thermal stress, and nearshore turbulence

Panarchy: Implications for marine ecosystems and management in a rapidly changing world

A summary of Sonardyne's technologies for AUVs

Climate, seabirds, forage, and upwelling ecosystems

Arctic palm trees, desert walrus and the mysterious "Desmos" of yore: The best of the fossil west from Baja to Barrow

Multi-stressor proteomics: Responses to simultaneous emersion, pH, and temperature stress

An interdisciplinary approach to study planktonic communities and teach K-12 students

Mesopelagic fish ecology and NOAA ocean exploration program

From data deficient to big data in shark conservation

Edward F. Ricketts and Jack Calvin: The publishing of Between Pacific Tides, First Edition (1939)

The broad reach of environmental forcing in marine turtle populations

Around the Americas for science, education, and conservation

Learning from the Hawaiian bobtail squid: How cilia pump, filter, and mix fluid on a microscale

Natural swimmers and the development of advanced biomimetic technologies

The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative: a new research paradigm

Unsupervised machine learning techniques for building a curious underwater exploration robot

Learning by OSMOSIS: The seasonal cycle of submesoscale motions

Resolving the biology of sinking particles and cells