Spring 2010 Seminars
Schedule
Date |
Speaker |
Seminar Title |
Committee Contact (Host) |
---|---|---|---|
Jan 14 | Billy McCord SCDNR |
South Carolina's Hammock Islands: Oases in the Salt Marsh | Peter Kingsley-Smith, MRRI (P. Kingsley-Smith) |
Jan 21 | M. Richard DeVoe S.C. Sea Grant Consortium |
Overview of the New U.S. National Ocean Policy* (*...and assorted other notions) Link to Presentation |
Denise Sanger, SC Sea Grant (D. Sanger) |
Jan 28 | George Balazs NMFS Honolulu |
On the Road to Recovery With Hawaiian Sea Turtles: Some Findings From 40 Years of Research and Pacific Explorations | Jennifer Keller, NIST (P. Kingsley-Smith) |
Feb 4 | Blaine Griffen University of South Carolina - Columbia |
The Role of Behavior in Species Invasion | Peter Kingsley-Smith, MRRI (P. Kingsley-Smith) |
Feb 11 | Sheila Patek University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Evolutionary Mechanics of Movement and Communication in the Sea | Craig Plante, CofC (M. Hughes) |
Feb 18 | David Eggleston North Carolina State University |
Metapopulation Dynamics Guides Oyster Restoration in North Carolina | Peter Kingsley-Smith, MRRI (P. Kingsley-Smith) |
Feb 25 | Eric Montie University of South Carolina - Beaufort |
Using MRI to Investigate the Effects of Pollutants and Marine Neurotoxins on Brain Morphology in Rats and Marine Mammals | Bobbie Lyon, MUSC (B. Lyon) |
Mar 4 | Bob Podolsky College of Charleston |
Maternal Effects on the Development of Intertidal Embryos | Craig Plante, CofC (C. Plante) |
Mar 11 | No Seminar | Spring Break | |
Mar 18 | Joseph Ballenger SCDNR |
Population Dynamics of Sheepshead in the Chesapeake Bay Region: A Comparison to Other Areas And An Assessment of Their Current Status | Peter Kingsley-Smith, MRRI (P. Kingsley-Smith) |
Mar 25 | Norihiro Okada Tokyo Institute of Technology |
SINEs: Their Discovery, Their Development in Phylogenetics of Marine Species, and Their Future in Function | Andrew Shedlock CofC (C. Plante) |
Apr 1 | Heather Hamlin MUSC |
Nitrate as an Endocrine Disrupting Contaminant in Aquatic Vertebrates | Bobbie Lyon/Peter Kingsley-Smith, MUSC/MRRI (B. Lyon) |
Apr 8 | George D. Grice, Jr. Lecture Mark Hay Georgia Institute of Technology |
Chemically-Mediated Interactions and the Structure and Function of Marine Communities | Bob Podolsky, CofC (B. Podolsky) |
Apr 15 | Tina Bell College of Charleston |
The Role of Ecology in the Incipient Speciation of Idotea balthica | Craig Plante, CofC (C. Plante) |
Apr 22 | Nancy Rabalais Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium |
Oilmaggedon and Dead Zones | Bethney Ward, CSC, NOAA (B. Ward) |