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Place: MRRI Auditorium at Fort Johnson
Time: 4 p.m. on Friday afternoons, unless otherwise posted
Refreshments: before each seminar and at a reception with the seminar speaker, which occurs at the MUSC White House or the SCDNR Outdoor Classroom after the seminar
Archives of Fort Johnson Seminars
Fall 2017 Seminar Schedule
Sea-level Perturbations Drive Diversification of Estuarine and Freshwater Fishes and Their Parasites| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Committee Contact (Host) |
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| Aug 25 | David Owens College of Charleston (Retired) |
On the Road to Mandalay: A Fulbright in Burma (Myanmar) - 2016 | Paul Pennington, NOAA (P. Pennington) |
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Sep 1 |
No Seminar | ||
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Sep 8 |
No Seminar | ||
| Sep 15 | Daniel Speiser University of South Carolina, Columbia |
Holding Mirrors up to Nature: The Structure, Function, and Evolution of the Eyes of Scallops | Peter Kingsley-Smith, DNR (P. Kingsley-Smith) |
| Sep 22 | Lucas Griffin University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Connecting the Dots with Acoustic Telemetry: A Promising Approach to Track Highly Migratory Atlantic Tarpon Across the Gulf of Mexico and Western Atlantic | Peter Kingsley-Smith, DNR (M. Arendt) |
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Sep 29 |
No Seminar | GPMB Fall Faculty Meeting | |
| Oct 6 | Chris Freeman Smithsonian Marine Station |
The More the Merrier?: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Suspension Feeder Communities | Erik Sotka, College of Charleston (E. Sotka) |
| Oct 13 | Walter Boeger Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba (Brazil) |
Sea-level Oscillations Drive Diversification of Estuarine and Freshwater Fishes and Their Parasites | Erik Sotka, College of Charleston (I. de Buron) |
| Oct 20 | Jerry Hilbish University of South Carolina, Columbia |
Marine Population Response to Climate Change: The Interplay of Temperature and Connectivity | Erik Sotka, College of Charleston (E. Sotka) |
| Oct 27 | John Zardus The Citadel |
Tracking a Shape Shifter: Relating Host Association and Phenotypic Plasticity to Flow in an Epizoic Barnacle |
Erik Sotka, CofC (E. Sotka) |
| Nov 3 | E.V. Bell South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium |
From Seeds to Shoreline: Student-Driven Salt Marsh Restoration | Susannah Sheldon, SC Sea Grant (TBD) |
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Nov 10 |
No Seminar | State Holiday | |
| Nov 17 | Eric Montie University of South Carolina, Beaufort |
Longterm Acoustic Monitoring of Fish Courtship Sounds to Detect Changes in Reproductive Timelines Associated with Climate Change | Peter Kingsley-Smith, DNR (P. Kingsley-Smith) |
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Nov 24 |
No Seminar | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| Dec 1 | Bob Podolsky College of Charleston |
TBA | Erik Sotka, College of Charleston (E. Sotka) |
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Dec 8 |
No Seminar | CofC Final Exams |
Instructions and Information for Speakers for downloading
Links to the Fort Johnson Partners
- Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston
- Marine Biomedical and Environmental Sciences Center, Medical Univ. of South Carolina
- National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
Members of the Fort Johnson Seminar Committee
- Thomas Galligan - MUSC Student
- Jeanette Huber - MES Student
- Peter Kingsley-Smith - SCDNR
- Frank Marí - NIST
- Paul Pennington - NOAA
- Susannah Sheldon - SC Sea Grant
- Erik Sotka - Grice Marine Lab, CofC (Chair)
- Demetri Spyropoulos - MUSC
- Emily Welling - GPMB Student