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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
Spring 2015 Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Committee Contact (Host) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16 | Rick DeVoe S.C. Sea Grant Consortium |
New and Emerging Resiliency Initiatives of the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium | Susannah Sheldon, SC Sea Grant (TBD) |
| Jan 23 | Paul Nolan The Citadel |
Putting Darwin on the Ice: Basic Research Serving the Conservation of Antarctic Penguins | Susannah Sheldon, SC Sea Grant (D. Owens) |
| Jan 30 | David Owens College of Charleston |
Dave's Biggest Turtle "Tails"; Hits from 1969-2014 | Rusty Day, NIST (R. Day) |
| Feb 6 | John Weinstein The Citadel |
Microplastic Debris in Charleston Harbor: A Global Problem in Our Backyard | Paul Pennington, NOAA (P. Pennington) |
| Feb 13 | Leslie Sautter College of Charleston |
Exploration of Seafloor Habitats and Geomorphology: The CofC BEAMS Program | Hannah Bouchillon, CofC (H. Bouchillon) |
| Feb 20 | Kevin Armbrust Louisiana State University |
Paul Pennington, NOAA (TBD) | |
| Feb 27 | No Seminar | CofC Spring Break | |
| Mar 6 | No Seminar | CofC Spring Break | |
| Mar 13 | Jill Johnson College of Charleston |
Lou Burnett, CofC (K. Burnett) | |
| Mar 20 | Paula Keener NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program |
Paul Pennington, NOAA (P. Pennington) | |
| Mar 27 | Gavin Naylor College of Charleston |
Rusty Day, NIST (R. Day) | |
| Apr 3 | Nicholas Colvard Northeastern University |
The Nutrient Effect: Quantifying How Eutrophication Influences the Eco-physiology and Ecology of a Primary Producer | Lou Burnett, CofC (S. Krueger-Hadfield) |
| Apr 10 | Mark Martindale Whitney Lab, University of Florida |
George Grice, Jr. Lecture: Bob Podolsky, CofC (B. Podolsky) | |
| Apr 17 | Joe Stewart NIST |
Boron and Meteoric Diagenesis: Questioning the Fidelity of Snowball Earth δ11B Excursions | Rusty Day, NIST (R. Day) |
| Apr 24 | April Blakeslee | Peter Kingsley-Smith, SCDNR (P. Kingsley-Smith) |
Instructions and Information for Speakers for downloading
Links to the Fort Johnson Partners
- Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research, National Ocean Service, NOAA
- Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston
- Marine Biomedical and Environmental Sciences Center, Medical Univ. of South Carolina
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
Members of the Fort Johnson Seminar Committee
- Lou Burnett - Grice Marine Lab, CofC (Chair)
- Rusty Day - NIST
- Peter Kingsley-Smith - SCDNR
- Theresa Cantu - MUSC Student
- Landon Knapp - MES Student
- Ben Parrott - MUSC
- Paul Pennington - NOAA
- Susannah Sheldon - SC Sea Grant
- Hannah Bouchillon - GPMB Student