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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 2017 Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Committee Contact (Host) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20 | Richard Porcher The Citadel (Retired) |
How Carolina Rice Influenced the Ecological and Cultural History of the Lowcountry | Peter Kingsley-Smith, DNR (P. Kingsley-Smith) |
| Jan 27 | Mark Hamann MUSC |
Algal Blooms as an Emerging Source for Novel Therapeutics for the Control of Cancer | Frank Marí/Erik Svendsen, NIST (Frank Marí) |
| Feb 3 | Marie DeLorenzo NOAA |
Comparative Toxicity of Three Shoreline Cleaner Products in Estuarine Organisms: Mesocosm and Laboratory Exposures | Paul Pennington, NOAA (P. Pennington) |
| Feb 10 | |||
| Feb 17 | Christine Bedore Georgia Southern University |
Sensory Ecology of Elasmobranch Fishes | Jeanette Huber, CofC MES (J. Huber) |
| Feb 24 | Ben Parrott Savannah River Ecology Laboratory/University of Georgia |
A Means to Adapt, a Means to Disrupt: Epigenome-by-Environment Dynamics Underlying Sex Determination and Reproductive Perturbations in the American Alligator | Paul Pennington, NOAA (P. Pennington) |
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Mar 3 |
No Seminar | CofC Spring Break | |
|
Mar 10 |
No Seminar | CofC Spring Break | |
| Mar 17 | Tom Frankovich Florida International University |
Charismatic Microflora: Unique Diatom Assemblages on Manatees and Sea Turtles | Peter Kingsley-Smith, DNR (P. Kingsley-Smith) |
| Mar 24 | Kimberly Kanapeckas SCDNR |
Population Genetic Tools for Species Conservation and Management | Peter Kingsley-Smith, DNR (P. Kingsley-Smith) |
| Mar 31 | R. Sean Norman University of South Carolina |
Socio-Ecological Coupling of Antibiotic Resistance | Erik Svenden, MUSC (E. Svendsen) |
| Apr 7 | Scott Harris College of Charleston |
Evolution of the Edge of the Continent, From the Fall Zone to the Shelf Break | Erik Sotka, CofC (E. Sotka) |
| Apr 14 | Michael Kendrick SCDNR |
River Ecosystems in a Changing Arctic | Peter Kingsley-Smith, DNR (P. Kingsley-Smith) |
| Apr 21 | Andrew Steen University of Tennessee Knoxville |
What Silverware to Use When You're 100,000 Years Late for Dinner | Paul Pennington, NOAA (J. DiTullio) |
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Apr 28 |
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
- Cameron Miller - GPMB Student
- Paul Pennington - NOAA
- Susannah Sheldon - SC Sea Grant
- Erik Sotka - Grice Marine Lab, CofC (Chair)
- Erik Svendsen - MUSC