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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 2016 Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Committee Contact (Host) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26 | Massimiliano Lega University of Naples Parthenope, Italy |
Environmental Forensics: A New Challenge for Environmental Research | Erik Sotka, CofC (J. DiTullio) |
| Sep 9 | Wilfried Karmaus University of Memphis |
Maternal Consumption of Contaminated Fish in Michigan and Health Sequels in Their Daughters - Current Findings and Future Studies | Erik Svendsen, MUSC (E. Svendsen) |
| Sep 16 | Raymond Norton Monash University, Australia |
Peptide Toxins from Marine Organisms as Therapeutic Leads | Frank Marí, NIST (F. Marí) |
| Sep 23 | F. Joseph Pollock Pennsylvania State University and Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders in Marine Science |
The Global Coral Microbiome Project and Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders in Marine Science: Conservation Through Science and Community Empowerment | Paul Pennington, NOAA (C. Plante) |
| Sep 30 | David Hastings Eckerd College |
STUDENT RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM | Colloquium Committee, Fort Johnson |
| Oct 7 | Richard Porcher | Peter Kingsley-Smith, SCDNR (P. Kingsley-Smith) | |
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Oct 14 |
No Seminar | GPMB Fall Faculty Meeting | |
| Oct 21 | Alistair Poore University of New South Wales |
TOPIC: Plant-herbivore interactions & biodiversity | Erik Sotka, CofC (E. Sotka) |
| Oct 28 | |||
| Nov 4 | Kim Ritchie Mote Marine Laboratory |
TOPIC: Marine Ecology | Peter Kingsley-Smith, SCDNR (P. Kingsley-Smith) |
| Nov 11 | Mark Hamann Medical University of South Carolina |
TOPIC: Marine Biochemistry | Frank Marí, NIST (F. Marí) |
| Nov 18 | Shannon Corrigan College of Charleston |
TOPIC: Molecular biology and geographic distributions in sharks | Jeanette Huber, CofC (G. Naylor) |
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Nov 25 |
No Seminar | Thanksgiving Break | |
| Dec 2 | Stephanie Kamel University of North Carolina Wilmington |
TOPIC: Social/behavioral ecology and genetics - turtles, eelgrass | Erik Sotka, CofC (E. Sotka) |
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
- Erik Andersson - GPMB Student
- Thomas Galligan - MUSC Student
- Jeanette Huber - MES Student
- Peter Kingsley-Smith - SCDNR
- Frank Mari - NIST
- Paul Pennington - NOAA (Chair)
- Susannah Sheldon - SC Sea Grant
- Erik Sotka - Grice Marine Lab, CofC
- Erik Svendsen - MUSC