TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON

Marine Sciences Department (MARS)
Marine Biology Department (MARB)
681 graduate seminar for Spring 2001: Recent Advances in Marine Research.
Instructors: Peter Santschi (LOER) & Markus Horning (LABB).

Our seminar has come to a successful conclusion. We are looking forward to resuming this interdisciplinary and interdepartmental seminar series in the spring semester 2002.

Many thanks to the Texas A&M Continuing Education and Sea Camp Programs through Kyle Jackson for the use of the seminar room at Ft. Crockett II, and many thanks for the support by the Galveston Research Office, as well as MARB and MARS departments for supporting the visits of our external speakers! The support was a great help and very much appreciated!

See ya'll spring semester 2002!

Seminar presentations given during the spring semester 2001:

View the schedule for the spring 2002 seminar here

View the schedule for the current fall 2002 seminar here!

• Jan 22 MARS: Dr. Peter Santschi "Environmental Colloids and Macromolecules"
• Jan 29 MARB: Dr. John Schwarz "Marine Vibrios in the Environment : Public Health Significance"
• Feb 5 MARS: Dr. Sandy Balaban "Environmental significance of ionic liquids"
• Feb 12 MARB: Dr. Tom Iliffe "Life in the Dark: Biology of Marine Caves"
• Feb 16 MARS: Dr. John Rudd, Freshwater Institute, Winnipeg Canada: "METAALICUS: A Study to Determine the Relationship Between Mercury Deposition and MeHg Concentration of Fish"
• Feb 19 MARS: Dr. Gary Gill "Mercury Biogeochemistry in Aquatic Systems"
• Feb 26 MARB: Dr. Jaime Alvarado-Bremer "Factors affecting genetic differentiation among neighbouring populations of pelagic fishes"
• Mar 5 MARS: Dr. Bill Seitz "Modeling, Complexity, Green Chemistry & Nitric Oxide – An Eclectic Project Mix"
• Mar 19 MARB: Dr. Jay Rooker "Unlocking the mysteries of population changes in marine fishes: Pannellas rosetta stone and beyond"
• Mar 26 MARS: Dr. Tim Dellapenna "Sedimentary furrows and various observations from the ALVIN"
• Apr 2 MARB: Dr. Bernd Würsig "Underwater bubble screening to reduce human-made noise"
• Apr 2: Dr. Tamara Pease, Skidaway Institution of Oceanography, Savannah Georgia "Seagrass in sediments: Are they chemical indicators?" 4:15pm immediately after the preceeding seminar.
• Apr 9 MARS: Dr. Jay Pinckney "Red tides and phytoplankton blooms in Galveston Bay".
• Friday, Apr 13 MARS / MARB (Friday, 1-2 pm) Dr. Mark Benfield, Louisiana State University, "Two applications of active acoustics: volume scattering around petroleum platform and localization of blue crab movements in a saltmarsh"
• Apr 16 MARB: Dr. Randall Davis "Hunting behavior of Weddell seals: insights gained from new technology".
• Wednesday, Apr 18 MARS Dr. Carrie Thomas, Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, "Transport and Digestive Alteration of Uniformly 13C-labeled Diatoms in Mudflat Sediments".
• Apr 23 MARS: Dr. Ayal Anis "Maximum Likelihood: what can it do for your data fitting ?"
• Wednesday, Apr 25 MARS: Dr. Peter Hernes, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, "Tannin diagenesis in mangrove leaves from a tropical estuary: Molecular evidence for humification?", in room 129, Ft. Crockett II 3:00 - 4:00 pm.
• Apr 30 MARB: Dr. Markus Horning "Diving in Drag: new approaches to the study of diving animals"
• May 2: MARB: Dr. Robin Baird, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada "Form and function of cetacean diving: an inter- and intra-specific approach" 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. in room 129, Ft. Crockett II.
• Tuesday, May 15th: MARB: Dr. Christine Erbe, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada "The Effects of Industrial Noise on Marine Mammals" 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. in room 129, Ft. Crockett II.
• Thursday, May 17th: MARB: Dr. David Weller, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA "The Conservation Status of Western Gray Whales: Studies of an Endangered Large Whale Population"
  9:30 - 10:30 a.m. in room 112, CLB on Pelican Island. A TTVN video link will be established to College Station.
  
  View the schedule for the current fall 2002 seminar here!
  View the schedule for the spring 2002 seminar here
  

Last revised May 17th, 2001.

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