TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON

Marine Sciences Department (MARS)
Marine Biology Department (MARB)

Fall 2002 Seminar
Recent Advances in Marine Science .
Coordinated by Tim Dellapenna (LOER) & Chris Marshall (MARB).

DATE / TIME: Tuesdays at 4:00 to 5:00 pm.

LOCATION: CLB 112 (Pelican Island)

SUPPORT:
This seminar is kindly supported by the TAMUG Marine Sciences and Marine Biology Departments, as well as by the Research Management Office.

Complete schedule of seminar presentations for the fall semester 2002:

• Tue, Sep 10:
  Gill Hillman, UTMB
  "Finscan: A computer system for photo-identification of marine mammals.”
  
  
• Tue, Sep 17:
  Jason Turner, TAMUG
  "Utilizing Fatty Acids and Stable Isotopes as Dietary Indicators - lab trials and field applications."
  
  
• Tue, Sep 24:
  Sarah Black, TAMUG
  "Interspecies Breeding and Hybridization in Aplysia"
  
  
• Tue, Oct 1:
  Tammy Richardson, TAMU
  "The Ups and Downs of Phytoplanktonic Life"
  
  
• Tue, Oct 8:
  Doug Biggs, TAMU-OCG
  "Climatology of ocean color and chlorophyll in the NE Gulf”of Mexico and its use as a proxy for POC flux to the seabed"
  
  
• Tue, Oct 15:
  Phil Motta, University of South Florida
  “Recent advances in the feeding biology of sharks”
  
  
• Thu, Oct 17 (outside of regular schedule):
  Linda Medlin, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Research, Germany:
  "Identification of Dinoflagellate Species Using Molecular Probes and their application for DNA Chip Technology:Macro and Micro views."
  Thursday, October 17th, 4:00 to 5:00 pm in CLB 112
  
  
• Tue, Oct 22:
  John Yaeger, University of Florida
  "Glacial erosion and the creation of high-latitude continental margin strata"
  
  
• Tue, Oct 29:
  Guido Dehnhardt, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
  "Diving in darkness: an integrative view on marine mammal orientation."
  
  
• Tue, Nov 5:
  Linda Schaffner, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
  "Effects of physical energy regimes and seabed dynamics on benthic community structure and function in estuaries"
  
  
• Tue, Nov 12:
  Paul Montagna, UT Port Aransas
  "Importance, Diversion, and Restoration of Freshwater Inflow in Texas Estuaries”
  
  
• Tue, Nov 19:
  Jim Ditty, NMFS Galveston
  "Ontogeny and Intervals of Development in Fish"
  
  
• Tue, Nov 26:
  Ray Tarpley, TAMU-CVM
  "Marine Veterinary Medicine"
  
  
• Tue, Dec 3:
  Fred Pearl, TAMUG
  "Archaeological Investigations at Massacre Bay, American Samoa, A Coastal Polynesian Village"
  

2002 spring seminar schedule

2001 seminar schedule

Last revised October 28th, 2002.

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