Events

Mon Jan 28

Spring 2008 Semester Starts

Wed Jan 30

Marrion Stoddart & Dorie Clark (The Work of 1000): Cleaning up the Nashua River

Mon Feb 04

Wei Huang: DOC in the Hudson Estuary

Wed Feb 06

No Seminar

Mon Feb 11

No Seminars

Wed Feb 13

Cancelled due to weather conditions

Mon Feb 18

Presidents' Day

Wed Feb 20

Meng Zhou (EEOS Dept., UMASS Boston): Seeing trees but no forest: Size, growth, mortality and trophic dynamics

Mon Feb 25

No Seminars

Wed Feb 27

Faculty Meeting

Mon Mar 03

Stefanie Gazda: Evidence of a Division of Labor with Role Specialization in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) off Cedar Key, Florida

Wed Mar 05

Sally Yozell (The Nature Conservancy, Boston) - The Future of Marine Planning and Marine Conservation in the NW Atlantic Region (Abstract)

Mon Mar 10

No Seminars

Wed Mar 12

Robbin Peach (UMass Boston, McCormick Grad School): MOPF - Massachusetts Ocean Partnership Fund

Mon Mar 17

Spring Break

Mon Mar 19

Spring Break

Mon Mar 24

Anne Isham: The Issue of Desalination in the USA

Wed Mar 26

Robert Muth (UMass Amherst): The Contested Terrain of Coastal Restoration:  Integrating the Biophysical and Social Sciences to Improve Environmental Decision Making

Mon Mar 31

Postponed

Wed Apr 02

A-Xing Zhu (University of Wisconsin): Mapping Spatial Variation Using GIS and Artificial Intelligence under Fuzzy Logic (Abstract) http://solim.geography.wisc.edu/axing

Mon Apr 07

TBA

Wed Apr 09

Leslie-Ann McGee (Director, CZM MA): Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management - Practices and Priorities

Mon Apr 14

Erin Remillard - M.S. Project Presentation: Assessment of the Power and Frequency of a Shallow-Water, Low-Power, Mid-Frequency Boomer Seismic Reflection System Under Real-World Conditions

Di Wu - Final Presentatation: Zooplankton distribution, transport and population dynamics in California Current System off Oregon

Wed Apr 16

10:30 - 12:00

TBA

Wed Apr 16

James Hunt (Chief, Environmental & Energy Services, City of Boston): Green Boston: Acting Locally to Address Global Climate Change (Abstract)

Mon Apr 21

Patriots' Day

Wed Apr 23

Anthony Wilbur (Marine Ecologist, CZM MA): The Massachusetts Seafloor Mapping Cooperative (Abstract)

Mon Apr 28

Heather Fleming - M.S. Project Presentation: Surficial Features and Sub Surface Architecture of Savin Hill Cove, Boston Massachusetts

Ajoy Saha - Spatial Variation of CDOM in Lower Raritan River Due to Water Temparature

Wed Apr 30

Michelle Portman (Marine Policy Center, WHOI) - Waterfront land use change, marine resources and regulation: New Bedford Pilot Study (Abstract)

Mon May 05

Kimberly Starbuck: Recipe for a Sustainable Wild Bay Scallop (Argopecten irradians irradians) Fishery on Nantucket Island, MA.

Wed May 07

Kristen Kenny (Internal Review Board Administrator, UMass Boston): Hassle-free IRB approval - 13 things to remember .  doc

Mon May 12

Steve Kichefski: Quantifying Sediment Transport in Red Brook, Bourne, Massachusetts: Impacts on Dam Removal

Wed May 14

Mingshun Jiang (UMass Boston): Impacts of climate change on Massachusetts Bay environment: A modeling study