Symposium on Senior Research Projects for 1995


The symposium will be held in Room 14 Oceanography Teaching Building on the University of Washington campus from 1:30 to 4:00 on Thursday, 25 May, and Tuesday, 30 May. Visitors are welcome.

Thursday, 25 May

1:35 - Andrew Martin - Submarine and subaerial landslides as a mechanism of large-scale sediment transport into a deep-water estuary, Puget Sound, Washington.

1:50 - Lara Miller - Modern sedimentation rates at the Snohomish River prodelta: Implications for the fate of sediments in Port Gardner, Washington.

2:05 - Ross Murray - Tidal propagation in the Snohomish River.

2:20 - Mark Cook - Quantifying the rates of mixing of the Snohomish River salt wedge.

Break

3:00 - Mela Swapp - Dynamics of a tidally influenced slough: Steamboat Slough.

3:15 - Mark Ortmeyer - Tidal interaction within Steamboat Slough using salt as a tracer.

3:30 - Margaret Edie - The evolution of the Snohomish River plume over a tidal cycle, April 1995.

Tuesday, May 30

1:35 - Michelle Greene - One-hundred years of deposition and erosion off the Snohomish River Delta, Puget Sound, Washington.

1:50 - Lorien Menna and Scott Anderson - Phytoplankton lysis as a source of ammonium in the salt wedge of the Snohomish River Estuary (Everett, Washington).

2:05 - Kurt Maekawa - Extracellular enzyme activity in the salt wedge environment of the Snohomish River Estuary, Washington.

2:20 - Adrienne Huston - Bacteriological survey of the Snohomish River Estuary and adjoining Steamboat Slough.

2:35 - Tammara Pierce - Natural and anthropogenic inputs of ammonium to the Snohomish River Estuary.

Break

3:00 - Kerrie Brockett - Biological oxygen demand in the water column and sediment in Steamboat Slough, Everett, Washington.

3:15 - Elizabeth Housel - An oxygen budget for Steamboat Slough.

3:30 - Tina O'Day-Dusek - Sources of organic carbon for bivalves in the Snohomish Estuary, Puget Sound, Washington.

3:45 - Tae Sung Park - Comparison of aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation rates of Benzo(a)pyrene in Port Gardner sediment.

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