Oceanography Senior Thesis Symposium 2012, Part 1

Students present their work off Mexico conducted over Spring Break

Tuesday June 5
Ocean Sciences Building 425
1:30-4:30

1:30 Introduction

1:35 Will Kammin - Coastal Upwelling of Magdalena Bay, Mexico, in a La Niña year
1:47 Matt Rivers - What is the geostrophic current structure at the entrance to the Gulf of California?
2:00 Eric Engel - Remote Sensing: Significance of PAR & the Significance of Space
2:12 Chloe Anderson - Reconstructing paleoceanographic oxygen conditions in the Soledad Basin, Mexico
2:25 Amanda Hacking - Scaling response of a canyon-incised shelf break
2:37 Liz Weidner - Investigating Changes in Channel Complexity Across the Coastal Zone

2:50 Coffee Break

3:05 Erika Fee - Extent of the OMZ in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific
3:17 Miles Carl - Expanse of the oxygen minimum zone and denitrification of the eastern tropical north Pacific
3:30 Abi MacMillan - N* variation within the Eastern Tropical North Pacific
3:42 Sara Geurtsen - Bacterial distribution and abundance with emphasis on denitrifiers in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific (ETNP) Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ)
3:55 Martha James - Zooplankton diversity, abundance, and species composition across an oxygen gradient in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific
4:07 Sun-Li Beatteay - Vertical Distribution of Jellyfish in the Eastern Tropical Northern Pacific