Steven Emerson

Cycling of oxygen and carbon in the upper ocean using in situ analytical methods; The distribution of inert gases in the sea and their utility as tracers of mixing and ventilation of the ocean; Mechanisms of Organic carbon and calcium carbonate preservation in marine sediments; Sediment-sea water chemical exchange and the effect of anoxic conditions on solubility of metals in seawater.

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Oceanography Seminar

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

The Oceanography Seminar Series Resumes this Winter Quarter (2012). The theme is Interdisciplinary Oceanography with topics in all ocean science options and speakers from oceanography centers across the country and our own College of the Environment. The seminar is at 3:30 on Thursdays in the Foege Auditorium (S 060) in the Genome Science Building next to OSB. There is an associated graduate student / senior undergraduate student seminar (Oce 497E/506E) which will meet with the speaker on Friday after the seminar.

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OCEANOGRAPHY SEMINAR
Winter Quarter, 2012
Thursday at 3:30, Foege Auditorium (S 060) Genome Sciences Buldg.

Jan 5  A new look at the North Atlantic bloom: gliders, floats, ships and slumping patches

Craig Lee, Eric D’Asaro and Mary Jane Perry
School of Oceanography, U. W., School of Marine Sciences, U. Maine

Jan 12 The Galápagos Archipelago: A natural laboratory for testing models of mantle dynamics

Doug Toomey
Geological Sciences, University of Oregon

Jan 19 CANCLED, BECAUSE OF WEATER

           Little drifters: Zooplankton communities indicate climate and ecosystem change in the California Current

Julie Keister
School of Oceanography, University of Washington

Jan 26 The role of ocean circulation and plankton diversity in the homostasis of the nitrogen cycle

Curtis Deutsch
Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, UCLA

Feb 2 Recent climate and glaciological change in Antarctica, in the context of the last 2000 years

Eric Steig
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington

Feb 9 Little drifters: Zooplankton communities indicate climate and ecosystem change in the California Current

          Julie Keister
          School of Oceanography, University of Washington

Feb 16 The activities of bacteria in extremely low-nutrient environments

Robert Morris
School of Oceanography, University of Washington

Feb 23 No Seminar (Ocean Sciences)

March 1 Crossing the great divide: New insights into methane transport from gas hydrate-bearing seeps to the atmosphere

Evan Solomon
School of Oceanography, University of Washington

March 8 Did warming in the North Atlantic trigger the acceleration of Greenland’s glaciers?

Fiama Straneo
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution