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Oceanography hosts weekly seminars during Fall and Spring Semesters featuring presentations by faculty and special lecturers. The seminars are held on Mondays at 4 p.m. in Eller O&M Room 112 unless otherwise indicated. For more information contact Dr. Rob Hetland at hetland@tamu.edu

Spring 2009

Date Speaker Title Division
26-Jan Deborah Thomas Orbital Forcing in a Greenhouse World Assistant Professor, TAMU, Department of Oceanography
2-Feb R. Saravanan The Role of Air-Sea Boundary Layer Feedbacks in Climate Variability Professor Department of Atmospheric Sciences College of Geosciences Texas A&M University
9-Feb Charlotte Hieke Interactions between Science and Policy; Making Research Count 2008 Sea Grant Legislative Fellow Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard
16-Feb Scott Socolsfsky Structure and Evolution of Tidal Starting- Jet Vortices at Idealized Barotropic Inlets Assistant Professor Zachary Department of Civil Engineering Coastal and Ocean Engineering Division Texas A&M University
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23-Feb Dan Thornton Biogeochemistry of
Diatom Exopolymers		 Assistant Professor Department of Oceanography College of Geosciences Texas A&M University
2-Mar Jeanette Yen Design of a copepod lure:
Fluid Mechanical and hemical Properties of Attractive Cues of Copepods		 Georgia Tech
9-Mar Keith Mullins NOAA Research on the Abundance, Distribution and Stock Structure of Cetaceans in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean & Caribbean Sea
 Marine Mammal Program Manager, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA
23-Mar Stephen Davis Carbon Dynamics in Tropical Coastal Peatlands Associate Professor Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Texas A&M University
30-Mar Shari Yvon-Lewis Halocarbons in the Coastal Ocean Assistant Professor Department of Oceanography College of Geosciences Texas A&M University
6-Apr Annalisa Bracco The Atlantic Forced Component of the Indian Monsoon Interannual Variability Assistant Professor School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology
13-Apr Patrick Lynette Nearshore Dynamics of Tsunamis Associate Professor Coastal and Ocean Engineering Division Zachary Department of Civil Engineering Texas A&M University
20-Apr Lie-Yauw (Leo) Oey Topocaustics Scientist Princeton University
27-Apr Larry Mayer Changing Perspectives of the Seafloor: New Approaches to Ocean Mapping and Data Visualization Professor of Earth Sciences & Engineering College of Engineering & Physical Sciences University of New Hampshire