Seminars |
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
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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 Engineering) |
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 |