EEOS Seminar Series
SPRING 2012 Seminar Series
All talks are held in the Small Science Auditorium (S/1/006) from 2-3:30 PM. Monday talks are usually student speakers; Wednesdays are usually speakers from outside the EEOS department.
Mon, January 30 John Duff (EEOS, UMass Boston): Professional Science Communication (some principles, observations and resources)
Wed, February 1 Juanita Urban-Rich (EEOS, UMass Boston): Coastal Plankton Dynamics -Changes in a Small Embayment
Mon, February 6 Faculty meeting - No seminar
Wed, February 8 Ebru Unal (UConn) (Poynton hosting): Population Genetic Structure and Gene Expression Patterns of the Copepod Calanus Finmarchicus in the North Atlantic Ocean”
Mon, February 13 Time being held for interview candidate
Wed, February 15 Michael Hill (Department of Earth System Science and Policy, University of North Dakota) (Crystal Schaaf is host): Dynamics, Metrics, Services and Scenarios for Tree-Grass Ecosystems.
Week of Feb. 20 – No Seminar due to Ocean Sciences Meeting
Mon, February 27 Dr. Rob Spencer (Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center) (Crystal Schaaf is host): From the Arctic to the Congo - Reassessing organic carbon at the land-ocean interfacee
Wed, February 29 Time being held for interview candidate
Mon, March 5 Keith Cialino, Eric Freeburg, Hannah Dean (EEOS, UMass Boston) Title TBD
Wed, March 7 Time being held for interview candidate
Week of March 12— Spring Break
Monday, March 19 Jen Crawford:(EEOS, UMass Boston): Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning Efforts; Lindsay Flieger (EEOS, UMass Boston):Professional Science Work with the US Army Corps of Engineers
Wednesday, March 21 Kara Miller (UMD) (John Duff is host): Innovation & Communication: Making the Connection.
Mon, March 26 Karen Simpson (MS defense) (EEOS, UMass Boston): Using SaltWBM, a Water/Salt Balance Model, to Assess Soil Salinization Due to Agricultural Irrigation; Liz Carpenter (EEOS, UMass Boston): Modeling the Impacts of Irrigation and Climate Change on Groundwater in Punjab, India
Wed, March 28 Mick Fellows (MIT): On the biogeography of nitrogen fixing phytoplankton in the ocean
Mon, April 2 Seth Sheldon (PhD Defense) (EEOS, UMass Boston): A Model to Relate Environmental Variation to NPDES Permit Violations at Thermoelectric Facilities on the Taunton River
Wed, April 4 Ted Durbin, URI (Zhou / Urban-Rich is hosting): Title TBD
Thurs, April 5, 8:30 AM Bryanna Broadaway (PhD Defense) (EEOS, UMass Boston):"The relation between essential habitat, ocean acidification, and calcification on the Nantucket Bay Scallop (Argopecten irradians)." (Note: This talk will be held in the Campus Center, 3rd floor, room 3545).
Mon, April 9 Vijaya Jyoti, Helenmary Holtz (EEOS, UMass Boston): Title TBD
Wed, April 11 Andy Pershing (University of Maine) (Gallagher is host): Physics to Fish: How Bottom-up Processes Structure Marine Ecosystems in the NW Atlantic
Mon, April 16 - Holiday
Wed, April 18 Clyde Mackenzie (NOAA) (Urban-Rich is host) ): A Review of Some Issues with Our Finfish and Shellfish
Mon, April 23 Chris Maio, Marin Kress, Yun Yang (EEOS, UMass Boston): Title TBD
Wed, April 25 Cathy Wigand (RI EPA) (Urban-Rich is host): Title TBD
Mon, April 30 Tom Angus, Jackie O’Riley (MS defense) (EEOS, UMass Boston): Dissolved organic carbon dynamics during the snowmelt period in a small urban watershed
Wed, May 2 Gareth Lawson (WHOI) (Zhou is host): Three Unrelated Problems in Marine Bio-Acoustics
Mon, May 7 Angeliki Evgenidou (EEOS, UMass Boston): Title TBD
Wed, May 9 Tatiana Rynearson (URI) (Poynton is host): Title TBD
Friday, May 18, 11:00 AM-1 PM Taylor Brown (MS Defense) (EEOS, UMass Boston): Evaluating methods for creating a high-resolution, high-accuracy, seamless map of the marine-terrestrial interface using swath bathymetry, intertidal structures, and terrestrial LiDAR.(Note: This talk will be held in the EEOS Conference Room, S-1-0012).
Thursday, May 24, 2 PM Darryl Luce (PhD Defense) (EEOS, UMass Boston): Sediment Metal Concentrations as a Function of Land Use in the Charles River Watershed, Eastern Massachusetts (Note: This talk will be held in McCormack Hall, 2nd Floor, Room 0116).
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FALL 2011 Seminar Series Archive
Mon, October 3 Jeremy Williams (EEOS, UMass Boston): The Adventures of a GeoCrusader: 13 Countries in 3 Months.
Monday, October 10 Holiday, no seminar
Wed, October 12 Benoit Parmenter (UMASS/Boston & Clark University): Changes and Variability in the Earth System: Detecting Trends and Patterns using Empirical Methods and Earth Observation Time Series
Monday, October 17 Faculty meeting, no seminar
Wed., October 19 Jeff Rosen: Marine and Environmental Technician Training - A vision for a new Associates Degree Program
Monday, October 24 Kevin O’Brien (EEOS, UMass Boston): Title TBD
Wed, October 26 Tom Brooks (Cosponsored with the Biology Department): Monitoring biodiversity: overall trends, and conservation benefits
Monday, October 31 Bob Chen (EEOS, UMass Boston) Session I: Leadership Initiatives--Graduate students will work in teams to solve a complex problem (hands-on) to explore the nature of collaboration, working in teams, and various roles in group work.
Wed, November 2 Ron Etter (Biology, UMass Boston): How did the remarkable diversity in the deep ocean evolve?
Mon, November 7 Bryanna Broadaway and Alex Eisen-Cuadra (EEOS, UMass Boston): Title TBD
Wed, November 9 Aaron Ellison (Harvard): Identifying, anticipating and intervening in ecological regime shifts.
Mon, November 14 SETAC meeting, no seminar
Wed, November 16 Dr. Thomas Hilker (NASA/GSFC): Linking Vegetation Structure and Function: A Remote Sensing Approach
Mon, November 21 Bob Chen (EEOS, UMass Boston) Session II: Scientific Communication--Students will practice communicating their science to non-science audiences. To help assess the success of their "elevator speech", students will use a rubric (Sevian and Gonsalves, 2008), designed specifically to help graduate students increase their effectiveness to communicate to non-science audiences.
Wed, November 23 Walter Golet (School of Marine Sciences University of Maine, Orono
& Gulf of Maine Research Institute): The Response of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna to Physical and Biological Changes in the Gulf of Maine
Mon, November 28 Bob Chen (EEOS, UMass Boston) Session III: Funding--Students will explore ways to find grant opportunities, write and/or review proposals, and manage research projects.
Wed, November 30 Jason Grear, PhD (EPA Narragansett) (Host Bill Robinson): Effects of atmospheric CO2 on the life cycle and fitness of the mysid shrimp Americamysis bahia
Mon, December 5 Doina Oglavie (EEOS, UMass Boston):A Conceptual Framework for Improving Dam Removal Decisions in Massachusetts. Mike Nelson (North Region Supervisor, Park Rangers): Creating a Swimming Beach on the Charles River? A Benefit-Cost Analysis.
Wed, December 7 Dr. John Harris (Environmental Division head, AR Highway and Transportation Department): Title TBA, NEPA and Conservation.
Mon, December 12 Denise Ellis-Hibbett (EEOS, UMass Boston): A Bio-Legal Assessment of Horseshoe crabs in Massachusetts: A Protected Species Policy Analysis
Wed, December 14 Emmanis Dorval (NOAA-Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center):Sardinops sagax, during a period of stock recovery and geographical expansion: inferences from fishery data, water and otolith stable isotopes
SPRING 2011 Seminar Series Archive
Franco Pala Dissertation Defense
Wednesday, Feb 9, 2:00-3:30, Franco Pala successfully defended his dissertation entitled "The validation and application of a chemical equilibrium model for interpreting the interdependence between free copper ion activity and sedimentary copper-organic carbon ratio in the coastal marine environment". Congratulations, Dr. Pala!
February 16, 2011
Andy Rhyne (Roger Williams University): A Wild Look at Captive Fish
February 28, 2011
EEOS Idea Lab
March 2, 2011
Hans Wildschutte (MIT, Postdoctoral Researcher) The Selection of Virulence Traits Among Natural Vibrio Populations
March 7, 2011
Keith Cialino (EEOS, UMass Boston): International Man of Fisheries - My Year as a Knauss Fellow
Nicole Henderson (EEOS, UMass Boston): Seasonal land-use effects on physical and chemical parameters of the Neponset River Watershed
March 9, 2011
Matt Charette (Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution): Climate Change and Human Activities at the Land-Ocean Interface: Impacts of Couples Groudwater-Surface Water Systems
March 21, 2011
Marin Kress (EEOS, UMass Boston): Environmental indicators & scientific visualization
March 23, 2011
Ellen Douglas (EEOS, UMassBoston): Fluid Flow and Energy: Water Doesn’t Always Flow Downhill!
(Part of the “BEST” seminar series)
March 28, 2011
Eric Freeburg (EEOS, UMass Boston): The impacts of ocean acidification on fish otolith mineralogy and function
Chris McIntyre (EEOS, UMass Boston): The Fouling Community of Boston Harbor: An Assessment of Invasive Species, Water Quality and Biodiversity
Kevin O’Brion (EEOS, UMass Boston): Freshwater fish and aquatic macroinvertebrate biomonitoring of the Eel River headwaters restoration sites in Plymouth, Massachusetts
March 30, 2011
Jennifer Bowen (Biology, UMass Boston): Combining Molecular Tools with Experimental Approaches to Understand Microbial Community Response to Nitrogen Fluxes in Estuarine Sediments. (Part of the “BEST” Seminar Series)
April 4, 2011
Seth Sheldon (EEOS, UMass Boston): Relating environmental variation to thermal pollution and permit violations at power plants
April 6 & 7, 2011
April Gu (Northeastern Univeristy): Application of Toxicogenomics for Toxicity Assessment and Identification of Environmental Pollutants
April 7, 2011 - Please note: Special Thursday seminar
2 PM; Room S-3-035.
Jeremy Williams (EEOS, UMass Boston): MS Thesis Defense Modern weathering and impact on the geochemistry of a marine Permo-Triassic section
April 13, 2011
Mike Brookfield (Adjunct Professor, EEOS, UMass Boston): Giant tsunamis: mechanisms and deposits: recent and ancient examples
April 20, 2011
Rory Cottrell (Research Scientist, University of Rochester): Paleomagnetic Information as recorded in silicate crystals: What can we learn about ancient magnetic fields?"
April 25, 2011
Sherry Banks (EEOS, UMass Boston): Life as an OSC, United States Federal On Scene Coordinator
April 27, 2011
Steven Chillrud (Lamont-Doherty Geological Laboratory): A Geochemists Perspective on Air Pollution in NYC
May 2, 2011
Jason Olavesen (EEOS, UMass Boston): The Schmutz of New York
Marianna Nappi (EEOS, UMass Boston): Effects of ocean acidification on the regulation of cadmium and calcium by the marine bivalve, Mytilus edulis
May 9, 2011
Special 10 AM seminar: Master's Thesis Defense (Healey Library, 11th floor, Rm 0011A)
Rachel Dicker (EEOS, UMass Boston): Release of Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) and Mucus Blob Flux by Aurelia Aurita
2 PM Seminar
Angeliki Evgenidou (EEOS, UMass Boston): Benthic diatoms of Boston Harbor and MA Bay
Denise Ellis-Hibbett (EEOS, UMass Boston): A bio-legal assessment of horseshoe crabs in Massachusetts: A protected species policy analysis.
Lu Kang (EEOS, UMass Boston): Developing a Software Using ArcObjects VBA to Build Landscape Representation for RHESSys (Regional Hydro-Ecological Simulation System)--Case Study: Neponset Watershed
May 11, 2011
Lisa Greber (EEOS, UMass Boston): (Almost) everything I need to know in life I learned from the cormorants
A celebration of 2010 - 2011 EEOS Graduates !
