2004 Seminars
Dauphin Island Sea Lab
For more information contact Carolyn Wood

Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 1:00 p.m.
Alabama Center for Estuarine Studies Investigators
Titles for ACES Presentations
Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 11:00 a.m.
Dr. Robert Sterner
University of Minnesota
Seston C:N:P ratios -- From Redfield to Today 

Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 11:00 a.m.
Dr. Erika J. Clesceri
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Controls of Particulate Organic Matter Sources in an Estuarine Ecosystem

Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 11:00 a.m.
Dr. Jonathan Grabowski
Darling Marine Center, University of Maine

Are we using herring to farm lobsters? The effects of herring bait on
lobster population dynamics in the Gulf of Maine

Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 11:00 a.m.
Dr. Gorka Sancho
Grice Marine Laboratory at the College of Charleston
Behavioral Ecology of Fishes: Aggregation and Attraction Processes

Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab


Monday, March 22, 2004 - 11:00 a.m.

Dr. Jorge Ruelas
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Biomonitoring of Trace Metal Pollution in a Coastal Environment in the SE Gulf of California

Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab


Thursday, April 8, 2004 - 11:00 a.m.
Dr. Barbara Prezelin - CANCELLED
University of California, Santa Barbara

Monday, April 19, 2004 - 3:00 p.m.

Dr. Andy J. Danylchuk
The Island School, Cape Eleuthera, Bahamas 
Cape Eleuthera, Bahamas - The Cape Eleuthera Island School:
Enhancing Experience Through Research and Outreach

Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab 

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 3:30 p.m.
Adrienne Dunsmuir
University of South Alabama
A Thesis Defense:  Effects of simulated anthropogenic eutrophication on the
primary production and metabolism of estuarine microphytobenthic communities

Life Sciences Building, Room 119 - USA
University of South Alabama

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 9:00 a.m.
Julie Prerost
University of South Alabama
A Thesis Defense:  Size and sexual structure of Squilla empusa
in the north central Gulf of Mexico: The role of behavior in determining
predation by Lutjanus campechanus

Life Sciences Building, Room 119 - USA

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 7:00 p.m. 
Dr. Jeremy B. C. Jackson - Wiese Distinguished Speaker
University of California, San Diego & Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Silent Ocean

University of South Alabama Humanities Building

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 11:00 a.m. 
Dr. Jeremy B. C. Jackson - Wiese Distinguished Speaker
University of California, San Diego & Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Evolution and Environment in Tropical American Seas

Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab


Friday, April 30, 2004 - 2:00 p.m. 
Dr. Jeremy B. C. Jackson - Wiese Distinguished Speaker
University of California, San Diego & Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Shifting Baselines

Galathea Hall
- Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 - 8:00 a.m. 
Lisa Kellogg
University of South Alabama
A Thesis Defense - Reef restoration: Using habitat structure, hydrodynamics,
and target species ecology to develop design criteria

University of South Alabama - LSCB Room 119

Tuesday, June 1, 2004 - 3:00 p.m. 
Alina Corcoran
University of Alabama

Effects Of Ultraviolet-B Radiation and Sediment Nutrient 
Enrichment on Benthic Microalgal Communities in 
Coastal Lagoons of the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Galathea Hall
- Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Tuesday, June 8, 2004 - 1:00 p.m.
Dr. Markus Huettel
Florida State University
Pore Water Transport and Organic Matter
Decomposition in Shallow Shelf Environments

Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab


Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 1:00 p.m.

Dr. Monty Graham
Dauphin Island Sea Lab
Islands in the Sea: Asking Questions about Evolution 
and Adaptation in a Croatian Marine Lake

Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - 1:00 p.m.
Dr. Marc Peterson
University of Southern Mississippi
What do we Know About the Escape of the "Aquatic Chicken" 
in Coastal Watersheds of Mississippi?

Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Tuesday, August 3, 2004 - 1:00 p.m.
Mr. Pete Bouwman
Florida State University
The mysterious squawk of the spiny lobster: 
Does sound production help lobsters repel predators?  

Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 10:30 a.m.
Dr. Michael Dawson
University of New South Wales
Islands in the stream: isolation and evolution in the sea
Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Wednesday, August 18, 2004 - 3:00 p.m.
Dr. Tamara McGovern
Friday Harbor Laboratory
Title:  TBA
Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Thesis Defense
Monday, July 12, 2004 - 3:00 p.m.
R. Chad Lopez
Department of Marine Sciences - USA
Sediment Plume Variability and Associated
Phytoplankton Responses in the Alabama 
Coastal Shelf Waters using Satellite Imagery 

University of South Alabama - LSCB Room 119 

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 1:00 p.m.
Dr. Ken Halanych
Auburn University
The New View of Animal Phylogeny 

Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Friday, September 24, 2004 - 3:00 p.m.
Dr. Wade Jeffrey - CANCELLED DUE 
University of West Florida  TO HURRICANE IVAN

Friday, October 22, 2004 - 3:00 p.m.
Dr. Robert van Woesik - POSTPONED UNTIL
Florida Institute of Technology    FEBRUARY 11, 2005

Thursday, October 28, 2004 - 1:00 p.m. 
Dr. Richard Park -  Click for Abstract  
EcoModeling
Predicting the Fate and Effects of Pollutants in Estuarine Ecosystems with AQUATOX

Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Thursday, November 4, 2004 - 1:00 p.m.
Dr. Craig Tobias

U.S. Geological Survey
Processing Watershed Derived Nitrogen in Coastal Ecosystems: System Scale

Endeavor Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Friday, December 10, 2004 - 3:00 p.m.
Dr. John Magnuson
Professor Emeritus Zoology and Center for Limnology 
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region
Galathea Hall - Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Dissertation Defense
Monday, December 6, 2004 - 3:00 p.m.
Mr. Derrick Blackmon
Diel Vertical Migration of Seagrass-Associated Benthic 
Invertebrates:  A Novel Escape Mechanism that Provides 
an Allochthonous Input of Seagrass-Based Production 
to Coral Reef Resident Predators
University of South Alabama
Humanities Building Room 160

 

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