Oceanography Senior Thesis Undergraduate Symposium · 2011. 3. 6. · Oceanography Senior Thesis...
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Oceanography Senior Thesis Undergraduate Symposium: Cruising the waters of Hawaii Tuesday, March 8 & Thursday, March 10, 2011 1:30 – 4pm Ocean Sciences Building, Room 425
Tuesday, March 8
1:30 Welcome
1:31 Megan Presco/: Seafloor terrain and sediment characteriza5on at Molokai, Loihi, and Cross Seamount using seafloor mapping, computer analysis, and sediment grab sampling
1:45 Jim Shobe: Evidence of ac5ve erosional processes in submarine canyons north of Molokai, Hawaii
2:00 Stephen Pang: La Niña’s effect on primary produc5vity in the equatorial Pacific
2:15 Sophorn Ven: Determining picoplankton community and abundance near the Hawaiian Islands with varying human and nutrient impacts
2:30 Sarah Wiesner: Diatom and dinoflagellate abundance and ecology in waters off the Hawaiian coast
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 Florence van Tulder: Abundance and distribu5on of bacteria and viruses in the various ecotypes of the Hawaiian Islands
3:15 Rachel Lipsy: Eddy impact on anthropogenic chemicals in the lee of Hawaii
3:30 Ma/ Couldrey: Internal 5des at Cross Seamount
3:45 Zack Mazlan: An inves5ga5on into flow dynamics around Cross Seamount, Hawaii
Oceanography Senior Thesis Undergraduate Symposium: Cruising the waters of Hawai’i Tuesday, March 8 & Thursday, March 10, 2011 1:30 – 4pm Ocean Sciences Building, Room 425
Thursday, March 10
1:30 Welcome
1:31 Liz Ewings: Variability in zooplankton distribu5on at cyclone Enakai in the lee of the Hawaiian Islands
1:45 James Peck: The effects of seamounts on the abundance of ver5cally migra5ng zooplankton
2:00 Audrey Djunaedi: Zooplankton diel ver5cal migra5on and distribu5on rela5ve to Cross seamount using 75 kHz acous5c and net tow surveys
2:15 Jenn Mileli: Resilience to coral bleaching due to low nitrogen levels in Hawaiian coral reefs
2:30 Becky Hemingway: Inverse echo sounding: Using measured water depth to calculate water temperature and its varia5on over 5me
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 Sami Petersen: Measuring physical characteris5cs and proper5es of Loihi Seamount
3:15 Ben Metz: Temporal and compara5ve variability of iron and carbon dioxide of Loihi Seamount hydrothermal systems
3:30 Byungho Min: Manganese concentra5on of hydrothermal plume at Pele’s Pit, Loihi Seamount, Hawaii
3:45 Erik French: The correla5on of bacterial concentra5on to chemical composi5on among diffuse hydrothermal vents on Loihi Seamount