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Spring 2017 Seminar Series

Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences DATE SPEAKER AFFILIATION TITLE

January 25 Paolo Stegagno

Department of Ocean

Engineering, Univ of

Rhode Island

Online Spectral Analysis on a Low Cost

UAV System

February

1

Christopher M.

Little AER, Massachusetts

Mean sea level along the Northeast U.S.

coast: drivers of observed and projected

change

February 8 Glen

Gawarkiewicz

Woods Hole

Oceanographic

Institution

Recent Hydrographic Variability in the

Middle Atlantic Bight and Implications

for Shelfbreak Exchange

February

22 Zhitao Yu NRL-Stennis, Mississippi

The impact of ocean surface currents on

Sverdrup transport in the mid-latitude

north Pacific via the wind stress

formulation

March 1 Joel Llopiz Woods Hole

Oceanographic Institution

Vignettes in fish early life history: From

the Sargasso Sea to your local New

England pond

March 8 Jamie Jacquart UMassD Campus

Sustainability

Creating a sustaible lifestyle: Why we

need to do something and what that looks

like

March 29 Peter Cornillon University of Rhode Island Improved Quality SST Data and Some

Cool Things You Can Do with Them

2

Department of Fisheries Oceanography DATE SPEAKER AFFILIATION TITLE

January 25 Vanessa

Trijoulet NEFSC

Bioeconomic modelling of grey seal predation

impacts on the West of Scotland fisheries

February

1 Sean Hayes NEFSC

California water and fish. How salmon came to

be so important

February 8 Eric Heupel SMAST

Mapping the distribution of vulnerable

communities

February

15 Steve Cadrin SMAST

Adaptive Management in Marine Capture

Fisheries

February

22 Jason Link NMFS

Are there common, fundamental, emergent

properties of all marine ecosystems, and if so are

they useful?

March 1 Joel Llopiz

Woods Hole

Oceanographic

Institution

Vignettes in fish early life history: from the

Sargasso Sea to your local New England pond

March 8 Katherin

Ford

Massachusetts Division

of Marine Fisheries

Assessing Eelgrass Loss in Duxbury, Kingston,

and Plymouth Bays

March 22 Anna Malek CFRF

Fishermen as Research Partners: Case Studies

from the Lobster, Jonah Crab, Quahog, and

Black Sea Bass Fisheries in Southern New

England

March 29 Diego Bernal UMassD Biology Dept. Stressed Out Sharks: What are the Consequences

of Being Captured?

April 5 Bob Glenn Massachusetts Division

of Marine Fisheries Assessment of Massachusetts Marine Fisheries

April 12 Rob Drew UMassD Biology Dept. Genetic Variation Among Fish Populations

April 19 Austin

Humphries

University of Rhode

Island

Socioecological outcomes from fisheries

management in coastal Anthropocene reef

systems: moving from impacts to solutions

3

Fall 2016 Seminar Series

DATE SPEAKER DFO / DEOS

AFFILIATION TITLE

Wednesday, Sept. 7

Changshen Chen

DFO UMass Dartmouth,

SMAST

"A Multi-scale Global-Basin-Coastal- Estuarine Integrated Model System:

Development and Applications"

Wednesday, Sept. 14

Steven Lentz

DEOS/DFO

Woods Hole

Oceanographic Institution

"Seasonal Warming of the Middle Atlantic Bight Cold Pool"

(Joint Seminar with Department of

Fisheries Oceanography)

Wednesday,

Sept. 21

William Schwab

DEOS

United States

Geological Survey

"Hurricanes and Coastal Flooding Hazards - The Intersection of the Media, Politics, and Science: An

Example from Fire Island, New York"

Wednesday, Sept. 21

Mike Stokesbury

DFO

Acadia University

"Predicting and quantifying interactions between in-stream tidal

power turbines and migrating Atlantic sturgeon"

Wednesday, Sept. 28

Kerry Emanuel

DEOS Massachusetts Institute

of Technology "Climate Change and New England

Hurricanes"

Wednesday, Sept. 28

Jason Boucher

DFO Northeast Fisheries

Science Center "Larval transport"

Wednesday, Oct. 5

Jaime Palter

DEOS

University of Rhode Island, Graduate

School of Oceanography

"Global Climate Impacts of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning

Circulation"

Wednesday, Oct. 5

Greg Skomal

DFO

MA Marine Fisheries "Seeing deeper: Using autonomous

tracking to study the subsurface behavior of sharks"

Wednesday,

Oct. 12

Kenneth

Brink

DEOS

Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

"Cooling W inds and Eddies Over the

Continental Shelf"

Wednesday, Oct. 12

Emory Anderson

DFO Retired NOAA, ICES "Lessons from a career in fisheries

science"

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Wednesday,

Oct. 19

Raymond Schmitt

DEOS Woods Hole

Oceanographic Institution

"Salinity and the Global Water Cycle:

a New Predictor of Terrestrial Rainfall"

Wednesday, Oct. 19

Jenn Abelson

DFO Boston Globe Spotlight

Team "Fishy Business: Seafood mislabeling

at restaurants and grocery stores"

Wednesday, Oct. 26

Sarah Gaichas

DFO Northeast Fisheries

Science Center

"Simulating Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management: can results from model-world inform real life"

Wednesday,

Nov. 2

Vivien

Menezes

DEOS

Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

"Accelerated Freshening of Antarctic Bottom Waters over the Last Decade (2016-2007) in the Southern Indian

Ocean"

Wednesday, Nov. 2

Mark Dickey- Collas

DFO International Council for the Exploration of the

Sea

"ICES approach to providing the knowledge for ecosystem based

fisheries management"

Wednesday,

Nov. 16

Michael

Armstrong

DEOS/DFO

Massachusetts Marine

Fisheries

“From Snails to Whales: The Challenge of Managing Marine

Species with Diverse Life Histories”

(Joint Seminar with Department of

Fisheries Oceanography)

Wednesday, Nov. 23

Erin Adams DFO Sea Education

Association Sailing for Science with Sea

Education Association

Wednesday, Nov. 30

Farid Karimpour

DEOS UMass Dartmouth

College of Engineering "Turbulent Mixing in Density-Stratified

Wall-bounded Flows"

Wednesday, Nov. 30

Jason Link DFO National Marine

Fisheries Service CANCELLED

Wednesday, Dec. 7

Maureen Conte

DEOS Marine Biological

Laboratory

"Particle Flux in the Ocean's Interior: Insights from the Oceanic Flux Program (OFP) Time Series"

Wednesday, Dec. 7

Walt Golet

DFO University of Rhode

Island

"Understanding the Life History of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna in the Gulf of

Maine"

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SMAST Spring 2016 Seminar Series

DATE

SPEAKER

DFO

DEOS

AFFILIATION

TITLE

Wednesday,

Jan. 27

Anthony

Kirincich

DEOS

WHOI

The importance of lateral variability on exchange across the inner shelf

Wednesday,

Jan. 27

Brian

Rothschild

DFO

SMAST,

UMass

Dartmouth

On The Evolution of Fish-

Population Dynamics

Wednesday,

Feb. 3

Sivappa

Rasapalli

UMASSD

Chem

Marine Bioprospecting

and Natural Product

Research: The

Investigation of Novel

Marine Microorganisms

for the Production of

Biologically Active

Metabolites

Wednesday,

Feb. 3

Heather

Goldstone

DFO

WCAI-NPR

All Climate is Local:

Lessons in

Communicating Science

to the Public

Wednesday,

Feb. 10

Toby

Stapleton

DEOS

UMASSD CIE

Center for Innovation and

Entrepreneurship

Wednesday,

Feb. 10

David

Bethoney

DFO

SMAST

Canadian Sea Cucumber

Survey

6

Wednesday,

Feb. 17

Paul

Gendron

DEOS

UMASSD ECE

Time varying and sparse underater acoustic response estimation

Wednesday,

Feb. 17

Steve

Cadrin

DFO

UMASSD-

SMAST

Management strategies

for mixed-species

commercial, recreational

and subsistence fisheries

Wednesday,

Feb. 24

Jennifer

Koop

DFO

UMASSD-Bio

Darwin’s finches under attack: understanding the invasion of the parasitic nest

Wednesday,

Mar. 2

Ramprasad

Bala

DEOS

UMASSD CEO

AUV Autonomy Research

Wednesday,

Mar. 2

Torild

Johansen

DFO

HIMR/Norway

Groundfish genetic stock structure

Wednesday,

Mar. 9

Roger Race

DEOS

Boston Eng

TBD

Wednesday,

Mar. 9

Micah Dean

DFO

DMF

An Industry-based survey

for Gulf of Maine cod

Wednesday,

Mar. 23

Dana

Brown

DEOS

UMASSD,

SMAST

TBD

Wednesday,

Mar. 23

Joshua

Wrigley

DFO

NOAA Affiliate

Oral History in the

Fisheries: Its Uses and

Methodologies

Wednesday,

Mar. 30

Amit

Tandon

DEOS

UMASSD MNE

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Wednesday,

Mar. 30

Eric

Chapman

DFO

University of

New England

Integrating ecology with economy

Wednesday,

Apr. 6

David Glass

DFO

Pursuing commercial and societal benefits from your research: Umass Dartmouth program for intellectual property protection and industry relations

Wednesday,

Apr. 13

Mary

Hensel

DEOS

UMASSD

Research trends and the funding behind them

Wednesday,

Apr. 13

David

Richardson

DFO

Discovery of a spawning

ground reveals diverse

migration strategies in

Atlantic bluefin tuna

(Thunnus thynnus)

Wednesday,

Apr. 20

Pia

Moisander

DEOS

UMASSD BIO

Biogeochemical roles of

bacteria in association

with marine copepods

Wednesday,

Apr. 20

Dan

Georgianna

DFO

UMASSD

SMAST

Groundfish and Scallop

Processing: A tale of two

fisheries

Wednesday,

Apr. 27

Alfa

Heryudono

DEOS

UMASSD Math

A Reduced Meshless

Collocation Method for

Partial Differential

Equations on irregular

domains

Wednesday,

Apr. 27

Chris

Chambers

DFO

Sandy Hook

Labs NEFSC

Effects of elevated CO2

on the early life-stages of

marine fishes and

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potential consequences

of ocean acidification

Wednesday,

May 4

Mehdi

Raessi

DEOS

UMASSD MNE

TBD

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SMAST Fall 2015 Seminar Series

DATE SPEAKER DFO/DEOS AFFILIATION TITLE

Wednesday, Sept. 2 (3:30 PM, Room

157, SMAST II, Fairhaven)

Douglas Sigourney

Special NOAA Fisheries NEFSC

Developing species

distribution models for large whales to inform marine spatial

planning

Wednesday, Sept. 9

James Bisagni DEOS/DFO SMAST, UMass Dartmouth

Salinity variability along the eastern continental shelf of Canada and

the United States, 1973-

2013

Wednesday, Sept. 16

Judith Rosellon Druker

DFO SMAST, UMass Dartmouth

Description of echinoderm populations

on Georges Bank and the potential modifying role of Marine Protected

Areas on these populations

Wednesday, Sept. 16

Corey Eddy Special Biology, UMass Dartmouth

The feeding ecology of

invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans

& P. miles) in Bermuda

Wednesday, Sept. 16

Heidi Diersen DEOS UConn TBA

Wednesday, Sept. 23

Michael Bednarski

DFO MA Division of Marine Fisheries

Responses of diadromous

fishes to passage improvements in

the Mill River, Taunton,

Massachusetts

Wednesday, Sept. 23

Brian Howes DEOS SMAST, UMass Dartmouth

Estuarine restoration and management

Wednesday, Sept. 30

Jason McNamee

Special Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management

Creating tools for ecosystem

management: Development of a

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multi-species statistical catch- at-age model for

a mid-Atlantic species complex

Wednesday, Sept. 30

Baylor Fox- Kemper

Special Brown University

TBA

Wednesday, Oct. 7

Janet Nye Special Stony Brook University

What can climate change tell us

about ecological processes?

Wednesday, Oct. 7

Mark Altabet DEOS SMAST, UMass Dartmouth

At-sea measurement of N2/Ar ratio for

studying N-loss processes in

Mexican OMZ

Wednesday, Oct.14

David Bethoney

DFO SMAST, UMass Dartmouth

TBA

Wednesday, Oct. 14

Evan Howard Special MIT TBA

Wednesday, Oct. 21

Tracey Dalton Special University of Rhode Island

Evaluating the social and ecological

performance of MPAs in the Caribbean

Wednesday, Oct. 28

John Walden Special NOAA Fisheries NEFSC

Measuring capacity

utilization in the New England

ground fishery: How has it

changed and what does it

mean?

Wednesday, Oct. 28

Miles Sundermeyer

DEOS SMAST, UMass Dartmouth

Observations of Dye Dispersion in

the Seasonal Pycnocline

Wednesday, Nov. 4

Jennifer Brewer

Special University of New Hampshire

Alternate futures for the New

England groundfishery? Social learning, Accountability,

and Polycentrism

Wednesday, Nov. 4

Craig Tobias Special UConn TBA

Wednesday, Nov. 18

Avijit Gangopadhyay

DEOS SMAST, UMass Dartmouth

The Western boundary

currents in the Bay of Bengal:

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Past, present, and future

Wednesday, Nov. 18

Jamie Tam Special NOAA Fisheries NEFSC

Thresholds of ecological

indicators in multiple

ecosystems: Determining

reference points for ecosystem-

based management

Wednesday, Dec. 2

Olaf Jensen Special Rutgers University

Meta-analysis of marine fisheries using the RAM Legacy Stock Assessment

Database

Wednesday, Dec. 2

Wendell Brown DEOS SMAST, UMass Dartmouth

TBA

Wednesday, Dec. 9

Ken Brink DEOS WHOI Continental shelf

baraclinic instability

energized by the wind

Wednesday, Dec. 9

Pinggou He DFO SMAST, UMass Dartmouth

Selective fishing and balanced fishing: Where are we going from here?

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SMAST Spring 2015 Seminar Series

DATE SPEAKER DFO/DEOS AFFILIATION TITLE

Tuesday, January 20 (11:00 AM,

Room 325A, SMAST II, Fairhaven)

Robert Griffin Special Stanford University

Ecosystem service

modeling in service of

marine spatial planning

Wednesday, January 28

John Walden DFO POSTPONED NOAA Fisheries/SMAST

Productivity change in

northeast U.S. catch share

fisheries

Wednesday, January 28

Ilson Silveira DEOS POSTPONED University of São Paulo

20th anniversary of the discovery

of the North Brazil

Undercurrent: What have we learned since

then?

Friday, January 30

Jim Yoder et al.

Special Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

Briefing on the National

Research Council's

Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences

Wednesday, February 4

Kathryn Ford DFO MA Division of Marine Fisheries

Eelgrass mapping using a

low-cost sidescan sonar

unit

Wednesday, February 4

Scott Wankel DEOS Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

Bringing the isotope lab to

the deep: Advances in

deep-sea instrumentation

for biogeochemistry

Wednesday, February 11

Steven Lohrenz

DEOS/DFO SMAST, UMassD

Assessing impacts of

climate and land use change on

terrestrial-ocean fluxes of carbon and nNutrients

and their cycling

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in coastal ecosystems

Wednesday, February 18

Holly Moeller DFO Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

Habitat damage, marine

reserves, and the value of

spatial management

Wednesday, February 18

Ilson Silveira DEOS University of São Paulo

20th anniversary of the discovery

of the North Brazil

Undercurrent: What have we learned since

then?

Wednesday, February 25

Magdalena Andres

DEOS Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

Interannual temperature

variability in the MAB from

Oleander XBT data

Wednesday, February 25

Scott Steinback

DFO NOAA Fisheries NEFSC

Applying a bioeconomic

model to recreational

fisheries management:

Cod and haddock in the

northeast United States

Wednesday, March 4

Yizhen Li DEOS Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

Seasonal and interannual

variability of Gulf of Maine coastal circulation and its couplings with regional harmful algal

blooms

Wednesday, March 4

Erik Olsen DFO Institute of Marine

Research, Norway

Marine spatial planning, global

trends and insights from Norwegian

implementations

Wednesday, March 11

Mak Saito DEOS Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

Strategies of metal

conservation in marine microbes

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Wednesday, March 11

Kristin Kleisner

DFO The Nature Conservancy /

NOAA Fisheries NEFSC

Past, present, and future shifts

in marine fish assemblages in

response to regional climate velocities and physiographic

constraints

Wednesday, March 25

Geoff Cowles DFO/DEOS DFO, SMAST, UMassD

Optimizing tidal kinetic energy

generation across multiple

scales

Wednesday, April 1

Elizabeth Winiarz

DEOS UMassD Scholarly publishing - How

to evaluate open access publishers

Wednesday, April 1

Ken Foote DFO Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

Active sonar technology for

observing marine

organisms and their habitat

Wednesday, April 8

Jessica Carilli DEOS UMass Boston Human alteration of

coastal water quality, and impacts on marine life

Wednesday, April 8

ZhongPing Lee

DFO UMass Boston Secchi depth and underwater

visibility: Correcting a 60-

year old misinterpretation

Wednesday, April 15

Cynthia Pilskaln

DEOS DEOS, SMAST, UMassD

Carbon flux dynamics in the Gulf of Maine

and POC budget for the

Northwest Atlantic margin

Wednesday, April 15

Jonathan

Deroba

DFO NOAA Fisheries

NEFSC When “data” are

not data: The pitfalls of post- hoc analyses that use stock assessment model output

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Wednesday, April 22

Peter Cornillon

DEOS University of Rhode Island

CANCELLED

Wednesday, April 22

Catherine O'Keefe

DFO DFO, SMAST, UMassD

Incorporating industry input to improve fishery dependent data collections in the

Northeast

Wednesday, April 29

Yun Li DEOS Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

Stratification on the Northwest Atlantic shelf: Climatology, interannual

variability and biological

implications

Wednesday, April 29

Lisa Kerr DFO Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Evaluating the implications of

movement dynamics and

life history uncertainty on

exploitation and population

dynamics of Atlantic bluefin

tuna

14

SMAST Fall 2014 Seminar Series

DATE SPEAKER DFO/DEOS AFFILIATION TITLE

Wednesday, September 10

Marcos Santos DEOS Oceanographic Institute, University of São Paulo

New perspectives on partnerships in ocean

sciences in Brazil

Wednesday, September 10

Paul Winger DFO Memorial University of Newfoundland

Building a better trap for snow crab: A review of

recent Canadian selectivity and behavioural experiments

Wednesday, September 17

Joan M. Bernhard

DEOS Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

Ocean acidification, hypoxia and warming: Experimental and field

investigations into multi- stressor effects on

benthic foraminifera

Wednesday, September 17

NO DFO SEMINAR (ICES

ASC)

Wednesday, September 24

Annie Bourbonnais

DEOS DEOS/SMAST/UMassD N-loss isotope effects in the Peru oxygen

minimum zone studied using a mesoscale eddy

as a natural tracer experiment

Wednesday, September 24

Kevin Stokesbury

DFO DFO/SMAST/UMassD Use of the SAFE Index to evaluate the status of a summer aggregation of Atlantic sturgeon in Minas Basin, Canada and the implication of the index for the USA endangered species

designation of Atlantic and shortnose

sturgeons

Wednesday, October 1

Andy Pershing DEOS/DFO Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Response of the Gulf of Maine ecosystem and fisheries to rapid

warming

Wednesday, October 8

Fei Chai DEOS University of Maine Understanding and modeling natural and

artificial iron fertilization in the Pacific Ocean

Wednesday, October 8

Steve Cadrin DFO DFO/SMAST/UMassD Managing New England fisheries in the context

of climate change

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Wednesday, October 15

Crsytal Schaaf DEOS UMass Boston Validation of biomass estimates with terrestrial

lidar

Wednesday, October 15

Gavin Fay DFO DFO/SMAST/UMassD Including regime shifts in fisheries

assessments and harvest

recommendations using Markov switching

models

Wednesday, October 22

Melissa Omand DEOS Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

Eddy-driven subduction of particulate carbon

during the North Atlantic spring bloom

Wednesday, October 22

Kevin Friedland DFO NOAA Layered effects of parental condition and larval survival on the

recruitment of neighboring haddock

stocks

Wednesday, October 29

Anne Cohen DEOS Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

Too much of a good thing: Fossil fuels and the fate of coral reefs

Wednesday, October 29

Jenny Sun DFO Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Groundfish sectors business viability

assessment: Analyzing the time-value of the

ACE leasing price and the utilization of ACE

Wednesday, November 5

Brian Rothschild

DFO DFO/SMAST/UMassD Rewriting the Magnuson-Stevens Act

Wednesday, November 12

John Manderson

DFO NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Cooperative Research Program

Is there a 3rd way toward ecosystem based assessment

supporting sustainable fisheries?

Wednesday, November 19

Brian Helmuth DEOS Northeastern University Knowns, unknowns and unknown unknowns:

Ecological forecasting in coastal zones

Wednesday, November 19

Doug Zemeckis DFO DFO/SMAST/UMassD Spawning dynamics of Atlantic cod in

Massachusetts Bay

Wednesday, November 26

NO DEOS SEMINAR

Wednesday, November 26

NO DFO SEMINAR

Wednesday, December 3

Sumit Chakraborty

DEOS DEOS/SMAST/UMassD

Phytoplankton community dynamics in

the river-influenced continental margin of the northern Gulf of

Mexico

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Wednesday, December 3

Rich Langton DFO

NOAA The Buccoo Reef Trust: A story of success and failure for a Caribbean

marine NGO

17

SMAST Spring 2014 Seminar Series

DATE SPEAKER DFO/DEO

S AFFILIATION TITLE

Wednesday, January 29

Jon Hare DFO NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science

Center

Climate change and marine fisheries:

Past, present, and future

Wednesday, January 29

NO DEOS SEMINAR

Wednesday, February 5

Kenneth Foote

DFO Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

Acoustic quantification of

marine organisms, including a developing

application with parametric sonar

Wednesday, February

5 Postponed to May 2

Joe Iafrate and

Stephanie Watwood

DEOS (jointly with

Marine System Seminar Series)

Naval Undersea Warfare Center

Behavioral response of fish and sea

turtles to anthropogenic

activities

Wednesday, February 12

Jason Boucher

DFO DFO/SMAST/UMassD & Shanghai Ocean

University

Potential for range extensions

of calanus copepod s in the Arctic: A

case study for 2012

Wednesday, February 12

Wendell Brown

DEOS DEOS/SMAST/UMass D

Defining the Mid- Atlantic Cold Pool with ocean gliders

Wednesday, February 19

Kevin Friedland

DFO National Marine Fisheries Service,

Narragansett Laboratory

The Northeast Continental Shelf spring bloom with

particular reference to plankton

dynamics in the Gulf of Maine

Wednesday, February 19

NO DEOS SEMINAR

Wednesday, February 26

Gregory Skomal

DFO Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries

New insights into the ecology of the

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white shark in the western North

Atlantic

Wednesday, March 5

Jeff Kneebone

DFO Zeptometrix Corporation/A.I.S., Inc.

Movement patterns, coastal migration,

and stock composition of adult striped bass Morone saxatilis tagged in

Massachusetts coastal waters

Wednesday, March 5

Rodney Rountree

DEOS Fish Ecology/UMass Amherst

Sounds from the Amazon: Piranha

and other river creatures

Wednesday, Marc h 12

Dorothy Jane Dankel

DFO University of Bergen, Center for the Study of

the Science and the Humanities

& the Institute of Marine Research

Social network analysis of ICES'

scientists and ICES bureaucrats: Do we have the institutional

ecology that ecosystem science

for advice demands?

Wednesday, March 12

Michael Lomas

DEOS Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences

Do we have the BIO in Biogeochemistry

correct?

Wednesday, March 26

Chrissy Petitpas

DFO DFO/SMAST/UMassD Trophic interactions and PSP toxin

transport in marine food chains during

harmful algal blooms

of Alexandrium fundyense

Wednesday, March 26 CANCELLED

DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER

Joe Iafrate and

Stephanie Watwood

DEOS (jointly with

Marine System Seminar Series)

Naval Undersea Warfare Center

Behavioral response of fish and sea

turtles to anthropogenic

activities

Wednesday, April 2 Anne Richards

DFO NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science

Center

A shrimp's tale: Northern shrimp in the Gulf of Maine

Wednesday, April 2 Glen Gawarkiewic

z

DEOS Woods Hole Oceanographi

c Institution

Fronts and fish: Recent observations from Cape Hatteras

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Wednesday, April 9 John W. Mandelman

DFO New England Aquarium

Unwanted but not forgotten: The

nature and importance of

incidental (bycatch) mortality in fisheries

Wednesday, April 9 Mark Altabet DEOS DEOS/SMAST/UMass D

Extreme nitrogen loss in a Peru

mesoscale eddy

Wednesday, April 16

Sam Laney DFO Biology Department, Woods Hole

Oceanographic Institution

New insight into polar phytoplankton

through autonomous technologies

Wednesday, April 23

Kimberly Hyde

DFO NOAA/NMFS/NEFSC The importance of phytoplankton size

on modeling fisheries production

Wednesday, April 23

James Bird DEOS Boston University The drainage and

rupture of interfacial bubbles

Wednesday, April 30

Susan Inglis DFO DFO/SMAST/UMassD What causes gray meat in the Atlantic

sea scallop in Georges Bank closed areas?

Wednesday, April 30

Malcolm Scully

DEOS Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering,

Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution

Langmuir circulation and turbulence in Chesapeake Bay

Friday, May 2 Joe Iafrate & Stephanie Watwood

DEOS Naval Undersea Warfare Center

Behavioral response of Fish and Sea

Turtles to Anthropogenic

Activities

Wednesday, May 30

Dianne Quigley

DEOS Brown University Presentation of SMAST course development for

graduate training in marine science

ethics

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SMAST Fall 2013 Seminar Series

DATE SPEAKER DFO/DEOS AFFILIATION TITLE

Wednesda y,

September 4

Steve Cadrin

DFO DFO/SMAST/UMassD Incorporating environment

al change into stock

assessment and fishery

management

Wednesda y,

September 11

Ferdi Hellweger

DEOS Northeastern University Agent-based N cycle

modeling

Wednesda y,

September 18

Eduard Eichner

DEOS Senior Water Scientist Developing total

maximum daily loads

(TMDLs) and the Clean Water Act: Where law, regulation,

and science meet

Wednesda y,

September 18

Marie C. Martin

DFO NOAA Ecoystem Assessment Program Relating seabird

breeding productivity to regime shift in the

Gulf of Maine: Case

of Atlantic puffin and arctic tern

Wednesda y,

September 25

Jefferson Turner

DFO DFO/SMAST/UMassD Zooplankton fecal pellets, marine snow, phytodetritus,

and the ocean's

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biological pump

Wednesda y,

September 25

Supriya Chakrabar

ti

DEOS University of Massachusetts Lowell An overview of optics and

space technology

for astrophysics

and environment al studies at

UMass Lowell

Wednesda y, October

2

Yong Chen

DFO School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine-Orono

Use of computer

simulation to improve fisheries

management

Wednesda y, October

2

Camille David

DEOS DEOS/SMAST/UMassD Eutrophicatio n in a coastal pond: Role of

tidal exchange and inlet migration

Wednesda y, October

9

DFO SEMINAR

CANCELLE D

Wednesda y, October

9

Ron Etter DEOS Biology Dept., UMass Boston Evolution in the deep

Atlantic: A molecular genetic

perspective

Tuesday, October 15,

4:00 PM, Rm 108, SMAST I

Chuck Ciany

DEOS (jointly with

Marine System Seminar Series)

Raytheon Sonar signal processing

and its application to commercial and military

uses

Wednesda y, October

16

NO DFO SEMINAR

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Wednesda y, October

23

James Sulikowski

DFO Marine Science Department, University of New England

Has the New England

commercial fishing

industry gone to the dogs?

Wednesda y, October

23

Pia H. Moisander

DEOS Department of Biology, UMass Dartmouth

New microbial

contributors to the marine

nitrogen fixation:

Locations, habitats, and

diversity

Wednesda y, October 30, 3:00

PM

Gordon Munro

DFO Vancouver School of Economics/UBC Catch share schemes,

cooperating fishermen,

and the theory of dynamic coalition games

Wednesda y,

November 6

William Duffy

DFO Population Dynamics Branch, NMFS/NEFSC/READ/PDB, Woods Hole

An analysis of the current method for

ageing American

shad (Alosa sapidissima),

with a new validated

method using otoliths

Wednesda y,

November 6

Dale Leavitt

DEOS Roger Williams University The oyster is dead ... long

live the oyster

Wednesda y,

November 13

Kiersten L. Curti

DFO Population Dynamics Branch, NMFS/NEFSC/READ/PDB,Woo

ds Hole

Age- Structured

Multispecies Model of the

Georges Bank Fish

Community

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Wednesda y,

November 13

Sudip Majumder

DEOS DEOS/Physics, SMAST, UMassD Near-inertial kinetic energy

budget of the mixed layer

and the transition

layer using data from the Arabian Sea

mooring

Wednesda y,

November 20

Vincent Saba

DFO NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service

Climate driven

variability of phytoplankto n biomass in the United

States Northeast

Shelf

Wednesda y,

December 4

Michael Judge

DFO Manhattan College Invasion of the western

North Atlantic shoreline by the exotic

crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus:

Lotka- Volterra

competition model with

discontinuou s carrying capacity function captures invasion

dynamics

Wednesda y,

December 4

David Clark

DEOS Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Wave generated vorticity in

the surfzone: helicopters, mega cusps, and the Ring

of Doom

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CINAR Candidate Seminars

DATE SPEAKER DFO/DEOS AFFILIATION TITLE

Thursday, August 15,

2013

Zhenming Su, CINAR

Assistant/Associate Professor Candidate

DFO Institute for Fisheries Research, University

of Michigan

Hierarchical modeling: A

powerful framework for fisheries

research

Monday, August 19,

2013

Richard Bell, CINAR Assistant/Associate Professor Candidate

DFO National Marine Fisheries Service, Narragansett Lab

Externally driven

changes in the

abundance of

summer and winter flounder.

Wednesday, August 21,

2013

Gavin Fay, CINAR Assistant/Associate Professor Candidate

DFO NOAA/NMFS/NEFSC, Woods Hole

Confronting uncertainty: Quantitative approaches for managing living marine

resources

Monday, August 26,

2013

John Wiedenmann, CINAR Assistant/Associate Professor Candidate

DFO Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences,

Rutgers

Sustainable management

of marine resources: From the U.S. to

Antarctica

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SMAST Spring 2013 Seminar Series

DATE SPEAKER DFO/DEOS AFFILIATION TITLE

January 30 Alex Haro DEOS/DFO US Geological Survey DEOS/DFO joint seminar hosted by DEOS: The

“other” bioengineering: Fish passage research and the restoration

of migratory fish populations

Abstract

January 30 DFO Seminar Cancelled

DFO

February 6 John Walden Special (11:00 am, Room 2-

156, SMAST II (AT&T)

NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science

Center

Measuring fishery profitability change: An index number

approach

February 6 Sandy Shumway DFO University of Connecticut

Mitigating coastal eutrophication – are

filter-feeding shellfish the

answer?

February 6 Louis St. Laurent DEOS WHOI, Physical Oceanography

The Kuroshio Current, internal

waves, and turbulence in the Luzon Strait and South China Sea

February 13 Porter Hoagland DEOS/DFO WHOI Marine Policy Center

DEOS/DFO joint seminar hosted

by DEOS: Shoreline change in

Massachusetts: Some policy perspectives

February 15 Greg Goss Special (11:00 am, Room 204, SMAST I)

Univ. of Alberta Protecting our water through

multidisciplinary research: The

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University of Alberta Water Initiative

February 20 Doug Zemeckis DFO DFO/SMAST/UMassD Stock identification of Atlantic cod

(Gadus morhua) in

U.S. waters: An interdisciplinary

approach

February 20 DEOS

Seminar Cancelled

February 27 Craig O'Connell DFO DFO/SMAST/UMassD Recent progress in elasmobranch

electromagnetic repellent research

February 27 Melanie Fewings DEOS University of Connecticut

Atmospheric Wind Relaxations and the Oceanic Response

in the California Current Large

Marine Ecosystem

March 6 Svein Sundby DFO IMR (Norway) Turbulence and plankton contact

rates – Where are we 25 years later

March 6 Ke Chen DEOS WHOI Numerical investigation of the

Middle Atlantic Bight shelf-break frontal circulation and its interaction with a warm core ring

March 11 Jim Hanlon (Halifax Marine

Research Institute), Marlon Lewis (Dalhousie University), Doug

Wallace (Dalhousie University)

Special Seminar (11:30 am-

1:00 pm, Rm 204, SMAST

I)

Ocean technology activities in Nova Scotia, Canada

March 13 Hauke Kite- Powell

DFO/DEOS WHOI DFO/DEOS joint seminar hosted

by DFO: "The role of small-scale aquaculture in

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economic development in East

Africa."

March 20 Spring

Recess - NO

Seminars

March 26 Michel Mahiques Special Seminar (12:30 pm, Rm 204, SMAST I)

University of São Paulo

The geological record of the

anthropogenic activity in SE Brazil: Three study cases

March 27 Geret DePiper Marine Economics

Series

Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Supporting ecosystem-based

fisheries management

through economic portfolios analysis

March 27 B. N. Goswami Special Seminar (12:30 pm. Rm 108, SMAST I)

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology

The Indian summer monsoon in a

changing climate - A weakening

present and an uncertain future

April 3 Ann Bucklin DFO University of Connecticut

Population connectivity of zooplankton: Ecological,

evolutionary and oceanographic interpretations

April 3 Kathryn Bisack Marine Economics

Series

Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Economics of non- compliance with

fisheries regulations

April 5 (Fri.) John Marshall Special Seminar (12:30 pm, Rm 204, SMAST I)

MIT Why is the ITCZ north of the equator?

April 10 Saang-Yoon Hyun

DFO DFO/SMAST/UMassD The general production model

with multiple survey data and without

arbitrary constraints: Illustration with

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Georges Bank yellowtail flounder

April 10 Andone Lavery DEOS WHOI Acoustic scattering and propagation in

strongly salt- stratified shear

flows

April 10 Tammy Murphy Marine Economics

Series

Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Socioeconomic surveys

April 17 Heidi Eastman DEOS Global Learning Charter School

Port to Port: Placed- based Experiential

Learning

April 17 Scott Steinback Marine Economics

Series

Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Are survey respondents liars?

Comparing hypothetical and real nonmarket

valuation responses

April 24 Geoff Cowles DFO SMAST/DFO Assessing computational

models of trawl gear

April 24 Cindy Lee DEOS SUNY Stony Brook Future research in particle

biogeochemistry: Technological

challenges

April 24 Eric Thunberg Marine Economics

Series

Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Economic analysis of safety at sea

May 1 Owen Nichols DFO DFO/SMAST/UMassD When, where, and sometimes why: Environmental

effects on longfin inshore squid

distribution and implications for

fisheries management

May 1 Justin Kirkpatrick Marine Economics

Series

Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Economics of wind energy on the East

Coast

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