Seminar Series – Fall 2015 Date Name Institution Title September 18 Simon Thorrold Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Towards a predictive understanding of connectivity in ocean ecosystems September 25 Heidi Dierssen UConn Marine Sciences How Green is “Blue Carbon”?: Optics and Carbon Dynamics in Seagrass Ecosystems October 2 Adam Sobel Columbia University Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation October 9 Thomas Kiørboe Technical University of Denmark A trait based approach to zooplankton ecology October 16 Ramón Filgueira Dalhousie University Ecosystem modelling for ecosystem-based management of aquaculture sites October 23 Joerg Graf UConn Molecular & Cell Biology Insights into the Composition and Function of Microbial Communities through Next-Generation Sequencing October 30 Deborah Robertson Clark University Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Nitrogen Assimilation in Marine Diatoms November 6 Nils Volkenborn Stony Brook University Explorations beneath the surface: How burrowing organisms affect the function of the seafloor November 13 Piero Mazzini Rutgers University Impact of river runoff in the coastal ocean: A glider perspective November 20 Shungu Garaba UConn Marine Sciences Ocean Colour Remote Sensing – Towards remote sensing of plastic debris November 27 no seminar December 4 Raffaele Ferrari Massachusetts Institute of Technology cancelled December 11 Oliver Zielinski ICBM University of Oldenberg UV-sensing of dissolved substances along gradients in the marine environment Seminars are held on Friday mornings at 11:00 am in Room 103 of the Marine Sciences Building at the Avery Point Campus, Groton, CT