Seminars – Page 13 – Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

Webinar – Ocean ecology of steelhead as revealed by pop-up satellite archival tags – April 9th

January 20, 2020April 17, 2020Mina Sattari

Emily is interested in how the interactions between organisms and their environment change over space and time. She especially enjoys research questions that help us understand migration ecology and that inform the conservation of California species and ecosystems. Her tools of choice to answer these questions are biotelemetry and stable isotope ecology. Emily is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Conservation Research Department at Monterey Bay Aquarium, where she has worked for the past two years. In this position, she has worked on several projects studying the historical ecology of sea turtles and marine macroalgae, fish ocean movements, and fisheries. Before joining the Monterey Bay Aquarium, she graduated with a PhD in Ecology from U.C. Davis and a Masters from Columbia University in Conservation Biology. Her dissertation involved tagging and tracking green and white sturgeon in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento River to examine spatial niche partitioning. Emily is also interested in communicating science to a wide audience though data visualizations and art.

Webinar-Beyond the Waves at “Mortuary Beach:” The Secret Lives of Fishes off Monterey’s Most Feared Beach – April 16th

January 20, 2020April 21, 2020Caroline Rodriguez

Dr. James Lindholm is the James W. Rote Distinguished Professor of Marine Science and Policy and the Chair of the Department of Marine Science at California State University Monterey Bay. He also serves the Chair of the Research Diving Program.

A native Californian, Dr. Lindholm attended California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo for his undergraduate studies, and Boston University for graduate school (both MA and PhD). He then completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Undersea Research Center at the University of Connecticut, before taking a job with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Dr. Lindholm has conducted research around the world, including the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean, Caribbean and Red Seas, using technologies ranging from ROVs, AUVs and HOVs to SCUBA and drift camera systems. His research interests include the landscape ecology of fishes, design and evaluation of spatial management regimes, and the ecological effects of fishing.

Dr. Lindholm has published a textbook, Dynamic Modeling for Marine Conservation (with Springer Verlag) and 39 research articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. His first novel, a thriller titled Into a Canyon Deep, was published in Summer 2017. The sequel, Blood Cold, was published in December 2018. He is now working on Dead Men's Silence, Chris Black's third adventure.

Webinar-Research, Teaching, and Mentoring: Musings of a generalist optimist – April 23rd

January 20, 2020April 24, 2020Mina Sattari

Director Jim Harvey, has taught at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories since 1989. Himself a 1979 graduate of the Moss Landing Masters program, he returned to chair the Vertebrate Ecology Lab after obtaining a Ph.D. in Oceanography (with minors in Wildlife Ecology and Statistics) at Oregon State University in 1987, and completing a NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship with NOAA’s National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, Washington, in 1989.

Dr. Harvey’s research interests include the ecology, morphology, and behavior of marine mammals, birds, and turtles; VHF/satellite-telemetry; marine mammal/fisheries interactions; vertebrate sampling techniques and experimental design; age and growth; population and trophic dynamics; and marine mammal stranding studies. His past research has included studies of population dynamics, food consumption, and behavior of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina); behavior of rehabilitated harbor seals released to the wild; use of acoustical deterrents in marine mammal/fisheries conflicts; radio-tagging gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus); and potential effects of toxic pollution on harbor seal health and reproduction. He was involved in the responses to a 1979 mass stranding of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) on the Oregon coast, the 1988 entrapment of three gray whales in the ice near Barrow, Alaska, and the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

Currently, Dr. Harvey’s research includes studies regarding feeding ecology of California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) and Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardii); pinniped/fishery interactions; assessing natural and anthropogenic changes in populations of birds, mammals, and turtles in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary; and development of remote attachment and release mechanisms for data recorders on cetaceans, pinnipeds, and sea turtles.

Dr. Harvey serves on a federally-mandated Task Force devoted to sea lion/steelhead fisheries interactions at the Ballard Locks in Washington. He is a member of the Research Activity Panel for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the Reserve Advisory Committee for the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, and the Research Advisory Committee for The Marine Mammal Center.

Corals as predators: New perspectives on the trophic ecology of reef-building corals -December 5th

August 21, 2019August 24, 2022Mina Sattari

Galapagos corals: Canaries in the coal mine-August 29th

August 20, 2019September 23, 2024Mina Sattari

Dr. Logan is an Associate Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at California State University, Monterey Bay. Her research focuses on the physiological mechanisms that marine animals use to survive in their environments, from the biochemical to the whole organismal level. In the face of climate change, understanding the mechanistic basis for why species ranges are shifting is fundamental to predicting which species will be the “winners” and “losers” in our changing environment. She studies how ecologically important fish and invertebrates regulate their physiology in response to temperature, hypoxia and ocean acidification associated with climate change.

Tracking fish and fisheries for ocean management-September 5th

August 20, 2019August 24, 2022Mina Sattari

Tim is a fisheries scientist who works with governments, academic partners, and environmental groups to support fisheries management and conservation. He has tracked fishing vessels, reef sharks, white sharks, and other vulnerable species to inform their management. Before joining Global Fishing Watch, Tim earned a PhD at Stanford and worked as a fisheries observer aboard Bering Sea crab boats, a research diver at the University of Alaska and the National Park Service, and a fisheries researcher in the U.S. and Kiribati. Tim loves fishing, surfing, and diving.

The drivers, challenges, and opportunities of deep-ocean mining: A comparative evaluation of deep-ocean and land-based mineral resources – September 12th

August 20, 2019August 24, 2022Mina Sattari

Accessing satellite data and other oceanographic data from the NOAA’s CoastWatch’s ERDDAP – September 19th

August 20, 2019September 20, 2019Mina Sattari

Cara Wilson is a satellite oceanographer for the Environmental Research Division (ERD) at NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center in Monterey CA and is the PI of two regional nodes of NOAA’s CoastWatch program – the West Coast Regional Node and PolarWatch, which are both housed at ERD. Her research interests are in using satellite data to examine bio-physical coupling in the surface ocean, with a particular focus on determining the biological and physical causes of the large chlorophyll blooms that often develop in late summer in the oligotrophic Pacific near 30°N. She received a Ph.D. in oceanography from Oregon State University in 1997, where she examined the physical dynamics of hydrothermal plumes. After getting her PhD she worked as the InterRidge Coordinator at the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France. Her introduction to remote sensing came with a post-doc at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center which involved analyzing TOPEX and SeaWiFS data. She joined NOAA in 2002 and has been active in increasing the satellite usage within the National Marine Fisheries Service. She is also the treasurer for PORSEC (Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference) and the current chair of the IOCCG (International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group).

Under Sea-Ice Phytoplankton Blooms: A New Phenological Feature in the Arctic Ocean? – September 26th

August 20, 2019August 24, 2022Mina Sattari

Kevin is a biological oceanographer at Stanford University. He studies the microbial ecology of polar ecosystems to better understand their role in marine food webs, nutrient cycling, and productivity. His research focuses on photosynthetic organisms living in the sea ice and the ocean and how they are able to thrive in such extreme polar conditions.

Abstract:

Recent observations contradict the paradigm that waters beneath the consolidated Arctic Ocean ice pack harbor little planktonic life. However, high concentrations of phytoplankton biomass beneath Arctic sea ice have been reported in areas as widespread as Resolute Bay, Baffin Bay, the Barents Sea, the Laptev Sea, and the Chukchi Sea. The largest and most well documented of these under-ice blooms was observed in the Chukchi Sea beneath fully consolidated sea ice. At its peak, the algal biomass associated with this feature rivaled that of the most productive ocean ecosystems on Earth. It is likely that, in the present climate, under-ice blooms, while largely unaccounted for, are more prevalent and more productive than is presently understood. Because these under-ice blooms are invisible to satellite sensors, seasonally ice covered waters on Arctic continental shelves have the potential to support vastly higher rates of NPP than has been attributed to them in the past.

The impact of Mid-Pleistocene Indonesian Throughflow thermocline changes on the global ocean – October 3rd

August 20, 2019August 24, 2022Mina Sattari

Dr. Maya Reimi is a paleoclimatologist and isotope geochemist. She received her PhD from Texas A&M University working with Dr. Franco Marcantonio. For her dissertation she used radiogenic isotope ratios (Nd, Pb, U, Th) to understand changes in dust provenance and ocean water masses in the central Pacific, over the most recent glacial cycles. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Ocean Science at UCSC, working with Dr. Christina Ravelo. Her current research centers around understanding the changes in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool during the Pliocene and early Pleistocene, using Mg/Ca in foraminifera as well as oxygen and carbon isotopes to reconstruct ocean temperature, salinity, and ice volume changes.

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Emily A. Miller, Monterey Bay Aquarium

Presenting: "Ocean ecology of steelhead as revealed by pop-up satellite archival tags"

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James Lindholm, CSUMB

Presenting: "Beyond the waves at 'Mortuary Beach:' The secret lives of fishes off Monterey's most feared beach "

Watch James Lindholm’s Remote MLML Seminar Below:

Jim Harvey, MLML/SJSU

Presenting: "Research, teaching, and mentoring: Musings of a generalist optimist"

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Mike Fox Presents: Corals as predators: New perspectives on the trophic ecology of reef-building corals

Cheryl Logan Presents: “Galapagos corals: Canaries in the coal mine”

Tim White Presents: Tracking fish and fisheries for ocean management

Kevin Arrigo Presents: “Under Sea-Ice Phytoplankton Blooms”

Maya Reimi Presents: “The impact of Mid-Pleistocene Indonesian throughflow thermocline changes on the global ocean”