In-Person Seminar – Marine ecosystem forecasting along the U.S. west coast – November 10

Dr. Michael Jacox, NOAA SWFSC
Presenting: "Marine ecosystem forecasting along the U.S. west coast"

MLML In-Person Seminar | November 10th, 2022 at 4pm

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Mike Jacox is a physical oceanographer working for NOAA at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in Monterey, CA and the Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, CO. His primary research focus is on physical-biological interactions in the ocean and their connections to climate, particularly in the northeast Pacific. Recently, he has focused on ocean variability and change off the US West Coast, including extreme events such as marine heatwaves, and the response of marine ecosystems from phytoplankton to top predators. Dr. Jacox is currently leading new efforts to develop end-to-end assessments of climate impacts on US west coast fisheries, including seasonal forecasts and centennial-scale projections of ocean conditions, distributions of targeted and bycatch species of interest to US fisheries, socio-economic impacts of changing living marine resources, and evaluations of fisheries management strategies in a changing climate. He holds a Ph.D. in Ocean Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado.

Virtual Seminar – Algae in every classroom: why algal examples in general education settings matters – November 3rd

Dr. Bridgette Clarkston, University of British Columbia
Presenting: "Algae in every classroom: why algal examples in general education settings matters"

MLML Virtual Seminar | November 3rd, 2022 at 4pm

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Bridgette Clarkston is an Associate Professor of Teaching at the University of British Columbia and avid algae enthusiast. For 17 years, Bridgette has been studying, teaching and communicating about algae to scientific peers, university students and the general public. One of her proudest professional achievements has been to co-author the field guide, Pacific Seaweeds: A Guide to Common Seaweeds of the West Coast, with her long time mentor and friend, Dr. Louis Druehl.

Seminar – Shedding light on symbiosis: lessons from a bioluminescent coral reef fish – October 27th

Dr. Alison Gould, California Academy of Sciences
Presenting: "Shedding light on symbiosis: lessons from a bioluminescent coral reef fish"

MLML Seminar Room | October 27th, 2022 at 4pm

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Dr. Alison Gould is a Research Scientist at the California Academy of Sciences studying the critical, yet complex, relationships between marine organisms and bacteria. Her research primarily focuses on bioluminescent symbiosis between fish in the Siphamia genus and luminous bacteria in the vibrio family. This highly specific and tractable vertebrate-bacteria association is providing new insights into the mechanisms that regulate the formation and maintenance of microbial symbiosis from an evolutionary scale down to the molecular level.

Live Seminar – Beyond functional diversity: the importance of trophic position to understanding functional processes in community evolution – October 20th

Dr. Roxanne Banker, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Presenting: "Beyond functional diversity: the importance of trophic position to understanding functional processes in community evolution"

MLML Virtual Seminar | September 22nd, 2022 at 4pm

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Roxanne Banker is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nevada Las Vegas working with Dr. Carrie Tyler. She is broadly interested in how ecological interactions at multiple scales of biological organization affect organismal and community responses to climate change in modern and ancient ecosystems. For her seminar, she will focus on her recent postdoctoral work reconstructing food web networks and examining community structure from fossil communities spanning the Mesozoic Marine Revolution, a period of time ~250 to 65 Million years ago (Ma) during which marine communities experienced marked increases in functional diversity and primary productivity..

Seminar – Modeling studies of the California Current System – October 13th

 

Dr. Chris Edwards, UC Santa Cruz

Hosted by the Physical Oceanography Lab

Presenting: "Modeling studies of the California Current System"

MLML Seminar Room | October 13th, 2022 at 4pm

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Christopher Edwards is a professor in the Ocean Sciences Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his BS from Haverford College in 1988 and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1997. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research scientist at the University of Connecticut before becoming a faculty member at UC Santa Cruz in 2002. Dr Edwards’ research centers on the development and analysis of regional ocean models and methods of data assimilation used for studying ocean circulation, biogeochemistry and fisheries. His research presently focuses on physical and biological interactions within the California Current System, the collection of ocean currents off the U.S. west coast.

Seminar – How spatial processes influence coastal fish population and community dynamics – October 6th

 

Dr. Mallorie Yeager, UC Santa Cruz

Hosted by the Physical Oceanography Lab

Presenting: "How spatial processes influence coastal fish population and community dynamics"

MLML Seminar | October 6th, 2022 at 4pm

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Mallarie is a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC working with Dr. Pete Raimondi, Dr. Mark Carr and Dr. Will White at Oregon State University. She is broadly interested in how spatial processes interact with local factors to shape both population and community dynamics. For her seminar she will first share some of her past work from her Masters and Doctorate, looking at how factors like local landscape features and functional diversity influence trophic interactions and stability of fish communities. Then, she will present on ongoing findings from her work at UCSC using demographic population models parameterized by ROMS and fish survey data to assess connectivity of kelpforest fisheries across the California MPA network.

Seminar – Jaws, Lost Sharks, and the Legacy of Peter Benchley – September 29th

 

Dr. Dave Ebert, Pacific Shark Research Center/Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

Hosted by the Ichthyology Lab

Presenting: "Jaws, Lost Sharks, and the Legacy of Peter Benchley"

MLML Virtual Seminar | September 29th, 2022 at 4pm

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Dr. Dave Ebert, Director of the Pacific Shark Research Center, has devoted his life to studying the ocean’s most elusive, dangerous and yet fascinating predator - the shark! Author of 35 books, including the popular “Sharks of the World”, and over 700 publications, Dave holds numerous positions including past President of the American Elasmobranch Society, Scientific Advisor to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences and South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, and the IUCN Shark Specialist Group. A popular television guest, Dave has appeared on various programs for the BBC, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today Show and NBC News. As a regular on Shark Week, Dave has lead expeditions in search of the rarest, most elusive sharks in the world. He has even discovered new shark species while filming on location. Dave is co-host of the popular podcast Beyond Jaws, where he shares stories from his latest explorations and interviews leaders in the field.

Virtual Seminar – Biomimetic Technologies Based on Charismatic Marine Fauna – September 22nd

 

Dr. Frank Fish, West Chester University

Hosted by the Visiting Scientist, Dr. Roxanne Banker

Presenting: "Biomimetic Technologies Based on Charismatic Marine Fauna"

MLML Virtual Seminar | September 22nd, 2022 at 4pm

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Frank Fish is a Professor of Biology at Westchester University, he received his BA from SUNY at Oswego and both his M.S. and Ph.D. from Michigan State University. His research focus on the energetics and hydrodynamics of vertebrate swimming, with particular regard to propulsive modes and the evolution of aquatic mammals. This research is accomplished by examination of morphological structures with computer tomography (CT scans), biomechanics with motion analysis and computer digitizing, and exercise physiology by measurement of metabolic performance with oxygen consumption. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and has applications in the field of biomimetics and bioinspiration of engineered systems.

Virtual seminar – Inventing and applying technology to improve blue, green, and brown carbon and other water quality monitoring approaches – September 15th *SPECIAL TIME* 12pm

 

Dr. Phillip Bresnahan, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Hosted by the Chemical Oceanography Lab

Presenting: "Inventing and applying technology to improve blue, green, and brown carbon and other water quality monitoring approaches"

MLML Virtual Seminar | September 15th, 2022 at 12pm

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Bio:

Phil Bresnahan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and member of the Center for Marine Science. He has recently taken over as PI for the Sustained Ocean Color Observations with Nanosatellites (SOCON) Project and he leads R&D for Smartfin, a citizen science/ocean literacy collaboration with surfers. Bresnahan enjoys working on many aspects of ocean sensor networks, including sensor innovation (electrical and mechanical design as well as laboratory and field analysis), cloud data management, and, ultimately, data analysis and visualization. He seeks to invent and apply novel marine sensing techniques and analytical approaches in the (mostly coastal) ocean in order to investigate and communicate natural and human-caused phenomena, especially acidification, deoxygenation, and eutrophication.

Seminar – Climate-resilient fisheries management in the California Current – September 8th

 

Dr. Chris Free, UC Santa Barbara

Hosted by the Ichthyology Lab

Presenting: "Climate-resilient fisheries management in the California Current"

MLML Virtual Seminar | September 8th, 2022 at 4pm

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Chris is Research Faculty at the Bren School at University of California, Santa Barbara. He has a BA in Conservation Biology from Middlebury College and a PhD in Oceanography from Rutgers University. His research is focused on understanding the impacts of climate change on marine fisheries and on designing and testing management strategies that are adaptive to these impacts. He is also interested in bycatch avoidance, harmful algal blooms, and the role of seafood in human nutrition.

Dr. Chris Free Presents: Climate-resilient fisheries management in the California Current