MLML holds weekly seminars during the academic year in our Seminar Classroom at the Main Lab. The seminar series is funded by SJSU Associated Students allowing the MLML Student Body to host speakers from a variety of marine science related disciplines to present their research.
If you would like to be notified of upcoming MLML Seminars and Events, please send your email address to mlml-frontdesk@sjsu.edu.
Weekly Seminar Schedule
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Sep 23, 2025
Dimitris Menemenlis
MLML/SJSU
Sep 30, 2025
Manny Gabet
SJSU
Oct 7, 2025
Aaron Carlisle
University of Delaware
Oct 21, 2025
Ryan Jones
UCSC
Nov 4, 2025
Monique Messié
MBARI
Nov 11, 2025
Veterans' Day - Campus Closed
Nov 18, 2025
TBD
Nov 25, 2025
NO SEMINAR, Fall Break
Dec 2, 2025
TBD
Upcoming Seminars
Dr. Monique Messié | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Presenting: "Coupling and decoupling between upwelling and biological response in Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems" Hosted by: Physical Oceanography Lab MLML Seminar …
Dr. Aaron Carlisle | University of Delaware Presenting: "New biologging approaches for studying marine species and ecosystems" Hosted by: Ichthyology Lab MLML Seminar | October 7th, 2025 at 4pm (PDT) …
Dr. Manny Gabet | San Jose State University Presenting: "The (Real) Geologic History of the Stanislaus Table Mountains and Yosemite Valley" Hosted by: Geological Oceanography Lab MLML Seminar | September …
Dr. Alexa Fredston | Ocean Sciences, UCSC Presenting: "Beyond simple models of (marine) species on the move" Hosted by: Ichthyology Lab MLML Seminar | September 16th, 2025 at 4pm (PDT) …
Dr. Brooke Weigel | Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station presenting: "The ecology of kelp forests in a changing ocean: physiology, microbiomes & carbon cycling" Hosted by: Research Diving Program MLML …
Dr. Paul Bourdeau | California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt Presenting: "The effects of environmental change on the importance of non-consumptive predator effects in the rocky intertidal zone" Hosted by the …
Dr. Martin Tournier | Moss Landing Marine Laboratories/SJSU Research Foundation Presenting: "Modeling the habitat use of a fearless deep-diver, the Emperor Penguin in the Ross Sea" Hosted by the Vertebrate …
Dr. Madison Wood | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Presenting: "Finding Your Fit in the Dynamic Geoscience Workforce" MLML Seminar | April 23rd, 2025 at 4pm (PDT) Watch the Live …
Dr. Qing Wang | Naval Postgraduate School Presenting: "Quantifying the Impact of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer on Optical Signal Propagation" Hosted by the Physical Oceanography Lab MLML Seminar | April …
Dr. Benjamin Perlman | California State University at Long Beach Presenting: "Putting science behind the stingray shuffle and other observations with the round stingray (Urobatis halleri)" Hosted by the Ichthyology …
Dr. Cara Wilson | NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center Presenting: "Oceans from Space - Blooms and Data Access " Hosted by the Computational Oceanography Lab and Physical Oceanography Lab MLML Seminar …
Dr. Mariko Hatta | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Presenting: "Dissolved Al on the Chukchi Shelf and the Shelf Slopes in the Canada Basin" Hosted by the …
Dr. Heather Ford | Queen Mary University of London Presenting: "Ocean Heat Content during the Globally Warm Mid-Pliocene" Hosted by the MLML Dean's Office MLML Seminar | March 26th, 2025 …
Dr. Laia Rojano-Doñate | Aarhus University & Stanford University Presenting: "Small bodies in cold water: Harbour porpoises energetics and effects of vessel noise disturbance" Hosted by the MLML Vertebrate Ecology Lab …
Dr. Kevin Wakeman | Hokkaido University Presenting: "Biodiversity of marine alveolates: examining species diversity and patterns in evolution" Hosted by the MLML Invertebrate Ecology Lab MLML Seminar | December 10th, …
Dr. Gerick Bergsma | CSUMB Presenting: "Unravelling how symbioses and indirect interactions influence biological communities" Hosted by the MLML Icthyology Lab MLML Seminar | December 3rd, 2024 at 4pm (PDT) …
Dr. Monique Messié | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Presenting: "Coupling and decoupling between upwelling and biological response in Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems" Hosted by: Physical Oceanography Lab MLML Seminar …
