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Recent ERD Scientific Seminars

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January 2013
Daniel M. Palacios, CIMEC/UC Santa Cruz & NOAA/SWFSC/ERD, Pacific Grove, California
"Modeling the Temperature-Nitrate Relationship in the Coastal Upwelling Domain of the California Current"

R. Iliana Ruiz-Cooley, Ocean Sciences Department, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
"From Isotopes to Top Predators: Tracing Temporal Variation in Biochemical Cycling and Food Web Structure in the California Current, and Migration of the Jumbo Squid"

Claudia Makeyev, The Mermaid Islands Corporation, Busuanga, Palawan, Philippine Islands
"The Mermaid Islands Corporation: A Story About An Island, A Coral Reef, and Tagbanua Kids in the East Indies"

September 2012
Krisa Arzayus, Ph.D., Marine Data Stewardship Division, NOAA/NESDIS/NODC, Silver Spring, Maryland
"NODC: Navigating an Ocean of Data"

Cindy Thomson, Fisheries Ecology Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, Santa Cruz, California
"Potential Economic Effects of Removing the Four Lower Dams on the Klamath River"

December 2011
Richard Parrish, Fisheries Biologist, NMFS Retired, Pebble Beach, California
"Data-poor Fishery Management Methodology: Applications to the California Lobster Fishery"

September 2011
Christopher R. Perle, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California
"The Influence of Oceanic Ecosystems on Large Marine Predator Migrations in the Northeast Pacific Ocean"

Dr. Ari Friedlaender, Duke University, Southall Environmental Associates
"Ecological Niche Modeling of Antarctic Predators"

August 2011
Clarissa R. Anderson, Ocean Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California
"Understanding Decadal Trends of Harmful Diatom Blooms in the California Current System"

July 2011
Christine Huffard, Conservation International
"Marine Conservation Science in West Papua: Technology, Transects, and Tradition" &
"Everything You Were Afraid To Ask About Cephalopod Reproduction"

Cara Wilson, NMFS/SWFSC/ERD - Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory, Pacific Grove, California
"Chlorophyll Anomalies Along the 30oN Critical Latitude in the NE Pacific - an update"

June 2011
Cheryl S. Harrison, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, California
"Lagrangian Coherent Structures: What Are They, How Do We Find Them, and What Are Some Possible Implications For Biophysical Interactions in Coastal and Pelagic Ecosystems"

May 2011
Geoff Shester, California Program Director of Oceana, Monterey, California
"Strategies to Protect the Forage Base of California Current Large Marine Ecosystem"

Dr. Philippe Gaspar, Satellite Oceanography Division, Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), Ramonville Saint-Agne, France
"The Influence of Oceanic Circulation on Sea Turtle Population Boundaries and Juvenile Survival: A Case Study on Western Pacific Leatherbacks"

March 2011
Dave Foley, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawaii at Manoa
"The Joy of Oceanographic Satellite Data Application, Part V: Synthesis"

Dave Foley, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawaii at Manoa
"The Joy of Oceanographic Satellite Data Application, Part IV: Ocean Surface Topography"

January 2011
Dave Foley, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawaii at Manoa
"The Joy of Oceanographic Satellite Data Application, Part III: Ocean Surface Vector Winds

Cindy Bessey, Marine Community Ecology and Behavioral Ecology, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
"Trophic Cascades: The Role of Teleost Mesograzers in Transmitting Non-Consumptive Effects of Top Predators in a Relatively Pristine Seagrass Ecosystem"

December 2010
Dave Foley, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawaii at Manoa
"The Joy of Oceanographic Satellite Data Application, Part II: Ocean Color (The Difficult One)"

September 2010
Dr. Yi Chao, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
"Coastal Ocean Forecasting: Lesson Learned, Challenges and Future Perspective"

August 2010
Dr. Helen Bailey, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, Maryland
"Assessing Underwater Noise Levels and the Responses of Marine Mammals to theConstruction of Offshore Wind Turbines"

July 2010
Dave Foley, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai`i
"Meeting Expectations for Remotely Sensed Oceanographic Data: The Fine Line Between Useful and Worthless -- Part I - Sea Surface Temperature"

May 2010
Sandra Pompa, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
"Global Patterns of Marine Mammal Distribution: Implications for Conservation"

April 2010
Dr. Michael Musyl, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawai`i at Manoa / Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Service, Honolulu, Hawaii
"Factors and Methods Relevant to the Study of Post-release Survival in Large Pelagic Fish and Sharks"

December 2009
Dr. Brandon Southall, Southall Environmental Associates, Inc and University of California-Santa Cruz &
Dr. Elliott Hazen, Environmental Research Division/PFEL, Pacific Grove, California
"Studying the Foraging Ecology and Reactions of Marine Mammals to Anthropogenic Sounds"

June 2009
Captain Charles Moore, Algalita Marine Research Foundation, Long Beach, California
"Observations of PLastics in the North Pacific Ocean"

April 2009
Michelle Kappes, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
"Foraging Behavior and Marine Habitat Use of Hawaiian Albatrosses"

March 2009
David Brillinger, Statistics Department, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, California
"Statistical Analysis of Two Trajectories: a Monk Seal's and a Pop-up Tag's"

January 2009
Dr. Russ Vetter, Fishereies Resources Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, La Jolla, California
"Pattern in the Ocean: Spatial Ecology and the Future of Fisheries Management"

January 2008
Dr. Megan C. Ferguson, Protected Resources Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administartion, La Jolla, California
"Cetacean Ecology in Space and Time: In-progress Works of a Numbers Junkie"

Dr. Jay Barlow, Protected Resources Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, La Jolla, California
"NOAA West-coast Cetacean Surveys: Advancements in Understanding the Role of Cetaceans in the California Current Ecosystem"

October 2007
Jurgen Alheit, Baltic Sea Research Institute, University of Rostock, Warnemuende, Germany
"Synchrony in Decadal-scale Dynamics of Small Pelagic Fish in Humboldt and Kuroshio Current Ecosystems"

Jurgen Alheit, Baltic Sea Research Institute, University of Rostock, Warnemuende, Germany
"Teleconnection Patterns of Impact of Climate Variability on Pelagic Ecosystems Across Europe"

August 2007
Bruno Sanso, Department of Applied Math and Statistics, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Ricardo Lemos, Faculdade de Ciencias da, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"Climatological, anomaly and trend fields of North Atlantic SST"

March 2007
Dr. Jeffrey Runge, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine
"Linking Coastal Ecosystems to Fisheries: Perspectives of a Biological Oceanographer"

Stephanie Henson, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine
"Physical Forcing and Phytoplankton Response in the Northeast Pacific"

February 2007
Gernot Friederich, Biological Ocean Group, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Moss Landing, California
"Sea Surface CO2 Distributions in Coastal Upwelling Systems"

June 2006
Jessica Redfern, Protected Resources Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA / National Marine Fisheries Service, La Jolla, California
"Absence of Scale Dependence in Cetacean-habitat Models for the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean"

January 2006
H. Jay Zwally, EOS ICESat Project, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, Maryland
"Variability of Polar Sea Ice Cover and Indications of Climatic Change"

October 2005
Ricardo Lemos, Faculdade de Ciencias da, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal  &  Bruno Sanso, Department of Applied Math and Statistics, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
"Modeling the Evolution and Spatial Distribution of Environmental Variables"

Tracy Villareal, Marine Science Institute, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
"Size matters: Giant Phytoplankton and Survival in the Open Ocean"

Daniel Kamykowski, Marine Phytoplankton Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
"The Development and Application of the Nutrient Depletion Temperature"

August 2005
Bruno Sanso, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
"Process Convolutions for Space and Space-Time Models"

July 2005
Daniel Pauly, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
"Major Trends in Global Fisheries"

Larry Connor, Ocean Research Applications, NOAA-National Environmental Satellite and Data Information Service, Camp Springs, MD
"Ocean Winds and Beyond: Next Tier Ocean Processes Products at ORAD"

June 2005
Bruce C. Monger, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
"The Use of Near-Real-Time Satellite Observations to Forecast Right Whale Foraging Areas in the Gulf of Maine"

Andy Moore, Program for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
"Using Adjoint Methods to Unravel the Dynamics of the Coastal Ocean Circulation and Ecosystem"

Donald Olson, RSMAS/MPO, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
"Populations across the Caribbean: From Marine Protected Areas to Climate Change"

April 2005
Dr. Keith Reid, Marine Ecologist, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
"Monitoring Variability in Antarctic Krill Using Upper-trophic Level Predators"

March 2005
Christine Peterson, Integrative Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
"Constraints on Current-mediated Dispersal in the Northeastern Pacific for an Estuarine Crab"

December 2004
Victoria J. Coles, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD
"Modeling Nitrogen Fixation in the Atlantic"

November 2004
Dr. Kate Stafford, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA
"Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Blue Whales in the Pacific Ocean"

October 2004
Dr. Ian Poiner, Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Townsville, Australia
"Research Institute into Research Enterprise: the transformation of the Australian Institute of Marine Science"

May 2004
Curt Storlazzi and Dana Wingfield, US Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA
"Variability in Oceanographic and Meteorologic Forcing along Central California and its Implications on Nearshore Physical and Biologic Processes"

November 2003
Daniel M. Palacios, National Research Council & Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory, NOAA / NMFS, Pacific Grove, CA
"Cetacean Community Structure Around the Galapagos in Relation to Environmental Heterogeneity and Seasonal Change"

August 2003
Dr. Yonat Swimmer, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA / National Marine Fisheries Service, Honolulu, Hawaii
"Sea Turtles and Fisheries Interactions in the Pacific Ocean"

Noah S. Diffenbaugh & Mark A. Snyder, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
"Climate change in the California Region"

May 2003
Dr. Andrew Leising, Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory (PFEL), NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Grove, CA
"Copepod and Microzooplankton Grazing Through a Spring Bloom: Do They Avoid Diatoms?"

April 2003
Mark Pickett, NOAA Corps/Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory (PFEL), NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Grove, CA
"Wind-Stress Curl and Related Upwelling in the California Current System from High Resolution COAMPS Reanalysis Fields"

March 2003
Dr. Cara Wilson, Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory (PFEL), NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Grove, CA
"Late Summer Chlorophyll Blooms in the Oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre"

Robert H. Shumway, Department of Statistics, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA
"On the Alignment and Merging of Multiple Time Series Fragments"

January 2003
Dr. Melissa Snover, National Research Council, Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory, NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Grove, CA
"Population Model Analysis for Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) from the Northern Nesting Subpopulation in the United States"

November 2002
Dr. Kerim Aydin, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, Seattle, WA
"Alaskan Salmon and High Seas Winters: Individuals and Ecosystems When the Zooplankton Leave"

August 2002
Dr. Leonid Klyashtorin, NRC Postdoctoral Researcher, Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory, NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Grove, CA
"Global Change and Regional Climatic Indices As a Proxy of Fish Stock Dynamics in the Pacific"

July 2002
Dr. Leonid Klyashtorin, NRC Postdoctoral Researcher, Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory, NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Grove, CA
"Climate Change and Alaska Sockeye and Pink Salmon Catch Dynamics 1950-2001"

June 2002
Dr. Allan J. Clarke, Department of Oceanography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida USA
"Interannual Flow on Continental Shelves"

May 2002
Dr. Boyin Huang, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Cambridge, Massachusetts
"The Deep Ocean Heat Uptake in Transient Climate Change"

Dr. John Dunne, AOS Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
"Implementation of a Size-based, Multi-element Ecosystem Model for Global Biogeochemical Cycles"

Andrew Leising,School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"Predicting the Impacts of Climate Change on Iron-Limited Oceanic Regions: Holes in our Biological Understanding"

Randall M. Peterman, Fisheries Risk Assessment and Management, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, CANADA
"Size-at-age in Sockeye Salmon Stocks: Effects of Abundance and Ocean Temperature and Comparison of Spatial Scale of Covariation with that of Survival Rates"

Franz J. Mueter, Sigma Plus Consulting, Fairbanks, Alaska
"Opposite Effects of Regional-Scale Sea-Surface Temperature on Survival Rates of Salmon from Northern and Southern Areas"

Dr. Hua Hu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
"Catch the Wind: Impact of QuikSCAT on Hurricane and Coastal Studies"

April 2002
Cara Wilson, Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, Oceans and Ice Branch, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland
"Biophysical Coupling Observed from TOPEX SSH and SeaWiFS Chlorophyll Satellite Data"

March 2002
Heidi Dierssen, Environmental Biotechnology, Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, Moss Landing, CA
"SeaWiFS, Sea Ice, and Seagrass: Satellite Oceanography from Multiple Scales and Platforms"

September 2001
Dr. Donald Percival, Applied Physics Laboratory and Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"An Introduction to Wavelets with Applications in Climatology"

Dr. Donald Percival, Applied Physics Laboratory and Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"Interpretation of North Pacific Variability as a Short and Long Memory Process"

Dr. Xi He, Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries Program, CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
"Assessing Environmental and Fishery Impacts on Marine Ecosystems: Trophic Interactions, Habitats, and Stock Recruitments"

August 2001
Kathleen R. Matthews, Sierra Nevada Research Center, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Berkeley, CA
"Resistance and Resilience of Alpine Lake Fauna to Fish Introductions"

July 2001
Dr. Christian Reiss, Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
"Relationships Among Vertically Structured In Situ Measures of Turbulence, Larval Fish, Their Feeding Success, and Copepods on Western Bank, Scotian Shelf"

Dr. George M. Watters, Senior Scientist, Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, La Jolla, California
"Simulating and Estimating Environmental Effects On Pelagic Resources and Fisheries in the Eastern Tropical Pacific"

February 2001
Curtis Ebbesmeyer, Evans Hamilton,Inc., Seattle, WA & Jim Ingraham, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA
"The Strange, The Bizarre, and The Science of All Things Afloat On The World's Oceans: An Introduction To FLOTSAMMETRICS Of The North Pacific Ocean"

August 2000
Dr. Jon Hare, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina
"Towards Forecasting Menhaden Ingress Into Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina: Data Exploration and Model Development"

June 2000
LT Mike Hopkins, CoastWatch Operations Officer, NOAA - National Environmental Satellite Data & Information Service, Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, Interactive Processing Branch, Camp Springs, MD
"NOAA Coastwatch: Plans For Operational Coastal Ocean Color"

April 2000
Dr. Huai-Min Zhang, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI
"Heat and Buoyancy Budgets and Mixing Rates In The Upper Thermocline of the World Oceans"

March 2000
Dr. John Everett, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Science and Technology and Fisheries Division / Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome
"The United Nations Atlas of the Oceans"

February 2000
Dr. Angel Borja, Head of Projects, Department of Oceanography, AZTI (Instituto Tecnológico Pesquero y Alimentario), San Sebastián, Spain
"Fishery Oceanography Research at AZTI With Particular Attention to Anchovy in the Bay of Biscay"

Christofer H. Boggs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu Laboratory
"Turning Back the Clock for Pacific Tuna Fisheries Using an Ecosystem Model"

January 2000
Dr. Joseph Fletcher, Former Director of NOAA's/OAR Environmental Research Laboratories
"Climate Change: What it is, What it isn't"

October 1999
Dr. Alistair Hobday, National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory, Pacific Grove, California
"Spatial and Temporal Patterns in the Ocean Survival and Size of Coho Salmon: Role of Nearshore Ocean Variation"

May 1999
Kerim Aydin, High Seas Salmon Project, Fisheries Research Institute, University of Washington, Washington
"On Beyond Zooplankton: Food Web Variation in the Gulf of Alaska and Implications for Salmon Carrying Capacity"

Dr. Tony Koslow, National Research Council Senior Postdoctoral Associate, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory, Pacific Grove, California & CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
"The Benthic Seamount Fauna of Tasmania: Conservation and Impacts of Trawling"

February 1999
Dr. James Cole, National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC), Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory (PFEL), Pacific Grove, California
"Coastal Sea Surface Temperature and Coho Salmon Production in the Pacific Northwest"

December 1998
Dave Dettman, Senior Fisheries Biologist, Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, Monterey, California
"Recovery of the Steelhead Population in the Carmel River Basin with Implications for Management in Other Central California Streams"

Dr. Mark Swenson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, Florida
"Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling in the North Atlantic Ocean"

Elizabeth A. Logerwell, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California
"Marine Trophic Ecology:  Population, Behavioral and Bioenergetic Relationships Between Seabird and Fish Predators and Their Prey"

November 1998
Pierrick Penven, Laboratoire de Physique des Oceans, Brest, France
"Barotropic Recirculation in a Coastal Upwelling"

October 1998
Emmanuelle A. Buecher, Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Department of Zoology, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
"Distribution of Medusae in St Helena Bay (west coast of South Africa) Between 1988 and 1997"

September 1998
Sydney Levitus, NOAA-NODC Ocean Climate Laboratory, Silver Spring, Maryland.
"Interannual-to-Decadal Variability of the Temperature-Salinity Structure Of the Ocean: Databases and Observations"

July 1998
Tom Murphree, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
"The Evolution and Impacts of the 1997-98 El Nino"

February 1998
Dr. Peter J. Auster, National Undersea Research Center, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut.
"The Indirect Effects of Fishing on Marine Habitats"

Dr. Nathan Mantua, University of Washington, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Oceans, Seattle, Washington.
"A Retrospective Look at Climate Impacts on Salmon in the Northeast Pacific"

January 1998
Dr. Robert Vadas, NMFS Tiburon Laboratory.
"Habitat Tools for Assessing Instream-Flow Needs for Virginia Fishes and Potential Relevance to Pacific-Estuarine Fisheries"


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