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 Seminar Title: Great Minds, the Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins
Presented by: Maddalena Bearzi, Ph.D., Ocean Conservation Society, President
Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008
Time: TBA
Where: SkIO library auditorium
Summary: Maddalena Bearzi is the President and Co-founder of the Ocean Conservation Society and is a visiting scholar in the Departments of Anthropology and Biological Sciences, at the University of California, Los Angeles . She has studied dolphins and whales in California and different parts of the world.
She has just published a new book “Great Minds, the Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins” which will be the subject of her talk.
Additional information can be obtained at:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BEABEA.html (Her book)
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~mbearzi/ (Her Web site.)
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SkIO Seminar Series
Student Seminar/Thesis Defense
The ecological significance of nasA diversity in marine heterotrophic bacteria |
Seminar Title: The ecological significance of nasA diversity in marine
heterotrophic bacteria
Presented by: Denis Wafula, M.Sc. Student,
Savannah State University
When: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 @ 8:30 AM
Where: Marine Biology Building, Savannah State University |
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SkIO Seminar Series
How native biota and physical environmental attributes shape the success of invasive species |
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Seminar Title: How native biota and physical environmental attributes shape the success of invasive species
Presented by: Dr. Jeb Byers, Associate Professor, Zoology Department, University of New Hampshire
When: Thursday, January 24, 2007 @ 3:00 PM
Where: SkIO Library Auditorium
Summary: Although invasive species are a leading conservation concern, quantitative and predictive approaches to dealing with them are few. Dr. Byers will present two detailed empirical studies which demonstrate mechanisms which hinder and promote marine invasion. In particular these studies focus on the roles of physical biological coupling and marine reserves. In conclusion, Dr. Byers will present a general theoretical model that quantifies how spread and invasion are determined in advective environments. This theoretical framework is applied to several real world examples and suggests a novel way that climate change might affect invasibility in coastal oceans.
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SkIO Seminar Series
Topography , topology and surface processes of a South Carolina salt marsh |
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Seminar Title: Topography, topology and surface processes of a South Carolina salt marsh
Presented by: Dr. Raymond Torres, Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina
When: Friday, January 18, 2008 @ 10:00 AM
Where: SkIO Library Auditorium
Summary: Tidal creeks and creek networks are ubiquitous features of SE salt marshes, and salt marsh landscapes around the world. The development of tidal creek systems is a focus of intense research driven by the need to understand the impact climate change along the low relief coastline. In this talk Dr. Torres will characterize the 1-D, 2-D and 3-D structure of a section of intertidal salt marsh in North Inlet, SC and use those analyses to demonstrate that topographic variations in a salt marsh exert local and large scale control in over-marsh currents and sediment transport processes. Overall, Dr. Torres will show that the very subtle relief of salt marsh landscapes should not be ignored or oversimplified. |
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