Bodega Marine Laboratory Public Talks, Events and Seminars

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BML Research Talks

Talks begin at noon in the south wing lounge, see schedule for dates.These talks are informal presentations by BML scientists that foster creative discussion and potential collaboration with other BML residents. Seating is limited and the schedule is subject to change.

BML Research Talks 2008 Schedule


John and Mary Louise Riley Seminar Series - Spring 2008

Seminars begin at 4:00 p.m. Wednesdays, in the BML Lecture Hall (unless otherwise noted). Join us for coffee and cookies at 3:45 p.m. in the Great Hall.

March 26
Wednesday
Host: B Gaylord

Peter Jumars, Director School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, "The fast pace of soft-sediment benthic life revealed acoustically"

April 2
Wednesday
Host: G. Cherr

Paul Hershberger, Western Fisheries Research Center, Marrowstone Marine Field Station, USGS, Nordland, Washington, "Ecology of Disease in Marine Fishes from the Northeastern Pacific"

April 9
Wednesday
Host: S. Morgan

Bill Sydeman, Farallon Institute of Advanced Ecosystem Research, Petaluma, California  "Climate variability, upwelling, and epipelagic ecosystem change in the California Current"

April 16
Wednesday
Host:  E. Chang

John Wingfield, Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, University of California, Davis, "Environmental Endocrinology, life cycles and global change"

April 23
Wednesday
Host: E. Chang

Wolfgang Clauss, Institute of Animal Physiology, University of Giessen, Germany, "Comparative aspects of electrogenic sodium transport in various invertebrate epithelia, and the role of the epithelial Na-channel"

April 30
Wednesday
Host: S. Morgan

Kathy Boyer, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University,  "Newly-recognized invasions and the restoration of foundation species in San Francisco Estuary"

May 7
Wednesday
Host: G. Cherr

Dr. Patricia Holden, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Title:  
"Interactions of bacteria with engineered nanomaterials"

May 14
Wednesday
Host: C. Hays

Ingrid Parker, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Santa Cruz,  "The role of natural enemies in explaining and constraining invasions: clovers, pathogens, and herbivores"

May 16
Friday,
Public Ed Room, 12 pm
Sudden Seminar: Mark Dybdahl, Washington State University, "Sex vs Asex in a snail: parasites and the ecology of clonal invasion"

May 22
Thursday
Host: J.Stachowichz

Jarrett Byrnes, Population Biology Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, "Changing Species Diversity in the Ocean: Patterns, Consequences, and Sea Squirts"

May 28
Wednesday
Host:
T. Grosholtz

David Kimbro, Graduate Group in Ecology, University of California, Davis, "Evolutionary history, predation, and coastal upwelling interactively influence native oyster habitat in a California estuary"

June 4
Wednesday
Host: D. Strong

Dave Lindberg, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley,  "From the Apex to the Shoal: Why History Matters"

June 11
Wednesday
Host: D. Strong

Jon Erlandson, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, "Using the Past to Serve the Future: Archaeology, Historical Ecology, and 13,000 Years of Human Impacts on Channel Islands Ecosystems"

Please telephone 707-875-2211 for further information.