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SMAST Seminar Series Archive

Explore past SMAST seminars featuring researchers, industry experts, and graduate scholars. Browse presentations by year to see seminar topics spanning marine science, fisheries, and ocean research, with recordings available where provided.

2024

Seminars 2024
Date Seminar Speaker / affiliation Title
2024/01/24 DEOS/DFO Joint Seminar Greg Skomal, Senior Fisheries Scientist, MA Division of Marine Fisheries Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark
2024/01/31 DEOS Seminar Siddhant Kerhalkar, DEOS PhD Candidate, School for Marine Science and Technology Physics of Diurnal Warm Layers and its lateral gradients in the Bay of Bengal
2024/01/31 DFO Seminar Sofie Van Parijs Chief, Passive Acoustics Branch, Northeast Fisheries Science Center Establishing Baselines for Predicting Change in Ambient Sound Metrics, Marine Mammal, and Vessel Occurrence Within a US Offshore Wind Energy Area
2024/02/07 DFO/DEOS Joint Seminar Deirdre Boelke, Fisheries Manager RWE Offshore Wind Services Incorporating Fishers Concerns in the Development of Offshore Wind
2024/02/14 DFO Seminar Crista Bank, Fisheries Manager Vineyard Wind & Vineyard Offshore Interactions of Fisheries and Offshore Wind Farms
2024/02/21 DFO Seminar Seth Cones Joint Program Student, WHOI-MIT Uncovering the Physiological and Fitness Consequences of Offshore Windfarm Construction on the Abundant Sea Scallop

2023

Seminars 2023
Date Seminar Speaker / affiliation Title
2023/01/18 DEOS Seminar Dr. Julie Paprocki University of New Hampshire Geotechnical Characterization of Exposed Intertidal Flats at the Great Bay Estuary
2023/01/18 DFO Seminar Dr. Dan Kuchma Tufts University Nature-Inclusive Offshore Wind Farms and the Need for a Transdisciplinary and Community-Driven Approach
2023/01/25 DEOS Seminar Dr. Boze Hancock Senior Marine Habitat Restoration Scientist The Nature Conservancy Oysters, Ecosystem Services and Nutrient Management in Coastal Systems
2023/01/25 DFO Seminar Dr. Joe Salisbury University of New Hampshire The NASA GLIMR Mission for the Study of Phytoplankton Dynamics and Protection of Marine Resources
2023/02/01 Joint DFO/DEOS Seminar Dr. Houshuo Jiang Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Fluid physics-mediated evolutionary convergence in motile behavior among marine plankton
2023/02/08 DEOS Seminar Jessica Thomas PhD Candidate DEOS/SMAST Micro-siting and Nitrogen Removal Efficiency of a Liquid Injection Permeable Reactive Barrier (PRB)
2023/02/08 DFO Seminar Dr. Anthony Kirincich Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The third Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP-3): Project Motivation and Initial Analyses
2023/02/15 DEOS Seminar Zach Moscicki PhD Candidate University of New Hampshire Farming Kelp at Exposed Sites: Insights from the Engineering and Observation of an Experimental Kelp Farm Deployed in Saco Bay, Maine
2023/02/15 DFO Seminar Dr. Yong Chen State University of New York at Stony Brook Hudson River Biological Monitoring Program: Opportunity and Challenge
2023/02/22 DEOS Seminar John Ramsey Principal Coastal Engineer Sustainable Coastal Solutions, Inc. Coastal and Tidal Inlet Processes
2023/02/22 DFO Seminar Dr. Gavin Fay DFO/SMAST Social and economic benefits for whom? Including state-level outcomes when comparing performance of management alternatives for the US summer flounder recreational fishery
2023/03/01 DEOS Seminar Andrew Gottlieb Executive Director Association to Preserve Cape Cod Applied Science: How SMAST MEP studies translated into action to improve Cape Cod water quality
2023/03/01 DFO Seminar Sam Asci New England Fishery Management Council Scallop fishery bycatch on eastern Georges Bank: considering tradeoffs between fishery management objectives
2023/03/15 Joint DFO/DEOS Seminar Aleck Wang Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Lateral exports of inorganic carbon and alkalinity from tidal wetlands: uncounted Blue Carbon capacity
2023/03/29 DEOS Seminar Emory Wellman PhD Student University of Florida Reef design and site hydrodynamics mediate oyster restoration and marsh stabilization outcomes
2023/03/29 DFO Seminar Dr. Sean Lucey NOAA MSKeyrun: building multispecies and ecosystem models of Georges Bank to support ecosystem-based fisheries management
2023/04/05 DEOS Seminar Dr. Zhitao Yu Naval Research Laboratory Stennis Space Center What is the generation mechanism of the counter-wind South China Sea Warm Current in winter?
2023/04/05 DFO Seminar Dr. Steve Cadrin DFO/SMAST A Modern Revival of the Stock Concept in Fisheries
2023/04/12 DEOS Seminar Juan Gutierrez Bravo Graduate Student DEOS/SMAST Distribution of larval fish in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone
2023/04/12 DFO Seminar Dr. Jeff Kennedy Shellfish area sanitary classification around a wastewater treatment plant outfall utilizing a model to assist in establishing a closed safety zone for compliance with NSSP public health protection criteria
2023/04/26 DEOS Seminar Philip L. Richardson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution How do wandering albatrosses fly around the world without flapping their wings
2023/04/26 DFO Seminar Chris Murry Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The Ecophysiology of Forage Fishes Under Emergent Climate Stressors
2023/05/15 DFO Seminar Holly K. Kindsvater, PhD Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech Information from adaptation: how species’ life histories help or undermine sustainable fisheries management
2023/09/06 DEOS Seminar Noah Germolus PhD candidate MIT/WHOI The Ocean’s Organic Soup: What Microbes Alone Can’t Tell Us
2023/09/06 DFO Seminar Dr. Easton White University of New Hampshire Socio-ecological dynamics of fisheries in the face of extreme events
2023/09/13 DEOS Seminar Susan Lang Associate Scientist/Director, NOSAMS WHOI Carbon, Water, and Life in the Oceanic Crust
2023/09/13 DFO Seminar Michelle Bachman Fishery Analyst, NEFMC Area-Based Management at the Regional Fishery Management Councils
2023/09/20 DEOS Seminar Nishchitha Etige Research Associate, WHOI The Kuroshio Extension, Pacific Decadal Precession, & Marine Heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific: Exploring Teleconnections and Consequences
2023/09/20 DFO Seminar Katherine Kahl, PhD Extension Assistant Professor, Coastal Resilience & Sustainable Fisheries UMass Amherst Gloucester Marine Station: Our vision forward
2023/09/27 DEOS Seminar Collin Ward Associate Scientist, WHOI Linking the formulation of plastics to their fate and impacts in the ocean
2023/09/27 DFO Seminar Joseph Caracappa, PhD NOAA Building a Climate-Ready Northeast U.S. Atlantis Ecosystem Model
2023/10/04 DEOS Seminar Christopher Piecuch Assistant Scientist, WHOI River effects on sea-level rise in the Río de la Plata estuary during the past century
2023/10/04 DFO Seminar Tara Dolan, PhD Mass Division of Marine Fisheries Age-structured forecasting with Empirical Dynamic Modeling
2023/10/11 DEOS Seminar Alice Pietri Research Scientist, SMAST Interplay between mesoscale circulation and subsurface oxygen intrusions in the oxygen deficient zone of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific
2023/10/11 DFO Seminar QUEST CINAR Fellows Enhancing Linkages between Ecosystem Research, Stock Assessment, and Management: Presentations by Cooperative Institute of the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) Fellows in Quantitative Fisheries and Ecosystem Science
2023/10/18 JOINT DEOS/DFO Seminar Rob DeConto, PhD Professor, UMass Amherst Unprecedented Vulnerability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Implications for Global Climate, Sea Level, and Coastlines
2023/11/01 DEOS Seminar Lia Domke, PhD NOAA The role of apex predators, habitat, and seascape complexity on nearshore fish assemblages in Southeast Alaska
2023/11/01 DFO Seminar Dr. Kelsey Leonard University of Waterloo Sustaining Tribal Fisheries
2023/11/09 DEOS Seminar Svenja Ryan, PhD WHOI New insights into seasonal to interannual salinity variability in the Mid-Atlantic Bight and implications for stratification
2023/11/09 DFO Seminar Dr. Katherine Mills Gulf of Maine Research Institute Climate Impacts and Resilience in Marine Fisheries
2023/11/09 DFO Seminar Dr. Meghna Marjadi SMAST Climate-related impacts on reproductive success and phenological events for anadromous river herring
2023/11/29 DEOS Seminar Dr. Laura McDonnell WHOI Applying shark-borne sensors for ocean observation: validation and interdisciplinary applications
2023/11/29 DFO Seminar Dr. Sarah Donelan UMass Dartmouth Dept of Biology Legacies of stress: eco-evolutionary consequences of transgenerational and carryover effects in coastal systems
2023/12/06 DEOS Seminar Dr. George Maynard and Dr. Jim Manning NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center An exploration of the eMOLT program, its data archive, and future directions for making the most of environmental sensors on fishing vessels
2023/12/06 DFO Seminar Dr. Jason Cope Research Fish Biologist NOAA Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center Tools and principles to support science-based fisheries management across the world

2022

Seminars 2022
Date Seminar Speaker / affiliation Title
2022/01/19 DEOS Seminar Dr. Ke Chen Physical Oceanography Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Eddies and wind drive a localized cross-shelf bottom intrusion
2022/01/19 DFO Seminar Dr. Roger Mann Virginia Institute of Marine Science Managing fisheries in a world of moving resource footprints and competing societal needs
2022/01/26 DEOS Seminar Adrienne M. Silver PhD Candidate Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences School for Marine Science and Technology Gulf Stream Forecasting and the Warm Core Ring Corridor
2022/01/26 DFO Seminar Dr. Kevin D. E. Stokesbury Department of Fisheries Oceanography School for Marine Science and Technology University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Pre- and Post-Construction Assessments of Fisheries in an Offshore Wind Lease Area
2022/02/02 DEOS Seminar Jim Manning Oceanographer, Northeast Fisheries Science Center NOAA Fisheries | U.S. Department of Commerce Woods Hole, MA Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps and Large Trawlers (eMOLT): The First Two Decades
2022/02/02 DFO Seminar Abby Tyrell, PhD Science Analyst, Contractor with Ocean Associates in support of Ecosystem Dynamics and Assessment Brancy Northeast Fisheries Science Center Ecosystem and Socioeconomic Profiles in the Northeast US
2022/02/09 DEOS Seminar Richard Arena PhD Candidate Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences School for Marine Science and Technology UMass Dartmouth High Frequency Radar in the Mid Atlantic Bight with Applications to Gap – Filling
2022/02/09 DFO Seminar Michelle Bachman, New England Fishery Management Council, NRHA Inshore Team Co-Lead The Northeast Regional Habitat Assessment: A collaborative, multi-disciplinary project to develop decision support products for marine fish habitat management
2022/02/16 DEOS Seminar Svenja Ryan Postdoctoral Fellow/Scholar Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Marine Heatwaves and Their Depth Structures on the Northeast WS Continental Shelf
2022/02/16 DFO Seminar Catherine Foley, PhD Fishery Biologist Northeast Fisheries Science Center NOAA Fisheries Leveraging quantitative methods and emerging technologies for marine conservation
2022/02/23 DEOS Seminar Mark Altabet Professor/Chair Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences School for Marine Science and Technology University of Massachusetts Dartmouth A recent cruise to oxygen deficient zone of the Eastern Tropical N. Pacific
2022/02/23 DFO Seminar Adam Delargy, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow School for Marine Science and Technology University of Massachusetts Dartmouth From Scallop Science in the UK to the US
2022/03/02 DEOS Seminar Tim Walker Professor History Department University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Changes in Southern Hemisphere Wind Patterns Since the Late 1700's From American Whaling Ship Logbooks and Reanalysis
2022/03/02 DFO Seminar Tyler Pavlowich Marine Research Associate Coastal Resources Center University of Rhode Island Creating Effective Fisheries Research and Management: Lessons From the Dominican Republic and New England
2022/03/16 Joint DFO/DEOS Seminar Mike Pol Research Director Responsible Offshore Science Alliance ROSA among the thorns: An update on regional science efforts at the intersection of wind, fish, and fisheries
2022/03/30 Joint DFO/DEOS Seminar Glen Gawarkiewicz Senior Scientist Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Studying Salinity Maximum Intrusions in the Middle Atlantic Bight with Community Science and Process-Oriented Observations
2022/04/06 DEOS Seminar Chris Piecuch Assistant Scientist Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution High-Tide Floods and Storm Surges During Atmospheric Rivers on the US West Coast
2022/04/06 DFO Seminar Tracy L. Pugh, PhD Senior Marine Fisheries Biologist Invertebrate Fisheries Project MA Division of Marine Fisheries Challenges facing a lobster stock on the 'losing' end of climate change
2022/04/13 Joint DFO/DEOS Seminar Alex Boeri Assistant Fisheries Biologist MA Division of Marine Fisheries Bottom Water-Temperature in Massachusetts: Long-Term Data Collection
2022/04/20 DEOS Seminar Steven F. DiMarco Professor, MTS Fellow College of Geosciences- Department of Oceanography College of Engineering- Department of Ocean Engineering Texas A&M University Coastal Oceanic Response and Freshwater Distributions of Hurricane Harvey (2017) from a Multi-platform Coastal Ocean Observatory
2022/04/27 DEOS Seminar Gordon Zhang Associate Scientist Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Processes of cross-shelf exchange induced by Gulf Stream warm-core rings
2022/04/27 DFO Seminar Dr. Tobey Curtis NOAA Fisheries Scientist and Fishery Management Specialist Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Management Division Glouster, MA Research Advances in New York's White Shark Nursery Area
2022/06/01 DEOS Special Seminar Dr. J. Alexander Brearley Physical Oceanographer and Head of Open Oceans British Antarctic Survey The West Antarctic Peninsula circulation and mixing: What have we learned from ocean gliders?
2022/09/07 DEOS Seminar Dr. Ilana Berman-Frank Director, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifax Impacts of Seawater Desalination Discharges on Coastal Communities
2022/09/07 DFO Seminar Dr. James Manning NOAA/NEFSC Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps and Large Trawlers (eMOLT):Harvesting data for ocean models
2022/09/14 DEOS Seminar Iury Simoes-Sousa PhD Candidate, SMAST Stochasticity of Turbulence
2022/09/14 DFO Seminar Lu Wang PhD Candidate, SMAST Modeling study of ocean acidification in the US northeast coastal region
2022/09/21 DEOS Seminar Dr. Jud Kenworthy Retired from NOAA Straddling the fence in North Caroling; climate change and the unique biogeography of a large seagrass ecosystem in the western Atlantic Ocean
2022/09/21 DFO Seminar Dr. Donna Dimarchopoulou Postdoc Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ecosystem based fisheries management (EBFM): the Aegean Sea case study
2022/09/28 DEOS Seminar Dr. Kayhan Ulgen Postdoc DEOS/SMAST Hydrodynamic Performance of a Catamaran in Shallow Waters
2022/09/28 DFO Seminar Dr. Lauran Brewster DFO/SMAST From Rivers to Reefs: Revealing the Concealed Lives of Marine Megafauna
2022/10/05 DEOS Seminar Dr. Juanita Urban-Rich University of Massachusetts Boston Microplastics Around Nantucket Island: Land, Air and Sea
2022/10/05 DFO Seminar Dr. John Zang Postdoc Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Assess the impact of physical forcings on phytoplankton dynamics and Atlantic Sea Scallop on the Northeast U.S. Shelf
2022/10/12 DEOS Seminar Filipe Pereira PhD Candidate SMAST/IMS The Brazil Current meanders: Dynamics and ecological implications
2022/10/12 DFO Seminar Lianne Allen-Jacobson DFO/SMAST Assessing bias in fishing footprints using fine scale data
2022/10/19 DEOS Seminar Dr. Matthew First Research Scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC Progress after two decades of efforts to minimize aquatic bioinvasions through ships’ ballast water
2022/10/19 DFO Seminar Dr. Paula Fratantoni NOAA Physical Processes Shaping in the Northeast U.S. Shelf Ecosystem
2022/10/26 DEOS Seminar Dr. Sarah Gaines University of Rhode Island Extreme Events in the Benguela Upwelling System
2022/10/26 DFO Seminar Dr. Yaamini Venkataraman Postdoc Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Leveraging epigenetics to understand how marine organisms response to climate change
2022/11/02 DEOS Seminar Dr. Robert Todd Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Shelf-deep ocean exchange near Cape Hatteras from two years of underwater glider observations
2022/11/02 DFO Seminar Dr. Andrew Goode Postdoc University of Maine The future of American lobster in the Gulf of Maine under climate change: resilience, adaptation, and implications
2022/11/09 DFO Seminar Dr. Neda Trifonova University of Aberdeen, UK The Use of Bayesian Network Modelling for Spatial and Temporal Understanding of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics
2022/11/16 DEOS Seminar Prof. Jaime Palter University of Rhode Island Dispatches from a turbulent Gulf Stream: Connections to circulation changes on the New England shelf, climate and carbon
2022/11/16 DFO Seminar Dr. Alex Kinsella Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The Relationship Between SST Gradients and Rainfall within Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations
2022/11/30 Joint DEOS/DFO Seminar Dr. Julie Jakoboski MetOcean Solutions Crowd Sourcing Ocean Observations Using New Technology in Partnership with the Fishing Sector
2022/12/07 DEOS Seminar Dr. Alejandro Cifuentes- Lorenzen Associate Research Scientist University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus Tracking air-sea energy exchange through observations of Turbulent Kinetic Energy dissipation rates in the New England Shelf
2022/12/07 DFO Seminar Dr. Rob Griffin DFO/SMAST On-call fishing gear scoping project extension: Socioeconomic modeling of management scenarios in Massachusetts and adjacent federal waters

2021

Seminars 2021
Date Seminar Speaker / affiliation Title
2021/01/20 DEOS/DFO Joint Seminar Ray Hilborn University of Washington Understanding the role of Marine Protected Areas in protecting biodiversity and increasing food production
2021/01/27 DEOS Seminar Dr. Svenja Ryan Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Regional drivers and depth structures of Marine Heatwaves
2021/01/27 DFO Seminar Susan Lowerre-Barbieri University of Florida The reproductive resilience paradigm: integrating behavior into understanding reproductive potential in marine fish
2021/02/03 DEOS Seminar Dr. Roland Samimy Research Manager at SMAST Coastal Systems Program Nutrient Related Water Quality Monitoring in the Coral Gables Waterway System and Habitat Impairment in the Biscayne Bay, Florida
2021/02/03 DFO Seminar Lynn Waterhouse Shedd Aquarium One Fish, Two Fish: Using Integrated Models to Assess the Endangered Nassau Grouper (Epinephelus striayus)
2021/02/10 DEOS Seminar Dr. Allen Gontz Professor of Quaternary Geology & Geophysics Department of Geological Sciences & Environmental Science Program San Diego State University Using the sand systems of southeastern coastal Queensland (Australia) to understand system evolution and relationship to climate and sea level
2021/02/10 DFO Seminar Willy Goldsmith, PhD Executive Director American Saltwater Guides Association From Science to Advocacy: A Recreational Fisheries Perspective
2021/02/17 DEOS Seminar Dr. Cynthia Wu Department of Physical Oceanography Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Lee Waves in Shear Flow
2021/02/17 DFO Seminar Dr. Changsheng Chen Department of Fisheries Oceanography School for Marine Science and Technology University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Impact of Larval Behaviors on Dispersal and Connectivity of Sea Scallop Larvae over the Northeast U.S. Shelf
2021/02/24 DEOS Seminar Dr. Luca Centurioni UCSD/Scripps Institution of Oceanography Director Lagrangian Drifter Laboratory The Global Drifter Program Science, Technology and Vision for Sustainable Global In-Situ Observations at the Air-Sea Interface
2021/02/24 DFO Seminar Dr. Jason Link NOAA Fisheries A NOAA Fisheries science perspective on the conditions during and after COVID-19: challenges, observations, and some possible solutions, or why the future is upon us
2021/03/03 DEOS Seminar Professor Pia H. Moisander Department of Biology University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Disentangling bacterial communities and functions in marine copepod microbiomes
2021/03/03 DFO Seminar Nancy Shackell Research Scientist Oceanography and Climate Section DFO Bedford Institute of Oceanography Canada Revisiting spatial stock structure in an era of climate change: a review of Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus L) across the Northwest Atlantic
2021/03/17 DEOS Seminar Dr. Leah Johnson Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Brown University Restratification at a California Current Upwelling Front
2021/03/17 DFO Seminar Daniel R. Goethel Alaska Fisheries Science Center Auke Bay Laboratories NOAA_NMFS Accounting for Spatial Structure and Connectivity in Stock Assessment Models: The Good, the Bad, and Groundfish
2021/03/31 DEOS Seminar Dr. Annie Bourbonnais School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment University of South Carolina Investigating water-column and sediment nitrogen cycling in the Western Arctic using stable isotopes
2021/03/31 DFO Seminar Dr. Gavin Fay Department of Fisheries Oceanography School for Marine Science and Technology University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Ecosystem Based Management as Science to Support Climate- Resilient Blue/Green Economies
2021/04/07 DEOS Seminar Dr. Maria Pachiadaki Assistant Scientist Biology Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Distribution and ecophysiology of marine microorganisms: Unlocking the mysteries of uncultivated microbial lineages
2021/04/07 DFO Seminar Jake Kritzer Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems Ocean Observing in the Northeast: The Present and Future of Fisheries Applications
2021/04/14 DEOS Seminar Dr. Alexis Fischer Biology Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Bloom initiation of the harmful algae Alexandrium catenella: Resolving the temperature dependence of dormancy and germination
2021/04/14 DFO Seminar Lisa Kerr Gulf of Maine Research Institute Application of Management Strategy Evaluation for Improved Groundfish Management
2021/04/21 DEOS Seminar Dr. Hanny RIvera Department of Biology Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Environmental and physiological regulators of symbiosis in reef- building corals
2021/04/21 DFO Seminar    
2021/04/28 DEOS Seminar Dr. Dwight Gledhill Deputy Director NOAA Ocean Acidification Program Washington, DC A Brief Review of NOAA's Ocean Acidification Science in the Northeast
2021/04/28 DFO Seminar Taylor Shropshire, PhD Division of Coastal Sciences University of Southern Mississippi Ecosystem-based modeling of prey availability for larval bluefin tuna
2021/09/01 DEOS Seminar    
2021/09/01 DFO Seminar Steve Cadrin Professor, SMAST Fisheries Oceanography at UMass Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST)
2021/09/08 DEOS Seminar Dr. Linda Amaral-Zettler Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry Department, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA USA A Hitchhiker's Guide to the "Plastisphere"
2021/09/08 DFO Seminar Dr. Changsheng Chen Montgomery Charter Chair Professor SMAST at UMass Dartmouth Potential Impacts of Offshore Wind Facilities on Regional Sea Scallop Larval Dispersal and Settlement over New England Shelf
2021/09/15 DEOS Seminar Dr. Valentina Giunta Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences SMAST at UMass Dartmouth Oceanic Mixing and Mixed Layer Depths
2021/09/15 DFO Seminar Michael Dadswell Department of Biology Acadia University Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada The Decline and Impending Collapse of the Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Population in the North Atlantic Ocean: A Review of Possible Causes
2021/09/22 DEOS/DFO Joint Seminar Sarah L. Salois University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Development of Oceanographic Indicators for Northern Shortfin Squid
2021/09/15 DFO Seminar    
2021/09/29 DEOS Seminar Jessica Thomas PhD Candidate Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences SMAST at UMass Dartmouth Micro-siting and Nitrogen Removal Efficiency of a Liquid Injection Permeable Reactive Barrier (PRB)
2021/09/29 DFO Seminar Dr. N. David Bethoney Executive Director Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation The Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation: Who we are and what we do
2021/10/06 DEOS Seminar Dr. Hilde Oliver Postdoc Scholar Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Subsurface Diatom Hotspots in the Middle-Atlantic Bight Slope Sea Driven by Gulf Stream Meandering
2021/10/06 DFO Seminar Don Carlos Collasius Retired from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The Sea and I
2021/10/13 DEOS Seminar Anna Lowien PhD Student Department of Natural Resources and the Environment University of New Hampshire Biogeochemical Stressors and Ecological Response in Great Bay Estuary, NH/ME
2021/10/13 DFO Seminar Tammy Silva Volgenau Fellow National Marine Sanctuary Foundation Exploring the use of seabirds as dynamic ocean management tools to mitigate entanglement risk to large whales
2021/10/20 DEOS Seminar Ilana Berman-Frank Charney School of Marine Sciences University of Haifa, Israel Iron and Phosphorus Deprivation Induce Sociality in the Marine Bloom-forming Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium
2021/10/20 DFO Seminar Steve Cadrin Department of Fisheries Oceanography School for Marine Science and Technology University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Cod Damned? What's Up With New England Groundfish?
2021/10/27 DEOS Seminar John Miller Executive Director The Marine Renewable Energy Collaborative of New England Tidal Energy - Challenges and Opportunities
2021/10/27 DFO Seminar Paul Illsley Research Imaging Specialist Photographic journey across Alaska's remote and pristine glacier systems
2021/11/03 DEOS Seminar John Miller Executive Director The Marine Renewable Energy Collaborative of New England Tidal Energy - Challenges and Opportunities
2021/11/03 DFO Seminar Jon Hare Science & Research Director Northeast Fisheries Science Center NOAA Using an incremental approach for "wicked problems" in fisheries management and marine EBM
2021/11/10 DEOS Seminar Eduard Eichner Principal Water Scientist TMDL Solutions Lake Management: Addressing an Overwhelming Need
2021/11/10 DFO Seminar Dr. Judith Rosellon-Druker From Alaska to Mexico: Understanding marine ecosystems from an integrated perspective
2021/11/17 DEOS Seminar Whitman Miller Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, MD Melting Sea Ice, Accelerated Shipping, and Arctic Invasions
2021/11/17 DFO Seminar Kathryn Ford, PhD NOAA Fisheries Population and Ecosystems Monitoring and Analysis Division Chief Change is here: Modifying long term resource surveys due to offshore wind development on the eastern seaboard, U.S.
2021/12/01 DEOS Seminar Mei Sato Biology Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution How do biological AND physical processes impact life in the ocean?
2021/12/01 DFO Seminar Sandra Shumway, PhD Department of Marine Sciences University of Connecticut Microplastics and Molluscs - The Misinformation Highway
2021/12/07 DEOS Special Seminar Christian E. Buckingham Submesoscale instabilities at ocean fronts: a review and new result
2021/12/08 DEOS Special Seminar Xingchen (Tony) Wang Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Boston College The Role of Nutrient Cycling in Ocean Deoxygenation: From Late Miocene to Anthropocene
2021/12/15 DEOS Special Seminar Alice Pietri Associate Scientist FONDECYT – IMARPE, Peru Marine Heat Waves in the Peru- Chile Upwelling System and Equity for Public Engagement

SMAST seminars 2020

Seminars - 2020
Date Seminar Speaker Title
2020/01/22 DFO Seminar David Pierce Blending of Fisheries Science & Management: 48 Years of Trials & Tribulations
2020/01/29 DEOS Seminar Geret DePiper Food and Fraud: On the Codfather and Harvest Mislabeling
2020/02/05 DFO Seminar Jonathon Peros What's at the end of the rainbow? Management implications of an extraordinary recruitment event
2020/02/12 DEOS Seminar Allison Jacobel Ice Age Storage of Carbon and Oxygen in the Pacific Ocean
2020/02/12 DFO Seminar Jeremy S. Collie The URI-GSO Fish Trawl Survey: Documenting 60 Years of Ecosystem Change in Narragansett Bay
2020/02/19 DFO Seminar Cate O’keefe New England Herring Management: An example of trade-offs in a stakeholder-driven system
2020/02/25 DFO Seminar Julia Stewart Lowndes R and team work for better science in less time
2020/02/26 DEOS Seminar Paul Berkman Science Diplomacy and its Engine of Informed Decisionmaking for the Sustainability of all on Earth Across Generations
2020/02/26 DFO Seminar Adam Delargy A comparison of estimated stock structure in stock assessment models for scallops
2020/03/04 DEOS Seminar Karen Johannesson "-ate vs. -ite: How chemical speciation controls trace element cycling in the environment
2020/03/04 DFO Seminar Kevin St. Martin The Ontological Politics of Interdisciplinary Climate Research
2020/09/30 DFO Seminar Julia Mason Exploring climate resilience in Iceland's fisheries
2020/09/09 DEOS Seminar Steven E. Lohrenz Bio-optical Characterizations of Phytoplankton Communities on the New England Shelf
2020/09/09 DFO Seminar Lyndie Hice-Dunton Responsible offshore Science Alliance (ROSA): Establishing regional research and monitoring for offshore wind and fisheries
2020/09/16 DEOS Seminar Amit Tandon Why the Bay of Bengal? Why study Monsoons?
2020/09/16 DFO Seminar Sunshine Menezes Radically Rebranding Science Communication: Centering Inclusion and Equity for Public Engagement
2020/09/23 DEOS Seminar Mark Altabet Autonomous Approaches to Study of Open Ocean Biogeochemical Fluxes
2020/10/07 DEOS Seminar Miles A. Sundermeyer Internal Waves, Vortical Mode, and Submesoscale Lateral Dispersion
2020/10/21 DEOS Seminar   Using stable isotopes to trace shifts in coastal food webs dynamics
2020/10/21 DFO Seminar Amy Teffer Sick Fish in a Warming World
2020/10/28 DEOS Seminar Wendell Brown Warming of the MAB Cold Pool from Glider Measurements
2020/10/14 DFO Seminar Hirotsugu Uchida Risky Business: Can Shellfish Farmers Defend Themselves Against Foodborne Illness-related Demand Shocks?
2020/11/04 DFO Seminar Vianey Leos Barajas Spatially-Coupled Hidden Markov Models et al.
2020/10/07 DFO Seminar   https://echo360.org/media/dd8c33e3-ded1-4582-81b1-1593fcfd5e93/public
2020/11/18 DFO Seminar Kanae Tokunaga Fishing style matters: Benchmarking profitability and technical efficiency in Maine's lobster fishery
2020/12/02 DFO Seminar Emily S. Klein From the Scotia Sea to Stellwagen Bank: Using models to support wise decisions in a changing world
2020/12/02 DEOS Seminar Avijit Gangopadhyay The Gulf Stream and its Rings: 1980-2019

2019

Seminars 2019
Date Seminar Speaker / affiliation Title
2019/02/13 DEOS Seminar Brad Chase Migratory Fish Management in Massachusetts - River Herring and American Eel
2019/02/13 DFO Seminar Rob Griffin Ecosystem services and resource planning in the coastal zone
201902/20  DFO Seminar Liese Siemann Fisheries and protected species research at a small nonprofit foundation
2019/02/20 DEOS Seminar  Raymond Grizzle  Bivalve filter feeding at multiple spatial scales: centimeters, meters, and kilometers 
2019/02/27 DEOS Seminar Christopher Neill Watershed consequences of deforestation and the intensification of crop agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon
2019/02/27 DFO Seminar 201903/06 DEOS Seminar Timothy B. Werner Up-dates on Research and Policy Priorities for Mitigating Marine Mammal Bycatch in Commercial Fisheries and Aquaculture
2019/03/06 DFO Seminar James Sulikowski Integrating spatial ecology with non- lethal reproductive techniques for the conservation and management of sharks
2019/03/20 DEOS Seminar Elsie Sunderland Attributing local and global drivers of changes in biotic mercury concentrations in the Gulf of Maine over the past three decades
2019/03/20 DFO Seminar Craig O'Connell From Cinema to Science: Using Camera-Based Technologies to Study the Behavior of and to Conserve Vulnerable Shark Species
2019/03/27 DEOS Seminar  Matthew Charette  Boundary inputs of trace elements and isotopes into the oceans: lessons learned from a decade of radium isotope measurements during the GEOTRACES Program
2019/04/03 DFO Seminar Kevin D. E. Stokesbury A new sampling system for New England groundfish using video technology
2019/04/10 DEOS Seminar Ilson da Silveira Hydrodynamics of Cape Frio's Oceanic Region (23 S, Brazil)
2019/04/17 DEOS Seminar Robinson Fulweiler Oysters, Nitrogen Cycling, and Coastal Ocean Water Quality
2019/04/24 DEOS Seminar Amy Apprill Whale microbiomes: Insights from skin, blow and guts and potential use in health monitoring
2019/04/24 DFO Seminar Skylar Bayer How to measure fertilization success and spawning events in sea scallops: a difficult but worthy journey
2019/05/01 DEOS Seminar Kevin Friedland Thermal Regime Shifts in Northeast Shelf Ecosystem
2019/04/01 DFO Seminar Gary H. Wikfors Aquaculture sustainability - What is it and how do we assess it?
2019/04/13 DFO Seminar Anna Birkenbach More Value from the Same Fish: Catch Shares, Fishing Behavior, & Revenes
2019/09/04 DFO Seminar Molly E. Lutcavage Tangled up in Bluefin: data, science, funding, values and outcomes
2019/09/11 DEOS Seminar Mark Altabet Autonomous Observation of Ocean Oxygen Deficient Zones (ODZ)
2019/09/11 DFO Seminar Vineyard Wind Winds of Change
2019/09/18 DEOS Seminar Glen Gawarkiewicz An Adevective Marine Heatwave in the Middle Atlantic Bight in early 2017
2019/09/18 DFO Seminar Jason Link Evidence for ecosystem overfishing in multiple large marine ecosystems
2019/09/25 DFO Seminar Amanda Hart Sleepless in Seattle: Experiences studying fisheries management and searching for coffee at the University of Washington
2019/10/02 DEOS Seminar Chris Piecuch Weakening of the Florida Current at 27N during 1909-2018
2019/10/02 DFO Seminar Christopher Glass Bycatch Reduction Devices: Development, Adoption and Implementation
2019/10/09 DEOS Seminar Isabela Le Bras Observations of the East Greenland Current System: seasonality of fresh water and boundary current - convection interactions
2019/10/09 DFO Seminar Sarah Gaichas Fragile ecosystems, robust assessments?
2019/10/23 DEOS Seminar Hanjian Ling Applications of particle tracking in turbulent boundary layers and animal collective motion
2019/10/23 DFO Seminar Elizabeth A. Fairchild The existential fish: where did I come from and where am I going?
2019/10/30 DEOS Seminar Ryan D. Beemer The Impact of Biology on Calcareous Sediment Geotechnics
2019/10/30 DFO Seminar George V. Lauder Fish robotics: using mechanical devices to understand the functional and evolutionary diversity of fishes
2019/11/06 DEOS Seminar Banafsheh Seyed-Aghazadeh Fluid-Structure Interactions: From Biomimetic Sensors to Energy Harvesting Applications
2019/11/06 DFO Seminar John Manderson Marine ecosystem assessment & management needs credible fishery owned knowledge trusts
2019/11/13 DEOS Seminar Vineyard Wind Winds of Change
2019/11/20 DFO Seminar David Bethoney How much Donkey Dung is there? Using Collaborative Research to Better Manage the Scotian Shelf Sea Cucumber Resource
2019/12/04 DEOS Seminar Zhuomin Chen Dynamics and Spatio-Temporal Variability of the Mid-Atlantic Bight Cold Pool
2019/12/04 DFO Seminar Samuel Truesdell Development of Robust Management Strategies for Northeast Groundfish Fisheries in a Changing Climate

2018

Seminars 2018
Date Seminar Speaker / affiliation Title
2018/01/24 DFO Seminar Chris McGuire How can an ENGO help improve the information used for fisheries management?
2018/01/31 DEOS Seminar Kate Lowry The influence of sea ice and hydrography on phytoplankton dynamics in the rapidly changing Arctic Ocean
2018/01/31 DFO Seminar Gavin Fay Thinking uncertainly about uncertainty: characterizing ecosystem responses to change
2018/02/07 DFO Seminar Geret DePiper Coupled Bioeconomic Models in Support of Ecosystem-based Fishery Management
2018/02/14 DFO Seminar Jonathan Cummings Population Modeling and Decision Analysis for Resource Management
2018/02/21 DFO Seminar Autumn Oczkowski How Major Reductions in Nitrogen Loads Have Impacted the Narragansett Bay Ecosystem
2018/02/28 DEOS Seminar Daniel MacDonald Turbulent Geography, Tethered Ballasts, and Fractured Plumes: An update from the Coastal Engineering and Fluid Mechanics (CEFM) Lab
2018/02/28 DFO Seminar Kate Masury Beyond the binary: what does a systems-based approach to sustaining wild seafood look like?
2018/03/07 DEOS SEMINAR Jaime Palter Climate, ocean circulation, and sea level changes under stabilization and overshoot pathways
2018/03/07 DFO Seminar Pingguo He Fisheries at the Global Scale: Experiences and highlights working at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2018/03/28 DEOS Seminar Jennifer Francis The Arctic Meltdown and Extreme Weather: How are They Connected?
2018/03/28 DFO Seminar Adrian Jordaan River Herring Population Dynamics in Coastal Ecosystems
2018/04/04 DEOS Seminar Julie Granger Insights on Halocline Ventilation in the Western Arctic from Nitrate Isotope Ratios
2018/04/04 DFO Seminar Heather M. Leslie The Emerging Science of Coupled Social-Ecological Marine Systems
2018/04/11 DEOS Seminar Tristan Horner Biology, Chemistry, or Physics? Rethinking Controls on Marine Metal Cycling
2018/04/11 DFO Seminar Douglas Zemeckis Applied Research and Educational Programming as Part of Rutgers University's Marine Extension Program
2018/04/18 DEOS Seminar Gayantonia Franze Coping with stress: Ecological implications of plankton response to environmental perturbations
2018/04/18 DFO Seminar Lesley Thorne Environmental drivers of short-finned pilot whale distribution, habitat use and fisheries interactions in the Mid- Atlantic Bight: Implications for management
2018/04/24 Fisheries Workshop Jason Link Global Ecosystem Overfishing: Clear Delineation in the Context of a Changing Climate & Real Limits to Production
2018/04/25 DEOS Seminar Stefan Sievert Activities and Productivity of the Sub- Seafloor Biosphere at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
2018/04/25 DFO Seminar Hollie Putnam Avenues of Marine Invertebrate Acclimatization in Response to Rapid Environmental Change
2018/09/12 Joint DEOS/DFO Seminar Irina Rypina Suitability of the Slope Sea for Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Spawning
2018/09/19 DEOS Seminar Sarah Davies Coral Symbiosis in a Changing World
2018/09/19 DFO Seminar Daphne Munroe Connectivity in Shellfish Metapopulations: Implications for Fisheries, Restoration and Evolution
2018/09/26 DEOS Seminar Kelly Lombardo Coastal Convective Storm Dynamics
2018/09/26 DFO Seminar Steven X. Cadrin Defining Spatial Structure of Fisheries
2018/10/03 DFO Seminar Samantha Siedlecki Hypoxia and Carbonate Saturation States in the Coastal Ocean: Processes That Drive Variability - Examples From the West Coast
2018/10/10 DEOS Seminar Ellen Douglas Coastal flooding adaptation strategies and infrastructure vulnerabilities for New England
2018/10/10 DFO Seminar Ted Maney Offshore Shellfish Aquaculture in Federal Waters of the Atlantic
2018/10/17 DFO Seminar Charles Bangley Defining Habitat for Migratory Elasmobranchs at a Coastal Scale Using Telemetry Data
2018/10/24 DFO Seminar Michelle D. Staudinger Climate-induced shifts in phenology: Case studies of fish, whales, and seabirds in the Gulf of Maine
2018/10/31 DEOS Seminar Brian von Herzen Marine Permaculture to Regenerate Subtropical Ocean Productivity
2018/10/31 DFO Seminar Mary Moser Devices and Desires: Research in support of green sturgeon recovery
2018/11/07 DEOS Seminar David (Roo) Nicholson Assessing rates of ocean productivity using autonomous platforms
2018/11/07 DFO Seminar Steven X. Cadrin What is Fisheries Oceanography? A local answer to a global challenge
2018/11/14 DEOS Seminar Rachel Stanley Insights from dissolved gases: Biological productivity on the New England Shelf and Shelfbreak
2018/11/14 DFO Seminar Jake Kritzer Advancing Multispecies Fishery Management in China: Lessons from international experience
2018/11/28 DEOS Seminar Avijit Gangopadhyay On the Variability of the Gulf Stream and Its Warm Core Rings: 1980-2017
2018/11/28 DFO Seminar Anna Malek Mercer The Rise of Jonah Crab (Cancer borealis) in Southern New England: Insights from a Fisherman-Based Sampling Program
2018/12/05 DFO Seminar Sandra Whitehouse Our Changing Ocean: How Ocean Conservancy as an Advocacy Organization Advances Solutions

2017

Seminars 2017
Date Seminar Speaker / affiliation Title
2017/01/25 DEOS Seminar Paolo Stegagno Online Spectral Analysis on a Low Cost UAV System
2017/01/25 DFO Seminar Vanessa Trijoulet Bioeconomic modelling of grey seal predation impacts on the West of Scotland fisheries
2017/02/01 DEOS Seminar Christopher M. Little Mean Sea Level Along the Northeast U.S. Coast: Drivers of Observed and Projected Change
2017/02/01 DFO Seminar Sean Hayes California's water: where do salmon fit in?
2017/02/08 DEOS Seminar Glen Gawarkiewicz Recent Hydrographic Variability in the Middle Atlantic Bight and Implications for Shelfbreak Exchange
2017/02/08 DFO Seminar Eric Heupel Providing a definition of vulnerability for policy and the use of bathymetric proxies to predict the distribution of vulnerable benthic species, communities and habitats
2017/02/15 DFO Seminar Steven Cadrin Adaptive Management in Marine Capture Fisheries
2017/02/22 DEOS Seminar Zhitao Yu The Impact of Ocean Surface Currents on Sverdrup Transport in the Mid- Latitude North Pacific via the Wind Stress Formulation
2017/02/22 DFO Seminar Jason Link Are there common, fundamental, emergent properties of all marine ecosystems, and if so, are they useful?
2017/03/01 DFO Seminar Joel Llopiz Vignettes in fish early life history: From the Sargasso Sea to your local New England pond
2017/03/08 DEOS Seminar Jamie Jacquart Creating a Sustainable Lifestyle
2017/03/08 DFO Seminar Kathryn Ford Assessing eelgrass loss in Duxbury, Kingston, and Plymouth Bays
2017/03/22 DEOS Seminar Terry Joyce On the Slowing of the Deep Western Boundary Current at Line W: 2004-2014
2017/03/22 DFO Seminar Anna Malek Fishermen as Research Partners: Case studies from the lobster, Jonah crab, quahog and Black Sea bass fisheries in Southern New England
2017/03/29 DEOS Seminar Peter Cornillon Improved quality SST data and some cool things you can do with them
2017/03/29 DFO Seminar Diego Bernal Stressed out sharks: What are the consequences of being captured?
2017/04/05 DEOS Seminar Jim Manning Alternative Ocean Observing Systems to Feed Numerical Models
2017/04/05 DFO Seminar Robert Glenn Demographic patterns of American lobster (Homarus americanus) in Massachusetts Bay as documented by a ventless lobster trap survey
2017/04/12 DEOS Seminar Robert Todd New Views of the Gulf Stream
2017/04/12 DFO Seminar Rob Drew Genomic Analyses of Physiological Adaptations in Fishes
2017/04/19 DEOS Seminar Austin Humphries Socioecological outcomes from fisheries management in coastal Anthropocene reef systems: Moving from impacts to solutions
2017/04/26 DEOS Seminar John Farrington The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative: Overview of a Unique Funding Effort and Results to Date
2017/09/06 DEOS Seminar Zhixuan Feng Physical and Biological Coupling in the Arctic Marine Ecosystem
2017/09/06 DFO Seminar Rob Stephenson How Must We Change to Undertake Coastal Management
2017/09/13 DEOS Seminar Lauren Freeman Novel Techniques in Environmental Monitoring: Niche Models, Remote Sensing and Soundscapes
2017/09/13 DFO Seminar Michelle Bachman Habitat Science and Fisheries Management at NEFMC
2017/09/20 DFO Seminar Min-Yang Lee Fishery Management, Prices, and Revenues in the Atlantic Sea Scallop IFQ Fishery
2017/09/27 DFO Seminar Sara Turner Using Habitat Preference Models, Ocean Forecasts, and Cooperative Research to Reduce River Herring Incidental Catch
2017/10/04 DEOS Seminar Farid Karimpour Sustenance of Phytoplankton in the Subpolar North Atlantic During the Winter
2017/10/04 DFO Seminar Andre Punt Is It Easier to Manage Baleen Whales than Fish? Tails of Successes
2017/10/11 DEOS Seminar Hyodae Seo Distinct influence of air-sea coupling mediated by mesoscale SST and current on the California and Somali Current Systems
2017/10/11 DFO Seminar Brian Rothschild Food for Thought: On the birth and death of ideas in marine science
2017/10/18 DEOS Seminar Mathieu Dever Frontal Dynamics and Biological Implications at Meso and Submesoscales
2017/10/18 DFO Seminar Kara Lavender Law Plastics Pollution in the Marine Environment
2017/10/25 DEOS Seminar James Bisagni A Possible Outer-MAB Along-Shelf Scotian Shelf Water Feature, 75° - 67° W, Spring 2017
2017/10/25 DFO Seminar John Bullard Atlantic Sea Scallops - A Fishery Management Success Story
2017/11/01 DEOS Seminar Supriya Chakrabarti Hyperspectral imaging of upper atmosphere at UMass Lowell
2017/11/01 DFO Seminar Edward Anthes-Washburn Economic Impact of the Port of New Bedford
2017/11/08 DEOS Seminar Bror Jonsson What is really controlling planktonic ecosystems in the Ocean?
2017/11/15 DEOS Seminar Dalton Hardisty Iodine perspectives on ancient surface ocean oxygenation
2017/11/15 DFO Seminar Ben Woodward Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Fisheries Science
2017/11/22 DFO Seminar Jon Hare Science in Support of Living Marine Resource Management in the Northeast US Shelf Ecosystem
2017/11/29 DEOS Seminar Hilary Palevsky Influence of winter ventilation on the ocean's biological pump
2017/11/29 DFO Seminar 2017 /12/06 DEOS Seminar Greg DeCelles R. Dwi Susanto Managing Atlantic Halibut - Challenges and Opportunities Role of Indonesian Throughflow on Regional and Global Ocean Circulation and Climate
2017/12/06 DFO Seminar Tiffany Vidal Between a rock and a soft bottom: Evaluating the use of hook and line to monitor tautog (Tautoga onitis) in Southern Massachusetts

2016

Seminars 2016
Date Seminar Speaker / affiliation Title
2016/01/27 DEOS Seminar Anthony Kirincich The Importance of Lateral Variability on Exchange Across the Inner Shelf
2016/01/27 DFO Seminar Brian Rothschild On the Evolution of Fish-Population Dynamics
2016/02/03 DEOS Seminar Sivappa Rasapalli Marine Bioprospecting and Natural Product Research: The Investigation of Novel Marine Microorganisms for the Production of Biologically Active Metabolites
2016/02/03 DFO Seminar Heather Goldstone All Climate is Local: Lessons in communicating science to the public
2016/02/10 DEOS Seminar Tobias Stapleton The UMass Dartmouth Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Connecting UMass with Industry
2016/02/10 DFO Seminar David Bethoney River Herring Bycatch Characterization and Avoidance in the Atlantic Herring and Mackerel Fishery
2016/02/17 DEOS Seminar Paul J. Gendron Time varying and sparse underwater acoustic response estimation via a hierarchical Gaussian mixture model with application to M-ary orthogonal spread spectrum signaling
2016/02/17 DFO Seminar Steve Cadrin Management Strategies for Mixed- Species Commercial, Recreational and Subsistence Fisheries
2016/02/24 DFO Seminar Jennifer Koop Darwin's Finches Under Attack: Understanding the invasion of the parasitic nest fly, Philornis downsi
2016/03/02 DEOS Seminar Ramprasad Balasubramanian Multi-AUV Autonomy - from refueling strategies to reducing communication latency in mobile underwater acoustic networks
2016/03/09 DFO Seminar Thu. Mar 24, 2016: Graduate Seminar Micah Dean Joshua Wrigley Designing an Industry-Based Trawl Survey for Gulf of Maine Cod: The need for an independent perspective Oral History in the Fisheries: Its uses and methodologies
2016/03/30 DEOS Seminar Amit Tandon Unlocking the Monsoon Mystery: ASIRI- OMM US-India Collaboration in the Bay of Bengal
2016/03/30 DFO Seminar Eric Chapman Integrating ecology with the economy through models: A marine ecosystem services perspective
2016/04/16 DEOS Seminar Mary Hensel Research Trends and the Funding Behind Them
2016/04/13 DFO Seminar David Richardson Discovery of a spawning ground reveals diverse migration strategies in Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
2016/04/20 DEOS Seminar Pia H. Moisander Biogeochemical roles of bacteria in association with marine copepods
2016/04/20 DFO Seminar Dan Georgianna Groundfish and Scallop Processing: A Tale of Two Fisheries
2016/04/27 DEOS Seminar No Seminar No title
2016/04/27 DFO Seminar R. Christopher Chambers Effects of Elevated CO2 on the Early Life Stages of Marine Fishes and Potential Consequences of Ocean Acidification
2016/09/07 DFO Seminar Changsheng Chen A Multi-scale Global-Basin-Coastal- Estuarine Integrated Model System: Development and Applications
2016/09/14 DEOS Seminar Steven Lentz Seasonal Warming of the Middle Atlantic Bight Cold Pool
2016/09/21 DEOS Seminar William Schwab Hurricanes and Coastal Flooding Hazards - The Intersection of the Media, Politics, and Science: An Example From Fire Island, New York
2016/09/21 DFO Seminar Mike Stokesbury Predicting and quantifying interactions between in-stream tidal power turbines and migrating Atlantic sturgeon
2016/09/28 DEOS Seminar Kerry Emanuel Climate Change and New England Hurricanes
2016/09/28 DFO Seminar Jason Boucher Characterizing changes in the population dynamics of American shad in the Connecticut River
2016/10/05 DEOS Seminar Jaime Palter Global Climate Impacts of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
2016/10/05 DFO Seminar Greg Skomal Seeing Deeper: Using autonomous tracking to study the subsurface behavior of sharks
2016/10/12 DEOS Seminar Kenneth Brink Cooling Winds and Eddies Over the Continental Shelf
2016/10/12 DFO Seminar Emory Anderson Lessons from a Career in Fisheries Science
2016/10/19 DEOS Seminar Raymond Schmitt Salinity and the Global Water Cycle: A New Predictor of Terrestrial Rainfall
2016/10/19 DFO Seminar 2016 /10/26 DFO Seminar Jenn Abelson Sarah Gaichas Fishy Business: Seafood mislabeling at restaurants and grocery stores Simulating Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management: Can results from model- world inform real life
2016/11/02 DEOS Seminar Viviane Menezes Accelerated Freshening of Antarctic Bottom Waters Over the Last Decade (2016-2007) in the Southern Indian Ocean
2016/11/02 DFO Seminar Mark Dickey-Collas ICES Approach to Providing the Knowledge for Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management
2016/11/16 DEOS Seminar No Seminar No title
2016/11/16 DFO Seminar Michael Armstrong From Snails to Whales: The challenge of managing marine species with diverse life histories
2016/11/23 DFO Seminar Erin Adams Sailing for Science with Sea Education Association
2016/11/30 DEOS Seminar Farid Karimpour Turbulent mixing in density-stratified wall-bounded flows
2016/12/07 DEOS Seminar Maureen Conte Particle Flux in the Ocean's Interior: Insights from the Oceanic Flux Program (OFP) Time Series
2016/12/07 DFO Seminar Walt Golet Understanding the Life History of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna in the Gulf of Maine

2015

Seminars 2015
Date Seminar Speaker / affiliation Title
2015/01/21 DEOS Seminar No Seminar No title
2015/01/21 DFO Seminar No Seminar No title
2015/01/28 DEOS Seminar No Seminar No title
2015/01/28 DFO Seminar No Seminar No title
2015/02/04 DEOS Seminar Scott D. Wankel Bringing the isotope lab to deep: Advances in deep-sea instrumentation for biogeochemistry
2015/03/04 DFO Seminar Kathryn Ford Eelgrass mapping using a low-cost sidescan sonar unit
2015/02/11 DEOS Seminar No Seminar No title
2015/02/11 DFO Seminar Steven Lohrenz Assessing impacts of climate and land use change on terrestrial-ocean fluxes of carbon and nutrients and their cycling in a river-dominated coastal ecosystem
2015/02/18 DEOS Seminar Ilson da Silveira 20th Anniversary of the Discovery of the North Brazil Undercurrent: What have we learned since then?
2015/02/18 DFO Seminar Holly V. Moeller Havitat Damage, Marine Reserves, and the Value of Spatial Management
2015/02/25 DEOS Seminar Magdalena Andres Interannual temperature variability in the MAB from MV Oleander XBT data
2015/02/25 DFO Seminar   A Bioeconomic Model of the Recreational Gulf of Maine Cod and Haddock Fishery
2015/03/04 DEOS Seminar Yizhea Li Seasonal and Interannual Variability of the Gulf of Maine Coastal Circulation and its Couplings with Regional Harmful Algal Blooms
2015/03/04 DFO Seminar Erik Olsen Marine Spatial Planning, global trends and insights from Norwegian implementations
2015/03/11 DEOS Seminar Mak Saito Strategies of Metal Conservation in Marine Microbes
2015/03/11 DFO Seminar 2015 /03/25 DFO Seminar Kristin M. Kleisner Geoffrey Cowles Shifts in Marine fish assemblages in response to regional climate velocities and physiographic constraints Optimizing Tidal Kinetic Energy Generation Across Multiple Scales
2015/04/01 DEOS Seminar   Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
2015/04/08 DEOS Seminar Jessica Carilli Human alteration of coastal water quality, and impacts on marine life
2015/04/08 DFO Seminar ZhongPing Lee Secchi depth and underwater visibility: Correct a 60-year old misinterpretation
2015/04/15 DEOS Seminar Cindy Pilskaln Carbon Flux Dynamics in the Gulf of Maine and POC Budget for the Northwest Atlantic Margin
2015/04/15 DFO Seminar Jonathan J. Deroba When "data" are not data: the pitfalls of post hoc analyses that use stock assessment model output
2015/04/22 DFO Seminar   https://echo360.org/media/2cdcbca8- 34d1-49b3-a88d-b0381c6f9317/public
2015/04/29 DEOS Seminar Yun Li Stratification on the Northwest Atlantic Shelf: Climatology, Interannual Variability and Biological Implications
2015/04/29 DFO Seminar Lisa A. Kerr Evaluating the implications of movement and productivity dynamics on Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks
2015/09/02 DEOS Seminar No Seminar No title
2015/09/02 DFO Seminar    
2015/09/09 DEOS Seminar James Bisagni Salinity Variability Along the Eastern Continental Shelf of Canada and the United States, 1973-2013
2015/09/09 DFO Seminar    
2015/09/16 DEOS Seminar Heidi Dierssen Using Remote Sensing Methods to Assess Seagrass Ecosystems and Potential Export of "Blue" Carbon
2015/09/16 DFO Seminar
  • Judith Rosellon-Druker
  • Corey Eddy
  • Description of Echinoderm Populations on Georges Bank and the Potential Modifying Role of Marine Protected Areas on these Populations
  • The Feeding Ecology of Invasive Lionfish (Pterois volitans and P. miles) in Bermuda
2015/09/23 DEOS Seminar Brian Howes "Soft" (non-infrastructure) solutions to mitigating nitrogen enrichment of shallow estuaries, Massachuesetts Estuaries Project Phase II
2015/09/23 DFO Seminar Michael Bednarski Responses of diadromous fishes to passage improvements in the Mill River, Taunton, Massachusetts
2015/09/30 DEOS Seminar Baylor Fox-Kemper Ocean Variability from the Surface to the Abyss
2015/09/30 DFO Seminar   Creating Tools For Ecosystem Management
2015/10/07 DEOS Seminar Mark Altabet At-sea measurement of N2/Ar ratio for studying N-loss processes in the Mexican OMZ
2015/10/07 DFO Seminar Janet Nye What can climate change tell us about ecological processes?
2015/10/14 DEOS Seminar No Seminar No title
2015/10/14 DFO Seminar    
2015/10/21 DEOS Seminar Evan Howard Dissolved gas tracers of metabolism in a salt marsh pond: daily to seasonal time scales
2015/10/21 DFO Seminar Tracey Dalton Performance of marine protected areas in the wider Caribbean
2015/10/28 DEOS Seminar Miles A. Sundermeyer Observations of Dye Dispersion in the Seasonal Pycnocline
2015/10/28 DFO Seminar John Walden Measuring capacity utilization in the New England groundfish fishery: How has it changed and what does it mean?
2015/11/04 DEOS Seminar Craig Tobias Tracing the fate of a very unnatural source of organic nitrogen to marine ecosystems: explosive findings
2015/11/18 DEOS Seminar Avijit Gangopadhyay The Western Boundary Currents in the Bay of Bengal: Past, Present and Future
2015/11/18 DFO Seminar Jamie Tam Thresholds of Ecological Indicators in Multiple Ecosystems: Determining reference points for ecosystem based management
2015/11/25 DEOS Seminar No Seminar No title
2015/11/25 DFO Seminar No seminar No title
2015/12/02 DFO Seminar Olaf Jensen Meta-analysis of marine fisheries using the RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Database
2015/12/08 DEOS Seminar No Seminar No title
2015/12/09 DEOS Seminar Kenneth Brink Continental Shelf Baroclinic Instability Energized by the Wind
2015/12/09 DFO Seminar Pingguo He Selective fishing and balanced fishing: Where are we going from here?

2014

Seminars 2014
Date Seminar Speaker / affiliation Title
2014/09/10 DEOS Seminar Marcos Santos New perspectives on partnerships in ocean sciences in Brazil
2014/09/10 DFO Seminar Paul Winger Building a better trap for snow crab: A review of recent Canadian selectivity and behavioral experiments
2014/09/24 DEOS Seminar Annie Bourbonnais N-loss isotope effects in the Peru oxygen minimum zone studied using a mesoscale eddy as a natural tracer experiment
2014/09/24 DFO Seminar Kevin Stokesbury Use of the SAFE Index to evaluate the status of a summer aggregation of Atlantic sturgeon in Minas Basin, Canada and the implication of the index for the USA endangered species designation of Atlantic and shortnose sturgeons
2014/10/01 DFO Seminar Andrew J. Pershing Response of the Gulf of Maine ecosystem and fisheries
2014/10/08 DEOS Seminar Fei Chai Understanding and Modeling Natural and Artificial Iron Fertilization in the Pacific Ocean
2014/10/08 DFO Seminar Steven Cadrin Managing New England fisheries in the context of climate change
2014/10/15 DEOS Seminar Crystal B. Schaaf Validation of Biomass Estimates with Terrestrial Lidar
2014/10/15 DFO Seminar Gavin Fay Including regime shifts in fisheries assessments and harvest recommendations using Markov switching models
2014/10/22 DEOS Seminar Melissa Omand Eddy-Driven Subduction of Particulate Carbon during the North Atlantic Spring Bloom
2014/10/29 DFO Seminar Jenny Sun Groundfish sectors business viability assessment: Analyzing the time-value of the ACE leasing price and the utilization of ACE
2014/11/05 DEOS Seminar No Seminar No title
2014/11/05 DFO Seminar Brian Rothschild Rewriting the Magnuson Stevens Act
2014/11/12 DFO Seminar John Manderson Is there a 3rd way toward ecosystem based assessment supporting sustainable fisheries?
2014/11/19 DFO Seminar Douglas Zemeckis Spawning Dynamics of Atlantic Cod in Massachusetts Bay
2014/12/03 DEOS Seminar Sumit Chakraborty Phytoplankton community dynamics in the river-influenced continental margin of the northern Gulf of Mexico
2014/12/03 DFO Seminar Richard Langton The Buccoo Reef Trust: A Story of Success and Failure for a Caribbean Marine NGO
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