Ocean Currents

TUESDAY, 3 NOVEMBER
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Earth Surface Sedimentary Flow Processes - Nico Gray, Univ Manchester, "Particle size segregation and shock waves in geophysical mass flows," 9:00, HSB T-239.
—BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Elaina Jorgensen, Oceanography, "Effects of starvation on the digestive gland of paralarval Enteroctopus dofleini," 11:30, 123 MSB.
—PCC/CIG SEMINAR - Jessica Halofsky, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab, "Adapting natural resource management to climate change: The Olympic Case Study," 4:00, 425 OSB.

WEDNESDAY, 4 NOVEMBER
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Co-Evolution of Life and the Planet - Appy Sluijs, Univ Utrecht, "Global change during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum," 9:00, HSB T-239.
—PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Three second-year Oceanography graduate students: Brian Chinn ("Observations of internal waves in the Philippines"), advisors James Girton and Matthew Alford; Byron Kilbourne ("Observations of ner inertial motions in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current"), advisor James Girton; and Sarah Purkey ("Antarctic Bottom Water warming since the 1900s and implications for global heat and sea level budgets"), advisor Greg Johnson; 12:30, 425 OSB.

FRIDAY, 6 NOVEMBER
—CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Sara Breslow, Anthropology, "Multidisciplinary and multistakeholder watershed planning: The Skagit Alternative Futures Project," 12:30, 425 OSB.

MONDAY, 9 NOVEMBER
—MARINE GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR - Evan Solomon, Oceanography, "Fluid flow pathways, flow rates, and geochemical cycling at the Costa Rica and Nankai Trough subduction zones," 12:30, 123 MSB.

TUESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER
—BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Vaughn Iverson, Oceanography, "Exploring microbial communities fifty billion bases at a time: Novel methods for comparative high-throughput metagenomic analysis," 11:30, 123 MSB.
—H20 SEMINAR - Richard Feely, NOAA/PMEL, "Ocean acidification of the northeastern pacific coastal waters and Puget Sound," 2:30, NOAA NWFSC Auditorium.
—PCC/CIG SEMINAR - Mary Ruckelshaus, NOAA/NWFSC, "Assessing climate impacts on Pacific salmon: Are there opportunities for adaptation?", 4:00, 425 OSB.

FRIDAY, 13 NOVEMBER
—CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Rick Keil, Oceanography, "Citizen sampling in Puget Sound," 12:30, 425 OSB.

MONDAY, 16 NOVEMBER
—MARINE GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR - Dax Soule, Oceanography, title TBA, 12:30, 123 MSB.

TUESDAY, 17 NOVEMBER
—BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Jeff Bowman, Oceanography, title TBA, 11:30, 123 MSB.
—PCC/CIG SEMINAR - Cliff Mass, Atmospheric Sciences, "Trends in extreme precipitation in the Pacific Northwest," 4:00, 425 OSB.

WEDNESDAY, 18 NOVEMBER
—MASTER'S PRESENTATION/PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Alison Rogers, title TBA, 12:30, 425 OSB. Dr Riser is chairperson of her committee.

FRIDAY, 20 NOVEMBER
—CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Andrea Fassbender, Oceanography, title TBA, 12:30, 425 OSB.

MONDAY, 23 NOVEMBER
—MARINE GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR - Kristen Lee, Oceanography, title TBA, 12:30, 123 MSB.
—FINAL EXAMINATION - Billy Brazelton, "Ecology of archaeal and bacterial biofilm communities at the Lost City hydrothermal field," 2:00, 123 MSB. Dr Baross is chairperson of his committee.

TUESDAY, 24 NOVEMBER
—BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Gigi Engel, Oceanography, title TBA, 11:30, 123 MSB.
—H20 SEMINAR - Postponed to 1 December.
—PCC/CIG SEMINAR - Richard Feely, NOAA/PMEL, "Ocean acidification of the northeastern Pacific coastal waters and Puget Sound," 4:00, 425 OSB.

WEDNESDAY, 25 NOVEMBER
—PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Two second-year Oceanography graduate students: Jesse Anderson ("Low latitude, near-su7rface measurements of temperature and salinity from profiling floats"), advised by Steve Riser; and Noel Pelland ("Seasonal and interannual variability in the California Undercurrent off the Washington coast"), advised by Charlie Eriksen; 12:30, 425 OSB.

MONDAY, 30 NOVEMBER
—MARINE GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR - Robert Weekly, Oceanography, title TBA, 12:30, 123 MSB.

TUESDAY, 1 DECEMBER
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Earth Surface Sedimentary Flow Processes - Rudy Slingerland, Penn State Univ, "How river deltas work: The patterns and dynamics of distributive fluvial systems," 9:00, HSB T-239.
—BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Julie Koester, Oceanography, title TBA, 11:30, 123 MSB.
—H20 SEMINAR - Irv Schultz, Battelle Pacific NW National Lab,"Integrating source-fate, marine food web, and human exposure models for PBDEs," 2:30, 108 FSH. (Postponed from 24 November.)
—PCC/CIG SEMINAR - Paul Henshaw, UC Berkeley, "Careers for scientists in the energy industry - What's an oceanographer doing in an oil company?", 4:00, 425 OSB.

WEDNESDAY, 2 DECEMBER
—PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR: Three second-year Oceanography graduate students: Shuang Zhang ("Idealized modeling of subinertial internal waves observed in Hood Canal, Washington"), advised by Matthew Alford and Jan Newton; Jinting Zhang ("Contributions to the interannual SSH anomaly variability in the North Atlantic Ocean"), advised by Kathie Kelly and LuAnne Thompson; Andy Pickering ("Observations of near-inertial waves during the Internal Waves Across the Pacific Experiment"), advised by Matthew Alford; 12:30, 425 OSB.

FRIDAY, 4 DECEMBER
—CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Evan Solomon, Oceanography, "Gas hydrates and hydrocarbon fluxes from seeps," 12:30, 425 OSB.

MONDAY, 7 DECEMBER
—MARINE GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR - Ben Sheets, Oceanography, title TBA, 12:30, 123 MSB.

TUESDAY, 8 DECEMBER
—BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Michael Carlson, Oceanography, title TBA, 11:30, 123 MSB.
—H20 SEMINAR - Juli Trtanj, NOAA Oceans & Human Health Initiative,"Defining the 'health' in Oceans and Human Health: A policy framework for maximizing the impact of your research," 2:30, NOAA NWFSC Auditorium.
—PCC/CIG SEMINAR - Ken Westrick, CEO 3Tier, title TBA, 4:00, 425 OSB.

WEDNESDAY, 9 DECEMBER
WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Co-Evolution of Life and the Planet - Mike Benton, Univ Bristol, "The end-Permian mass extinction: Death and destruction in the red beds of Russia," 9:00, HSB T-239.
—PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Mike Gregg, APL, "Flow and hydraulic control over the Hood Canal sill," 12:30, 425 OSB.

FRIDAY, 11 DECEMBER
—CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Lia Slemons, Oceanography, "Trace metal pathways in the western equatorial Pacific: Fast currents and loose iron," 12:30, 425 OSB.

TUESDAY, 15 DECEMBER
—BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Liz Tobin, Oceanography, title TBA, 11:30, 123 MSB.

WEDNESDAY, 16 DECEMBER
—PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Andrey Shcherbina, APL, "3D structure, temporal evolution, and origins of submesoscale thermohaline intrusions of the North Pacific Subtropical Front," 12:30, 425 OSB.

TUESDAY, 5 JANUARY
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Earth Surface Sedimentary Flow Processes - Bill McCaffrey, Univ Leeds, "Flow fractionation effects in turbidity currents," 9:00, HSB T-239.

WEDNESDAY, 13 JANUARY
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Co-Evolution of Life and the Planet - Ted Moore, Univ Michigan, "Radiolarians and environmental change: The Eocene/Oligocene climate transition," 9:00, HSB T-239.

TUESDAY, 2 FEBRUARY
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Earth Surface Sedimentary Flow Processes - Jess Trofimovs, Univ Southampton, "Submarine pyroclasic flows and turbidity current dynamics," 9:00, HSB T-239.

WEDNESDAY, 10 FEBRUARY
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Co-Evolution of Life and the Planet - Blair Hedges, Penn State Univ, "Molecular clocks and the timetree of life," 9:00, HSB T-239.

TUESDAY, 2 MARCH
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Earth Surface Sedimentary Flow Processes - Paul Carling, Univ Southampton, "Megaflood sedimentation, gravel dunes and antidunes," 9:00, HSB T-239.

WEDNESDAY, 10 MARCH
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Co-Evolution of Life and the Planet - Sven Thatje, Univ Southampton, "Evolution: Crabs go deep to avoid hot water," 9:00, HSB T-239.

TUESDAY, 13 APRIL
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Earth Surface Sedimentary Flow Processes - Ken Christensen, UIUC, "Educing coherent structures and their impact from planar velocimetry," 9:00, HSB T-239.

WEDNESDAY, 21 APRIL
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Co-Evolution of Life and the Planet - Jane Francis, Univ Leeds, "Ice in a greenhouse world? Cimate signals from latest Cretaceous sequences in Antarctica," 9:00, HSB T-239.

TUESDAY, 4 MAY
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Earth Surface Sedimentary Flow Processes - Andrea Ogston, Oceanography, "Sediment density flows on the continental shelf: When, why, and how important?", 9:00, HSB T-239.

WEDNESDAY, 12 May
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Co-Evolution of Life and the Planet - Jeffrey Bada, Scripps Inst of Oceanography, "The origin of life: Transformation from an abiotic to a biotic Earth," 9:00, HSB T-239.

THURSDAY, 3 JUNE
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Earth Surface Sedimentary Flow Processes - Russell Wynn, Univ Southampton, "The world's large submarine flows: Location, timing, and associated hazards," 9:00, HSB T-239.

THURSDAY, 1 JULY
—WUN EARTH SYSTEMS VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Series Earth Surface Sedimentary Flow Processes - Maarten Kleinhans, Univ Utrecht, "Distributary systems and channel bifurcations," 9:00, HSB T-239.

CONGRATULATIONS! - To:
• Roo Nicholson, who passed his Final Examination on 16 October.
• Tom Connolly, who passed his General Examination on 19 October.

WELCOME ABOARD! - To:
• Pamela Barrett who earned a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.A. in Political Science with honors from University of Rochester. She will be studying Chemical Oceanography with Dr. Resing.

• Rosalinda Fortier who earned a B.S. in Physics/Physical Oceanography and a B.S. in Applied Math with honors from University of Rhode Island. She will be studying Physical Oceanography with Dr. Sanford.

• Megan Gambs who earned a B.S. in Geological Sciences from University of California, Santa Barbara. She will be studying Physical Oceanography with Drs. Hautala and Thompson.

• Caroline Harbitz who earned a B.S. in Physics: Meteorology from University of Maryland. She will be studying Physical Oceanography with Dr. Riser.

• Tyler Hennon who earned a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Physics with honors from University of Oregon. He will be studying Physical Oceanography with Drs. Riser and Alford.

• Greg Kowalke who earned a B.S. in Ecology and Systematic Biology with honors from California Polytechnic State University. He will be studying Biological Oceanography with Dr. Keister.

• (Sarah) Nemiah Ladd who earned a B.A. in Geology with honors from Brown University and a M.S. in Education from University of Pennsylvania. She will be studying Chemical Oceanography with Dr. Sachs.

• Nathan Lauffenburger who earned a B.A. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Physics with honors from State University of New York – Geneseo. He will be studying Physical Oceanography with Dr. Sanford.

• Gwenn Miller who earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She will be studying Biological Oceanography with Dr. Armbrust.

• Dan Nowacki who earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering with honors from Syracuse University. He will be studying Marine Geology and Geophysics with Dr. Ogston.

• Jaclyn Saunders who earned a B.S. in Biology and B.A. in Political Science with honors from University of Pittsburgh. She will be studying Biological Oceanography with Dr. Rocap.

• Kevin Taylor who earned a B.S. in Physics from University of Alaska – Fairbanks. He will be studying Physical Oceanography with Dr. Sanford.

INFORMATION FOR PREPARING PROPOSAL BUDGETS: [rev. 6/30/09]
—BENEFIT RATES: Faculty - 23.6%, Classified Staff - 38.3%, Professional Staff - 29.3%, Graduate Students - 12.9%, Hourly/ Sea Pay/Undergrads - 13.0%, Graduate Stipends - 10.3%.
—INDIRECT COST: On campus: 56%. Off-campus rate: 26%. For salary projections, contact Carolyn Fisher (115 OTB, 3-4330).
—GRAD OPERATING FEE:
08/09 - $3070/qtr, academic year; (proj.) $3165 summer.
09/10 - $3285/qtr, academic year; (proj.) $3482 summer.
10/11 (projected) - $3614/qtr, academic year; (proj.) $3830 summer.
11/12 (projected) - $3975/qtr, academic year; (proj.) $4213 summer.
12/13 (projected) - $4373/qtr, academic year; (proj.) $4634 summer.
13/14 (projected) - $4810/qtr, academic year; (proj.) $5097 summer.