Ocean Currents

FRIDAY, 5 FEBRUARY
—MASTER'S PRESENTATION/CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Andrea Fassbender, Oceanography, "Inorganic carbon dynamics during northern California coastal upwelling," 12:30, 425 OSB. Dr Sabine is chairperson of her committee.

MONDAY, 8 FEBRUARY
—MARINE GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR - John Vidale, ESS, "Tremor, the curious third wheel of fault motion," 12:30, 123 MSB.

TUESDAY, 9 FEBRUARY
—H2O SEMINAR - Jess Silver, WA State Dept of Health/Marine Biotoxin Program, "Big ideas, small budget: Making sense of the science-management relationship," 2:30, FSH 108.

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.
—FACULTY MEETING - Will be held at 10:30 in 123 MSB. Coffee and pastries will be available at 10:15.
—PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Greg Foltz, NOAA/PMEL/JISAO, "Interaction between the Atlantic meridional and Niño modes," 12:30, 425 OSB.

THURSDAY, 11 FEBRUARY
—PCC 9TH ANNUAL PUBLIC LECTURE - Brian Soden, Univ Miami/Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, "Reducing uncertainty in predictions of climate change," 7:00 p.m., 120 Kane. The public is welcome at this free lecture. For more information, click here or call (206) 543-6521.

FRIDAY, 12 FEBRUARY
—CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Kevin Tempest, Oceanography, title TBA, 12:30, 425 OSB.

MONDAY, 15 FEBRUARY
—UW HOLIDAY ***Presidents Day***

WEDNESDAY, 17 FEBRUARY
—PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Nathan Paldor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Non-harmonic waves in mid-latitudes on the rotating spherical earth," 12:30, 425 OSB.

FRIDAY, 19 FEBRUARY
—CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Adrian Marchetti, Oceanography, "Searching for life in an ocean desert: New production rates, size-class contributions, and biogeochemical controls in the western equatorial Pacific," 12:30, 425 OSB.

22-26 FEBRUARY: AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting

MONDAY, 22 FEBRUARY
—MARINE GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR - David Butterfield, NOAA/PMEL, title TBA, 12:30, 123 MSB.

WEDNESDAY, 24 FEBRUARY
—PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - No seminar today.

FRIDAY, 26 FEBRUARY
—CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - No seminar today.

MONDAY, 1 MARCH
—MARINE GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR - Katharine Huntington, ESS, title TBA, 12:30, 123 MSB.

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.
—H2O SEMINAR - Danny Grünbaum and Liz Tobin, Oceanography, "Towards a remotely sensed early-warning capability for Heterosigma akashiwo HABS," 2:30, FSH 108.

WEDNESDAY, 3 MARCH
—PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - John Lyman, NOAA/PMEL and JIMAR, "Reconciling heat content differences in the global upper ocean," 12:30, 425 OSB.

THURSDAY, 4 MARCH
—GENERAL EXAMINATION - Eric Rehm, 2:00, 123 MSB. Dr D'Asaro is chairperson of his committee.

FRIDAY, 5 MARCH
—GENERAL EXAMINATION - David Trossman, 10:00, 123 MSB. Dr Thompson is chairperson of his committee.
—CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Rachel Stanley, WHOI, title TBA, 12:30, 425 OSB.

MONDAY, 8 MARCH
—MARINE GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR - Andrea Ogston, Oceanography, title TBA, 12:30, 123 MSB.

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.

FRIDAY, 12 MARCH
—CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Jody Deming, Oceanography, "Do microbes 'roll the dice' in ice?", 12:30, 425 OSB.

TUESDAY, 6 APRIL
—MASTER'S PRESENTATION/BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Jeff Bowman, Oceanography, title TBA, 11:30, 123 MSB. Dr Deming is chairperson of his committee.

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 our undergraduates on the Autumn Quarter Dean's List:

Freshmen:
•Sun-Li Beatteay
•Katherine Gwynn
•Amanda Hacking
•Maxwell Neu
•Diane Perry
•Carla Stapleton

Sophomores:
•Miles Carl
•Matthew Knight

Juniors:
•Rachel Lipsey
•Byungho Min
•Matti Niemisto
•Jasmine Palmer

Seniors:
•Erika Bergman
•Lori Hanson
•Fran Janny
•Dane Logan
•Melinda Webster

CONGRATULATIONS ALSO To:
•Sally Warner, who passed her General Examination on 29 January.
•Andrea Fassbender, who passed her Master's Examination on 5 February.

New NOAA Fisheries Publication Available: Northwest Fisheries Science Center's Annual Report - The NWFSC's Highlights summarizes our staff's activities and accomplishments over the past year, which included efforts to respond to emerging environmental concerns such as ocean acidification and climate change; provide critical scientific advice to support salmon recovery; and develop groundfish stock assessments. View the entire report here.

INFORMATION FOR PREPARING PROPOSAL BUDGETS can now be found here.

PHONE DIRECTORY UPDATES - Printable Oceanography faculty/staff and graduate student directories can be downloaded here or from this link at any of our website directory pages. The faculty/staff directory was last updated on 1 February 2010.