Ocean Currents

MONDAY, 23 NOVEMBER
—MARINE GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR - Kristen Lee, Oceanography, "Export of fine-grained sediment from the Skagit River Delta: A sandy tidal flat," 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, "Tracing the Bering Sea food web: Lipid biomarker development for heterotrophic protists," 11:30, 123 MSB.
—H20 SEMINAR - Postponed to 1 December.
—PCC/CIG SEMINAR - Simone Alin, 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, "Seismicity along the Juan de Fuca Ridge: Perturbations to an active hydrothermal system," 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
—GENERAL EXAMINATION - Colleen Durkin, 10:30, 123 MSB. Dr Armbrust is chairperson of her committee.
—CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR - Lia Slemons, Oceanography, "How does the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent gain nitrate and lose iron? Nutrient budgets in a coupled physical-biological model," 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 - Evan Solomon, Oceanography, "Hydrocarbon emissions to the atmosphere from dynamic gas hydrate-bearing seeps in the Gulf of Mexico," 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.