SOEST Bulletin

Vol. 23, No. 20, May 14, 2012

Calendar of Events

Monday, May 21

No events.

Tuesday, May 22

Dept. of Ocean and Resources Engineering thesis defense: Pablo Duarte Quiroga, Graduate Student, UH Dept. of Ocean and Resources Engineering, Effect of Bed-Form Roughness on Long-Wave Transformations over Fringing Reefs, MSB 100, 2:00 p.m.

Wednesday, May 23

No events.

Thursday, May 24

Dept. of Oceanography thesis defense: Amanda Timmerman, Graduate Student, UH Dept. of Oceanography, Hidden Layers of Toxic Phytoplankton: A Signal of the Changing Environment? HIG 110, 9:00 a.m.

Hawaii Inst. of Marine Biology seminar: Ashley Frisch, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia, Iconic Fisheries of the Great Barrier Reef: Anemonefishes, Lobsters and Apex Predators, POST 601, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Hanauma Bay Thursday Evenings: Sandra Brigham, Wings Department Lead, and Tara Dixon, Education Manager, Sealife Park, Sealife Park Seabird Rehabilitation: One of a Kind, Hanauma Bay Education Center Theater, 6:30 p.m. Event is free and open to the public, with no charge for parking after 5:30 p.m. For more information on UH Sea Grant Hanauma Bay Education Program events and activities, navigate to the online Calendar of Events.

Friday, May 25

Dept. of Oceanography thesis defense: Gordon Walker, Graduate Student, UH Dept. of Oceanography, Assessing Multi-Dimensional Physical Fractionation of Phytoplankton as a Means to Identify Uncultivated Virus-Host Systems, CMORE Hale Conf. Ctr., 10:00 a.m.

Dept. of Oceanography thesis defense: William Misa, Graduate Student, UH Dept. of Oceanography, Establishing Species-habitat Associations for 4 Eteline Snappers Using a Baited Stereo- Video Camera System, MSB 100, 2:00 p.m.

Announcements

SOEST Publication Services: Pubs will be closed on Friday, May 18 and Monday, May 21. Assignment of contribution numbers and editing assistance will resume on Tuesday, May 22.

Science Cafe at P.F. Chang's: Bruce Howe, Research Professor and Chair of the UH Dept. of Ocean and Resources Engineering, will be the featured speaker at Science Cafe on May 22 at P.F. Chang's. Dr. Howe's talk is titled New Tools for Observing the Ocean from the Surface to the Abyss. More information available online.

SOEST Contribution List Online

This week's list of the fifty most recent publications assigned SOEST numbers is available here.

Latest SOEST Grants Received

(New grant unless amount is designated "supplement.")

P.I.: Jeffrey Drazen
Amount: $390,000
Agency: State of Hawaii, DLNR (funds from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, DOI)
Title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Restricted Fishing Areas Bottomfish Fishery in the Main Hawaiian Islands

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