Speaker: Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Director, Program in Ocean Science & Engineering, Georgia Inst. of Technology
Title: Evidence for Stronger and More Prolonged Heat Waves in the North Pacific, is the 2014/15 Event the New Norm?
Category Archives: Event
Hawaii Institute for Marine Biology Seminar
Speaker: Joey DiBattista, Dept of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, West Australia
Title: Genetic Approaches to Cataloging the Form and Function of Biodiversity in Our Oceans
Marine Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Iain Kerr, CEO, Ocean Alliance, Gloucester, MA
Title: Drones for Whale Research
Geology and Geophysics and Water Resources Research Center Joint Seminar
Speaker: Holly Michael, Associate Professor, Dept. of Geological Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware
Title: The Influence of Geologic Heterogeneity on Large-Scale Groundwater Flow and Solute Transport: Continental Shelves and Mega-Cities
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
Speaker: Joel A. Thornton, Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
Title: Cloud Seeding by Vegetation: Conversion of Forest Volatiles into Cloud Condensation Nuclei
Please bring a mug and join us for coffee, tea, and cookies prior to the seminar.
Geology and Geophysics Special Seminar
Speaker: Valerie Sahakian, Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Geological Survey, La Jolla, CA
Title: I’m All Shook Up–My Philosophy of Teaching Through Some Examples and Anecdotes
POST 723, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Hanauma Bay Educational Lecture Series
Speaker: Megan Porter, Assistant Professor, UHM Dept. of Biology
Title: How an Eye Can Work Like an Ear: The Visual Systems of Mantis Shrimp
Please arrive by 6:15 p.m. Parking is free after 4:00 p.m., no admission fee for the seminar. Questions? Call (808) 397-5840 or e-mail hbaynews@hawaii.edu.
Pacific Biosciences Research Center Seminar
This week’s seminar features two speakers.
–Diane McDougald, Associate Professor, Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, The Evolution of Opportunistic Pathogens is Driven by Predation in the Environment
–Scott Rice, Associate Professor, Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Communal Interactions of Microbial Biofilms
Oceanography Seminar
Speaker: Matthew Widlansky, Researcher, UH Sea Level Center, Joint Inst. for Marine and Atmospheric Research
Title: Future Sea Levels for Tropical Pacific Island
Geology and Geophysics Special Seminar
Speaker: Valerie Sahakian, Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Geological Survey, La Jolla, CA
Title: Seismic Hazard Analysis: Studies of the Source and the Path