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Guest Speaker Schedule

2016 Geodynamics Seminar Series: Ice-Ocean Interaction
Thursdays, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Clark Lab 507, Quissett Campus, WHOI

Speaker Schedule (pdf)

DATE GUEST SPEAKER TITLE / TOPIC
Thursday
Feb. 4
Ian Eisenman
Assistant Professor
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Sea Ice Stability and Early Warning Signals
Thursday
Feb. 11
Don Perovich
Research Geophysicist
Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

Sea Ice and Sunlight in a Changing Arctic

Thursday
Feb. 18
Scott Doney
Senior Scientist & Dept. Chair
MC&G, WHOI

Changing Coastal-Ocean Biogeochemistry Along The Western Antarctic Peninsula

Thursday
Feb. 25
Doug Martinson
Doherty Senior Research Scientist
Division of Ocean and Climate Physics
LDEO/Columbia University
Antarctic Ocean-Ice Interactions, and Some Climatic Implications
Thursday
March 3
Michael Castellini
Associate Dean, Graduate School
Senior Faculty, Center for Arctic Policy Studies, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Marine Arctic 2020: At the Intersection of Science, Education, Policy and Environment
Thursday
March 10
Maria Vernet
Senior Research Biologist
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Primary Production along the Atlantic Water Inflow into the Arctic Ocean
Thursday
March 17
Peter Huybers
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard University
Pleistocene Glaciation and Volcanism
Thursday
March 31
Jemma Wadham
Professor of Glaciology
University of Bristol, UK

Exploring the Impacts of Glacier Melting Upon Marine Ecosystems

Thursday
April 7
Grant Bigg
Professor in Earth Systems Science
The University of Sheffield, UK
The Role of icebergs in Global Change
Thursday
April 14
Rob DeConto
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Commitment to Future Retreat of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and Implications for New England

Thursday
April 21
(Carriage House)
Mike Jakuba
Research Engineer
Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, WHOI
The Nereid Under Ice (NUI) Hybrid ROV
Thursday
April 28
(Carriage House)
Pierre Dutrieux
Polar Science Center
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
Ocean-Ice sheet interactions: the case of the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica
Thursday
May 5
Britney Schmidt
Professor, College of Sciences
Georgia Tech
Getting Under Europa's Skin:
Robots, Radar and the Search for Life
Thursday
May 12
Ian Hewitt
Mathematical Institute
Oxford University, UK
Glacial hydrology and consquences for ice-sheet dynamics