2025 Guest Speaker Schedule
Thursdays, 1:30-2:30 in Clark 507 unless otherwise noted below
Icebergs, Antarctica, and the Southern Ocean: the Flywheel of the Global Climate System
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| February 6 TIME: 4:00 LOCATION: REDFIELD AUDITORIUM | Sarah Shackleton WHOI | What explains the tight coupling between Antarctic temperature and total ocean heat content? Abstract, Suggested Readings, & Talk Recording |
| February 13 | Ken Halanych University of North Carolina Wilmington | Icy Inverts: A look at the recent evolutionary history of Antarctic marine inverts as revealed by genomics Abstract, Suggested Readings, & Talk Recording |
| February 20 | Ann Tarrant WHOI | Lipid storage and dormancy in Antarctic copepods Abstract and Suggested reading |
| February 27 | Deborah Steinberg Virginia Institute of Marine Science | Long-term change in zooplankton communities Abstract, Suggested Readings, & Talk Recording |
| March 6 | Piotr Kuklinski Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences/WHOI Guest Investigator | Carbonate chemistry and biomineralization Abstract, Suggested Readings, & Talk Recording |
| March 13 | Fiamma Straneo Harvard University | Ice-ocean interactions, PO and cryo-oceanographic exchange Abstract, Suggested Readings, & Talk Recording |
| March 20 | TBD | It's Not Just Ice: Antarctic Geology and Geochemistry Abstract, Suggested Readings, & Talk Recording |
| March 27 | Break - No Speaker | |
| April 3 | Donal Manahan University of Southern California | Metabolic Adaptation of Larval Invertebrates Abstract, Suggested Readings, & Talk Recording |
| April 10 | Alex Fraser University of Tasmania - Australian Antarctic Partnership | Sea Ice, Fast Ice and Grounded Icebergs ("icescape") Abstract, Suggested Readings, & Talk Recording |
| April 17 | Brent Minchew MIT | Ice Sheet Geophysics: Observations and Modeling of Dynamic Change and Mass Loss Abstract, Suggested Readings, & Talk Recording |
| April 24 LOCATION: REDFIELD AUDITORIUM | Michelle LaRue MIT | Worldwide Censuses of Penguins and Seals from Satellite Imagery Abstract, Suggested Readings, & Talk Recording |
| May 1 | Rob Sherrell Rutgers University | Biogeochemistry - Iron Fertilization ( or lack thereof...!) Abstract, Suggested Readings, & Talk Recording |
| May 8 | Rob DeConto UMass Amherst | Ice Sheet Dynamics - Past/Present Abstract, Suggested Readings, & Talk Recording |