CMBC "Brown Bag" TUESDAYS 

To maintain and build collaborations between labs, curricular groups, and external organizations.Research brown bags are held in 4500 Hubbs Hall on Tuesdays from 12:30 to 1:30.   This time can be used to give a short talk, have group meetings, prepare proposals, or discuss topics of interest. Please contact cmbc@ucsd.edu to schedule.


SPRING QUARTER

May 21   Ralph Pace: " Punta Colorada; The Value of a Wave"

May 28:  Greg Rouse: photo and video exploration of recent Antarctic research

FALL QUARTER  

Dimitri Deheyn: New Instrumentation for deep-sea exploration

Lily Simonson: Art and Science

Discussion:  Science and Advocacy 

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What you missed in 2013
January 8:   Nicole Price: Threats to coral reefs from changes in ocean chemistry
January 15: Discussion - Deep ocean stewardship proposal to INSPIRE 
January 22:  Eddie Kisfaludy: The Ultimate Fate of a Fin Whale and Common Dolphin
February 5: Aaron Carlisle: Using stranding records and stable isotope analysis to understand the ecology of juvenile salmon sharks (Lamna ditropis) in the California Current
February 12: Discovery of a methane seep off San Diego (Ben Grupe, Alexis Pasulka and Jillian Maloney)
February 26: Discussion:  Low-Oxygen information session - share research & interests on shelf/slope hypoxia
March 5:   Isabelle Kay:  Discussion - Collaborative Study of Scripps Submarine Canyon
March 12: NOON - 1:00
Octavio-Aburto: Habitat, community structure and production :Basic ecology for the valuation of ecosystem services
(The speaker is a candidate for a faculty position in the Biology Section)  
March 19 - special event Wetlands Symposium (SIO286)

What you missed in 2012:
January 10 Gulf of California commercialization of dorado and billfish and Lacey Act violations  (Vince Radice)
January 17  U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan (Dick Norris)
January 24 REEF (Christy Semmens)
January 31 "The Fall of the Sea of Cortez: A History of Environmental Impacts and Lost Conservation Opportunities in Baja California and the Sea of Cortez, 1998-2008"  (Aaron Quintanar)
February 7 National Ocean Policy Implementation Plan (Kathryn Mengerink, Environmental Law Institute)
February 14  Developing Country Participation in Climate Agreements: Optimal Energy Taxes - Marck Jacobsen
February 21  Reef Environmental Education Foundation (Christy Semmens)
February 28  - Meet your New Underwater Parks - Diane Castaneda, WILDCOAST
March 13  - Update on LTER - Mark Ohman
March 20  - 100 years of benthic ecology at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica - Paul Dayton
April 3   - Ocean Acidification Working Group meeting
April 10  "Linking People to the World's Oceans"  Carl Nettleton, OpenOceans Global (http://www.openoceans.org)
April 17   Discussion with Damien Cie
April 24   "The Cycle of Insanity: The Real Story of Water" film by Anthony Christopher & Alssa Waddell, Ocean Discovery Institute
May 1         Dr. Paul Snelgrove:  census of marine life past and future
May 8         Dave Rudie, San Diego Oceans Foundation: Past, Present and Future
May 15       Brian Hopkinson, UGA, Understanding the effects of rising CO2 on phytoplankton photosynthesis
May 29      Kathryn Mengerink, ELI - Arctic Stewardship
June 5      Claudia Roriguez, UC-Mex Center: Unintended Outcomes of Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change
October 2: Sustainable Seafood Initiative - Planning Group Meeting
October 16: Researching arctic submarine canyons with Greenpeace - Kirk Sato
October 30:  Challenges of environmental behavioral research - Ayelet Gneezy, Rady School of Management
November 13:  Small-Scale Artisanal Fisheries Research Network - Tara Whitty & Hannah Basset

 

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Special events are organized as opportunities and funding becomes available.

 

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