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The Biogeocheminar

 

An informal weekly seminar on interactions between marine organisms and the earth system.

 

Location: Biosciences 1465.

 

Time: Thursdays, 15:30-16:30

 

Send an email to sign up for a seminar date.

     

 

Dec 9

David Cassis - The effects of harmful algae on juvenile Pacific oysters (Cassostrea gigas)

 

 

    2004

 

Jan 6

 

 

Jan 13

 

 

Jan 20

 

 

Jan 27

 

 

Feb 3

 

 

Feb 10

 

 

Feb 17

Spring break - no seminar

 

Feb 24

 

 

Mar 3

 

 

Mar 10

 

 

Mar 17

 

 

Mar 24

 

 

Mar 31

 

     

 

PAST SEMINARS

 

Dec 2

Andy Ridgwell - Lies, Damned Lies and computer models

 

Nov 25

Steve Calvert - Evidence for a pre-industrial anthropogenic greenhouse

 

Nov 18

Evgeny Pakhomov - Long term changes in salp distribution in polar ecosystems: Some like it hot

 

Nov 4

Rana El-Sabaawi (University of Victoria) - Using stable isotopes (d15N and d13C) to decipher trophic dynamics of zooplankton in the Strait of Georgia

 

Oct 28

Robert Strzepek - Photosynthetic architecture differs in coastal and oceanic diatoms

 

Oct 21

Philippe Tortell - Distributions of CO2, O2, and DMS in the Bering Sea: Thoughts derived from a quiet morning at home.

 

Oct 14

Gareth Law - Paleoceanography of the Arabian Sea

 

Oct 7

Rich Pawlowicz - Phys/Chem/Bio measurements from an anoxic fjord (Nitinat Lake), some of which I understand

 

Apr 20

Ingrid Hendy - TBA --- NOTE DATE = TUESDAY

 

Apr 7

Alice Ortmann - Nanoscale biochemical basis of ecosystem function: Si cycling as an example

 

Mar 31

Shannon Harris - Distinct requirements for copper in Fe-limited coastal and oceanic diatoms

 

Mar 10

Polar stratification and climate discussion with candidate Roger Francois

 

Mar 1

Denitrification modeling discussion with candidate Moritz Lehmann

 

Feb 23

Southern Ocean nutrient control discussion with candidate Rebecca Robinson

 

Feb 11

Sabrina Crispo - Changes in Aluminum and Cadmium Distributions in a Haida Eddy over time

 

Feb 4

Alyssa Shiel - The use of isotopes to source Cadmium in the Pacific Oyster

 

Jan 28

Eric Galbraith - Southern Ocean control of the marine biosphere

 

Jan 21

Emma Hambly - Cyanobacteria and cyanophages: scale, diversity, interactions and
consequences

 

Jan 14

Philippe Tortell -Trace gas measurements by Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry

 

 

 

 

2003

 

Dec 5

Nelson Sherry - Wildfire Stimulation of phytoplankton blooms in an iron-limited ocean

 

Nov 28

Maite Maldonado - Bioavailability of Fe bound to strong organic complexes to plankton in the Southern Ocean: light vs. enzymes

 

Nov 21

Kenia Whitehead - Important UV-absorbing compounds and their biogeochemistry

 

Nov 14

Tawnya Peterson - Nutrient transport and biological impact of Haida eddies in the eastern Gulf of Alaska

 

Nov 7

Julie Granger - The role of nitrate reductase in nitrate N and O isotope fractionation

 

Oct 31

Joe Needoba - New perspectives on the relationship between growth rate, Si content and elemental ratios of a marine diatom