University Programs Seminars

University Programs Seminar Series returns. The fall seminar series will be available through Zoom. To get the dial-in information, click the seminar date. Seminars will be recorded and archives on the DISL YouTube channel. The schedule is updated as new speakers are confirmed.

2021 Upcoming Seminars:

Friday, January 29, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Cetacean Mating is Literally Kinky, Dr. Dara Orbach, Department of Life Sciences, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Host: Matt Hodanbosi, Carmichael Lab)
Friday, February 5, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Marshall Bowles, LUMCON
Friday, February 12, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Zhilong Liu, DISL
Friday, February 19, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Will Ballentine, DISL
Friday, February 26, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Adrienne Correa, Rice University
Friday, March 5, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Molly Miller, University of South Alabama
Friday, March 12, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Cody Sheik, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Friday, March 19, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Sarah Ramsden, DISL
Friday, March 26, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Jessica Garzke, University of British Columbia
Friday, April 2, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Kara Gadken and Cy Clemo
Friday, April 9, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Lauren Clance and Debbrota Mallick, DISL
Friday, April 16, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Donald Beebe, University of South Alabama
Friday, April 30, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.- Pete Morton, Florida State University

Past Seminars

2021

Friday, January 22 - Microbiota in Fishes, Dr. Andrea Tarnecki, Staff Scientist and Microbiology Division Lead, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida

2020

Friday, November 20 - One Health in a Changing World, Drs. Sonia M Hernandez and Michael John Yabsley
November 13, 2020 - Manatee Sighting Network: The Research, Elizabeth Hieb, Manatee Sighting Network Manager
November 6, 2020 - Determining the timing and magnitude of river discharge events for shellfish closures, Steve Dykstra, DISL/FDA Joint Program
October 30, 2020- Filling the gaps: Common bottlenose dolphin population dynamics in the Florida Panhandle, Christina Toms, Chicago Zoological Society
October 23, 2020 - The good, the bad, and the smelly: The study of microbial ecology in marine sediment, Presenters: Rachel Weisend, Megan Mullis, Brandi Kiel Reese
Friday, October 16 - "A PhySSi Story", Presenters: Blair Morrison, Alexandra Smith, Jeffrey Krause
Friday, October 2 - Functional morphology of annelid worms with Dr. Jenna Moore and Locomotion and sensory mechanics with Dr. Amberle McKee, DISL Dorgan Lab
Friday, September 11 - Shellfish and cultural ecosystem services: the “other” ecosystem service, Adriane Michaelis, Auburn University/DISL
Friday, September 4 - An Interdisciplinary Approach to Wildlife Health, Jennifer Bloodgood, Research Veterinarian, DISL Carmichael Lab
Friday, August 28 - Natural and Human Drivers of Carbon Cycling Across Oceanic to Estuarine Scales, John Lehrter, Univ. of South Alabama/DISL
Friday, August 21 - Metal Isotopes as Marine Tracers, Speakers: Xiangli Wang, Debbrota Mallick, and Ryan Roseburrough
Friday, April 24 - Kristine DeLong, Louisiana State University, The Alabama Underwater Forest: A Time Capsule from the Last Ice Age
Friday, March 6 - Brian Matherne, Louisiana State University (Host: Elizabeth Hieb)
Monday, March 2 - Ocean Discovery Lecture Series, Dr. Chris Lowery
Friday, February 28 - Adrienne Starks, STREAM Innovations, A Career in STEM: From Ph.D. to CEO (Host: Dr. Jeff Krause)
Friday, January 24 - DISL/FDA Student Presentations

2019

Friday, November 22 - Justin Bopp, Stony Brook University. Chasing the dynamics of blue bloods: Assessing habitat connectivity and survival patterns of American horseshoe crabs. (Host: Dr. Ruth Carmichael)
Friday, November 15 - Heidi Lyn, University of South Alabama. What do animals know? and how do we know? Effects of Species and Environment on Cognitive and Communicative Behaviors (Host: Dr. Ruth Carmichael)
Friday, November 1 - Nils Volkenborn, Stony Brook University. The role of bioadvection for marine sediment function. (Host: Kelly Dorgan)
Thursday, October 24 - Adrian Marchetti. Research opportunities in the Galapagos. (Host: Sean Powers) (not recorded)
Friday, October 4 - Naohiro Kato, Louisiana State University. The development of biodegradable mardi-gras beads. (Host: Ruth Carmichael)
Friday, September 27 - Graduate student presentations of joint FDA/DISL projects
Monday, September 16- USA Campus - Carlos Mena, The Galapagos Science Center. (Host: Sean Powers) (not recorded)
Friday, September 13 - Alan Wilson, Auburn University. Consequences of nutrient enrichment and herbivore adaptation for phytoplankton in lakes. (Host: Alison Robertson)
Friday, September 6 - Robert Moorhead, Northern Gulf Institute Director. (Host: John Valentine) (not recorded)
Friday, August 23 - Jim Stoeckel, Auburn University. Physiological and Engineering Approaches to Crustacean Conservation Ecology as Illustrated by Freshwater Crayfish – Some of Which Live Underground. (Host: Bill Walton)
Friday, May 3 -- Chris Esposito, The Water Institute (Host: Brian Dzwonkowski)
Friday, April 26, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. -- Dr. Marc Weissburg, Georgia Tech (Host: Lee Smee)
Thursday, April 18, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. -- Kelly Correia, Cy Clemo, Mai Fung (not recorded)
Friday, April 12, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. -- Ilka (Candy) Feller, Smithsonian, Mangroves & Climate Change: …an interdisciplinary effort to understand the past, present, and future limits to mangrove distribution (Host: Ron Baker)
Friday, April 5, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. -- Merritt McCall, Ed Kim, Kim Peter
Friday, March 15 -- Matt Hodanbosi, Meredith Diskin, Cy Clemo
Friday, March 8 -- Richard Devereux, EPA, Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone Sediments in 5D: biogeochemistry, space and time (Host: John Lehrter)
Friday, March 8 -- Keisha Bahr, University of Hawai'i at Manoa (not recorded)
Wednesday, March 6 -- Kenneth D. Hoadley, Marine Ecology, Geomar: Helmholtz-Zentrum Center for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany, Understanding Ecophysiology of Important Marine Phytoplankton
Friday, February 22 -- Dr. Kevin Kocot, Biodiversity, Systematics, and Genomics of the Aculiferan Molluscs (Host: Kelly Dorgan)
Tuesday, February 27 -- Dr. James Cloern, Wiese Speaker, USGS, Estuaries As Special Places Where Rivers Meet The Sea (Host: Jeff Krause)
Wednesday, February 27 -- Dr. James Cloern, Wiese Speaker, USGS, Patterns, Pace and Processes of Water-quality Variability in a Well-studied Estuary (Host: Jeff Krause)
Friday, February 15 -- Dr. Sara Wofford, Should I Stay or Should I Go: Behavioral decisions under shifting social and ecological conditions (Host: Lee Smee)
Wednesday, February 13 -- Dr. Raphael Ritson-Williams (Host: Lee Smee)
Friday, February 8 -- Dr. Ronald Baker, "Fish of Paradise: the ecology of little-known sport fish of Papua New Guinea"
Friday, February 1 -- Dr. Andrew Turner, Center for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture, CEFAS, UK (Host: Alison Robertson) (technical difficulties, not recorded)
Friday, January 25 -- Dr. Gary Kendrick, University of Western Australia, Incorporating resilience into understanding the impacts of seagrass loss and recovery in the Shark Bay World Heritage Site (Host: Ken Heck)
Friday, January 18 -- Amy Prendergast, University of South Alabama, Making the most of University of South Alabama Library Resources, (Host: Kelly Dorgan)

2018

Thursday, December 6, -- Dr. Samuel Bentley, Louisiana State University, Submarine Landslides on the Mississippi River Delta Front: The First Regional Study since Jimmy Carter was President (Host: Kelly Dorgan)
Thursday, October 25 -- Dr. Rebecca Minzoni, University of Alabama, Bridging the gap from polar ice loss to coastal impacts: A case for using paleo-records to improve coastal resiliency (Host: Just Cebrian) (not recorded)
Thursday, October 18 -- Dr. William S. Fisher, EPA Gulf Ecology Division. Protecting coral reefs using the Clean Water Act (Host: John Lehrter)
Thursday, September 20 -- Dr. Adam Greer, University of Southern Mississippi, Window to a World: New Insights into Plankton Ecology and Oceanography Revealed with in situ Imaging (Host: Jeff Krause) (not recorded)
Thursday, May 3 -- Dr. Enrique Reyes, East Carolina University (not recorded)
Thursday, May 17 -- Dr. Amanda Spivak, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (not recorded)
Tuesday, April 17-- Dr. Don Boesch, President, Center for Environmental Science, University of Maryland, Restoring Chesapeake Bay Water Quality while Factoring in Climate Change
Friday, March 23 -- Dr. Paul Bologna, Montclair State University (Host: Ken Heck), The Ellis Island Effect: Invasive Hydrozoans in the Mid-Atlantic and Other Jelly Stories
Friday, March 2 -- Graduate Symposium, Dr. Chris Martens, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Host: Just Cebrian)
Thursday, January 25 -- Dr. Diana Varela, University of Victoria, Canada (Host: Jeff Krause), Primary Production and Silicon Biogeochemistry in the Arctic Ocean: The highs, the lows and the diatoms

2017

Tuesday, December 5 -- Dr. Matthew Johnson, NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center (Host: Just Cebrian) -- "Math, Monitoring, Muttons, and Mayhem: What exactly is the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program?"
Friday, December 1 -- Dr. Sabrina M. Parra, U.S. Naval Research Lab (Host: Brian Dzwonkowski) – "Acoustic detection of zooplankton diel vertical migration behavior on the northern Gulf of Mexico shelf"
Thursday, November 2 -- Dr. Monty Graham, University of Southern Mississippi (Host: Just Cebrian) - "Building a Blue Technology Economy in the Northern Gulf."
Thursday, October 19 -- Dr. Leila Hamden, University of Southern Mississippi (Host: Just Cebrian) -- "Stowaways: Using shipwreck microbiomes to study spill impacts and dispersal in in the deep-sea"
Tuesday, October 3 -- Wiese Distinguished Lecture Series, Dr. Donald M. Anderson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (Host: Jeff Krause) – New technologies in harmful algal bloom (HAB) research, monitoring, and management
Monday, October 2 -- Wiese Distinguished Lecture Series Public Seminar, University of South Alabama Student Center Ballroom Public Seminar, Dr. Donald M. Anderson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (Host: Jeff Krause) – The expanding, global problem of red tides and harmful algal blooms (HABs): impacts, trends, and approaches to monitoring and management
Friday, September 22 -- Dr. Robert K. Bonde, Wetland Aquatic Research Center, USGS (Host: Ruth Carmichael) – The Florida Manatee: Biology and Conservation
Thursday, September 14 -- Dr. Fred Andrus, University of Alabama (Host: Ruth Carmichael) – Developing new sclerochronological proxies of ancient growth and climate: Geochemistry of coralline algae, sub-arctic clams, and ice-age oysters
Thursday, September 7 -- Dr. Syed Khalil, Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority, LA (Host: Just Cebrian), LA Sediment Management Plan
April 10 - Dr. Benoit Lebreton, Université de La Rochelle, France, 'Benthic Algae Count! Evidence that Benthic Algae Play an Important Role in Coastal Food Webs' (Host: Just Cebrian)
March 23 - Dr. Iris Anderson, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (Host: Behzad Mortazavi)
March 2 - Dr. Allison Penko, Naval Research Lab, Stennis Space Center (Host: Kelly Dorgan) **This seminar was not streamed**
February 16 - Dr. Reide Corbett, East Carolina University, Studying Sediment and Water Dynamics from North Carolina to the Western Antarctic (Host: Behzad Mortazavi)
February 2 - Dr. Stephanie Smallegan, University of South Alabama (Host: Ruth Carmichael)
January 19 - Dr. Natasha Dimova, University of Alabama (Host: Behzad Mortazavi)

2016

November 10 - Dr. Paige Ferguson, University of Alabama, "Applying Quantitative Ecology to Natural Resource Conservation"
October 27 - Dr. Megan La Peyre, Louisiana State University, "Where's the Reef? The Challenge of Restoration in a Variable Environment"
September 27 – Dr. Joseph Warren, Stony Brook University, 'Bioacoustical Ecology: Using Sound to Study Ecosystem Processes from the Mesopelagic Gulf of Mexico to the Coral Reefs of Jamaica.'
September 8 -- Dr. Matthew Bracken, UC Irvine, Marine Ecological Stoichiometry- Elemental Ratios Link Marine Communities and Ecosystems (not recorded due to technical difficulties)
August 26 -- Dr. Matthew Waters, Auburn University, Stories of phosphorus, phytoplankton and flows: Connecting inland waters and coastal environments using sediment records from the Southeast U.S.
June 10 -- Dr. Alison Dreary, GCRL, Ecomorphological Patterns in Early Life History Stage Fishes
May 12 -- Dr. Stefanie Fishel, University of Alabama, 'Can Bacteria be Political?: Conversations between the Natural and Social Sciences'
April 15 – Dr. Eric Sparks, MSU - A Path to an Extension Career
April 7 -- Dr. Don Blancher, Moffatt & Nichol - 'AQUATOX Release 3.1 Nearshore Marine Environment: Model Modifications and Application to Natural Resource Damage Issues in Mississippi and Alabama for the Deepwater Horizon Incident'
March 30 -- Dr. Jorge Brenner, TNC - Gulf of Mexico Biodiversity and Migrations
March 29 -- Dr. Lisa Levin, Wiese Speaker, Scripps Institution -Oxygen and the Ecology of Upwelling Margins in a Changing Ocean
March 29 – Workshop Seminar – Dr. Lisa Levin, Wiese Speaker, Scripps (not recorded)
March 23 – Ms. Alice Kleinhuasen, DISL -Controls of Denitrification in Salt Marshes in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
March 3 – Dr. David Yoskowitz, Harte Institute - Ecosystem Services
February 25 – Dr. Richard Zimmerman, Old Dominion University - Impact of Climate Warming and Ocean Carbonation on Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.)

2015

January 22 - Joel Fodrie, UNC, Chapel Hill - Landscape Effects on the Fisheries Ecology and Ecosystem-service Delivery of a Temperate Estuary.
February 5 - Dr. Lee Smee, Texas A&M Univ. Corpus Christi - The World is my Oyster: Predator-Prey Interactions, Chemical Cues, and Genetic Diversity on Oyster Reef'
February 26 - Dr. Jeff Morris, UAB
March 5 - Dr. Christopher Anderson, AU
March 12 - Dr. Patty Sobecky, UA
March 16 - Dr. Richard B. Anderson, FIT
April 2 - Dr. Chuck Amsler, UAB
May 21 – Dr. Bill Dennison, UMCES

2014

November 6 - Dr. Eric Peatman, Auburn University – “Fitting Mobile-Tensaw Delta Bass into the Black Bass Puzzle: New Molecular Tools and New Insights”
November 21 - Dr. Mark Butler, Old Dominion University – “Lobster Tales: Homelessness, Pestilence & Alien Encounters"
December 4 - Dr. Ari Daniel, Independent Science Reporter & Producer - "Carving Story out of Science"

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