JOHN AND MARY LOUISE RILEY SEMINAR SERIES - SPRING 2015
April 1
Wednesday
Host: S. Morgan
Eric Bjorkstedt, Department of Fisheries Biology, Humboldt State University
“Patterns and variability in zooplankton communities off northern California: a tale of
climate, currents, and copepods”
April 8
Wednesday
Host: S. Morgan
Bill Sydeman, President and Senior Scientist, Farallon Institute for Advanced
Ecosystem Research
"Of fish, seabirds, and trees: the present, past, and future of upwelling ecosystems”
April 15
Wednesday
Host: G. Cherr
Dimitri Deheyn, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
"Light production and light manipulation in living organisms: from magical displays to
bio-inspired applications”
April 17
Friday
Host: S. Morgan
***Exit Seminar***
Sarah Gravem, Doctoral Candidate, Ecology Graduate Group, Bodega Marine
Laboratory, University of California, Davis
“Scaling from individual prey behavior to intertidal zonation and community structure in
rocky tidepools”
April 22
Wednesday
Host: G. Cherr
Dick Zimmer, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California,
Los Angeles
"Keystone species and molecules of keystone significance”
April 29
Wednesday
Host: G. Cherr
Kwasi Connor, University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of
California, Irvine
“Life on the rocks: integrative biology of life in the intertidal zone”
May 6
Wednesday
Host: G. Cherr
Carolyn Friedman, School of Aquatic and Fishery Science, University of Washington
“Trans-generational effects of ocean acidification on marine molluscs”
May 7
Thursday
Host: N. Fangue
***Exit Seminar***
Lisa Komoroske, Ph.D, Ecology Graduate Group, Bodega Marine Laboratory, University
of California, Davis
“Linking effects of climate change stressors across biological levels in an endangered
estuarine fish”
May 13
Wednesday
Host: G. Ng
Richard Emlet, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon
TBD
May 20
Wednesday
Host: E. Fairbairn
Chelsea Rochman, David H. Smith Conservation Research Postdoctoral Fellow, School
of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis
“How about plastics and priority pollutants: a chemical cockTALE”
May 27
Wednesday
Host: O. Turnross
Skyli McAfee, Executive Director, Ocean Science Trust
“What boundaries are you crossing? Lessons from the nexus of science, communities and
government in California”
June 3
Wednesday
Host: B. Gaylord
***Exit Seminar***
Laura Jurgens, Doctoral Candidate, Ecology Graduate Group, Bodega Marine
Laboratory, University of California, Davis
“Population and community impacts of extreme events in coastal marine ecosystems”
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Seminars begin at 4:00 p.m. in the BML Lecture Hall.
Join us for coffee and cookies at 3:45 p.m. in the Great Hall.
Please telephone 707-875-2211 for further information.
Visit our website at http://www.bml.ucdavis.edu