Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston

Fort Johnson Marine Science Seminar Series

Place: MRRI Auditorium at Fort Johnson
Time: 4 p.m. on Friday afternoons, unless otherwise posted
Refreshments: before each seminar and at a TGIF with the seminar speaker, which occurs at the White House or the Outdoor Classroom after the seminar

Spring 2012 Seminar Schedule

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title	Committee Contact (Host)
Jan 13	Tracey Smart SCDNR	Utility of Early Life History to Management of the Bering Sea Walleye Pollock	Peter Kingsley-Smith, SCDNR (P. Kingsley-Smith)
Jan 20	Harold (Hal) May MUSC	Applying Electrochemistry to Microbial Degradation and Synthesis	Bobbie Lyon, MUSC (B. Lyon)
Jan 27	Hope Mizzell South Carolina State Climatology Office, SCDNR	South Carolina Climate Report Card:  Understanding South Carolina Climate Trends and Variability	Peter Kingsley-Smith, SCDNR (P. Kingsley-Smith)
Feb 3	Craig Sullivan North Carolina State University	What Makes A Good Egg? –  Ovarian Gene Expression Profiling Via Artificial Intelligence Predicts Egg Quality In Striped Bass	Peter Kingsley-Smith, SCDNR (P. Kingsley-Smith)
Feb 10	Kimberly Ritchie Center for Coral Reef Research, Mote Marine Laboratory	The Potential for Multipartite Mutualisms in Corals	Jessica McCoy, MUSC (J. McCoy)
Feb 17	Rebecca Powers and Whitney Knollenberg East Carolina University and Virginia Tech University	Effects of Oil in Coastal Waters on Tourism-Impacted Business' Preparedness and Response	Susan Lovelace, HML (B. Ward)
Feb 24	David McClay Duke University	Control of Morphogenetic Movements in Development: Task-Specific Transcription Factor Switches	Christine Byrum, CofC (J. DiTullio)
Mar 2	Brian Shamblin Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia	Estimating Demographic Parameters From Unseen Turtles: Genetic Capture-Recapture of Nesting Northern Recovery Unit Female Loggerheads	Peter Kingsley-Smith, SCDNR (P. Kingsley-Smith)
Mar 9	No Seminar	Spring Break
Mar 16	Erik Smith Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of South Carolina	Nutrient–Organic Matter Dynamics in Stormwater Ponds along a Gradient of Residential Development	Peter Kingsley-Smith, SCDNR (P. Kingsley-Smith)
Mar 23	Leslie Sautter College of Charleston	The New Era of Ocean Science Research, Education and Discovery: The Ocean Observatory Initiative’s Cabled Ocean Observatory on the Juan de Fuca Plate	Evan Sherer, CofC MES Student (E. Sherer)
Mar 30	No Seminar
Apr 6	George D. Grice, Jr. Lecture Ann Pabst UNC - Wilmington	Building a Deep-Diving Mammal: Insights into the Functional Morphology of Cetaceans through the Investigation of Strandings	Bob Podolsky, CofC (B. Podolsky)
Apr 13	Nicolas Cassar Duke University	Multiple Constraints on Net Community Production and its Regulating Factors in the Southern Ocean	Jack DiTullio, CofC (J. DiTullio)
Apr 20	Matthew Brownlee Clemson University	Coastal Recreationists’ Attitudes Towards Offshore Wind Energy Development in South Carolina	Denise Sanger, SC Sea Grant (D. Sanger)

Directions

• from downtown Charleston
• from I-95 & I-26

Instructions & Information for Speakers for downloading:

• Acrobat Form
• Word Form

Links to the Fort Johnson Partners

• Center for Coastal Environmental Health & Biomolecular Research, National Ocean Service, NOAA
• Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston
• Marine Biomedical & Environmental Sciences Program, Medical Univ. of South Carolina
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
• South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

Members of the Fort Johnson Seminar Committee

• Jack DiTullio - Grice Marine Lab, CofC
• Spencer Fire - CCEHBR, NOAA
• Jacob Kendrick - CofC GPMB Student
• Peter Kingsley-Smith - SCDNR
• Bobbie Lyon - MUSC Student
• Jessica McCoy - MUSC Student (will replace Bobbie Lyon)
• Denise Sanger - SC Sea Grant
• Evan Sherer - CofC MES Student
• Stacy Vander Pol - NIST
• Bethney Ward - CSC, NOAA