VIMS Internal Events

Seminar Title: "Sharks got gas...vascular actions  of gasotransmitters in elasmobranch fishes"
by: Richard Brill, VIMS

Hosted by: Chris Hein
Seminar Title: ?Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region: Consequences for coastal areas and adaptation examples?
by: Gerald Schernewski, Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research

Dr. Scott Doney of the University of Virginia will use case studies from the Northeast U.S. to explore how human-driven climate change affects people and the environment through ocean acidification and pollution.

Seminar Title: ?Microbial ecology of disease susceptibility and environmental resilience in Indo-Pacific corals?
by: Amanda Shore-Maggio, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology

Seminar Title: "How genetics inform the management of commercially and recreationally important fishes including blueline tilefish, tautog and speckled trout"
by: Jan McDowell, VIMS

Seminar Title: "Digital Discovery of Deep-Sea Diversity"
by: Mike Vecchione, NMFS National Systematics Laboratory and VIMS

Lisa Kellogg hosts:
Seminar Title: "Brooding: a life-history trait that confers resistance to ocean acidification?"
by: Matt Gray, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point

Seminar Title: "Food web of the blue crab and eastern oyster: facilitation, kleptoparasitism, and competition"
by: Romuald Lipcius, VIMS

?Accelerating rates of forest retreat and marsh migration?
by: Nathalie Schieder
"The Role of Particulate Gravity Currents on Continental Shelf Sediment Fluxes and Fate for the Waipaoa Shelf, New Zealand:  a Numerical Modeling Study"
by: Courtney Harris

Seminar Title: ?High Throughput Sequencing of 16S Rdna and ftsZ Gene Regions to Explore Bacterial and Vibrio spp. Communities in Coastal Environments?
by: Dominique Hervio Heath, Ifremer

Dissertation Title: "Developing Efficient High-Order Transport Schemes for Cross-Scale Coupled Estuary-Ocean Modeling"

Marjorie Friedrichs hosts:
Seminar Title: "USECoS: Seasonal and interannual variability of nitrogen fluxes along the Middle Atlantic Bight"
By: Eileen Hofffman, Old Dominion University

Thesis Title: "Accelerating Rates of Forest Retreat and Marsh Migration"

Seminar Title: ?Why marshes are martian environments to H. perezi?
by: Patricia O'Leary, VIMS

Lift your spirits, open your mind, and raise awareness, as we watch this humbling documentary about the AIDS Memorial Quilt with heart-warming vocals by Bobby McFerrin and a brief discussion to follow. [Note: some professors may offer extra credit]  

Seminar Title: "Management, incentives, and fishing selectivity in the US Northeast groundfish fishery"
by: Andrew Scheld, VIMS

Learn to eroticize safe sex. Whether you're sexually active or abstinent, get answers to your questions in this sex-positive, trauma-informed space for undergraduates and graduates.