Lecture Series

The Summer Lecture Series provides our Summer Student Fellows, Minority Fellows, and entering Joint Program Students with a popular and very useful introduction to the breadth of oceanographic research at WHOI. The speakers are asked to gear their talks to a college Junior/Senior level, and we ask speakers to remember that many in their audience will have had little or no previous oceanography course work. Speakers are encouraged to make their talks as interactive as possible in order to motivate students to participate and ask questions.

"I really appreciated the Summer Lecture Series--I think that one of the best parts of the SSF program is that you become exposed to all different areas of Oceanography, and the lecture series was one of the primary methods for doing so! I feel like I learned so much, and it really broadened my horizons." SSF '11

2012 Summer Student Lecture Series

Date	Event
Monday, June 4 (Redfield Aud)	9:30 – Welcome to WHOI Jim Yoder, Vice President for Academic Programs and Dean Jesús Pineda, Chair of Summer Student Fellowship Committee Michael Moore, IACUC Committee 10:30 – Ron Reif, Safety Orientation 11:45 – WHOI/MBL library tour
Monday, June 11 (Clark 507)	9:30 – Ken Buesseler, MC&G "Fukushima ocean impacts" 10:10 – Lawrence Pratt, PO “Chaos and mixing in the ocean”
Monday, June 18 (Redfield Aud)	9:30 – S. Jeffress Williams, USGS “Climate change and rising sea-levels: Effects on coasts” 10:10 – Michael Jakuba, AOPE “Nereid Under Ice project: A light tethered remotely operated vehicle for oceanographic science beneath ice shelves and glaciers”
Monday, June 25	Tioga cruise week– no lectures scheduled
Tuesday, July 2 (Redfield Aud)	9:30 – Deborah R. Hutchinson, USGS “Law of the sea and the Arctic” 10:10 – Andrew Solow, MPC “Some statistics relating to species introductions”
Monday, July 9 (Clark 507)	9:30 – Glen Gawarkiewicz, PO "Fish, fronts, and storms near Cape Hatteras" 10:10 – Michael Purcell, AOPE "REMUS AUVs: Description and recent projects"
Monday, July 16 (Redfield Aud)	9:30 – Jim Ledwell, AOPE "Ocean mixing and circulation" 10:10 – P. Soupy Dalyander, USGS "Bottom stress and sediment mobility on the US east coast continental shelf"
Monday, July 23 (Clark 507)	9:30 – Stephanie Jenouvrier, BIO "Melting sea ice threatens Emperor penguins" 10:10 – Scott Doney, MCG “Ocean acidification”
Monday, July 30 (Redfield Aud)	9:30 – Carl Bowen, G&G "How and why earthquakes occur" 10:10 – Neel Aluru, BIO "Environmental epigenetics: Influence of the environment on phenotypic plasticity and in response to stressors"
Monday, August 6 (Clark 507)	9:30 – Michael Moore, BIO "Gas kinetics in marine mammals" 10:10 – Anne Cohen, G&G "How climate shapes coral reefs: What we've learned from skeletal records"