Chapman Lecture Series

Overview

The Chapman lecture series on coastal ocean processes was established by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2006 to honor the scientific achievements and educational service of Dave Chapman, a Senior Scientist in the Physical Oceanography Department who died in July 2004 after a year-long battle with cancer. Given Dave’s commitments to basic research and mentoring of younger scientists, the speaker is chosen based on their outstanding achievements in research and education.

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Past Lectures

How vegetation alters water motion, and the feedbacks to environmental system structure and function

Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Dr. Heidi Nepf
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT

Wave-driven Circulation in the Nearshore and Coastal Ocean

Fall 2010
Tuba Ozkan-Haller
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences

Ice, Winds, and River Runoff: Arctic Shelf Processes

Tuesday, November 4
Dr. Tom Weingartner
Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska

Planktonic Ecosystem Models: Perplexing Parameterizations and a Failure to Fail

May 2008
Dr. Peter Franks
Scripps Institution of Oceanography

An ice age megaflood and the 8200 BP cold event: Goldilocks or fool's gold?

May 2007
Dr. Garry Clarke
University of British Columbia

"Too Fast " planetary wave propagation off the California Coast

August 2006
Dr. Allan J. Clarke
Florida State University