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.
Upcoming Lectures
When alpha and beta waters meet: The contributions of salinity and temperature to density stratification in the California Current System
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 • 3:05 p.m.
Clark 507
Associate Professor Melanie Fewings
Oregon State University
Past Lectures
Available Potential Energy of Coastal and Estuarine Circulation
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Professor Parker MacCready
Department of Physical Oceanography, University of Washington
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, 2009
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