GSO Seminars
Seminar Organizers
Physical Oceanography
Kun Gao (kun_gao@my.uri.edu)
Yackar Mauzole (yackar_mauzole@my.uri.edu)
Biological Oceanography
Kerry Whittaker (kawhitta@gmail.com)
Katie McCusker (ktmcCusk@gmail.com)
Lis Henderson (mhenderson@my.uri.edu)
Marine Geology and Geophysics (MG&G)
Katie Kelley (kelley@gso.uri.edu)
Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry
Zoe Ruge (zruge@my.uri.edu)
Student Seminar in Oceanography (OCG 695)
David C. Smith (assoc_dean@gso.uri.edu)
Upcoming Seminars
Unless stated otherwise, PO Seminars take place on Fridays at 10:30am in the Corless Auditorium.
Biology at Noon events will take place on Wednesdays at 12:00 p.m. in the Coastal Institute Auditorium.
MG&G Seminars take place on Fridays at 3:30 pm in OSEC 115.
MAC events will be in OSEC 115 from 12-1pm.
Friday Jan 18
PO Seminar
Water Column Structure and Statistics of Denmark Strait Overflow Water Cyclones
Wilken-Jon von Appen (MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography)
Friday Jan 25
PO Seminar
Eddy-Driven Subduction of Particulate Organic Carbon during the North Atlantic Spring Bloom
Melissa Omand (WHOI)
Friday Feb 15
PO Seminar
Observations of warm core anti-cyclones in the Labrador Sea
Marieke Femke de Jong (WHOI)
Tuesday Feb 19 (9:30am, Coastal Institute Auditorium)
PO Seminar
From climate to Kolmogorov - simulations spanning upper ocean scales
Baylor Fox-Kemper (Brown U)
Friday Mar 1
PO Seminar
Onset of the Spring Phytoplankton Bloom
Amala Mahadevan (WHOI)
Friday Mar 15
PO Seminar
Vertical structure and vorticity balance of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passage
Yvonne Firing (Scripps)
Friday Mar 22
PO Seminar
Multi-decadal Variability of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a Climate Model: Depth vs. Density spaces
Young-Oh Kwon (WHOI)
Friday Mar 29
PO Seminar
A few tales about bottom pressure, sea level, and the dynamics of large-scale oceanic variability
Rui Ponte (AER, Inc.)
Friday Apr 5
PO Seminar
Multiscale simulations of internal tides on the New Jersey continental slope
Samuel Kelly (MIT)
Friday Apr 12
PO Seminar
Observations of Dye Dispersion in the Seasonal Pycnocline (1-6 days, 1-80 km)
Miles Sundermeyer (UMass)
Friday Apr 19
PO Seminar
On the energetics of standing eddies in the Southern Ocean
Stu Bishop (NCAR)
Friday Apr 26
PO Seminar
Shear stratified turbulence in the Merrimack River Plume
Daniel MacDonald (UMass)
Friday May 3
PO Seminar
Bayesian Learning of Dynamical Ocean Models: States, Parameters, also Formulations?
Pierre Lermusiaux (MIT)
Friday May 10
PO Seminar
Divergent eddy heat fluxes across the ACC in Drake Passage
Randy Watts (GSO URI)
Friday May 24
PO Seminar
OceanScope - A proposed international partnership with the global shipping industry for sustained ocean observation - a simple idea with enormous ramifications
Tom Rossby (GSO URI)
Friday Jun 7
PO Seminar
Bubble entrainment and fluid-bubble interaction under unsteady wave breaking
Morteza Derakhti (University of Delaware)
