Visiting Scientists and Educators

Overview

The Marine Science Education and Research Center welcomes use of its facilities by visiting scientists, graduate students, and school groups. Possibilities range from short-term use in support of field research or classes to longer-term laboratory space rental for research projects. Interested parties should contact the MSC Director Phil Yund at (207) 602-2440.

Center for Land-Sea Interactions & Marine Science Center Guest Speaker Seminar Series

Spring 2012

All seminars are at 12:00 Noon on Mondays in Marcil 323

January 30
Dr. Paul Greenwood, Colby College
“How do nudibranchs steal nematocysts from their prey (and what then)?”

February 13
Dr. Jack Costello, Providence College
“Vorticity manipulation by jellyfish for swimming and feeding”

February 27
Dr. Carmela Cuomo,  University of New Haven
“Hypoxia development in urban coastal systems - it's complicated”

March 12
Dr. Michael Grace, Florida Institute of Technology
“Light and time in the sea: Development of vision in elopomorph fishes”

April 2
Dr. Anna L. Bass, University of New England
“Terrestrial impacts in marine environments: parasitic protozoans in Maine and marine mammals as sentinels”

April 16
Dr. Kathleen Hunt, New England Aquarium
“Assessing stress and reproduction in free-swimming large whales using
fecal hormones”

April 30
Dr. Barbel Honisch, Columbia University
“Estimating Cenozoic atmospheric CO2 from ocean carbonate chemistry”