Biology & Paleo Environment Seminars

Spring 2021 Schedule

Unless otherwise specified, BPE seminars are held virtually every Monday at 1:00 p.m. EST

Recordings may be available upon request from the committee.

Date	Speaker, Institution	Seminar title
January 25	Clara Rodíguez Morata Lamont Postdoctoral research scientist	ENSO and rainfall-related disasters in the Peruvian Central Andes
February 1	Aleksey Sadekov University of Western Australia	Expanding the application of geochemistry to environmental and paleoclimate science using laser ablation mass spectrometry
February 8	Jessie K. Pearl United States Geological Survey	Late Holocene coastal evolution and climate variability in the United States
February 15	Gabi Serrato Marks MIT/WHOI	Expanding Access for Disabled Geoscientists
February 22	Imari Walker Duke University	Release and transformation of polymer additives into aquatic systems from plastics and nanocomposites
March 1	Spring break
March 8	Bethany Williams NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science	Using Acoustic Telemetry to understand connectivity of a National Marine Sanctuary to the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Ocean
March 15	Deepa Rao MIT	Characterizing microbial cycling of trace metals and vitamins in Antarctic coastal seas via tracers and proteomics
March 22	Deidre Gibson University of Maryland Eastern Shore	DOLIOLID BLOOMS: What are the driving variables? Investigation of Trophic Interactions and their in situ Diet
March 29	Grayson Badgley Columbia University/Black Rock Forest	Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle
April 5	Enquye Negash George Washington University	Woody cover and hominin environments
April 12	Hussein Sayani Georgia Tech
April 19	Nagissa Mahmoudi Mcgill University
April 26
Wednesday April 28	Raquel Bryant Texax A&M University	Paleoceanography of the Western Interior Seaway during the onset of Late Cenomanian OAE2: evidence from microfossil assemblages