Title: Blue Carbon Policy and Science: Perspectives from an Objective Policy Analyst
Abstract: Katie Hill, an attorney working at UGA’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government, will discuss how scientific research informs policy development from the perspective of a policy analyst working at an objective academic institute. She will use her recent work in blue carbon policy analysis to frame this discussion.
Time: Monday, 3:30 pm to 4:20…
Title: The Interplay between Coastal Protection and Biodiversity
Abstract:
Nearly a third of the global population (and 40% of Americans) live on the coast. These coastal communities rely on infrastructure, both natural and artificial, to protect them from a variety of environmental hazards. The choice of infrastructure can have a significant impact on biodiversity and local ecosystems. These impacts can then, in turn, affect the…
ON INTEGRATIVE STATISTICAL LEARNING APPROACH FOR CANCER GENOMICS AND MICROBIAL SCIENCE
Abstract
The modeling of interrelated responses utilizing correlated predictors within high-dimensional contexts emerges as a compelling conundrum in the realm of integrative statistical learning, resonating across diverse scientific inquiries. This dilemma is manifest in scenarios such as genomics, where insights into the modulation of gene expression in…
Successful Water Quality Monitoring with Satellite Remote Sensing
By Dr. Bridget Seegers
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center bridget.n.seegers@nasa.gov
Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) are a water quality issue that negatively impact ecosystem and human health and have wide reaching recreational and economic consequences. The Cyanobacteria Assessment Network (CyAN) project is an interagency (US-EPA, NASA, NOAA, USGS) effort that uses satellite remote…
Yuting Zhu is currently a Postdoctoral Investigator in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and will be joining the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Old Dominion University as an Assistant Professor in July 2024.
Title: Photochemical production and microbial cycling of labile organic compounds in seawater
The marine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool is among the…
Dr. Marchetti is an Associate Professor in the Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences Department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Marchetti Lab combines physiological and molecular approaches in laboratory isolates and natural communities to investigate how plankton are affected by their environment and in turn, influence ocean biogeochemistry and ecosystem dynamics. Particular interests include studying trace metals, such…
Peng Lin is an Assistant Research Scientist in Marine Chemistry and Environmental Radiochemistry, from Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia since 2023, with a focus on biogeochemistry of trace elements and radionuclides in the environment, carbon and nutrients cycling, and geochemical modeling for low-level nuclear waste disposal in grout. He graduated as a Ph.D. student in Marine Chemistry from Xiamen University, China in…
Dr. Elizabeth A Brasseale is a Postdoctoral Coastal Ocean Modeler in the College of the Environment at the University of Washington.
"I’m an oceanographer who specializes in computer models of coastal ocean circulation. My research includes inland waterways (such as estuaries, inlets, and coastal seas) and extends from the surf zone to the continental slope. I love coastal oceanography because the caost is the part of the ocean that people…
Dr. Mercedes Pozo Buil is an Assistant Project Scientist in the Institute of Marine Sciences of US Santa Cruz and NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center. "I am originally from Spain, and I came to the U.S. for graduate school. I obtained my Ph.D from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2017. Previously, I received my M.S. in Physical Oceanography from the University of Cádiz, Spain. My research interests are in ocean modeling and large-…
Dr. Nicholas Foukal is an Assistant Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the Department of Physical Oceanography. Below you will find an abstract for his lecture.
Title: Origins, pathways, connectivity, and fate of the fresh coastal circulation around Greenland
Abstract: The coastal circulation around Greenland transports enough fresh water to significantly alter the North Atlantic circulation including the climate-…