2009 LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
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| Date | Title | Speaker | Institution | |
| 16 Jan | "Caves on Guam: Mother Nature's Climate Stash" | Judson Partin | University of Texas at Austin | |
| 23 Jan | "Friend or Enemy - do non-native species harm the Baltic Sea?" | Gitta Spindler | UOG Marine Lab | |
| 30 Jan | "Chasing tropical cyclones in coastal sediments" | Jeff Donnelly | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | |
| 6 Feb | "Faculty research at the Marine Lab" | Marine Lab faculty | UOG Marine Lab | |
| 9 Feb, 0900 h | "Thesis Proposal: Diffusion Chambers for the Isolation of Novel Sponge-Specific Bacteria" | Susanna Whitfield | Schupp Lab, UOGML | |
| 13 Feb | "Evolution of disease and organismal shape" | Alexander M Kerr | UOG Marine Lab | |
| 19 Feb | "Mariana Islands Sea Turtle and Cetacean Survey (MISTICS)" | Phil Thorson | Hawaii Association for Marine Education and Research | |
| 20 Feb | "Overview of the USGS Brown Treesnake Program" | Shane Siers | US Geological Survey | |
| 27 Feb | "Climate Warming Puts the Heat on Tropical Ectotherms" | Joshua Tewksbury | University of Washington | |
| 5 Mar | "Whats new with the Graduate Envirnmental Science Program at UOG" | John Jenson | UOG WERI | |
| 13 Mar | "Landscape, anadromy, and predicting life history patterns in steelhead/rainbow trout" | Justin Mills | Oregon State University | |
| 20 Mar | "Vetiver Grass Technology: A Green Alternative to current Wastewater Treatment in Guam" | Mohammad Golabi | UOG CNAS | |
| 27 Mar | "Isotopic logs from the Sea of Cortez: Using skeletal remains to establish ecological baselines" | Kirsten Rowell | University of Washington | |
| 3 Apr | "California annual grass invaders: the passengers, not drivers of change" | Janneke Lambers | University of Washington | |
| 17 Apr | "Evolutionary tradeoffs between anti-predator mechanisms across coral reef sea cucumbers" | Chad Riopel | University of Guelph, Canada | |
| 17 Apr, 1630 h | "Quantifying NOx in foods with ion chromatography; Isolation of pharmaceutically active metabolites in sponges" | Anna Engemann | University of Muenster, Germany | |
| 20 Apr, 1230 h | "Application of the Palindrome Sequence Analysis (PaSA) in studying fishes' dispersal patterns in the Red Sea" | Ofer Ben-Tzvi | Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Israel | |
| 22 Apr, 1530 h | "Recruitment and dispersal of Chromis viridis" | Ofer Ben-Tzvi | Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Israel | |
| 24 Apr | "Net loss: How fisheries bycatch threatens marine life and what can be done about it" | Tim Werner | Boston University | |
| 1 May | "Environmental ethics: Four theories" | Jim Sellman | UOG CLASS | |
| 6 May, 0830 h | "Thesis defense: Lek-like behavior of the parrotfish Chlorurus sordidus (Labridae: Scarinae), on a resident spawning aggregation site at Guam, Mariana Islands" | Kathryn Chop | Donaldson Lab, UOGML | |
| 8 May, 1000 h, WERI Conf Room | "Biological and Physical Oceanography at NSF" | Phil Taylor | US National Science Foundation | |
| 8 May | "Results of the PILOT (Pacific Island Land-Ocean Typhoon) experiment" | Christine Pequignet | University of Hawaii at Manoa | |
| 12 May, 1500 h, WERI Conf Room | "Cetti watershed in Southern Guam" | Richard Mackenzie | US Forest Service | |
| 15 May | "Expression of sex pheromone by female brown treesnakes during viteliogenesis and When reproductively quiescent" | Tom Mathies | USDA National Wildlife Research Center | |
| 15 May, 1630 h | "Brown treesnakes (BTS) and optimal foraging theory: Can BTS foraging in a laboratory contribute to the discussion?" | Michael Ehlert | Psychology Program, UOG | |
| 22 May | "Exploring the northern reefs of Palau: Video and stills from Kayangel Atoll" | Dave Burdick and Mike McCue | Guam Coastal Management and Underwater World, Guam | |
| 25 May, 1500 h | "Predicting the bite rate of Pacific parrotfish" | Sonia Bejarano | University of Exeter, United Kingdom | |
| 10 June | "Geographic patterns in reproductive synchronicity in reef corals" | Andrew Baird | James Cook University, Australia | |
| 30 July | "Hysteresis in coral-reef recovery" | Peter Mumby | University of Exeter, United Kingdom | |
| 31 July | "Deep-time look at coral-reef dynamics" | Kiho Kim | American University | |
| 20 August, 0930 h | "Thesis proposal: Movement and life-history traits of the unicornfish: tåtaga' (Naso unicornis) and hangon (Naso lituratus)" | Alyssa Marshell | McIlwain Lab, UOGML | |
| 31 August | "Speciation by host shifting and evolution of non-dispersing larvae in herbivorous sea slugs" | Patrick Krug | California State University at Los Angeles | |
| 4 September, 1600 h | "Pharmacology of marine natural products" | Gabi Koenig | University of Bonn, Germany | |
| 4 September, 1630 h | "Incorporation of photosynthetic units in Opisthobranchs" | Heiki Waegele | University of Bonn, Germany | |
| 10 September, 1000 h | "Thesis proposal: Determining patterns of connectivity of Siganus spinus populations throughout the North-Western Pacific" | Mark Priest | McIlwain Lab, UOGML | |
| 18 September | "Ulithi Atoll, Yap: 2008 Snake Sighting Report and Follow-up" | James Stanford | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| 22 September, 1000 h | "Thesis proposal: Investigation and characterization of the Indo-Pacific White Syndrome affecting Porites and Acropora spp. in Guam" | Paula Lozada | Raymundo Lab, UOGML | |
| 25 September, 0900 h | "Thesis defense: The role of chemical signals on the feeding behavior of crown-of-thorns seastar Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758)" | Ciemon Caballes | Schupp Lab, UOGML | |
| 25 September, 1600 h | "The latest stats on rat eats: Seed predation by invasive rodents in the Mariana Islands Part I" | Catharine Adams | University of Washington | |
| 25 September, 1630 h | "The latest stats on rat eats: Seed predation by invasive rodents in the Mariana Islands Part II" | Kaitlin Mattos | Washington University in St. Louis | |
| 5 October, 0930 h | "Thesis proposal: Systematics of the nocturnal monsters, Bohadschia spp. (Holothuroidea)" | Sun Kim | Kerr Lab, UOGML | |
| 9 October | "What was the fishing like?" | Mary Ralph | Doubtless Bay Protection Group, Royal Society of New Zealand | |
| 23 October | "Conservation initiatives at Turneffe Atoll, Belize: Oceanic Society Field Station" | Katherine Cure | McIlwain Lab, UOGML | |
| 30 October | "Typhoons in Micronesia: Past, present and future" | Chip Guard | U.S. National Weather Service/Joint Typhoon Warning Center | |
| 6 November | "What is happening to the climate of Micronesia: Is it getting warmer? Are there more typhoons? How fast is the sea level rising?" | Mark Lander | UOG WERI | |
| 20 November | "It's Getting Hot In Here: Who or What Can Stop Global Warming? A Discussion on the Ability of International Law, Domestic Politics, Economics, and the U.S. Court System to Combat Global Warming" | Aaron Jackson and James Collins | Mair, Mair, Spade and Thompson, LLC and Superior Court of Guam | |
| 4 December | "Komodo dragons and Tonga humpbacks" | Tim Rock | Independent photojournalist http://timrock.com | |
| 11 December | "Terrestrial biodiversity in the tropcial Pacific: Our uniqeness presents unique challenges" | Dan Vice | Wildlife Services, US Department of Agriculture | |
| 17 December, 1000 h | "Thesis defense: Reef rehabilitation through transplantation of Porites rus and macroalgal weeding" | Pablo Rojas, Jr. | Raymundo Lab, UOGML | |
| 17 December, 1600 h | "Thesis proposal: Postsettlement growth and spatio-temporal differences in diet of Naso unicornis and Naso lituratus recruits around Guam" | Sheena Abellena | McIlwain Lab, UOGML | |
