Corning School of Ocean Studies Seminar Series
Seminars are held at 3:00 PM on Mondays in the Delano Auditorium in Leavitt Hall. Remote public viewers access to these events can be accessed for free by clicking on the “Access” link in the right-hand column below.
Spring 2025
| Date | Speaker/Event | Affiliation | Title | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar. 10 | Julia Gray and Bailey Bowden | Wilson Museum; Town of Penobscot | Introducing the human and ecological history of the Bagaduce River Estuary | Watch Seminar |
| Mar. 17 | Ciona Ulbrich | Maine Coast Heritage Trust | The Restoration Matrix on the Bagaduce: how the work gets done | Watch Seminar |
| Postponed | Mike Thalhauser and Emily Farr | Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries; Manomet | Stewardship and co-management of river herring in the Bagaduce and in the State of Maine | |
| Mar. 31 | Bill Needelman | City of Portland | Role of the Port and the Port Professional in the Community | Watch Seminar |
| Apr. 7 | Maritime Academy Climate Symposium | Maritime Industry in the Arctic: Understanding Change and Impact | More Information | |
| Apr. 14 | Dave Ernst | Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences | Shining a light into the ‘larval black box’: Environmental RNA (eRNA) tools for understanding blue mussel larval ecology | Watch Seminar |
Fall 2024
| Date | Speaker/Event | Affiliation | Title | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 21 | Sally Ford (née Jarmusz) | UNH/NOAA | A Career Path in Ocean Mapping: At Sea and Onshore | Watch Seminar |
| Oct. 28 | OS Summer Experiences | MMA | Student summer experience presentations | In Person Only |
| Nov. 4 | Seth Campbell | UMaine, JIRP | The Juneau Icefield Research Program: Polar Research and Education on Earth and to the Stars | Watch Seminar |
| Nov. 11 | Pelle Robbins | WHOI/Argo | The Argo Program and history of observing ocean circulation with neutrally-buoyant floats | Watch Seminar |
| Nov. 18 | Krisanne Baker | WNERR Artist in Residence | How to Use Art to Promote the Marine Sciences | Watch Seminar |
| Dec. 2 | Abby Barrows | Ocean Analytics, Deer Isle Oyster Farm | Rethinking Plastic-Based Aquaculture: an Investigation into Viable Material | Watch Seminar |
Fall 2023
| Date | Speaker/Event | Affiliation | Title | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 23 | Adam Kozlowski and Ed Sharron | National Park Service, Northeast Temperate Network | Doing Science with the National Park Service | Watch Seminar |
| Oct. 30 | Eric Roy, Ph.D. | Founder and Chief Scientist, Hydroviv | How Entrepreneurship Moves Technology From the Lab Into Peoples’ Lives | Watch Seminar |
| Nov. 6 | Dr. Peter Garrett | Foundation for Climate Restoration | How to convert Climate Consternation to Climate Restoration | Watch Seminar |
| Nov. 13 | Dr. Karen Merritt | Maine Maritime Academy | Infrastructure and the Littoral Zone | Watch Seminar |
Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker/Event | Affiliation | Title | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar. 11 | Mark Rutherford | Ocean Research Project | Icebergs, Storms, and Unbelievable Beauty: Five years of Arctic research from a sailboat | Watch Seminar |
| Mar. 18 | Katrina Armstrong | UMaine MARINE | The Mosaic Reef: Leveraging genetic differences and local heat resilience for coral conservation | Watch Seminar |
| Mar. 25 | Cmdr. John Z. Downing | USCG | Looking North: How Climate Change Impacts Coast Guard Operations in the Arctic | Watch Seminar |
| Apr. 1 | Carissa Maurin | Gulf of Maine Research Insitute | Working to Advance the Sustainable Growth of Aquaculture | Watch Seminar |
| Apr. 15 | Alexa Cacacie | Estimating estuarine habitat use of Rainbow Smelt (Osmerus mordax) using otolith geochemistry | Watch Seminar | |
| Apr. 22 | Jeremy Weirich | Director of NOAA Ocean Exploration | NOAA Ocean Exploration: Maximizing Federal Efforts to Map, Explore, and Characterize our Unknown Ocean | Watch Seminar |
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep. 12 | Dr. Emily Arsenault | Bates College | What can robots reveal? An initial exploration of New England lakes using autonomous surface vehicles Event Flier | Watch Seminar |
| Oct. 31 | Daniel Vitalis | Wildfed and Rewild Yourself | Diet and Ecological Literacy, a Modern Hunter Gatherer’s Perspective Event Flier w/ Bio | Watch Seminar |
| Nov. 7 | Justin Stevens | Maine Sea Grant | Response of estuary ecosystem to large-scale restoration in the Penobscot River, Maine. Event Flier w/ Bio | Watch Seminar |
| Nov. 14 | Dr. Campbell "Buzz" Scott | Oceans Wide LLC | Underwater adventures - From Matinicus to the Mariana Trench Event Flier w/ Bio | Watch Seminar |
| Nov. 28 | Ocean Studies Students | Maine Maritime Academy | Summer Internships | Watch Seminar |
| Dec. 5 | Chris West | Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife | The Importance of Maine’s Mudflats Event Flier w/ Bio | Watch Seminar |
Spring 2023
| Date | Speaker/Event | Affiliation | Title | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 27 | Maritime Climate Symposium | Decarbonizing the Maritime Industry – Future Challenges & Opportunities More information - macs.mainemaritime.edu | Watch Seminar | |
| April 17 | Abby McBride | Sketch Biologist | ||
| April 24 | Trish Dunford Marine Biology ’16 | US Navy stationed in Italy | Watch Seminar |
Fall 2021
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep. 13 | Roger Hanlon | Marine Biological Laboratory; Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Brown University | The Octopus as Tech: Exploring the science, art, and technological potential of nature's most spectacular color change artist | Watch Seminar |
| Sep. 27 | Justin Pratt | Ocean Studies Department, Maine Maritime Academy | College Students Teaching Chemistry Through Outreach: Conceptual Understanding of the Elephant Toothpaste Reaction and Making Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream | Watch Seminar |
| Oct. 18 | Diana Townsend | Unity College | Disentangling the Drivers of Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Trophic Metacommunities | Watch Seminar |
| Nov. 1 | Amy Baco-Taylor | Department of Earth, Ocean, & Atmospheric Science, Florida State University | Exploration of Deep-Sea Coral Communities on Seamounts in the North Pacific: Characterization, Impacts and Recovery | Watch Seminar |
| Nov. 15 | Chris Horvat | Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University | The Polar Oceans in a Changing World | Watch Seminar |
| Nov. 29 | Loren McClenachan | University of Victoria | Historical Marine Ecology and Conservation: Shifting Baselines in Tropical Marine Environments | Watch Seminar |
Spring 2022
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 24 | Phoebe Churney, Gloria Passman, Ellie Gellerson, Lauren Plissey | MMA Ocean Studies Students | Senior Research and Internship Results | Watch Seminar |
| Feb. 7 | Justin Estep (MMA) | Assistant Professor of Oceanography | The Evolution of Oceanic Crust and its Role in Earth Systems | Watch Seminar |
| Feb. 21 | Ali Glassie (Harvard) | Postdoctoral Fellow, Mahindra Humanities Center | Feminism and Fisheries: Literary Perspectives from the Northwest Atlantic | Watch Seminar |
| Mar. 21 | Jason Graff (OSU) | Associate Professor of Research | Modern Oceanographic Expeditions: Logistics, Technology, and Scientific Explorations | Watch Seminar |
| Mar. 28 | Angus King, David Reidmiller, Kelly Baughman, Marli Thomas, William Brennan | US Senate, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Crowley, Dept. of Defense, Maine Maritime Academy | Maine Maritime Academy Climate Symposium | Watch Symposium |
| Apr. 4 | Sean Birkel (U. Maine) | Assistant Extension Professor, Maine State Climatologist | Maine's Climate: Past, Present, and Future | Watch Seminar |
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