This year’s ESPE winter seminar series is centered around “The Ocean”.
These talks will be free and open to the public, and held at Union College in the Nott Memorial from 6-7 PM on the following days.
“Atlantic Circulation: Have we breached a planetary threshold?”
Hali Kilbourne is an Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory campus.
Her research focuses on understanding the climate of the last 2000 years to provide context for modern changes and to improve our understanding of climate system processes driving climate variability. Such information can help us improve climate models used for predicting future climate change by providing datasets of historical climate variability for data-model comparison.
"The Deep-Sea Around Us: The Urgent Need to Bring the Seafloor into Sight"
Julie Huber is a Senior Scientist in the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Director of COBRA (Crustal Ocean Biosphere Research Accelerator).
She studies microbial life in deep-sea crustal ocean habitats, including hydrothermal vents, seamounts, and volcanoes. These microbes provide critical ecosystem services such as primary production to sustain deep-sea food webs, nutrient and element recycling, carbon sequestration, and symbiotic relationships with diverse animals. Julie has led and participated in ocean expeditions around the world using deep submergence technology.
“Unlocking Climate Secrets from Corals in a Time of Rapid Change”
Sujata Murty is an assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the University at Albany. She received her PhD from Nanyang Technological University and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Sujata's research focuses on past changes in ocean and climate systems.