DATE:            Monday, March 1, 2004
SPEAKER:  H. Jay Zwally, Oceans and Ice Branch NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
TITLE:      Arctic Sea-Ice Freeboard Height Distributions and Thickness Maps From ICESat Laser Altimetry

DATE:            Monday,  March 31, 2004
SPEAKER:  Dr. Ramsey Harcourt, Applied Physics Laboratory, UWashington
TITLE:      Thermobaric Cabbeling near Maud Rise: Theory and Large Eddy Simulation

Oceanography Chair's Seminar Series
DATE:          April 28, 2004
SPEAKER:     LCDR Ben Reeder, PhD, Assistant Professor,  Dept. of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School
TITLE:         Acoustic scattering by individual irregular finite objects

Oceanography Chair's Seminar Series
SPEAKER RADM John D. Pearson, USN (Ret),  Chair of Mine Warfare, Naval Postgraduate School
DATE:       TUESDAY  May 4, 2004
TITLE:    Mine Warfare Fundamentals

SPEAKER: John A. Colosi, PhD, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
DATE:       TUESDAY  May 11, 2004
TITLE:     Scintillations in Long Range Ocean Acoustic Transmission:
Towards an Understanding of Acoustic Scattering Regimes

Oceanography Chair's Seminar Series
SPEAKER: James MacMahan, PhD
                          NRC Post-doc, Naval Postgraduate School
DATE:       Wednesday  May 19, 2004
TITLE:      Field Observations of Rip Current Pulsations

SPEAKER: Andrew Moore, PhD
                  Program for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
                  University of Colorado, Boulder
DATE:       Wednesday  July 21, 2004
TITLE:      Applications of Generalized Stability Theory to the Ocean Circulation

FRIDAY: AUGUST 6

• SPEAKER: Prof. Timor Radko
•                     Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
•                     Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• TITLE:    Origin and dynamics of thermohaline staircases

• SPEAKER: Lief Thomas PhD
•                   Applied Physics Lab,University of Washington
• TITLE:      Nonlinear dynamics of wind-driven oceanic circulation and fronts

• SPEAKER: Wilbert Weijer PhD
•                   Scripps Institution of Oceanography

                  Physical Oceanography Research Department
TITLE:      Southern Ocean response to high-frequency winds

• SPEAKER: Yu-heng Tseng  PhD
•                    John Hopkins University
• TITLE:      On the development of immersed boundary method and its applications on the high performance ocean modeling

• SPEAKER: Anatoliy N. Ivakin, PhD
•                    Senior Physicist Applied Physics Laboratory, Univ. of Wash.
• TITLE:       Mechanisms of acoustic scattering from the seafloor: Roughness vs volume heterogeneity

• SPEAKER: T.M. Shaun Johnston, PhD
•                     Post-doc, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
• TITLE:       Internal tide scattering at mid-ocean topography

• SPEAKER:  Wieslaw Maslowski, PhD

                   Research Associate Professor - Dept. of Oceanography, NPS
TITLE:       The Causes and Rates of Change of Arctic Sea Ice Cover

• SPEAKER: Andrew Jessup, PhD, Principal Oceanographer
•                    Air-Sea Interaction and Remote Sensing Department,

                  Applied Physics Laboratory, Univ. of Wash.
TITLE:       Air-Sea Interaction Studies Using Infrared Imaging Techniques