JANUARY

DATE: Jan. 12, Thursday
TIME: 1 pm
SPEAKER: Pierre Flament, PhD
Professor
Department of Oceanography, Univ. of Hawaii
Associate Program Director, NSF, Physical Oceanography
TITLE: Applications of the WERA HF Radar for Ocean Current Mapping

MARCH

DATE: March 13, Monday
TIME: 3 pm
SPEAKER: Ray Qing Lin, PhD
Naval Surface Warfare Center; Carderock Division
Seakeeping Division
TITLE: A New Coastal Wave Model

DATE: March 27, Monday
TIME: 12 pm
SPEAKER: Jamie MacMahan, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
TITLE: Rip Currents: Where are we now?

DATE: March 29, Wednesday
TIME: 12 pm
SPEAKER: Darek Bogucki, PhD
Assistant Professor
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Division of Applied Marine Physics, University of Miami
TITLE: Using optics to study small scale physical processes in the ocean

APRIL

DATE: April 3, Monday
TIME: 12:00 pm
SPEAKER: Burkard Baschek, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
TITLE: Tidal fronts and flow-topography interaction


DATE: April 5, Wednesday
TIME: 12:00 pm
SPEAKER: Stephen Henderson, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
TITLE: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Nearbed Flow, and Its Influence on Sediment Motion

DATE: April 13, Thursday
TIME: 12:00 pm
SPEAKER: Robert D. Hetland, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Oceanography, Texas A&M University
TITLE: What happens when rivers meet the ocean?