long island sound seminar series 2008

The Center for Coastal and Marine Studies
Announces
The Fifth Annual Long Island Sound Seminar Series

Wednesday, March 26, 1-2 p.m., Jennings Hall 127
Tessa Getchis
Aquaculture Extension Educator, CT Sea Grant and Cooperative Extension, UCONN, Groton, Conn.

"Aquaculture and Shellfisheries Management in Connecticut: Past, Present and Future"

 

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Wednesday, April 9, 1-2 p.m., Jennings Hall 127

Elizabeth Pillsbury
Ph.D. Candidate, U.S. and Environmental History, Columbia University,
New York, NY

"Filthy Waters, Typhoid Fevers and Oyster Planters: Shellfish Battles in New York and Connecticut, 1880-1925"

 

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Wednesday, April 23, 1-2 p.m., Jennings Hall 127

Kamazima M.M. Lwiza
Associate Professor, Marine Sciences Research Center, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

"Characteristics of Bottom Dissolved Oxygen in Long Island Sound: 
Physics vs. Biology"

 

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Wednesday, May 7, 1-2 p.m., Jennings Hall 127

Marta Gomez-Chiarri
Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences University of Rhode Island, Kingstown, RI

"From Genes to Waders: Managing Oyster Diseases in Rhode Island"

 

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The Fifth Annual Long Island Sound Seminar Series is sponsored by the Center for Coastal and Marine Studies and is supported by an SCSU Faculty Development Grant.

Questions: call James Tait (x25838), Vince Breslin (x26602), or Dwight Smith (x26222)

Refreshments will be served.

For a downloadable, printable schedule of all of these events, click here (opens as a PDF file).