Colloquium Fall 2023

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Fall 2023
Date	Speaker	Speaker’s Affiliation	Speaker’s Website	Talk Title
Sep. 15th	BES Grad Reps	URI	BES Grad Reps	Orientation & Welcome BBQ
Sept. 22nd	Carlos Prada	URI	Carlos Prada	Ecology, adaptation, and speciation in corals: Ecology driving reproductive isolation in broadcast spawners
Sept. 29th	Dr. Devon Lukow	Yale	Dr. Devon Lukow	“Chromosomal instability accelerates the evolution of resistance to anti-cancer therapies”
Oct. 6th
Oct. 13th	Blake Ushijima	UNC-Wilmington	Blake Ushijima
Oct. 20th	Dr. Nic Fisk	URI	Dr. Nic Fisk
Oct. 27th	Dr. Carol Bocetti	Pennsylvania Western University	Dr. Carol Bocetti	“Collaborative Conservation saves the Kirtland’s Warbler and serves as a model for all conservation-reliant species and ecosystems”
Nov. 3rd	Dr. Emil Ruff	Marine Biological Laboratory - Woods Hole, MA	Dr. Emil Ruff	Microbial production of “dark oxygen”: An overlooked process in Earth’s hidden ecosystems
				Emil will talk about the microbial production of oxygen in the absence of light and its potential relevance in anoxic subsurface ecosystems. …
Nov. 10th	Heather Spalding	College of Charleston	Heather Spalding	A multidisciplinary outlook on understanding a cryptogenic species in the Papahan̄aumokuak̄ea Marine National Monument, Hawai‘i
Nov. 17th	Natchee Barnd (ZOOM)	Oregon State University	Natchee Barnd	“Indigenous Ocean and Coast: Designing a Collaborative Marine Studies Course”
Dec. 1st	Amanda Gallinat	Colby College	Amanda Gallinat
Dec. 8th	Specialization/BES Meeting