Fall Seminar Series 2025

The public is invited to join us during the semester for our Wednesday seminars at 1:30 p.m. 

Note our new start time! Watch live on Zoom. Graduate student talks are by invitation or internal only.

Seminar Schedule Fall 2024
Date Speaker and Seminar Title
Aug 27

Ed Carpenter, Professor of Biology, EOS Center, SFSU

Plastic Earth: A Ticking Time Bomb

Abstract and Bio

Sept 3 EOS Center Town Hall
Sept 10

Diamela De Veer Postdoctoral Fellow,  Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Ocean Travelers: the role of plastic debris on non-native species dispersal

Sept 17

Pádraig Duignan Director of Pathology/Chief Scientist, The Marine Mammal Center 

Climate change and disease ecology: How are California's marine mammals faring 25 years into the 21st century?

Sept 24

Karen Thorne Research Ecologist U.S. Geological Survey 

The use of dredge material in San Francisco Bay to bolster marsh restorations and build sea level rise resilience

Oct 1

Mark Lubell   

TBA

Oct 8 TBA
Oct 15

Albert Ruhí Associate Professor, Freshwater Ecology and Conservation UC Berkeley

Climate change, phenological shifts, and trophic mismatches along the river-estuary continuum

Oct 22

Drew Harvell Adjunct faculty Stanford (Hopkins Researcher), Prof Emerita, Cornell University/Stanford University 

The Ocean's Menagerie Heating up with Climate Change

Oct 29 State of Estuary - no seminar
Nov 5

Melanie Prentice, Research Scientist Hakai Institute 

The causative agent of sea star wasting disease

Nov 12  
 
CERF - no seminar
Nov 19 Research in Progress Talks
26 Thanksgiving - no seminar
Dec 3

Sarah Mesnick   

TBA

Dec 10

Brendan Tougher, Co-Founder Marine Monitor (M2), LLC Marine Monitor (M2)  

Empowering Marine Conservation through Technology

Dec 16  IMES Intern talks