Come hear this year's seniors present their research findings! There will be two sessions - one on Tuesday, the other on Thursday - in OTB 51. See the schedule for the talks below.
2023 School of Oceanography Senior Thesis Symposium
May 30th and June 1st, 9:00 AM -10:50 AM
OTB 51 and by zoom https://washington.zoom.us/j/93800099303
Tuesday, May 30th
9:00 AM - Elliot Zhao, “Interpretation of a temperature and salinity section at 180 degrees in relation to the ENSO cycle in the equatorial Pacific for March 2023”
9:10 AM - Heather Maran, “The relationship between current flow direction and sediment distribution within slope-confined submarine canyons off the north coast of Moloka’i, HI”
9:20 AM - Christina Otte, “Interpreting rainfall changes as a result of the 8.2 ka event through δ2H ratios in the El Junco Lake, Galapagos”
9:30 AM - Sevrin Smith, “Surface water nutrient limitations in the western equatorial Pacific”
9:40 AM - Delilah Kaufman, “Vitamin B12 distribution and metabolomic impacts in the North-Central Pacific”
9:50 AM - Michael Yurecko, “The effects of iron supplementation on primary producers in the western equatorial Pacific Ocean”
10:00 AM - Isa Osuna, “A comparative study of western Equatorial Pacific nutrients in 1993, 2007 and 2023”
10:10 AM - Isabel Gala, “Measuring the abundance and distribution of microplastics and marine organisms across the surface of the equatorial Pacific using a manta net”
10:20 AM - Anna Finch, “Uptake kinetics of homarine by marine bacteria”
10:30 AM - Cristian Swift, “Phytoplankton biomass predictions in the Equatorial Pacific using random forest modeling”
10:40 AM - Jace Marquardt, “Analysis of small-scale features of ΔfCO2 distributions along the TN413 cruise track in North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and Equatorial Pacific”
Note that listed times are approximate
Thursday, June 1st
OTB051 and by zoom https://washington.zoom.us/j/93800099303
9:00 AM - Amy Wang, “Impact of shifts in North Pacific Subtropical Gyre productivity on community particulate metabolites”
9:10 AM - Jenn Willson, “The impact of circulation on bedform morphology in the depositional environment around Ilio Point, Molokai, Hawaii”
9:20 AM - Ernesto Chen Liang, “Changes over three decades in temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen concentrations of the Equatorial Pacific at 180 degrees”
9:30 AM - Autumn Baker, “Evolution of submarine terraces off of northern Moloka’i, HI”
9:40 AM - Amrita Ahuja, “Determining the proportion of CO2 balance influenced by upwelling and primary production in the Equatorial Pacific at 180° using CO2 and O2 flux”
9:50 AM - Eunie Lim, “Changes in bacterial concentrations with depth, temperature, and chlorophyll fluorescence in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean”
10:00 AM - Abbey Moore, “Identifying differences in morphologies between the hotspot island submarine flank of Moloka’i, HI, USA and the active margin sites of Washington, USA and Viti Levu, Fiji”
10:10 AM - Andrew Paley, “Population structure and diversity of polynoids associated with tubeworms at Axial Seamount”
10:20 AM - Tony Dominguez-Giron, “Natural and anthropogenic changes to the dissolved inorganic carbon system in the western Equatorial Pacific during the last three decades”
10:30 AM - Han Weinrich, “Distribution of microbial eukaryotes living as epibiota on tube worms (Ridgeia piscesae) in hydrothermal fluid flow and vent plumes at Axial Seamount”
10:40 AM - Connor Johnson
Note that the listed times are approximate
