Oceanography Senior Thesis Symposium, 9 Mar 2021

Tuesday, March 09, 09:00 AM to 11:00 AM PST

Oceanography Senior Thesis Symposium

Talks will be given on both 9 and 11 March 2021, from 9:00 to 10:50 A.M. each day, via Zoom
https://washington.zoom.us/j/93800099303
 

TUESDAY, 9 March

9:00 AM:  Rachel Schauer, “Using King County Data to Determine the Relationship Between Phytoplankton Biomass and Nutrient Concentration in Puget Sound as a Predictor for Harmful Algal Blooms”

9:10 AM:  Marissa Leatherman, “Sink or Swim: Modeling Anthropogenically-Released Pb and Cu in Puget Sound using the Live Ocean Regional Oceanographic Modelling System (ROMS)”

9:20 AM:  Keely Hall, “Comparison of Microplastics in Puget Sound via the Puyallup River from 2017-2018 using University of Washington (UW) Tacoma Datasets”

9:30 AM:  Kate Garland, “Political Boundaries Impede Estuarine Sustainability Strategies:  A Geographic Analysis Case Study of Salish Sea”

9:40 AM:  Everetta Rasyid, “Prevalence of Dissolved Homarine in Puget Sound and North Pacific”

9:50 AM:  Amanda Gardiner, “How the Environmental RNA Signature of Nitrate Reductase Can Be Used as a Predictor for Phytoplankton Distribution”

10:00 AM: Leland Wood, “Sulfur Metabolites in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and Transition Zone”

10:10 AM:  Marcus Oman, “Uptake of Anthropogenic CO2 and its Effect on Recent Changes of Calcite and Aragonite Saturation in the Northern Pacific from 2006-2015”

10:20 AM:  Kelebet Engida, “Mesoscale Eddy Impact on Overall Distribution of Zooplankton Vertical Migration “

10:30 AM:  Mouffee Borras, “Fin Whale Call Counts in the Northeast Pacific using Hydrophone Data”

10:40 AM:  Stephen Mylett, “Effects of Earthquakes on Hydrothermal Vent Temperature and Resistivity at the Main Endeavor Field, Northeast Pacific”

(see 11 March 2021 for that day's presentations)