July 7, 2022

Colleagues:

The 4th annual National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences Frontiers in Ocean Sciences Symposium – video now available

A video of the 4th National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences Frontiers in Ocean Sciences Symposium is now available online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqYe5opB3wQ&t=33s

The symposium was held during National Oceans Month, on 15th June 2022.

The theme of the 2022 virtual symposium was Climate Change and Environmental Justice.

Featured in the symposium were a line-up of early career rising stars who spoke about their ground-breaking research, as well as the symposium theme. The symposium also included three of last year’s speakers returning for an alumni panel discussion.

Speakers at the 2022 symposium included:

• Dr. Anela Choy (Asst. Prof; UCSD/Scripps) whose talk was on “Food web linkages across the deep-sea water column”;
• Dr. Claudine Hauri (Asst. Prof; UAlaska Fairbanks) who spoke about “Ocean acidification research in Alaska: from seagliders to models”;
• Dr. Dan Okamoto (Asst. Prof; Florida State University) presented “Addressing equity and climatic uncertainty in nearshore rocky reef ecosystems”; and
• Dr. Amina Schartup (Asst. Prof; UCSD Scripps) gave the presentation “The mercury cycle in an era of global change”.

 The alumni panel consisted of:

•  Dr Tamara Pico;
•  Dr Jacqueline Padilla-Gamiño;
•  Dr Nikki Traylor-Knowles.

A welcoming speech was given by Dr. Terry Quinn, the Director of the Division of Ocean Sciences with a capstone speech by Dr Alex Isern, the Assistant Director of the Directorate of Geosciences.

 

Sincerely,

Terry Quinn
Division Director, OCE

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