HMSC Research Seminars are every Thursday from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the Hatfield campus in Newport, Oregon. Check out our local Hatfield events on the home page or visit the OSU calendar for the latest scheduled events.
Topics range from the scientific spectrum but are focused on marine and coastal research from leading investigators at Hatfield and around the globe. Our weekly seminars are in the Carmen Phillip Ford Auditorium in the Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building, which holds about 250 people. Seminars are hybrid events, and recordings are found below or on our YouTube account. The past year's seminars are listed below. The audience is a diverse mix of Hatfield researchers and students from OSU, EPA, USFWS, USDA, NOAA, and ODFW and is open to members of the public.
For the live broadcast of the Thursday Seminar via Zoom. Password: 104815 or call +1-971-247-1195 US Meeting ID: 971 3707 8566.
If you would like to speak in the series, email Cinamon Moffett.
Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made to Cinamon Moffett or 541-867-0126.
Past Seminar Titles and Authors
2025
Pierre-Yves Raumer, PhD student at Geo-Ocean, Brest, France
Thursday, April 24, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
HMSC Science on Tap: Directives from the Deep Sea: What oceanography can teach us about volatility and resilience
Marley Parker - freelance science communicator and HMSC Lavern Weber Visiting Scientist
Thursday, April 23, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Developing a Strategic Science Communication Mindset for the Hatfield Community
Matthew Harwell, HMSC Volunteer and former Branch Chief, EPA Newport, OR and Reid Harwell, Cornell University
Thursday, April 17, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Special Hatfield Event: An Evening of Science and Policy with Jane Lubchenco- Seas the Day: A New Narrative for the Ocean
Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D. , Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and University Distinguished Professor of Integrative Biology in the College of Science, OSU
Thursday, April 16, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Multi-faceted approach to reducing the influence of disease in sablefish aquaculture
Joe Dietrich, Research Ecologist, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, Newport, OR
Thursday, April 10, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Leveraging genomics tools for the advancement of shellfish aquaculture
Bernarda Calla, Molecular Geneticist, USDA-ARS Pacific Shellfish Research Unit, Hatfield Marine Science Center
Thursday, April 3, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Can we know the details of past Cascadia earthquakes? Geophysical modeling meets paleoseismology
Diego Melgar, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon
Thursday, March 20, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Regeneration Revealed: A Single-Cell Journey into Hydractinia
Jingwei Song, Research Associate, Oregon State University's Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station (COMES)/USDA-ARS Pacific Shellfish Breeding Center
Thursday, March 13, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Beauty and Beast: Sneaker Waves in the Pacific Northwest
Tuba Özkan-Haller, Dean, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Ecosystem-based fisheries management of crab fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
Gordon Kruse, Professor Emeritus, Department of Fisheries, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Thursday, March 6, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Regime shifts or resilience? Causes of change and consequences for diversity on rocky shores
Zechariah Meunier, Postdoctoral Research Associate, College of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
Thursday, February 27, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
HMSC Science On Tap: Peering Beneath the Surface – Plankton in real life
Bob Cowen, HMSC Director and Associate Vice President for Marine Research Operations and Su Sponaugle, Department of Integrative Biology, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Measuring and modeling present and future water temperature changes in Yaquina Bay
Margaret Conley, PhD student, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences,
Oregon State University
Thursday, February 20, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Arctic cod reproduction under prolonged exposure to ocean acidification
Emily Slesinger, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA
Thursday, February 6, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Madeleine Lucas, PhD Student, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, University of Washington
Thursday, January 30, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Cornelia Oedekoven, Senior Research Fellow, Center of Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, University of St. Andrews
Thursday, January 23, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Where are the basking sharks? A global perspective on the world’s second-largest
Alexandra G. McInturf, Research Associate, Big Fish Lab, Oregon State University
Thursday, January 16, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
The Northern California Current on Fire: Are Marine Heatwaves and Pyrosome Blooms the New Normal?
Richard Brodeur, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center
Thursday, January 9, 2025 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
2024
An Update on Coastal Oregon Conservation Issues and Strategies
Paul Engelmeyer, Oregon Bird Alliance, Ten Mile Creek Sanctuary
Thursday, December 12, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Get to know your iLab: From ideation to creation, we can help!
Drummond Wengrove, Innovation Lab Manager, OSU’s Hatfield Marine Science Center
Thursday, December 5, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Applications of Broadband Acoustic Backscatter
Scott Loranger, Acoustician and Applications Scientist, Kongsberg Discovery
Thursday, November 21, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Axial Seamount is waking up! An update on the latest monitoring data and a new eruption forecast for this submarine volcano offshore Oregon
Bill Chadwick, Senior Research Associate, CIMERS, Oregon State University
Thursday, November 14, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Science on Tap:
Shifting Nearshore Ocean Conditions: Consequences for Oregon’s Marine Species of Greatest Conservation Need
Steve Rumrill, Marine Resources Program, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Fair Winds, Following Seas, Fascinating Science: Producing compelling stories to promote ocean research
Marley Parker, Freelance Science Communicator
Thursday, November 7, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Will Common Murres Become Uncommon? Reflections on the Role of Science in an Era of Climate Change
Julia Parrish, Lowell A. and Frankie L. Wakefield Professor of Ocean Fishery Sciences, Associate Dean, College of the Environment, University of Washington
Thursday, October 31, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Science on Tap:
What the Tide Brings In: Scary Stories about Hot Water
Julia Parrish, Lowell A. and Frankie L. Wakefield Professor of Ocean Fishery Sciences, Associate Dean, College of the Environment, University of Washington
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
How climate change impacts a coastal tropical dolphin?
Rodrigo Tardin, Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Thursday, October 17, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Widespread & Increasing Near-Bottom Hypoxia in the Coastal Ocean off the Pacific Northwest
Jack Barth, Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
Thursday, October 17, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Humpback whale blow genomics and eDNA metabarcoding: Exploring the drivers of a foraging social network in the Great Bear Sea - not recorded
Éadin N. O’Mahony, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, U.K.
Thursday, October 10, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Science on Tap:
Are we really about to talk to whales? An exploration of the evolution of whale communication, music, and language
Luke Rendell, HMSC Lavern Weber Visiting Scientist, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, U.K.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Expanding our ideas about the diversity of habitat use and population structure in a dominant mesopelagic predator, the sperm whale
Luke Rendell, HMSC Lavern Weber Visiting Scientist, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, U.K.
Thursday, September 26, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Lunch and Learn:
Thinking With Oceans: Indigenous and Feminist Approaches to Transdisciplinary Marine Inquiry
Rebekah Sinclair, Oregon State University and Dr. Celia Bardwell Jones, University of Hawaii at Hilo
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Prototyping an Image-based Coastal Fog Detection Network Using Camera Locations Along the Oregon Coast
Sonya Rauschenbach, PhD Student, Atmospheric Science, University of California, Davis
Thursday, August 8, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
The role of environmental conditions and individual differences in a rare human-dolphin mutualism - pending
Alexandre Machado, Associate Researcher, Aquatic Mammals Laboratory, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Thursday, August 1, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Finding fathers and remembering mothers: Using DNA profiles for long-term studies of humpback whales
Franca Eichenberger, Postdoctoral Scholar, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center
Thursday, July 25, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Climate Resilience and the Adaptive Management of Marine Protected Areas
Will White, Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Oregon State University
Thursday, July 18, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Information encoding in cetacean social vocalizations
Taylor Hersh, Postdoc, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center
Thursday, July 11, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Markham Symposium
Past Award Winner Ignite Talks
Thursday, June 20, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Markham Symposium Keynote
Try out your dreams before making them a reality
Brittany Schwartzkopf, Research Fish Biologist, NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center
Thursday, June 20, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Lunch and Learn:
Exploring the largest submarine eruption on Earth: A trip to Fani Maoré (Indian Ocean)
Valentine Puzenat, Paris Institute of Planetary Physics
Monday, June 17, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Decadal change and the abundance of fishes and invertebrates in Yaquina Bay
Scott Heppell, Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Oregon State University
Thursday, June 13, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Polar mud on the move: Is lead-210 a useful sediment tracer at high latitudes?
Molly Keogh, NSF postdoc, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
Thursday, June 6, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Three decades of nearshore surveys reveal habitat use, distribution, and abundance of gray whales and harbor porpoises in the Northern California Current
Dawn Barlow, Postdoctoral Scholar, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center
Thursday, March 14, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Multicentennial perspectives on extreme climate and natural disasters in the Pacific Northwest
Bryan Black, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona
Thursday, March 7, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
A 400 K Bright Spot on the Horizon for Pacific Lamprey returns to the Columbia River
Laurie Porter, Lamprey Project Lead, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
Thursday, February 29, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
No sex when stressed: Unprecedented widespread unique reproductive behavior of a marine habitat-forming species after a major Marine Heat Wave.
Fiona Tomas Nash, IMEDEA (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies) in Mallorca, Spain
Thursday, February 22, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Leveraging stable isotope analyses to answer questions about species responses to changing environments. Lessons from terrestrial mammals and marine fishes.
David Taylor, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Oregon State University
Thursday, February 15, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Are we there yet? Exploring the drivers of whale migration in the tropics and the poles
Angela Szesciorka, Marine Mammal Bioacoustics and Ecology Lab, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University
Thursday, February 8, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Science on Tap:
Plastics in the environment: impacts on organisms in Oregon and beyond
Susanne Brander, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Hatfield Marine Science Center
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Form, Function and Flow in the Ocean: Zooplankton ecology from the organism to the ecosystem scale
Kelly Sutherland, Associate Professor of Biology, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon
Thursday, February 1, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
The importance of nectar for butterfly populations
Kelsey King, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office
Thursday, January 25, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center
Confronting Climate Anxiety
- Tessa Hill, UC Davis Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, Bodega Marine Laboratory
- Alyssa Griffin, UC Davis Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, Bodega Marine Laboratory
- Kat Kerlin, Environment Writer and Press Officer, UC Davis News and Media Relations
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Thursday, January 18, 2024 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center