conferences, seminars and meetings

2009

Stephanie Dutkiewicz
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Nice, France, January 2009. “Modelling the coupling of ocean ecology and biogeochemistry.” S. Dutkiewicz, M.J. Follows and J. Bragg. Oral presentation

Anna Hickman
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Nice, France, January 2009. “Vertical gradients in phytoplankton community composition: how important are pigment and absorption characteristics?” A.E. Hickman, M.J. Follows, and S. Dutkiewicz. Oral presentation.

The Darwin project LCD wall provides a 13 x 24 foot programmable canvas that can be used to examine all manner of large images and movies.

Andrew Barton
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Nice, France, January 25-30, 2009. “What Regulates Spatial Gradients in Marine Phytoplankton Diversity?” Barton, A.D., M.J. Follows, S. Dutkiewicz, and J. Bragg. Oral presentation.

Fanny Monteiro
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Nice, France, January 25-30, 2009. “Diversity of diazotrophs and their habitat in a globale ocean model.” F. Monteiro, M.J. Follows, and S. Dutkiewicz. Poster presentation. Diverse diazotrophs in a model ocean.

2008

Michael Follows
Center for Microbial Oceanography, Research and Education: Theme III/IV focus meeting. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, January 2008. “Self-Assembling Models of Marine Microbial Communities.” Invited oral presentation.

DOE Carbon Workshop: Oceans Group, March 2008. Invited participation.

AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2-7 March 2008. “A self-selecting model of marine microbial communities and biogeochemical cycles.” M.J. Follows, S. Dutkiewicz, J. Bragg, and C. Kempes. Oral presentation.

DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase Meeting, May 2008. Invited participation: Carbon cycle theme chair.

ProchlorococcusFest, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2008. “Modeling Prochlorococcus Ecotypes: From Genome to Biomes.” Mick Follows, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Jason Bragg, and Sallie Chisholm. Invited oral presentation.

Advances in Marine Ecosystem Modeling Symposium. Plymouth, UK. June 2008. “Self-Assembling Models of Marine Microbial Communities.” Invited oral presentation.

Constraining, Understanding and Modeling Biocomplexity in Plankton Communities. Station Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy. November 2008. “Self-Assembling Models of Marine Microbial Communities.” Invited oral presentation.

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008. San Francisco, December 2008 . “Shaping of Marine Biogeography by Ocean Physics.” M.J. Follows, S. Dutkiewicz, A.D. Barton, J. Bragg, S.W. Chisholm, C.N. Hill, O. Jahn. OS41F-07. Invited oral presentation. Regulation of phytoplankton diversity by ocean physics.

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008. San Francisco, December 2008 . “Nitrogen acquisition and the organization of marine phytoplankton communities.” F. Monterio, M.J. Follows, and S. Dutkiewicz. B31F-0352. Invited poster presentation.

Stephanie Dutkiewicz

AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2-7 March 2008. “Using resource competition theory to understand the distribution of marine phytoplankton.” S. Dutkiewicz, M.J. Follows and J. Bragg.

ProchlorococcusFest, 20th Anniversary Colloquium, Cambridge, MA, 30-31 May 2008. Attendee.

Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Summer Workshop, Woods Hole, MA, 21-24 July 2008. “Ecological Control of Subtropical Nutrient Concentrations.” Poster presentation.

Dynamic Green Ocean Project 7th Workshop, Observatoire Oc_anologique, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 22-24 October 2008. “Update on MIT marine ecosystem model.” Invited oral presentation.

Boston University Climate Seminar Series, 3 November 2008. “Uncertainty in Climate Change Modelling: Focus on Ocean Biogeochemistry.” Invited seminar.

IMBER IMBIZO Workshop, Miami, FL, 9-13 November 2008. “Ecological Control of Subtropical Nutrient Concentrations.” S. Dutkiewicz, M.J. Follows, and J.G. Bragg. Oral and poster presentation. Ecological control of subtropical nutrient concentrations.

The Darwin Project display wall just visable in the upper floor of MIT's Stata Center.

Anna Hickman
Challenger Society for Marine Science, Oban, UK, September 2008. “Vertical gradients in phytoplankton community composition: how important are pigment and absorption characteristics?” Oral presentation.

Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University Of Liverpool,UK, November 2008. “Vertical gradients in phytoplankton community composition: how important are pigment and absorption characteristics?” Seminar.

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, UK , December 2008. “Vertical gradients in phytoplankton community composition: how important are pigment and absorption characteristics?” Invited seminar.

Andrew Barton
SOLAS Summer School 2007, Carg_se, Corsica, France, October 22-November 3, 2007. “Climate change impacts on ecosystem structure and function in a model ocean.” Poster presentation.

Effect of Climate Change on World’s Oceans Meeting, Gijon, Spain, May 19-23, 2008. “What regulates patterns of phytoplankton diversity?” Barton, A.D., M.J. Follows, S. Dutkiewicz, and J. Bragg. Oral presentation.

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, December 15-19, 2008. “What Regulates Spatial Gradients in Marine Phytoplankton Diversity?” Barton, A.D., M.J. Follows, S. Dutkiewicz, and J. Bragg. B31F-0355. Poster presentation. What causes spatial gradients in the diversity of marine phytoplankton?

Ariane Verdy
Biology Department Seminar at UC Riverside, October 9, 2008. “Evolution of phytoplankton cell size.” Invited seminar.

Jason Bragg
ProchlorococcusFest, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2008. “Modeling selective pressures on picocyanobacterial nutrient use in the global ocean.” J.G. Bragg, S. Dutkiewicz, M.J. Follows, and S.W. Chisholm. Poster presentation.

Gordon Research Conference: Metabolic Basis of Ecology, Maine, July 2008. “Modeling selective pressures on picocyanobacterial nutrient use in the global ocean.” J.G. Bragg, S. Dutkiewicz, M.J. Follows, and S.W. Chisholm. Poster presentation.

Microbial Systems Seminar Series, Dept Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT. Cambridge Massachusetts, November 2008. “Modeling selective pressures on nitrogen use by marine picocyanobacteria.” Seminar.

Fanny Monteiro
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK, April 2008. “Modeling nitrogen fixation in the oceans.” Invited seminar.

Department of civil and environmental engineering seminar series, MIT. May 2008. “Modeling nitrogen fixation in the oceans.” Seminar.

Ocean Sciences Department, University of California Santa Cruz. September, 2008. “Emergent diversity of nitrogen fixers in a global ocean model.” Seminar.

Program of Oceans, Atmospheres and Oceans Seminar Series, MIT. November 2008. “Diversity and habitat of nitrogen fixers in a global ocean model.” Seminar.