BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14bafa77df2801b57223a1b7ebb8d11c130 CATEGORIES:CERF Events & Webinars SUMMARY:2021 CERF Webinar: Preparing for the next 50 years of Coastal and Estuarine Science DESCRIPTION:
26 January 2021 | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (PT) | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (ET)
For 50 year s, (C)ERF as an organization has promoted research, education and managemen t of estuaries and coasts. As CERF moves into its second 50 years, what sor ts of science questions will need to be addressed, and how does the federat ion position itself to be inclusive and support the diversity of people and positions we envision in a rapidly changing world? We have put together a panel of three speakers: Bob Christian, Jeremy Testa, and Mona Behl, who wi ll give their perspectives on future challenges and opportunities for CERF science and CERF scientists.
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In 1967 Bob Christian ’s entry into estuarine science was as an undergraduate on the Great Bay, N J, mentored by Jim Durand at Rutgers University, Camden. His PhD dissertat ion research was on Sapelo Island under Bill Wiebe at the University of Geo rgia. After a few years at Drexel University, Bob spent the rest of his ca reer at East Carolina University. He retired, or at least stopped getting a salary, in 2010 as a distinguished professor. Research with his students and colleagues has focused on coastal ecosystems along the Atlantic and Gu lf coasts of the USA and in the Mediterranean. They have studied nutrient cycling, especially the nitrogen and carbon cycles, and energy flow. While initial interests were in microbial communities and processes, his researc h took broader perspective. Thus, studies extended to primary production o f macrophytes, food webs, and ecosystem state changes. Much effort has been devoted to network analysis as a mathematical tool for comparisons among a nd within ecosystems. He has been active in promoting large-scale studies. These efforts have been associated with the U.S. Long-term Ecological Res earch (LTER) and International LTER programs, and the Global Terrestrial Ob serving System of the UN. He served as president and in other positions fo r both AERS and CERF. His first ERF meeting was in 1973, and first AERS me eting in 1978. Basically, he’s old!
Jeremy Testa is an Associate Professor at the UMCES Chesapeake Bi ological Laboratory in Solomons, Maryland. Jeremy is a coastal systems ecol ogist whose research has an emphasis on the processes of eutrophication, nu trient cycling, dissolved oxygen dynamics, and carbonate chemistry. Jeremy uses a combination of experimental approaches, historical data analysis, an d coupled biogeochemical-hydrodynamic modeling studies to link biogeochemic al dynamics to ecological communities in estuaries and coastal ecosystems.< /p>
< a name="Behl">Mona Behl
Mona Behl serves as associate di rector of NOAA's Sea Grant program at the University of Georgia where she a lso holds public service and academic appointments. In her current role, sh e collaborates with the director to provide administrative and financial le adership to Georgia Sea Grant, direct its research and fellowship portfolio s, and ensure the quality, relevance and impact of Sea Grant activities in Georgia. Behl is passionate about improving access, engagement and leadersh ip development of historically marginalized people in the geosciences. She co-led the development of Sea Grant's 10-year diversity; equity and inclusi on vision plan, Sea Grant’s community-engaged internship program, and Ameri can Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Early Career Leadership Academy. She cur rently serves on the leadership board of Earth Science Women’s Network, and is a Non-Residential Policy Fellow with the AMS. Behl earned her bachelors and master’s in Physics (Honors) from Panjab University (India), and docto rate in Physical Oceanography from Florida State University.
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