2022 UMass Intercampus Marine Science Research Symposium
Wednesday, March 23
8:30 am – Poster Set-up, Coffee and Bagels
9:00 am – Welcome to SMAST – Dean and Graduate Program Director
9:15 am – Plenary Speaker I – Iury Sousa (UMass Dartmouth), “Atmospheric cold pools in the Bay of Bengal“
9:40 am – Plenary speaker II – Grace Casselberry (UMass Amherst), “Quantifying depredation rates and spatial overlap between great hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna mokarran) and Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) in a recreational fishing hotspot “
10:05 am – Break
10:20 am – Lightning Talks and Posters – Sessions: Oceanography and Biogeochemistry
12:00 noon – Lunch and Posters
13:00 pm – Plenary Speaker III – Ting Wang (UMass Lowel), “Mercury Dynamics in a Salt Marsh Estuary in Massachusetts, USA”
13:25 pm – Plenary Speaker IV – Ágata Piffer Braga (UMass Dartmouth), “Evolution of a mid-sized river plume front: from discharge to arrest“
13:50 pm – Break
16:45 pm – Closing Remarks and Awards
17:00 pm – Trivia