主讲人简介：

Walker Smith obtained his Ph.D. from Duke University last century and worked with Dick Barber.  He went directly to the University of Tennessee, where he advanced to full professor.  In 1998 he moved to William & Mary and the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences where he remained until his retirement this year.  He was awarded Sweden’s Prestigious King’s Professorship in 2015 to work at Gothenburg University.  He has had continuous funding from the US National Science Foundation since 1982 to work in polar oceanography, and has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles, including those in Science, Nature, and Geophysical Research Letters.  He also has edited three books and served as guest editor for four issues of Deep-Sea Research II.  In his spare time he enjoys reading, photography, and sampling beers.

讲座简介：

Investigations into the ocean’s productivity and elemental cycles have been revolutionized in the past 50 years by new technologies, which in turn led to new thoughts about how the ocean works.  This talk presents changes that have occurred in the past five decades and how they have influenced our understanding of the processes involved in biological oceanographic investigations.  These will include the use of satellites in collecting information on synoptic and broad spatial scales, trace metal clean sampling, ice core analyses, ARGOS buoys, autonomous vehicles, continuous samplers, molecular analyses, towed vehicles, and numerical models.  All have forced biological oceanographers to re-examine numerous “paradigms” and explore new avenues of research.

2019年10月-11月，在成立周年之际，海洋学院依托学院优厚师资力量，推出 “院·望”院士系列讲座活动，面向全校师生开放。来自中国科学院和中国工程院的5位院士从物理海洋、海洋地质、海洋战略与管理等多个学科方向，聚焦海洋强国建设，带来了高层次的学术报告。

2020年，海洋学院迎来成立2周年，“院·望”系列讲座也将再次和大家相见。本次系列讲座将邀请物理海洋、海洋生物、古气候问题、海洋化学等学科方向的5位国际著名专家，包括来自美国科学院的院士。欢迎老师同学们来共同探讨学术前沿，纵论海洋科学发展。