| 1/25/2016 | James Pringle | Origin of Mean Flows on Western Boundary Shelves, including the Mid-Atlantic Bight | UNH |
| 2/8/2016 | Craig Lee | An Autonomous Investigation of the Marginal Ice Zone | UW APL |
| 2/15/2016 | Charles Madenjian | Sex and Contaminants in Fish: “Hot Spots”, Big Testes, and High Activity Males | USGS |
| 2/22/2016 | Hermann Fritz | 2011 Tohoku tsunami runup hydrographs and overland flow velocities based on survivor videos using LiDAR | Georgia Tech |
| 2/29/2016 | Yair Rosenthal | Stars’ War: the return of the Raymo-Ruddiman hypothesis? or Did the Mid-Pliocene warmth bring the Northern Hemisphere Chill? | DMCS,Rutgers |
| 3/7/2016 | Alison Taylor | Cell Biology of Coccolithophores: Insights into Calcification, Physiology, and Ecology | UNCW |
| 3/14/2016 | spring break | | |
| 3/21/2016 | Chris Gobler | Understanding harmful algal blooms in a changing world: From genes to ocean basins | Stony Brook |
| 3/28/2016 | Einat Segev | Bacteria Farm Emiliania huxleyi and Influence Algal Alkenones | Harvard |
| 4/4/2016 | Liz Sikes | Radiocarbon and Stable Isotope Evidence for Increased Ventilation of the Southwest Pacific Ocean during the Last Deglaciation | Rutgers, DMCS |
| 4/11/2016 | Doug Nowacek | | Duke |
| 4/18/2016 | Ellen Martin | Weathering on Greenland: Why does it Matter? | UFL |
| 4/25/2016 | Eli Moore | New Membrane Lipids, Marine Protein Cycling, and the Network of Electron Transfer: Environmental Science from Molecular to Global Scales | Rutgers, DMCS |
| 5/2/2016 | Ryan Kelly | Genetic Signatures of Ecological Diversity Along an Urbanization Gradient | University of Washington |
