Annette Hynes, a 1998 University of Nebraska–Lincoln graduate, will deliver talks about her research and Peace Corps experiences on March 8.
A microbial oceanographer at the University of Georgia, Hynes will deliver a School of Biological Sciences Alumnus Seminar at 3:30 p.m. in Hamilton Hall, Room 112. She will discuss the development of a model that uses dissolved oxygen to gauge ecosystem metabolism in estuaries in Massachusetts and Georgia.
Using the model to estimate gross primary production, community respiration and net ecosystem production, the project focused on the Plus Island Estuary in Massachusetts and the Sapelo Island Estuary in Georgia. The long-term studies are designed to aid estimation of the effects of nutrient loading, sediment loading, river discharge, sea level rise, temperature and tidal flooding on estuarine community metabolism.
Hynes will also discuss her Peace Corps work in a 7:30 p.m. presentation in Manter Hall, Room 402A.
Through the Peace Corps, Hynes served three years in Kenya teaching high school and a year in South Africa training biology teachers. Her talk, “Little Hut on the Savannah,” will explore family life in the Kamba and Zulu tribes of sub-Saharan Africa.
Hynes is an Oshkosh, Nebraska, native who graduated from Nebraska with a Bachelor of Sciences degree in biological sciences and mathematics. She earned a doctorate in biological oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009.
Both of the March 8 talks are free and open to the public.
