主講人簡介：
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.
講座簡介：
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，在成立周年之際，海洋學院依託學院優厚師資力量，推出 「院·望」院士系列講座活動，面向全校師生開放。來自中國科學院和中國工程院的5位院士從物理海洋、海洋地質、海洋戰略與管理等多個學科方向，聚焦海洋強國建設，帶來了高層次的學術報告。
2020年，海洋學院迎來成立2周年，「院·望」系列講座也將再次和大家相見。本次系列講座將邀請物理海洋、海洋生物、古氣候問題、海洋化學等學科方向的5位國際著名專家，包括來自美國科學院的院士。歡迎老師同學們來共同探討學術前沿，縱論海洋科學發展。