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January 31,
2008
Highlights
- An important article published in the January 24, 2008 edition
of the Asbury Park Press, "Down
to a Science: Students Learn about Shore's Environmental Future"
by Kirk Moore, provides details of a seminar on coastal environmental
issues Mike Kennish gave to environmental science students at
Toms River High School North. It's a wonderful article which links
the mission of IMCS marine education to our coastal high school
students. This article is about outreach "education and science"
and creates a unique window into how IMCS is delivering results
to our local communities. This article is important to the education
sector of IMCS, and will help draw the most talented high school
students to Rutgers. http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080124/NEWS02/801240630
- Lisa Calvo's PORTS project (Promoting Oyster Restoration through
Schools) was featured in an article "Seeds
of the future" by David Benson of the Press of Atlantic
City Cumberland County edition January 20, 2008. Armed with a
$60,000 grant, Lisa is on course with a hands on approach to teaching
elementary school children of Delaware Bay the importance of restoring
oysters to the Delaware Bay region.
- "Sea
life at its smallest" by Kirk Moore ran in The Asbury
Park Press and Tuckerton Beacon on January 17, 2008. This article
highlighted the wonderful opportunities open to freshmen and upperclassmen
to gain research experience as well as work with top researchers
in the field of marine science at the Rutgers University Marine
Field Station and Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research
Reserve in Tuckerton. Estuary in Winter is a freshman seminar
offered by Ken Able and Identification of Marine Invertebrates
is an intersession class jointly taught by Fred Grassle and Rose
Petrecca. http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200801170720/NEWS02/80117006
- Mike Gochfeld and Joanna Burger's research on mercury levels
in sushi was reported in an article by Marian Burros of the New
York Times, "High Mercury Levels Are Found in Tuna Sushi"
(front page Dining and Wining, January 23, 2008). http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/dining/23sushi.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
- Lily Young served on a grants panel for the Coastal Research
and Resource Center - NOAA, at the University of New Hampshire,
January 7-10, 2008.
- George McGhee has been chosen to be one of 18 invitees to the
University of Leiden, The Netherlands, for an all-expenses-paid
workshop on the concept of symmetry, 10-15 March 2008. This invitation
is a direct result of the publication of McGhee's latest book,
The Geometry of Evolution.
- An article in the January 4, 2008 edition of Atlantic City Press,"Oyster
Creek Generating Station Clears Last Major Hurdle in Bid for 20-Year
License Renewal," quotes Mike Kennish and IMCS Board
member Tim Dillingham, executive director of the American Littoral
Society.
- Alan Robock gave the following invited lectures:
- Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, January 8, 2008 (On
"Using Soil Moisture Observations to Study Climate Variations,
to Evaluate Climate Models, and as Ground Truth for Remote
Sensing")
- Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, January 9, 2008 (On
"Climatic Consequences of Nuclear Conflicts A Nuclear
Winter is Still a Threat")
- Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, January 9, 2008 (On
"Comparing Climatic Response to Low and High Latitude
Volcanic Eruptions")
Meetings Attended
- Kay Bidle traveled to the 56th Meeting of the British Phycological
Society held 3-5 January 2008 at the University of Bristok, UK.
Kay gave an invited talk in the 'Algae and Global Processes' Special
Session entitled “Molecular
mechanisms triggering phytoplankton mortality in the oceans”.
- Oscar Schofield gave an invited talk at the British Phycological
Society, Bristol England entitled, "Dawn in the phycological
millennium for oceanography" on January 4, 2008.
- Liz Sikes and Tiffany Mahan (RIOS 2006) attended the Fall AGU
meeting in San Francisco.
- Tiffany presented a poster on her senior honors thesis (Cal
State Sacramento) which was based on work she started as a
RIOS student: Mahan, T.S., E.L. Sikes, D. Deocampo, C. Samson,
W. Howard, Frontal movement of the subtropical convergence
south of Tasmania over the last 60,000 years, Eos Trans. AGU,
88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP13B-1286. 2007
- Liz also presented a poster entitled: Sikes E.L., P.M. Medeiros,
M. Makou, P. Augustinas, Late Glaciation to early Holocene
records of climatic and vegetation changes from Onepoto Crater,
Auckland New Zealand: a biomarker and isotopic approach, Eos
Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstrac PP43B-1262
2007
- Jim Ammerman attended the Census of Marine Life sponsored workshop
entitled "Biological Ocean Observing: Exploring components
of IOOS from the perspective of Census of Marine Life." This
workshop was held in Washington, DC, from Jan. 14-16.
- Alan Robock gave the following presentations:
- Geoengineering: Climate Model Simulations and Why it May
be a Bad Idea (invited presentation; 8th National Conference
on Science, Policy, and the Environment, Washington, DC, January
16-18, 2008)
- Smoke and mirrors: Is geoengineering a solution to global
warming? (with Luke Oman and Georgiy Stenchikov; 20th American
Meteorological Society Conference on Climate Variability and
Change, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 20-24, 2008)
New Grants
- Gorbunov, M. (PI) and P. Falkowski, (co-I), NASA, “The
application of lifetime analyses in the upper ocean to the interpretation
of satellite-based, solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence signals.”
01/20/08-12/20/10 ($662,173)
- Robock, A., New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Internal
Hatch Awards Program, "The Global Soil Moisture Data Bank
and Geoengineering." 1/08/2008 - 6/30/2008, ($5,000)
- Schofield, O. Univ. of California, San Diego, "Rutgers
Participation in cyber Infrastructure Implementing Organization
for the ORION Program." 07/01/07-02/29/08 ($62,400)
- Wilkin, J., B. Cahill, and collaborators, with Principal Investigator
M. Friedrichs (VIMS) from NASA Carbon Cycle Science Program: "U.S.
Eastern Continental Shelf Carbon Cycling (USECoS) Modeling, Data
Assimilation, and Analysis." 4/1/2008 - 3/31/2011 ($258,750)
- Wilkin, J., with Chief Scientist M. Roughan (UNSW) from Australia
Marine Research National Facility: "Study of Seamount Flow
Processes in the Tasman Sea and East Australian Current,"
Research cruise SS10-2008 (Oct-Nov 2008) aboard R/V Southern Surveyor.
Publications
- Able, K.W., P.J. Clarke, R.C. Chambers and D.A. Witting. 2007.
Transitions in the morphological features, habitat use, and diet
of young-of-the-year goosefish Lophius americanus. Fishery
Bulletin 105:457-469.
- Able, K.W., T.M. Grothues, S.M. Hagan, M.E. Kimball, D.M. Nemerson
and G.L. Taghon. 2008. Long-term response of fishes and other
fauna to restoration of former salt hay farms: multiple measures
of restoration success. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
18:65-97.
- Callaghan A.V., B. Wawrik, S.M. NiChadhain, L.Y. Young and G.J.
Zylstra. 2008. Anaerobic alkane-degrading strain AK-01 contains
two alkylsuccinate synthase genes. Biochem Biophys Res Comm
366(1) 142-148.
- Carlton, A.G., B.J. Turpin, K.E. Altieri, S. Seitzinger, A.
Reff, H. Lim, and B. Ervans. 2007. Atmospheric Oxalic Acid and
SOA Production from glyoxal: Results of aqueous photooxidation
experiments. Atmospheric Environment 41:7588-7602
- Chant, R.J., S.M. Glenn, E. Hunter, J. Kohut, R.F. Chen, R.W.
Houghton, J. Bosch, and O. Schofield. 2008. Bulge Formation of
a Buoyant River Outflow. Journal Geophysical Research
113, C01017, doi:10.1029/2007JC004100.
- Grothues, T.M. and K.W. Able. 2007. Scaling acoustic telemetry
of bluefish /Pomatomus saltatrix /in an estuarine observatory:
detection and habitat use patterns. Transactions of the American
Fisheries Society 136:1511-1510.
- Helman, Y., F Natale, R.M. Sherrell, M. LaVigne, V. Starovoytov,
M.Y. Gorbunov, P.G. Falkowski. 2008. Extracellular matrix production
and calcium carbonate precipitation by coral cells in vitro. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(1): 54-58.
- Kimball, M.E. and K.W. Able. 2007. Tidal utilization of nekton
in Delaware Bay restored and reference intertidal salt marsh creeks.
Estuaries and Coasts 30(6):1075-1087.
- Medeiros, P., B.R.T. Simoneit. 2008. Multi-biomarker characterization
of sedimentary organic carbon in small rivers draining the Northwestern
United States. Organic Geochemistry 39: 52-74.
- Morel, F.M.M., A.B. Kustka, Y. Shaked. 2008. The role of unchelated
Fe in the iron nutrition of phytoplankton. Limnology and Oceanography.
53(1): 400-404.
- Ng, C., K.W. Able and T.M. Grothues. 2007. Habitat use, site
fidelity and movement of adult striped bass in a southern New
Jersey estuary based on mobile acoustic telemetry. Transactions
of the American Fisheries Society 136:1344-1355.
- Nix-Stohr, S., R. Moshe, J. Dighton. 2008. Effects of propagule
density and survival strategies on establishment and growth: further
investigations in the Phylloplane fungal model system. Microbial
Ecology 55: 38-44. doi: 10.1007/s00248-007-9248-8.
- Rhine E.D., K.M. Onesios, M.E. Serfes, J.R. Reinfelder and L.Y.
Young. 2008. Arsenic mobilization and transformation from minerals
by strain WAO (in press).
- Robock, A., T. Adams, M. Moore, L. Oman, and G. Stenchikov,
2007: Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation effects of the
1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34,
L23710, doi:10.1029/2007GL031403.
- Sackett, D.K., K.W. Able and T.M. Grothues. 2007. Dynamics of
summer flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, seasonal migrations based
on ultrasonic telemetry. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Sciences
74:119-130.
- Sikes, E.L., S. N. Burgess, R. Grandpre, and T. P. Guilderson,
Assessing modern deep water ages in the New Zealand region using
deep water corals, Deep Sea Research I,55, 38-49, 2008
doi:10.1016/j.dsr.10.004.
- Vasslides, J.M. and K.W. Able. 2008. Importance of shoreface
sand ridges as habitat for fishes off the northeast coast of the
United States. Fishery Bulletin 106: 93-107.
Student News
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Dr. Jason Sylvan has arrived at the University
of Southern California to assume a postdoctoral position with
Dr. Katrina Edwards on the geomicrobiology of deep-sea drilling
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- Michele LaVigne is the recipient of one of eight scholarships
awarded by Canon U.S.A., as part of their 2007 Canon National
Parks Science Scholars Program. The scholarships are awarded to
U.S. doctoral students "to conduct innovative research on
scientific problems critical to national parks." Congratulations
Michele! To read more, click here
for press release by Canon.
- Alan Robock accompanied 22 Meteorology majors to the American
Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana,
January 20-24, 2008
Let's Welcome
- Kristine Madsen, a Ph.D. fellow at the University of Copenhagen,
Denmark, is working with the Coastal Ocean Modeling group from
January 14 to the end of June. (Room 210, ext. 245)
- Melanie Reding joins the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine
Research Reserve as their new Education Coordinator. Melanie possesses
a great deal of experience in environmental education, curriculum
development, nonprofit management and fund raising. She has worked
with a variety of environmental centers including the Marine Mammal
Stranding Center, Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge and the Audubon
Center of the North Woods. Melanie is a member of the Association
of New Jersey Environmental Educators, National Association of
Interpretation, and serves on the Education Advisory Committee
for the Pinelands Commission. Her responsibilities will include
development and delivery of public environmental programs, research
translation, and coastal training programs for the reserve. Melanie
will be stationed at the Cousteau Center in Tuckerton. We're very
pleased to have her aboard.
In Memorial
Stacy Lynn Hagan, a valued member of our IMCS
family in Tuckerton passed away on December 20, 2007 after
a long battle with breast cancer.
Stacy first came to Rutgers in 1992 following her graduation
from Stockton College to work at RUMFS, then in 1993 her pursuit
of Salmon Research led her to move to Oregon. Stacy returned
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in Ecology and Evolution, working towards her Masters Degree under the tutelage
of Ken Able, and a full time field technician at RUMFS. Stacy
received her graduate degree from Rutgers in 1999, and stayed
on at RUMFS to work on her research with her mentor, Ken Able.
Honoring Stacy's wishes, an annual internship at RUMFS for
Future Marine Scientists has been established. Donations can
be made to the Stockton College Foundation, "In Memory
of Stacy Moore Hagan" and mailed to Stockton College,
PO Box 195, Jim Leeds Road, Suite K-203, Pomona, NJ 08240.
Stacy is survived by her loving family, husband Roland Hagan,
Jr., son Rutger Roland, and daughter Ryland Delancy, parents
Edward and Doris Moore, sister Sheryl, brother-in-law Greg
and nephew Trevin DelGozzo. (see Obituary)
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