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February 5, 2001

Highlights

  • Scott Glenn, Oscar Schofield and Fred Grassle received a Fiscal Year 2001 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) award from the Office of Naval Research for their proposal "Integration of an Autonomous Glider Fleet into a Shelf-wide Coastal Ocean Observatory". With our industry partner, Webb Research Corporation, the award will be used to construct an initial fleet of three Slocum Coastal Electric Gliders. The Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) will fly beneath the new long-range CODAR systems currently being deployed along the New Jersey coast. Janice McDonnell is planning a "name the robot Gliders" competition with the New Jersey elementary schools.
  • A photo of the autonomous Deep-Water Sampler designed and built by four Rutgers undergraduates for their Industrial Engineering Senior Design Project can be viewed at http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/ieddesign.htm. Scott Glenn served as a faculty mentor to the group.
  • Three IMCS graduate students are featured on this month's covers of the journal Hydro International. On the front cover, Kristie Andresen and Hank Statscewich are shown planning a shipboard survey in the COOLroom during last summer's field season. Josh Kohut's now famous long-range CODAR radial map appears on the back cover.
  • This world's first bistatic HF Radar system was successfully demonstrated this month at Monteray Bay. The system was tested by broadcasting a radio signal from one side of Monteray Bay and receiving the scattered signal on the other side. Initial results were presented at AMS by Scott Glenn and Josh Kohut. The first boat to shore broadcast is scheduled for February from the Arabella to the Brandt Beach CODAR site. Don't miss this historic moment.
  • On January 25th IMCS scientists, Dr. Scott Glenn, Michael Crowley, and Sage Lichtenwalner, IMCS educators, Janice McDonnell, and Eric Simms, Associate Director Michael De Luca, representatives from Turnstone Publishing Inc. and K-12 educators from NY and NJ schools met to discuss future development of a Internet based Kids COOLroom and hands-on curriculum. This project is funded by the National Ocean Partnership Program with the objective of developing educational materials that bring current science at the Institute's Long-term Ecosystem Observatory and Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory to K-12 classrooms across the NY-NJ region.
  • Congratulations to Paul Falkowski on the occasion of his election as Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
  • In an editorial in The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, three of Ann Cali's papers on microsporidian parasites will be recognized as the Journal's 1st, 2nd, and 14th most highly cited publications between 1990-1999.

Meetings Attended

  • Oscar Schofield was a representative for the coastal ocean observatories to the Ocean Hemisphere Project and International Observatory Network meeting at Mt. Fuji, Japan.
  • Nine talks on the results of the July 2000 Coastal Predictive Skill Experiment at Tuckerton were presented at the American Meteorological Society meeting in Albuquerque, NM. Rutgers' talks in the NOPP special session included presentations on the new shelf-wide observatory, the validation of CODAR, the physical analysis of the flow structure, the bio-optical responses, atmospheric forecasting, data assimilation and ocean model evaluation metrics. Dr. Stan Wilson, session chair and vice-chair of the NOPP Interagency Working Group, commented that the Rutgers NOPP sets a standard that no other NOPPs have met.

2001 Shore Bowl
IMCS hosted the 2001 Shore Bowl academic competition at the Busch Campus Center on Saturday, February 3, 2001. The Shore Bowl is a regional academic competition for high school students, which focuses on ocean-related topics. These topics include the biology, chemistry, physics and geology of the oceans, as well as navigation, geography, and related history and literature. The Shore Bowl is one of 20 regional competitions hosted around the nation whose winners earn the right to compete in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl, sponsored by the Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE). This year, 14 teams from 12 schools in NJ, NY and PA competed for the title of Shore Bowl champion. With the help of over 40 volunteers from IMCS (& their families), Jenkinson's Aquarium, Stevens Institute of Technology, Haskins Shellfish Research Lab, RUMFS, several Rutgers students, and local teachers, students tested their ocean sciences knowledge in a series of exciting timed matches. The 2000 Shore Bowl champions from the Marine Academy of Science and Technology (MAST) at Sandy Hook once again claimed victory following a last second comeback against Germantown Academy from Ft. Washington, PA. The MAST team will go on to compete in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl in Miami, FL in April, and will spend several additional days exploring the Florida Keys. The Germantown team will spend several days visiting RUMFS and the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve in Tuckerton, NJ.

2001 Shore Bowl sponsors included: Viking Yachts, AmerGen (formerly GPU Energy), The Cousteau Society, ExxonMobil, The Jersey Paddler, New Jersey State Aquarium, Rutgers University Dining Services, Jenkinson's Aquarium, Borders Books & Music, Coca-Cola, Barnes & Noble, Six Flags Great Adventure, and the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve.