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February 25, 2002

Highlights

  • Dr. Joanna Burger has been selected to be the recipient of the Ninth Annual Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award. This prestigious award is given to a Rutgers faculty member for outstanding scholarly achievement and exceptional service to the University community.
  • During the latter half of January, Judith Weis led a "People to People" delegation of biologists to South Africa to meet with South African biologists and resource managers. They visited a number of coastal and marine sites, including the St. Lucia park and reserve on the east coast (which includes a no-take marine reserve), the Cape Peninsula National Park, and the West Coast National Park.
  • Karl Nordstom just received a grant from National Geographic Society for a project that looks at the use of beach nourishment for re-establishing environmental heritage on Elba Island, Italy, with co-investigators from the University of Florence.
  • The COOL lab was notified by the NSF instrument development section that they intend to fund the grant for the "Development of Nested, Autonomous Phytoplankton Monitoring Technology" which will outfit the Rutgers Autonomous Gliders with customized optical instruments to hunt for red-tides off the west coast of Florida.

Meetings Attended

  • IMCS presented nineteen senior-authored papers and participated in a total of thirty-three papers at the AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences meeting. Authors include fourteen faculty, five postdocs, ten staff and six students. In addition, three Visiting Professors (Sue Boehme, Brian Hentschel, and Clare Reimers) and four former students (Scott Durski, Kelly Rankin, Karen Stocks and Hank Statscewich) attended.
    List of IMCS authors:
    Kristie Andresen Dale Haidvogel Taeko Minegishi
    Hernan Arango Chip Haldeman Chhaya Mudgal
    Trish Bergmann Hilairy Hartnett Matt Oliver
    Bob Chant Heather Hunt Antonietta Quigg
    Mike Crowley Andrew Irwin Oscar Schofield
    Paul Falkowski Lee Kerkhof Sybil Seitzinger
    Zoe Finkel Michal Koblizek Renee Styles
    Steve Fries Josh Kohut Rich Styles
    Char Fuller Zbigniew Kolber Gary Taghon
    Scott Glenn Ron Lauck John Wilkin
    Fred Grassle Sage Lichtenwalner Phoebe Zhang
    Judy Grassle Monica Mazurek

    Congratulations to all.
  • Zbigniew Kolber's talk was on the "Aerobic and Anaerobic photosynthetic bacteria in the Black Sea."
  • Scott and Oscar would like to thank the students and staff who made a wonderful set of presentations at the AGU Ocean Sciences Meetings. The COOL and EEMB Labs had over 30 presentations and the display was impressive. Most of the abstracts can be viewed at http//marine.rutgers.edu/cool/coolresults/agu2002/agu_2002_abstracts.htm.
  • Hilairy Hartnett and Susan Boehme presented a paper entitled "Seasonal and Annual Denitrification Rates in Antarctic Continental Shelf Sediments" in the Bentho-Pelagic Coupling at High Latitudes session at the 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, HI.
  • Sybil Seitzinger presented a paper entitled "Chemical Characterization and Bioavailability of Dissolved Organic Matter using Atmospheric Pressure Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry" at the 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, HI. The paper was presented in a special session on Novel Techniques for Chemical Characterization in Marine Systems that was chaired by Hilairy Hartnett.
  • In early February, Judith Weis participated in a strategic planning workshop for the National Fish Health Lab in Leetown WV (now under USGS), and in mid-February was on an EPA panel for recommending graduate students for Star Fellowships.
  • Bonnie McCay will be one of the speakers at a two-day symposium, "Sustaining Seascapes," at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, March 7-8. For more information about the symposium, which has a strong emphasis on marine reserves, see http//research.amnh.org/biodiversity/symposia/seascapes/
  • Yonghua Chen and Jim Miller attended the NSF sponsored ARCSS (Arctic System Science) All-Hands Workshop, 20-23 February 2002 in Seattle, Washington.
  • Karl Nordstrom just taught a short course on coastal dunes at Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas da Terra e do Mar, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Brazil; presented a paper at the 24th Annual Brazilian Zoological Congress; and took advantage of the opportunity to partake of festivities at Carnaval.

Publications

  • Bosley, K.L., D.A. Witting, R.C. Chambers and S.C. Wainright. (In press) Estimating turnover rates of carbon and nitrogen in recently metamorphosed Winter Flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus, with stable isotopes. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. (IMCS Contribution # 2002-1).