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February 27,
2004
Highlights
- Peter Rona with Rich Lutz and Stephen Low introduced the IMAX
film, "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea," at its opening at
the New England Aquarium in Boston on February 10th, and contributed
to a teachers workshop in conjunction with the opening.
- Peter Rona was appointed to the Advisory Committee for the InterRidge
workshop, "Tectonic and Oceanic Processes Along the Indian
Ridge Systems," to be held at the National Institute of Oceanography
in Goa, India 19-21 January 2005.
- Oscar Schofield was elected to serve on the executive board
for the new ORION program office formed by the National Science
Foundation to oversee the agency's efforts to build a national
backbone of ocean observatories for the United States.
- Hugh Roarty just traveled to Venice, Florida for the long awaited
Codar install. Brad Pederson from Mote Marine Lab assisted in
the install. Matt Oliver participated in Antenna Pattern Measurements
of the two Standard systems. This was accomplished in anticipation
of moving the two systems to Sandy Hook and Breezy Point in support
of LATTE.
- Alan Robock was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article
on February 5, 2004 by Mark Clayton entitled "A Parking Lot
Effect?" He commented that while land cover changes are an
important cause of regional climate change, CO2 is the dominant
factor by which humans influence global climate change.
- Alan Robock was quoted in an article in Science, January 16,
2004, "An Early Start for Greenhouse Warming?" by Richard
Kerr.
- In late January, Judith Weis was on a site review team for the
EPA-funded Alabama Center for Estuarine Studies. In late February,
she was on the Aquatic Ecology panel in Washington, DC for the
EPA Star Graduate Fellowships.
- Peter Rona had the privilege of standing in for Sylvia Earle
to present the Wings Trust Women of Discovery award to Marie Tharp
for creating with Bruce Heezen the physiographic maps of the world
seafloor and for first recognizing and delineating the globe-encircling
rift valley at a ceremony on March 3rd.
Meetings Attended
- Iglesias-Rodriguez, M. D., Schofield, O., Batley, J., Medlin,
L. K., Hayes, P. K. (2004). Extensive intraspecific genetic diversity
in the marine coccolithophorrid Emiliana huxleyi: The use of microsatellite
analysis in marine phytoplankton populations. American Geophysical
Union, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland OR.
- John Wilkin presented two invited talks at the American Geophysical
Union Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland, Oregon, entitled "Modeling
the Summertime Heat Budget of Southeast New England Shelf Waters"
and "Modeling the U.S. East Coast shelf."
- IMCS was very well represented at the ASLO/TOS Ocean Research
Conference in Honolulu, February 15-20:
- Sybil Seitzinger and Georgina Spyres gave presentations
on their recent work on dynamics of dissolved organic matter.
The title of Georgina Spyres' presentation was: "BIOAVAILABLE
DOM IN RAINWATER: LINKING COMPOUND-LEVEL INFORMATION TO ECOSYSTEM
EFFECTS."
- Hongguang Ma gave a talk (Judy Grassle, co-author) entitled
"Cross-shelf circulation and temporal and spatial patchiness
in larval bivalve supply and settlement on the inner continental
shelf of the Mid-Atlantic Bight."
- Scott Glenn and Oscar Schofield gave five invited talks.
Oscar Schofield gave a plenary lecture titled "Ocean
research in the new millennium: The view from the expanding
community of operational ocean observatories, and talks on
"Mapping Red Tide Using Autonomous Underwater Webb Gliders,"
and "The Utility of Cabled Systems for In Situ and Remotely
Sensed Hyperspectral Optics." Scott Glenn presented "Observing
the Ocean from the COOLroom: Results from a Decade of Collaborative
Partnerships," and "Recent Results from the HF Radar
Network of the New Jersey Shelf Observing System (NJSOS) and
the Regional North East Observing System (NEOS)."
- Mike DeLuca, Janice Mc Donnell, and Eric Simms presented
two papers on Bringing real-time ocean data into the classroom
through coastal observatories and the NSF Centers for Ocean
Science Education Excellence (COSEE).
- Katja Fennel, John Wilkin, P. Goodman, and Dale Haidvogel
presented "Nitrogen and carbon budgets for the NE U.S.
continental shelves--a coupled physical-biological modeling
study."
- Shannon Newby's paper was on "Tubulence, predators,
and the transport of juvenile Atlantic surf clams, Spisula
solidissima."
- Phoebe Zhang's talk (Karen Stocks and Fred Grassle, co-authors)
on "The ocean biogeographic information as a resource
for ocean research and management" was presented by Karen
Stocks.
- Dale Haidvogel delivered an invited talk ("Lake Vostok:
A Terrestrail Analog for Planetery Exploration") at the annual
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(14 February 2004). The symposium explored the current body of
knowledge of, and the plans for exploring, oceans in our solar
system on (e.g.) Europa and Titan. Rita Colwell, Director of NSF,
was another speaker in the symposium.
- Judith Weis gave an invited talk at a conference on Environmental
Impacts of Preservative-Treated Wood (in Orlando, Florida). The
following weekend she went out to Seattle for the AAAS meeting
and the associated board meeting for AWIS (Association for Women
in Science) where she is a board member.
- Alan Robock gave an invited talk at the Climate Change Institute
at the University of Maine on February 5, 2004, entitled "Volcanic
Eruptions and Climate: Winter Warming and Summer Cooling."
- Alan Robock made an invited presentation entitled "The
Global Soil Moisture Data Bank" at the Observational Data
in Support of Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative
(NEESPI) Regional GOFC-GOLD Workshop, February 23-26, 2004, in
St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Yuri Mun and Christopher G. Uchrin, "Ground Water Flow
Modeling in a Layered Sedimentary Fractured Media Aquifer System
using MODFLOW with the PMF Package," Poster No: H42B-1069,
AGU 2003 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, 8-12 December,
2003.
- On February 11, Lisa Totten was invited to address the Implementation
Advisory Committee for the Delaware River PCB TMDL on "Trackdown
of atmospheric PCB sources in the Camden/Philadelphia area."
- Jim Ammerman (along with 5 co-authors from 3 institutions) presented
a talk at the recent AGU meeting in Portland, Oregon, entitled,
"Seasonal Phosphorus Limitation on the Louisiana Shelf: A
Result of Anthropogenic Nitrogen Loading From the Mississippi
River?"
New Grants
- Scott Glenn and Oscar Schofield were awarded a National Ocean
Partnership Program (NOPP) grant, 2004 to 2005, "An Integrated
Wireless Coastal Communications Network." This work will
be conducted in collaboration with David Porter at Applied Physics
Lab at John Hopkins University.
- Georgiy Stenchikov (PI) and Alan Robock (co-PI) have received
a grant from NSF and NASA for the project "Stratospheric
Aerosol Data Assimilation for Climate Studies," March 1,
2004 - February 28, 2007, $524,000.
- Alan Robock received a grant from the New Jersey Department
of Environmental Protection for continuation of a project, "Regional
Climate Change and Impact on New Jersey Water Resources,”
December 1, 2003 - November 30, 2004, $50,000.
- Jim Ammerman and Judy Grassle received $79,805 from the National
Science Foundation for the first year of the Research for Undergraduates
(REU) Site: Continental Shelf Research for Undergraduates. This
is the new IMCS summer internship program and runs from 01/04
to 12/06. John Quinlan is also helping to run the program, as
did Steve Fries before he left IMCS.
Publications
- Bushek, David and Coen, Loren D. 2004. Oysters, Clams, and other
Bivalves. In: Grolier's Encyclopedia "The New Book of Knowledge,"
Vol. O. Danbury, CT: Scholastic Library Publishing, Inc. pp 290-291.
- Schofield, O., von Alt, C. (2003). Making progress on Harmful
algal blooms: Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico. In ALPs: Autonomous
and Lagragian Platforms and Sensors, Rudnick, D. L. and Perry,
M. J. (eds), Workshop Report. 33-36.
- Jahnke, R., Bane, J., Barnard, A., Barth, J., Chavez, F., Dam,
H., Dever, E., DiGiacomo, P., Edson, J., Geyer, R., Glenn, S.
M., Johnson, K., Moline, M., ODonnell, J., Oltman-Shay, J., Persson,
O., Schofield, O., Sosik, H., Terrill E. (2003). Coastal Observatory
Research Arrays: A Framework for Implementation Planning. Coastal
Ocean Report Number 9.
- Schaake, John C., Qingyun Duan, Victor Koren, Kenneth E. Mitchell,
Paul R. Houser, Eric F. Wood, Alan Robock, Dennis P. Lettenmaier,
Dag Lohmann, Brian Cosgrove, Justin Sheffield, Lifeng Luo, R.
Wayne Higgins, Rachel T. Pinker, and J. Dan Tarpley, 2004: An
inter-comparison of soil moisture fields in the North American
Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS). J. Geophys. Res., 109,
D01S90, doi:10.1029/2002JD003309.
- Stenchikov, Georgiy, Kevin Hamilton, Alan Robock, V. Ramaswamy,
and M. Daniel Schwarzkopf, 2004: Arctic Oscillation response to
the 1991 Pinatubo eruption in the SKYHI GCM with a realistic Quasi-Biennial
Oscillation. J. Geophys. Res., 109, D03112, doi:10.1029/2003JD003699.
- Totten, L. A., Gigliotti, C. L., VanRy, D. A., Offenberg, J.
H., Nelson, E. D., Dachs, J., Reinfelder, J. R., Eisenreich, S.
J. Atmospheric Concentrations and Deposition of PCBs to the Hudson
River Estuary. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2004, In press.
- Mun, Y., and C.G. Uchrin. “A MODFLOW Preprocessor for
Fractured Media,” accepted for publication by J. Amer. Wat.
Resources Assoc.
- Vyas, V.M., G.P. Carter, S.N. Tong, C.G. Uchrin, and P.G. Georgopoulos.
“Application of a Bayesian Maximum Entropy Method for the
Estimation of Horizontal Hydraulic Conductivity in the Kirkwood
Cohansey Aquifer of New Jersey," accepted by J. Amer. Wat.
Resources Assoc.
- Uchrin, C.G., J.G. Hunter, S.S. Park, and T.M. Vadas. “In-situ
Measurement of Macrophyte Photosynthesis and Respiration in Shallow
Lakes," accepted by J. Environ. Engrg., ASCE.
Student News
- Yan Zhuang defended her doctoral dissertation "Atmospheric
Deposition and Impacts of Mercury and Other Trace Metals in New
Jersey" with the committee of John Reinfelder (advisor),
Lisa Totten, Chris Uchrin, and Joan Willey (UNC-Wilmington).
Congratulations!
Milo MacLaren Jenkins-Law was on born Feb. 3, 2004 weighing 9 pounds
4 ounces. Congratulations Rebecca and Grant Law!
The Codar group has gained a new member. Evan William Kohut was
born on February 17, 2004 weighing 8 lbs, and his length being 21.5
inches. Congratulations Courtney and Josh Kohut!
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