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April 16, 2001
Highlights
- Peter Rona and Zengqian Hou of the Chinese Academy of Geological
Sciences, co-edited a special double issue of the "Journal
of Exploration and Mining Geology" just published on the
subject of "Ancient and Modern Seafloor Volcanogenic Massive
Sulfide Deposits". The issue accesses for the first time
the extensive Chinese work on this subject and facilitates communication
between the eastern and western scientific communities working
on seafloor hydrothermal mineralization processes.
- Congratulations to Oscar Schofield, Lee Kerkhof, and Ximing
Guo for their promotions to Associate Professor with tenure.
- Further congratulations to Ximing Guo, who has been awarded
a Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence.
These fellowships recognize the most distinguished young faculty
members at Rutgers.
- IMCS Events: Reminder - Ag Field Day is next Saturday, April
28. The lobby will be open from 10am to 2pm. Please arrange to
have your displays set up by the afternoon of Friday, April 27
at the latest. See Gary Taghon for more information.
Meetings Attended
- Joanna Burger presented a paper "Radiocesium and metals
in fish from the Savannah River: potential food chain exposure
to animals and the public" and Michael Gochfeld presented
on "Status of epidemiologic knowledge regarding methylmercury
and the developing nervous system" at the Symposium on Methylmercury:
Impacts on Wildlife and Human Health, Charleston, South Carolina,
April 9-10, 2001.
- Susan Ford represented the US at the ICES (International Council
for the Exploration of the Sea) Working Group On Parasites and
Diseases of Marine Organisms annual meeting, held in Santiago
de Compostela, Spain in mid March. This group collects, synthesizes,
and disseminates information on the status and trends in diseases
of commercial marine species in Europe and North America.
IMCS in the News
- Rutgers President Francis L. Lawrence and Princeton University
President Harold T. Shapiro presented U.S. Reps. Rodney P. Frelinghuysen
(R-NJ-11th) and Rush Holt (D-NJ-12th) with the Science Coalition's
Champion of Science awards during ceremonies at Rutgers' Institute
of Marine and Coastal Sciences (IMCS) in New Brunswick on Monday,
April 16. The congressmen were recognized for their work in the
legislative process in support of the federal agencies that fund
scientific research at universities. Princeton and Rutgers are
among more than 400 member organizations in the Science Coalition
working to expand and strengthen the federal government's investment
in university-based scientific, medical, engineering and agricultural
research. See http://sciencecoalition.org/ for more information.
- Rutgers researcher, Dr. Rich Lutz, helps uncover chemistry behind
the weird world of creatures that thrive near deep sea hydrothermal
vents. From April 17, 2001 Rutgers Media Relations. See http://uc.rutgers.edu/medrel/viewArticle.phtml?ArticleID=1281
for full story.
- Rutgers professor, Dr. Paul Falkowski co-authored a paper, published
in Science, which reveals how El Niño and La Niña
impact ocean plant life. From April 3, 2001, Rutgers Media Relations.
See full story at http://ur.rutgers.edu/medrel/viewArticle.phtml?ArticleID=1230
- Also, Dr. Norbert Psuty was featured as an expert on shore erosion
in the Asbury Park Press from April 8, 2001 entitled "Reactions
Mixed to Shore Plan." Check out the full story at http://www.app.com/news/app/story/0,2110,378185,00.html
Let's Welcome
- Trevor Bailey is a new postdoc working on the biocomplexity
project in Yair Rosenthal and Rob Sherrell's labs. He recently
finished his Ph.D. at Royal Holloway University of London, where
he worked on measuring strontium isotopes by laser ablation multi-collector
ICP-MS, and the correlation and dating of carbonate sequences.
Trevor will be constructing records of Mesozoic seawater chemistry
by measuring geochemical proxies in rocks and fossils using ICP-MS.
His office is in room 114A (ext 372), please feel free to drop
by if you would like to know more about his work.
- Please welcome Dr. Genevieve Dardier who has just joined the
Ocean Modeling Group. Genevieve, whose background is in Physics
and Computer Sciences, will be working with Dale Haidvogel and
Scott Glenn on numerical modeling related to the ONR Coupled Boundary
Layer Air-Sea Transfer (CBLAST) project. Genevieve's office will
be in Room 211C (until July), ext 251.
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