April 30, 2001

Highlights

• Scott Glenn, Oscar Schofield, and Frederick Grassle were awarded an undersea Webb Glider as part of Rutgers SROA program. This provides the COOL lab with a small fleet capable of flying shelf-wide scales. The Gliders are currently outfitted with CTDs, spectral backscatter sensors, and fluorometers.
• Ag Field Day was April 28. Various activities took place at IMCS, including a successful demonstration on estuarine circulation from Bob Chant and Chip Haldeman. A special merit award goes to Bob for his display, and thanks to Chip for building the tank. We would also like to thank our other volunteers: Shannon Newby, Tomoko Komada, Fred and Judy Grassle, Costa Vetriani, Kate and Rob Cermak, Hongguang Ma, and Fadli Syamsudin.
• IMCS will have a booth at the New Jersey Governor's Conference on Tourism May 6-8 in Atlantic City.

Meetings Attended

• Antonietta Quigg, Yoram Gerchman, Michal Koblizek, Gennaddy Ananyev, Maxim Gorbunov and Paul Falkowski recently attended the Eighteenth Annual Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference held at the Swope Centre, MBL, Woods Hole, Massachusetts (April 20-22). Below are the details for some of the posters and talks presented:
  
  • Paul was an invited speaker and presented a talk entitled "The evolution of global biogeochemical cycles: Coupling the redox chemistries of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen."
  • Antonietta's presentation was "An Investigation of the Photosynthetic O2 - Evolving Reactions in Two Marine Microalgae as a Function of the Photon Flux During Growth." Co-authors included Wydrzynski (Department of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia) and Beardall (Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia).
  • Posters were presented by Gennaddy Ananyev & Maxim Gorbunov all with various co-authors.

IMCS in the News

• Dr. Rich Lutz and IMCS/Rutgers were featured in an April 26, 2001 article published on www.GiantScreenBIZ.com called "US $2million NSF grant for new LF Film, "Volcanoes of the Abyss"-- National Science Foundation confirms its leadership as the major funding institution for science-based large format films..."
• Dr. John Dighton was featured on April 25, 2001 in the Philadelphia Inquirer in an article called "Rutgers field station helping to monitor global biodiversity."