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May 31, 2002
Meetings Attended
- Peter Rona lectured on the subject of illuminating the deep
ocean with sound, light and IMAX to the Old Guards, a group of
some 150 retired faculty, administrators and executives at Princeton
University on April 3rd.
- Colomban de Vargas joined the ASCMAP analysis of single cell
in the marine phytoplancton- meeting (15-22 April, Bremerhaven,
http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/Phyto/PICODIV/Workshop_2002/Bremerhaven_april_2002.html),
where he presented a paper entitled "Drawing a pelagic 'biogeography'
based on single cell DNA-analysis." This workshop brought
experts in the fields of flow cytometry, artificial neural network,
and molecular probes, three essential tools required to document
the spatio-temporal distribution of pelagic diversity.
- Peter Rona and Research Associate Karen Bemis participated in
the NSF RIDGE Program Implementation Plan Workshop held 7-9 April
in Albuquerque to plan a new program that begins in 2003 of collaborative
multi-disciplinary, integrated studies of selected ocean ridge
sites (Endeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge; East Pacific
Rise near 9 degrees North, and Lau Basin).
- Ximing Guo attended the 94th Annual Meeting of the National
Shellfisheries Association, April 14-18, 2002, Mystic, CT, where
he chaired the shellfish Genetics and Molecular Biology session.
He and members of his team, Ziniu Yu, BJ Landau, Li Li and Arnaud
Tanguy, presented five technical papers at the meeting.
- Ximing Guo attended the World Aquaculture 2002 Conference, April
23-27, 2002, Beijing, as chair of the Aquaculture Genomics session.
He gave a talk on "Physical and linkage mapping in Crassostrea
oysters."
- Peter Rona briefed the assembled delegations of some 134 countries
on the subject of seafloor hydrothermal mineral deposits at the
States Parties to the United Nations Convention to the Law of
the Sea annual meeting at UN headquarters on April 25th.
- Peter Rona served on the Organizing Committee of the international
conference, "Minerals of the Ocean," held 29-25 April
in St. Petersburg.
- Peter Rona and Karen Bemis participated in the NSF RIDGE Program
Integrated Site Study Implementation Plan Workshop 7-8 April in
Albuquerque.
New Grants
- Liz Sikes has been awarded a 2-year grant by the Marine Geology
and Geophysics program of NSF. The goal of the project is to determine
subsurface reservoir ages of waters around New Zealand by dating
planktonic and benthic foraminifers associated with tephras in
marine cores. The project will run for 2 years.
- Peter Rona and Karen Bemis, Supplement to Acoustic Imaging of
Seafloor Hydrothermal Flow Regimes, NSF, May 2002, $23K.
C. Jones, D. Jackson, P. Rona, and K. Bemis, Collaborative Research:
A general purpose tool for acoustic remote sensing and mapping
of hydrothermal flow, NSF, May 2002, $565,000 (Rutgers $50K).
- Lloyd Keigwin (WHOI) and Yair Rosenthal have been awarded 3
years $600,000 of funding from NSF's MG&G Program. The project
entitled "Holocene changes in the Gulf Stream and western
Sargasso Sea" includes 20 days cruise to the North Carolina
Cape Hatteras region.
- Yair Rosenthal, Delia Oppo (WHOI) and Brad Linsley (SUNYA) have
been awarded 2 years $860,000 of funding from NSF's OCE division.
The project entitled "Reconstructing Holocene climate variability
and the Indonesian throughflow in the western equatorial Pacific"
is a joint project with the Indonesian office of research and
technology (BPPT) and includes 32 days cruise on board an Indonesian
research ship.
Publications
- Peter A. Rona, 2002, Marine minerals for the 21st century, Episodes,
Journal of the International Union of Geological Sciences, 25(1),
2-12.
Student News
- Ms. Katie Androwski who graduated this year, received the Outstanding
Senior Award in Marine Sciences for her work "Foraminiferal
fluxes and geochemical signatures from the JGOFS southern Pacific
sediment trap transect" under the supervision of Yair Rosenthal.
- Kyle Kingman, a geology major-marine science minor was named
a Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellow to do his senior honors
thesis with Peter Rona next semester on the subject of gas hydrates
and slope stability on the New Jersey continental margin.
- Stacey Hoeltje, who graduated in 1999, and subsequently worked
at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, has
been accepted into the graduate program in ecology at Penn State.
She expects to conduct research in the Center for Watershed Stewardship.
- Patrick McGrath and Jessica Weiss, who graduated in 2001, have
been accepted to graduate school at the Virginia Institute of
Marine Science (VIMS) and Duke University, respectively.
- Two graduate students studying under Judith Weis completed PhDs
this semester. Jennifer Samson, who was in the Biology graduate
program in Newark studied sublethal and lethal effects of the
toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium on larval fishes. She will be
starting a post-doc at the Sandy Hook laboratory. Maryanne Carletta,
who was in the Environmental Sciences graduate program, studied
the development of abnormal thyroid glands in mummichogs from
the highly polluted Piles Creek, and the interactions of the thyroid
abnormalities and behavioral abnormalities previously noted in
this population.
Highlights
- Judith Weis left on the evening of the 28th of May for a very
remote island off of the southeast peninsula of Sulawesi (Indonesia)
to investigate behavior of intertidal fiddler crabs and reef fishes
that live among mangrove roots. This is part of Operation Wallacea,
run out of the UK - somewhat like Earthwatch, but they have certain
sites at which the research is done. Hoga Island, where the marine
station is, is inside the Wakatobi Marine Reserve. She will be
there 4 weeks, but the coming and going (3 planes and 2 boats)
will add another week to the trip!
- Congratulations to Stacy and Roland Hagan (Tuckerton) on the
birth of their new baby girl on Wed April 24, 2002, 9:45 am. Her
name is Ryland Delaney Hagan 8 lb. 6 oz., she joins her big brother
Rutger.
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