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May
31, 2006
Highlights
| At the 13th Annual Cook College/NJAES Awards
Dinner (April 27, 2006), members of The Rutgers University's
Coastal Ocean Observation Lab (RU COOL) - Scott Glenn, Robert
Chant, Joshua Kohut, Janice McDonnell, and Oscar Schofield
(not pictured here), were recognized as the recipients of
the 2006 Cook/NJAES Team Award |
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- Janice McDonnell, Director of the Education & Outreach team
at IMCS, was nominated as the Chair-Elect of the Centers for Ocean
Sciences Education Excellence or COSEE council. The council is
charged by NSF to develop strategies and products that (1) promote
ocean science literacy for K-12 students and the general public,
and 2) forge new and effective partnerships between scientists
and educators to improve ocean science learning. See www.cosee.net
or www.macosee.net to
learn more about the NSF funded COSEE program.
| Researchers at IMCS were featured
in two articles by Kitta MacPherson of the Star Ledger.
To read the article "Technology opens wider 'window
on the ocean' " click on the link: StarLedger52906.pdf |
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| To read "A 'plume' with a
view of an oceanic experiment" which appeared in the
May 30, 2006 edition of the Star Ledger, please click on
the following link: StarLedger53006.pdf
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- Jennifer Bosch, a member of the RU COOL lab, was recently interviewed
by Kathy Orr, chief meteorologist at CBS-3, at the Ocean City
boardwalk. Kathy will be using satellite sea surface temperature
images produced by Jen in her summer beach and shore reports to
give beach goers a better idea of ocean conditions. To see more,
click on the link http://cbs3.com/orratshore
- Congratulations to Janice McDonnell who has been selected to
receive the prestigious 2006 James Centorino Award from the National
Marine Educators Association! This very prestigious annual award
recognizes distinguished performance in marine education for a
non-classroom educator.
- On Sunday, May 12th, Joanna Burger was the graduation speaker
at the University of Alaska--Fairbanks where she received an honorary
doctorate.
- Michael Gochfeld received the Health Achievement Award from
the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Meetings Attended
- Jim Ammerman attended the ORION planning meeting in Washington,
DC, from May 1-3. He is a member of the sensor sub-committee and
the meeting was to continue planning the ORION Observatory incorporating
input from the recent community workshop in Salt Lake City.
- Peter Rona presented "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea" to
Jorge Sarmiento's "Introduction to Oceanography" class
TAd by Rutgers graduate and new Princeton Ph.D. Greg O'Mullan
at Princeton on May 3rd.
- HSRL was well represented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the
National Shellfisheries Association in Monterey California, March
26 -30th. Dave Bushek continues to serve as President-Elect. John
Kraeuter and Susan Ford served on the publications committee.
Collectively, HSRL presented 7 talks and 9 posters:
- Oral presentations:
- Oyster Sex Wars: Evidence for a ‘gamete sink’
if Crassostrea virginica and Crassostrea
ariakensis spawn synchronously. BUSHEK, KORNBLUH,
DeBROSSE, WANG, GUO
- Genome mapping in the eastern oyster (Crassostrea
virginica Gmelin). GUO, WANG, YU, L. WANG, LEE
- Understanding Crassostrea gigas population
variability using a genetics-based model. POWELL, KLINCK,
HEDGECOCK, HOFMANN
- Influence of climatic cycles on the infection of eastern
oysters by Perkinsus marinus. SONIAT, KLINCK,
POWELL, HOFMANN
- Oysters and oyster farming in China: A Review. GUO,
ZHANG, QIAN, H. WANG, LIU, A. WANG
- Distribution of Crassostrea ariakensis in
China. H. WANG, QIAN, ZHANG, LIU, A. WANG, SHI, JIAO,
GUO
- Development and characterization of ESTSSR markers
in the Eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica.
WANG, GUO
- Posters:
- Additional evidence of high resistance to Haplosporidium
nelsoni (MSX) in the native oyster population of
Delaware Bay. FORD, BUSHEK
- Can hard clam larval survival explain recruitment failure
in Great South Bay: A modeling study. HOFMANN, POWELL,
KLINCK, KRAEUTER, MARZEC, BRICELJ
- Relationships among parasites and pathologies in sentinel
bivalves: NOAA status and trends ‘Mussel Watch’
program. Y. KIM, POWELL
- Mining EST database for single-nucleotide polymorphisms
in the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica).
LEE, GUO
- Condition index of surf clams (Spisula solidissima)
in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. MARZEC, KIM, POWELL
- A histological investigation of oyster parasites and
pathology in China. E. SCARPA, FORD, GUO, CALVO, BUSHEK
- An investigation of ciliate xenomas in Crassostrea
virginica. E. SCARPA, FORD, SMITH, BUSHEK
- Identification of Crassostrea species from China using
SNP-based markers. H. WANG, GUO
- Loss of allele diversity in an introduced population
of the hermaphroditic bay scallop Argopecten irradians.
L.WANG, ZHANG, SONG, GUO
- Identification of Crassostrea ariakensis using
ITS length polymorphism. Y. WANG, GUO
- Peter Rona gave an invited popular talk to the Washington Crossing
Audubon Society on May 15th on new discoveries in the deep ocean
and links to the search for life in the solar system.
- Lily Young and colleagues gave the following presentations at
the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology in
Orlando, FL:
- RHINE ED, KM ONESIOS & LY YOUNG. 2006. Characterization
of arsenic mobilizing and utilizing microorganisms from New
Jersey shale. Presentation and abstract for the Annual Meeting
American Society of Microbiology, Orlando, FL, May, 2006.
- GARCIA-DOMINGUEZ E, R XIE, B BUCKLEY, T CHASE AND LY YOUNG.
2006. Arsenic methylation by Desulfovibrio vulgaris.
Presentation and abstract for the Annual Meeting American
Society of Microbiology, Orlando, FL, May, 2006.
- TIERNEY ML, K HESS, L MCGUINNESS, L KERKHOF, LY YOUNG. 2006.
Resolution of denitrifying bacteria associated with naphthalene
degradation using stable isotope probing. Presentation and
abstract for the Annual Meeting American Society of Microbiology,
Orlando, FL, May, 2006.
- GALLAGHER EM, S MARKE, LJ KERKHOF, LY YOUNG. 2006. Identifying
metabolites of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) degradation under
anaerobic conditions. Presentation and abstract for the Annual
Meeting American Society of Microbiology, Orlando, FL, May,
2006.
- CRUZ-TORRES A, G ZANAROLI, LY YOUNG, F. FAVA, JR PEREZ-JIMENEZ.
2006. Molecular characterization of sulfidogenic communities
in PCB-dechlorinating microcosms from the Venice Lagoon (Italy).
Presentation and abstract for the Annual Meeting American
Society of Microbiology, Orlando, FL, May, 2006.
- PEREZ-JIMENEZ J, D. RIVERA-NIEVES, LY YOUNG. 2006. Arsenate
respiratory reductase gene (arrA) for Bacillus macyae
and Sulfurospirillum arsenophilum: a way of reducing
arsenate. Presentation and abstract for the Annual Meeting
American Society of Microbiology, Orlando, FL, May, 2006.
- Peter Rona presented an invited paper, "Imaging and quantifying
seafloor hydrothermal flow using sound and light," coauthored
by Karen Bemis and others from the Applied Physics Lab-UW and
JAMSTEC on May 23rd at the AGU Joint Assembly meeting in Baltimore.
- Ximing Guo, Yongping Wang, Jeong-Ho Lee and Yaohua Shi attended
a workshop on oyster SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) development
held on May 25, 2006 at College of Marine Studies, University
of Delaware. Yongping and Jeong-Ho presented their work on the
development of SNPs and microsatellite markers from oyster genes.
New Grants
- Janice McDonnell was awarded a grant of $54,144 from the National
Estuarine Research Reserve System for her project "Assessing
Capacity and Needs for Integrating IOOS into K-12 Classrooms."
(9/1/05-8/31/06)
- Oscar Schofield was awarded $159,800 from the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration for his project, "Bioinformatic
Mapping of Biogeochemical Provinces." (5/1/06-4/30/09)
Publications
- Bushek, David, 2006. Protecting horseshoe crab and human health.
Estuary News, 16(3):8-9.
a web link for it is http://www.delawareestuary.org/publications/newsletter.asp
or ProtectingHorseshoeCrab.pdf
- Gao, Chaochao, Luke Oman, Alan Robock, and Georgiy L. Stenchikov,
2006: Atmospheric volcanic loading derived from bipolar ice cores
accounting for the spatial distribution of volcanic deposition.
Submitted to J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2006JD007461.
- Li, Haibin, Alan Robock, and Martin Wild, 2006: Evaluation of
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment soil
moisture simulations for the second half of the twentieth century.
Submitted to J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2006JD007455.
- Song, L., W. Xu, C. Li, H. Li, L. Wu, J. Xiang and X. Guo. 2006.
Development of expressed sequence tags from the bay scallop, Argopecten
irradians irradians. Marine Biotechnology, 8(2):161-169.
(with a cover photo)
- Yu, Z. and X. Guo. 2006. Identification and mapping of disease-resistance
QTL in the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica Gmelin.
Aquaculture, 254:160-170.
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This image is a
(falsely colored) SEM of scales from the thorax of a weevil,
Naupactus xanthographus. DNA extraction procedures
and solutions provide added value for the SEM user imaging
insect exoskeletal morphology by cleaning off waxes from
the exoskeleton. Image captured by Catherine Duckett, Rutgers
University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences as part
of a project to determine feasibility of obtaining useful
DNA and morphologic data from the same small insect samples.
Image width is approximately 200 μm and was captured
on an FEI XL-30 scanning electron microscope at the Smithsonian
Institution, National Museum of Natural History. From “Effects
of DNA extraction techniques on morphologic analysis of
small arthropods” by S.D. Whittaker and C.N. Duckett,
in the SCANNING 2006 Proceedings Issue |
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Student News
- Sean Boyd, a MS student in Dave Bushek's lab has received $2,000
from the New Jersey Water Resources Research Institute to support
his work on "The potential impact of the Asian isopod Synidotea
laevidorsalis (Miers 1881) on the Delaware Bay, USA."
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Nicole La Sota was selected as the IMCS 2006
Outstanding Senior. She is pictured here with Beth Phelan
(left) who served as one of her advisors during her summer
internship in 2004. John Manderson was her other advisor (not
pictured here). The award celebration took place on April
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Congratulations!
- Jeff Pace who has been with IMCS and JCNERR for the last seven
and a half years, has recently accepted a position as the Senior
Systems Analyst for the Manatee County GIS Information Services
in Bradenton, Florida. We wish Jeff the best in his new endeavor!
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Yonghua Chen and her husband Shizhen became proud
parents of a baby boy, "Bao Bao," born on
May 17, 2006 at 4:48 am., weighing in at 7 lbs 10
oz.
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