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June 30, 2006
Highlights
| Peter Rona
has just become an AGU Fellow and was inducted at the Spring
AGU meeting in Baltimore. You can see his picture among the
other new Fellows on page 238 of the June 13 issue of EOS.
This is a well-deserved honor. Congratulations, Peter! |
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- Marta Sebastian, a postdoc from Spain in Jim Ammerman's lab,
has been selected to receive a prestigious Marie Curie Outgoing
International Fellowship by the European Union. This fellowship
will support two years of postdoctoral research at Rutgers followed
by an additional return year with Dr. Josep Gasol in Barcelona,
Spain. Marta's research will focus on the role of marine bacteria
in phosphorus cycling, including phosphatase enzymes and microbial
diversity.
- Jim Ammerman's lab (Jim, Brian Gaas, Marta Sebastian, and Jason
Sylvan) participated in a research cruise aboard the R/V Atlantic
Explorer from Bermuda to Puerto Rico, May 18-28. This was part
of an NSF-supported project on phosphorus cycling in the Sargasso
Sea with collaborators from the Bermuda Biological Station for
Research and WHOI.
- Leigh McCallister accepted the Lindeman Award for her 2004
paper published in Limnology & Oceanography (49: 1687-1702).
Her award acceptance speech was entitled “Tracing the Flow
of Carbon from Terrigenous and Aquatic Sources to Bacterial Metabolism”
and highlighted the novel aspects of her past and current research,
and how they related to the pioneering work of Raymond Lindeman
in recognizing the connectivity between biospheres, disciplines
and scales.
- May 20, 2006. John Reinfelder and Bob Chant led an educational
excursion up the Hudson River for 50 high school students and
four high school science teachers from the Liberty Science Center's
Partners in Science mentoring program and the Weston Scholars
mentoring program.
- Tony Broccoli made presentations on climate change to the Monroe
Township League of Women Voters, Monroe Township, NJ, on May 20,
2006, and to the New Jersey Sustainable State Institute Energy
Sustainability Project
kickoff conference "Envisioning New Jersey's Energy Future"
at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Public Policy, New Brunswick,
NJ, on May 21, 2006.
- Alan Robock presented an invited lecture on "Climatic consequences
of regional nuclear conflict" at the Zhejiang University,
Hangzhou, China, May 24, 2006.
Meetings Attended
- Peter Rona and Karen Bemis participated in the NSF Ridge program
Theoretical Institute 2006 on the subject of, "Modeling Oceanic
Spreading Center Hydrothermal Processes: Magma to Microbe,"
25-30 June in Mammoth Lakes, California, where they made presentations
(Bemis et al., A particle sedimentation model of buoyant jets:
application to observations of hydrothermal plumes; and Rona et
al., Monitoring and modeling seafloor hydrothermal plumes and
diffuse flow).
- Peter Rona, Tricia Ramey, and Kyle Kingman met with colleagues
from WHOI, the U.S. Geological Survey, and Stony Brook University,
at Woods Hole on June 15th to plan a proposal to NOAA's Office
of Ocean Exploration to continue their exploration of the Hudson
Canyon region.
- Fred Grassle, Chair of the Census of Marine Life Scientific
Steering Committee, attended a meeting in Reykjavik June 22-23,
2006.
- Fred Grassle was the keynote speaker at the Using Standards
to Achieve Data Interoperability meeting at the Bedford Institute
of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia June 13-14, 2006.
- A.J. Broccoli and M. Yoshimori, "Some Perspectives on the
Reconstruction of Past ITCZ Variations from Paleoclimate Data,"
AGU 2006 Joint Assembly, Baltimore, MD, May 2006.
- M. Yoshimori and A.J. Broccoli, "On the Control of Zonal-mean
Position of the ITCZ in Quasi-equilibrium GCM Experiments,"
AGU 2006 Joint Assembly, Baltimore, MD, May 2006.
- Tony Broccoli was a co-convener of a special session ("Controls
of the ITCZ Position in Past Climates: Observations and Models")
at the AGU 2006 Joint Assembly, Baltimore, MD, May 2006.
- Peter Rona gave the opening presentation on the subject of,
"Gas hydrates and slope stability in the Hudson Canyon region,"
to participants of the River Summer program, a month-long investigation
of the Hudson River onboard the Stony Brook University vessel,
Sea Wolf, on July 6th in New York Harbor.
- Alan Robock was the session convenor and session chair for the
session on Environmental Impact of Continental Volcanism at the
IAVCEI International Conference on Continental Volcanism, Guangzhou,
China, May 14-18, 2006. He also presented the following talks
at the conference:
- Volcanism and Climate Change (Invited plenary lecture; IAVCEI
International Conference on Continental Volcanism, Guangzhou,
China, May 14-18, 2006)
- Volcanic Forcing of Climate over the Past 2000 Years: An
Improved Ice Core Based Index for Climate Models (with Chaochao
Gao, presented by Chaochao Gao; IAVCEI International Conference
on Continental Volcanism, Guangzhou, China, May 14-18, 2006)
- Comparing Climatic Response to Low and High Latitude Volcanic
Eruptions (with Luke Oman and Georgiy Stenchikov; IAVCEI International
Conference on Continental Volcanism, Guangzhou, China, May
14-18, 2006)
- Climate system response to the Toba mega eruption (Invited
presentation, with Caspar Ammann and Samuel Levis, presented
by Caspar Ammann; IAVCEI International Conference on Continental
Volcanism, Guangzhou, China, May 14-18, 2006)
- Volcanic Test of Arctic Oscillation Variability in the IPCC
AR4 Climate Models (Invited presentation, with Georgiy Stenchikov,
Kevin Hamilton, Ronald J. Stouffer, V. Ramaswamy, Ben Santer,
and Hans-F. Graf; IAVCEI International Conference on Continental
Volcanism, Guangzhou, China, May 14-18, 2006)
New Grants
- Richard Dunk received an award of $89,218 from the State of
New Jersey-Board of Public Utilities for his project "NJ/DE
Offshore/Coastal Wind Energy Analysis:Phase 4." (1/2/06-4/1/07)
- Mike Kennish (PI) was awarded a NERRS Graduate Research Fellowship
in the amount of $20,000 from NOAA for Jaime Tirado's research.
(6/1/06 - 5/31/07)
- NSF has funded the proposal "Late Eocene through Oligocene
thermal and cryospheric evolution: Testing latitudinal SSTs and
deepwater temperature vs. ice-volume changes." $271,608,
Katz, Miller, Wade and Wright.
- Alan Robock received a $5,000 supplement to his National Science
Foundation grant, "Collaborative Research on the Climatic
Effects of the 1783-1784 Laki Volcanic Eruption," to fund
undergraduates in the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates
program.
Publications
- Hey, R.N., G.J. Massoth, R.C. Vrijenhoek, P.A. Rona, J. Lupton,
and D.A. Butterfield, 2006. Hydrothermal vent geology and biology
at Earth's fastest spreading rates, Marine Geophysical Researches,
DOI: 10.1007/s11001-005-1887-x.
- Totten, L. A., G.L. Stenchikov, C.L. Gigliotti, N. Lahoti, S.J.
Eisenreich. Measurement and Modeling of Urban Atmospheric PCB
Concentrations On A Small (8 Km) Spatial Scale. Atmospheric Environment.
In Press.
Student News
- This past spring semester, Sherrie Whittaker, Rachel Sipler,
Kate Jordan and Donglai Gong passed their Ph.D. qualifying exams.
Congratulations to all!
- Meghan Tierney (Lily Young, advisor), a student in the Environmental
Sciences Graduate Program is the recipient of one of the nine
Technology Fellowships awarded by the NJ Commission on Science
and Technology. This prestigious award aims to keep postdoctoral
graduates in NJ and working with NJ technology firms. You can
see the press release from May 19, at the following link: http://www.state.nj.us/scitech/about/news/approved/20060519.html
or click here.
- Erin Gallagher (Lily Young, advisor), a student in the Environmental
Sciences Graduate Program, was awarded a Knauss Marine Policy
Fellowship. Erin is one of 40 nationally selected graduate students
and the only fellowship recipient from NJ, who will spend a year
in Washington DC working with the legislative or executive branch
of government on issues dealing with ocean and coastal resources
and national policy.
- Congratulations to Ylaine Geradin of State College Area High
School, PA and Virginia Zakrzewski of MAST in Sandy Hook, NJ,
two of the four recipients of the CORE 2006 National Ocean Sciences
Bowl Scholarships. Christianna Campbell from MATES in Toms River,
NJ was selected to participate in CORE’s 2006 National Ocean
Sciences Bowl Coastal and Ocean Science Training Internship Program.
These outstanding high school students were all participants of
regional competitions hosted by IMCS for the National Ocean Sciences
Bowl. Kudos to our Shore Bowl coordinators and volunteers, your
valuable time was well spent!
- The Research Internships in Ocean Science (RIOS) program funded
by NFS involves thirteen students this summer from colleges around
the country working closely with IMCS scientists. Students are
working at the RUMFS in Tuckerton and in New Brunswick. An article
on one of their study cruises in New York Harbor with Professors
Liz Sikes and Jim Ammerman appeared in the Star Ledger, June 25,
2006. Liz Sikes and James Ammerman helped create this NSF program
for undergrads. Click here
to read about the cruise aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Sturgeon
Bay.
Let's Welcome
- Welcome to the 2006 summer interns! The interns from the Research
Internships in Ocean Sciences (RIOS) program are: Erica Bodnar
(Wittenberg U, OH, Mentors: J. Grassle & T. Ramey), Paul Clerkin
(Sacramento City College, CA, Mentors: K. Able & T. Grothues
/RUMFS), Gregory Henkes (Bates College, ME, Mentors: K. Able &
T. Grothues / RUMFS), Chris Hukushi (U of Alaska Fairbanks, Mentor:
D. Haidvogel), Ralph Jiorle (Stockton College, NJ, Mentor: R.
Petrecca/RUMFS), Joan Knuth (SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry,
Syracuse NY, Mentors: J. Ammerman & J. Sylvan), Tiffany Mahan
(California State U Sacramento, CA, Mentor: L. Sikes), Margaret
Malone (College of Charleston, SC, Mentor: T. Grothues / RUMFS),
Rachel Mosher (U of Wisconsin Colleges, WI, Mentor: M. Kennish),
John Roberts (Savannah State U, GA, Mentor: S. Glenn), Max Rubinstein
(Brown U, RI, Mentor: S. Tuorto), Katie Schmidt (Humboldt State
U, CA, Mentors: R. Petrecca & C. Fuller/RUMFS), and Christi
Welter (Colorado School of Mines, CO, Mentor: S. Glenn).
- Rosa Leon (U of Puerto Rico, PR, Mentor: L. Kerkhof) is an intern
with RISE, the Research In Science and Engineering at Rutgers
program.
- Three interns with the Rutgers/NOAA Cooperative Marine Education
and Research (CMER) Program are: Brittany Morgan Hunt (North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical State University, Mentor: Vince Guida),
Carla Scocchi (U of Rhode Island, Mentor: Chris Chambers), and
Lauren Rizzo (Smith College, MA, Mentor: John Manderson).
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2006 Summer Interns -
On their first weekend in New Brunswick, the summer interns
along with Clare Ng and Sara Bender (teaching mentors), ventured
out to the Big Apple to take in the sights. For some students,
this was their first trip to the city! They trekked from Brooklyn,
to City Hall, Chinatown down to Wall St and the World Trade
Center site. Then up to Central Park, down 5th Ave., through
Rockefeller Center and ending in Times Square's Toys R Us.
| Pictured
here in Little Italy are (Back Row, l to r): Clare Ng,
Adam Bohka, Greg Henkes, Rafael, John Roberts, Sara Bender,
(Middle Row, l to r): Ralph Jiorle, Christi Welter, Meg
Malone, Katie Schmidt, Tiffany Mahan, Paul Clerkin, Rachel
Mosher (Front Row, l to r): Erica Bodnar, Rosa Leon. |
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