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July 30, 2004
Highlights
- Fred Grassle testified at an Oversight Hearing on the Status
of Ocean Observing Systems before the U.S. House of Representatives
Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans on
July 13, 2004.
- Andrew Voros, Executive Director of the NY/NJ Clean Ocean And
Shore Trust (COAST) sends the following news: COAST has successfully
completed an 8 year, $ 20 million project using dredged materials
from NY/NJ harbor for abandoned coal mine reclamation in Pennsylvania.
On the strength of this project Pennsylvania DEP has permitted
a 30 million cubic yard strip pit (see photo) in eastern Pennsylvania
for this application, using coal-ash amended dredged material
to seal the pit and prevent the formation of acid mine drainage.
Fred Grassle is the NJ Chairman of COAST and Andrew has an office
in Old Blake Hall.
- Jim Ammerman's lab led a 5-day NOAA-supported cruise in the
Mississippi River Plume on the R/V Pelican from July 16-20, to
examine nutrient cycling and productivity in the area of annual
hypoxia. Sixteen scientists, including collaborators from the
University of Maryland, VIMS, Oregon State, Texas A&M Galveston,
and WHOI participated. This was the project's third and final
cruise to this area this year.
Meetings Attended
- Tony Broccoli was an invited speaker at the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change Workshop on Climate Sensitivity held in
Paris, France from 26-29 July 2004. His talk was entitled "Feedbacks
and sensitivity in GFDL's AM2 model."
- Sybil Seitzinger attended a project meeting in Woods Hole, Massachusetts
with collegues from the University of Colorado, the University
of New Hampshire, and the Ecosystem Center, July 26 through 28.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss a recently funded NASA
IDS project entitled, "Understanding the changing carbon,
nitrogen, and water cycles in the earth system."
- Qizhong (George) Guo attended the World Water and Environmental
Resources Congress from June 27 to July 1, 2004 at Salt Lake City,
Utah. He gave three presentations at the Congress: (1) Development
of Flow-Based TMDLs, (2) Transient Nitrogen Loads to Barnegat
Bay, and (3) Optimization of Water Quality Improvement and Flood
Control (with Keith Marcoon). He also moderated two conference
sessions and attended three council/committee meetings at the
Congress.
New Grants
- John Wilkin received $103,007 from NASA for the first year of
a 4-year study of "Eastern U.S. Continental Shelf Carbon
Budget: Modeling, Data Assimilation and Analysis."
- Liz Sikes has received an NSF grant for a coring cruise in the
waters to the east and north of New Zealand on the UNOLS ship
RV/ Revelle. The grant of $188,000 (10/2004-10/2006) is entitled
"Paleoventilation of the Southwest Pacific and Southern Ocean
in the Holocene and late Quaternary." The cruise is scheduled
for March of 2005, and the Co-PI is Thomas Guilderson of LLNL/UC
Santa Cruise in California.
Publications
- Weis, J.S. and P. Weis. 2004. Metal uptake, transport, and release
by wetland plants: Implications for phytoremediation and restoration.
Environ. Internat. 30: 685-700.
- Windham, L., J. Weis and P. Weis 2004. Metal dynamics of plant
litter of Spartina alterniflora and Phragmites australis in metal-contaminated
marshes. Part 1. Patterns of decomposition and metal uptake. Envir.Toxicol.
Chem. 23: 1520-1528.
Student News
- Graduate students Jason Sylvan and Brian Gaas attended the American
Society for Microbiology Meeting in New Orleans in late May. Jason
presented a poster entitled, "Genetic Indicators of Phosphorus
Limitation in Heterotrophic Marine Bacteria."
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