July 31, 2000

Highlights

• Bonnie McCay participated in a workshop on Fisheries Education held in Woods Hole, MA, July 17, 2000, sponsored by the ocean Studies Board of the National Research Council. She is also giving a talk at a workshop on "Southern Africa Public Interest Law and Community-Based Property Rights," in Arusha, Tanzania, August 1-4, 2000.
• The research continues in Tuckerton, details of some of the experiments being conducted appear in the article... "Scientists embark on far-reaching ocean study" by Amy S. Rosenberg. The article was in the Sunday, July 23, 2000 issue of THE INQUIRER (http://web.philly.com). "We're trying to build a control center like NASA does," said Oscar Schofield, the principal investigator of bio-optics and, as the Web site describes, "the other dude in charge of everything." (Physical Oceanographer Scott Glenn is the "basic dude in charge of everything.") The data attract not only oceanographers and naval researchers. The Rutgers Web site is already receiving about 60,000 hits a day, many from fishermen and sailors looking to chart satellite data about ocean water temperature, currents and other helpful information, said Michael F. Crowley, director of the Marine Remote Sensing Lab of Rutgers University's Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences.
• Clare Reimers has decided to stay at Oregon State University. Her resignation will become effective January 1 at the end of her leave of absence.

Seminars

• July 31, 2000, 3:00-4:00PM, Alampi Room: Lecture by Dr. Xiao Qiao Lu, Florida International University, "Organic Matter in the Sea: Sources, Distribution, and Cycling." (Candidate for Visiting Assistant Professor Position)
• August 4, 2000, 3:00 - 4:00 P.M., Alampi Room: Seminar by Dr. John Wilkin, NIWA, Auckland, New Zealand, "Mesoscale circulation and lobster larval transport in the Leeuwin Current, Australia." (Candidate for Physical Oceanographer Position)