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July 31, 2007
Highlights
- Mike Kennish's research into causes and consequences of increased
levels of nitrogen entering the waters of Barnegat Bay continues
to be in the news. Click to read articles by Sandy
Bauers of the Inquirer and Kirk
Moore of the Asbury Park Press.
- Jennifer Francis gave the following invited presentations:
- Jennifer Francis and Eli Hunter, IUGG (International Union
of Geodesy and Geophysics) in Perugia, Italy on July 12, "Arctic
Change on the Autobahn."
- Jennifer Francis, All-hands meeting of NSF's Arctic Freshwater
Integration project, Bodega Bay, CA, June 2, "The Changes
and Attribution Working Group on a Hot Thin Wire."
- Jennifer Francis, NASA/Langley and National Institute of
Aerospace, Langley, VA, 16 May, "Arctic Change on the Autobahn."
- Alan Robock was named American Meteorological Society/Sigma
Xi Distinguished Lecturer, 2008-2009.
- Alan Robock was invited by Indonesian Mission to the United
Nations to give a talk: Brainstorming Retreat, "The Role
of the United Nations in Climate Change: Exploring the Way Forward
from Now to Bali and Beyond," Rye Brook, New York, June 23,
2007 (On "Scientific Evidence of Climate Change" ).
- Lily Young met with the Dean of Science, Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology, Dr. Shiu Yuen Cheng, to advise on their
plans to form a new Department of Environmental Sciences at their
University, June 25, 2007.
- Lily Young served on the Department of Energy Office of Science
review panel for the Environmental Remediation Sciences Division,
July 17-19, 2007, Washington DC.
- Lily Young presented a seminar at the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, June
25, 2007, "Microbial Transformations and Cycling of Arsenic
in the Environment."
Meetings Attended
- Jennifer Francis and Eli Hunter, AMS Conference on Polar Meteorology
and Oceanography, St. John's, Newfoundland, May 2007, 2 oral presentations:
"Drivers of Variability in Arctic Winter Sea Ice Extent"
and "Drivers of Trends in Arctic Surface Longwave Fluxes."
- Jennifer Francis attended an advisory board meeting for the
International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks, AK, June 2007.
New Grants
- Able, K. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "Delineating
Habitat Resources for Weakfish:Biotelemetry and Passive Acoustic
Approaches." 06/01/07-05/31/08, ($20,000.00)
- Bidle, K.D. National Science Foundation, "Role of Metacaspases
in Mediating Cell Fate During Viral Infection of Unicellular Marine
Phytoplankton." 08/01/07-07/31/08, ($217,745)
- Curchitser, E. Office of Naval Research, "Testing Parameterizations
of Submesoscale Ocean Variability: Resolution and Power Spectra."
07/01/07-06/30/08, ($58,945)
- Curchitser, E. National Science Foundation, "US-GLOBEC
NEP Phase IIIa-CCS: Effects of Meso- and Basin-Scale Variability
on Zooplankton Population." 06/20/07-03/31/08, ($208,382)
- De Luca, M. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
"Mullica River Conservation Initiative." 06/01/07-06/30/08,
($50,000)
- Francis, J. National Science Foundation Arctic System Science
program, supplement to "Interactions Among Observations of
Laterally Advected Heat and Moisture, Cloud Properties, Surface
Temperature, Surface Radiation
Fluxes, and Net Precipitation in the Arctic." ($30,500)
- Halsey, M.M. Hyde & Watson Foundation, "Videoconference
Capabilities for IMCS Seminar Room (203)." 05/18/07-05/17/08,
($20,000)
- Kohut, J. New Jersey Marine Science Consortium, "Development
of an HF Radar-Derived Near-Shore Wave and Current Product."
02/01/07-03/01/08, ($85,827)
- Schofield, O. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
"Development of Florescence Induction & Relaxation Systems
for the Measurement of Biomass." 06/01/05-06/30/08, (additional
funding $200,888)
Publications
- Bidle, K. D., S. Lee, D.R. Marchant, P.G., Falkowski. 2007.
Fossil genes and microbes in the oldest ice on Earth. Proceedings
of National Academy of Sciences. 104(33):13455-13460.
- Chant, R.J., W.R. Geyer, R.H Houghton, E. Hunter and J. Lerzcak
2007. Estuarine boundary layer mixing processes: insights from
dye experiments. Journal of Physical Oceanography Vol.
37 No 7 1859-1877
- Choi, B.-J. and J. L. Wilkin, 2007. The effect of wind on the
dispersal of the Hudson River plume. Journal of Physical Oceanography,
37, 1878-1897.
- Liu, Y., J.R. Key, J.A. Francis, and X. Wang. 2007. Possible
causes of decreasing cloud cover in the Arctic winter, 1982–2000,
Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L14705, doi:10.1029/2007GL030042.
- Miguez-Macho, G., Y. Fan, C. Weaver, R. Walko, and A. Robock.
2007: Incorporating water table dynamics in climate modeling:
2. Formulation, validation, and soil moisture simulation. J.
Geophys. Res., 112, D13108, doi:10.1029/ 2006JD008112.
- Robock, A., L. Oman, and G.L. Stenchikov, 2007: Nuclear winter
revisited with a modern climate model and current nuclear arsenals:
Still catastrophic consequences. J. Geophys. Res., 112,
D13107, doi:10.1029/2006JD008235.
- White, D., L. Hinzman, L. Alessa, J. Cassano, M. Chambers,
K. Falkner, J. Francis, W.J. Gutowski, Jr., M. Holland, R.M. Holmes,
H. Huntington, D. Kane, A. Kliskey, C. Lee, J. McClelland, B.
Peterson, T.S. Rupp, F. Straneo, M. Steele, R. Woodgate, D. Yang,
K. Yoshikawa, T. Zhang. 2007: The Arctic freshwater system: changes
and impacts. JGR-Biogeophysical Sciences, in press.
Student News
- Undergraduate Matthew Bruno received a CEBIC (Center for Environmental
Bioinorganic Chemistry) summer fellowship from Princeton University
to work in Lily Young's lab on a project, nitrification in strain
CL3.
Congratulations
- Gregg Foti has completed his MS degree, and has accepted a position
as Data Engineer in the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active
Archive Center (PO.DAAC) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
CA. (http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov). Congratulations, Gregg!
- Congratulations to Josh Graver! Josh will be moving to Cambridge,
MA to work on an MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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