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January 30,
2004
Highlights
- Jennifer Francis was elected to serve a 3-year term as a Councilor
of the American Meteorological Society.
- Jim Ammerman was elected to the Council (board of directors)
of The Oceanography Society (TOS) as the At-Large subject area
representative.
- Jim Ammerman was appointed as an Editor of the journal Aquatic
Microbial Ecology, he had previously served on the editorial board.
- Hugh Roarty just returned from Cape St. Marie, Nova Scotia.
He helped members of the University of Maine's Physical Oceanography
Group install a 5 MHz long-range Codar. This site will expand
the coverage within the Gulf of Maine.
- The glider group successfully operated a breve buster (red tide
detector) glider off the coast of Florida and a SAM (Scattering
Attenuation Meter) glider off the New Jersey coast simultaneously.
Both gliders were controlled remotely from the COOL lab.
- RAPTORscope, a web based user interface to view various data
products, is now online. http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/RaptorscopeMain.html.
This will be used as an adaptive sampling tool to address science
questions that scale the entire NJ shelf.
- Peter Rona fostered appreciation of the spectacular new IMAX
film co-produced by Rutgers with a lecture, "Volcanoes of
the Deep Sea: The Science Behind the Film," to the Friends
of the Geology Museum of Rutgers on January 6th at the Geology
Museum.
- Alan Robock was quoted in a January 1, 2004 article in the Toledo
Blade, "Volcanic hints seen in hues: Ex-Toledoan links painting
to Krakatoa blast" by Jenni Laidman.
- Alan Robock is featured on a Radio Nederland website, http://www.rnw.nl/science/html/040119rf.html,
about the effects of volcanic eruptions on climate, with particular
attentions to Icelandic eruptions. His interview on Radio Nederland
can be heard on the web at http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/rnw/science/040119rf_i.rm.
While it is all interesting, his interview starts at 19:20 into
the show.
- On November 20th and 21st, Lisa Totten travelled to West Trenton,
NJ to serve on the Expert Panel advising the Delaware River Basin
Commission on the model to be used to establish a TMDL for PCBs
in the tidal Delaware River.
Meetings Attended
- Jennifer Francis attended a mini-conference entitled, "Central
Arctic: Battleground of Natural and Man-MadeClimate Forcing"
at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory on 7-9 January 2004. She presented
a paper on Arctic Climate Change Observed by Satellite Sounders.
- Oscar Schofield Co-Chaired the Ocean Research Observing Interactive
Networks (ORION) meeting in Puerto Rico Jan. 4 - Jan. 9th. This
NSF sponsored international workshop had over 300 participants
and focused on laying science priorities for the proposed national
network of ocean observatories. Jim Ammerman, Karen Bemis, Mike
DeLuca, Scott Glenn, Fred Grassle, Dale Haidvogel, Josh Kohut,
and Janice McDonnell were among the ORION participants from Rutgers.
- Oscar Schofield gave a Plenary talk at the American Geophysical
Union on the "The Future of Ocean Observation" in Portland,
Oregon.
- Anthony Broccoli attended the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American
Meteorological Society in Seattle, Washington. He made a presentation
to the 15th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations
entitled "Diagnosing Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks in
the GFDL AM2 Model."
- Lisa Totten presented at the New York Academy of Sciences on
"Present-Day Sources and Sinks for Polychlorinated Biphenyls
(PCBs) in the Lower Hudson River Estuary" on December 12th
in New York City.
- Alan Robock presented the following invited lectures:
University of Paris, France, January 5, 2004 (On “Using
Soil Moisture Observations to Study Climate Variations, to Evaluate
Climate Models, and as Ground Truth for Remote Sensing”)
Cemagref, Antony, France, January 6, 2004 (On “Using Soil
Moisture Observations to Study Climate Variations, to Evaluate
Climate Models, and as Ground Truth for Remote Sensing”)
- Alan Robock presented the following papers at the American Meteorological
Society Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington:
Land Surface Model Evaluation Using a New Soil Moisture Data Set
from Boissy-le-Châtel, France (with Thomas Atkins and Cécile
Loumagne; presented by Thomas Atkins; 18th AMS Conference on Hydrology,
Seattle, Washington, January 12-15, 2004)
Evaluation of ERA40 and CEP/DOE-Reanalysis II (R2) Using Soil
Moisture Observations from China for 1981-1999 (with Haibin Li,
Suxia Liu, Xinggou Mo, and Pedro Virterbo; presented by Haibin
Li; 18th AMS Conference on Hydrology, Seattle, Washington, January
12-15, 2004)
Soil Moisture Estimation Using Surface Backscattering Coefficients
Observed by the Tropical Rain Measurement Mission (TRMM) Precipitation
Radar (with Shinta Seto, Lifeng Luo, Taikan Oki, Toshio Iguchi,
and Katumi Musiake; 18th AMS Conference on Hydrology, Seattle,
Washington, January 12-15, 2004)
- Alan Robock gave the following invited talk:
Nuclear Winter Update (Invited presentation, NPRI Symposium
Three Minutes To Midnight: The Impending Threat of Nuclear War,
Washington, DC, January 25-27, 2004)
New Grants
- Jennifer Francis is Co-PI on two new NASA awards: "Improving
Arctic Energy Budget Estimates by Combining New EOS-Era Products
from Multiple Satellite Sensors" and "Polar Winds from
Satellite Imagers and Sounders."
- Co-PIs Peter Rona and Karen Bemis and PI Prosenjit Bagchi (Department
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) are awarded a Rutgers
Academic Excellence grant ($83 K) for their proposal, "Numerical
Simulation and Acoustic Imaging of Deep-sea Hydrothermal Plumes."
- Fate of Brominated Flame Retardants in New Jersey Wastewater
Treatment Facilities. NJWRRI. 3/1/2004-2/29/2005 ($30,000) D.E.
Fennell, L.A. Totten and U. Krogmann.
Publications
- Vetriani, C., Speck, M.D., Ellor, S.V., Lutz, R.A., and Starovoytov,V.
2004. Thermovibrio ammonificans sp. nov., a thermophilic, chemolithotrophic,
nitrate ammonifying bacterium from deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
Intl. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 54:175-181.
- Schofield, O., Chant, R., Kohut, J. T., Glenn, S. M. 2003. The
evolution of a nearshore coastal observatory and the establishment
of the New Jersey Shelf Observing System. Sea Technology 44(11):
52-58.
- Glenn, S. M., Schofield, O. 2003. Observing the oceans from
the COOLroom: Our history, experience, and opinions. Oceanography
16(4): 37-52.
- Millie, D. F., Fahnenstiel, G. L., Lohrenz, S. E., Carrick,
H. J., Johengren, T., Schofield, O. 2003. Physical-biological
coupling in Southern Lake Michigan: Influence of episodic sediment
resuspension on phytoplankton. Aquatic Ecology, <http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:AECO.0000007046.48955.70>doi:10.1023/B:AECO.0000007046.48955.70,
37(4): 393-408
- Kirkpatrick, G. J., Orrico, C., Moline, M. A., Oliver, M., Schofield,
O. 2003. Continuous hyperspectral absorption measurements of colored
dissolved organic material in aquatic systems. Applied Optics
42(33): 6564-6568.
- Fries, JS. 2004 General threshold for sediment transport induced
by mounds, J. Sedimentary Research, v74 (1), pp. 144-147.
- Broccoli, A. J., K. W. Dixon, T. L. Delworth, T. R. Knutson
and R. J. Stouffer, 2003: Twentieth-century temperature and precipitation
trends in ensemble climate simulations including natural and anthropogenic
forcing, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4798, doi: 10.1029/2003JD003812.
- Jackson, C. S., and A. J. Broccoli, 2003: Orbital forcing of
Arctic climate: Mechanisms of climate response and implications
for continental glaciation, Climate Dynamics, 21, 539-557, DOI
10.1007/s00382-003-0351-3.
- Detrick, R., Baggeroer, A., Delong, E., Duennebier, F., Gargett,
A., Heath, G. R., Hyon, J., Johnson, T., Michel, D., Oltman-Shay,
J., Pouliquen, S., Schofield, O., Weller R. (2003) Enabling Ocean
Research in the 21st Century: Implementation of a Network of Ocean
Observatories. Ocean Studies Board, Division of Life Sciences,
National Research Council.
- O’Dowd, Colin, Steven Pawson, Alan Robock, and Darin Toohey,
2003: On the review process: Editors speak. EOS, 84, 575.
- Koelliker, Y.; Totten, L. A.; Gigliotti, C. L.; Offenberg, J.
H.; Reinfelder, J. R.; Zhuang, Y.; Eisenreich, S. J. Atmospheric
Wet Deposition of Total Phosphorus in New Jersey. Water, Air,
and Soil Pollution. 2003. In Press.
Student News
- A warm welcome to four new students in our Graduate Program
in Oceanography!
Gregg Foti
Degree: Master's
Advisor: John Wilkin
Email: gregg@marine.rutgers.edu
Meenal Gogte (transfer from Bioresource Engineering)
Degree: Master's
Advisor: Dale Haidvogel
Email: meenal@eden.rutgers.edu
Jessie Sebbo
Degree: Master's
Advisors: Oscar Schofield/Paul Falkowski
Email: sebbo@marine.rutgers.edu
Keleigh Tepel
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Bob Chant
Email: tepel@marine.rutgers.edu
- The Meteorology Club received the AMS Student Chapter of the
Year Award at the AMS meeting in Seattle on January 13, 2004.
See a picture of Ken Carey and AMS President Joe Friday presenting
the award at http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/AMS2004/StudentChapterAward1.13.04.jpg
- Amy Rowe (Lisa Totten, PI) passed her PhD qualifying exam on
December 18th, 2003.
Best Wishes...
- Congratulations to Matt and Korin Oliver on the birth of their
beautiful baby girl, Samatha Grace. She was born on December 26,
2003 at 1:08PM and weighed 5lbs. 2 oz.
- February 6th, 2004 will be Steve Fries' last day at IMCS.- "It's
been a great couple years at Rutgers. The faculty and resources
here are great for postdocs to discover and pursue exciting avenues
of research. I'm continuing my work on microbial-particle interactions
at the University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Sciences
in Morehead City. The work will be in the Nuese River system.
Before I get there, I'll be getting married and spending some
quality time in Fiji (hopefully, not thinking at all about bacteria
on sand)." Steve, congratulations on your impending marriage
and best of luck in your new position!
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