October 15, 2001

Highlights

• A new book was just published by CRC Press (Boca Raton, Florida) called Biology of Marine Birds, edited by B.A. Schreiber and J. Burger.

Meetings Attended

• Fred Grassle presented a marine perspective at the Summit for all Species convened by Ed Wilson at Harvard.
• Costantino Vetriani attended the second international symposium on deep-sea hydrothermal vent biology, held in Brest, France, on October 8-12, 2001. He presented a paper (co-authored with A. Reed, M. Speck and R. Lutz) on microbial communities associated with deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise ridge (9 50'N).
• Peter Rona presented an invited lecture to the Princeton Chapter of the American Chemical Society on October 16th addressing the changing vision of non-living and living resources of the ocean. A story highlighting the lecture appeared in the October 10th issue of the "US 1" newspaper which attracted a broad cross-section of attendees.

IMCS in the News

• On 9/29, the Atlantic City Press featured Eric Simms in "Live and direct from the Salt Marsh"
• On 10/1, the New Jersey Star Ledger featured Dr. Fred Grassle in "A new world beneath the surface: Rutgers scientist leads team exploring Atlantic Canyon"
• On 10/2, The Philadelphia Inquirer featured Dr. Fred Grassle and Dr. Peter Rona in "NJ scientists make discovery in Atlantic: Methane found 7,000 feet down could explain the continental shelf's increasing instability"

New Grants

• $45,000 was awarded by Public Service Electric and Gas Company to the Marine Aquaculture Demonstration Facility.
• $2,000,000 was awarded to Gary Taghon from NSF for "Biocomplexity: The Roles of Resources, Competition, and Predation in Microbial Degradation."
• $78,581 was awarded to Paul Falkowski and Michael Bender from NASA for "Using Remote Sensing and Ocean Oxygen Measurements to Constrain Carbon Fluxes in the Southern Ocean."
• $24,550 was awarded to Lee Kerkhof and Sybil Seitzinger for "Microbial Ecology of Denitrifying Bacteria" from the Department of Energy
• $540,000 was awarded to Mike DeLuca and Janice McDonnell from NOAA for JCNERR.
• $152,500 was awarded to Dale Haidvogel and Hernan Arango for "Modular Ocean Data Assimilation" by the National Science Foundation.