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November 14,
2003
Highlights
- Jennifer Francis has been invited to serve a 3-year term on
the National Science Foundation's Science Steering Committee for
the Arctic System Science (ARCSS) program.
- Jennifer Francis has been invited to serve as a science advisor
to the education and outreach component of NSF's new research
aircraft called HIAPER (High-performance Instrumented Airborne
Platform for Environmental Research).
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- Louis Bowers is our resident Meteorologist. You can see
him broadcast the weather each Thursday on Rutgers' Channel
6. The weather forecast is aired every 15 minutes. Thus,
if you want to stop by the Remote Sensing Lab (Rm. 109),
you can see Louis tell us what the weather will be like
for the day.
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- The glider group deployed RU03 at the Tuckerton Field Station,
where it will run a continuous back and forth mission, that was
in the beginning of November. While RU02 is running its mission
at Tuckerton, part of the glider group then went down to Sarasota,
Florida to deploy three other gliders (RU01, RU02, and RU04).
All three gliders are being monitored and controlled by the glider
control center at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
building, while swimming to their designated lat/lon coordinates.
A red tide patch was found, and the gliders are flying into the
box area to sample, while Mark Moline from CalPoly will be deploying
his remus for further sampling of the red tide patch. All current
information for the Florida deployed gliders can be viewed at
http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/glider/webpage/glidersiteFL_EcoHAB.htm,
and all the current information for the New Jersey deployed glider
can be viewed at http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/glider/webpage/glidersiteNJ_Tuckerton.htm.
There are also capture files of the real-time surface dialogs
from the gliders.
- This past October, Rutgers and SeaSpace Corporation installed
a X-Band satellite system. X-band is the latest technology in
satellite data transmission. It offers a faster data transmission
rate than RU-COOL's current SeaSpace L-Band satellite dish. This
faster rate is necessary for the larger volume of data generated
by the sensors on today's earth monitoring satellites. For details
about the X-Band system and to see pictures of the actual installation,
please go to http://www.thecoolroom.org/news/031011_xband.htm.
- Peter Rona presented a lecture on the science behind the IMAX
film, "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea," to an audience of
students and adults at the Montclair Adult School on November
10th.
- On September 24, Prof. Robock made a presentation to Cook students
at a Peace Corps recruiting meeting. He described his experiences
and encouraged students to consider volunteering for the Peace
Corps when they graduate.
Meetings Attended
- Jennifer Francis and Yonghua Chen attended the 1st Open Science
Meeting of the multiagency program called SEARCH (Study of Environmental
Arctic Change) in Seattle, WA, 27-30 October 2003. Jennifer presented
a paper entitled, "New Satellite Observations of Recent Change
in the Arctic Climate" and served as a panelist in a discussion
on Connections and Key Scientific Issues in Arctic Climate Change.
Yonghua presented a poster entitled, "Observed and Modeled
Relationships Among Arctic Climate Variables" and was selected
as a student assistant, which provided full travel support.
- Hugh Roarty attended a meeting on Ship Tracking Algorithm Development
in Monterey California from November 10-13, 2003, hosted by the
Department of Defense Counterdrug Technology Development Office.
- Jennifer Bosch attended the EOS Direct Broadcast Meeting in
Kona, Hawaii from November 17-22, 2003, whereby she presented
a poster "Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing in Operational
Marine Science." The meeting's website is http://directreadout.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_db_conf/index.htm.
- George McGhee gave one of the three keynote papers at the symposium
"Understanding Late Devonian Biotic and Climatic Events:
Towards an Integrated Approach," sponsored by the Paleontological
Society, on November 3 at the annual meeting of the Geological
Society of America in Seattle, Washington. The other two keynote
papers were delivered by Grzegorz Racki of Poland and Michael
Joachimski of Germany.
- Sybil Seitzinger attended the Board of Trustees meeting for
the Bermuda Biological Station for Research in Bermuda on October
6th.
- Alan Robock presented an invited talk entitled "Studying
Climate Change Globally: Doing Science While Seeing the World"
at the Cook College International Seminar.
- Alan Robock and Jim Miller represented Rutgers University at
the Annual Meeting of the University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research, Boulder, Colorado, October 7-8, 2003.
- Alan Robock was invited to and attended the Reconciling Vertical
Temperature Trends Workshop at the NOAA National Climatic Data
Center, Asheville, North Carolina, October 28-30, 2003.
- John Reinfelder was co-author of talks at the MERI Symposium
October 9 & 10, 2003:
- Mercury Contamination in Berrys Creek and Downstream Ecosystem,
J. Schaefer. T. Cardona-Merek, K. Ellickson, J. Yagi, T. Barkay,
J. Reinfelder
- Atmospheric Deposition of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants
to the New Jersey Meadowlands, L. Totten, R. Reinfelder, C.
Gigliotti, D. Van Ry, J. Dachs, J. Girona, J. Offenberg, Y.
Koelliker, M. Panangadan, S. Yan, Y. Zhuang, S. Goodrow, K.
Ellickson, R. Gioia, S. Eisenreich
- On Oct. 15th Paul Field gave an invited lecture entitled "The
environmental applications of HR-ICP-MS," at the Fourth International
Conference on High Resolution Sector Field ICPMS, in Venice (Italy).
- Costantino Vetriani participated in the RIDGE 2000 Community
Meeting focused on the RIDGE Integrated Study Sites that was held
in Boulder, Colorado, on November 6-8. A study entitled: "Isolation
and Characterization of Thermophilic, Chemolithotrophic Nitrate
Ammonifying Bacteria from Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents" was
presented.
- Georgina Spyres gave a seminar at the New York Academy of Sciences
on Thursday November 13th. The title of the seminar was "Unravelling
the biogeochemical character of organic compounds" and it
was co-sponsored by the Atmospheric Sciences & Geology Section
and Environmental Sciences Section of NYAS. Data from the IMCS-Biogeochemistry
group's DEP and NSF: Biocomplexity work were presented.
- Sybil Seitzinger presented a talk at a recent NJDEP symposium
on Harmful Algal Blooms (Brown Tide) on October 22nd. Her talk
was entitled, "Role of organic nitrogen in algal blooms:
Recent results of dissolved organic matter mass spec studies."
- Sybil Seitzinger attended Global Water System Project, Open
Science Conference sponsored by the Global Water Project, University
of New Hampshire, Durham, NH on October 7-9. She presented a poster
with John Harrison entitled, "Dissolved Nitrogen and Phosphorous
Export in the Coastal Zone: Early Results from a Multi-Element,
Multi-Form Approach."
New Grants
- Jennifer Francis (PI), A. Schweiger (U. of Wash), and T. Reale
(NOAA) were awarded a 3-year grant entitled, "Correction
of Systematic Errors in TOVS Radiances" $250K/year from NOAA/U.
of AK.
- Lisa A. Totten (PI) with John Reinfelder. Measurement and Modeling
of Atmospheric PCBs in the Delaware River Basin. Delaware River
Basin Commission, $95K, 2003-2005.
- Barbara Turpin, Ho-Jin Lim and Sybil Seitzinger received a grant
from US EPA for the project, "Secondary and regional contributions
to organic PM: A mechanistic investigation of organic PM in the
eastern and southern United States.
Publications
- Ho, T-Y., A. Quigg, Z.V. Finkel, A. Milligan, K. Wyman, P.G.
Falkowski, and F.M.M. Morel. 2003. On the elemental composition
of some marine phytoplankton. J. Phycology 39: 1-15.
- Beardall, J., A.Quigg, and J.A. Raven. 2003. Oxygen consumption:
Photorespiration and chlororespiration. (Chapter 8) In Photosynthesis
in the Algae. [Eds.] T. Larkum, J.A. Raven, and S. Douglas. Advances
in Photosynthesis Series, Kluwer Academic Publishing. pp. 157-181.
- Ramey , P.A. and P.V.R. Snelgrove. 2003. Spatial patterns in
sedimentary macrofaunal communities on the south coast of Newfoundland
in relation to surface oceanography and sediment characteristics.
Marine Ecology Progress Series 262:215-227.
- Vetriani, C., H. Tran, and L. Kerkhof. Fingerprinting Microbial
Assemblages from the Oxic/Anoxic Chemocline of the Black Sea.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. November 2003. 69: 6381-6488.
- Robock, A., 2003: Preface to special section: GEWEX Continental-Scale
International Project (GCIP)-3, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D16), 8605,
doi:10.1029/2003JD003924.
- Antuña, J.C., A. Robock, G. Stenchikov, J. Zhou, C. David,
J. Barnes, and L. Thomason, 2003: Spatial and temporal variability
of the stratospheric aerosol cloud produced by the 1991 Mount
Pinatubo eruption. J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D20), 4624, doi:10.1029/2003JD003722.
- Roads, J., R. Lawford, E. Bainto, E. Berbery, S.Chen, B.M. Fekete,
K. Gallo, A. Grundstein, W. Higgins, M. Kanamitsu, W. Krajewski,
V. Lakshmi, D. Leathers, D. Lettenmaier, L. Luo, E. Maurer, T.
Meyers, D. Miller, K. Mitchell, T. Mote, R. Pinker, T. Reichler,
D. Robinson, A. Robock, J. Smith, G. Srinivasan, K.Vinnikov, T.
Vonder Haar, C.J. Vorosmarty, S. Williams, and E. Yarosh, 2003:
GCIP Water and Energy Budget Synthesis (WEBS). J. Geophys. Res.,
108 (D16), 8609, doi:10.1029/2002JD002583.
- Harrison, J.A. and P.A. Matson, 2003. Patterns and controls
of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from drainage waters of the Yaqui
Valley, Sonora, Mexico. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 17(3), 1080.
Student News
- The Meteorology Club received the Student Chapter of the Year
award from the American Meteorological Society. The club is advised
by Profs. Robock and Harnack.
Let's Welcome
- Dave Breuer recently joined the RUCOOL Satellite group. He is
currently a senior undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of
Science degree in Computer Engineering.
- Anthony Galetta joins the RUCOOL Codar group. He is currently
a senior undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of Science
degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Anthony is an avid
user of the COOLroom as a fisherman and surfer.
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