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December 23,
2005
Highlights
- IMCS Post-doc Dr. Leigh McCallister has recently been awarded
the Lindeman Award for her outstanding paper: Assessing sources
and ages of organic matter supporting river and estuarine bacterial
production: A multiple isotope (14C, 13C,
and 15N) approach published in Limnology &Oceanography
49: 1687-1702.
Leigh joined Sybil Seitzinger and Lee Kerkhof's groups as an IMCS
post-doc last month. Please welcome her and congratulate her on
receiving this prestigious award. (Room 205)
- On November 21, 2005, Alan Robock appeared in "Little Ice
Age: Big Chill" on the History Channel.
- Lily Young served as external reviewer for the Department of
Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Dec 5-7,
2005.
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Fred Grassle was awarded the prestigious Grand Prix des Sciences de la Mer
Albert 1er de Monaco on December 15, 2005. This award is bestowed
annually to an individual who has made major contributions
to the advancement of the ocean sciences throughout the world.
The award was presented at Les Salons de l'Ambassade in Paris
by His Excellency Mr. Christian Orsetti, Ambassador of the
Principauté de Monaco in France.
Fred Grassle and Christian Orsetti (Picture
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Meetings Attended
- Peter Rona co-convened and co-chaired oral and poster sessions
on the subject of, "The Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems
at Slow-spreading Ocean Ridges," and presented a poster,
"Carlsberg Ridge and Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Comparison of slow-spreading
apparent analogs," at the 2005 Fall AGU Meeting 5-9 December
in San Francisco.
- Tony Broccoli was selected as convener for a session entitled
"Controls of the ITCZ Position in Past Climates: Observations
and Models" at the 2006 Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical
Union, May 2006.
- Tony Broccoli presented a talk at the Moorestown Friends School
entitled "Understanding Global Warming: Evidence and Controversy,"
November 21, 2005.
- Lily Young attended the SERDP (Strategic Environmental Research
and Development Program) Annual Symposium, Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 2005,
Washington, DC.
- Karen Bemis presented a poster on a new model of sedimentation
from seafloor hydrothermal plumes at this fall's AGU Meeting in
San Francisco. "Bemis, K.G., D. Silver, P. Rona, and J. Cowen,
A particle sedimentation model of buoyant jets: observations of
hydrothermal plumes, Eos Trans. AGU, 86 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl.,
Abstract T31A-0484."
- Alan Robock gave the following presentations:
-Evaluation of Soil Moisture Ocean
Salinity satellite retrievals of soil moisture using in situ soil
moisture observations (First Meeting of the SMOS Validation and
Retrieval Team, Ávila, Spain, November 21-24, 2005)
- Effects of Aerosols on the Carbon Cycle and
on Soil Moisture (invited presentation; with H. Li; AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, California, December 5-9, 2005)
- From Solar Dimming to Solar Brightening: Observations,
Modeling, Impacts (invited presentation; with M. Wild, A. Ohmura,
J. Feichter, P. Stier, and H. Li; presented by M. Wild; AGU Fall
Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 5-9, 2005)
- Evaluation of IPCC AR4 Soil Moisture Simulations
for the Second Half of the 20th Century (with H. Li and M. Wild;
presented by H. Li; AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California,
December 5-9, 2005)
- The 1452 A.D. Kuwae Eruption Signal Derived
from Multiple Ice Core Records: Greatest Eruption over the Past
700 Years (with C. Gao, S. Self, J. Witter, J. Steffenson, H.
Clausen, M. Siggaard-Andersen, S. Johnsen, P. A. Mayewski, and
C. Ammann; presented by C. Gao; AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco,
California, December 5-9, 2005)
- Modeling the Sulfate Deposition to the Greenland
Ice Sheet From the Laki Eruption (with L. Oman, G. Stenchikov,
T. Thordarson, and C. Gao; presented by L. Oman; AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, California, December 5-9, 2005)
- The Global Soil Moisture Data Bank - Benchmark
Soil Moisture Observations (with K. Vinnikov and H. Li; AGU Fall
Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 5-9, 2005)
- A Strategy for a Global In-Situ Soil Moisture
Network (with Peter J. van Oevelen, Tom J. Jackson, D. Entekhabi,
and Yann H. Kerr; presented by Peter J. van Oevelen; AGU Fall
Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 5-9, 2005)
New Grants
- Scott Glenn was awarded $500,000 from the Office of Naval Research
for his project "Development and Demonstration of a 13 MHz
Bistatic Transmitter Buoy Coupled to Standard and Superdirective
Shore-Base CODAR Receiver for Vessel Detection Application."
(11/15/05-11/01/06)
- Eric Simms was awarded $15,000 from the Consortium for Oceanographic
Research and Education for bringing the National Ocean Sciences
Bowl to the NJ/PA Region. ((12/01/05-7/15/06)
- Scott Glenn received a grant of $169,013 from the G. Unger Vetlesen
Foundation for a Vetlesen Fellowship in Master's in Operational
Oceanography Program. (11/01/05-10/31/06)
- Josh Kohut was awarded $20,317 from the University of California,
San Diego for his project "HF Radar National Data Management
Development." (6/01/05-5/31/06)
- Thomas Grothues received a $191,657 grant from the SNJ-DOT-Office
of Maritime Resources for his project "Fine Scale Spawning
Habitat Delineation for Winter Flounder to Help Mitigate Dredging
Effects." (7/01/05-6/30/07)
Publications
Rhine, E.D., E. Garcia-Dominguez, C.D. Phelps & L.Y. Young.
2005. Environmental Microbes Can Speciate and Cycle Arsenic. Environ
Sci Technol. 39:9569-9573.
Undergraduate & Graduate Student News
Katie Onesios, an Environmental Sciences undergraduate honors student,
represented undergraduates and spoke to the Board of Trustees and
Board of Managers, Dec 1, 2005.
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