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December 31, 2007
Highlights
- Runoff of large amounts of nitrogen from lawns into storm drains
continues to threaten the health of our coastal waterways in Southern
New Jersey. In an effort to raise public awareness of this problem,
the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve has joined
with Long Beach, Barnegat and Little Egg Harbor townships for
an "Adopt a Storm Drain" program. To read more, click
on the Atlantic City Press article "The
ubiquitous storm drain/Pay attention," December 5, 2007.
(pdf
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- The Atlantic City Press ran an article on climate change in
the Saturday (12/15) edition: "Warming
Puts Local Shores at Risk," which includes comments by
both Ken Able and Mike Kennish on global warming effects along
the New Jersey shore.
- Jennifer Francis gave an invited seminar at the National Center
for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, on 27 Nov. 2007 entitled,
"Atmospheric Drivers of Variability in Arctic Sea Ice."
- Oscar Schofield gave the following invited talks:
- Schofield, O. (October 2007). The evolution of the Coastal
Ocean Observation Laboratory. (Oceans 2007, Vancouver, Canada)
- Schofield, O. (October 2007). Biogeography of the global
ocean: Making sense of a dynamic world. (Ocean Microbe Meeting,
Bermuda, United Kingdom)
- Schofield, O. (December 2007). The science justification
for the Ocean Observatory Initiative (OOI). (NSF Preliminary
Design Review for OOI program, Washington DC)
- Alan Robock's talk "Nuclear Winter Revisited: Climatic
Consequences of Nuclear Conflict Using Current Nuclear Arsenals"
at the October 24 meeting of the Geological Society of Washington
was awarded the Bradley Prize for best talk of the year, December,
2007.
- Alan Robock appeared on Discovery Channel TV show, "A
Global Warning?" November 11, 2007.
Meetings Attended
- Kay Bidle and Assaf Vardi (post-doc) traveled to the University
of Washington and gave a joint talk on 6 December 2007 to the
The Center for Environmental Genomics and School of Oceanography
entitled “Desolation Row: Cellular Mechanisms Regulating
the Fate of Phytoplankton in the Oceans."
- Peter Rona with co-authors from the east coast National Undersea
Research Centers (NURCs), the NOAA Howard Sandy Hook Fisheries
Lab, Rutgers, Stony Brook University and Stockton College, presented
at the Fall AGU meeting 14 December in San Francisco results of
their NOAA NURP-supported August 2007 cruise of the NOAA Ship
Ron Brown that used the new AUV Eagle Ray to investigate physical
and chemical properties of the seafloor and water column in the
head of Hudson Canyon as an essential fish habitat offshore New
Jersey and New York.
- Alan Robock gave the following invited lectures and conference
presentations:
- The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania,
November 12, 2007 (On "Smoke and Mirrors: Is Geoengineering
a Solution to Global Warming?")
- The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania,
November 13, 2007 (On "Climatic Consequences of Nuclear
Conflict")
- Global warming (Elysian Charter School, Hoboken New Jersey,
November 27, 2007)
- Global Warming (Invited presentation; Preparing for Climate
Change Liability, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 29-30,
2007)
- Volcanic Eruptions and Climate: Sulfates are More Important
Than Halogens in Producing Climate Change (Invited presentation;
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 10-14,
2007)
- Defining New Roles for Scientific Professional Organizations
in Society? (Invited presentation; AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco,
California, December 10-14, 2007)
- Regional Climate Modeling over the Marmara Region, Turkey,
with Improved Land Cover Data (with Elif Sertel; presented
by Elif Sertel; AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California,
December 10-14, 2007)
- Climate Model Simulations of Tropical and Polar Stratospheric
Aerosol Injection: Cooling but Drought (Also served as Session
Chair; with Luke Oman and Georgiy Stenchikov; AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, California, December 10-14, 2007)
- Conference session convened: "Geoengineering,"
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 10-14,
2007.
- Lily Young gave the following invited and conference presentations:
- "Microbes, Minerals and Arsenic in Groundwater"
co-authors, E.D. Rhine, E. Garcia, K. Onesios, J.R. Reinfelder,
M.E. Serfes, (Invited Presentation) 20th Anniversary and Annual
Meeting of the Superfund Basic Research Program, NIEHS, Durham,
NC. Dec. 4, 2007.
- "Can Environmental Microbes Mobilize and Oxidize Arsenic
from Shale into Groundwater?" co-authors, E.D. Rhine,
K.M. Onesios, M.E. Serfes, J.R. Reinfelder, W. Zhu, AGU, Biogeosciences,
San Francisco, Dec. 10, 2007.
- W. Zhu, E.D. Rhine, L.Y. Young, M.E. Serfes, J.R. Reinfelder.
(Conference Poster) "Sulfide-driven Arsenic Solubilization
from Arsenopytie and pyritic black shale," AGU, Biogeosciences,
San Francisco, Dec. 10, 2007.
New Grants
- Arango, H. Office of Naval Research (con'td), "Characterization
& Modeling of the Lombok Strait Dynamics Using the ROMS 4DVAR."
12/1/06-12/31/08 ($150,000 addnl)
- DeLuca, M. Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education,
"Bringing the National Ocean Sciences Bowl to the NJ/PA Region."
11/16/07-6/30/08 ($15,000)
- Kerkhof, L. and Haggblom, M. National Science Foundation, "Collaborative
Research: IPY Microbial Subzero Activity and its Impact on Biogeochemical
Processes." 1/1/08-12/31/10 ($538,647)
- Metaxasa, D., Ulrich, K., Glenn, S., Schofield, O. National
Science Foundation Computer Network Systems Division 2007-2008.
"CSR-CSI: DDDAS-The Pervasive Dynamical Ecosystem for Oceanographic
Research" ($399,865)
- Oscar Schofield and Scott Glenn (Rutgers) Department of Defense-
Office of Naval Research 2008 "Mapping In situ optical properties
in coastal waters using Slocum gliders during the Naval RIMPAC
2008." (12/1/07-11/30/08) ($58,693)
Publications
- Cardona-Marek, T., J. Schaefer, K. Ellickson, T. Barkay, J.R.
Reinfelder. 2007. Mercury speciation, reactivity, and bioavailability
in a highly contaminated estuary, Berry's creek, New Jersey Meadowlands.
Environmental Science Technology. 41: 8268-8274.
- Castelao, R.M. and J.A. Barth (2007), The Role of Wind Stress
Curl in Jet Separation at a Cape. Journal of Physical Oceanography,
37, 2652-2671.
- Finkel, Z.V., J. Sebbo, S. Feist-Burkhardt, A.J. Irwin, M.E.
Katz, O. Schofield, J.R. Young, P.G. Falkowski. 2007. A universal
driver of macroevolutionary change in the size of marine phytoplankton
over the Cenozoic. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 104(51): 20416-20420. doi/10.1073/pnas.0709381104.
- Francis, J.A. and E. Hunter, 2007: Changes in the fabric of
the Arctic’s greenhouse blanket, Environ. Res. Lett.,
2, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/2/4/045011.
- Gaas, B.M. and J.W. Ammerman. 2007. Automated high resolution
ectoenzyme measurements: instrument development and deployment
in three trophic regimes. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods.
5:463-473.
- Guo, X., Y. Wang and Z. Xu. 2007. Genomic analyses using fluorescent
in situ hybridization. In: Aquaculture Genome Technologies,
Zhanjiang (John) Liu (ed), Blackwell Publishing, Ames, pp. 289-311.
- Hunt, H., M.J. Maltais, D. Fugate and R.J. Chant. 2007. Spatial
and temporal variability in juvenile bivalve dispersal: effects
of sediment transport and flow regime. Marine Ecology Progress
Series. 352 145-150 doi: 10.3354/meps07131
- Litchman E., C.A. Klausmeier, O. Schofield, P.G. Falkowski.
2007. The role of functional traits and trade-offs in structuring
phytoplankton communities: scaling from cellular to ecosystem
level. Ecology Letters. 10:
1170-1181.
- Liu, Y., J.R. Key, J.A. Francis and X. Wang. 2007. Possible
causes of decreasing cloud cover in the Arctic winter, 1982-2000,
Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L14705,doi:10.1029/2007GL030042
- Moline, M.A., M.J. Oliver, C.D. Mobley, L. Sundman, S.M. Blackwell,
T. Bergmann, W.P. Bissett, J. Case, E.H. Raymond, O. Schofield.
2007. Bioluminescence in a Complex Coastal Environment I: Temporal
Dynamics of
Night-time Water-leaving Radiance. Journal of Geophysical
Research. 112, DOI:10.1029/2007JC004138
- Oliver, M.J., M. Moline, C. Mobley, L.K. Sundman, and O. Schofield.
2007. Bioluminescence in a complex coastal environment: 2. Prediction
of bioluminescent source depth from spectral water-leaving radiance,
Journal of
Geophysical Research doi:10.1029/2007JC004136
- Qin, Y., X. Liu, H. Zhang, G. Zhang and X. Guo. 2007. Genetic
mapping of size-related quantitative trait loci (QTL) in the bay
scallop (Argopecten irradians) using AFLP and microsatellite
markers. Aquaculture, 272:281-290.
- Rhine, E.D., K. Onesios, M.E. Serfes, J.R. Reinfelder, L.Y.
Young. Arsenic Transformation and Mobilization from Minerals by
the Arsenite Oxidizing Strain WAO. Environ Sci Technol
(in press).
- Wang, L., H. Zhang, L. Song and X. Guo. 2007. Loss of allele
diversity in introduced populations of the hermaphroditic bay
scallop Argopecten irradians. Aquaculture, 271:252-259.
- White, D., L. Hinzman, L. Alessa, J. Cassano, M. Chamber, K.
Falkner, J. Francis, W.J. Gutowski, M. Holland, M.R. Holmes, H.
Hunington, D. Kane, A. Kliskey, C. Lee, J. McClelland, B. Peterson,
S.T. Rupp, F. Straneo, M. Steele, R. Woodgate, D. Yang, K. Yoshikawa,
T. Zhang. 2007. The arctic freshwater system: Changes and impacts.
Journal of Geophysical Research vol 122, G04S54, doi:
10.1029/2006JG000353
Student News
- Grant Law has accepted a post-doctoral position at Oregon Graduate
Institute's Science Technology Center for Coastal Margin Observation
& Prediction in beautiful Portland, Oregon. Grant's primary
project will be to explore the potential effects of climate change
on juvenile salmon
Let's Welcome
- Lisa Ojanen: "I’m very pleased to join the COOL group.
Most recently I held a GIS Analyst position with the Meadowlands
Environmental Research Institute here in New Jersey. Past appointments
include terrestrial remote sensing research in the University
of Maryland Dept. of Geography and in Goddard Space Flight Center's
Biospheric Science group; and ocean remote sensing and GIS at
the NOAA NCCOS Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment in
Silver Spring, Maryland. My M.S. was awarded by the University
of Florida's Dept. of Civil and Coastal Engineering; where I specialized
in remote sensing and geospatial mapping. My personal research
interests include investigating a potential corollary between
suspected Godzilla sightings and SST anomalies in the Sea of Japan,
and my favorite person is my dog." (Room 116, ext. 505)
- Igor Heifetz has joined IMCS as a Web Developer for Coastal
Ocean Observation Lab. Igor brings with him a lot of experience
from working as Senior Web/Graphic Designer for DeMarco Communication
Group in Fort Lee, NJ
and as IT specialist for Citigroup in New York, NY. Igor holds
a Bachelor degree in Radio Electronic and graduated from School
of Contemporary Art in Novgorod, Russia. Computers and graphics
are his passion and he is excited to be paid doing what he loves.
(Room 111E, ext. 374)
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