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May 31, 2008

Highlights

  • Eleanor Bochenek, Marine Scientist, has been appointed by Governor Corzine to serve a three year term on the New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council.
  • Fred Grassle received the National Water Quality Monitoring Council's Vision Award for extraordinary vision and leadership in the field of water quality monitoring at the National Monitoring Conference in Atlantic City, May 19, 2008.
  • Patricia Ramey was invited as a participant in the International workshop on bar-coding of deep-sea organisms. Organized by the Census of Abyssal Marine Life “CeDAMar” in cooperation with the Marine Barcode of Life Initiative “MarBoL”. Hosted by German center for Marine Biodiversity Research and Senckenberg Research Institute, Wilhelmshaven, Germany May 13-18
  • Jim Ammerman and graduate students Brian Gaas and Sophia Johnson (Environmental Sciences) participated in a three week cruise (May 3-25) aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer from Bermuda south to Puerto Rico, east to the mid-Atlantic, and northwest back to Bermuda. The cruise investigated microbial phosphorus cycling and effects of elevated carbon dioxide on nitrogen-fixing microbes.
  • Jennifer Francis was quoted in news stories by Reuters and the Associated Press following a tele-press conference on a new paper in Eos Transactions that she co-authored entitled: "The Arctic and Antarctic: Two Faces of Climate Change," Overland, Turner, Francis, and Gillette, vol 89, 6 May 2008. http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKN0220811720080502 http://www.timesleader.com/news/ap?articleID=513864
  • COOL Glider, RU17 is beginning its Atlantic crossing, you can read more in the May 28, 2008 article by Kirk Moore of the Asbury Park Press. Go to the link http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080528/NEWS/805280427 or click here to read.
  • Assaf Vardi, Paul Falkowski and Kay Bidle were featured in a 'News Article' in the 29 May 2008 issue of Nature (Lane, N. 2008. Origins of death. Nature 453:583-585). The article highlights their work investigating programmed cell death in diverse marine phytoplankton.
  • Kay Bidle, Assaf Vardi and Liti Haramaty are participating in a large-scale mesocosm study at the Marine Biological Station in Bergen, Norway. They are part of an international team of investigators studying viral infection of Emiliania huxleyi.
  • George McGhee has been elected as a Member of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria, by vote of the General Assembly of the KLI.
  • Peter Rona presented an invited talk, Inner Space to Outer Space: Frozen Fire, Volcanoes and Mysterious Life Forms of the Ocean, at a NOAA Ocean Exploration Program Professional Development Workshop held at the New England Aquarium in Boston on May 17th.
  • Norb Psuty gave a presentation on sea level rise at a conference in France at the beginning of 2008. It was taped and now it is on the web. To view, go to http://ustltv.univ-lille1.fr/tableau.aspx and do the following: click on “RECHERCHE” on the top menu, click on "Janvier 2008" on the bottom left menu, go to the "2" page, and the presentation is fourth on the list.
  • Oscar Schofield gave the following presentations:
    • Schofield, O. (April 2008). Unveiling the biological complexity in the coastal oceans: A decadal view from the COOL Room. (University of Southern California)
    • Schofield, O. (April 2008). Hot days in the Southern Ocean. Climate induced migration of the West Antarctic Peninsula (Oregon State University)
    • Schofield, O. (April 2008). Lessons learned from a decade building the Coastal Ocean Observation Lab (Oregon State University)
  • Anthony Broccoli gave the following presentations:
    • Invited talk entitled "The Co-Evolution of Energy and Climate," Rutgers Energy Institute 3rd Annual Symposium, Piscataway, NJ, April 2008.
    • "Effects of Global Warming on Hydrologic Extremes," Dept. of Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, NJ, May 2008.
    • "The Climate Ahead: Global Changes and Local Impacts," Industrial Advisory Board, Center for Advanced Food Technology, Rutgers University, East Brunswick, NJ, April 2008."The Climate Ahead: Global Changes and Local Impacts," New Jersey Natural Gas Company, Earth Day Luncheon, Wall, NJ, April 2008.
    • Speaker at reception sponsored by Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence at National Science Teachers Association 2008 National Conference, Boston, MA, March 2008.
    • "The Climate Ahead: Global Changes and Local Impacts," Somerset Naturalists, Somerset County Library, Bridgewater, NJ, March 2008.
  • Alan Robock gave the following talks:
    • Global warming talk to Princeton Community Democratic Organization, Princeton, NJ, April 20, 2008.
    • Global warming talk to Wall Township, sponsored by the Wall Township Environmental Advisory Committee, Wall Township, NJ, April 24, 2008.
  • Alan Robock was quoted in an article by Brandon Keim on wired.com, ''Geoengineering Quick Fix Would Wreak Ozone Havoc,'' April 24, 2008, http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/geoengineering.html or click here to read.

Meetings Attended

Qizhong (George) Guo presided over an ASCE task committee meeting, moderated a session, and presented a paper on certification guidelines for stormwater manufactured treatment devices at the EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12-16, 2008.

New Grants

  • Arango, H. Office of Naval Research, "Characterization and Modeling of the Lombok Strait Dynamics Using the ROMS 4DVAR." 12/01/06-12/31/08, ($60,000 addnl)
  • Bidle, K. National Science Foundation, "Role of Metacaspases in Mediating Cell Fate During Viral Infection of Unicellular, Marine Phytoplankton." 04/30/08-07/31/08, ($6,000 supplemental support for REU: Olga Korenovska)
  • Bricelj, M. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, "GOMTOX: Dynamics of Alexandrium Fundyense Distributions in the Gulf of Maine." 04/01/08-08/31/08, ($31,708)
  • DeLuca, M. National Estuarine Research Reserve System, "Integration of the National Estuarine Research Reserve System into the Integrated Ocean Observing System." 09/01/05-08/31/08, ($42,250 addnl)
  • Falkowski, P. Agouron Institute, "How the Nitrogen Cycle Evolved During the Great Oxidation Event." 05/01/08-04/30/09, ($120,915)
  • Field, P.M. National Science Foundation, "Third International SF-ICP-MS Meeting." 06/15/08-05/31/09, ($27,500)
  • Kennish, M., Lathrop, R. (PIs), and Haag, S. (Co-PI). Barnegat Bay National Estuary Program/USEPA, "Remote Sensing and In Situ Survey of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary." 06/01/09-05/31/10, ($65,505)
  • Kerkhof, L. Batelle Memorial Institute, "Molecular Ecology Studies at the Rifle, Colorado Field Research Site." 05/10/07-09/30/08, ($200,000 addnl)
  • Schofield, O., Glenn, S., Kohut, J., Oliver, M. Department of Defense-Office of Naval Research, DURIP 2008 “Characterizing continental shelves with satellites and gliders” ($351,000)
  • Zavala-Garay, J. Office of Naval Research, "Sub-mesoscale Ocean State Estimation in Shelf/Slope Regions Using Variational Data Assimilation." 04/01/08-12/31/09, ($71,653)

Publications

  • Akob, D.M., H.J. Mills, T.M. Thomas, L. Kerkhof, J.W. Stucki, A.S. Anastacio, K. Chin, K. Kusel, A.V. Palumbi, D.B. Watson, J.E. Kostka. 2008. Functional diversity and electron donor dependence of microbial populations capable of U(VI) reduction in radionuclide-contaminated subsurface sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74: 3159-3170.
  • Altieri, K.E., S.P. Seitzinger, A.G. Carlton, B.J. Turpin, G.C. Klein, A.G. Marshall. 2008. Oligomers formed through in-cloud methylglyoxal reactions: Chemical composition, properties, and mechanisms investigated by ultra-high resolution FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry, Atmos. Environ., 42:1476-1490.
  • Bushek, D., A. Kornbluh, H. Wang, X. Guo, G. Debrosse, J. Quinlan. 2008. Fertilization interference between Crassostrea ariakensis and Crassostrea virginica: A gamete sink? Journal of Shellfish Research. 27(3): 593-600.
  • Cahill, B., O. Schofield, R. Chant, J. Wilkin, E. Hunter, S. Glenn, and P. Bissett. 2008. Dynamics of turbid buoyant plumes and the feedbacks on near-shore biogeochemistry and physics, Geophysical Research Letters
    doi:10.1029/2008GL033595
  • Castelao, R., O. Schofield, S.M. Glenn, J. Kohut, R. Chant. 2008. Cross-shelf transport of fresh water in the New Jersey Shelf during spring and summer. 2006. Journal of Geophysical Research. DOI:10.1029/2007JC004241
  • Ervens, B., A.G. Carlton, B.J. Turpin, K.E. Altieri, S.M. Kreidenweis, G. Feingold. (2008) Secondary organic aerosol yields from cloud-processing of isoprene oxidation products, Geophys. Res. Lett., 10.1029/2007GL031828.
  • Falkowski, P.G., L. Godfrey. 2008. Electrons, life and the evolution of Earth's oxygen cycle. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0054
  • Falkowski, P.G., T. Fenchel, E.F. Delong. 2008. The microbial engines that drive Earth's biogeochemical cycles. Science 320: 1034-1039
  • Lutz, R.A., T.M. Shank, G. Luther, C. Vetriani, M. Tolstoy, D.B. Nuzzio, T.S. Moore, F. Waldhauser, M. Crespo-Medina, A.D. Chatziefthimiou, E.R. Annis, A.J. Reed. 2008. Interrelationships between vent fluid chemistry, temperature, seismic activity, and biological structure at a mussel-dominated, deep-sea hydrothermal vent along the East Pacific Rise. Journal of Shellfish Research 27(1): 177-190.
  • Mikkelsen, O.A., T.G. Milligan, P.S. Hill, R.J. Chant, C.F. Jago, S.E. Jones, V. Krivtsov, G. Mitchelson-Jacob. The influence of schlieren on in situ optical 2 measurements used for particle characterization. Limnology and Oceanography Methods, 2008, 6:133-143
  • Nees, H.A., T.S. Moore, K.M. Mullaugh, R.R. Holyoke, C.P. Janzen, S. Ma, E. Metzger, T.J. Waite, M. Yucel, R.A. Lutz, T.M. Shank, C. Vetriani, D.B. Nuzzio, G.W. Luther. 2008. Hydrothermal vent mussel habitat chemistry, pre- and post-eruption at 9 (degrees) 50 (minutes) on the East Pacific Rise. Journal of Shellfish Research 27(1): 169-175.
  • Overland, Turner, Francis, and Gillett, The Arctic and Antarctic: Two Faces of Climate Change, Eos Trans. of the AGU, 89, 177-178, 2008.
  • Quan, T.M., B. van de Schootbrugge, M.P. Field, Y. Rosenthal, and P.G. Falkowski. 2008. Nitrogen isotope and trace metal analyses from the Mingolsheim core (Germany): Evidence for redox variations across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 22, GB2014, doi:10.1029/2007GB002981.
  • Richards, G.P., M.A. Watson, E.J. Crane III, I.G. Brut, D. Bushek. 2008. Shewanella and Photobacterium spp. in oysters and seawater from the Delaware Bay. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74(11): 3323-3327.
  • Robock, A. 2008: The problems with geoengineering. Science (in press).
  • Robock, A. 2008: 20 reasons why geoengineering may be a bad idea. Bull. Atomic Scientists, 64, No. 2, 14-18, 59, doi:10.2968/064002006.
  • Schofield, O., J. Kohut, S.M. Glenn. 2008. Coastal observing networks and dawn in a new millennium of well sampled oceans. Sea Technology. 49: 31-36
  • Vardi, A., K. Bidle, C. Kwityn, D. Hirsch, S.M. Thompson, J.A. Callow, P. Falkowski, and C. Bowler. 2008. A diatom gene regulating nitric oxide signaling and susceptibility to diatom-derived aldehydes. Current Biology (in press).
    DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.05.037

Student News

Congratulations to Clifford Kwityn, the 2008 Marine and Coastal Sciences Outstanding Senior Award winner.

(Far left, pictured lt to rt) Assaf Vardi, Kay Bidle (advisor), Jim Miller, chair and Clifford Kwityn
  • Matthew Bruno (Lily Young, advisor), Aresty award and poster presentation, Microbial Arsenite Oxidation in a Geothermal Spring in Yellowstone National Park. April 25, 2008.
  • Joseph Anello (Lily Young, advisor), Aresty award and poster presentation, Anaerobic Degradation of Phenol and Benzene in a Sulfidogenic Consortium, April 25, 2008.
  • Thomas Wang (Lily Young, advisor), Aresty award and poster presentation, Examination of the Presence of Genes Involved in the Nitrogen Cycle on a Watershed Scale, April 25, 2008.
  • Thomas Wang (Lily Young, advisor), George H. Cook Honors Thesis and presentation, Examination of the Presence of Genes Involved in the Nitrogen Cycle on a Watershed Scale, April 25, 2008.

Congratulations!

"Congratulations to Charles Belmonte and Jessica Zahorian who were married on March 29, 2008.

Best wishes from all of us at IMCS."

 

 




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