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March 5, 2001
Highlights
- Susan Boehme has accepted a new position at the New York Academy
of Sciences beginning April 2nd. She will be the deputy director
of a program entitled "Industrial Ecology, Pollution Prevention
and the NY/NJ Harbor." Her last day at IMCS will be March
23rd, however, she will remain a visiting faculty member and be
back regularly to finish up projects here.
- Karl Nordstrom won the Grove Karl Gilbert Award for excellence
in geomorphological research for the book Beaches and Dunes of
Developed Coasts, presented by the Geomorphology Specialty Group
of the Association of American Geographers.
- Uwe Kils' photograph of an eel larva (Conger oceanicus) is the
FishBase first-ranked photo of the month. See: http://www.fishbase.org/Photos/BestPhotoThumbnails.cfmon
Meetings Attended
- Karl Nordstrom presented a paper, "The Role of Geomorphology
and Geomorphologists in Human-modified Landscapes," at the
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New
York 1 March.
- Hongguang Ma and Judy Grassle attended the ASLO meeting (Feb
12-16) in New Mexico. Hongguang presented a talk entitled "Spatial
Variation in Larval Surfclam Concentrations During Upwelling and
Downwelling on the New Jersey Continental Shelf." Judy Grassle
and Bob Chant are coauthors.
- Rob Sherrell presented a talk entitled "Trace Metals and
Phosphorus in Water and Phytoplankton of Lake Superior" at
the recent ASLO meeting in Albuquerque, NM. The talk presented
the first results of an NSF-funded interdisciplinary study of
metal-phytoplankton interactions in this large oligotrophic lake.
Co-authors included Rutgers undergraduate Eric Quilty and colleagues
from the University of Minnesota and Bowling Green State University.
The work showed Lake Superior to have the lowest dissolved phosphorus,
lead and silver concentrations yet measured in any aquatic or
marine system, and suggested the potential for iron limitation
of phytoplankton production during late summer.
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