March 19, 2001

Highlights

• The current (Winter 2001) issue of "Cross Section," the magazine of research at the Graduate School-New Brunswick, features an article, "The Other Final Frontier: Exploring Inner Space," that reports on Peter Rona's research and teaching on seafloor hydrothermal systems and continental margin processes.
  Amy Freestone, last year's winner of the outstanding senior award in marine sciences, received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for 3 years. Amy is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Graduate Group in Ecology at the University of California, Davis.
• Bonnie McCay was appointed to a new Federal Advisory Committee on Marine Protected Areas, NOAA/ DOC.

Meetings Attended

• Judith S. Weis spent several days last week visiting the University of California at Davis, where she gave a seminar to the Environmental Toxicology program, and one at the Bodega Marine Lab. Later this week, she will be at the AIBS meeting in Washington, where some notable marine biologists will be speaking - Jane Lubchenco, Nancy Rabalais, and Joy Zedler.
• News from Tuckerton: Tom Grothues, Stacy Hagan and Gregg Sakowicz presented papers at the joint meeting of the Tidewater and Mid-Atlantic Chapters of the American Fisheries Society in Easton, MD on March 1-3.
• On March 21st, Bonnie McCay gave an invited seminar on Privatization and Management of Natural Resources at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.

Let's Welcome

• Daniel Grzebyk is a new postdoctoral associate working with Costantino Vetriani, Lee Kerkhof and Paul Falkowski on phytoplankton evolution. Daniel arrived at IMCS on March 1st from La Rochelle, France, where he had a research position at CREMA. Please take a minute to introduce yourself and say hello to Daniel (room 303F, ext. 336).