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March 31, 2005
Highlights
- Alan Robock has been appointed Chair of the Climate Technical
Committee of the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American
Geophysical Union. As Chair, he will provide input to the Secretaries
in charge of the Spring and Fall Meetings for timely special session
topics in the area of Climate.
- Alan Robock has produced a Power Point on Volcanic Eruptions
and Climate, and it was made available to the community for use
in teaching. As of March 16, seven days after it was made available,
there had been 1,740 downloads. You can access it at: http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/robock/VolcanoClimate11ForDistribution.ppt
You will also need the Pinatubo movie: http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/robock/pin.AVI
Meetings Attended
- Sybil Seitzinger, Jean-Paul Simjouw and Rachel Sipler attended
and made presentations at the GEOHAB Open Science Meeting on Harmful
Algal Blooms and Eutrophication in Baltimore, Maryland, March
7-10.
- Sybil Seitzinger visited the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
to present a seminar entitled "Dissolved organic matter:
molecular level chemical characterization to global scale models
of sources," March 23-24.
- Peter Rona participated in the NOAA Stakeholder Forum, conferred
with NOAA officials on products and prospects for the Rutgers-US
Geological Survey-WHOI-Stony Brook Hudson Canyon region project,
and presented a seminar to a packed audience at NOAA Headquarters
in Silver Springs on 2-3 March.
- As a member of the Climate Change Subcommittee, Alan Robock
attended the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Design
Consortium, Science and Human Dimensions Committee Meeting, Boston,
Massachusetts, March 15-17, 2005.
- Alan Robock made the following conference presentations:
- Evaluation of IPCC soil moisture simulations using observations
for the second half of the 20th Century (with Haibin Li; presented
by Haibin Li; International Workshop on IPCC Model Analysis,
Honolulu, Hawaii, March 1-4, 2005)
- Volcanic Impact on Arctic Oscillation and Stratosphere-Troposphere
Dynamic Interaction in the IPCC Historic Runs (with G. Stenchikov,
K. Hamilton, R. Stouffer, B. Santer, and V. Ramaswamy; presented
by G. Stenchikov; International Workshop on IPCC Model Analysis,
Honolulu, Hawaii, March 1-4, 2005)
- Jim Ammerman attended the following meetings in March:
- NOPP Ocean Eco-Genomics Workshop (Monitoring and Measurement
of the Ocean "Genome"), Washington, DC, March 7-8,
2005.
- Hudson River Foundation Workshop on Nutrient Dynamics, Lower
Trophic Levels and Community Metabolism, New York City, March
9-10, 2005.
- NSF Biocomplexity Awardees Meeting, Arlington, VA, March
21-23, 2005. (Presented a contributed poster co-authored with
graduate student Brian Gaas, entitled "Continuous Underway
Microbial Enzyme Activity Measurements in Seawater: The First
Step Towards Automated In Situ Measurements," which was
also presented at the Eco-Genomics Workshop.)
- Alan Robock presented the following invited lectures:
- Royal Holloway, University of London, England, March 3,
2005 (On "Volcanic Eruptions and Climate")
- University of Reading, England, March 4, 2005 (On "Volcanic
Eruptions and Climate")
- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole
Normale Supérieur, Paris, France, March 11, 2005 (On
"Volcanic Eruptions and Climate")
- Tony Broccoli gave a talk entitled "Global Warming and
Climate Feedbacks" at the Department of Physics and Astronomy
at Rutgers University on March 23, 2005.
- Oscar Schofield gave the following invited seminars:
- The utility for a geostationary satellite for biological
oceanography. Science advisory team GOES-R Hyperspectral Environmental
Suite (HES) Coastal Waters (CW) Imager (Portland, OR)
- The evolution of the ocean observing networks. Virginia
Institute of Marine Sciences (Gloucester Point, VA)
New Grants
- Oscar Schofield was awarded a Differential Tuition Cook College
Education Grant 2005 ($15,000), for his project "Enhancement
of Oceanographic Methods and Data Analysis."
- Scott Glenn was awarded a Differential Tuition Cook College
Education Grant 2005 ($5,000), for his project "Development
of an Undergraduate Outreach Teaching Lab."
- Department of Defense- Office of Naval Research 2005 ($53,000)
"Expansion of Optical Detection and Assessment of the Harmful
Alga, Karenia brevis, Purchase of a Hyspectral Radiometer"
PI Oscar Schofield
- National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP) 2005-2008 ($899,504)
"Development of fluorescent induction and relaxation systems
for the measurement of biomass and primary productivity on Webb
Slocum gliders" PIs Rutgers (Oscar Schofield, Scott Glenn,
Paul Falkowski, Maxim Gorbunov), Satlantic (Scott MaClean), Webb
Research (Clayton Jones)
- National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP) 2005-2008. ($1,367,000)
"Novel Acoustic Techniques to Measure Schooling in Pelagic
Fish in the Context of an Operational Coastal Ocean Observatory"
PIs Oregon State University (K. Benoit-Bird), Rutgers (O. Schofield,
S. Glenn, J. Quinlan), Applied Physics Lab (Christopher Jones)
- Sybil Seitzinger was awarded $75,000 from UNESCO for her project
"Promoting Ecosystem Based Approaches to Fisheries Conservation
and LME's." (3/2/05-3/1/06)
- Oscar Schofield received $62,937 from University of New Hampshire-CICEET
for his project titled "Improving the Spatial Mapping Within
the National Estuarine Research Reserve System Using Bio-Optical
Technologies." (2/10/05-9/30/05)
- Office of Naval Research awarded Scott Glenn $125,000 for his
project "Transitioning Slocum Autonomous Underwater Gliders
into Naval Oceanographic Office Operations (OPNR)." (2/15/05-12/31/05)
Publications
- Lowell, R.P., and P. A. Rona, 2004, Hydrothermal activity, Encyclopedia
of Geology, Elsevier, 5:362-372.
- Robock, A., 2005, Cooling following large volcanic eruptions
corrected for the effect of diffuse radiation on tree rings. Geophys.
Res. Lett., 32, L06702, doi:10.1029/2004GL022116.
- Dahl, K.A., A.J. Broccoli and R.J. Stouffer, 2005: Assessing
the role of North Atlantic freshwater forcing in millennial scale
climate variability: a tropical Atlantic perspective. Climate
Dynamics, 24, 325-346.
Student News
- On March 16, 2005, Yonghua Chen successfully defended her PhD
dissertation titled "Observed and modeled relationships among
surface temperature, cloud properties, and longwave radiation
over the Arctic Ocean." Members of her committee are Jennifer
Francis & James Miller (co-advisors), John Wilkin, Filipe
Aires (outside member) and Tony Beesley (outside member).
- Katye Altieri has been accepted to the SOLAS (Surface Ocean
- Lower Atmosphere Study) Program. SOLAS is an international research
initiative which aims to achieve quantitative understanding of
the key biogeochemical-physical interactions and feedbacks between
the ocean and the atmosphere, and how this coupled system affects
and is affected by climate and environmental change. The SOLAS
Summer School is a biennial, international event that brings together
over 70 students and 20 lecturers for a mix of lectures and practical
workshops. The summer school takes place at the Institut d'Etudes
Scientifiques de Cargese in Corsica, France from August 29-September
10.
- Steve Litvin has accepted to participate as a research scholar
in the Santa Fe Institutes Complex Systems Summer School, taking
place from June 5 to July 1, 2005. The school offers an intensive
four-week introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical,
living, and social systems. The curriculum consists of a series
of lectures, laboratories, and discussion sessions focusing on
foundational ideas, tools, and current topics in complex systems
research. In addition,
participants will formulate and carry out team projects related
to topics covered in the school.
- Congratulations to Zoe Finkel who has received the Rutgers Graduate
School Research Award for 2004-2005.
Congratulations
- Congratulations to Donna Falk on the Bat Mitzvah of her daughter,
Brenda, on Saturday, March 26, 2005.
- Dennis Gray and Lena Jonsson welcome a new addition to their
family, Isaac Max Gray born on Saturday, March 26 at 11:48pm.
Isaac weighed in at 8lbs. 8oz. and 21.5 inches long. Mother and
son are well!
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