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April 30, 2003
Highlights
- Peter Rona was a featured speaker at the annual dinner of the
Rutgers Chapter of Sigma Xi on April 24th.
- George McGhee has been invited to be a Guest Participant, all
expenses covered, at the Konrad Lorenz Institute 2004 Altenberg
Workshop entitled "Modeling Biology: Genes, Shapes, Environment,"
which will be organized by Luciano da F. Costa and Gerd B. Mueller.
This workshop is part of a series organized by the Konrad Lorenz
Institute of Evolution and Cognition Research and is traditionally
held in Altenberg, a small village near Vienna, Austria. The Altenberg
Workshops focus on Theoretical Biology and are characterized by
their interdisciplinary nature.
Meetings Attended
- The Executive Committee of the Scientific Group on Methodologies
for the Safety Evaluation of Chemicals (SGOMSEC), co-chaired by
Michael Gochfeld, met in Florence, Italy April 1-2 to plan the
next three workshops on gender differences in response to chemicals,
new methods for evaluating toxic effects of mixtures, and methods
for assessing neurodevelopmental toxicity. Joanna Burger, also
a member of the committee assumed responsibility for the Gender
workshop scheduled for November 2003 at Ispra. SGOMSEC is a subcommittee
of SCOPE and has representatives from Asia, Africa, Europe and
North America.
- The Steering Committee of the Endocrine Active Substances Project
of the international Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
(SCOPE) met in Florence, Italy April 3-4. The committee has international
representation from North America and Europe and the five year
Project is chaired by Joanna Burger and Junshi Miyamoto (Japan).
The project culminated with a 500 person/100 paper workshop in
Japan (Nov. 2002), and the Committee approved its publication
both as a book and as a special issue of the journal "Pure
and Applied Chemistry."
- In late March, Judith Weis participated in a review of the New
Hampshire Sea Grant Program. After one day back home, it was back
to New England for the Benthic Ecology Meetings in Mystic, where
she presented some of the work done in Indonesia last summer,
and two of her graduate students presented papers of work done
in NJ.
- Karen Bemis presented a paper co-authored with Peter Rona, "Time-averaging
fluctuating seafloor hydrothermal plumes: measurements by remote
acoustic sensing," at the spring AGU meeting in Nice, France,
on April 8th.
- Jennifer Francis was invited to give her presentation, "20
Years of Downwelling Longwave Fluxes at the Arctic Surface from
TOVS Satellite Data" at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
(ARM) Program Science Team Meeting, 1-3 April 2003, Broomfield,
CO.
- Sybil Seitzinger attended a NY Seagrant Scientific Advisory
Council meeting in Albany, New York on March 10.
- Sybil Seitzinger and John Harrison ran a workshop at UNESCO-IOC
in Paris from March 22-28, for their global nutrient modeling
workgroup (Global NEWS).
- Sybil Seitzinger attended a Black Sea Environmental Recovery
Program (BSERP) workshop in Bulgaria from February 7-15th. A major
focus of this United Nations Development Program GEF project is
to determine land-based nutrient sources in the watershed that
are responsible for eutrophication of the Black Sea. Potential
applications of the global nutrient export models that she is
developing as part of a UNESCO-IOC project were discussed.
- Sybil Seitzinger attended a NSF BioGeoSciences Steering Committee
meeting in Washington, D.C. from February 23-25th.
- Sybil Seitzinger gave a series of scientific and public lectures
from February 25-28th at the University of Texas, Marine Science
Institute, at Port Aransas, for their Schweppe Lecture Series.
New Grants
- NSF/Office of Polar Programs grant awarded to Jennifer Francis
(PI), Jeff Key (NOAA), and Graeme Stephens (U. Wisc.), "Interactions
Among Observations of Lateral Advection, Cloud, and Surface Properties
in the Arctic." $288K over 3 years.
- NOAA grant awarded to Jennifer Francis (PI), Tony Reale (NOAA),
and Axel Schweiger (U. of Wash.), "Corrections of Systematic
Errors in TOVS Radiances." $150K over 3 years.
Publications
- Francis, J.A., 2002: Validation of reanalysis upper-level winds
in the Arctic with independent rawinsonde data, Geophysical Research
Letters, 29, 10.1029/2001GL014578.
- Groves, D.G. and J.A. Francis, 2002: The moisture budget of
the Arctic atmosphere from TOVS satellite data, J. Geophys. Res.,
D19, 4391, doi:10.1029/2001JD001191.
- Groves, D.G. and J.A. Francis, 2002: Variability of the Arctic
Atmospheric Moisture Budget from TOVS Satellite Data, J. Geophys.
Res., D24, 4785, doi:10.1029/2002JD002285.
Student News
- Congratulations to Weihan Chan, a graduate work-study student
in Sybil Seitzinger's lab, for being awarded a Phillip Alampi
Scholarship.
- Grant Law presented his paper, "Introducing a new spatially
discrete resource limited individual-based model," at the
inaugural meeting of the Northeast Evolution & Ecology Conference
(NEEC) on April 12 - 13, 2003.
- Undergraduate Research Fellow Kyle Kingman working with faculty
advisor Peter Rona presented a poster on his senior honors thesis,
"Cenozoic rates and patterns of deposition on the U.S. Atlantic
continental margin in the Hudson Canyon region," at a dinner
convened by Vice President for Undergraduate Education Susan Forman
on April 23rd.
Congratulations
- Thomas "Motz" Grothues and his wife Gabrielle had
their second child, a baby girl, born Monday April 7. Nathalie
Michelle was 20" and weighed 7 lb. 1 oz. Everyone is well.
Older brother Christopher not too sure.
- Antonietta Quigg--"I am off to Texas A&M University,
Galveston campus. I will start in the fall semester in the Department
of Marine Biology as a tenure track Assistant Professor. Research
in my lab will focus on the interactions of phytoplankton and
biogeochemical cycles - through space and time. I hope to have
three components to my research: Lab studies will focus on phytoplankton
ecophysiology; field research will be primarily based in Galveston
Bay and in the Gulf of Mexico and any forays into geological research,
will utilize the ODP facilities at College Station."
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