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May 30, 2003
Highlights
- 85th Annual Ag Field Day, April 26, 2003: Despite, or perhaps
because of the rain and muddy fields outside, the first floor
of the marine sciences building was crowded with visitors for
more than four hours on Saturday. Thanks to those who supplied
posters for the lobby and who were there to answer questions about
the demonstrations, posters, and aquaria (John Quinlan, Yonghua
Chen, Naomi Fleming, Georgina Spyres, and Judy Grassle). Very
special thanks go to Shannon Newby and her touch tank of marine
invertebrates and seaweeds, Grant Law and his colorful fish print
studio, and Bob Chant with his ever-popular salt wedge estuary
model. These three were there throughout the day, and may be responsible
for kindling an interest in marine science in the coming generation
of New Jersey students.
- Oscar Schofield was appointed to serve as an Associate Editor
for the Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans).
- Paul Falkowski was named to the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. This is a great tribute to his long term leadership
in oceanography.
- CBS and Fox nightly news will begin using COOL satellite imagery
in their nightly weather broadcasts.
- The COOL Glider group in collaboration with Webb Research Inc.
and Mote Marine Laboratory, flew a new miniaturized hyperspectral
absorption system on a Glider for the first time.
- Oscar Schofield was asked by the National Science Foundation
to act as a Chair & Convener for the "Ocean Research
Interactive Observational Networks (ORION)" Symposium to
be held in January 2004.
- Jim Ammerman served on the proposal review panel for the NOAA
Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB) Program in Washington,
DC, from April 23-25.
- The May 12 issue of Rutgers' Focus newspaper included a short
article on page 6 about Jim Ammerman's NSF Biocomplexity Grant
entitled "Measuring Marine Microbes."
- Alan Robock was invited to give a lecture at the University
of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, April 28, 2003.
His presentation was entitled "Volcanic Eruptions and Climate:
Winter Warming and Summer Cooling."
- John Reinfelder was invited to give a seminar in the Department
of Geosciences, Princeton University, March 13, "Mendeleev
Rain: Atmospheric Inputs of Trace Metals to Surface Waters in
New Jersey."
Meetings Attended
- Judith Weis was in Charleston, SC (May 20-21) participating
in a NOAA-sponsored workshop on Grass Shrimp as possible indicator
organisms for estuarine environmental health. On May 22, Judith
participated in a meeting at the NY Academy of Sciences' Harbor
Project, to discuss contaminants for a future in-depth analysis.
- Jennifer Francis chaired the American Meteorological Society's
7th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography as well as
a joint 2-day Symposium on High-Latitude Climate Variations in
Hyannis, MA during the week of May 12-16. She and her students
and colleagues presented the following papers:
- Francis, J.A. and E. Hunter: Arctic Upper-Level Winds from
Reanalyses and TOVS Satellite Retrievals.
- Groves, D. and J.A. Francis: Variability of the Arctic Atmospheric
Moisture Budget Derived from TOVS Satellite Data.
- Francis, J.A., A. Schweiger, and J. Key: A 20-year Data
Set of Downwelling Longwave Fluxes at the Arctic Surface from
TOVS Satellite Data.
- Chen, Y., J.A. Francis, J.R. Miller, and G.L. Russell: Observed
and Modeled Relationships among Arctic Climate Variables.
- Yan, L. and J.A. Francis: Cloud Properties in the Winter
Arctic from MODIS Data.
- Wang, S.-H., J.A. Francis, and D.H. Bromwich: Evaluation
of the NCEP/NCAR and ECMWF 15-year Reanalyses over the Data-Sparse
Arctic Ocean.
- Christopher Uchrin presented two papers at the 48th Annual Meeting,
New Jersey Academy of Science, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., Madison,
NJ, April, 2003:
- Mun, Y., and C.G. Uchrin. "Modeling of Ground Water
Flow and Solute Transport in a Fractured Rock System Affected
by Nonpoint Sources."
- Ahn, H.C., C.G. Uchrin, and G. van Orden. "Controlling
Stormwater Runoff Quality from a Low Density Residential Area."
- Jim Ammerman and Jason Sylvan attended the annual meeting of
the American Society for Microbiology in Washington, DC, from
May 18-22.
- Jim Ammerman attended the JGOFS Final Open Science Conference
in Washington, DC, from May 5-8.
- Oscar Schofield chaired the "The Southern Oceans Role in
Present and Past Climate" Session at the European Geophysical
Society-American Geophysical Union-European Union of Geosciences
Joint Assembly in Nice, France.
- On April 2, Jim Ammerman, chair of the Public Policy Committee
of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO),
attended AGU and AAAS policy briefings in Washington, DC, with
other ASLO members. The next day, he and other ASLO members visited
with House and Senate staffers on Capitol Hill, especially those
concerned with research and aquatic science issues. These visits
were part of the eighth annual Congressional Visits Days sponsored
by a broad coalition of science, engineering, and technology groups
- Papers co-authored by Alan Robock were presented at the EGS-AGU-EUG
Joint Assembly in Nice, France:
- Comparisons of soil moisture data from in situ measurements
and global hydrological model outputs (with G. Ramillien,
A. Cazenave, and P. C. D. Milly; presented by G. Ramillien;
EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, April 7-11, 2003)
- Evaluation of the North American Land Data Assimilation
System over the Southern Great Plains during the warm season
(with Lifeng Luo, Eric F. Wood, Fenghua Wen, Kenneth E. Mitchell,
Paul R. Houser, John C. Schaake, Dag Lohmann, Brian Cosgrove,
Justin Sheffield, Qingyun Duan, R. Wayne Higgins, Rachel T.
Pinker, J. Dan Tarpley, Jeffery B. Basara, and Kenneth C.
Crawford; EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, April
7-11, 2003)
- Overview and validation work of the North American Land
Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) (with Dag Lohmann, Kenneth
E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, Eric F. Wood, John C. Schaake,
Brian Cosgrove, Qingyun Duan, Justin Sheffield, Ming Pan,
Lifeng Luo, Jesse Meng, R. Wayne Higgins, Rachel T. Pinker,
and J. Dan Tarpley; presented by Dag Lohmann; EGS-AGU-EUG
Joint Assembly, Nice, France, April 7-11, 2003)
- An inter-comparison of soil moisture fields in the North
American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) (with John
C. Schaake, Qingyun Duan, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser,
Eric F. Wood, Dennis Lettenmaier, Dag Lohmann, Brian Cosgrove,
Justin Sheffield, Lifeng Luo, R. Wayne Higgins, Rachel T.
Pinker, and J. Dan Tarpley; presented by John C. Schaake;
EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, April 7-11, 2003)
- Assessment of snow modeling in the North American Land Data
Assimilation System (NLDAS) (with Ming Pan, Eric F. Wood,
Justin Sheffield, Fenghua Wen, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R.
Houser, John C. Schaake, Dag Lohmann, Brian Cosgrove, Qingyun
Duan, Lifeng Luo, and Bruce H. Ramsay; presented by Eric Wood;
EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, April 7-11, 2003)
New Grants
- Ken Able was recently awarded two research grants from Public
Service Enterprise Group's Estuary Enhancement Program totaling
$1.1 million over two years. The first grant (with Motz Grothues
as Co-PI) is "A continued evaluation of marsh restoration
in Delaware Bay during 2003-2004: comparison of fish assemblage
structure." The second is a new project on "Production
of fishes in restored salt marshes in Delaware Bay: estimates
for mummichogs in treated Phragmites marshes" with PI Stacy
Hagan and Martha Jones as Co-PI.
- Ximing Guo received $23,110 from the Virginia Institute of Marine
Science for his part of the Cooperative Oyster Selective Breeding
(CROSBreed) Project: Potential of Selected Stocks for Restoration.
- Dale Haidvogel has received a grant of $50,189 from the Office
of Naval Research for an "Ocean Model Evaluation Web Site:
Sediment Transport."
- Oscar Schofield received $223,658 from the Office of Naval Research
for "Developing the Ability to Map In Situ Optical Properties
in Coastal Waters Using Slocum Coastal Gliders."
Publications
- Luo, Lifeng, Alan Robock, Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, C. Adam Schlosser,
Andrew G. Slater, Aaron Boone, Harald Braden, Peter Cox, Patricia
de Rosnay, Robert E. Dickinson, Yong-Jiu Dai, Qingyun Duan, Pierre
Etchevers, Ann Henderson-Sellers, Nicola Gedney, Yevgeniy M. Gusev,
Florence Habets, Jinwon Kim, Eva Kowalczyk, Kenneth Mitchell,
Olga N. Nasonova, Joel Noilhan, Andrew J. Pitman, John Schaake,
Andrey B. Shmakin, Tatiana G. Smirnova, Peter Wetzel, Yongkang
Xue, Zong-Liang Yang, and Qing-Cun Zeng, 2003: Effects of frozen
soil on soil temperature, spring infiltration, and runoff: Results
from the PILPS 2(d) experiment at Valdai, Russia. J. Hydrometeorology,
4, 334-351.
- The Marine Field Station in Tuckerton had three articles in
the most recent issue of Estuaries: (1)Able, K.W. and S.M. Hagan.
2003. The impact of common reed, Phragmites australis, on Essential
Fish Habitat: Influence on reproduction, embryological development
and larval abundance of mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus). Estuaries
26(1): 40-50. (2)Teo, S.L.H. and K.W. Able. 2003. Growth and production
of the mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) in a restored salt marsh.
Estuaries 26(1): 51-63. (3) Diaz, R.J., G.R. Cutter and K.W. Able.
2003. The importance of physical and biogenic structure to juvenile
fishes on the shallow inner continental shelf. Estuaries 26(1):
12-20.
- Millie, D. F., G.L. Fahnenstiel, H.J. Carrick, S.E. Lohrenz,
and O. Schofield. 2002. Spatial variation in Lake Michigan phytoplankton
composition during sediment resuspenion events. Verh. Internat.
Verein. Limnol. 1216-1220.
- Schofield, O., W.P. Bissett, T.K. Frazer, D. Iglesias-Rodriguez,
M.A. Moline, and S. Glenn. 2003. Development of regional coastal
ocean observatories and the potential benefits to marine sanctuaries.
Marine Technology Society 37: 54-67.
- Rona, P., D. Jackson, K. Bemis, C. Jones, K. Mitsuzawa, D. Palmer,
and D. Silver. 2003. A new dimension in investigation of seafloor
hydrothermal flows. RIDGE 2000 Events, 1(1):26-29.
- Fennel, K., and E. Boss. 2003. Subsurface maxima of phytoplankton
and chlorophyll: Steady-state solutions from a simple model. Limnol.
Oceanogr. 48: 1521-1534.
- Ammerman, J. W., R.R. Hood , D.A. Case, and J. B. Cotner. 2003.
Phosphorus deficiency in the Atlantic: An emerging paradigm in
oceanography. EOS (Transactions, American Geophysical Union) 84:
165,170.
- Nikolaus, R., J.W. Ammerman, and I. R. MacDonald. 2003. Distinct
pigmentation and trophic modes in Beggiatoa from hydrocarbon seeps
in the Gulf of Mexico. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 32:85-93.
Student News
 The
2003 Outstanding Senior in Marine & Coastal Sciences Award
was presented to Jessie Sebbo on May 2, 2003.- Megan Linkin, a junior majoring in Meteorology (Alan Robock,
advisor) in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Cook College,
has been chosen to attend the National Center For Atmospheric
Research (NCAR) Undergraduate Leadership Workshop to be held in
Boulder, Colorado from June 17 to 21. All accepted applicants
have high academic standing and strong motivation to learn about
the latest research underway in the atmospheric and related sciences.
Participants will spend time exploring a wide range of research
topics with scientists at the NCAR Mesa Laboratory and Research
Aviation Facility and the UCAR Foothills Lab. Megan will present
a seminar in the Fall to Meteorology students at Rutgers to share
her experiences at NCAR. Her travel and participation in this
workshop is sponsored by the Center for Environmental Prediction.
- Amber Paschal (along with co-authors Victoria Williams and Jim
Ammerman) presented a poster entitled "Real-Time Nutrient
Mapping in the Mississippi River Plume Employing an Automated
Multi-Chemistry Analyzer" at the national meeting of the
American Chemical Society (ACS) in New Orleans in late March,
2003. Amber and Victoria were summer interns at IMCS in 2002 and
the poster was presented in an undergraduate research session.
Rutgers issued a press release about this poster.
- Chris Uchrin's Ph.D. student, Yuri Mun, gave a platform presentation
of their paper: Mun, Y., and C.G. Uchrin. Modeling of Ground Water
Flow and Solute Transport in a Fractured Rock System Affected
by Nonpoint Sources, at the 48th Annual Meeting, New Jersey Academy
of Science, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., Madison, NJ, April, 2003.
Yuri's presentation won THREE awards: 1. the NJAS Award for Achievement
in Research (awarded for the best student presentation in the
Marine and Coastal Sciences Area); 2. the NJAS-AAAS Award for
the best Graduate Student Presentation at the Annual Meeting;
and 3. the NJAS Award for Excellence in Marine and Coastal Science.
- Sandra Goodrow, M.S. student (John Reinfelder, advisor) defended
her thesis on April 9. Thesis title: "The Release of Mercury
Vapor from Land-Applied, Stabilized Harbor Sediments."
- Trisha Bergmann (Oscar Schofield, advisor) successfully defended
her dissertation on May 23, 2003. The title of her dissertation
is "The Physiological Ecology and Natural Distribution PATTERNS
of Cryptomonad Algae in Coastal Aquatic Ecosystems." Trisha
has accepted a post-doctoral position at the University of Maine.
She will be missed.
- Yungkul Kim defended his dissertation on 4/22/03 and received
his degree May 2003 (Eric Powell, advisor). His dissertation title
is "Geographical distribution of parasites and pathologies
and relationship to contaminant body burden in sentinel bivalves:
NOAA Status and Trends 'Mussel Watch' Program." Younger has
accepted a post-doctoral position with Eric Powell.
Congratulations
- Lissa Jerry and Jerry George are the proud parents of a new
baby boy, Richard.
- Max and Svetlana Gorbunov are the proud parents of a new baby
boy born on May 9, 2003. Mikhail is 8.13 lbs and 20.5 inch long.
Mother and child are doing fine.
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