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May 31, 2004
Highlights
- Interview by NJN news regarding the LaTTE Hudson River Plume
project, aired May 5 (see http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/).
- On May 2-8, 2004. Lily Young served as member of the international
committee to review and report on the Department of Environmental
Sciences at the ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische
Hochschule, or Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich).
- On April 20th, Lisa Totten was invited by a student organization
to speak at Swarthmore College to discuss the high concentrations
of PCBs measured by her lab group in the atmosphere there.
- On April 13th, Lisa Totten participated in the Annual Chemistry
Career Panel sponsored by the Monmouth County Section of the American
Chemical Society at Monmouth Community College.
- Rutgers Cooperative Extenstion, Department of Agriculture and
Resource Management and Department of Family and Consumer Services,
Rutgers Food Innovation Research and Extension Center, and the
New Jersey Department of Agriculture sponsored a conference (June
8, 2004) "Seafood: Assessing the Benefits and Risks."
For additional information, you can contact Gef Flimlin at 732
349-1152 or email at Flimlin@aesop.rutgers.edu.
- Congratulations to Sybil Seitzinger! Sybil has just been elected
President of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.
Starting July 1, she will be President-elect 2004-2006, President
2006-2008, and Past-President 2008-2010.
Meetings Attended
- Peter Rona presented an invited lecture on the science behind
the IMAX film, "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea," to the Old
Guard group at Princeton University on May 5th.
- Tony Broccoli attended a meeting of the Fellows of the Cooperative
Institute for Climate and Ocean Research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution on May 12, 2004.
- On May 23-27, 2004, Lily Young attended the American Society
for Microbiology Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Seven abstracts
were published and the projects were presented by students and
postdocs.
- Tierney M.L., C.D. Phelps & L.Y. Young. 2004. Novel
naphthalene degrading denitrifying organisms isolated from
estuarine sediments.
Gallagher E., C.D. Phelps, L.J. Kerkhof & L.Y. Young.
2004. Monitoring changes in anaerobic, aromatic degrading
communities using stable isotopes.
- Perez-Jimenez J.R., G. Zanaroli, F. Fava, L.Y. Young. 2004.
Molecular characterization of indigenous microbiota in PCB-containing
microcosms and sediments from the Venice Lagoon (Italy).
Scala D.J., J. Scrivo & L.Y. Young. 2004. Competition
between bacterial species for nutrients and substrates can
affect the rates of organic matter cycling in estuarine sediments.
- Garcia-Dominguez E., E.D. Rhine & L.Y. Young. 2004.
Arsenic oxidizing chemoautotrophic microorganisms from soil
and sediments.
- Rhine E.D., S.A. Banks & L.Y. Young. 2004. Anaerobic
arsenite oxidation by novel denitrifying isolates.
- Callaghan A.V. & L.Y. Young. 2004. Characterization
of a denitrifying hexadecane degrading consortium.
- Alan Robock presented the following paper: Soil moisture observations
for validation of remote sensing, with an example using retrievals
from the Tropical Rain Measurement Mission Precipitation Radar
(Invited presentation, with S. Seto, L. Luo, T. Oki, and T. Iguchi,
European Geosciences Union 1st General Assembly, Nice, France,
April 25-30, 2004).
New Grants
- John Wilkin received $49,517 from the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration for his project " Eleven Year climatologies
of high resolution east and west coast surface currents based
on satelite altimetry, infrared and ocean color imagery,"
5/1/04-4/30/05.
- Richard Dunk recieved two awards from the State of New Jersey,
Board of Public Utilities:
- "N.J. Offshore & Coastal Wind Energy Analysis:
Phase I, Atmospheric Monitoring and Analysis," $23, 870,
7/1/03 - 6/30/04.
- "N.J. Offshore & Coastal Wind Energy Analysis:
Phase III," $82,400, 1/1/04 -12/31/04.
- Ken Able received a $20,000 grant from the Army Corps of Engineers
for his project "Assessment risk on entrainment of juvenile
summer flounder," 3/12/04 - 7/30/04.
- Karl Nordstrom was awarded $56,950 from the National Park Service
for "Assessment of shore protection structures on the bay
shore of Fire Island National Seashore," 3/11/03-9/30/04.
- Bonnie McCay is part of a team that has been approved for a
$1.6 million award through the NSF Biocomplexity in the Environment
special competition on the Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human
Systems (CNH). They proposed an interdisciplinary study of fisheries
of the Pacific coast of Baja California, Mexico, and worked for
over a year, funded by a smaller Biocomplexity grant, to develop
the project with colleagues from Mexican institutions. The disciplines
involved are physical oceanography, marine biology, resource economics,
and cultural/environmental anthropology. Fiorenza Micheli, at
Stanford University (Hopkins Marine Lab) is the lead PI and Bonnie,
Laura Gonzalez (U. Texas), Chris Costello (U. Calif. Santa Barbara),
and Jim Wilson (U. Maine) are the US Co-PIs. The Mexico PIs are
headed by Salvador Lluch (CIBNOR, La Paz).
Publications
- Seidel, D., B. Hicks, K. Labitzke, J. Lanzante, J. Logan, J.
Mahlman, V. Ramaswamy, W. Randel, E. Rasmusson, A. Robock, R.
Ross, and S. F. Singer, 2004: Symposium honours Jim Angell on
his 80th birthday. SPARC Newsletter, No. 22, 21-24.
Student News
- Jared Klein, undergraduate Meteorology major, has been selected
to attend the Undergraduate Summer Leadership Workshop at the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado
in June, 2004. The purpose of the workshop is to inform students
about exciting research and career opportunities in the atmospheric
and related sciences. The five-day program will establish informal
dialogue between students and research scientists as the students
explore the laboratories, instrumentation, and computing facilities
that support studies on weather, climate change, solar dynamics,
the Sun-Earth system, and impacts of severe weather and climate
change on societies around the world. Jared will return to the
campus in the Fall and make a presentation on his experience to
the Meteorology Club, so as to share what he learned with them.
This is the third year in a row that a Rutgers student has been
selected for this prestigious program. His travel is being supported
by the Center for Environmental Prediction.
- April 27-29, 2004, Lily Young served on the Qualifying Exam
committee for Elizabeth Garcia-Dominguez at the University of
Caracas, Venezuela. Elizabeth is carrying out her research on
microbial arsenic transformations in Lily's lab.
Congratulations!
- Congratulations to Susan Keller on her marriage to Kenny Herman
on May 29, 2004!
- Younger and Hannah Kim welcome a new addition to their family.
Eugene Joseph arrived May 12, 2004 at 1:33AM. He weighs 7lbs.12ozs
and measures 20.50 inches.
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