June 11, 2001

Highlights

• Sybil Seitzinger leaves June 15 for sabbatical at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission with the United Nations Scientific Educational and Cultural Organization (IOC/UNESCO) in Paris. She will be developing a new IOC/UNESCO initiative on the effects of land use in watersheds on nutrient inputs to coastal ecosystems. Rumor has it that there will be other initiatives as well, including, but not limited to drinking fine French wine, bicycling through wine country, jogging along the Seine, windsurfing in the Mediterranean, and ice climbing in the Alps.
• Hilairy Hartnett is now the Associate Director for the Rutgers/NOAA Cooperative Marine Education and Research Program. She will also be managing the Ecosystems Laboratory while Sybil is on sabbatical.

Meetings Attended

• Bonnie McCay served on the Working Group on Fishery Systems for ICES, the International Council for Exploration of the Seas, in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 12-15. This group is developing research comparing fishery management and science systems of the North Atlantic.
• Susan Ford spent the week of June 3-10 at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa Barbara, CA as a member of a working group on Diseases in the Ocean. The Center fosters integrative research that synthesizes existing data to "search for general patterns and principles in ecology" and to organize information "in a manner useful to researchers, resource managers, and policy makers." Susan's invitation to participate was based on the long-term data set on oyster populations and diseases that has been gathered at the Haskin Shellfish Research Lab over the past half century.

Let's Welcome

• Please welcome John Kerfoot who has joined the COOL lab. He comes from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He will be working on optics and phytoplankton.

Congratulations

• Taeko Minegishi has been awarded an Undergraduate Student Travel award to attend the Estuarine Research Federation Meeting in St. Petersburg, FL in November. Congratulations!
• Congratulations to Rebecca Seidenfeld (aka Becki) on her recent marriage to Joseph Cerroni. Her e-mail address and phone greeting will change so it will be confusing for a while, but hopefully it will be official by the end of July.