November 27, 2000

Highlights

• In a new development the visiting group of Norwegian scientists to the COOL lab, were very impressed with the Bi-Static CODAR designs and plan to incorporate similar systems for management applications of Norwegian Harbor monitoring networks. Thanks to Josh Kohut for a great job.
• Scott Glenn, Oscar Schofield and Mike Crowley were given one hour to brief Rear Admiral Donaldson and the research heads of the Navy Research Labs last week at Stennis Space Center for the upcoming summer 2001 Coastal Predictive Skill Experiment. The Rear Admiral is the commander for all United States Naval Ocean/Weather/Data Forecasting efforts.
• The COOL lab was invited to provide a presentation for coastal observation networks at the International Ocean Hemisphere Network Project and International Ocean Network symposium in Japan.
• The COOL lab was contacted by environmental studies students at the Burlington County Institute of Technology for help in a LEO-15 Internet Journal project they are preparing for presentation at the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium to be held in July 2001 in Sydney Australia.

Meetings Attended

• Mike De Luca and Peter Rona presented an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional proposal for investigation of the Hudson Canyon system at a meeting at NOAA Headquarters on November 15th responding to the President's Ocean Exploration initiative.
• Ken Able and colleagues, Tom Grothues, Pete Rowe and Bob Diaz (VIMS), attended the 24th Annual Larval Fish Conference: Global Climatic Change, Essential Fisheries Habitat, and Early Life History Stages in Gulf Shores, Alabama 5-10 November, 2000. Papers were presented in the Essential Fisheries Habitat and Early Life History Stages sections.
• IMCS hosted a meeting of the NorthEast ocean Observing System (NEOS) 11-12 November--State Of Maine, U. Maine, U. Mass., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, SUNY Stony Brook, Columbia, U. Delaware, U. Maryland, Old Dominion U., and Virginia Inst. Marine Sciences were represented.
• Fred Grassle attended an international Census of Marine Life meeting of natural history museums and marine laboratory networks 15-17 November in Crete.
• Sybil Seitzinger gave an invited lecture on the "Global Scale Patterns of Eutrophication in Coastal Ecosystems" at Le Senate meeting in Paris, France, November 13-14 [Gestion des Risques Sante et Environment: Le Cas des Nitrates]. The French government is reviewing human health and the environmental issues concerning nitrogen enrichment.
• Sybil Seitzinger gave an invited lecture at UNESCO for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in Paris, France, on November 15, entitled "Changing Global Patterns in Coastal Biogeochemistry." The IOC is considering initiating a new program area in the biogeochemistry of ocean margins.

Let's Welcome

• Antoinetta Quigg, a postdoctoral associate with Paul Falkowski, will be joining us on December 1. Dr. Quigg is from Monash University, Australia and her office at IMCS will be in room 211, phone extension 255.