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April 30, 2004
Highlights
- Joanna Burger of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Division was elected a fellow of the International Union of Pure
and Applied Chemistry.
- Peter Rona gave invited lectures on the subject of, "Volcanoes
of the Deep Sea: Science Behind the IMAX Film," at the New
York Academy of Sciences (April 22) and at the Explorers Club
(April 12).
- On April 19th, a delegation of eight members from Tianjin Municipal
Government (China), including Mr. Sun Lianyou, Deputy Director
of Tianjin Oceanic Administration Bureau and Ms.Wang Hong, Deputy
Director of Tianjin Education Commission, made a visit to IMCS.
The delegation hosted by Qizhong (George) Guo spoke with Fred
Grassle on ocean policy, marine bio-census, and coastal monitoring,
Mike DeLuca on the national estuarine research reserve program,
and Bob Chant on the Hudson River plume study. Jennifer Bosch,
Char Fuller and Sam Jones gave our visitors a tour of the COOL
lab, flume, and coral reef study lab respectively.
- Ximing Guo was appointed as an Associate Editor of the Journal
of World Aquaculture Society on April 15, 2004.
- Ximing Guo gave a lecture on "Shellfish and Shellfish Aqaculture"
to high school students at the Cape May Technical School on April
5, 2004.
- John Wilkin, Paul Goodman and Hernan Arango hosted a visit by
5 water quality and ocean circulation modelers from the environmental
engineering company HydroQual Inc and Stevens Institute of Technology.
HydroQual will incorporate output from the IMCS Ocean Modeling
Group's simulations of the northeast North American shelf into
their Mid-Atlantic Bight water quality model.
- Jim Ammerman lead 12 other scientists (including faculty and
teachers, graduate and undergraduate students) from Rutgers, Texas
A&M (College Station and Galveston), and VIMS on a 5-day cruise
in the Mississippi River plume and coast of Louisiana from March
10-14. This cruise was supported by the NOAA coastal ocean program
to map productivity and nutrient limitation in the region of where
seasonal oxygen depletion of the deep water is a major concern.
Meetings Attended
- Bonnie McCay was a panelist at the State of the Planet 2004
meeting at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York
City, March 30th. [note: the only one from Rutgers and one of
only two from the marine sciences]
- Sybil Seitzinger attended a Planning Committee Meeting in Santiago
de Compostela, Spain (March 27-April 3), for the ASLO Summer 2005
meeting which will take place there.
- Bonnie McCay gave a paper on "marine anthropology"
at the Society for Applied Anthropology meetings, Dallas, TX,
April 1st; she served on a panel there on anthropology and marine
fisheries policy on April 2nd.
- Liz Sikes and Dave Fugate attended the Coastal Benthic Exchange
Dynamics (CBED) workshop (April 5-7). The CBED workshop is part
of the NSF-sponsored CoOP program and was convened in order to
develop a science plan for future CoOP funded research on how
"benthic processes contribute to the transport, transformation,
and fate of biologically, chemically and geologically important
matter in the coastal ocean."
- Bonnie McCay participated in the 3rd meeting of the Federal
Advisory Committee on Marine Protected Areas, in Key Largo, FL,
April 6-8, 2004 (Bonnie is vice-chair).
- Sybil Seitzinger Co-Chaired with Mike Kennish, the Barnegat
Bay Workshop entitled, "Impacts to Coastal Systems,"
held at Rutgers University, April 7 and 8. She presented "Setting
the Stage: An Overview of the Barnegat Bay System" and the
workshop was covered by NJN television.
- Alan Robock made the following conference presentations:
- Tree Rings and Volcanic Eruptions (Invited presentation,
Tree Rings and Climate: Sharpening the Focus, Tucson, Arizona,
April 6-9, 2004)
- Panel Discussion (Invited presentation, Tree Rings and Climate:
Sharpening the Focus, Tucson, Arizona, April 6-9, 2004)
- Sybil Seitzinger attended the Bermuda Biological Station for
Research (BBSR) Trustees Meeting, Bermuda, April 22-23.
New Grants
- Fred Grassle received $45,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
for "Develop the Census of Marine Life Program in China",
3/1/04-4/30/05.
- Elisabeth Sikes received $219,997 (1/1/04 – 12/31/06)
from the National Science Foundation for the “Effect of
Lateral Transport on Alkenone Temperature Reconstructions in the
Late Quaternary.”
- Bonnie McCay received a research grant from the National Science
Foundation for $180,001 to study "Experience Based Knowledge
in a Science Policy Context," a study of the roles of fishermen,
scientists, and others in the production of knowledge about marine
fish and fisheries, with a special focus on Atlantic cod. This
is part of an international program, coordinated through the Working
Group on Fishery Systems of the International Commission for the
Exploration of the Seas (ICES).
Publications
- Clement, A. C., A. Hall, and A. J. Broccoli. 2004: The importance
of precessional signals in the tropical climate, Climate Dynamics,
22, 327-341, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-003-0375-8.
- Guo, Q., C-Y Fan, R. Raghaven, and R. Field. 2004. "Gate
and Vacuum Flushing of Sewer Sediment: Laboratory Testing."
Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 130, No. 5, pp.
463-466.
- Jiang, L. and P. J. Morin. 2004. Temperature-dependent interactions
explain unexpected responses to environmental warming in communities
of competitors. Journal of Animal Ecology 73: 569-576.
- Jiang, L. and N. Shao. 2004. Red environmental noise and the
appearance of delayed density dependence in age-structured populations.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series B 271: 1059-1064.
- Li, L. and X. Guo. 2004. AFLP-based genetic linkage maps of
the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas Thunberg. Marine Biotechnology
6:26-36.
- Lohmann, D., K. E. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. C.
Schaake, A. Robock, B. A. Cosgrove, J. Sheffield, Q. Duan, L.
Luo, R.W. Higgins, R. T. Pinker, and J. D. Tarpley. 2004. Streamflow
and water balance intercomparisons of four land-surface models
in the North American Land Data Assimilation System project, J.
Geophys. Res., 109, D07S91, doi: 10.1029/2003JD003517.
- Mitchell, K. E., D. Lohmann, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. C.
Schaake, A. Robock, B. A. Cosgrove, J. Sheffield, Q. Duan, L.
Luo, R. W. Higgins, R. T. Pinker, J. D. Tarpley, D. P. Lettenmaier,
C. H. Marshall, J. K. Entin, M. Pan, W. Shi, V. Koren, J. Meng,
B. H. Ramsay, and A. A. Bailey. 2004. The Multi-institution North
American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): Utilizing multiple
GCIP products and partners in a continental distributed hydrological
modeling system. J. Geophys. Res., 109, D07S90, doi:
10.1029/2003JD003823.
- Rona, P. 2003. New discoveries in the oceans, in Proceedings,
Twentieth Anniversary Commemoration of the opening for signature
of the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea, Division
for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs,
and International Seabed Authority, United Nations, 224-227.
- Rosenthal, Y., and A. J. Broccoli, 2004: In search of paleo-ENSO,
Science, 304, 219-221.
Student News
B.J. Choi (Dale Haidvogel, advisor) successfully defended his dissertation
on April 19, 2004. The title of his dissertation is "Interannual
variation of the Polar Front in the East/Japan Sea: altimeter data
analysis and numerical modeling." B.J. has accepted a post-doctoral
position with the Ocean Modeling Group and will continue to be located
in Blake Hall.
Congratulations!
The Ocean Modeling Group has a new member: Otto Tovey, born on
April 7 (6 lb 5 oz, 19 inches). The proud parents are Katja Fennel
& Leon Tovey.
Charitable Activities
Did you know that Madeline Gazzale registered for the Avon Walk
for Breast Cancer on October 2 and 3, 2004 in NYC? She will be walking
39 miles in two days. Perhaps you've seen her walking from her office
in Old Blake to IMCS at various times of the day. Good training
for October! If interested, you can check out her progress at www.avonwalk.org.
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