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December 11, 2000

Highlights

  • Gary Taghon, Charlotte Fuller, Clare Reimers, Jody Stecher (OSU), Markus Huettel (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology) and Antje Rusch (MPI) will be heading out to a site about 1 mile from LEO-15 on the R/V Henlopen (Delaware) from December 7 to the 11th. This is part of an ongoing NSF-funded project to look at remineralization in sandy, dynamic sediments. The Henlopen will be on a 3 point anchor to allow for in situ microprofiling of the sediments with voltametric sensors and oxygen microelectrodes in conjunction with current measurements and core collection by divers. The divers are being organized from RUMFS and will meet the ship with the R/V Arabella.
  • From the COOL lab, Oscar Schofield, Josh Kohut, and Scott Glenn conducted a shelf-wide ship validation of the Rutgers long range (180 km range) H/F CODAR site using the R/V Endeavor. The CODAR provides a continuous picture of surface current radials for the majority of the Mid-Atlantic shelf. This will provide the first large shelf wide validation of the new CODAR arrays. The UNOLs vessel also retrieved several large (20 ft.) tripods deployed as part of the ONR HyCODE experiment at LEO. It was cold, but the food on the ship was excellent.
  • Starting Jan 1, 2001, Judith Weis will be the president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS).
  • November 16th, Oscar Schofield, Scot Glenn, Janice McDonnell, Eric Simms, and Mike De Luca met with representatives from Turnstone Publishing to discuss the creation of a nationally distributed K-12 curriculum product on LEO. Plans are underway to develop and produce a "Kids Cool Room" and a complete revision of the Institute's on-line curriculum for K-12 students.
  • The IMCS Holiday Party will be this Friday, December 15, 2000 at 2:00PM in the main lobby. Happy Holidays!

Meetings Attended

  • On November 17, 2000, Susan Boehme attended a consortium meeting at the New York Academy of Sciences entitled "Industrial Ecology, Pollution Prevention, and the NY/NJ Harbor". Susan wrote a document for the Academy entitled "Cadmium, Copper, Dioxin, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) and Nitrogen in the New York/New Jersey Harbor" to assist the consortium in choosing the best candidates for an industrial ecology approach. The consortium includes representatives from local industries, government agencies, academia and public action groups.
  • George McGhee was the keynote, lead-off speaker at a five day, by invitation only, conference at the Santa Fe Institute on "Computational Approaches to Theoretical Morphology" (16 Nov - 21 Nov, 2000; Santa Fe, New Mexico). The Santa Fe Institute called the conference in direct response to the publication last year of McGhee's latest book, "Theoretical Morphology."
  • Oscar Schofield was an invited scientist for a symposium hosted by the Global Ocean Observing System to design a Harmful Algal Bloom Observing System for the Gulf of Mexico at Pensacola Beach, Florida.
  • On the 7th and 8th of December, Judith Weis attended the "Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment" in Washington DC, and chaired the breakout group on "environmental indicators."
  • Bonnie McCay was plenary speaker at the MidWest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Minneapolis, MN, December 4, 2000. The title of her talk was "Fish or Cut Bait: The Call for Citizen Participation in Fisheries Management."