| View from the bridge | |
| Feature: Stern elected to the National Academy of Sciences | |
| Feature Marcus elected to the Oceanl Sciences Board | |
| On Staff Raynor: 15 years of creativity and hard work | |
| Feature: El Niño theory | |
| In the Field Photo Feature | |
| Student Honors | |
| Published Findings | |
| Alumni Updates and Degrees Conferred |
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Stern Electedto theNational Academy of Sciences |
Devotion to his studies has clearly paid off for Stern. He was
elected to the National Academy of Sciences earlier this year, one of the
highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer. For recognition
of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research,
he was the only new member to be elected this year in Florida and joins
only six other active FSU researchers with this award.
Stern was not the first person around the department to learn
of his election into the NAS. In order to assure that Stern would be present
for the notifying call from Washington, Professor Bill Dewar made an appointment
with Stern for the following morning. Stern explains, "I was surprised
and delighted...I think it will strengthen the department image and maybe
help to attract younger professors." Dewar comments that "it is an
honor for me to serve on the same faculty as Dr. Stern," a sentiment echoed
by other faculty members at the FSU Oceanography Department.
As an undergraduate, Stern studied electrical engineering at Cooper's
Union, but was not very interested in becoming an engineer. He went on
for master's studies in physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology,
working as a research assistant for Dr. Joann Simpson, and a curiosity
for fluid dynamics soon developed. "We were working on a project regarding
airflow over Nantucket Island which is quite flat. The clouds that formed
over the island in summer however were similar to ones that form over mountains.
You see, the excess temperature of the land was disturbing the flow over
the flat island. This was the first I had seen of hydrodynamics, and I
was fascinated."
During his Ph.D. studies in meteorology at MIT, Stern was drafted into
the Korean War and served as an Air Force officer in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Luckily, he was able to return and finish his degree without too much delay.
After completing his studies, he worked as a physicist for a year at the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
Although Stern has always been principally a theoretician, a formative experience was working with experimentalists Stewart Turner, Bill VonArx, and Alan Faller at Woods Hole. "Confronting the messy reality of lab experiments" made a big impression on him. Lab experiments allow one to "visualize a situation in real terms," Stern explains, "the mental images have more of reality in them than equations, and this helps both in choosing a problem to study or the direction a problem will go."
One such experiment and collaboration with Turner led to the "happiest professional day of my career," Stern said. "The day we did an experiment on salt-finger convection...we had been using mixes of heat and salt, but heat diffuses into the atmosphere too readily, so we had the idea of replacing heat with sugar. We were not sure it would work because salt and sugar have such a slight difference of molecular diffusivity that, we did not think anything would happen. But, there it was on the first try! It was an eye opener - the effect was large and very beautiful. That experiment aided my professional development in particular because I began to think in a different way."
From 1964 to 1987 Stern was a Professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. Through the efforts of then chairman, Tony Sturges, Stern was recruited to Florida State University where he has taught since.
New members of the Academy are encouraged to write a paper on their current research. Stern is currently writing about meddies. Meddies are saline eddies that form from the current flowing out of the Caribbean sea and along the Iberian slope; occasionally these pinch off. The importance of meddies is that they maintain the relatively high salinity of the mid-ocean water mass. Stern has done other pioneering work in areas such as the discovery of a special class of vortices, the so called Stern modon.
Computer technology and numerical modeling have changed the theoretical
work Stern does, "most work now is numerical, whereas once it was purely
analytical." Of computers, Stern is "of two minds." He explains, "numerical
models can be as complicated as the ocean itself, but even the basic physics
of some of the process of what they try and incorporate is not well known."
Stern uses the computer to test "relatively simple problems" of ocean circulation
with various mechanisms such as winds, currents, and topography.
A lecture series and reception was held on Friday November 13 at the
Center for Professional Development on the FSU campus in honor of Dr. Stern's
entrance into the NAS. The symposium brought together researchers
from around the world who have been close to Stern. See next issue for
details.
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MarcusElectedto theOcean Sciences Board |
Nancy Marcus keeps busy with her involvement in numerous activities. She is an editor of Marine Biology, past president of the Southern Association of Marine Laboratories, past president of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, on the board of directors for the National Association of Marine Laboratories, and member-at-large of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. To top it off, she was elected early this year to the Ocean Studies Board (OSB).
The Ocean Studies Board (OSB) was established by the National Research Council to advise the federal government on issues of ocean science and policy. In addition to exercising leadership within the ocean science community, the Board undertakes studies at the request of federal agencies, Congress, or other sponsors, or upon its own initiative. The Board explores the science, policies, and infrastructure needed to understand and protect coastal and marine environments and resources.
Marcus will serve on the OSB for three years during which time she will
attend monthly meetings and be an OSB representative on various committees.
Committees are formed to address a particular question. The committee typically
meets several times to investigate the issues and ultimately develops a
report of its findings, conclusions, and recommendations. These topics
may be controversial, as many agencies are hoping to find answers in the
reports that will help them to blend scientific research with management
strategies.
The oceans and human health was the subject of the first committee
Marcus served on. The committee brought together oceanographers and medical
experts for a workshop held in Washington D.C. A report is currently
in review.
Her second appointment was to the committee on the causes and consequences
of coastal eutrophication. On both committees, she has represented the
OSB while the other members were chosen from the community for their research
interests and knowledge. She is also a member of a sub-committee
on education. This involvement led her to a conference in Miami that was
organized by CORE (Consortium for Ocean Research in Education) dealing
with education issues. "I find serving on these kinds of committees
and boards interesting in view of the field of oceanography...all too often
we get focused on our own small research problem. I am able to bring
something from my own background, but I learn a tremendous amount from
hearing what other people have to say, it is really a mind expanding opportunity."
One may ask where Marcus finds the time and energy to teach!
She comments, "I regard my teaching as equally important as my research."
She attended a workshop in July at the College of William and Mary on new
and innovative teaching methods where she worked on modifying the introductory
oceanography course. Her goal is to use active and hands-on learning in
addition to the traditional lecture style. She explains, "I basically
try to instill a sense of curiosity of the ocean in students at the introductory
level and explain why the ocean is important in our lives." Marcus
will be teaching the introductory oceanography class at the Bryan Hall
Learning Community this coming spring and the course "Women and Science"
in the fall 1999.
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Raynor:15 Years of Creativity and Hard Work |
by Jennifer Moss
Beth Raynor began working for Dr. Nof as a research assistant/illustrator in November of 1983. In addition to organizing and keeping track of all grant money, preparing budget reports, and making sure that Dr. Nof's graduate students are paid, Beth has been the behind the scenes support for Dr. Nof's proposals and publications for the past fifteen years. With the help of her trusty Power-Macintosh, she assists Nof with creation of the figures and maps so essential to these papers.
"I am most proud of the progress I've made of becoming an illustrator. The first time I did a 3-dimensional drawing, I felt like I would never get a handle on it at all!"
Beth admits that computer developments have changed her position the
most, "When I first started with the department, everything was done on
the typewriter. I used pens and Letraset and drew the figures by
hand. We have gradually gone over completely to word processing and to
computer graphics. "
Beth finds her job busy and rewarding, although stressful at times
when deadlines draw near. Things come up all of a sudden, and I have to
do many things all at once. Apart from the ordinary, Beth has had
to deal with some unexpected situations over the years: "Dr. Nof
was traveling once and during the night, he noticed red lights blinking
outside his hotel window. He went to the window and his rental car and
several others were completely in flames! Thanks to some vandals,
the car was completely torched. It was real interesting explaining to the
travel office that Dr. Nof needed another car and right away!" Another
time Beth had to deal with explaining additional travel expenses when Dr.
Nof was robbed of all identification and money while in Spain.
Beth has become a master of time management, and as Nof explains, "Beth
is a very hard worker and she is very good at what she does. It is
rare that one has the opportunity to work with someone for fifteen years,
and I am lucky to have an assistant who ascribes to such standards of excellence."
Beth grew up in Alliceville, a small town of roughly 3,500 people in West Alabama. Her family, farmers by trade, has lived in the vicinity for several generations. She attended the Mississippi University for Women and earned her BA in English in 1971. She originally wanted to teach and admits, It's not that much of a stretch for me to think I would be working in academics, but I never dreamed I would be working in the sciences.
She met her husband Bob while visiting family in South Florida. He was
in the Coast Guard and stationed in Key West. They struck up a long-distance
correspondence that lasted through her college graduation. Destiny
found that they finished their respective duties, military service and
college, at the same time and together they went to the University of Florida
where she worked at the College of Engineering as a secretary while he
got his MA in architecture. They then moved to Tallahassee, and she began
working at the department half time.
The Raynor family includes two children; Alan, 20, works at the Tallahassee
Memorial Hospital, and Laura, 16, is a junior at Leon High School who loves
music and drama studies. On vacation, the Raynor family members are outdoor
enthusiasts who enjoy hiking in the mountains and going to the beach.
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Theory for El Niño Current to be Checked with Unique ObservationsSeveral years ago Professor Allan Clarke and Steve Van Gorder (Clarke
& VanGorder, 1994) predicted the existence of a strong coastal El Niño
current hugging the continental slope at about 1/3 to 1 1/2 miles beneath
the ocean surface. Measurements to check this prediction were not
available at the time. Now a 7-year record of currents off Chile,
including measurements during the enormous 1997-98 El Niño, one
of the largest on record, is available. Mr. Oscar Pizarro,
an exchange visitor to our department from the University of Gothenburg,
Sweden, has brought these unique measurements to Tallahassee to test the
Clarke and Van Gorder predictions.
Oscar is on leave of absence from his position as Auxiliary Professor at Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile, and he is near completion of his Ph.D. For the last several years, he has been working in Prof. Gary Shaffer's group at the Danish Center for Earth System Science, University of Copenhagen. Clarke, A.J., and S. Van Gorder, 1994: "On ENSO coastal currents
and sea levels." J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24, 661-680
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The Proctor, Marcus and Thistle labs have been carrying out a joint research project on the ecological impact of and recovery from hydrocarbon exposure in benthic marine communities. The work has been underway for about a year and has involved the planning and development of a microcosm facility at the FSU Marine Lab. The facility allows for the maintenance of more than 160 microcosms under controlled temperature and lighting conditions. |
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Keith Suderman and Paige Leitman collect intact cores to take to the FSU Marine Lab. They are working on an experiment designed to compare the ecological effects of Orimulsion, a Venezuelan patented hydrocarbon-in-water emulsified fuel of 70% Cerro Negro bitumen, 30% water and <1% surfactant with fuel oil #6 on an intact benthic community from in Tampa Bay. |
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Barb Exner uses oscillating paddles to simulate wave motion. |
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Clarke, A.J., X. Liu and S. Van Gorder. 1998. Dynamics of the biennial oscillation in the equatorial Indian and far western Pacific Oceans. J. Climate, 11, 987-1001.
Clarke, A.J., and S. Van Gorder, 1999. On the connection between the boreal spring southern oscillation persistence barrier and the tropospheric biennial oscillation. J. Climate, 12, 5.
Corbett, D. R., W.C. Burnett, P.H. Cable, and S.B. Clark. 1998. A Multiple Approach to the Determination of Radon Fluxes from Sediments. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 233 (1-2).
Corbett, D. R., W.C. Burnett, P.H. Cable, and S.B. Clark. 1997. Radon Tracing of Groundwater Input to Par Pond, Savannah River Site. Journal of Hydrology. 203, 209-227.
Dewar, W. K., Y. Hsueh, T. J. McDougall, and D. Yuan. 1997. On the calculation of pressure in ocean simulations. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 28, 577-588.
Yuan, D. and Y. Hsueh. 1997. Inverse determination of surface heat flux over the Yellow Sea in winter from sea surface temperature data. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 28, 984-990.
Guentzel, J.L., W.M. Landing, G.A. Gill, and C.D. Pollman. 1998. Mercury and major ions in rainfall, throughfall, and foliage from the Florida Everglades. The Science of the Total Environment. 213, 43-51.
Hsueh, Y., and Dongliang Yuan. 1997. Currents, heat advection, and sea-level fluctuations in the Yellow Sea in winter of 1986. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 2313-2326.
Hsueh, Y., John R. Schultz, and William R. Holland. 1997. The Kuroshio flow-through in the East China Sea: A numerical model. Progress in Oceanography, 39, 79-108.
Landing, W.M., J.L. Guentzel, G.A. Gill, and C.D. Pollman. 1998. Methods for measuring mercury in rainfall and aerosols in Florida. Atmospheric Environment, 32/5, 909-918.
Schultz, M.K., W. C. Burnett, and K.G.W. Inn. 1998. Evaluation of a sequential extraction method for determining actinide fractionation in soils and sediments. Jour. Environmental Radioactivity, 40, 155-174.
Schultz, M. K., K.G.W. Inn, W.C. Burnett, G. Smith, S.R. Biegalski, and J. Filliben. 1998. Identification of radionuclide partitioning in soils and sediments: determination of best settings for the exchangeable fraction of the NIST standard sequential extraction protocol. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 49, 1289-1293.
Statham, P.J., P.A. Yeats, and W.M. Landing. 1998. Manganese in the eastern Atlantic Ocean: processes influencing deep and surface water distributions. Marine Chemistry , 61, 55-58.
Stern, M.E., E.P. Chassignet, and J.A. Whitehead, 1997. The wall jet in a rotating fluid. J. Fluid Mech., 335, 1-28.
Stern, M.E. 1997. Splitting of a free jet flowing over a saddle sill. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 102(9), 20957-20965.
Stern, M.E. and T. Radko. 1997. Maintaining the inshore shear of continental boundary layers. Dyn. Atmos. and Oceans, 27, 661-678.
Stern, M.E., and T. Radko. 1998. The self propagating quasi-monopolar vortex. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 28, 22-39.
Stern, M.E. 1998. The salt finger amplitude in unbounded T-S gradient layers. J. Mar. Res., 56(1).
Stern, M.E. 1998. Separation of a density current from the bottom of a continental slope. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 28, 2040-2049.
Stern, M.E. 1998. Statistical mechanics of a dissipative dynamical system with small noise. Physica D., 122, 105-116.
Sturges, W., B.G. Hong, and A.J. Clarke. 1998. Decadal wind forcing of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 28, 659-668.
Suderman, K., and D. Thistle. 1998. Adult female harpacticoid copepods maintain their energy reserves by feeding while suspended during storms. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 164, 245-252.
Thistle, D., and L. A. Levin. 1998. The effect of experimentally increased near-bottom flow on metazoan meiofauna at a deep-sea site, with comparison data on macrofauna. Deep-Sea Research I, 45, 625-638.
Weatherly, G. L. and D. Thistle. 1997. On the wintertime
currents in the Florida Big Bend region. Continental Shelf Research,
17: 1297-1319.
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Margaret Murray, a Masters student under Dr. Marcus, was awarded the College of Arts and Sciences' 1998-99 College Teaching Fellowship.
Harper Simmons and Natassa Romanou, a Ph.D. candidate with Dr. Weatherly, were invited to attend a NATO Advanced Study Institute program, "Ocean modeling and parameterization," at Centre de Physique des Houches, France in January 1998.
Harper Simmons, a Ph.D. candidate working under Doron Nof, has been
awarded a NASA Earth System Science Fellowship.
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FRANK MONASTERO ('72) is the Head of the Geothermal Program Office for the U.S. Navy. This office is responsible for the development of geothermal resources located beneath all lands controlled by the Department of Defense. Before joining the Navy program office, Frank was employed by the California Desert District of the Bureau of Land Management as the District Fluid Minerals Geologist. He gained national recognition for his achievements in design and execution of the controversial offshore environmental studies program conceived by the (now) Minerals Management Service. For his efforts in this regard, Monastero was awarded the William A. Jump Memorial Award for Exemplary Achievement in Public Administration. Frank was technical advisor to the U.S. Law of the Sea Marine Mining negotiating team. He was also the Interior Department's representative on the U.S.-Japan Natural Resources Marine Mining Panel from 1972 to 1974, and he served in a similar capacity to the National Academy of Engineering Marine Board on Operational Safety in Marine Mining. He was a member of the Interagency Committee for Marine Environmental Protection, a participant in the White House-sponsored National Planning Conference for the Commercial Development of the Oceans, and a member of the Senior Advisory Board for the Center for Energy and Environment Research at the University of Puerto Rico. Frank and his wife JoAnn have four sons, James (29), Andrew (18), Curtis (16), and Darrin (from previous marriage). They live in a small community in the northeastern Mojave Desert where they enjoy the scenic view of the Sierra Nevada from their home.
STANLEY MOORE JR. (72) is a senior faculty researcher at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Stanley spends much of his time at sea using automalyzer II technology to determine NC3, NC2, PO2, SiO2, and NH2+. His fieldwork travel has taken him to the arctic as a technical participant in SHEBA. Currently Stanley is working on research on the Columbia River and the Frasier River area.
JOHN BANE JR ('75) has been a faculty member at the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina since 1976 where he is currently professor and chair of the Department of Marine Sciences. His research is on air-sea interaction and coastal meteorology in the South Atlantic Bight and along the U. S. West Coast.
JOHN FORNSHELL ('75) worked as an oceanographer at the U. S. Coast Guard Oceanographic Unit for five years after graduating from the department. He spent time at the University of Puerto Rico doing observational physical oceanography and micro-plankton ecology. From 1983 to the present, John has worked as a science teacher for Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, and currently teaches physics and oceanography at a magnet school for gifted and talented students. John also volunteers at the Invertebrate Zoology Dept. of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. He continues to publish and work on copepod studies. In 1996, John was elected to a two-year term as a member of the Elected Council of the Biological Society of Washington. In 1997, he assumed the office of treasurer of the World Association of Copepodologists. John and his wife Elvie are pleased to have recently become grandparents of identical twin boys. Their daughter Georgia Harlow works in business administration and recently as a mom. Their son Ben is a Network Engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory.
ALAN SUMMY ('80) retired from the U.S. Coast Guard after 26 years of service in July of '98 as captain (0-6). Although he earned an MA in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College in '88, half of his Coast Guard career was in the field of marine science and ice operations. Alan was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal upon retirement. He is currently working for Science Applications International Cooperation in Virginia as a Senior Analyst in their national security studies and strategies group.
MICHAEL DARZI ('82) has worked at SAIC General Sciences Corporation (GSC) since '84. For the past several years, he was project manager of a GSC contract to provide support for the ocean color research program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The Sea-Viewing Wide-Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWIFS; seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html) was successfully launched late last year and is now the primary source of ocean color data. In April of this year, Michael was named vice president of GSC in charge of business development and of GSC's Space and Earth Sciences Center (SESC). Michael's son, Isaac, will be a freshman this fall at the University of Maryland.
NYAWIRA MUTHIGA ('84) received her Ph.D. from the University of Nairobi in '94. Nyawira is currently working as the regional biodiversity coordinator coast region, Kenya Wildlife Service. She coordinates monitoring programs in all of Kenya's marine parks and reserves working from the regional headquarters in the coastal capital of Kenya, Mombasa. She is actively involved in coral reef research not only in Kenya, but also in the region including Tanzania and Mozambique. She is a member of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring steering committee and the coordinator of the regional node for data collection in the East African region. Nyawira is also a board member of the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM).
SAMUEL JOHNSTON ('86) works as a senior scientist and consultant for Ed Barber and Associates, Inc., an environmental consulting firm in Bradenton, Florida. A variety of private, industrial, and governmental clients use his services for environmental permitting and monitoring issues. Samuel has one son, Sam Johnston III or "Sammy", born in December 1986.
FRED DOBBS ('87) is an Assistant Professor of biological oceanography at the Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Old Dominion University. His course in aquatic pollution is on the web at: www.ocean.odu.edu/~dobbs/ocean_403_503/index.html
TAL EZER ('89) is a research scholar with the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program at Princeton University. His research includes high-resolution numerical ocean models, data assimilation, and the development of operational coastal ocean forecast systems. Specifically, he works with the development of applications of the sigma coordinate Princeton Ocean Model and helps to coordinate worldwide support for the model. Tal lives in the Princeton area with his wife and three daughters.
MANUEL LÓPEZ-MARISCAL ('89) is a research scientist at the Centro De Investigacion Cientifica y De Educacion Superior De Ensenada (CICESE), México. Manuel teaches in the graduate program and does research in physical oceanography. Specifically, his research is devoted to studying circulation of the northern Gulf of California. Using numerical models and some recent observation studies, Manuel is studying the structure of the low frequency near-bottom currents and the vertical structure of the strong tides in the region. He is currently on sabbatical working with Dr. David Chapman of Woods Hole. Manuel and his wife Andrea Spears have two children, Drego age 5 1/2, and Ana Cristina age 1 1/2.
EDGAR PAVIA ('89) is a senior scientist at Oceanografia Fisica Cicese in Ensenada, México. This year he received an award from "the people of Ensenada" for El Niño precipitation predictions. In 1997, he was elected secretary-general of the Mexican Geophysical Union. Look for his publications in JGR - Oceans later this year. Edgar Pavia and his wife Lorena have two children; Alejandra, age 9, and Carlo who was born on August 28, 1997.
ESTHER KOH ('91) earned her Ph.D. in Marine Biology from James Cook University, Australia, in March of '98. Her research involves the chemical ecology of scleractinian corals. She is currently a senior research biologist with the Center of Natural Product Research in Singapore (CNPR). CNPR screens natural products from marine invertebrates, microorganisms, and plants for chemical compounds that can be developed into pharmaceutical products.
JOHN SCHULTZ ('94) was a visiting UCAR scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from '95-'97. John is currently employed as an oceanographer/scientist in the Washington D.C. Area Office of Neptune Sciences, Inc. His work at Neptune Sciences involves management of NOAA's National Ocean Service Data Quality Assurance Program and the production of a handbook on NOAA's tidal datum planes. He has also done project management on wave studies for the Naval Research Laboratory at the Stennis Space Center, participated in the development of a National Weather Service interactive website, and he has processed wave data from the National Data Buoy Center for on-line use at: http://cdip.ucsd.edu/. John also has done research involving climatological air and sea surface temperatures in the Persian Gulf, wave height and period studies in the Asian Marginal Seas, identification of high-altitude lakes for the Marine Corps, and development of machine scheduling software for the SCAPA Dryers Corporation.
RODNEY POWELL ('95) is an assistant professor at the Louisiana
Universities Marine Consortium in Chauvin, Louisiana. Before moving
to Louisiana in May of this year, Rodney held a post-doctoral position
at Old Dominion University in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
His research there focused on electroanalytical chemistry for the determination
of organic complexation of trace metals.
Thank you to all contributing alumni.
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Jennifer Cherrier (Ph.D., Chanton/Bauer) "Carbon Flow Through Bacterioplankton
in Eastern North Pacific Surface Waters"
Jane Guentzel (Ph.D., Landing) "The Atmospheric Sources, Transport,
and Deposition of Mercury in Florida"
Keith Suderman (MS, Thistle) Adult Female Harpacticoid Copepods at
a Coastal Site Feed while Suspended by Storms.
SUMMER '97
Timour Radko (Ph.D., Stern) "Theoretical Studies in Mesoscale Jets and Vortices"
FALL '97
Rizwan Ahmed (MS, Clarke) "Dynamics of Remotely Forced Intraseasonal
Oscillations off the Western Coast of South America"
Michael Berry (MS, Proctor) "A Physiological and Phylogenetic Study
of Chromatium Purpuratum 95CAR100A, A Purple Sulfur Bacterium Associated
with Caribbean Sea Copepods"
Mike Fulmer (MS, Iverson) "Nutrient Limitation and Nitrogen Loading
of Apalachicola Bay, Florida"
Ken-ichi Mizoguchi (MS, O'Brien) "Multi- and Quasi-Decadal Variations
of Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly in the North Atlantic"
Steven Morey (MS, O'Brien) "The Effects of Halmahera on the Indonesian
Throughflow"
SPRING '98
Lori Bouck (MS, Thistle) "Zausodes (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Harpacticidae):
An Update and Three New Species from the Northern Gulf of Mexico"
Kevin Dillon (MS, Chanton) "The Use of Sulfur Hexafluoride as a Groundwater
Tracer in the Florida Keys"
Karen Liptay (MS, Chanton) "The Use of Stable Isotopes to Constrain
Anthropogenic Methane Sources: Landfills and Coal Mining"
Trevor Popp (MS, Chanton) "The Methane Stable Isotope Distribution
and an Evaluation of Rhizospheric Methane Oxidation at a Carex Dominated
Sub-Boreal Fen in North Central Alberta, Canada"
Byung Gi Hong (Ph.D., Sturges) "Decadal Variability in the North Atlantic
Subtropical Gyre: Can it Explain Variability in Sea Level Along the East
Coast of the U.S.?"
Behzad Mortazavi (Ph.D., Iverson) "Primary Production and Nitrogen
Budget of Apalachicola Bay, Florida"
SUMMER '98
Sergey Kravtsov (Ph.D., Dewar) "Sea Ice and Climate Sensitivity"
Alan Leonardi (MS, O'Brien) "Dynamics of the North Hawaiian Ridge Current"
Christine Rutkowski (MS, Burnett) "Groundwater Seepage, Nutrients,
and Seagrasses in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico"
Gregor Smith (MS, Burnett) "Fractionation of Actinide Elements in Soils
and Sediments via an Optimized protocol for Sequential Chemical Extractions"
Roger Wong (MS, Burnett) "Development of Improved Methods for the Determination
of Gross Alpha/Beta Concentrations in Soils and Sediments"
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Most of you will have been wondering why it has been such a long time since you received a newsletter. The staff member who produced it left for a betterjob, and it took a while to find a replacement with the right combination of skills. A few months ago, Jennifer Moss joined us, and we are back in business. The faculty have already discovered Jennifer's talents for producing figures for talks, posters, and publications, so the plan is to produce two newsletter issues each year.
In the 18 months since the last newsletter, some terrific things have happened to the department. The biggest news is Melvin Stem's election to the National Academy of Sciences. To celebrate this tremendous honor, the department held a one-day symposium. More about that in the next issue. Doron Nof was elected a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. Nancy Marcus was selected to serve on the US Ocean Studies Board, the body the supervises the National Science Foundation. I was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Association of Meiobenthologists.
The composition of the faculty is changing. Dr. Kevin Speer, an observational physical oceanographer, will be joining the department as an associate professor. His wife, Dr. Sophie Wacongne, will be an Associate Scholar/Scientist in the physicaloceanography group. The biology and chemistry groups are still getting used to the departure of Tish Yager, but their search is well along, and a new person for the bridge position between biology and chemistry will soon be identified. Finally, Phil Hsueh, Tony Sturges, and Jack Winchester have announced that they will retire within five years, so more changes will be coming.
That's about it. Please send us your news, and remember that donations
to support student travel and research are always welcome (contact carter@ocean.fsu.edu).
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