UConn Marine Sciences Professor Ann Bucklin presented a Webinar on July 22, 2020 hosted by the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON), as well as other international programs focused on marine biodiversity, including GOOS, OBPS, OBIS, and OceanObs RCN, as well as SCOR. The webinar focused on ongoing activities of the SCOR Working Group, MetaZooGene: Toward a new global view of marine zooplankton biodiversity based on DNA metabarcoding and reference DNA sequence databases. The presentation was followed by a Question & Answer session with three MetaZooGene-member Panelists: Katja Peijnenburg, Todd O’Brien, and Leocadio Blanco-Bercial. The Webinar was recorded and the video (and presentation PDF) can be viewed at this link: www.metazoogene.org/mbon-webinar-2020. Please feel free to share the link with interested colleagues and students.
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Ann Bucklin chosen to receive UConn Faculty Excellence in Research and Creativity-Sciences Award
Ann Bucklin (Professor of Marine Sciences) has been chosen to receive the Faculty Excellence in Research and Creativity-Sciences Award. This award is given by the UConn Foundation Alumni Relations Office in recognition of research excellence and highest level of creativity to enhance the University’s academic and creative reputation. The award acknowledges significant and/or creative contributions to a field of knowledge or area of inquiry.
From Tiny Shards to Tons in the Sea, Plastic Pollution Presents a Challenge to Labs, Beaches and Society
CT Closer to Establishing National Research Reserve
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration recently announced its approval of a network of state-owned properties and coastal waters in Lyme, Old Lyme, and Groton to be the site of the state’s first National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR).
Read the complete article here: https://today.uconn.edu/2020/04/connecticut-closer-establishing-national-research-reserve/
Grad Students Enjoy #OSM20
Nine graduate students shared their research at the 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Diego, California. A total of 22 presentations were given by DMS faculty, postdocs, and students. Besides the science, folks visited the La Jolla beaches and San Diego Zoo, ate delicious Mexican food, and networked with colleagues. We’re looking forward to more conferences and sharing our science!
See the full list of presentations:
https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/2020/02/13/uconn-dms-at-ocean-sciences-2020/
Working the DMS booth in the exhibit hall (left to right: postdoc Martina Capriotti, and graduate students Mengyang Zhou, and Kelly McGarry).
DMS investigators complete full comprehensive nitrogen balances of LIS
Of the nitrogen delivered to Long Island Sound (LIS) using a 20 year time series, Vlahos, Whitney, and colleagues Found 40% of it is exported as primarily organic nitrogen (70% vs 30% as nitrate). However, 60% of the nitrogen Entering the LIS is either buried in sediments and/or denitrified to nitrogen gas and N2O.
https://today.uconn.edu/2020/02/understanding-long-island-sounds-dead-zones/
UConn DMS at Ocean Sciences 2020
The Department of Marine Sciences is excited to be well represented at Ocean Sciences 2020 in San Diego next week. With 22 presentations by faculty, students, and researchers and an exhibition booth, there are lots of ways to find out more about our research and opportunities in our department. See the full list of presentations below.
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Open in new tab Former Marine Sciences graduate student, Dr. Maria Rosa, named as an Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education magazine
Former Marine Sciences graduate student, Dr. Maria Rosa, named as an Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education magazine (https://diverseeducation.com/2020-emerging-scholars/). For the past 19 years, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education has recognized an interdisciplinary group of minority scholars who represent the very best of the U.S. academy. Emerging Scholars are selected from hundreds of nominations, and those professors selected have distinguished themselves in their various academic disciplines and are actively working to make our society more equitable and just. This year, former Marine Sciences graduate student, Maria Rosa was one of fifteen professors nation-wide selected for the honor. Maria completed her PhD degree in 2016 (major advisor: Dr. J. Evan Ward), spent two years as a NSF-funded postdoctoral scholar at Stony Brook University (mentor: Dr. Dianna Padilla), and is currently the George and Carol Milne Assistant Professor of Biology at Connecticut College.
IUCN releases comprehensive report on ocean deoxygenation
9 December 2019. During the COP25 summit in Madrid, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released its latest comprehensive report titled “Ocean deoxygenation: everyone’s problem” that compiles the current evidence for the ongoing, man-made decline in the oceans oxygen levels. The 588 page, 11 chapter wake-up call to these detrimental changes was produced by leading experts in the field. UConn DMS faculty Baumann is one of the co-authors in chapter 6 “Multiple stressors – forces that combine to worsen deoxygenation and its effects”.
From the executive summary:
“The equilibrium state of the ocean-atmosphere system has been perturbed these last few decades with the ocean becoming a source of oxygen for the atmosphere even though its oxygen inventory is only ~0.6% of that of the atmosphere. Different analyses conclude that the global ocean oxygen content has decreased by 1-2% since the middle of the 20th century. Global warming is expected to have contributed to this decrease, directly because the solubility of oxygen in warmer waters decreases, and indirectly through changes in the physical and biogeochemical dynamics.”
Access to the full report:
https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/48892
Chapter 6. Multiple stressors – forces that combine to worsen deoxygenation and its effects (5.86 MB) https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/06%20DEOX.pdf
Local citizen scientists and Marine Sciences students discuss water quality
MARN 4001 students presented their work on local water quality at the Cottrell Brewery.
