Marine Science undergraduates can apply for the Mystic Aquarium Research Experience for Undergraduates, a program designed to promote independent research with real world application.
More info can be found here: http://www.mysticaquarium.org/reu/.
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Uconn Student is Outstanding Student Paper Award Recipient
Danielle Boshers, a graduate student with Julie Granger, received an Outstanding Student Paper Award (OSPA) for her talk at the American Geophysical Union 2016 Fall Meeting. OSPAs are awarded to promote, recognize, and reward the top 3-5% of student presenters for quality research in the geophysical sciences. The topic of her presentation was Oxygen Isotope Composition of Nitrate Produced by Freshwater Nitrification.
Link to the OSPA winner circle: https://membership.agu.org/ospawinner/danielle-boshers/
Uconn Researcher Work Featured in BBC Article
Sofi Jonsson’s paper about how terrestrial discharges of organic matter increase the accumulation of methylmercury in estuary environments was featured in a BBC article.
CUSH 2016 Annual Meeting
MARN 4001 students attended the annual meeting of the local group Clean Up Sound and Harbors (CUSH), presenting posters on their findings on the ecosystem of Wequetequock Cove.
You can find their posters here.
Professor Hans Dam becomes Sustaining Fellow of Prestigious Aquatic Science Association
Prof. Dam was elected a 2016 Sustaining Fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLSO), the premier world association for aquatic scientists. ASLO Sustaining Fellows are recognized as having sustained excellence in their contributions to ASLO and the aquatic sciences.
SERDP 2016 Project-of-the-Year Award goes to two MSD faculty
Craig Tobias and Penny Vlahos win the SERDP 2016 Project-of-the-Year award for their work in studying the impact of munitions compounds in marine and estuarine ecosystems.
Read more about the project and the award here: https://serdp-estcp.mil/newsitems/details/6487c07b-cee0-498d-9d2e-9496344d6327
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Tristan Kading receives award for Poster Presentation
With a record number of students in attendance at the 28th Conference on Severe Local Storms in Portland, OR, Tristan Kading was awarded second place for the Top Student Poster Presentation at the conference. Congratulations Tristan!
Cryptophyte farming by symbiotic ciliate host detected in situ
New research by MSD faculty.
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Open in new tab Emily Seelen spending nine months in Sweden to study the bioavailability of methylmercury using a molecular approach
Emily Seelen, a graduate student with Robert Mason who has a NSF Graduate Fellowship, was recently awarded a GROW (Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide) fellowship to spend nine months working with Dr. Erik Björn at the University of Umeå in Sweden. Emily left in October to begin her study: “A molecular approach to understanding the bioavailability of methylmercury associated with various sources of natural dissolved organic matter (DOM)”. The focus is on coastal and oceanic DOM interaction with methylmercury, which has been studied very little relative to its interaction with other DOM pools. Emily’s research will involve the use of high resolution instrumentation to characterize the DOM and it’s methylmercury binding capacity including x-ray near edge adsorption structure spectroscopy, Orbitrap LC-MS, and other related approaches. Emily has been a NSF Graduate Fellow since July 2013.
Image: Emily extracting organic matter from water samples for her studies in Sweden.
NOAA announces funding for research on sand lance
The Ocean & Atmospheric Research program (OAR) of NOAA and Sea Grant just announced the winners of its most recent round of research funding to better understand the consequences of ocean warming and acidification on key marine resources in U.S. Northeast coastal waters. Hannes Baumann and collaborators were happy and proud to learn that their proposed work on the climate sensitivity of Northern sand lance (Ammodytes dubius) was one of the four projects selected for funding. This is particularly good news for Chris Murray, who for his PhD can now expand his experimental rearing expertise to this important species.
This project will be conducted collaboratively with colleagues from NOAA (David Wiley), USGS (Page Valentine), Boston University (Les Kaufman), and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Scott Gallager).
You can read the official announcement as it appeared on 6 September 2016 on NOAA’s News site