Marine Sciences News Archives
Quake Zone Expedition: The NanTroSEIZE Project: posted 2009-06-09 10:59:09
UConn geologist Timothy Byrne is one of five co-chief scientists directing the second stage of a major earthquake zone expedition off the coast of Japan, the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE).
MORE INFO
ScienceDirect TOP 25 Hottest Articles July - September 2008: posted 2009-05-15 15:10:30
Oguz Yigiterhan, a postdoc in Marine Sciences working with Rob Mason, Bill Fitzgerald, and Ann Bucklin is an author of a paper ranked at #5 and a co-author of a paper ranked at #7 by ScienceDirect.
MORE INFO
Danielle Calini recently represented the Department of Marine Sciences at the twelfth annual Frontiers Conference: posted 2009-04-22 10:36:29
Danielle Calini recently represented the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut’s twelfth annual Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Conference where she presented her research on the use of biocontrols for fouling in shellfish aquaculture.
MORE INFO
Two journals edited by Dr. Sandra Shumway listed as 100 most influential: posted 2009-04-22 10:34:40
The Special Libraries Association (SLA), a professional organization of >11,000 members of subject specialist librarians, information managers, and publishing industry representatives lists the 100 most influential journals of biology and medicine over the 100 years of the Association’s existence.
MORE INFO
Congratulations to Coastal Studies Students Danielle Calini and Ryan Patrylak : posted 2009-04-16 14:05:59
Both were just awarded summer internships. Danielle was awarded a Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) Marine Conservation Internship. Ryan was awarded an Our World Underwater Scholarship Society/Divers Alert Network Research Internship
Three Marine Sciences faculty have received the following honors and recognition of their professional distinction:: posted 2009-03-05 10:40:16
Hans Dam - elected to the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences; Pieter Visscher - elected to Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering; and Bob Whitlatch - elected to Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.
Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation, and Protection Program Profiles William Fitzgerald: posted 2009-02-27 12:09:10
William Fitzgerald studied the biogeochemical cycling of
mercury on the continental shelf and slope off New England
last August, on a National Science Foundation-sponsored
oceanographic research cruise.
MORE INFO
Local Lighthouse Playing A Role In Tracking Airborne Pollutants (The Day): posted 2009-02-24 14:18:13
The two metal cylinders strapped to the railing of the catwalk of the Avery Point Lighthouse Monday are, literally, capturing the wind - or at least tiny traces of it.
The two small devices, fixed to the railing by marine science professors James Edson and Penny Vlahos as 30-knot winds blew across the University of Connecticut campus, are part of a global project backed by the United Nations to collect data on pollutants in the air at 60 sites around the world.
MORE INFO
Avery Point Professor Studies World Being Altered By Climate Change : posted 2009-01-26 16:27:45
Peter Auster, an associate professor at UConn's Avery Point campus, is studying the possible effects of global climate change on marine life.
MORE INFO
Safety comes first, says UConn's director of scientific diving: posted 2008-12-09 14:48:56
His job has a simple bottom line. Or rather, line to the bottom. Everyone who goes down must come up.
But for Jeffrey Godfrey, director of scientific diving for UConn’s marine sciences programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, getting to the bottom and back up again requires planning, planning, and more planning.
MORE INFO
