She and Dr. George Crozier, Executive Director of the DISL, also received $70,448 from the Northern Gulf Institute/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ National Coastal Data Development Center for “Development and integration of metadata and research data retention at Dauphin Island Sea Lab.”
Dr. Just Cebrian, Senior Marine Scientist, DISL and Assistant Professor of Marine Sciences, USA, recently received $78,000 from the Northern Gulf Institute and National Coastal Data Development Center for "Long-term ecological studies in coastal lagoons of Perdido Bay."
He is also the co-PI on a $350,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency/GOMA for "Development of a Decision-Support Tool to Assess the Risk of Habitat Degradation Following Watershed Land Use Changes.”
Dr. Ron Kiene, Senior Marine Scientist, DISL, and Professor of Marine Sciences, USA, has published:
Kiene, R.P., 2008. News & Views: Genes in the glass house. Nature, 456: 179-181. Re. Bowler et al. The Phaeodactylum genome. (Invited article).
Harada, H., M. Vila-Costa, J. Cebrián and R. P. Kiene. 2009. Effects of UV radiation and nitrate limitation on the production of DMSP, DMS and DMSO by marine phytoplankton. Aquatic Botany 90: 37-42. Available on line in Oct 2008.
Merzouk, A., Levasseur, M., Scarratt, M., Michaud, S., Lizotte, M., Rivkin, R.B., Kiene, R.P., 2008. Bacterial DMSP metabolism during the senescence of the spring diatom bloom in the Northwest Atlantic. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 369: 1-11. Selected as Featured Article.
Gabric, A.J., Matrai, P., Kiene, R.P., Cropp, R., Dacey, J., DiTullio, G., Najjar, R., Simo, R., Toole, D.A., del Valle, D. A., and Slezak, D., 2008. Factors determining the vertical profile of dimethylsulfide in the Sargasso Sea during summer. Deep-Sea Research II.55: 1505-1518.
Bailey K. E., Toole D. A., Blomquist B., Najjar R. G., Heubert B., Kieber D. J., Kiene R. P., Matrai P., Westby G., and Del Valle D. A. 2008. Dimethylsulfide production in Sargasso Sea Eddies. Deep-Sea Research (II) 55:1491-1504.
