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Recent Faculty Activity from the
Dauphin Island Sea Lab
Feb 18, 2008
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Dr. Rich Aronson, Senior Marine Scientist at the Dauphin Island
Sea Lab (DISL) and Professor of Marine Science, University of South
Alabama (USA), received $34,300 from the NOAA Coral Reef
Conservation Program for “Coral reef benthic community responses to
10 years of management in the Fully Protected Zones of the Florida
Keys.
He also received $24,000 from the Alabama Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources (ADCNR), State Lands Division, Coastal Section
for “Trophic dynamics of a created
salt marsh in coastal Alabama, Phase III.”
The Smithsonian Institution Marine Sciences Network gave him $25,000
for “Climate
changes, species turnover, and the geological development of coral
reefs.”
Dr. Aronson also organized a symposium at the American Association
for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting in Boston, MA titled
“Under Thin Ice: Global Warming and Predatory Invasion of the
Antarctic Seas.” His talk was “Into the icehouse: Eocene cooling and
Antarctic seascapes.”
Dr. Ken Heck, Senior Marine Scientist, DISL, and Professor of
Marine Science, USA, gave an invited talk on February 8 at the
School of Natural Science at Edith Cowan University in Joondalup,
Western Australia, and will give the plenary talk on Feb 29 at the
Pacific Estuarine Research Society annual meeting in Newport,
Oregon.
Dr. Kyeong Park, Senior Marine Scientist, DISL and Associate
Professor of Marine Science, USA, was invited to present lectures at
the Gulf Ecology Division, USEPA, Gulf Breeze, FL, on “A modeling
study of the estuarine turbidity maximum along the main channel of
the upper Chesapeake Bay, USA,” and “The effects of Hurricane Ivan
in the inner part of Mobile Bay, Alabama.”
Dr. Park also gave an invited talk at Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA, on “Water quality modeling in estuarine and coastal
waters: Concept and an example application.” |
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