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Ph.D. Thesis Defense Announcement
“Response of the Gulf Stream, Gulf Stream Warm-Core Rings and Related Shelf
Water Entrainment to the North Atlantic Oscillation”
By: Ayan H. Chaudhuri
Advisor: Avijit Gangopadhyay
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
11:00 am ~ 1:00 pm
At SMAST I, Room 204
706 S. Rodney French Blvd
New Bedford, MA 02744
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A joint meeting of the
Marine Technology Society
and the
Marine and Oceanographic Technology Network
Wed., Sept. 10, 5-8 PM
Hosted by
The School for Marine Science and Technology
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
706 S. Rodney French Blvd.
New Bedford, MA
$30 includes dinner
Pre-registered students attend free
Click for more information
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Northeast Regional Tagging Symposium
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday October 17, 2008
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH
For details, visit www.fishtagging.org
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| SMAST students present at AFS ‘08 |
08.26.08  Four SMAST graduate students presented scientific results at the 138th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) in Ottawa last week. Talia Bigelow, Daniel Goethel, Jon Loehrke, and Jessica Melgey, along with SMAST post-doctoral researcher Anthony Wood, all made presentations in the AFS Symposium on "Tagging and its use in stock assessments." In addition, Bigelow received an American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists (AIFRB) Research Assistance Award to support her participation in the meeting. Her abstract will be published in BRIEFS, the AIFRB newsletter. Commented SMAST Prof. Steve Cadrin, who advises the students, “I think it's particularly notable for students to make such a substantial contribution to an international symposium.” |
| Countdown to Fiji |
08.19.08  SMAST Library Liaison Liz Winiarz is preparing to host an international conference in Fiji. For the past year, as president-elect of IAMSLIC, the International Association of Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers, Liz’s principal duty has been to organize the group’s annual conference. Next month, she’ll fly to Suva, Fiji, to see the fruits of her labor, and to assume the office of association president. Liz describes the conference participants registered so far as “a very international crowd. Most of these places, I have only seen in my stamp collection!” |
| Sawabini awarded NOAA fellowship |
07.31.08  SMAST graduate student Annie Sawabini has been awarded a Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program. The program matches graduate students with “host” offices in the executive and legislative branches of the federal government in the Washington, DC, area. The one-year paid fellowship is named in honor of former NOAA administrator John A. Knauss, one of Sea Grant’s original founders.
Ms. Sawabini will work on marine policy issues in an executive branch office beginning in February 2009. Her doctoral research, under the guidance of her advisors Dr. Brian Howes and Dr. Miles Sundermeyer, is examining the physical forces that affect dissolved oxygen concentrations in estuaries throughout southeastern Massachusetts. |
| Muller-Karger elected to Inter-American Institute committee |
07.01.08  SMAST Dean Frank Muller-Karger has been elected to the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. An intergovernmental organization supported by nineteen countries in the Americas, the IAI is dedicated to international cooperation in improving our understanding of global change phenomena and their socio-economic implications. Under the guidance of a Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), the IAI funds research related to global change. The SAC makes recommendations regarding the institute’s science agenda, long-term plans, and annual program. In addition, it assesses the scientific results of the institute’s funded research. |
| MacDonald granted tenure |
06.26.08  At their June 12th meeting, the Board of Trustees of the University of Massachusetts voted to grant tenure to a slate of UMass candidates that included Dr. Daniel MacDonald of SMAST. John DiBiaggio, the most senior trustee on the board, stated that this was the strongest group of tenure candidates he has seen. MacDonald has been teaching and conducting research at SMAST since January of 2003. He received his M.S. from Cornell University 1996, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in 2002. He will assume his new title of Associate Professor on September 1. |
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