E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 1, January 22 – 28, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresThe first Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar will take place on Wednesday, January 25 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor Steven Sherwood from the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, will present a seminar entitled, “Lapse Rate Changes in the Tropics: Expectations vs. Observations.” Light refreshments will be served. If you like to make an appointment to meet with Professor Sherwood, please contact Sultan Hameed at 2-8391. . The full seminar schedule for the spring semester may be accessed athttp://atmos.msrc.sunysb.edu/npages/taos.html. This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Graham Forrester from the University of Rhode Island. Professor Forrester will present a seminar entitled, “Extrapolating from Small-Scale Ecological Experiments to Large-Scale Dynamics” on Friday, January 27 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour Hall 120. The Friday Weather Discussion will take place on January 27 at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced). Faculty News Congratulations to Professor Minghua Zhang and his son, Harley, who was selected as an Intel semi-finalist for his project, “Role of General Relativity in Core Collapse of Spherically Symmetric Supernovae.” Harley’s faculty advisor is Dr. F. Douglas Swesty from Stony Brook’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. Congratulations to Professors Henry Bokuniewicz and Josie Aller, faculty advisors to Jana Hirsch, also an Intel semi-finalist. Jana’s research pertained to “Seismic Signature of Ocean Surf as it Relates to Wave Energy and Coastal Erosion.” The Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) is pleased to announce the opening of the 2007-08 Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program Awards Competition. For more information, please visit http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/ NSF has announced its “Carbon and Water in the Earth System” program solicitation with a deadline of March 15. Information may be found at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06514/nsf06514.htm. Student News Congratulations to David Novak, recipient of the 2005 Wu Memorial Award. The winner of the Wu Award is selected based on academic achievements while enrolled in the ITPA graduate program, with particular emphasis on performance in the departmental exam and core courses. This award comes with a $500 cash prize. The President’s Office is seeking nominations for Undergraduate Recognition Awards. Students may be nominated for awards in academic excellence or outstanding achievement. Nominations must be received by January 30. For more information, please send an email toclondoiro@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. Miscellaneous There will be a South Campus Blood Drive on Monday, January 30, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. To schedule an appointment, please contact Katerina Panagiotakopoulou at 2-8781. The Friends of Flax Pond will present its third series of Flax Pond Winter Lectures beginning on January 22. Rob DiGiovanni, Director of the Riverhead Foundation, will present a seminar entitled, “Seals on Long Island – Research and Rescue.” All lectures will be held on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. at the Childs Mansion. For more information, please contact Malcolm Bowman atmbowman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. The 2nd International Symposium on Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting and Hydrology will take place on June 4-8 in Boulder, Colorado. Additional information may be found on the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall, or by accessing http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/events/qpf05/ Mark your calendars for Stony Brook Day in Albany on February 28. To participate, please contact Pat Cruso at 2-4309, or at patricia.cruso@stonybrook.edu. Volunteers are still needed for the Bay Scallop Bowl scheduled for Saturday, March 4. You may volunteer by contacting Paula Rose at bayscallopbowl@yahoo.com. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 2, Jan 29 – Feb 4, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresThis week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar will take place on Wednesday, February 1 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor Drew Shindell from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), will present a seminar entitled, “New Simulations with a Coupled Composition-Atmosphere-Ocean GCM: Response of Climate, Composition, and Dynamics to External Forcing.” Light refreshments will be served. If you like to make an appointment to meet with Professor Shindell, please contact Sultan Hameed at 2-8391. The full seminar schedule for the spring semester may be accessed athttp://atmos.msrc.sunysb.edu/npages/taos.html. This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor William Ullman from the University of Delaware. Professor Ullman will present a seminar entitled, “Groundwater Transport and Discharge of Nitrogen to Coastal Plain Estuaries,” on Friday, February 3 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor Ullman’s host is Henry Bokuniewicz. The Friday Weather Discussion will take place on February 3 at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced). Faculty News Professors Marvin Geller, Edmund Chang and Bob Cess will be attending the 86th Annual AMS Meeting is Atlanta, Georgia from January 29 to February 2. ITPA will have a table and poster at this meeting. Professor Robert D. Cess has been selected by the American Meteorological Society as the recipient of “The Jule G. Charney Award” for “his outstanding contributions to our understanding of the science of atmospheric radiation and climate change and the role of clouds in climate models.” Bob will receive his award at the AMS Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia this week. Bob has also been elected as a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. Congratulations on these outstanding achievements! Congratulations to Minghua Zhang and his son, Harley. Harley was selected as a finalist in the Intel science competition and will compete in mid-March for prizes including a first-place, $100,000 scholarship. (Newsday article) Congratulations to Grandpa Marvin Geller! Marv’s granddaughter, Neala, arrived on Monday, January 23, weighing 8 lbs., 1 oz. Congratulations to Professor Nick Fisher on his promotion to the rank of SUNY Distinguished Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees. Student News Hua Song, Tiehan Zhou, Yanjuan Guo and Shaun Bell will be attending the AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta this week. The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) Earth-Sun Exploration Division, in collaboration with the Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, is offering a limited number of graduate student research opportunities through its Graduate Student Summer Program. This program is designed to stimulate interest in interdisciplinary earth science studies by enabling selected students to carry out an intensive research project at GSFC from June 5 to August 11. Deadline for applications is February 28. For more information, please visithttp://gest.umbc.edu/student_opp/students.html. NCAR’s Advanced Study Program is pleased to announce the establishment of its new Graduate Student Visitor Program. The program is designed to provide NCAR staff opportunities to bring graduate students to NCAR for three to twelve month collaborative visits with the endorsement of their thesis advisors and in pursuit of their thesis research. The application deadline is March 1. For more information please contact Paula Fisher at paulad@ucar.edu, or at (303) 497-1328. UCAR’s Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) program offers summer research internships to undergraduates interested in exploring a career in the atmospheric or related sciences. For further information, please contact Annaliese Calhoun at acalhoun@ucar.edu or at (303) 497-8622. The fund raising drive for the Jerry R. Schubel Graduate Fellowship has reached it’s target of $500,000. The application process for this fellowship will be announced later in the year. The next MSRC alumni reception will be held in Hawaii during the Feb. 20-24 Ocean Sciences meeting. The reception is scheduled for Feb. 22 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hawaii Convention Center. For additional information, please contact the MSRC Main Office at 2-8781. Miscellaneous February is Black History Month. This year’s theme commemorates civil rights activist, Rosa Parks. To access the calendar of events, please visit http://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/sb/bhm.shtml. Mark your calendars for Stony Brook Day in Albany on February 28. To participate, please contact Pat Cruso at 2-4309, or at patricia.cruso@stonybrook.edu. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 3, February 5 – 11, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresThis week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar will take place on Wednesday, February 8 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor Michael Whitney from the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, will present a seminar entitled, “Interactions Between Oregon’s Coastal River Plumes and the Wintertime Wind-Driven Shelf Circulation.” Light refreshments will be served. If you like to make an appointment to meet with Professor Whitney, please contact the host, Professor Dong-Ping Wang at 2-8691. This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Dr. Stephen Baines from MSRC. Dr. Baines will present a seminar entitled, “Metabolic and Ecological Implications of Dissolved Organic Matter Uptake by Zebra Mussels.” on Friday, February 10 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour Hall 120. All are invited to attend a special seminar on Tuesday, February 7, at 1:00 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. Dr. Eric Tromeur, a candidate for the postdoctoral position in ITPA, will present a seminar entitled, “Large-Eddy Simulations of Aero-Optical Effects in Turbulent Compressible Flows.” The Friday Weather Discussion will take place on February 10 at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced). Faculty News On Friday, Feb. 10, Professor Minghua Zhang will be presenting a seminar to first-year graduate students in Stony Brook’s Department of Physics. Student News URECA is soliciting abstracts for this year’s “Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity.” The celebration will be held on Wednesday, April 26, at the Student Activities Center. For more information, please visit http://www.stonybrook.edu/ureca/celebration.htm. Deadline for submission is March 10. Miscellaneous As part of the Flax Pond Winter Lecture Series, Matthew Sclafani, Senior Biologist at Cornell University Cooperative Extension, will present a seminar entitled,”Horseshoe Crab Monitoring in Flax Pond and on Long Island, on Sunday, February 12 at 3:00 p.m. at the Childs Mansion on Shore Road, Crane Neck. For further information, please contact Malcolm Bowman atmbowman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. Provost Robert McGrath invites all faculty, staff and students to attend two special lectures in honor of Black History Month. On February 8 at 5:00 p.m., Professor Yohuru Williams, Director of Black Studies and Associate Professor of History at Fairfield University, will speak on “Rethinking the Black Panther Party: Race, Class, and American Democracy in the 21st Century.” This lecture will take place at the Wang Center, Lecture Hall 2. On February 9 at 4:00 p.m., Robin D.G. Kelly, the William B. Ransford Professor of Cultural and Historical Studies from Columbia University, will present a lecture entitled, “Africa Speaks, America Answers: The Drum Wars of Guy Warren.” This lecture will take place in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 1006. President Shirley Strum Kenny has announced the formation of a Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to provide ideas and comments to the Co-chairs of this Task Force. You may do so by visiting http://www.stonybrook.edu/diversity/taskforce.html. President Shirley Strum Kenny invites all faculty and staff to attend the men’s basketball game (SB vs. Binghamton) on February 11 at 4:00 p.m. at the Indoor Sports Complex. In celebration of faculty/staff day, employees will receive one free ticket for each ticket purchased. Purchase price is $5.00. Tickets may be purchased at the Indoor Sports Complex Monday through Friday between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Special thanks to Steve Abrams, Manager of the Flax Pond Laboratory, for assembling the Center’s new aquarium located in the lobby of Endeavour Hall. Volunteers are needed to decorate and maintain the aquarium and to collect organisms. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Steve atsabrams@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. Mark your calendars for Stony Brook Day in Albany on February 28. You may register by accessinghttp://www.stonybrook.edu/albany. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 4, February 12 – 18, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresThis week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar will take place on Wednesday, February 15 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor Anning Cheng from the NASA-Langley Research Center, will present a seminar entitled, “Organization of Mesoscale Convective Systems and its Parameterization in GCM.” Light refreshments will be served. If you like to make an appointment to meet with Professor Cheng, please contact Sultan Hameed at 2-8319. This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Dr. Paul Pickhardt from MSRC. Dr. Pickhardt will present a seminar entitled, “Mercury Accumulation Dynamics in Biota from the San Francisco Bay Delta System,” on Friday, February 17 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour Hall 120. The Friday Weather Discussion will take place on February 17 at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced). Faculty News Please mark your calendars for the student review scheduled for Tuesday, February 14 from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. The next faculty meeting will take place on Thursday, February 16 from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 113. Faculty members are needed to review and edit questions for this year’s Bay Scallop Bowl scheduled for March 4. To volunteer, please contact Kim Knoll or Bill Wise at 2-8656. Newsday is interested in publishing short essays on faculty research topics that generally do not receive media attention. For more information, please contact Patrick Calabria, University Media Relations Officer, at 2-4965. Faculty members planning to request sabbatical leaves for 2006-07 should submit their requests to Dean David Conover as soon as possible so that plans for teaching may be made. Student News Information regarding Summer Session 2006 is now available at http://www.sunysb.edu/summer. Students who would like to apply for the Jerry R. Schubel Fellowship may obtain an application from MSRC’s main office. Fellowships will be awarded based on academic record and a plan for engaging in science communication and outreach. Deadline for applications is Feb. 24. Miscellaneous As part of the Flax Pond Winter Lecture Series, Matthew Sclafani, Senior Biologist at Cornell University Cooperative Extension, will present a seminar entitled,”Horseshoe Crab Monitoring in Flax Pond and on Long Island, on Sunday, February 12 at 3:00 p.m. at the Childs Mansion on Shore Road, Crane Neck. For further information, please contact Malcolm Bowman atmbowman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 5, February 19 – 25, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresITPA will be hosting two special seminars this week. On Monday, February 20 at 2:30 p.m., Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan from the School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman – will present a seminar entitled, “Predictability Analysis.” On Tuesday, February 21 at 1:00 p.m., Dr. Martha Evounuk from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, will present a seminar entitled, “Convection in the Deep Interiors of Giant Planets.” Both seminars will take place in Endeavour Hall 120. This week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar will take place on Wednesday, February 22 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor Olivier Pauluis from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, will present a seminar entitled, “Toward the End of Cumulus Parameterization.” Light refreshments will be served. If you like to make an appointment to meet with Professor Pauluis, please contact Sultan Hameed at 2-8319. There will be no Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium this week. The Friday Weather Discussion will take place on February 24 at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced). Faculty News Professor Marvin Geller has been appointed as a member of the Board of International Scientific Organization (BISO) by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). BISO represents NAS as the US national committee for the International Council for Science (ICSU). We congratulate Professor Geller for being one of twelve members on this distinguished committee. Last week, Professor Sultan Hameed chaired a session on “El-Nino Predictability” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis, MO. Student News The deadline to apply for a Jerry R. Schubel Fellowship has been extended to March 1. For information regarding the application process, please call the Main Office at 2-8700. Miscellaneous There will be a reception for all alumni, faculty, staff and students at the Ocean Sciences meeting in Hawaii on February 22 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in room 319A of the Hawaii Convention Center. Due to the cancellation of last week’s Flax Pond Lecture, two lectures will be given this Sunday at 3:00 p.m. Matthew Sclafani, Senior Biologist at Cornell University Cooperative Extension, will present a seminar entitled,”Horseshoe Crab Monitoring in Flax Pond and on Long Island, and Matthew Draud, Senior Biologist at CW Post-Long Island University, will present a seminar entitled, “Diamondback Terrapins: Natives of our Salt Marshes.” Lectures will take place at the Childs Mansion on Shore Road, Crane Neck. For further information, please contact Malcolm Bowman atmbowman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 6, Feb 26 – March 4, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresThis week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar will take place on Wednesday, March 1 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor Joe Warren from MSRC-Southampton will present a seminar entitled, “An Ephemeral Nearshore Observatory of the Physical and Biological Oceanography of Livingston Island, Antarctica.” Light refreshments will be served. If you like to make an appointment to meet with Professor Warren, please contact Sultan Hameed at 2-8319. This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Peter Williams from the University of Wales. His seminar entitled, “Auditing the Ocean’s Organic Carbon Budget -Should We File for Bankruptcy or Sack the Accountants?” will be presented on Friday, March 3 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For further information, please contact the host, Nick Fisher at 2-8649. The Friday Weather Discussion will take place on March 3 at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced). Faculty News The 11th Solar-Terrestrial Physics symposium (STP-11) is being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from March 6-10 by SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics). Professor Marvin Geller will attend in his capacities as SCOSTEP President, Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee, and presenting a paper. There will also be two days of SCOSTEP Bureau meetings and a General Council meeting held just before and after the symposium. More information on STP-11 can be found at Student News For those who plan to apply for a Jerry R. Schubel Fellowship, please note that the deadline is Wednesday, March 1. Applications may be obtained in the Main Office. Miscellaneous The Bay Scallop Bowl takes place on Saturday, March 4 beginning with registration and a continental breakfast at 7:30 a.m. in the Wang Center. For more information, please contact Bill Wise or Kim Knoll at 2-8656. Nominations for vacancies on several University Senate Committees are now being accepted for the Spring 2006 election. Deadline for nominations is March 3. Information may be accessed athttp://naples.cc.stonybrook.edu/Admin/usenate.nsf. Follow the link to “Call for University Senate Nominations.” Dean David Conover is seeking nominations for a Distinguished Alumni Award to be given in November. Please send your suggestions to him at dconover@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 7, March 5 – 11, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresThis week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar will take place on Wednesday, March 8 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor Gary Lackmann from the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Science, North Carolina State University, will present a seminar entitled, “NWP Model Representation of Organized Convective Systems.” Light refreshments will be served. If you like to make an appointment to meet with Professor Lackmann, please contact Sultan Hameed at 2-8319. This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Annelie Skoog from the University of Connecticut. Professor Skoog will present a seminar entitled, “Getting Radical: Hydroxil Radicals in the Marine Environment,” on Friday, March 10 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For further information, please contact the host, Cindy Lee at 2-8741. Please mark your calendars for a special seminar on April 3 at 2:00 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. David M. Schultz from the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) will present at seminar entitled, “Cold Fronts: The Unknown Knowns.” The Friday Weather Discussion will take place on March 10 at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced). Faculty News Professor Robert D. Cess will be the speaker on April 21 as part of the Provost’s Lecture Series. Additional information will be provided at a later date. Professor Minghua Zhang will present a guest lecture in the HDV102 freshman seminar series “Science and the Culture Wars,” on Thursday, March 9, from 12:50 to 1:45 p.m. in room 1410 of the Main Library. The deadline for final exam room requests is March 16. Please let Carol Dovi (2-8681) in the Education Office know if you will be giving a final exam, and if alternate seating is needed. Student News Xiaosong Yang will present a thesis progress report on Friday, March 10, at 9:30 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 113. Miscellaneous Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 8, March 12 – 18, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresThis week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar will take place on Wednesday, March 15 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor James Spinhirne from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center will present a seminar entitled, “Lidar Measurements from Space: New Global Results on Cloud and Aerosol Distribution and Overlap, PBL Height and Elevated Aerosol Layers.” Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to make an appointment to meet with Professor Spinhirne, please contact Sultan Hameed at 2-8319. This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Robert Houghton from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Professor Houghton will present a seminar entitled, “Mixing, Secondary Circulation and Cross-Frontal Exchange at the New England Shelfbreak Front” on Friday, March 17 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For further information, please contact the host, Bob Wilson at 2-8689. The Friday Weather Discussion will take place on March 17 at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced). Faculty News Research funding opportunities from NASA for “Space and Earth Sciences-2006” may be accessed at this link. A list of specific programs can be found at this link. Minghua Zhang will be in NASA Goddard early next week to plan for joint research projects with NASA participants. Student News MSRC’s recruitment weekend takes place on March 17 and 18. On Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. at Sunwood, several faculty and students will speak on topics that will introduce prospective students to a range of research activities at the Center. Group field trip opportunities will be available as well. For those requiring transportation to Sunwood, the MSRC van will depart from the main parking lot at 8:15 a.m. For more information, please contact Bob Aller, Chair of the Admissions Committee, at 2-8746. Miscellaneous As part of the Flax Pond Winter Lecture Series, Bengt Allen, Graduate Fellow at Stony Brook University, will present a seminar entitled, “Asian Shore Crabs: Research in Flax Pond.” Lectures take place at the Childs Mansion on Shore Road in Crane Neck. For more information, please contact Malcolm Bowman at mbowman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. As part of the Center’s recruitment weekend, there will be an International Potluck Dinner on Friday, March 17 beginning at 6:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. (Beverages and snacks will be available at 5:30 p.m.) All are welcome to attend. Volunteers are needed to prepare food and assist with the set-up and clean-up of the room. Please sign up on the sheets posted outside of the mailroom in Endeavour Hall. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 9, March 19 – 25, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresThis week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar will take place on Wednesday, March 22 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor Mark Jacobson from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, will present a seminar entitled, “Cleaning the Air and Improving Health with Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles.” Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to make an appointment to meet with Professor Jacobson, please contact Sultan Hameed at 2-8319. There will be a special seminar on Thursday, March 23 at 1:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor Mark Wenig from the Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will present a seminar entitled, “Satellite Measurements of Global NO2Emissions.” This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Robert Warner from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Warner will present a seminar entitled, “Connectivity Among Marine Populations and the Design of Marine Reserves,” on Friday, March 24 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For further information, please contact the host, Lora Clark at lora.clark@msrc.sunysb.edu. The Friday Weather Discussion will take place on March 24 at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced). Faculty News Professor Minghua Zhang will be attending the Atmospheric Model Working Group (AMWG) meeting at NCAR early this week. Professor Brian Colle will be giving two lectures on orographic dynamics and precipitation at the Collaborative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET) in Boulder, CO this week. Professor Brian Colle and collaborators at Penn State have two papers on Alaskan coastal flows in February’s Monthly Weather Review:
Student News Graduate student David Novak and Professor Brian Colle have a Maproom paper in the February Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society entitled “Observations of Multiple Sea Breeze Boundaries during an Unseasonably Warm Day in Metropolitan New York City.” Stony Brook’s chapter of Sigma Xi is currently accepting applications for awards in Excellence in Research and Educationally-related Travel. Deadline for applications is April 12. Applications may be obtained from the Waste Reduction and Management Institute, Dutchess Hall 147, 2-8704. Miscellaneous The National Center for Atmospheric Research announces a Summer Colloquium on the Art of Climate Modeling from June 4 to 16 in Boulder, CO. Additional information may be obtained from the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall, and by accessinghttp://www.asp.ucar.edu/colloquium/2006/. Mark your calendars for EarthStock 2006 scheduled for Friday, April 21. The theme of this year’s Earth Day celebration is “Sustainability – the Future is Now!” This year’s keynote speaker is MSRC’s Distinguished Professor, Bob Cess, who will present a talk entitled, “Global Warming: What We Know and What We Don’t Know.” Volunteers are needed to assist with this special event. Please contact Malcolm Bowman at 2-8669 for additional information or visit the Earthstock webpage athttp://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/sb/earthstock/. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 10, Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresThis week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar will take place on Wednesday, March 29 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor Peitao Peng from the Climate Prediction Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will present a seminar entitled, “The Impact of Tropical SSTs on the Seasonal Atmospheric Variability.” Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to make an appointment to meet with Professor Peng, please contact Sultan Hameed at 2-8319. There will be a special seminar on Thursday, March 30 at 10:00 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor Robert Wood from Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, will present a seminar entitled, “The Sensitivity of Low Clouds to Aspects of Climate Change.” If you would like to schedule a meeting with Professor Wood, please contact Gina Gartin at 2-8009. This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Robert Steneck from the University of Maine. Professor Steneck will present a seminar entitled, “Turbulent Seas in the Wake of Overfishing: The Loss of Resilience and Accelerating Booms and Busts in the World’s Coastal Ecosystems,” on Friday, March 31 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For further information, please contact the host, Glenn Lopez at 2-8660. The Friday Weather Discussion will take place on March 31 at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced). Faculty News Professor Minghua Zhang will be attending the DOE ARM Science Team meeting in Albuquerque, NM this week. Professor Edmund Chang has been appointed as a member of the Committee on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics of the American Meteorological Society. Congratulations to Marvin Geller on receiving a certificate in recognition for his contribution to the Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII) project which was launched on NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) and carried to orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery on September 12, 1991. Student News Congratulations to John (Jack) Albright, a senior ATM major, who finished in first place in the National Forecast Contest for Pensacola, FL. There are hundreds of forecasters in the contest, so this is quite an accomplishment. Also, Jennifer Potenza finished in 10th place, which is also outstanding. With one city remaining in the national contest, Stony Brook is currently in 10th place out of 40 eligible schools. Graduate student David Novak has a paper in the latest issue of Weather and Forecasting:
Graduate students Xiaosong Yang and Siwon Song recently published the following papers, co-authored with Professor Edmund Chang:
Miscellaneous Mark your calendars for the University’s annual Pride Patrol on April 21 to coincide with the EarthStock celebration. See the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall for further details concerning Pride Patrol, and the EarthStock website (http://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/sb/earthstock/) for information on the day’s events. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 11, April 2 – 8, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresThis week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar will take place on Wednesday, April 5 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor Rachel Pinker from the Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, will present a seminar entitled, “Do Satellites Detect Trends in Surface Solar Radiation?” Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to make an appointment to meet with Professor Pinker, please contact Sultan Hameed at 2-8319. There will be three special ITPA seminars this week. On Monday, April 3, at 2:00 p.m., David M. Schultz from NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) will present a seminar entitled, “Cold Fronts: The Unknown Knowns.” On Tuesday, April 4 at 10:00 a.m., Barbara Ervens from the NOAA-Environmental Technology Laboratory in Boulder, CO, will present a seminar entitled, “Connections Between Aerosols, Clouds, Chemistry, and Climate.” On Thursday, April 6 at 2:00 p.m., Timothy VanReken from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, will present a seminar entitled, “The Lifetime of Secondary Organic Particles (In Reverse): From Cloud Activation to New Particle Formation.” All seminars will be held in Endeavour Hall 120. This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Virginia Edgcomb from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Dr. Edgcomb will present a seminar entitled, “Deep Marine Environments: Microbial Ecology and Discovery: Dens of Antiquity?” on Friday, April 7 at 12:00 noon (refreshments at 11:45 a.m.) in Endeavour 120. For further information, please contact the host, Gordon Taylor, at 2-8688. The Friday Weather Discussion will take place on April 7 at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced). Faculty News Marvin Geller will be in Washington DC from April 5-12 to attend meetings of the NRC Committee on Strategic Guidance for NSF ATM and the NRC Board on International Scientific Organizations. Student News David Novak will present his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, “An Investigation of the Cold-Season Precipitation Bands within Northeast US Cyclones and their Prediction,” on Monday, April 3, at 10:30 a.m. in Endeavour 113. All are welcome to attend. Miscellaneous Congratulations to Bill Wise on the birth of his first grandchild, Ava Marie, who arrived on March 28. Congratulations to Julia Todorov-Thomsen and Jerry Thomsen on the birth of their son, Liam, on March 21st. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 12, April 9 – 15, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresDue to Spring break, there will be no Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar, Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium, or Friday Weather Discussion this week. Enjoy the break! Faculty News The deadline to order books for the Fall semester is April 15. Book orders may be placed on-line athttp://www.sunysb.edu/provostliasn/bookstore/faculty/textreq.html. For additional information, contact Omar Moore at omoore@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. Student News The American Meteorology is assisting NOAA in administering information about a new scholarship program, “The Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship.” Interested students who will be in their junior year of undergraduate studies in the Fall of 2006 are eligible. Deadline for applications is April 22. For further information, please visit http://www.orau.gov/NOAA/HollingsScholarship/. The American Meteorology Society invites students to become members for a fee of $15.00. Membership includes discounts on journals, Weatherwise magazine, reduced fees for conferences and workshops, eligibility for scholarships, fellowships and other awards, and access to the new on-line Career Center. For more information, please access http://www.ametsoc.org or contact Beth Farley at bfarley@ametsoc.org. Miscellaneous The Committee on Honorary Degrees is seeking recommendations of candidates for honorary degrees to be awarded in 2007. Additional information may be obtained from Lawrence Martin in the Graduate School. Deadline for nominations is April 13. The American Meteorological Society (Long Island – New York City Chapter) will be meeting on April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. WCBS Meteorologist, Craig Allen, will present a talk entitled, “So you want to be a TV/radio meteorologist?” All are welcome to attend. There will be an optional dinner meeting at Chili’s on Nesconset Highway in Stony Brook at 6:00 p.m. To RSVP for the dinner, please contact Mark Kramer at NYCLIAMS@aol.com. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 13, April 16 – 22, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresThere will be a special seminar on Tuesday, April 18, at 2:45 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. Dr. Daniel Knopf from the Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, will present a seminar entitled, “Microphysical Properties and Atmospheric Interactions of Aerosol Particles.” All are welcome to attend. This week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar speaker is Professor Enno Schefuss from the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI). Dr. Schefuss will present a seminar entitled, “Climatic Controls on Central African Hydrology During the Past 20,000 Years,” on Wednesday, April 19, at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Light refreshments will be served. To schedule an appointment with Dr. Schefuss, please contact Sultan Hameed at 2-8319. This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Raleigh Hood from the University of Maryland. Professor Hood will present a seminar entitled, “Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling in the 21st Century: Challenges and Future Prospects,” on Friday, April 21 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. If you would like to schedule an appointment to meet with Professor Hood, please contact the host, Kamazima Lwiza at 2-7309. Faculty News Congratulations to Marvin Geller on his selection to receive NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal. This medal will be presented at the 2006 Agency Honor Awards Ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC on April 27. Professor Marvin Geller will be in Bern, Switzerland this week to attend the Team Meeting on Solar Impacts on Climate at the International Space Science Institute. Professor Minghua Zhang will be attending the NASA Cloud Modeling and Analysis Initiative (CMAI) meeting at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies on April 20 and 21. Student News MSRC’s convocation ceremony will take place on Friday, May 19 at 12:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. To RSVP, contact Carol Dovi at 2-8681 and indicate the number of guests who will be attending. Please note: there is a limit of six guests. Miscellaneous Earthstock 2006 will take place on Friday, April 21, at the academic mall on main campus. Stop by for a day of fun, learning, music, food and informative seminars. This year’s theme is “Sustainability – the Future is Now!” Professor Robert D. Cess is the keynote speaker and will present a talk entitled, “Global Warming: What We Know and What We Don’t Know.” For further information, please contact the Earthstock Co-chair, Malcolm Bowman, at 2-8669 or visit the Earthstock website athttp://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/sb/earthstock/. Mark your calendars for this year’s Vax to Flax race on May 6 (rain date May 7). Additional details will be provided at a later date. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 14, April 23 – 29, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresThis week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar speaker is Professor Colette Heald from the Atmospheric Modeling Group at Harvard University. Professor Heald will present a seminar entitled, “Organic Carbon Aerosol in the Free Troposphere,” on Wednesday, April 26, at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Light refreshments will be served. To schedule an appointment with Professor Heald, please contact Sultan Hameed at 2-8319. This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Bruce Robison from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Professor Robison will present a seminar entitled, “Exploring the Deep Ocean Interior,” on Friday, April 28 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. If you would like to schedule an appointment to meet with Professor Robison, please contact the host, Glenn Lopez atglopez@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. In connection with the American Meteorology Society’s LI/NYC chapter meeting, WCBS Meteorologist, Craig Allen, will present a talk entitled, “So You Want to be a TV/Radio Meteorologist?” on Tuesday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. There will be a dinner (optional) at Chili’s Restaurant (corner of Nicolls Road and Route 347) before the talk. For details regarding the dinner, please contact Mark Kramer at NYCLIAMS@aol.com. Faculty News Interviews have been completed for the Assistant Professor position in ITPA. The Search Committee invites all faculty, staff and students to send comments regarding the candidates to John Mak by Tuesday, April 25. The Search Committee is scheduled to meet on April 25 at 4:30 p.m. Student News Jae Lee will defend her thesis proposal on April 27 at 1:00 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. The Awards Committee for the Petra M. Udelhofen Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship is currently soliciting letters of application for the 2006 award. The $500 scholarship will be awarded to an undergraduate entering his/her senior year of study in Environmental Studies, Atmospheric Sciences/Meteorology, or Marine Sciences. For more information, please stop by the ITPA Office in Endeavour Hall 129. Deadline for submission is May 1. The Robert de Zafra Student Symposium will take place on Friday, April 28 at 9:00 a.m. in the Wang Center, room 101. Student presenters should submit their Powerpoint presentations to Professor Sultan Hameed by Tuesday, April 25. Miscellaneous There will be a South Campus Blood Drive on Thursday, April 27 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. in the Busmobile located in front of Endeavour Hall. To schedule an appointment to donate, please contact Katerina in the Main Office at 2-8781. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 15, Apr 30 – May 6, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresPlease join us for the final Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar of the Spring 2006 semester. Professor John Gyakum from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, will present a seminar entitled, “Tropical Influences on Extratropical Precipitation Systems” on Wednesday, May 3, at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Light refreshments will be served. To schedule an appointment to meet with Professor Gyakum, please contact Sultan Hameed at 2-8319. This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Ronald Benner from the University of South Carolina. Professor Benner will present a seminar entitled, “Searching for Evidence of Life on Mars,” on Friday, May 5 at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. If you would like to schedule an appointment to meet with Professor Benner, please contact the host, Cindy Lee at 2-8741. The Friday Weather Discussion will take place on May 5 at 3:30 p.m. (topic to be announced). Student News MSRC’s convocation ceremony will be held on Friday, May 19, at 12:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. For further information, contact Carol Dovi in the Educational Programs Office at 2-8681. The Awards Committee for the Petra M. Udelhofen Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship is currently soliciting letters of application for the 2006 award. The $500 scholarship will be awarded to an undergraduate entering his/her senior year of study in Environmental Studies, Atmospheric Sciences/Meteorology, or Marine Sciences. For more information, please stop by the ITPA Office in Endeavour Hall 129. Deadline for submission is May 1. Miscellaneous Mark your calendars for the Vax to Flax race on Saturday, May 6 (rain date May 7) at 8:30 a.m. Volunteers are needed to help with the race and the barbecue at Flax Pond. For more information, please contact Juliet Kinney at jwkinney@ic.sunysb.edu. Strawberry Fest 2006, in conjunction with Diversity Day, takes place on Wednesday, May 3, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in front of the Student Activities Center. For more information, please visithttp://www.campusdining.org. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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E-Newsletter Vol. 10 No. 16, May 7 – 13, 2006Information, Talks, and Publications about AtmospheresThis is the final ITPA newsletter for the Spring 2006 semester. Enjoy the summer! Seminar schedules for the Fall 2006 semester will be available in mid-August and may be accessed athttp://atmos.msrc.sunysb.edu/npages/taos.html and http://www.msrc.sunysb.edu/news/oac.html. There will be a special TAOS seminar on Wednesday, June 7, at 12:00 noon in Endeavour Hall 120. Professor Martin Beniston from the Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, will present a seminar entitled, “Extreme Climatic Events in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Possible Links to the North Atlantic Oscillation.” Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to schedule an appointment to meet with Professor Beniston, please contact Sultan Hameed at 2-8319. On June 8, a delegation from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) will visit ITPA as part of the process for Stony Brook to become a formal member. Faculty News Professor Minghua Zhang will be in Seattle from May 16 – 18 to attend the NASA TRMM Latent Heating Profile Workshop. On May 11, Professor Edmund Chang will be visiting the University of Maryland to present a seminar entitled “Explosive cyclogenesis over Western Pacific: Impacts of upstream wave packets.” Congratulations to Marvin Geller who was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal. This medal is the highest honor NASA awards to non-government employees who display distinguished service, ability, or courage and have made a contribution representing substantial progress to the NASA mission. Professor Geller contributed substantially to the design and implementation of several NASA satellite science research programs, including the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). Student News MSRC’s convocation ceremony will be held on Friday, May 19, at 12:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. For further information, contact Carol Dovi in the Educational Programs Office at 2-8681. Two ITPA Ph.D. graduate students, Jingbo Wu and Tiehan Zhou, and three undergraduate students, John Murray, Joseph Pollina, and Michael Rattray, will participate in the graduation ceremonies. Miscellaneous The Center for Italian Studies presents the “Stony Brook Concorso d’Eleganza,” a celebration of Italian Automotive Excellence and Beauty on Sunday, May 21 (rain date May 22). Owners of Italian automobiles are invited to participate in this display of some of the finest automobiles from Italy. The event will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on the lawn directly across from the Sports Complex. For further information, please contact Jo Fusco at 632-7444 or atjfusco@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is seeking a postdoctoral level scientist to work with a group of scientists in a team environment at the Hydrology Laboratory of the NOAA/National Weather Service/Office of Hydrologic Development in Silver Spring, MD. Deadline for applications is July 15. Additional information may be found at http://www.ucar.edu and on the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries for the weekly ITPA E-newsletter. Please send your submissions to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
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