E-Newsletter Vol. 8 – 2005

Welcome Back!  The Spring 2005 semester officially begins on Monday, January 24th.

This semester’s first TAOS speaker is Edward Cook from the Tree-Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.  Professor Cook will present a seminar entitled,”Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States: Links to the Tropical Pacific and Radiative Forcing,”  on Wednesday, January 26 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120.  Light refreshments will be served.  If you would like to schedule an appointment to meet with Professor Cook, please contact Sultan Hameed at shameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

Professor Cook’s paper, “Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States,” will be discussed at the first meeting of OCN 694 on Monday, January 24th at 12:40 p.m. in Endeavour 113.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker, Frank Buonaiuto, from MSRC  will present a seminar entitled, “Rip Currents Morphological Link to Edge Waves” on Friday, January 28 at 12:30 p.m. in Endeavour 120.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced).

Faculty News

We are delighted to announce that Professor Nicole Riemer, a post-doc from Stanford University will be joining the ITPA faculty on March 1st.  Professor Riemer received her Ph.D. from the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) in 2002, was a post-doc at UC Davis from 2003 to March 2004, and has been a post-doc at Stanford University (Center for Turbulence Research) since April 2004. The focus of her research is the interaction of transport of trace gases and aerosol particles in the troposphere with chemistry and microphysics — cloud formation, and climate impact of aerosol.

Marvin Geller will be in Germany to help the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (the German equivalent to our NSF) in reviewing proposals for their new priority program “Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth-System (CAWSES).”  The review is on January 26 and 27.    CAWSES is an international program of the international Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP).  Marvin Geller is in his second term as the elected President of SCOSTEP.

Professor Duane Waliser will Chair an AGU session on Modeling, Simulating, and Forecasting Subseasonal Atmospheric Variability in New Orleans, LA  in May.  Deadline for abstracts is February 10th.  For more information, please visit http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm05/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=170.

Student News

Congratulations to Yanjuan Guo, Jae Nyung Lee, Yanluan Lin, Hua Song and Howard Teich , who recently passed the ITPA oral qualifying exam.

Miscellaneous

ITPA participated in the American Meteorological Society’s 85th Student Conference and Career Fair  on January 8th & 9th in San Diego, CA.  Special thanks to Xiaosong Yang for representation ITPA at this event.

The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is sponsoring a “Summer Institute on Atmospheric, Hydrospheric, and Terrestrial Sciences, from June 6th to August 12th in Greenbelt, Maryland.  This program is designed to introduce undergraduate students majoring in all  areas of the physical sciences to research opportunities in atmospheric, hydrospheric, and terrestrial sciences, both theoretical and experimental.  No previous experience is needed.  Please see the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall for further information on application procedures, or visithttp://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/summerinstitute/.

The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Earth-Sun Exploration Division, in collaboration  with the Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology (GEST) Center of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, is offering a limited number of graduate student research opportunities.  The program is scheduled for June 6th to August 12th and is designed to stimulate interest in interdisciplinary Earth Science studies by enabling selected students to carry out an intensive research project at GSFC, which can be applied to the student’s graduate thesis.  Deadline for applications is February 28th.  For more information, please visit http://gest.umbc.edu/student_opp/students.html.  Further information may also be found on the ITPA  bulletin board in Endeavour Hall.

Malcolm Bowman and Molly Hastings have been elected co-chairs of Earthstock 2005 which will be held in and outside of the Student Activities Center on Earth Day, April 22nd.  For more information or to participate in this year’s event, please contact Malcolm at mbowman@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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This week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar speaker is Andrew Wittenberg, from NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Professor Wittenberg will present a seminar entitled, “Extended Wind Stress Analyses for ENSO” on Wednesday, February 2 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to schedule an appointment to meet with Professor Wittenberg, please contact Sultan Hameed at shameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker, Professor Thomas Rossby from the University of Rhode Island, will present a seminar entitled, “Interannual Variations in Upper Ocean Transport by the Gulf Stream and Adjacent Waters Between New Jersey and Bermuda” on Friday, February 4 at 12:30 p.m. in Endeavour 120.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced).

Faculty News

Professor Sultan Hameed will be visiting the Horn Point Marine Laboratory of the University of Maryland on February 2, where he will present a seminar entitled, “An Improvement on the NAO.”

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Jane L. Fox who has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

Student News

On January 24 in OCN 694 , the following discussion teams were decided upon: Team A – Shaun Bell, Owen Doherty, Michael Erickson, Yanjuan Guo, Jae N. Lee, Enrique Mendez, David Novak, Keyhong Park, and Team B – Michael Charles, Zhi Hui, Kolby Jardine, Yanluan Lin, Melissa Ou, Hua Song, Howard Teich.

During the winter break, graduate student, Xiaosong Yang, attended the annual general meeting of the American Meteorological Society in San Diego. During the meeting, he presented a paper entitled, “Variability of the Southern Hemisphere winter split flow — a case of two way reinforcement between mean flow and eddy anomalies” which he co-authored with Professor Edmund Chang.

Miscellaneous

NASA has announced its graduate student fellowship competition guideline for year 2005. The application deadline is 3/15/2005. Application details can be found athttp://research.hq.nasa.gov/code_y/nra/current/Fellowship-ESS05/main.html

The National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma invites motivated undergraduate students interested in a career in scientific research or secondary science education to apply for a summer research program. Students will participate in a ten-week research program under the supervision of mentors from the National Weather Center. For more information, please visithttp://www.caps.ou.edu/reu. Details may also be found on the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall.

Volunteers are needed for this year’s Ocean Science Bowl on Saturday, February 26. If you can help, please contact Kim Knoll at 2-8656. Volunteers will receive a free t-shirt and lunch on the day of the event.

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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This week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar speaker is Ronald Smith from the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University. Professor Smith will present a seminar entitled, “The Oregon Climate Transition: Modeling and Isotope Data” on Wednesday, February 9 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to schedule an appointment to meet with Professor Smith, please contact Sultan Hameed atshameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker, Professor Jake Kritzer from the Environmental Defense Fund, will present a seminar entitled, “Metapopulation Ecology in the Sea” on Friday, February 11 at 12:30 p.m. in Endeavour 120.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced).

Faculty News

On February 4, Professor Minghua Zhang presented a seminar entitled, “”Deceleration of the atmospheric vertical circulation in the tropics: observation, modeling results, theory, and implications” at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Department of Applied Sciences.

Please mark your calendars for the next faculty meeting on Monday, March 7 from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

Professors Malcolm Bowman and Douglas Hill presented the seminar Before The Day After Tomorrow: Climate Change and Storm Surge Barriers for the Metro Region at the Jan 12, 2005 meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences Environmental Sciences Section. The discussant was Klaus Jacob of Columbia University.

Miscellaneous

Please mark your calendars for Stony Brook Day in Albany on Tuesday, March 1. Buses depart from South P-Lot at 6:00 a.m. and return at 7:30 p.m. For more information, please visit www.stonybrook.edu/albany, or contact Malcolm Bowman at mbowman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

The 2005 Friends of Flax Pond Winter Lecture Series at Childs Mansion begins on Sunday, February 13 at 3:00 p.m. Additional information is available on the bulletin board near the MSRC mailroom.

If you are a volunteer for this year’s Ocean Science Bowl on February 26, please email Kim Knoll with your t-shirt size, kknoll@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. One hour training sessions for game officials (moderators, judges, time and score keepers) will be held during the week of February 14. Paula Rose will be setting up training session times shortly.

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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This week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar speaker is Professor Axel Kleidon from the Department of Geography and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland. Professor Kleidon will present a seminar entitled, “Maximum Entropy Production and Climate System Functioning” on Wednesday, February 16 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to schedule an appointment to meet with Professor Kleidon, please contact Sultan Hameed at shameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker from MSRC, Professor Cindy Lee, will present a seminar entitled, “Particulate Matter in the Mediterranean Sea; Insights into Chemical Composition and Sinking Rates,” on Friday, February 18 at 12:30 p.m. in Endeavour 120.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced).

Faculty News

Later this week, Minghua Zhang will travel to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California to work with their DOE ARM infrastructure team on the MPCAE field campaign analysis. While there, he will also present a seminar.

President Kenny invites all faculty and staff to a special Faculty and Staff Day at the Indoor Sports Complex on February 19 at 4:00 p.m. when Stony Brook’s men’s basketball team takes on the Binghamton University Bearcats. Stony Brook employees will receive two free tickets to the game. For more information, please contact Matt Wrynn at 2-7293 or visit the website:http://goseawolves.collegesports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/020205aahtml

Congratulations to Mary Scranton, David Hirschberg, and Sheldon Reaven who were honored at a ceremony and dinner on February 8 for twenty-five years of service to the university.

Student News

“Spicefest,” a potluck dinner will be held on Thursday, Feb. 17 at 6:30 p.m. in Endeavour 120, followed by a showing of the movie, “Finding Nemo”. All are welcome to attend. Food contributions are needed. Please sign up on the sheet posted outside of the mailroom.

Miscellaneous

If you are a moderator, science judge, rules judge, time keeper, or score keeper for the Bay Scallop Bowl on February 26, you must attend one of the following training sessions: Feb. 14 at 11:00 a.m. (Endeavour 120), Feb. 17 at 6:00 p.m. (Endeavour 158), Feb. 18 at 3:00 p.m. (Endeavour 120). Please email Paul Rose at bayscallopbowl@yahoo.com to indicate the training session you will be attending.

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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This week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar speaker is Professor Ning Zeng from the Department of Meteorology and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland. Professor Zeng will present a seminar entitled, “How Strong is Carbon Cycle-Climate Feedback Under Global Warming” on Wednesday, February 23 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to schedule an appointment to meet with Professor Zeng, please contact Sultan Hameed at shameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

There will be two Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speakers this week. On Thursday, February 24 at 2:00 p.m., Ulf Dieckmann from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, will present a seminar entitled, “New Avenues in Modeling the Evolutionary Consequences of Exploitation.” On Friday, February 25 at 12:30 p.m., Mikko Heino from the Institute of Marine Research, Bergan, Norway, will present a seminar entitled, “Fisheries-Induced Evolution in the Wild.”

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced).

Faculty News

Please mark your calendars for the next faculty meeting on Wednesday, March 2 at 3:00 p.m. in Endeavour 120.

Marvin Geller recently returned from Washington, DC where he participated in the National Academies’ Committee on Strategic Guidance for NSF’s Support of Research in the Atmospheric Sciences.

Student News

Class schedules for summer session may be found at www.stonybrook.edu/summer. Session I runs from May 31 – July 8 and Session II from July 11 – August 19. For more information, please call 632-7790.

Michael Erickson will be attending the Northeastern Storm Conference on March 18 in Burlington, Vermont. Although official registration has passed, it may still be possible to get on the guest list for presentations. For more information, please visit http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/ams/NESC.html

Miscellaneous

Don’t forget – this year’s Bay Scallop Bowl will be held on Saturday, February 26 at the Student Activities Center. Volunteers should arrive by 7:30 a.m.

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.

Have a nice weekend!

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This week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar speaker is Brad Ferrier from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Dr. Ferrier will present a seminar entitled, “An Efficient Bulk Microphysical Parameterization for Use in Operational Forecast Models” on Wednesday, March 2 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to schedule an appointment to meet with Dr. Ferrier, please contact Sultan Hameed atshameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This Friday’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Dake Chen, from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. His seminar, “An Intrinsic Mode of Indo-Pacific Climate Variability,” will be held on March 4 at 12:15 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced).

Faculty News

The faculty meeting scheduled for March 2 has been changed to Thursday, March 3 at 3:00 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

Please join us in welcoming ITPA’s new faculty member, Dr. Nicole Riemer. Nicole will arrive on March 1 and her office is located in Endeavour Hall 205. Please stop by to say hello!

Student News

Special thanks to Phil Locicero who has donated videotapes to the Student Lounge in Discovery 109. All are welcome to borrow the tapes, but please return them in a timely manner so that others may enjoy them. Additional videotape donations would be greatly appreciated.

Miscellaneous

Following are two job announcements from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). The first is for a research scholar who will also serve as the Program Officer for the Institute’s Greenhouse Gas Initiative (GGI); the second is for a research scholar to work with the new Population and Climate Change (PCC) Program. Please circulate these announcements widely among possible applicants. The postings, along with information about the Institute, can also be viewed at IIASA’s Website: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/docs/IIASA_Employment.html. The GGI position offers an extremely interesting opportunity for a scientist with good organizational skills and broad, interdisciplinary interests, who would like to work for a while in Europe. The successful candidate could come from any of a broad range of fields with interests in modeling, and developing policy options for, global change. The PCC position requires a background in economic modeling, including familiarity with econometric and general equilibrium models.

Congratulations to Mt. Sinai High School, winner of this year’s Bay Scallop Bowl. Many thanks to all those who participated in this event, and a very special thanks to Bill Wise, Kim Knoll and Paula Rose for organizing this year’s Bowl.

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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This week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar speaker is Professor Cheng-Zhi Zou from the Surface and Atmosphere Team, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Professor Zou will present a seminar entitled, “Assessment of Moisture and Wind Fields from Reanalyses and TOVS Satellite Retrievals Over the Polar Region” on Wednesday, March 9 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to schedule an appointment to meet with Professor Zou, please contact Sultan Hameed atshameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This Friday’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker, Brad Seibel, from the University of Rhode Island, will present a seminar entitled, “Oxygen Minimum Layers: Physiological Constraints on Vertical Migration in the Jumbo Squid, Dosidicus Gigas” at 12:15 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced).

Faculty News

Brian Colle is participating in the Urban Dispersion Field Program for New York City between March 7-21, 2005. The objective is to advance our knowledge about the movement of contaminants within NYC and into and within building interiors. Inert (and safe!!) tracers will be released around Madison Square Garden twice during two week period to learn about the flow within the deep urban canyons under ambient westerly and southwesterly flow. The Colle group will be providing high resolution MM5 and ensemble forecasts, which will be coupled to urban-scale models, as well as daily forecast briefings. To learn more about the program, please visit:http://urbandispersion.pnl.gov/index.stm

Nancy Glover will distribute the schedule for final exams in mid-March. If you need a room other than your current classroom, please let Nancy know as soon as possible.

Student News

MSRC’s student recruitment weekend will take place on March 11-13. All are welcome and encouraged to participate. Please volunteer for this important event by contacting Steve Goodbred atsgoodbred@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

The 15th National Summer School at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, will be offered from September 11 to September 24. This intensive summer school aims to introduce participants to fluid dynamics as applied to geophysical and environmental flows. It is intended primarily for students pursuing research towards a Ph.D. and is also suitable for those in industry and government interested in improving their background in the fluid mechanical aspects of environmental problems. For further details and an application, please visithttp://www.gefd.damtp.cam.ac.uk. Details may also be found on the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall.

Miscellaneous

This year’s Earthstock event will be held on Friday, April 22 in the Academic Mall and in the Student Activities Center. Volunteers are needed for this day-long event. Forms can be found in the MSRC mailroom and additional information can be obtained by contacting Berri Brine in the Office of Conferences and Special Events, bbrine@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

The American Meteorological Society’s New York City/Long Island Chapter meeting will be held at MSRC on Tuesday, March 15 from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. in Endeavour 120. Malcolm Bowman and Douglas Hill from Stony Brook’s Storm Surge Research Group will speak on the topic “The Day Before the Day After Tomorrow – Storm Surge Barriers to Protect the New York Metropolitan Region, including Long Island.” There will be an optional dinner at the Eastern Pavilion at 5:45 p.m. For additional information, please contact Brian Colle at bcolle@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

The NCAR/UCAR Junior Faculty Forum on Future Scientific Directions will be held on July 27-29, 2005 at NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, CO. Information can be found on the ITPA bulletin board. Application deadline is April 15, 2005.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research announces a summer colloquium on “Space Weather” from May 31 to June 10, 2005 in Boulder, CO. Applications must be received by March 31, 2005. For more information, please visit asp-apply@asp.ucar.edu. Information is also posted on the ITPA bulletin board.

Millersville University is pleased is announce a vacancy for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in meteorology/atmospheric science starting in August 2005. This job announcement may be viewed athttp://www.millersville.edu/~esci. Additional information may also be found on the ITPA bulletin board.

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.

Have a nice weekend!

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This week’s Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAOS) seminar speaker is Professor Tom Knutson from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Professor Knutson will present a seminar entitled, “Greenhouse Warming and Hurricane Intensity,” on Wednesday, March 16 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to schedule an appointment to meet with Professor Knutson, please contact Sultan Hameed at shameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This Friday’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker, Professor Steven Goodbred from MSRC will present a seminar entitled, “Geological history of Great South Bay: Evidence for a catastrophic origin” on March 18 at 12:15 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 139 (topic to be announced).

Faculty News

This week, both Bob Cess and Minghua Zhang will be in Daytona Beach, Florida, to attend the DOE ARM Science Team Meeting.

The Provost has requested that Marine Sciences and other colleges and centers on campus provide at least one science judge each for the Freeport High School Science Fair on Thursday, March 17 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. If you can help, please contact Larry Swanson at 2-8704.

Student News

This week, ITPA graduate student Jingbo Wu will be in Daytona Beach, Florida, attending the DOE ARM Science Team Meeting. She will present a poster presentation of “Simulations of clouds and sensitivity study by using WRF model for ARM Case 4.”

Miscellaneous

The new faculty/staff restaurant, the J Club, located in the Wang Center, is open for lunch Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The J Club also offers in-house and outdoor catering for special events. For more information, please contact Angela Agnello at 2-1464.

The next Flax Pond Lecture, “Crab Life in Flax Pond” will be held on March 13 at 3:00 p.m. at Childs Mansion. Additional information is posted outside of the Marine Sciences mailroom in Endeavour Hall.

There will be a Living World Lecture entitled, “A New Language is Born,” by Mark Aronoff, Professor of Linguistics, on March 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Earth and Space Sciences Lecture Theater 001. Please contact Jeff Levinton at 632-8602 for more information.

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.

Have a nice weekend!

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Due to Spring break, there will be no TAOS seminar, OAC seminar, or Friday weather discussion this week.

Faculty News

Minghua Zhang will be in Washington, DC this week to serve on a NASA panel.

Science judges are needed for the 10th Annual Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Invitational Science Fair to be held on April 17 at Schreiber High School in Pt. Washington. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Alan Schorn of Great Neck North High School at acschorn@optonline.net.

Student News

Special thanks to all those who participated in last weekend’s recruitment retreat and related activities. The event was a tremendous success!

Miscellaneous

The Earth Satellite Corporation (EarthSat) is seeking an individual with computer programming skills to provide support, development, and research for Earthsat’s meteorological activities. Applicants should process a Bachelor’s degree in meteorology/atmospheric science or comparable physical science. Additional information and contact information can be found 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.

Have a nice weekend!

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Welcome back from Spring break. This week’s TAOS seminar speaker, Wei-Kuo Tao, from the Mesoscale Modeling and Dynamic Group of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, will present a seminar entitled, “A New Approach to Using a Cloud-Resolving Model to Study the Interactions Between Clouds, Precipitation and Aerosols.” Please join us for this seminar on Wednesday, March 30 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to schedule an appointment to meet with Dr. Tao, please contact Sultan Hameed atshameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

The Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker this week is Marvin Geller, from ITPA. He will present a seminar entitled, “Unraveling Solar, Volcanic and Anthropogenic Influences on Stratopsheric Ozone” on Friday, April 1 at 12:15 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. Light refreshments will be served.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 129.

Faculty News

Congratulations to Gordon Taylor who has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor.

The Faculty Committee on Honorary Degrees is seeking recommendations of candidates for SUNY honorary degrees to be awarded in 2006. The deadline is April 15, 2005. For more information, please contact the Committee’s secretary, Ms. Ignacia Ruiz at 2-7035.

Student News

Please mark your calendars for MSRC’s Commencement on Friday, May 20, beginning with refreshments at 8:30 a.m. and ceremony at 9:00 a.m. Further information may be obtained from Nancy Glover in the Education Office, 2-8681 or nglover@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

Miscellaneous

Volunteers are still needed for EarthStock on April 22. If you can help out, please contact Malcolm Bowman at mbowman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. Additional information regarding this event can be found at http://www.sunysb.edu/sb/earthstock/index.shtml.

Have a nice weekend!

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Please join us this week for a very special TAOS seminar in honor of Distinguished Professor Robert D. Cess. Professor David Randall from the Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, will present a seminar entitled, “Floating Honeycombs: Simulating the Atmosphere and Ocean with Geodesic Grids and Quasi-Lagrangian Vertical Coordinates,” on Tuesday, April 5 at 10:00 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. Light refreshments will be served.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker, Professor Bruce Brownawell from MSRC, will present a seminar entitled, “Identification of Contaminants Responsible for Toxicity in Urban Harbor Sediments.” The seminar will take place on Friday, April 8 at 12:15 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

The Okubo Fund Committee is pleased to announce that Professor Thomas (Zack) Powell will be this year’s Okubo Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Professor Powell will visit MSRC from April 19-22 and give two talks (April 20 and April 22). Additional details will be provided closer to his visit.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 129.

Student News

The Robert L. de Zafra 2nd Annual ITPA Student Symposium will be held on Thursday, April 28 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Wang Center, room 103. With the exception of first year students, everyone will present a 15-20 minute oral presentation on his/her current research interests and/or activities. All are welcome to attend. For more information, please contact Nicole Riemer at 2-8647.

Miscellaneous

In collaboration with NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program at Princeton University solicits applications for its Postdoctoral, Research, and Visiting Scientist program. Further information may be obtained from http://www.aos.princeton.edu. Deadline for applications is May 15.

A UUP General Membership Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 14 from 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. in the SAC Auditorium. Lunch will be served. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to the UUP Office at 2-6570 or at UUP@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

National Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day will take place on Thursday, April 28. Departments and offices throughout the campus will open their doors to children and their guardians, offering tours and hands-on activities. Programs will be geared to children from 8 to 13 years old. Registration is necessary. Please contact Arlene Skala, 2-6320, in the Office of Conferences and Special Events for more information and registration forms.

Have a nice weekend!

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Please join us for two TAOS seminars this week. On Monday, April 11 at 11:00 a.m., William C. Conant from the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, California Institute of Technology, will present a seminar entitled, “Reconciling Models and Observations of Direct and Indirect Aersol Forcings.” On Wednesday, April 13, at 11:30 a.m., Arnaud Czaja from the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present a seminar entitled, “The Partitioning of the Poleward Heat Transport Between the Ocean and Atmosphere.” Both seminars will be held in Endeavour Hall 120. Light refreshments will be served.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker, Darcy Lonsdale from MSRC, will present a seminar entitled, “Planktonic Shifts Associated with the Introduction of Clams to Mesocosms and Implications for Restoration Efforts, on Friday, April 15, at 12:15 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 129. Topic to be announced.

Student News

Kolby Jardine, a first-year Ph.D. student in Professor John Mak’s lab, recently received a two-year fellowship from the NSF-funded BART (Biosphere-Atmosphere Research Training) Program. Kolby will receive $30,000 per year for two years. He will also spend this summer in the field in central Michigan. Congratulations, Kolby!

The Petra M. Udelhofen Memorial Scholarship Awards Committee is currently soliciting applications for the 2005 award of the $500 scholarship. The award may be used for tuition, support for books, fees and other educational expenses. The scholarship is awarded annually to an undergraduate entering their senior year of study in the Environmental Studies or Atmospheric Sciences/Meteorology program at Stony Brook University. . For more information on how to apply, please visithttp://www.msrc.sunysb.edu/education/education_Petra.htm.

Miscellaneous

There will be a National Weather Service Spotter Training Session, free of charge, offered on Thursday, April 14 at 7:00 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. All are welcome to attend and become certified. To register, please call (631) 924-0517, ext. 412, or visithttp://register.okxskywarn@noaa.gov. More information can be found athttp://www.erh.noaa.gov/okx/Skywarn/spottertraining.html.

Mark your calendars for this year’s VAX to Flax race on Saturday, May 14 (rain date May 15). All are welcome to participate — walkers, bikers, rollerbladers, dog walkers, etc. Participants and volunteers may sign up on the sheets provided near the mailroom. There will be a barbecue at Flax Pond following the race.

Please submit entries for future newsletters to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
Have a great weekend!

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Please join us for this week’s TAOS seminar on April 20 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. Vasubandhu Misra from the Institute of Global Environment and Society, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, will present a seminar entitled, “Addressing the Issue of Systematic Errors in a Regional Climate Model.” Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Misra, please contact Sultan Hameed at shameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker, Phil Landrigan, from the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Columbia University, will present a seminar entitled, “Environmental Threats to the Children: New Epidemiologic Approaches” on Friday, April 22 at 12:15 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 129. Topic to be announced.

Student News

Congratulations to Jyotika Virmani, Marvin Geller’s MS student from Fall 1993 to Spring 1995. Jyotika recently defended her Ph.D. in oceanography at the University of South Florida, studying the West Florida shelf with Bob Weisberg. Duane Waliser was a member of her Ph.D. thesis committee.

Miscellaneous

Peter Matthiessen will present a talk, “Antarctica and the Environment” as part of the Living World Lecture Series on Friday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Activities Center Ballroom. For more information, please contact Jeff Levinton in Ecology and Evolution at levinton@life.biol.sunysb.edu.

There will be a South Campus Blood Drive on April 28 from 8:00 a.m.to 1:00 p.m. To make an appointment, please contact Katerina Panagiotakopoulou at 2-8781, Bonnie Stephens at 2-8704, or Nicole Maher at 2-3038.

Please submit entries for future newsletters to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Have a great weekend!

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Please join us for this week’s TAOS seminar on April 27 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. Amy Clement from the the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, will present a seminar entitled, “Warm Pool Dynamics and the Global Mean Climate.” Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Clement, please contact Sultan Hameed at shameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker, Debora Robertson, from Clark University, MA, will present a seminar entitled, “Evolution and regulation of nitrogen assimilation in the marine diatoms” on Friday, April 29 at 12:15 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 129. Topic to be announced.

Faculty News

Professor John Mak will be presenting a paper at the European Geophysics Union this week. Professor Marvin Geller will be in Washington, DC this week participating in the Senior Review of NASA operating Earth Science satellite missions.

Student News

The Robert L. de Zafra Student Symposium will take place on Thursday, April 28 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Wang Center, room 103. All are welcome to attend.

Special thanks to Krista Collier and Juliet Kinny for organizing this year’s VAX to Flax Race on Saturday, May 14 (rain date May 15). Participants and volunteers are needed. Sign-up sheets will be posted near the mailroom. This is a family friendly event with a barbecue following the race.

Miscellaneous

There will be a joint ITPA-BNL atmospheric science symposium at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Friday, April 29. Details will be announced shortly.

A South Campus blood drive will be held on April 28 from 8:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. To make an appointment to donate, please contact Katerina in the Main Office at 2-8781.

Mark your calendars for the Strawberry Festival, in conjunction with Diversity Day on April 27. Details may be found at http://www.campusdining.org.

The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Metropolitan State College of Denver, CO, is seeking applications from synoptic/mesoscale meteorologists for a full-time, temporary (one academic year) faculty position beginning in August 2005. For further information, please contact Dr. Richard Wagner at wagnerri@mscd.edu. The job announcement is posted on the ITPA bulletin board.

The Hydrometeorological Prediction Center is recruiting to fill a vacancy in the Surface Analysis Unit. Please visit https://jobs1.quickhire.com/scripts/doc.exe, vacancy announcement #NWS-NCEP-2005-0052. A flyer is also posted on the ITPA bulletin board.

Please submit entries for future newsletters to Gina Gartin at ggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

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Please join us for the last TAOS seminar of the Spring 2005 semester on May 4 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. Jian Wang from the Atmospheric Sciences Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory will present a seminar entitled, “Aerosol Size Distribution and Refractive Index Measured at ARM SGP Site and their Application to Study Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing.” Light refreshments will be served. If you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Wang, please contact Sultan Hameed at shameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker, Jeff Bada, from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, will present a seminar entitled, “Searching for Evidence of Life on Mars” on Friday, May 6 at 12:15 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120. This is last OAC seminar for this semester.

The Friday Weather Discussion will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 129. Topic to be announced.

Student News

Congratulations to ENS student, Douglas Barnum, the recipient of this year’s Petra M. Udelfhofen Memorial Scholarship. Doug will receive a $500 award and will be presented with a plaque at MSRC’s commencement ceremony.

Miscellaneous

This year’s VAX to Flax Race on will be held on Saturday, May 14 (rain date May 15). Participants and volunteers are needed. Sign-up sheets will be posted near the mailroom. This is a family friendly event with a barbecue following the race.

Please mark your calendars for the MSRC Convocation on Friday, May 20, in Endeavour Hall 120, beginning with breakfast at 8:30 a.m. followed by the ceremony at 9:00 a.m.

Dr. Stan Wullschleger of the Oak Ridge Laboratory will present a seminar, “Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing World – A Focus on Water” at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Thursday, May 12 at 3:00 p.m. in the Biology seminar room, building 463. For further information, please contact Alistair Rogers at 344-2948.

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This is the last ITPA E-Newsletter for the Spring 2005 semester. Enjoy the summer!

The Topics in Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences seminar series will begin again on September 7 with a talk by Isaac Held from NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

The Ocean and Atmospheres Colloquiums and Friday Weather Discussions will resume in September.

Faculty News

Please mark your calendars for the next faculty meeting on Wednesday, May 11 at 3:00 p.m. in Endeavour 120 (refreshments at 5:00 p.m.).

By invitation of the Taiwan Space Agency, Professor Marvin Geller, President of the Scientific Committee On Solar-TErrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) will convene a meeting of the SCOSTEP Bureau in Taipei, Taiwan next week. He will also present an invited paper at the 11th International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy, a major international gathering of scientists engaged in the studies of the low latitude atmosphere and ionosphere and the coupling of low latitudes to mid latitudes.

Later this month, Professor Edmund Chang will be attending the AGU spring meeting to present a paper “Using observations to assess the increasing trend of storm track activity found in NCEP/NCAR and ERA40 reanalyses”.

In June, Professor Chang and graduate students Xiaosong Yang and Yanjuan Guo will be attending the AMS 15th Conference in Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and 17th Conference in Climate Variability and Change. They will be presenting 4 papers: “Differences between the seasonal cycles in the distribution of precipitation around cyclones in the western North Pacific and Atlantic” by Edmund Chang and Siwon Song; “A case of two way reinforcement between mean flow and eddy anomalies: variability of the Southern Hemisphere winter split flow” by Xiaosong Yang and Edmund Chang; “Dynamics of the interannual variability of the winter Pacific storm track” by Yanjuan Guo and Edmund Chang; and “Increase in storm track activity during the second half of the twentieth century, and its potential impacts on atmosphere-ocean CO₂ exchange” by Edmund Chang and Yanjuan Guo.

Student News

Finals will be held on May 12 and 13, and 16 through 18. MSRC’s Convocation is scheduled for Friday, May 20, in Endeavour Hall 120, beginning with breakfast at 8:30 a.m. followed by the ceremony at 9:00 a.m. For further information, please contact Nancy Glover in the Education Office at 2-8681.

Miscellaneous

This year’s VAX to Flax Race on will be held on Saturday, May 14 (rain date May 15). Participants and volunteers are needed. Sign-up sheets will be posted near the mailroom. This is a family friendly event with a barbecue following the race.

The Department of Meteorology at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Florida is seeking to fill a tenure-track faculty position. Further information is posted on the ITPA bulletin board. You may also visit www.erau.edu.

Please send newsletter entries for the Fall 2005 semester to Gina Gartin atggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

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