E-Newsletter Vol. 7 – 2004

Please join us for this week’s TAOS seminar on Wednesday, September 8 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120.   Dr. Anthony J. Broccoli from the Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, will present a seminar entitled, “Simulating Twentieth Century Climate Change on Global and Regional Scales.”  Light refreshments will be served.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker, Dr. Ajit Subramaniam from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, will present a seminar entitled, “The Pirana Paradigm.”  This seminar will take place on Friday, September 10 at 12:30 p.m. in Endeavour 120.

Friday Weather Discussions begin on September 10 at 3:30 p.m. in Endeavour 139.   All are welcome to attend.Faculty News

Professor Bob de Zafra was in Italy for 10 days in July helping Giovanni Muscari (PhD,from ITPA/MSRC, 2001) install a new cryo-cooler on the Stony Brook Millimeter-Wave Ground-based Spectrometer, which they set up last January at a new observatory at 11,500 ft altitude in the Italian alps. This was done to improve sensitivity and performance in preparation for the coming winter’s observing season, expected to start in mid-to-late November. The instrument will be used to help provide calibration and ground-truthing for the new Microwave Limb Sounder (JPL/NASA) carried onboard the latest EOS-series satellite launched in June, 2004, as well as for fundamental research in stratospheric trace gas chemistry and dynamics.

Student News

Don’t forget – the new student barbeque takes place on Thursday, September 9 at 3:00 p.m. behind Discovery Hall.  All faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend.  Please stop by to welcome our new students.

Miscellaneous

Clean up with the American Littoral Society.  Volunteers are needed for the New York State Beach Clean-up on September 18.  For further information, please contact Barbara Cohen atalsbeach@aol.com or at (718) 471-2166, or visit their website at www.alsnyc.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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Please join us for this week’s TAOS seminar on Wednesday, September 15 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Dr. Compton J. Tucker from the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, will present a seminar entitled, “Warmer Earth, Greener North and Carbon Cycle Perturbations Caused by Northern Hemisphere Droughts.”

In observance of Rosh Hashanah, there will be no Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium, or Friday Weather Discussion this week.

Faculty News

Professor Brian Colle will be at Rutger’s Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences on Monday, September 13, to present a seminar entitled, “Real-time Atmospheric Modeling for the New York Bight Region.”

Student News

Students who are interested in participating in this year’s National Forecast Contest should contact Professor Brian Colle (colle@cyclone.msrc.sunysb.edu) this week. The first city is Glasgow, MT on 9/27/04.

The new student barbeque (postponed from September 9) will take place on Tuesday, September 14 at 3:00 p.m. behind Discovery Hall. All faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend. Please stop by to welcome our new students.

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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Please join us for this week’s TAOS seminar on Wednesday, September 22 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Dr. Edgar L. Andreas from the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire, will present a seminar entitled, “The Role of Spray in Turbulent Air-Sea Exchange.” If you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Andreas, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed at shameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu or at 2-8319.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Dr. Brian Colle from MSRC’s Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres. Dr. Colle will present a seminar entitled, “Recent Advances in Predictability and Landforming Storms, on Friday, September 24 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 Minghua Zhang recently attended the TRMM international conference and the TRMM latent heating workshop in Nara, Japan. He gave a presentation on validation of satellite latent heating profiles from balloon network measurements. During the workshop, a plan was formulated to evaluate five satellite latent heating algorithms from five groups using various validation datasets, two of which are in Japan and three in the US.

Student News

This year’s Octoberfest will take place in September! The Petra M. Udelhofen Memorial Scholarship fundraising committee will hold this annual event on Friday, September 24 beginning at 4:00 p.m. in the MSRC Boathouse. There will be German beer, cold and hot cider, soda, bratwurst, apple strudel, and hot pretzels. Please stop by to celebrate Petra’s life and to help build up the scholarship fund. All are welcome to attend.

Miscellaneous

The Marine Sciences Research Center will sponsor a special presentation by the Coalition of the Long Island Offshore Wind Initiative (LIOWI). A 140-Megawatt Wind Farm is proposed to be built three to six miles southwest of the Robert Moses State Park, to include 40-50 wind turbines each with a diameter of 250 to 350 feet. To learn about the economic, environmental, engineering and public health facts and issues, as well as regulatory processes, please join us on October 6 at 7:00 p.m. at the Student Activities Center auditorium . Members of the LIOWI will be available to answer questions after the presentation. Reservations are encouraged. To reserve a seat, please contact Gina Gartin at the Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, 632-8009, or atggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

For those interested in the “European Research Course on Atmospheres 2005” in Grenoble, France from January 10 to February 11, 2005, information is posted on the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall.

News from the American Meteorological Society. (Further details can be found at www.ametsoc.organd on the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall.)

• The American Meteorological Society(AMS) is accepting applications for the 2005/2006 AMS fellowships and scholarships. Students who are interested must be referred by their academic advisor.
• The AMS Annual Meeting will take place from January 9-13, 2005 in San Diego, California. The AMS encourages student attendance and has established three programs that award partial travel support to students.
• The 4th Annual AMS Student Conference and Career Fair will be held on January 8-9, 2006 at the San Diego Convention Center, California. “Impact the World with a Career in the Atmospheric and Related Sciences!”

The Port Jefferson food pantry desperately needs your help! Please drop off donations at Bill Wise’s office in Discovery Hall 155.

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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Please join us for this week’s TAOS seminar on Wednesday, September 29 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Dr. Tom Smith from the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Maryland, will present a seminar entitled, “Improved Extended Reconstruction of SST.” If you would like to meet with Dr. Smith, please contact Sultan Hammed at 2-8319 or atshameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Dr. Heidi Dierssen from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Dierssen will present a seminar entitled, “Wind Rows and Whitings: Bio-optics of the Benthos Across Bahamas Banks,” on Friday, October 1 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

The annual student review has been scheduled for Tuesday, September 28 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

Professor John E. Mak recently returned from the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand, and visited the National Institute for Water and Atmospheres in Wellington, New Zealand.

On Friday, October 1, Professor Edmund Chang will be presenting a seminar at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. The title of his seminar is “The Influence of Wave Packets Propagating Across Asia on Cyclone Development Over the Pacific.”

TIAA-CREF is accepting entries for their 2005 TIAA-CREF Hesburgh Award. The aim of this award is to recognize exceptional faculty development programs designed to enhance both undergraduate teaching and student learning. For more information, please visit http://www.tiaa-crefinstitute.org/awards/2005call/htm.

Student News

Congratulations to Joe Olson who successfully completed his Ph.D. proposal defense.

The September issue of The Graduate, Stony Brook’s newspaper for the graduate community, is now available on-line at http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/clubs/gso/news.

Miscellaneous

Thanks to all who donated to the Pt. Jefferson Food Pantry. The response was excellent but your help is still needed. Donations may be dropped off at Bill Wise’s office in Discovery Hall 155.

The Marine Sciences Research Center will sponsor a special presentation by the Coalition of the Long Island Offshore Wind Initiative (LIOWI). A 140-Megawatt WInd Farm is proposed to be built three to six miles southwest of the Robert Moses State Park, to include 40-50 wind turbines each with a diameter of 250 to 350 feet. To learn about the economic, environmental, engineering and public health facts and issues, as well as regulatory processes, please join us on October 6 at 7:00 p.m. at the Student Activities Center auditorium . Members of the LIOWI will be available to answer questions after the presentation. Reservations are encouraged. To reserve a seat, please contact Gina Gartin at the Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, 632-8009, or atggartin@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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Please join us for this week’s TAOS seminar on Wednesday, October 6 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Dr. Tihomir Hristov from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, will present a seminar entitled, “Air-Sea Interaction: the Mechanics of Coupling.” If you would like to schedule a meeting with him, please contact Gina Gartin atggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Dr. Matt Charett from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr Charett will present a seminar entitled “Biogeochemical cycling in a subterranean estuary: Implications of groundwater-seawater interaction on chemical fluxes to the coastal ocean,” on Friday, October 8 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

Dean David Conover recently announced a new feature on the MSRC website. Short, newspaper-style stories about the Center’s activites and special events will now be posted, with headlines appearing on the bottom of the main page. If you have information on special events, awards, meetings, upcoming cruises, etc., please contact the roving reporter, Ann Zulkosky, atann.zulkosky@msrc.sunysb.edu.

Student News

Thanks to all who participated in this year’s Octoberfest to raise money for the Petra M. Udelhofen Memorial Scholarship fund. Thanks to your generosity, we raised a total of $600. Special thanks to Catherine Vogel and Julia Todorov-Thomsen for organizing this year’s event. For Oktoberfest photos, please visit http://atmos.msrc.sunysb.edu/npages/of04.html.

Miscellaneous

There will be a homecoming Wolfstock Village Expo on Saturday, October 2 from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. adjacent to the LaValle Stadium. ITPA and MSRC will have a display at the Expo. Professors Minghua Zhang and Mary Scranton will be attending. All are welcome to stop by.

The Marine Sciences Research Center will sponsor a special presentation by the Coalition of the Long Island Offshore Wind Initiative (LIOWI). A 140-Megawatt WInd Farm is proposed to be built three to six miles southwest of the Robert Moses State Park, to include 40-50 wind turbines each with a diameter of 250 to 350 feet. To learn about the economic, environmental, engineering and public health facts and issues, as well as regulatory processes, please join us on October 6 at 7:00 p.m. at the Student Activities Center auditorium . Members of the LIOWI will be available to answer questions after the presentation. Reservations are encouraged. To reserve a seat, please contact Gina Gartin at the Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, 632-8009, or atggartin@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is recruiting postdoctoral scientists and short-term senior visitors to work in Princeton, New Jersey at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) as part of the Climate Change Research Initiative (CCRI). For more information, please visit www.vsp.ucar.edu. Details can also 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.

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Please join us for this week’s TAOS seminar on Wednesday, October 13 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120.  Dr. Mikhail Alexandrov from the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, will present a seminar entitled, “Scaling Properties of Aerosol Optical Thickness Retrieved from Ground Based Measurements.”  If you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Alexandrov, please contact Sultan Hameed at shameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Dr. Lawrence Mysak from McGill University.  Dr. Mysak will present a seminar entitled “Biogeochemical Cycling in a Subterranean Estuary: Implications of Groundwater-Seawater Interaction on Chemical Fluxes to the Coastal Ocean” on Friday, October 15th 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 Brian Colle and Joe Olson will be in Juneau, Alaska this week for the SARJET (Southern Alaskan Regional Jet) field experiment. They will be flying in research aircraft through landfalling storms to collect weather data to better understand coastal-terrain flows and to improve boundary layer parameterizations in atmospheric models. The SARJET website ishttp://fermi.jhuapl.edu/people/winstead/sarjet.html.

Student News

For those who are participating in the National Forecast Contest, the new city is New Orleans, Louisiana.

The American Meteorological Society is offering membership to students for $15 which includes discounts on journals, Weatherwise magazine, reduced fees for conferences and workshops, access to career information, and eligibility for scholarships, fellowships and other awards.  For more information, please visit http://www.ametsoc.org/MEMB/APPS/studentmail.html or contact Beth Farley, Director of Member Services, at (617) 227-2426, ext. 214.

Miscellaneous

There will be an American Meteorological Society (AMS) Chapter meeting for Long Island/New York City on October 28th 2004 in Endeavour Hall 120 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.  The topic of the meeting will be “Careers in Meteorology/Atmospheric Science” which will include several outside speakers from the National Weather Service and private companies. Pizza will be served between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m.  Please RSVP to Professor Colle if you would like to attend. Copies of the agenda are available on the ITPA bulletin board.

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) announces the continuation of the NOAA Postdoctoral Program in Climate and Global Change.  The objective of this program is to help create the next generation of researchers needed for climate studies.  For more information, please visit http://www.vsp.ucar.edu.  Additional information can also be found on the ITPA bulletin board.

There will be a South Campus Blood Drive on Thursday, October 14th from 8:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.  The Busmobile will be located next to Endeavour Hall.  To donate, please stop by the Main Office, Endeavour 145, for an appointment.

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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Please join us for this week’s TAOS seminar on Wednesday, October 20 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Dr. Guiling Wang from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, will present a seminar entitled, “A Conceptual Modeling Study on Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions and its Implications for Physically based Climate Modeling.” If you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Wang, please contact Sultan Hameed atshameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Jackie Collier from MSRC. Professor Collier will present a seminar entitled “Biocomplexity and the Fate of Urea in Chesapeake Bay” on Friday, October 22nd 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

Minghua Zhang will be in Seattle this week to attend the NSF Climate Process Team (CPT) meeting on low-latitude cloud feedbacks. His presentation is entitled, “Dynamic and thermodynamic responses of clouds and their link to cloud-climate feedbacks.”

Miscellaneous

In collaboration with NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program at Princeton University solicits applications to its Postdoctoral, Research and Visiting Scientist program. Further information regarding the program can be obtained from http://www.aos.princeton.edu and on the ITPA bulletin board in Endeavour Hall.

Please mark your calendars for this years MSRC holiday party on on the evening of December 10th. Additional information will be announced in next week’s newsletter.

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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Please join us for this week’s TAOS seminar on Wednesday, October 27 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Dr. Bruce Peterson from the Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, will present a seminar entitle, “Acceleration of the Global Freshwater Cycle: Will it Change the Ocean Thermohaline Circulation?” If you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Peterson, please contact Sultan Hameed at shameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Scott Ferson from Applied Biomathematics. Professor Ferson will present a seminar entitled “Wrangling Uncertainty in Scientific Process Models: Distinguished Good Ideas from Wishful Thinking,” on Friday, October 29th 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 attending a meeting on Decadel Solar Variability in the Sun and Climate in Meredith, New Hampshire from October 27 through 29. He will present a paper on ” Responses of the Atmospheric Centers of Action to the Solar Cycle in the East and West Phases of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation ”

Student News

Through its program of Diversity Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. This year the program will award approximately 60 predoctoral fellowships. The predoctoral fellowships provide three years of support ($17,000/year stipend plus tuition and conference support) for individuals engaged in graduate study leading to a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree. Predoctoral fellowships will be awarded in a national competition administered by the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies on behalf of the Ford Foundation. The awards will be made to individuals who, in the judgment of the review panels, have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. On-line application deadline is November 17, 2004. For more information, please visit http://national-academies.org/fellowships.

The Evan R. Liblit Memorial Scholarship Fund Committee, the Waste Reduction and Management Institute and MSRC are very pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s Liblit Memorial Scholarship is Paula S. Rose, in recognition of the relevance of her research to waste management/environmental pollution issues and for her volunteer work with high school students in the WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) Program. The scholarship amounts to $2,000. In conjunction with America Recycles Day, Paula will be honored on Tuesday, November 16 at the 7th Annual Evan R. Liblit Memorial Scholarship Fundraiser Breakfast at the Culinary Arts Center on the campus of New York Institute of Technology in Central Islip. Congratulations, Paula!!

Miscellaneous

The University of Nevada, Reno, seeks to fill a tenure-track faculty position in Atmospheric Physics at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. For more information, please visit http://jobs.unr.edu or see posting on the ITPA bulletin board.

The Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University invites applications for a tenure-track position with expertise in boundary layer meteorology and its applications towards wind power utilization. For more information, please visit http://www.gesc.ttu.edu or see posting on the ITPA bulletin board.

The Department of Physics at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez is soliciting applications for a tenure-track position in Atmospheric Physics/Meteorology or a closely related field. More information can be found on the ITPA bulletin board.

There will be an American Meteorological Society (AMS) Chapter meeting for Long Island/New York City on October 28th 2004 in Endeavour Hall 120 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. The topic of the meeting will be “Careers in Meteorology/Atmospheric Science” which will include several outside speakers from the National Weather Service and private companies. Pizza will be served between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. Please RSVP to Professor Colle if you would like to attend. Copies of the agenda are available on the ITPA bulletin board.

The SEFA United Way campaign is under way. For information on how to donate, please contact Hector Jimenez in Endeavour 145 (2-8700) or Shelagh Palma in Dana 115B (2-8047).

Human Resources has scheduled a “Health Insurance Fair” on October 28 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Wang Center main lobby. Health insurance representatives will be available to distribute information and answer questions.

There will be a UUP general membership meeting on Tuesday, October 26 from 12:00 noon until 1:30 p.m. in the SAC Ballroom A. For more information, contact the UUP office at 2-6570.

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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Please join us for this week’s TAOS seminar on Wednesday, November 3 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Dr. Dian Seidel from the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland will present a seminar entitled, “Recent Results on Global Atmospheric Temperature Trends.” If you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Seidel, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed at shameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Robert Armstrong from MSRC. He will present a seminar entitled “Modeling Photosynthesis, Nutrient Limitation, and Photoadaptation in Phytoplankton: Sometimes More is Simpler,” on Friday, November 5 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 Edmund Chang recently returned from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University where he presented a seminar and discussed collaborations with GFDL scientists on storm track research. On November 4-6, he will be attending the Conference on Global Circulation held at the California Institute of Technology and presenting a seminar entitled, “Pacific Storm Track Variability: How Much Do We Know? How Much Do We Understand?”

Professor Minghua Zhang will be in Williamsburg, VA this week to attend the DOE ARM Cloud Parameterization and Modeling (CMP) Workshop. For more information about the workshop, please visit http://science.arm.gov/wg/cpm/meetings/ARM_CPM_11-04_agenda_rev_11.doc.

Professor Bob Cess will be in Williamsburg, VA this week to attend and give a presentation at the NASA CERES (Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System) Science Team Meeting.

Professor Marvin Geller will be presenting an invited paper at the KAGI121 International Symposium on the subject, “Unraveling Solar, Volcanic, and Anthropogenic Influences on Stratospheric Ozone” on November 1 in Beppu, Japan. This symposium takes a “new multi-disciplinary approach for the Earth Sciences that emphasizes the physical and/or chemical processes that are encompassed in the Active Geosphere.”

Professor Brian Colle and graduate students Matt Jones and Michael Charles will be attending the National Weather Service Northeast Operational Workshop in Albany, NY this week. They will be giving the following presentations: Brian Colle: “An Update on the Stony Brook University Ensemble Forecast System;” Matt Jones: “Verification of the Stony Brook Ensemble Forecast System;” and Michael Charles: “Warm Season Climatology and Convective Evolution Over the Coastal Northeast United States.”

Student News

Congratulations to Matt Jones who successfully defended his MS thesis on “Mesoscale Forecasting in the Northeast US Using Physics Ensembles and Initial Condition Ensembles.”

Miscellaneous

The American Meteorological Society meeting at MSRC on October 28 was a huge success. Watch for Ann Zulkosky’s story on this event which will appear on MSRC’s home page.

Plans have been finalized for this year’s MSRC holiday party on Friday, December 10 from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages. For more information and to purchase tickets, please contact John Graham in the Dean’s Office at 2-8700.

Maryann Bell, coordinator of the campus holiday gift program, is seeking donations of unwrapped presents and non-perishable food items. Presents may be dropped off in the ITPA Office, Endeavour 129, before December 9. Donations to the food pantry can be dropped off anytime.

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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Please join us for this week’s TAOS seminar on Wednesday, November 10 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Dr. Ilan Koren from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland will present a seminar entitled, “Does Smoke Kill Clouds? A Brief Overview on Aerosol Forcing.” If you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Koren, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed at shameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Katja Fennel from Rutgers University. Professor Fennel will present a seminar entitled “Modeling the Role of Continental Shelves in Nitrogen” on Friday, November 12 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

Interviews have been completed for the ITPA Assistant Professor position. The search committee will meet this week to make final recommendations to Dean David Conover.

Student News

Stony Brook University’s Fall 2004 Open House will take place on Saturday, November 6, beginning at 10:00 a.m. in the Student Activities Center academic mall. Stop by to meet with professors in your area of interest, talk with Admissions counselors, and learn about financial aid and scholarship opportunities. Tours of the campus are also available.

Miscellaneous

The MSRC holiday party will take place on Friday, December 10 from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages. For more information and to purchase tickets, please contact John Graham in the Dean’s Office at 2-8700.

Maryann Bell, coordinator of the campus holiday gift program, is seeking donations of unwrapped presents and non-perishable food items. We will not be assigned specific children this year. Presents for any age group may be dropped off in the ITPA Office, Endeavour 129, before December 9. Donations to the food pantry can be dropped off anytime.

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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Please join us for this week’s TAOS seminar on Wednesday, November 17 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Dr. Robert S. Pickart from the Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will present a seminar entitled, “Deep Convection East of Greenland: Atmospheric Forcing and Oceanic Response.” If you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Pickart, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed at shameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

This week’s Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium speaker is Professor Claude Hillaire-Marcel. Professor Hillaire-Marcel will present a seminar entitled “The Atlantic Meriodional Overturning and the Climate: The Lessons of the Past” on Friday, November 19 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

The Sixth Annual Center for Atmospheric Ocean Science Winter Workshop will take place on December 3 & 4 at New York University. Registration is limited. For more information, please contact the workshop organizer, Michelle Cordero at cordero@acims.nyu.edu. Additional details can also be found on the ITPA bulletin board.

Congratulations to Stony Brook alumnus Drew Shindell (Ph.D. Physics/Atmospheres) who was named one of 50 “top scientists” by Scientific American magazine. For more information, please visithttp://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/nov/HQ_04368_scientist_award.html.

Professor Brian Colle co-authored a paper, published this month, to help operational forecasters use mesoscale models: Roebber, P.J., D. M. Schultz, B. A. Colle, and D. J. Stensrud, 2004: Towards improved prediction: High resolution and ensemble modeling in operations., Wea. Forecasting, 19, 936-949.

Student News

Joe Olson accompanied Professor Brian Colle to Juneau, Alaska in October. A summary of their Alaskan field work over coastal southeast Alaska can be found on the MSRC news website:http://www.msrc.sunysb.edu/news/itn041029.html.

Miscellaneous

There will be a Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosols, and Climate Change at Brookhaven National Laboratory to honor Carmen Benkovitz on the occasion of her retirement. This symposium takes place on November 18 from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the Hamilton Seminar Room, Chemistry Building. Reception and dinner to follow at the Cooperage Inn, Baiting Hollow. Cost for dinner is $40 per person/$75 per couple. For more information, please contact Steven Schwartz atses@bnl.gov or Barbara Roland at roland@bnl.gov.

The Earth Satellite Corporation (EarthSat) in Rockville, Maryland is seeking an individual with computer programming skills to provide support, development, and research for EarthSat’s meteorological activities. For more information, please see the job posting 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.

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There will be no seminars this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.  The Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences seminar, the Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium, and the Friday Weather Discussion will resume the following week.   Happy Thanksgiving!

Faculty News

The American Meteorological Society’s 85th annual meeting takes place in San Diego from January 9-13, 2005.  ITPA will have a display table, including a poster, for the entire week of the meeting, including the Career Fair opening reception on Saturday evening, January 8, and Weatherfest, on Sunday, January 9. Details and further information can be found at http://ametsoc.org or by contacting Beth Farley at bfarley@ametsoc.org or (617) 227-2426, ext. 214.

Student News

Congratulations to Yanluan Lin, recipient of the 2003-04 Wu Xiangding Memorial Award.  This award is given based on academic achievements, with particular emphasis on performance in the departmental exam and core courses, and comes with a $500 cash award.

Congratulations to Yanjuan Guo, Jae Nyung Lee, Yanluan Lin, Hua Song, and Howard Teich for passing their ITPA Oral Qualifying Examinations on November 17.  Special thanks to Professor Marvin Geller who chaired this year’s committee.

Graduate fellowship funding opportunities from the National Science Foundation are available for first year graduate students.  These fellowships pay for three years of research.  The deadline for submission of proposals is December 3.  (US citizenship or permanent resident status is required.)  If you are interested in applying, please speak with a faculty member as soon as possible.  Additional information can be found athttp://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm;jsessionid=a2303132781100553463865?ods_key=nsf04615.

The NASA Graduate Fellowship Program will be making an announcement in December regarding proposal submission, with a deadline in March 2005.   Students who use satellite measurements in their research will find this program particularly relevant.  More information can be found athttp://research.hq.nasa.gov/code_y/nra/current/Fellowship-ESS04/main.html.Miscellaneous

Tickets are still available for the MSRC holiday party on Friday, December 10 from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages. For more information and to purchase tickets, please contact John Graham in the Dean’s Office at 2-8700.

As a reminder, Maryann Bell, coordinator of the campus holiday gift program, is seeking donations of unwrapped presents and non-perishable food items. Gifts for any age group may be dropped off in the ITPA Office, Endeavour 129, before December 9. Donations to the food pantry can be dropped off anytime.

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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Please join us for the last TAOS seminar of the Fall 2004 semester on Wednesday, December 8 at 11:30 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Dr. Ming Cai from the Department of Meteorology, Florida State University, will present a seminar entitled, “Dynamical Amplifier of Global Warming.” If you would like to schedule a meeting with Dr. Cai, please contact Professor Sultan Hameed atshameed@notes.cc.sunysb.edu to schedule an appointment.

The TAOS and OAC Seminars, and the Friday Weather Discussions will resume in February.
Happy Holidays.

Faculty News

Professor Marvin Geller has been appointed to the organizing committee for the “World Environmental Forum” which will be convened by Dr. Richard Leakey on May 6-8, 2005. For further information, please visit http://www.stonybrook.edu/lifematters.

Student News

Final exams are scheduled for December 13 through 18. Best of luck to everyone!

For those of you who are participating, the National Forecast Contest is currently forecasting for New York City Central Park.

Miscellaneous

An Open House for prospective Southampton College students and their parents will be held on Saturday, December 4, beginning with a breakfast at 10:00 a.m. in Endeavour 120. Tours of the campus and the Seawolf, as well as a lunch at SAC is planned. Dean David Conover invites all faculty, staff and students to attend.

All are welcome to attend a seminar in the Department of Ecology and Evolution on Wednesday, December 8, at 3:30 p.m. in Life Sciences, room 038. Dr. Robert Whitlatch of the University of Connecticut will present a seminar entitled, “Why so Many Recent Invaders in the Coastal Zone? An Ecologist’s Perspective.”

The Instructional Computing Office will be offering a 1.5 hour course covering the basics of Dreamweaver MX software for web page design. The class is scheduled for Thursday, December 16 at 10:00 a.m. in the Main Library. Class size is limited. For more information or to register, please contact Ann Zulkosky at azulkosk@ic.sunysb.edu.

Tickets are still available for the MSRC holiday party on Friday, December 10 from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages. For more information and to purchase tickets, please contact John Graham in the Dean’s Office at 2-8700.

This is the last week to drop off gifts for the holiday gift program. Donations of unwrapped presents for any age group, as well as non-perishable food items, may be dropped off in the ITPA Office, Endeavour 129.

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 is the last ITPA E-Newsletter for the Fall 2004 semester. The Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences seminars, the Oceans and Atmospheres seminars, and the Friday Weather Discussions will resume next semester. An updated TOAS seminar schedule will be available in mid-January at http://atmos.msrc.sunysb.edu/npages/taos.html.

Best wishes for a happy holiday season !

Faculty News

Please mark your calendars for the next faculty meeting on December 20 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Endeavour Hall 120.

The UUP Holiday Party will take place on December 17 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. at the University Cafe in the Stony Brook Union. To RSVP, please contact Corinne Burns at 2-6570 or atuup@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

Student News

Final exams are scheduled for December 13 through 18. Best of luck to everyone!

Miscellaneous

The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey is seeking to fill a tenure track position in Meteorology for September 2005. Details may be found on the ITPA bulletin board, or by contacting Dean Dennis Weiss at dennis.weiss@stockton.edu, (609) 652-4548.

Volunteers are urgently needed for this year’s Ocean Science Bowl scheduled for Saturday, February 26, 2005. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Kim Knoll at 2-8656, or atkknoll@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. Volunteers will receive a free t-shirt and lunch.

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