SOEST Bulletin

Vol. 19, No. 18, May 8, 2008

Calendar of Events

Monday, May 12

Department of Oceanography thesis defense: Anna E. Ritchie, Graduate Student, Dept. of Oceanography, Surface Distributions and Diversity of Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria along Onshore Offshore Transects Near Pacific Islands, MSB 114, 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 13

No events.

Wednesday, May 14

No events.

Thursday, May 15

Thursday Evenings at Hanauma Bay: John Clark, Author, Guardian of the Sea: Tales of Hawai'i Fishermen from the 1900's, Hanauma Bay Theater, 6:30 p.m. Parking is free after 5:30 p.m. All events are free and open to the public. For more information call 397-5840.

Friday, May 16

Dept. of Oceanography thesis defense: Lt. Kellee M. Nolan, U.S. Coast Guard, and Graduate Student, UH Dept. of Oceanography, Characteristics and Water Properties of Mesoscale Eddies Near Station ALOHA, MSB 100, 3:30 p.m.

Announcements

No announcements.

Latest SOEST Grants Received

(New grant unless amount is designated "supplement.")

P.I.: Brian Glazer
Amount: $219,000
Agency: Subcontract with USC via Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Title: North Pond Deep Subseafloor Microbial Biosphere - Phase II

P.I.: Dave Karl
Amount: $531,401
Agency: Agouron Institute
Title: Contemporary Challenges in Microbial Oceanography

P.I.: Mark Merrifield
Amount: $241,000
Agency: UCSD/Dept. of Army
Title: Pacific Islands Land - Ocean Typhoon (PILOT) Experiment: Coastal Run-up and Fringing Reefs

P.I.: Scott Rowland
Amount: $68,000
Agency: NASA
Title: 9th Planetary Volcanology Workshop: Analogs to Martian Volcanic Features in High Spatial-Resolution Data

P.I.: Craig Smith
Amount: $300,000
Agency: Sloan Foundation (supplement)
Title: Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life (CeDAMar)