SOEST Bulletin

Vol. 24, No. 38, September 19, 2013

Calendar of Events

Monday, September 23

No events.

Tuesday, September 24

No events.

Wednesday, September 25

Hawaii Inst. of Marine Biology seminar: Kehaulani Kupihea, Historian and Project Mgr., Mokauea Fishermen's Association, Mokauea Island--A Place Based Cultural Learning Center, Coconut Island/Pauley Classroom, 12:00 p.m.

Dept. of Meteorology seminar: Duane E. Stevens, Professor, UHM Dept. of Meteorology, Matching the Neutral Ekman Layer to von Karman's Logarithmic Surface Layer: An Analytic Approach, MSB 100, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Please join us for cookies, tea, and coffee 3:00-3:30 p.m. on the MSB lanai. Please bring your own mug.

Dept. of Ocean and Resources Engineering seminar: Douglas McClaflin, President, Pacific Greenwich Group Corp., Transition of Old Hawaii to the Modern Era and our Energy Demands through Renewable Development, MSB 114, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Please join us for coffee hour 3:00-3:30 p.m. near the seminar venue. For more information please visit the department website.

Thursday, September 26

Dept. of Oceanography seminar: Barry Huebert, Emeritus Professor, UHM Dept. of Oceanography, Requiem for a CLAW--It's Getting Hot in Here: The Thermostat Doesn't Work! MSB 100, 3:00 p.m.

Hanauma Bay Thursday Evenings: Florence Thomas, Assoc. Researcher, UHM Hawaii Inst. of Marine Biology, Henrieta Dulaiova, Asst. Professor, UHM Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, and Hokulani Aikau, Assoc. Professor, UHM Dept. of Political Science, Investigating Coupled Human and Natural Systems in an Ahupua'a, Hanauma Bay Education Center Theater, 6:30 p.m. Event is free and open to the public, with no charge for parking after 5:30 p.m. For more information on UH Sea Grant Hanauma Bay Education Program events and activities, navigate to the online Calendar of Events.

Friday, September 27

Dept. of Geology and Geophysics TGIF seminar: Peter Isaacson, Assistant Researcher, HI Inst. of Geophysics and Planetology, Provenance of Lunar Meteorites Through Samples and Spectroscopy, POST 723, 3:30 p.m.

Announcements

Aloha United Way 2013 Campaign (Message from Dean Brian Taylor): The Aloha United Way (AUW) campaign 2013 begins this week. AUW provides for many in our community, and for some it is a principal source of hope and for their making it through the year. As part of your portfolio of philanthropy, please join in by giving generously to this important health and human services fund raising effort. There are several options for specifying recipient programs if you so chose. Your generosity continues to make a real difference to many who are less fortunate. Mahalo and aloha for your support.

Stevens Institute of Technology Maritime Systems Master's Degree Fellowship Opportunities: Stevens Institute of Technology has three Maritime Systems Master's Degree Fellowship awards available for engineering students interested in pursuing Maritime Security graduate study starting January 2014. The fellowship awards provide full-tuition support, book fees and a $2,300 a month stipend for the entire two-year Master's degree program. For more information about the fellowship and the criteria for applying, please visit their website.

The fellowship program is funded through a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Career Development Grant and requires U.S. citizenship and a minimum of one-year employment in the homeland security domain post-graduation. For more information please visit the Stevens Institute website www.stevens.edu/CSR. The Stevens Institute of Technology's DHS Center of Excellence for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce (CSR) is a partner with the University of Hawaii's DHS Center for Island, Maritime and Extreme Environment Security (CIMES).

SOEST Contribution List Online

A list of the fifty most recent publications assigned SOEST numbers is available here.

Latest SOEST Grants Received

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

P.I.: Sasha Krot
Amount: $39,580 (supplement)
Agency: NASA
Title: Mineralogy, Petrology and Isotope Compositions of Chondrite Components
P.I.: Mark Merrifield
Amount: $41,797 (supplement)
Agency: NOAA
Title: Characterization and Dynamics of Mesoscale and Submesoscale Oceanic Variability in the Solomon Sea Simulated by a Nested ROMS Model
P.I.: Mark Merrifield
Amount: $872,461 (supplement)
Agency: NOAA
Title: Ecosystem Observations Research Program
P.I.: Mark Merrifield
Amount: $230,730 (supplement)
Agency: NOAA
Title: Marine Turtle Research Program
P.I.: Mark Merrifield
Amount: $124,000 (supplement)
Agency: NOAA
Title: Sea Turtle Bycatch Mitigation Research
P.I.: Mark Merrifield
Amount: $1,185,000 (supplement)
Agency: NOAA
Title: University of Hawaii Sea Level Center
P.I.: Ed Scott
Amount: $100,000 (supplement)
Agency: NASA
Title: Origins, Thermal Histories, and Impact Records of Iron Meteorites, Chondrites, and Their Parent Asteroids
P.I.: G.J. Taylor
Amount: $73,726 (supplement)
Agency: NASA
Title: Lunar Bulk Composition and Evolution of the Crust and Mantle

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