WHAT'S NEW & EXCITING - Updated December 2008
Annual AGU meeting in San Francisco
Our department was well represented at the annual Fall
American
Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco this year. Lee Slater gave an
invited oral presentation describing the work on azimuthal self
potential measurements conducted by DeBonne Wishart (graduated May 2008)
for her PhD dissertation research. Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis gave an
invited oral presentation describing the work done in our department
over the last five years on monitoring microbial biomineralization
processes using electrical geophysics. Graduate student Jay Nolan gave
an oral presentation on the preliminary findings of his fieldwork
conducted on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, (in conjunction with Andy
Parsekian) imaging thermokarst lakes and permafrost wedges using
electrical geophysics. Andy Parsekian gave a poster on his summer
fieldwork using ground penetrating radar to assess biogenic methane
production in northern peatlands.
Yuan Gao co-chaired a session entitled “Influences of Atmospheric
Deposition of Nutrients, Trace Elements, and Isotopes on Ocean
Biogeochemistry” in addition to giving a poster on the global-scale
atmospheric dust modeling. Lili Xia gave an oral presentation on coastal
aerosol chemical composition and atmospheric iron speciation based on the
field measurements conducted in the southern NJ coast. Fei Song gave a
poster on his findings of the mass size distributions of atmospheric trace
elements from two intensive field measurements carried out near the NJ
Turnpike.
