Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.The Division of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences met for three sessions on the mornings of Thursday and Friday and on Friday afternoon, 19 and 20 February 2004, as part of the 68th annual meeting of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences. In addition, the Division co-sponsored the Climate Change Symposium featuring Drs. Joan Fitzpatrick and Richard Alley Dr. Richard B. Alley (1957-present) is an American geologist and Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at the Pennsylvania State University. He has authored more than 170 refereed scientific publications about the relationships between Earth's cryosphere and global climate change and from 1:00 to 4:00 pm on Thursday afternoon. The Division Chair was Dr. Chet Rakocinski and the Vice-chair was Dr. Charlotte Brunner. In all, there were 25 oral presentations and eight posters. Students gave seventeen of the oral presentations and all eight posters. In keeping with the outstanding support of the Division shown by student participants, best student paper awards were designated based on objective feedback from professional judges using standard forms. Special thanks are due to Drs. Charlotte Brunner, Gary Gaston, Julia Lytle, Tom Lytle, Cynthia Moncreiff, and Chet Rakocinski for providing service as judges. There was a tie for the Best student oral paper, which was awarded to Ms. Meagan Williams, who presented the paper, "Biochemical analysis of developing eggs of the American Horeshoe crab Limulus polyphemus from Delaware Bay Delaware Bay: see Delaware, river. Delaware Bay Inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. Forming part of the New Jersey-Delaware state border, it extends southeast for 52 mi (84 km) from the junction of the Delaware River with Alloway Creek to its entrance and the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east "; and Angelos Apeitos, who presented the paper, "The effect of diet on fecundity fecundity /fe·cun·di·ty/ (fe-kun´dit-e) 1. in demography, the physiological ability to reproduce, as opposed to fertility. 2. ability to produce offspring rapidly and in large numbers. of Acartia tonsa, a calanoid copepod copepod: see crustacean. copepod Any of the 10,000 known species of crustaceans in the subclass Copepoda. Copepods are widely distributed and ecologically important, serving as food for many species of fish. ." The best student poster award went to Brent P. Thoma and John M. Foster for the poster entitled, "Preliminary investigations of the comparative occurrence of sponge dwelling amphipods in Tedania ignis (Porifera, Demospongiae, Myxillidae) from a turtle grass bed and a red mangrove mangrove, large tropical evergreen tree, genus Rhizophora, that grows on muddy tidal flats and along protected ocean shorelines. Mangroves are most abundant in tropical Asia, Africa, and the islands of the SW Pacific. forest in the Florida Keys, USA." Student winners will receive framed and signed paper award certificates. The quality of our student presentations, both oral and poster, was excellent, and all the students deserve recognition for their professionalism. Overall, attendance was moderate; and the individual sessions were generally attended by different audiences. Most presentations were given in PowerPoint format; although there were two overhead presentations, and one DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. movie presentation. The Divisional Business Meeting was held immediately following the Friday morning oral session. The current Vice-chair, Dr. Charlotte Brunner (The University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Marine Science), will assume the duties of Chair for 2004-2005. Dr. Paulinus Chigbu (Jackson State University Jackson State University, often abridged as Jackson State or by its initials JSU is a historically black university located in Jackson, Mississippi founded in 1877. ; Department of Biology) was elected Vice-chair for 2004-2005 and will assume the duties of Chair for 2005-2006. |
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