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Fall 2002 Newsletter
6-27-02

 

Fall '02 Meeting:

Preparations are underway for the Fall '02 meeting of SEERS. The meeting will be held October 17-19 at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Inclusion of a biocomplexity workshop is being considered. Other special session ideas are welcome. An official meeting announcement and call for abstracts will be posted on the SEERS web site soon. 

SEERS Website: 

Members should stand by for the new and improved SEERS web site, presently under development. The new Web Committee consists of Geno Olmi (Chair),  Marie DeLorenzo, Susan White, and our new Webmaster, Raphael Tymowski. One of the additions to the Website will be a SEERS student web page created by Student Representative, Susan White. The SEERS Website will continue to provide information and links about the Fall and Spring meetings and information for prospective members. Any questions, suggestions or information for the Website should be directed to Geno Olmi at Geno.Olmi@noaa.gov.

SEERS People: 

Congratulations to SEERS member Jeannette Weiner who was awarded a $1000 Grant-In-Aid of Research from the Phycological Society of America to pursue her molecular-based investigation of the differential binding, uptake and toxicity of the widely used herbicide atrazine to five phytoplankton species. Ms. Weiner is a Ph.D. student in the Medical University of South Carolina's Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Science program.

SEERS Products:

Soon members will be able to support their society by purchasing fun and useful SEERS products! Plans are underway for a SEERS T-shirt. Other exciting SEERS products may follow… please send suggestions to SEERS Student Representative, Susan White at snwhite@arches.uga.edu.

Upcoming Regional Meetings:

· South Carolina Task Force on Harmful Algae Workshop - July 18, 2002, NOAA Coastal Center for Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research, Charleston, SC

· Harmful Algal Bloom meeting - Florida 21-25 October

· SOUTHEAST COASTAL OCEAN SCIENCE CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP

Building a Framework for the Future
January 27 to 31, 2003
Charleston, South Carolina


Southeast Coastal Ocean Science Conference - January 27 to 29

The conference will focus on current and planned research, outreach, education, observations, monitoring, assessments, and management in the South Atlantic Bight. Scientists, resource managers, and others working in coastal and coastal ocean environments in the southeastern United States, from watersheds out to the shelf-edge environment, including the Gulf Stream, are invited to attend and participate. The conference format will include invited plenary sessions, a panel discussion of future scientific needs and approaches, and contributed posters on specific regional research and outreach programs. 


Southeast Coastal Ocean Science Workshop - January 30 to 31

In conjunction with the Southeast Coastal Ocean Science Conference, this day-and-a-half workshop will serve to craft a prospectus of regional scientific and outreach needs and priorities in the South Atlantic Bight. Conference attendees are invited to participate in the workshop.


Conference and workshop information can be found at
www.csc.noaa.gov/secos/