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Lamont Weekly Report – August
5, 2005
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W Palisades, New York 10964
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<> RECENT GRANT AWARDS
For the period 6/1/2005 - 6/30/2005
Thomson, M., REQUEST FOR SUBCONTRACT:
INTEGRATED VECTOR MANAGEMENT TASK ORDER. U.S. Agency for International
Development
Curchitser, E., COLLABORATIVE: US-GLOBEC
NEP PHASE IIIA-CCS: EFFECTS OF MESO- AND BASIN-SCALE VARIABLITY
ON ZOOPLANKTON POPULATIONS IN THE CCS USING DATA-ASSIMILATIVE,
PHYSICAL/ECOSYSTEM MODELS. NSF
Bell, R., Nitsche, F., REQUEST FOR SUBCONTRACT:
EXPLORING THE MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE HUDSON RIVER. Suny
at Stonybrook
Cormier, M., COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH -
TRACK 1: PARTNERSHIP TO ENHANCE DIVERSITY IN MARINE GEOSCIENCES
HOLOCENE CLIMATE AND ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGES FROM LONG ISLAND
SOUND, NY. NSF
Seeber, L., Cormier, M., SGER: LDEO PARTICIPATION
IN R/V 'NATSUSHIMA' CRUISE TO SITE OF THE GREAT THRUST EARTHQUAKE
WHICH TRIGGERED THE DISASTROUS INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI ON DECEMBER
26, 2004. NSF
Goldstein, S., Straub, S., Class, C.,
RECONSTRUCTING SLAB AND MANTLE FLUXES DURING THE EOCENE-OLIGOCENE
EVOLUTION OF THE IZU-BONIN VOLCANIC ARC. NSF
Stute, M., Schlosser, P., Winckler, G.,
RESUBMITTAL OD LDEO #10554: SCIENTIFIC DRILLING IN TO THE
SAN ANDREAS FAULT: FLUID TRANSPORT ANALYSIS - RARE GAS 'AGES'
OF MATRIX POROSITY FLUIDS IN DRILL CORE. NSF
Kelemen, P. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SEISMIC
MEASUREMENTS OF MAGMA FLUX, ARC COMPOSITION, AND LOWER-PLATE
SERPENTINIZATION IN THE CENTRAL AMERICAN SUBDUCTION FACTORY.
NSF
McGillis, W., COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH:
AQUATIC PLANT BED AS BIOGEOCHEMICAL HOT SPOTS IN A LARGE RIVER
ECOSYSTEM. NSF
Richards, P., Schaff, D., STUDY OF INNER
CORE MOTIONS USING SEISMIC WAVEFORM DOUBLETS. NSF
Lerner-Lam,A., TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR
ASIAN DISASTER PREPAREDNESS CENTER: TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM.
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
<> RECENT PUBLICATIONS
(The following list is derived from the Lamont Publications
Database which identifies all publications that hold a Lamont
contribution number, thereby qualifying the publications as
a Lamont paper).
Boelman, N.T., M. Stieglitz, K.L. Griffin,
G.R. Shaver. Inter-annual variability of NDVI in response
to long-term warming and fertilization in wet sedge and tussock
tundra; Oecologia, vol. 143, no. 4, p. 588-597. May, 2005.
Broecker W.S. and T.F. Stocker. 8,000
years of human warmth; Scientific American, vol. 293, no.
1, p. 9, July, 2005.
Capone, D.G., J.A. Burns, J.P. Montoya,
A. Subramaniam, C. Mahaffey, T. Gunderson, A.F. Michaels,
and E.J. Carpenter Nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium spp.:
An important source of new nitrogen to the tropical and subtropical
North Atlantic Ocean; Global Biogeochemical Cycles, vol. 19,
no. 2, Art. No. GB2024, June 8, 2005.
Chapp, E., D.R. Bohnenstiehl, and M.
Tolstoy. Sound-channel observations of ice-generated tremor
in the Indian Ocean; Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, vol.
6, Art. No. Q06003, June 7, 2005.
Cheng, Z., A. van Geen, A.A. Seddique,
and K.M. Ahmed. Limited temporal variability of arsenic concentrations
in 20 wells monitored for 3 years in Araihazar, Bangladesh;
Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 39, no. 13, p.
4759-4766, July 1, 2005.
Farmer E.C., P.B. deMenocal, T.M. Marchitto.
Holocene and deglacial ocean temperature variability in the
Benguela upwelling region: Implications for low-latitude atmospheric
circulation; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY, vol. 20, no. 2, Art. No. PA2018,
June 29, 2005.
Gu, Y.J., S.C. Webb, A. Lerner-Lam ,
and J.B. Gaherty. Upper mantle structure beneath the eastern
Pacific Ocean ridges; Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid
Earth, vol. 110, no. B6, Art. No. B06305, June 11, 2005.
Huang, H.P., R. Seager, and Y. Kushnir.
The 1976/77 transition in precipitation over the Americas
and the influence of tropical sea surface temperature; Climate
Dynamics, vol. 24, no. 7-8, pp. 721-740, June, 2005.
Kukla, G. Saalian supercycle, Mindel/Riss
interglacial and Milankovitch's dating; Quaternary Science
Reviews, vol. 24, no. 14-15, p. 1573-1583, August, 2005.
Kukla, G. and J. Gavin .Did glacials
start with global warming?; Quaternary Science Reviews, vol.
24, no. 14-15), p. 1547-1557, August, 2005.
Marra, J. When will we tame the oceans?
Nature, vol. 436, no. 7048, p. 175-176, July 14, 2005.
Marra, J. and R.T. Barber. Primary productivity
in the Arabian Sea: A synthesis of JGOFS data; Progress in
Oceanography, vol. 65, no. 2-4, p. 159-175, 2005.
Moine, O., D.D. Rousseau, and P. Antoine.
Terrestrial molluscan records of Weichselian Lower to MiddlePleniglacial
climatic changes from the Nussloch loess series (Rhine Valley,
Germany): the impact of local factors; Boreas, vol. 34, no.
3, p. 363-380, August, 2005.
Orton, P.M. and D.A. Jay. Observations
at the tidal plume front of a high-volume river outflow; Geophysical
Research Letters, vol. 32, no. 11, Art. No. L11605, June 9,
2005.
Pekar, S.F., A. Hucks, M. Fuller, and
S. Li. Glacioeustatic changes in the early and middle Eocene
(51-42 Ma): Shallow-water stratigraphy from ODP Leg 189 Site
1171 (South Tasman Rise) and deep-sea delta O-18 records;
Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 117, no. 7-8,
p. 1081-1093, July-August, 2005.
Richards, P.G. Keiiti Aki (1930-2005)
- Seismologist extraordinaire. Obituary; Nature, vol. 435,
no. 7046, p. 1176-1176, June 30, 2005.
Seager, R., N. Harnik, W.A. Robinson,
Y. Kushnir, M. Ting, H.P. Huang, and J. Velez; Mechanisms
of ENSO-forcing of hemispherically symmetric precipitation
variability, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological
Society, vol. 131, no. 608, p. 1501-1527, Part B, April, 2005.
Whitehead, D., N.T. Boelman, M.H. Turnbull,
K.L. Griffin, D.T. Tissue, M.M. Barbour, J.E. Hunt, S.J. Richardson,
and D.A. Peltzer. Photosynthesis and reflectance indices for
rainforest species in ecosystems undergoing progression and
retrogression along a soil fertility chronosequence in New
Zealand; Oecologia, vol. 144, no. 2, p. 233-244, June, 2005.
Williams, T. and D. Handwerger. A high-resolution
record of early Miocene Antarctic glacialhistory from ODP
Site 1165, Prydz Bay; Paleoceanography, vol. 20, no. 2, Art.
No. PA2017, June 28, 2005.
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