February 20-24, 2012 - Sgmeet.com

TOS/AGU/ASLO 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting
and help to interpret, the functional biogeography of marine microbes.
Examples will include nitrogen fixing phytoplankton, how resource
competition for nitrogen and iron at the large scale, and iron allocation
at the cellular scale, regulate their habitat. We will discuss the need for
mechanistic models of heterotrophic microbes and the respiration of
organic matter throughout the water column, and the prospect of integrating
genome-informed, metabolic reconstructions with large-scale
ecosystem and biogeochemistry models.
Biography: Mick Follows is an oceanographer working in the Department
of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He studied Physics as an undergraduate at
the University of Leeds in the UK, and earned a Ph.D. in Atmospheric
Sciences at the University of East Anglia in 1991. After a year as a
Royal Society Post-doctoral Fellow hosted at the Max Planck Institute
for Atmospheric Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, working on models of
ozone in the lower atmosphere, he joined what is now the Program in Atmospheres,
Oceans and Climate at MIT as a post-doc in 1992 and began
studying ocean biogeochemical cycles. He has remained there since and
is now a Senior Research Scientist. He uses data analysis, simple models
and numerical simulations to understand and interpret the global ocean
cycles of elements including carbon and iron. Fascinated by the biological
and ecological aspects of marine biogeochemical cycles, he has spent
recent years learning about and modeling marine micro-organisms and
the organization of their communities in the ocean.
Dr. Chris Reddy
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
How Did We Do: Academia’s Contributions to the
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Presentation: When the Deepwater Horizon disaster occurred, marine
scientists, most with little background in oil spills, became quickly
involved and delivered ideas, initial results, and data to decision makers.
These contributions can be traced back to the training, research, and
experience of basic marine science allowing academia to make important
contributions when applied problems arise
Biography: Christopher Reddy is a senior scientist in the Department
of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry and Director of the Coastal
Ocean Institute at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He studies
oil spills, including those that have occurred in 1969, 1974, 1996, 2003,
2007 (two), and the Deepwater Horizon. According to a 2010 survey
by Thomson Reuters, Dr. Reddy is one of the top cited and published
scientists studying oil spill effects.
He has testified once for the National Commission on the BP Deepwater
Horizon, twice for US Congress on the Deepwater Horizon, and briefed
numerous staffers and leaders in the executive branch. Dr. Reddy has
written eight op-eds on the Deepwater Horizon. He was an academic
liaison at the Unified Area Command during the Deepwater Horizon.
Dr. Reddy has received many honors including being a Kavli Fellow,
awarded in 2009 and 2010 by the National Academy of Sciences, Aldo
Leopold Leadership Fellow (2006), and Office of Naval Research Young
Investigator Program Award (2003). He received his Ph.D. in chemical
oceanography from the University of Rhode Island in 1997 and an executive
education certificate from MIT Sloan’s School of Business in 2010.
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Award Lectures
TOS - Munk Award Lecture: The Ocean As a
Complex Acoustic Medium
Session 135: Imaging the Ocean Interior: From Seismics to Optics
Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 14:00, Room 250
The Walter Munk Award is granted jointly by The Oceanography Society,
the Office of Naval Research and the Office of the Oceanographer of the
Navy. Recipients are selected based on their significant original contributions
to the understanding of physical ocean processes related to sound
in the sea; significant original contributions to the application of acoustic
methods to that understanding; and/or outstanding service that fosters
research in ocean science and instrumentation contributing to the above.
We congratulate the most recent recipient of The Munk Award:
Dr. William A. Kuperman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
La Jolla, California, USA
Modern ocean acoustics and acoustical oceanography are often associated
with the forward and inverse acoustics problems, respectively. The forward
problem deals with understanding the physics of acoustic propagation,
scattering and noise given the ocean environment while the inverse problem
is concerned with determining the ocean environment from acoustics.
Further, a traditional goal of ocean acoustics is finding an acoustic source or
scatterer as opposed to acoustical oceanography’s goal of “finding” oceanographic
parameters. While appearing as opposites, the inverse problem
requires extremely detailed knowledge of the forward problem so that one
of the main spinoffs (maybe even the most important one to date) from
acoustical oceanography has been our increased understanding of the forward
problem. Intuitively, ocean complexity should play an inhibiting role
in both approaches. However, as explained in this review, ocean complexity
is actually an enabling factor to the goals of both areas.
AGU - Rachel Carson Award Lecture:
Significance and Insignificance of the 2011
Mississippi Flood to Surrounding Waters
Session 031: Biogeochemical Cycles of Continental Margins:
Drivers and Impacts
Tuesday, 21 February, 10:30, Ballroom J
Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist, and an author
of widely read books on the sea and ecological themes. Rachel Carson
is remembered mainly for her last work, Silent Spring, published
in 1962, two years before her death. This controversial work, which
examined in alarming detail the environmental damage caused by the
widespread use of chemical pesticides, led to a greater public awareness
of the need to preserve and maintain our weakened environment. Her
work also helped to bring about increased state and national regulation
of the manufacture, use, and disposal of chemical pesticides.
We congratulate this year’s winner:
Nancy N. Rabalais, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium,
Chauvin, Louisiana, USA
The flood of the Mississippi River in 2011 broke many freshwater discharge
and nutrient load records. The MR drainage contributes 90+% of