May 2013

Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences recognized at the College of Sciences annual award ceremony.

Dr. Alexander Bochdansky – College of Sciences faculty distinguished research award

Danni Morgan Smith – College of Sciences outstanding PhD. dissertation award (Alexander Bochdansky advisor)

Meredith McPherson – College of Sciences outstanding M.S. theses award (Dick Zimmerman advisor)

Departmental Awards: OEAS Outstanding Senior Undergraduate Award Winners

Kristel Trolenberg, B.S. Ocean and Earth sciences Earth sciences Education

Meredith McPherson – College of Sciences outstanding M.S. theses award (Dick Zimmerman advisor)

April 2013

26th Anniversary Ludwick Lecture: Dr. Lisa A. Levin from Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

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February 2013

ODU's CCSLRI connect coastal sea level rise with climate-related weakening of the Gulf Stream.

    Recent studies have identified a "hot spot" of accelerated sea level rise from Cape Hatteras, N.C., to Boston, and researchers have speculated that a diminished flow of the Gulf Stream might be partly to blame. Now, data analysis by a team of oceanographers led by Tal Ezer of Old Dominion University has given that hypothesis new scientific footing. (News @ODU and Climate Central Articles)

Collaborative Research: TRacing the fate of Algal Carbon Export in the Ross Sea (TRACERS)

    Posts for the TRACERS project will begin on our way to McMurdo Station, Antarctica in early February 2013 just before the cruise, on which we will spend approximately two months in the Ross Sea and Southern Ocean aboard the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer. The goal of our research is to sample biogeochemical properties in seawater to further understand algal carbon export in the Ross Sea. Dennis Hansell, Alexander Bochdansky, Giacomo DiTullio, Robert Dunbar & Mónica Orellana are among the scientist aboard the Palmer.(Blog )

January 2013

TOP STORY: European Connection for CCSLRI Inundation Threat Research

    The reporter who came to Old Dominion last week to interview oceanography professor Larry Atkinson about sea level rise in southeastern Virginia was from the London-based Reuters News Agency, and this came just a few days after Atkinson had been in Washington, D.C., discussing climate change-related inundation threats with experts at the Netherlands and Italian embassies.(Inside ODU Article by Jim Raper)

Noffke Reports Advances in Early Life Research

    Nora Noffke, an Old Dominion geobiologist who has won international recognition for research establishing microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) as one line of evidence of earliest life on Earth, presented her working group's latest findings - positing the existence of a 3.49 billion-year-old microbial ecosystem - during the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA) in Charlotte, N.C. (Inside ODU Article)

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