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Summer 1987 Summer 1987 NSU Oceanographic Center Nova Southeastern University NSUWorks Currents Publications by HCNSO Summer 1987 Summer 1987 NSU Oceanographic Center Follow this and additional works at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_currents Part of the Marine Biology Commons, and the Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology Commons NSUWorks Citation NSU Oceanographic Center, "Summer 1987" (1987). Currents. 90. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_currents/90 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications by HCNSO at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Currents by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CENTER FACULTY FROM THE PURSUE DIVERSE STUDIES IN DIRECTOR OCEANOGRAPHY The Oceanographic Center of Nova University has a rich history In the' beginning, under the that goes back to its founding in directorship of the late Dr. William 1966 by Dr. WilliamS. Richardson, our faculty were Richardson the first director. predominantly physical The laborat~ry prospered until oceanographers. In fact, our tragedy struck in 1975, w~en Dr. -' ~ / original name was the Physical Richardson and four associates Dr. Julian P. McCreary Oceanographic Laboratory (fondly were lost at sea while conducting provided by highly competitive known as "The Lab"). In the late an open-ocean experiment off the l'Os our name was changed to the grants from such agencies as the coast of Maine. This tragic event National Science Foundation, the Ocean Sciences Center, and the was the first fatal oceanographic nature of our research changed as Office of Naval Research, NOAA, accident in history, and it sent NASA, and the U.S. Air Force, as well: we branched out into other shock waves throughout the disciplines. In the early 80s we well as from private foundations. oceanographic community. It was One of the most exciting changed our name once again, this a loss that nearly caused the time to the Oceanographic center, improvements at the lab is the demise of the laboratory. recent expansion of our teaching and we continued to diversify. During the past several years Listed below are thE~ Center's program. The Institute of Marine the laboratory has recovered and Coastal Studies, which offers present faculty and researchers, dramatically. The number of with their specialties. the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in faculty has increased to ten Ocean Sciences, has increased its Nathaniel Apter, Resident Adjunct members, and there is a support enrollment from ten students five M.D., University of Buffalo staff of nine people. Current Malacology- marine snails years ago to over 60 full- and part­ research interests include time students today. The Ph.D. Pat Blackwelder, Assoc. Professor modeling oflarge-scale ocean program currently has an Ph.D., University of South Carolina circulation, coastal dynamics, enrollment of seven students. Marine Biogeology - micropaleontology ocean-atmosphere coupling, The Nova University Georges Blaha, Research Scientist surface gravity waves, biological Ph.D., Ohio State University oceanography, chemical Oceanographic Center is the only Geophysics- satellite altimetry oceanography, coral reef oceanographic institution in assessment, Pleistocene and Broward County. It has a high Curtis Burney, Asst. Professor reputation in both the national Ph.D., University of Rhode Island Holocene sea level changes, Marine Ecology- dissolved nutrients physiology of marine and the international phytoplankton, calcification of oceanographic communities, but Richard Dodge, Assoc. Professor surprisingly it is little known Ph.D., Yale University invertebrates, cell ultrastructure, Marine Biogeo logy- coral reefs fouling effects, marine fisheries, locally. The primary purpose of ' this newsletter is to inform the Gary Hitchcock, Assoc. Professor and nutrient dynamics. Specialized studies include the El local community, as well as , Ph.D., University of Rhode Island others, of our activities and Marine Biology · phytoplankton Nino phenomenon, ocean pollution, and food chain progress as a research and Gary Kleppel, Asst. Professor teaching institution. Ph.D., Fordham University resources. Funding for research is Marine Biology · zooplankton continued to page 2 DR. GARY KLEPPEL superstructure. Even though ( ­ JOINS RESEARCH everything I asked for is not here yet, there is a sort of honesty and FACULTY positiveness among the faculty Dr. Gary Kleppel, an and staff and administration that Assistant Professor of Biological makes me feel that I can get Oceanography,joined the Center's things done. A researcher spends faculty in January. He came to us a lot of time with the negatives, from the University of Southern such as the bureaucracy, and, California's Fish Harbor Marine especially in research, most things Laboratory on Terminal Island. don't work the first time. In He received his Ph.D. in Biology contrast with Southern California, from Fordham University in 1979. where it seemed I had to spend a Dr. Kleppel's research for the lot of time and energy with Dr. Gary Kleppe/ engaged in university red tape, here I think past three years has centered on zooplankton research. developing a model that the red tape tends to be cut a lot quantitatively describes factors yet, there is a sort of honesty and more quickly." Welcome aboard, controlling the diet and feeding of positiveness among the faculty Gary. marine zooplankton. With the use and staff and administration that offluorescence microscopy, high­ performance liquid chromatography, and acoustic RECENTCONTRACTANDGRANTAWARDS measures of zooplankton "Physical Mechanisms Affecting "Diet Reproduction and the Role of abundance, he has examined the Plankton Distribution across the the Copepod Acartia tonsa in the distribution of grazing activity in Gulf Stream" Investigator: G. Coastal Marine Food Web" relation to biological and physical Hitchcock Agency: Office of Investigator: G. Kleppe! Agency: factors within several oceanic Naval Research Sea Grant/California regions. He also has been working "Coastal Circulation along "Physical and Chemical on laboratory experiments to Western Boundaries" (year 3) Oceanography of the Ocean in tK better understand the role of diet Investigators: P. Kundu/ Vicinity of the Los Angeles in the physiology and production J.McCreary Agency: Office of County White's Point Outfall" of dominant nearshore grazers in Naval Research (year 3) California coastal waters. These "Investigation ofWind-forced Investigator: G. Kleppel, et al. studies will be continued in Inertial Oscillations" (year 2) Agency: Sea Grant/California Florida. Investigator: P. Kundu Agency: "Small Scale Spatial Distribution When asked how he happened National Science Foundation of Zooplankton" (year 3) to choose our laboratory over the "Dynamics ofthe Instability of Investigator: G. Kleppel Agency: myriad of others in the country, he Equatorial and Coastal Currents" National Science Foundation quickly responded with two major (year 2) Investigator: J. reasons. "My orientation is in McCreary Agency: National "Coral Growth Survey" (year 2) research, and this lab has a Science Foundation Investigator: R. Dodge Agency: reputation for excellent research. "Modeling of the Circulation of the Broward County Commission There's a lot of it going on here. Western Indian Ocean" (year 2) "Coral Growth Project" When I came here to visit, it was Investigators: J. McCreary/P. Investigator: R. Dodge Agency: clear that this place was on a Kundu Agency: National Science Coastal rlanning and growth curve. To be part of a Foundation Engineering, Inc. growing organization, especially "Surface Gravity Waves: continued from cover in a beautiful setting such as we Development of High Resolution have, is a positive thing for any Telemetering Wave Recorder Pijush Kundu, Assoc. Professor young research person starting on Array and Non-Parametric Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University a faculty career." Dr. Kleppel then Nonlinear Wave Prediction Physical Oceanography - modeling Model" (year 2) Investigator: R. was asked to compare the research Julian McCreary, Assoc. Professor Snyder Agency: National Science Ph.D., Univ. of California/San Diego setting at USC with that at Nova. 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Here students are STUDIES USES has brought about a wide range of introduced to the complexities of INNOVATIVE student projects. Included are regulations, and of regulatory studies oflobster behavior in trap agencies and activities having to APPROACH enclosures, sea turtle biology, do with the Florida environment. bottom dwellers in Port Guest lecturers include experts in Everglades, virus indicators of city, county, state and
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