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Annual Report 2009 Table of Contents Marine Science Institute University of California, Santa Barbara Annual Report 2009 Table of Contents Director’s Statement 4 Organizational Charts 5 Administrative Staff 6 Centers and Units 7 Other Projects and Activities 8 Seminars, Workshops, Conferences, and Meetings 9 Coastal Research Center 19 EcoInformatics Center 21 Marine Biotechnology Center 28 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis 33 NCEAS Working Groups/Meetings/Training Workshops 35 Ocean and Coastal Policy Center 41 UC Natural Reserve System 42 Analytical Laboratory 44 REEF/Outreach 45 Awards Administered 47 Awards 48 Research Summaries 57 Space 104 Statistical Summary 110 Research Support Summary 111 Budget Summary 113 Statistical Summary 2004-2005 115 Five-Year Research Support Summary 117 Funding Agencies 119 MSI Advisory Committee, 121 Administrative and Technical Staff Principal Investigators 124 2 Director’s Statement 3 Director’s Statement I am pleased to present this year’s annual report. This spring marked the physical start to a long-planned collaboration between the NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and the Marine Science Institute with work beginning on the Outreach Center for Teaching Ocean Sciences. Located adjacent to the Marine Science Research Building on Lagoon Road, this building will provide a state-of-the-art facility for teaching marine science. The first phase of the building’s construction, office space for NOAA employees, is scheduled to be completed in September 2011. Established in 1995, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) has become a leader in developing collaborations and technical solutions to overcome obstacles related to the dispersed and heterogeneous nature of ecological data. This very successful partnership between the National Science Foundation, the State of California, the Marine Science Institute and UCSB brings hundreds of participants annually to its location in downtown Santa Barbara. Recently appointed NCEAS Director Dr. Edward McCauley leads the center and its efforts to enhance and extend its contributions to the global science community. You can read much more about NCEAS inside this report. Many thanks to NCEAS Interim Director Dr. William Murdoch for providing the vision to create NCEAS and his dedication to nurturing it over the years. It’s no exaggeration to say that the fiscal health of the University of California has seen better days. I am hopeful that it will improve in the near future but like other departments on our campus, the Marine Science Institute continues to suffer significant cuts to its operating budget. This year we also received a handful of stop work orders from the State of California, essentially requiring some of our research projects to shut down overnight due to the on going budget crisis. This can be devastating to the projects and the people they employ. Despite this adversity, MSI remains a growing and robust community. An example of this is a new project that Drs. Waite and Israelachvili received funding for from the Dental and Craniofacial Directorate of the National Institutes of Health. In dental and biomedical restorations, water is the nemesis of true adhesion between solid surfaces and polymers. The strong underwater adhesion of marine organisms such as mussels is based on an adaptive set of molecular and biophysical properties that may be systematically translated into medically relevant strategies. I look forward to following the progress of this project, and all of the projects, administered by MSI. MSI researchers are conducting world-class, cutting edge research in a wide-range of disciplines. It is an honor to be a part of these efforts as both a scientist and the head of the administrative support functions. Mark Brzezinski Acting Director 4 Organizational Charts 5 MARINE SCIENCE INSTITUTE 2008–2009 ORGANIZATIONAL CHART Mark Brzezinski Dan Reed Acting Director Assistant Deputy Director Tim Schmidt Administration Manager Jim Woods Monica Pessino Bonnie Williamson Joyce Wolever Laurie Eusey Rachel Whitacre Luisa Velez Donna Moore Systems/Network Ocean o' Graphics C & G Admin Personnel Unit Financial Services Purchasing Unit Budget Unit Natural Reserve System Administrator Creative Director Manager Manager Manager Manager MSO Mike Franklin Karoleen Decastro Marisol Hernandez Judy McCaslin Elvira Rose Mieke DeMeo Michael O’Neil Matt Jordan Desktop Support Graphic Designer Travel Assistant C & G Officer Personnel Analyst Purchasing Analyst Budget Analyst Admin Assistant Marisol Hernandez Deanna Cervantes Michele Ramirez Joanna Kettmann Nicole Zavala Student Assistant Desktop Support C & G Analyst Personnel Analyst Purchasing Analyst Budget Analyst India Morgan Donna Dobis Student Assistants Personnel Analyst Budget Analyst Veronica Torres Student Assistants Personnel Analyst 6 MARINE SCIENCE INSTITUTE 2008–2009 ORGANIZATIONAL CHART Mark Brzezinski Active Director Dan Reed Assistant Deputy Director Coastal Reseach Marine Biotechnology Ocean & Coastal Natural Reserve Ecoinformatics Center Analytical Laboratory Marine Science Center Center PolicyCenter System Georges L. Paradis Education & Outreach Russell Schmitt Daniel Morse TBN William Murdoch Michael McGinnis Manager Director Director Director Deputy Director Director Director Faculty/ Faculty/ Faculty/ Faculty/ William Clinton Scott Simon Donna Moore Susan Swarbrick Professional Researchers Professional Researchers Professional Researchers Professional Researchers Staff Research Assoc. REEF Manager MSO Associate Director Technical Staff Specialists Specialists Jennifer Massey Student Docents Matt Jordan Lab Assistant Admin Assistant Graduate Students Postdoctorals Postdoctorals Kate Shears Student Assistant Lab Assistant Undergraduate Students Technical Staff Technical Staff Michael Orlando Faculty Managers Reserve Directors Lab Assistant Graduate Students Graduate Students Student Assistant Resident Caretakers Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students National Center for Stewards Ecological Synthesis and Analysis William Murdoch Education Coordinator Director Scheduling Assistant Faculty/ MSO Computer Facility Dir. Professional Researchers 7 Postdoctorals Administrative Staff Computer Staff Graduate Students Other Projects &Activities 8 Seminars, Workshops, Conferences, and Meetings 2008-2009 The Marine Science Institute continues to support various seminars, workshops, conferences and meetings. During the 2008-2009 fiscal year 158 events took place, in which a wide range of marine science topics were highlighted. Dates Coordinators Topic June 23 – July 28, 2008 John Alroy Paleobiology Database (Hosted by Arnold Miller* NCEAS) (Training Workshop) Charles Marshall* July 17–19, 2008 Carlos Carroll*, Landscape and population Erica Fleishman connectivity (Working Group) July 17, 2008 Timothy Beechie*, Resilience of Pacific salmon to Mary Ruckelshaus* climate change (Working Group) July 19, 2008 Steve Gaines Luce Fellows Environmental Science to Solutions Initiative July 21 – July 25, 2008 Peter Walsh* Efficient wildlife disease control: From social network self- organization to optimal vaccination (Working Group) July 21 – July 23, 2008 Matthew Jones, SDCI NMI improvements: Mark Schildhauer Development of Kepler CORE—a comprehensive, open, robust, and extensive scientific workflow infrastructure (Working Group) July 25, 2008 Daniel E. Morse Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researchers meeting July 29 – August 1, 2008 Juliann Aukema, Economic impacts of non-native O. Reichman, forest pests and pathogens in North Stephanie Hampton America (TNC) (Working Group) July 25, 2008 Daniel E. Morse Morse Lab Postdoctoral Scholars August 6, 2008 Stephanie Hampton Ecological Society of America— NCEAS postdoctoral scholars meeting August 19, 2008 Catherine Boggs Digital Ocean Charrette August 24 – 25, 2008 Constance Penley K-12 Digital Ocean Charrette August 25, 2008 Daniel Reed Santa Barbara Coastal LTER REU students research presentations August 27 – 28, 2008 Erica Fleishman, Risk assessment for climate change Susan Frankel* and forest pathogens in western North America (Supported by the US Forest Service) (Working Group) August 28 – 29, 2008 Constance Penley K-12 Digital Oceans Charrette John Melack * Non-UCSB personnel 9 August 28, 2009 Jacob Weiner, NCEAS & Allocation, plasticity and allometry University of Copenhagen, in plants (EcoLunch Seminar) September 2–5, 2008 Erica Fleishman Potential role of contaminants in declines of pelagic organisms in the Upper San Francisco Estuary, California (Working Group) September 3 – 4, 2008 William Murdoch NCEAS Science Advisory Board mtg September 4, 2008 Daniel Schlenk, University of Impacts of estrogenic activity in fish California, Riverside from the Southern California Bight (EcoLunch Seminar) September 8 – 12, 2008 Jonathan Shurin, Comparing trophic structure across Helmut Hillebrand*, ecosystems (Extended) (Working Daniel Gruner* Group) September 11, 2008 Elizabeth Borer, Oregon State Fertilization, consumers, and University competition: community context determines grassland viral prevalence (EcoLunch Seminar) September 12 – 19, 2008 M. Rebecca Shaw* Global climate change and adaptation of conservation priorities (Supported by The Nature Conservancy) (Working Group) September 18, 2008 Francisco Madrinan, NCEAS Investigating responses of riverine habitats and Pacific salmon to climate change (EcoLunch Seminar) September 22 – 26, 2008 Elise Granek*, Measuring ecological, economic Evamaria Koch*, and social values of coastal
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