Dauphin Island Sea Lab Alabamaʼs Marine Science Education and Research Institution 1975 1975 2006 2006 Annual Report The Twenty-one Member Schools of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab/ Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium • Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL* • Athens State University, Athens, AL • Auburn University, Auburn, AL* • Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, AL • Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, AL • Huntingdon College, Montgomery, AL • Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL* • Judson College, Marion, AL • Samford University, Birmingham, AL* • Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL • Talladega College, Talladega, AL • Troy University, Troy, AL • Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL* • University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL* • University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL* • University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL* • University of Mobile, Mobile, AL • University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL • University of North Alabama, Florence, AL • University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL* • University of West Alabama, Livingston, AL * Schools with Graduate Degree Programs Annual Report 2006 - page 2 Statement of Purpose The Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) is Alabama’s marine research and educational institution. Founded in 1971 by the Alabama legislature to maximize the marine sciences capabilities of several Alabama institutions and minimize duplication, DISL serves twenty-one Alabama colleges and universities, both public and private. DISL and its faculty work toward the combined purposes of conducting pure and applied research, and sponsoring structured educational programs for individuals and organizations interested in and dependent upon the marine environment. Dauphin Island Sea Lab/ Table of Contents MESC provides equal educational opportunity to, and is open and accessible to, Member Schools......................................................2 all qualified students, without Statement of Purpose/Table of Contents....................3 regard to race, color, creed, Letter from the Director................................................4-5 national origin, sex or qualified handicap/disability with Administration and Facilities.......................................6-8 respect to all of its programs Administration and activities. Business/Finance Auxliaries (Cafeteria, Estuarium Gift Shop) Disabled students will Computer Center be provided “reasonable Library accommodations” when they have identified themselves Community Relations and validated their special Plant Operations need(s). Complete Technical Support/Vessels confidentiality is maintained Discovery Hall Programs...........................................9-10 unless authorization for Estuarium..........................................................................11 release or information has been given in regards to University Programs.................................................12-13 disability. Coastal Policy Center....................................................14 Resident Research Faculty....................................15 Dauphin Island Sea Lab 101 Bienville Boulevard Faculty Activity...........................................................16-19 Dauphin Island, AL 36528 Board of Directors/Executive Committee/ Ph: (251) 861-2141 Program Committee..................................................20-21 Fax: (251) 861-4646 www.disl.org Extramural Funding...................................................22-24 Balance Sheet.................................................................25 For questions about this Appendix 1: Full Report of the Mobile National Estuary Annual Report, please e- mail Lisa Young, Community Program/Coastal Policy Center (prepared by Relations Director, at Capt. David W. Yeager).............................................26-31 [email protected] DISL Educational Impact in Alabama, by County..............................................Back cover Cover photos, top row: Contributed DISL Archive; bottom photo: Dr. John Dindo Annual Report 2006 - page 3 Letter from the Executive Director Hurricane Katrina may have devastated the maritime forest behind the classrooms with her salty storm surge, but we’re still standing. Photo: Dana Thompson. How sweet it is! A summer without a hurricane He went on to become a nationally respected is like a tall glass of sweet tea from the cafeteria SCUBA instructor in addition to receiving his and we are most grateful for the respite. Itʼs an terminal degree at Texas A&M University where interesting comment on our precarious situation I found him in an of ce under some stairs when a non-event stands out as the most and suggested that he consider joining the U. important occurrence of an entire year – and of Alabama Marine Science Program which perhaps it wasnʼt. had recently moved to Dauphin Island to be part of the consortial effort. We had a unique The retirement of Dr. Will Schroeder marks opportunity to take part in some of the early the end of an era at DISL. I met Will in a eld experiments utilizing saturation diving at diving class at Scripps in 1963 when he was Hydrolab in the Bahamas where he saved my an undergraduate at San Diego State and I life during an extended dive near the break. was in my rst semester of graduate school. Annual Report 2006 - page 4 Will survived the “purge” when the Lab Director at the time dismissed the entire UA faculty (including me) for insubordination, and the destruction of the Lab and bridge by Hurricane Frederic (during which the dummy stayed on the island). He lived through the 20% budget reduction under the rst James administration and innumerable dive trips trying to nd the arti cial reefs using LORAN. He graciously endured countless jibes at the “Thank God Summer School Is Over” parties (mostly concerning his frugal tendencies and failures at gear recovery), and 20 consecutive years of teaching Dr. Crozier (left) presents a drawing of the Sea Lab campus to oceanography (including biological Dr. Schroeder at his retirement party. Photo: Melissa Mills sampling techniques) during the summer sessions, a record never to be approached. Will Schroeder was (and remains) a tireless George F. Crozier, Ph.D. traveler, both on and below the surface of the Executive Director ocean. He is one of the best people to travel Dauphin Island Sea Lab with (unless you wanted him to pick up the check); a truly great story teller and companion, with more experiences than three ordinary people. He remains a great personal and professional friend and will be sorely missed at Dauphin Island. We were delighted to host world-renowned scientist Dr. Daniel Pauly, Director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia (left photo, standing right) as the 2006 Wiese Distinguished Lecture Series honoree. He joined us and other guests as we dedicated the new Peter V. Wiese Marine Science Hall in 2006. (Right photo) Mrs. Marty Wiese looks at the photo of her late husband, Pete Wiese, which graces the lobby of the new facility. Annual Report 2006 - page 5 Administration and Facilities DISL is located on 36 acres on the eastern end current subscriptions to many of those periodicals. of Dauphin Island, a barrier island approximately The library also has numerous CD-ROM databases, three miles from the mainland and 40 miles south as well as access to a variety of on-line library of Mobile, Alabama. The Sea Lab spans the catalogs. Wet Lab facilities house modular sea- island and thus has direct access to the Gulf of water systems, kreisels, and other instruments for Mexico, Mississippi Sound and Mobile Bay. A experimental work on living marine organisms. causeway Research and bridge laboratories are connects the equipped with island to the state-of-the-art mainland. instrumentation for A new biogeochemical classroom research. Field was built collection from the old equipment maintenance for marine shed on the ecological and South Campus, oceanographic making a total research is of 15,309 available. DISL square feet of maintains two instructional large research space. On the vessels, North Campus, including the a new research Peter V. Wiese Marine Science Hall added 10,000 square feet in research and of9ce space in 2006. 65-ft. R/V A.E. laboratory/ Verrill and the of ce space 40-ft. E.O. was dedicated in 2006 in memory of Sea Lab Wilson, in addition to several small boats and skiffs. supporter Peter V. Weise, doubling Marine Science Hall facilities to a total of 20,000 squre Administrative Personnel feet. 1,500 square feet of the old maintenance Dr. George F. Crozier - Executive Director shed was converted into lab space and of ces Dr. John J. Dindo - Chair, Discovery Hall Programs for DISL’s FOCAL (Fisheries Oceanography of Dr. Kenneth L. Heck - Chair, University Programs Coastal Alabama) program, headed by Dr. Frank Georgia Mallon - Comptroller/Business-Auxiliaries Hernandez. Manager Aleada Nicholson - Administrative Assistant to the The campus can accommodate 160 persons in Executive Director residence. Two dormitories, a two-story ef ciency apartment building with twelve-units, eight three- Business/Finance bedroom houses, and a cafeteria provide quarters The Business Of ce of the DISL operates under and meals for visiting faculty and students. The the principles of Fund Accounting set forth by the DISL library is highly specialized in the marine National Association of College and University sciences, particularly those areas relating to the Business Of cers. The State Examiners of Public ecology and geology of the Gulf Coast region. Its