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ANNUAL REPORT

1983-'84

Marine Sciences Research Center

State University of New York at Stony Brook

J. R. Schubel, Director

15 July 1984

Part I

Part II

Appendix A

Summary Information

Narrative

Colloquja and Seminars

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ANNUAL REPORT

1983-84

~ARINE SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER

PART I

A. SU}lliARY OF CENTER ACTIVITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

(1) A list of departI'lental seminars is attached (Appendix A). The Center sponsored 72 seminars during the 1983-84 academic year.

(2) Other department activities are covered in the narrative section, Part II. Highlights of the past year include:

o MSRC accounted for nearly 10% of total core campus sponsored research expenditures, 71% of the total for the College of Engineering and Applied' Sciences.

o MSRC continues to be one of Stony Brook's highest leverage units; each State faculty line generated nearly $5.00 for each $1.00 of State faculty salary received.

o MSRC supports a greater percentage (>75%) of its graduate students from grants and contracts than any other department of SUSB.

o Drs. V. Gerard, J. Kirby, J. Mackin and S. Siddall were appointed to the faculty as assistant professors.

o The MSRC' s Jessie Smith Noyes Fellov7ship Program was renevled for the 1984-85 AY.

o MSRC hosted a number of regional, State, and National meetings dealing with aspects of coastal ocean0graphy and coastal zone management. The MSRC was responsible for planning the 7th International Estuarine Research Conference held 22-26 October 1983 in Virginia Beach (VA).

o Increased the Center's contribution series by 76 items.

o Published 7 special reports.

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o Extended the scope of tlSRC's international programs which now include Africa, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, New Zealand, Spain, Thailand, and Trinidad.

o The MSRC's Distinguished Visiting Scientist Program was continued with ten distinguished marine scientists from around the world) each of whom spent up to four weeks at the Center.

o Two new Coastal Marine Scholars were appointed for two-year terms after an international search.

The achievements of the MSRC were highlighted by the Stony Brook Foundation at its tenth annual Distinguished Contributions to Higher Education Awards Dinner held in March. The event honored Admiral Hyman H.G. Rickover and Pulitzer Prize-winning author William W. Warner. This year the Foundation initiated a new Predoctoral Fellowship Program to honor an advanced student in the unit of the University being highlighted. Recipients will be eligible for selection in the future to the Stony Brook Foundation's Society of Scholars. The first recipient of this prestigious fellowship is Ms. Lisa Campbell, a doctoral student in the MSRC working under the direction of Professor Edward J. Carpenter, Ms. Campbell's research dea.ls with the investigation of the distributions and growth rates of coccoid cyanobacteria in coastal and oceanic regions. She employs epifluorescence microscopy coupled with the fluorescent antibody technique to discern one of these ultrasmall (ca. Lum dia.) strains from another.

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B. Suro~ary of Faculty and Staff Activities and Accomplishments

(1) Faculty

a. Faculty Holding Academic Rank

Current research:

Research grants:

University committees:

Accomplishments/ Community service:

Harry H. Carter, Professor

Estuarine and coastal dynamics; turbulent diffusion.

"Synthesis of the Results of the Great South Bay Study into a Single Volume" Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.

"Estimation of Dispersal of Sinking Particles by Random Advection of DWD-106 from Site D Current Meter Records" Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

"A Study of the Processes of Movement, Mixing, and Exchange in the Peconic-Flanders Bay Estuarine System" Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.

Chairman, Graduate Programs Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Written Comprehensive Examination Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Admissions Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Hember, Executive Committee, Narine Sciences Research Center.

UNESCO Consultant to the Department of Marine Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, to evaluate curricula and research activities in physical oceanography.

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J.L. McHugh, Professor Emeritus

Current research:



Fishery management; fishery oceanography; whales and whaling.

Member, Jessie Smith Noyes Fellowship Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Hard Clam Management Alternatives Working Group, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Advisor to Towns of ,Islip and Brookhaven on hard clam management.

Presented an invited paper on "Whales and Whaling" at the Nystic Marinelife Aquarium, Mystic, CT.

Gave principal address at the Dedication of the Rutgers University Shellfish Laboratory, Bivalve, NJ.

Consultant to Hill, Rivkins, Carey, Loesberg, O'Brien and Mulroy, Attorneys, on a case concerning damage to oyster grounds in the Nanticoke River, MD.

Presented an invited paper entitled "The Inshore Catch of Food Fishes in the Raritan Bay Area" at the Workshop on Raritan Bay, sponsored by the Sandy Hook Laboratory of the National Marine Fisheries Service, the American Littoral Society, and the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium.

By invitation wrote and submitted to the Editor a Foreword entitled "The Estuarine Ecosystem Integrated" to be published in a book entitled Fish Community Ecology in Estuaries and Coastal Lagoons :-Towards Em EcOsystem Integration, Alejandro YanezArancibia (ed), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

By invitation, wrote and submitted for presentation a paper entitled "An Overviei,,, of some Aspects of Hard Clam Biology" to the organizer

Current Research:

Honors and A'I;vards:

University Committees:

Accomplishments/ Community Service:

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of a Symposium on quahog clams at the annual meeting of the National Shellfisheries Association in Tampa, Fla., and for later publication, in J. Shellf. Research.

Akira Okubo, Professor

Oceanic diffusion; animal dispersal; mathematic ecology.

Selected by students of the Marine Sciences Research Center to receive the MSRC Associates Distinguished Teaching Al;vard for 1982.

Member, Reference Room Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Coordinator, Friday Discussion Group, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Presented invited paper entitled "Mathematical Models for Zooplankton Swarms: Their Formation and Maintenance" at the Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Presented two invited lectures entitled "How Animals Swarm" and "Lagrangian Diffusion Equation" at the College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University.

Contributing Editor, Lecture Notes in Coastal and Estuarine Studies, Springer Verlag.

Donald W. Pritchard, Professor

Current research:

Research grants:

Estuarine and coastal dynamics; coastal zone management.

"A Study of the Effects of Inlet Dimensions on the Salinity Distribution in Great South Bay" Sponsor: County of Suffolk. "A Study of Spatial Variations in the Temporal Response of the Residual Currents to Meteorological Forcing in Estuaries"



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Sponsor: National Science Foundation.

"A Study of Movement, Mixing and Exchange in the Peconic-Flanders Bay Estuarine System" Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.

Member, Steinberg-Squires Avlard Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Participant, Meeting of the Tidal Hydraulics Committee, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, at the Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS.

Presented an invited paper on the Vertical Variations in the Response of the Residual Currents to Meteorological Forcing in the Chesapeake Bay at the Estuarine Research Federation 7th Biennial International Conference held in Virginia Beach, VA. Served as a panel member for New Salinity Scale Workshop held at this ERF conference.

Participant, Working Conference on "The Present and Potential Roles of Microcomputer and Microelectronic Systems in the Ocean Sciences and Technologies" sponsored by National Science Foundation, Office of National Oceanographic Laboratory System and held at the University of New Hampshire, Dover.

Invited participant, Environmental Protection Agency Workshop on the Chesapeake Bay Clean-up Initiative held at the University of Maryland, Port Deposit, MD.

Current research:

Research grants:

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J.R. Schubel, Leading Professor

Coastal sedimentation; suspended sediment transport; coastal zone management.

"Cooperative Agreement" Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

itA Program for Coastal Science and Management Alternatives" Sponsor: William H. Donner Foundation.

"Pre-doctoral Fellowship for Gene Feldman: Studies into the Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Phytoplankton" Sponsor: National Aeronautics & Space Administration

"Fixed Fee Contract for Energy & Environmental Analysts, Inc." Sponsor: Energy & Environmental Analysts, Inc.

"Coastal Marine Scholar Fellowship Program" Sponsor: New York Community Trust.

"Traineeship of Dominick Ninivaggi: Feeding Responses of Marine Copepods to Patchy Food Environments" Sponsor: Louisiana University Marine Consortium.

"Annotated Bibliography for the Hudson-Raritan Estuarine'System" Sponsor: Hudson River Foundation.

"A Critical Assessment of Management Strategies to Rehabilitate and Sustain Suffolk County's Hard Clam Fishery" Sponsor: Suffolk County Department of Planning.

"Computing and Data Analysis Assistance on Problems of Mutual Interest to Long Island Regional Planning Board and SUNY" Sponsor: Long Island Regional Planning Board


Accomplishments! Community services:

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Member, Board of Trustees, Stony Brook Foundation.

Member, Sponsored Programs Advisory Council, The Research Foundation of SUNY.

Member, Industrial Relations Advisory Committee for the Center for Advanced Technology and Biotechnology.

Member, Curriculum Reform Implementation Committee, SUSB.

Member, Search Committee for Head Football Coach, SUSB.

Member, International Programs Advisory Council, SUSB.

Member, Search Conrrnittee for Vice President of University Affairs, SUSB.

Member, Search Committee for Director, Federated Learning Communities, SUSB.

Member, Harine Resources Council of the Long Island Regional Planning Board.

Senior Editor, Coastal Ocean Pollution Assessment (COPAS) News.

Member, Harine Committee on National Dredging Issues (A Committee of the National Research Council's Marine Board).

Hember, Board of Directors of Marine Affairs Division of National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC).

Nember, Long Island Association of Commerce and Industry Environmental Committee.

Member, Environmental Scientific Committee of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Advisory Board, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.

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u.s. Correspondent for activities dealing with the coastal transport of pollutants in the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) region. Served as alternate chairman at the biennial meeting of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's WESTPAC Programme Group held in Townsville, Australia. The group met to develop a series of research programs that would be valuable to member states.

Presented an invited seminar "The History of Ocean Dumping in the New York Bight" at Wesleyan University, CT.

Participant, Third SUNY-wide International Education Conference, Syracuse, NY.

Program Chairman, Estuarine Research Federation 7th Biennial International Conference, Virginia Beach, VA.

Present:ed invi.ted talk on estuarine sedimentation at the Conference on the Yellow Sea sponsored jointly by the United States and Korean National Science Foundations and held at Seoul National University in Korea.

Presented an invited paper "Learning to Live in Harmony with Our Coastal Environments" at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Youth Symposium.

Served as an external reviewer of the Rutgers University Center for Coastal and Environmental Studies.

Participant, Segundas Jornadas sobre Estudios de Ciencias del Mar en Espana held at the Universidad Politecnica de Las Palmas, Canary Islands.

Current research:

Research grants:



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Peter K. Weyl, Professor

Coastal zone planping; physical oceanography; chemical oceanography.

"Development of Microcomputer-based Information System for the Coastal Zone Management of the Port of New York and Ne'l;.;r Jersey" Sponsors: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admir.istration, National Oceanographic Data Center, and ~Jilliam H. Donner Foundation.

"Decision Support System for Port Planning and Management" Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration.

"Demonstrate Adaptability of the Personal Computer-based Information System for Environmental Assessments by the New York District, Army Corps of Engineers" Sponsor: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Member, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Fellowship Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Hember, Hontauk Marine Basin Scholarship Committee~ Marine Sciences Research Center

Chairman of Session "Personal Computers, Information Systems and Coastal Zone Hanagement" at the 7th Biennial International Estuarine Research Federation Conference, Virginia Beach, VA.

Presented 8n invited paper entitled "Interactive Tidal Model of Contaminant Transport Through the Port of New York" at the Horkshop on Pollutant Transfer through the Coastal Zone sponsored by the International Commission for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and held in Nantes, France.

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Presented a colloquium "Environmental Information Systems for Governmental Decision-Making" to the Department of Political Science, SUSB.

Developed a joint research program in Chemical Oceanography for the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain.

Demonstrated coastal information systems to a variety of Federal, State and local agencies in New York, New Orleans and Washington, D.C.

Served as an advisor to MARAD project to develop a microcomputer system in support of Coast Guard Regional Response Teams at Dillard University, New Orleans, LA.

Henry J. Bokuniewicz, Associate Professor

Current research:

Research grants:


Estuarine transport and dispersal; coastal sedimentation.

"Containment of Dredged Sediments in Submarine Borrow Pits" Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.

"Sediment Resuspension and Aquaculture in Long Island Sound" Sponsor: Ne,,, York Sea Grant Institute.

"Plan for Containment of Dredged Sediment" Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute

"Assistance in Interpretation of Side-scan Sonar Records from the Hudson River" Sponsor: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory.

Chairman, Committee on Research Administration, SUSB.

Member, Telephone Advisory Committee, SUSB.


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Member, Provost's Sub-committee on Rehabilitations, SUSB.

Member, Graduate Programs Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Hember, Admissions Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Executive Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Presentation for the New York Academy of Sciences' "Scientists in Schools Program."

Presentation for the New York Sea Grant Extension Program Lower Hudson River Symposium.

Member, New York Public Involvement Coordination Group to examine dredging and disposal problems in New York Harbor.

Reviewer for the New York Academy of Sciences' Science Forum program; the National Sea Grant Program; the Hudson River Foundation; PSC-CU1~ Research Award Program; Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science; and the National-OCeanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Presented invited seminars "Sedimentation in the Hudson River estuary" at Southampton College: lIRegional Sediment Transport Studies" at the University of Connecticut; liThe Sedimentary System of the Hudson River Estuary and Comparisons" at the University of Rhode Island; and "Coastal Facets as Indication of Shoreline Response to Rising Sea Level" at the University of Maryland.

Advisor to the Fire Island Kational Seashore Advisory Board.

Participant, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Conference on Ocean Disposal held in Plymouth, England.

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Halcolm J. Bowman, Associate Professor

Current research:

Research grants:



Oceanography of coastal waters; oceanic fronts; coastal eddies.

"Vorticity, Generation, Propagation and Dissipation within Wide Stratified Sea Straits" Sponsor: Office of Naval Research.

"Shelf Dynamics and Plankton Production in Greater Cook Strait, New Zealand." Sponsor: National Science Foundation.

Member, Distinguished Visiting Scholar Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Traffic Appeals Board, SUSB.

Member, Search Committee for Senior Physical Oceanographer, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Managing Editor, "Lecture Notes in Coastal and Estuarine Studies." (Springer Verlag)

Chaired a session "Physical Processes of the Coastal and Nearshore Zone" at the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean's (IAPSO) interdisciplinary symposium during the IUGG XVII General Assembly in Hamburg, West Germany, and presented an invited lecture "Topographically Induced Cyclogenesis and Upwelling in a Baroclinic Coastal Current."

Chaired a session "Tidal ~1ixing and Plankton Dynamics" at the Estuarine Research Federation 7th Biennial International Conference held in Virginia Beach, VA.

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Edward J. Carpenter, Associate Professor

Current research:

Research grants:



Nitrogen cycling; plankton ecology.

"Serotypic Differentiation of Coccoid Cyanobacteria" Sponsor: National Science Foundation.

"Growth of a Toxic Dinoflagellate l1

Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.

"Modelling of Nutrient-Floral Relationships" Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.

"Red Tide Dinoflagellates in Suffolk County" Sponsor: County of Suffolk.

Member, Provost's Area-wide EEO Committee.

Member, Executive Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Search Committee for Marine Benthic Ecologist, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, ~\lritten Comprehensive Examination Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Fellowship Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Editorial Board of Marine Biology Letters, Elsevier North Holland Biomedical Press.

Member, Book Review Board, Quarterly Review of Biology.

Member, Quality Assurance Committee for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Member, Advisory Committee for Environmental Protection Agency Marine Environmental Research Laboratory, RI.

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Presented invited seminar on "N2 Fixation in the Sea" at Harvard

University.

Chaired session on Coastal Lagoons and presented an invited seminar on N cycling at the Estuarine Research Federation 7th Biennial International Conference, Virginia Beach, VA.

Headed invited session on N2 Fixation at the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Victoria, BC, Canada

Presented invited paper "Coccoid Cyanobacteria" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, New Orleans, LA.

Robert E. Malouf, Associate Professor

Current research:

Research grants:

Offices in Professional Societies:

Accomplishnents/ Community service:

Shellfish biology; aquaculture.

"Growth, Reproduction and Physiological Responses of the Bay Scallop, A. irradians" Sponsor: -New York Sea Grant Institute.

Secretary/Treasurer, National Shellfisheries Association.

Elected to serve as Vice President, National Shellfisheries Association, 1984-85.

Co-authored successful National Science Foundation Proposal for facilities improvement for the Flax Pond Laboratory. Non-voting member, Brookhaven Town Shellfish Advisory Committee.

Program Advisor, New York Sea Grant Institute.

Presented invited lecture "Status of East Coast Clam Mariculture tl at the Workshop of Shellfish Culture held at Oregon State University.

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Presented invited lecture "Studies of Hard Clam Seed Planting in New York" at the Nevl Jersey Fishermen's Forum.

Presented invited lecture "Management of Hard Clam Fisheries" at the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists, Portland, Oregon.

Presented invited lecture "The Great South Bay Shellfisheries" at the American Fisheries Society, Rome, New York.

Participant, National Shellfisheries Association 76th Annual Meeting, Hilton Head Island, SC.

Robert E. Wilson, Associate Professor

Current research:

Research grants:


Estuarine and coastal ocean dynamics.

"Vorticity, Generation, Propagation and Dissipation within Wide Stratified Sea Straits" Sponsor: Office Naval Research.

"Low Frequency Volume Exchange Between Hudson Estuary and Continental Shelf" Sponsor: Hudson River Foundation.

Presented invited seminars at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Patricia Bay, British Columbia, and at the University of British Columbia.

Participated in the St. Lawrence Estuary Symposium in Quebec. Presented an invited paper at the Estuarine Research Federation 7th Biennial International Conference held in Virginia Beach, VA.

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Charles F. Wurster, Associate Professor

Current research:

Research grants:



Effects of chlorinated hydrocarbons on phytoplankton communities.

"Resistance to Toxic Chemical Pollutants by Marine Phytoplankton" Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Member, Faculty Senate Graduate Academic Programs and Research Committee.

Member, Campus Environment Committee, SUSB.

Member, Old Field Environmental Council

Hember, Environmental Defense Fund Board of Trustees.

Member, Defenders of Wildlife Board of Directors.

Boudewijn H. Brinkhuis, Assistant Professor

Current research:

Research grants:


Offices:

Accomplishments/Community service:

Primary productivity; biogeochemistry.

"Marine Biomass Studies" Sponsor: Gas Research Industry and New York State Energy Research and Development Administration

Member, Montauk Marine Basin Scholarship Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Written Comprehensive Examination Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Treasurer, Sigma Xi Research Society, Stony Brook Chapter.

Member, Editorial Board, Jour~al of Phycology.

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Presented an invited paper on "Cultivation of Laminaria saccharina in the New York Marine Biomass Program" at the XIth International Seaweed Symposium in Qingdao, Peoples Republic of China.

J. Kirk Cochran, Assistant Professor

Current research:

Research grants:


Marine geochemistry; radionuclides as tracers; diagenesis.

"Radiochemical Studies of Manganese Nodule Deposition Processes" Sponsor: National Science Foundation.

,,210pb and 210po as Atmospheric Flux and Source Monitors" Sponsor: Yale University.

"Radionuclide Studies at the Nares Abyssal Plain" Sponsor: Sandia National Laboratories (DOE).

"Radiochemical Studies at the East Coast Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Site" Sponsor: Sandia National Laboratories (DOE)

"Particle Mixing Rate Studies in Deep-Sea Sediments of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific"

Member, Jessie Smith Noyes Fellowship Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Search Cowmittee for Chemical Oceanographer, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Comprehensive Exam Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.


Member, Search Committee for Coastal Marine Scholar, Marine Sciences Research Center.


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Reviewer for Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Nature, National Science Foundation.

Presented an invited lecture tl210 po and 21UPb Distributions in the Central and Eastern Indian Ocean" at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held at Yale University.

Presented an invited lecture at the SUNY-Stony Brook Department of Earth and Space Sciences Colloquium "Growth Rates and Grmvth Histories of Deep-sea Ferromanganese Nodules."

Presented an invited paper "The Fates of Uranium and Thorium Decay Series Nuclides in the Estuarine Environment" at the Estuarine Research Federation 7th Biennial International Conference.

Presented an invited paper "Scavenging Model for Reactive Elements in Seawater" at the Annual Meeting of the Sandia Laboratories High Le~el Nuclear Waste Disposal Program held in Denver, CO.

Presented an invited paper "Particle Mixing Rates from t-IANOP sites H, M, C and S: Evidence from LlvPb, Pu and 137Cs Distributions" at the Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union held in San Francisco, CA.

Chosen as one of the U.S. scientific representatives to the Physical Oceanography Task Group and presented an invited paper "Chemical Scavenging and Trace Element Removal from the Ocean" at the Second Annual Interim Meeting of this group held in Fontainebleau, France. Served as a consultant to Sandia National Laboratories and the State of Rhode Island's Department of Environmental Management.

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David O. Conover, Assistant Professor

Current research:

Research grants:



Ecology of fishes; fisheries biology.

"Temperature-dependent Sex Determination in the Atlantic Silverside and Other Fishes" Sponsor: National Science Foundation.

"Temperature Dependent Sex Determination in Fishes" Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.

"Relation of Environmental Variables to Fluctuations in Abundance and in the Distribution of Fish Stock off the U.S. Northeastern Seaboard" Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.

Member, Flax Pond Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Written Comprehensive Exam Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Reviewer for National Science Foundation, Science, Copeia, and Fishery Bulletin.

Invited to hold a joint appointment in the Graduate Program in the Department of Ecology and Evolution.

Presented two papers "Adaptive Significance of Temperaturedependent Sex Determination in a Fish" and "The Temperaturesensitive Period of Sex Determination in Henidia menidia" at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists held in Tallahassee, FL.

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Presented an invited seminar "Environmental Sex Determination and Its Adaptive Significance in a Fish" to the Department of Ecology and Evolution, SUSB.

Presented an invited seminar "Environmental Sex Determination: Speculations on Its Adaptive Significance and Prevalence in Fishes" at the Ecology Program, University of Connecticut.

Presented an invited seminar "The Status of New York's Marine Finfish Populations" at the Annual Meeting of the New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society in Rome, NY.

Jed A. Fuhrman, Assistant Professor

Current research:

Research grants:


Marine microbial ecology; bacterioplankton production.

"Dissolved Free Amino Acid Formation in Seawater and its Coupling to Uptake" Sponsor: National Science Foundation.

"Bacterioplanktivores: Identification and Elucidation of their Roles in Harine Food Webs" Sponsor: National Science Foundation.

Chairman, Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program Committee; Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Graduate Programs Committee; Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Search Committee for Benthic Microbial Biogeochemist; Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Reference Room Committee; Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member-at-large, Phi Beta Kappa; SUSB.


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Reviewer for National Science Foundation, Limnology and Oceanography, Bulletin of Marine Science, and book "Current Perspectives in Microbial Ecology."

Appointed to represent the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography at the Biological Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1984-1987.

Presented a paper "Bacterioplankton Abundance and Production in Long Island Sound: Seasonal Cycle and Implications Regarding Grazing" at the Third International Symposium on Microbial Ecology held in Lansing, MI.

Presented two papers "Close Coupling Between Uptake and Release of Amino Acids in Seawater" and "Do Bacteria-sized Eukaryotes Consume Significant Bacterial Production?" at the winter meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography held in New Orleans, LA.

Valrie A. Gerard, Assistant Professor

Current research:



Seaweed population dynamics and physiological ecology.

Member, Search Committee for Coastal Marine Scholar; Marine Sciences Research Center.

Elected to Executive Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Organized an informal evening discussion group (The Kelp Ecology Critics Club) meeting biweekly to critically review recent publications in seaweed ecology.

Served as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation.

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Presented an invited lecture "Plant Mariculture" to the SUNY Extension Office, Riverhead.

Presented an invited lecture "The Marine Biomass Project--Can Marine Farms Provide an Alternate Energy Resource?" at Southampton College.

Presented an invited lecture "In situ Measurements of Light in Kelp Forests" at the Harine Review Committee Light Workshop held in Encinitas, CA.

Presented an invited Lecture "Light and Photosynthesis in Giant Kelp Forests" at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography.

Presented an invited lecture "Light and Productivity in a Giant Kelp Forest" at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

Presented an invited lecture "Modelling Macrocystis Productivity" at the Gas Research Institute Marine Biomass Contractors Review held in Key West, FL.

James T. Kirby, Jr.; Assistant Professor

Current research:

University COTI@ittees:

Research grants:


Wave theory; numerical modelling of shoaling waves.

Member, Search Committee for Coastal Marine Scholar; Marine Sciences Research Center.

"Wave and Current Models with Combined Refraction/Diffraction: Modelling Waves in the Presence of Varying Currents" Sponsor: University of Delaware subcontract.

Reviewer for Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering.

Current research:

Research grants:

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Presented an invited paper "Propagation of Weakly-Nonlinear Waves in Regions with Varying Depth and Currents" at the Proc. 20th Congress, Int. Ass. Hydraulic Res., Moscow.

Presented an invited lecture "Modelling Combined Refraction-Diffraction Using the Parabolic Equation Method" to the Department of Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering, University of Florida~ Gainesville, FL.

Presented an invited paper "Wave Propagation in the Vicinity of Offshore Islands" at the Proc. 16th Offshore Technology Conference, sponsored by the Marine Technology Society, in Houston, TX.

Glenn R. Lopez, Assistant Professor

Marine benthic ecology.

"Upgrade of Seawater System and Research Capabilities at the Flax Pond Marine Laboratory, State University of New York" Sponsor: National Science Foundation.

"Significance to Shellfish Aquaculture of Resuspended Bottom Material" Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.

"Effects of Sediment-Microbe Associations on Deposit Feeding Strategies" Sponsor: National Science Foundation.

"Deposit-feeding Strategies of Two Species of Clam (Pisidium) in Littoral and Profundal Sediments tl

Sponsor: National Science Foundation, U.S.-Finland Cooperative Program.



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Member, Executive Committee; Harine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Flax Pond Committee; Marine Sciences Research Center.

Presented an invited seminar "Resource Utilization and Renewal in Marine Benthic Communities" at the Lammi Biological Station, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Reviewer of National Science Foundation EPSCOR Project for Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.

Honors Examiner for Swarthmore College.

William T. Peterson, Assistant Professor

Current research:

Research grants:



Coastal zooplankton dynamics; larval fish; marine copepods.

"Implication of Dramatic Increases in Sand Lance (Ammodytes spp.) in New York Coastal i-laters" Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.

Member, Search Committee for Coastal Marine Scholar, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Steinberg-Squires Award Committee, "Marine Sciences Research Center.

Hember, Reference Room Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Presented an invited paper "Temporal-spatial Relationships between Tidal Mixing, Seasonal Stratification and Phyto-zooplankton Dynamics in Long Island Sound, NY" at the Estuarine Research Federation 7th Biennial International Conference in Virginia Beach, VA.

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Presented an invited seminar entitled "Interannual Variability in Coastal Fisheries" at the meeting on Climate Variability of the Eastern North Pacific and Western North America held at the u.s. Geological Survey and Naval Postgraduate School in Asilomar, CA.

Presented an invited lecture "Life History of the Copepod Temora longicornis in Long Island Sound" at the International Symposium on Marine Plankton in Shimizu, Japan.

Mary I. Scranton, Assistant Professor

Current research:

Research grants:

Honors:


Marine geochemistry; seawater interactions.

"The Role ot Cyanobacteria and Other Microorganisms in the Marine Hydrogen Cycle" Sponsor: Office of Naval Research.

"Hydrogen Cycling and Its Relation to Carbon Remineralization in Marine Sediments" Sponsor: National Science Foundation.

Recipient of the MSRC Associates Distinguished Teaching Award for 1983.

Member, Graduate Programs and Admissions Committees, Harine Sciences Research Center.

1-1ember, Search Committee for Chemical Oceanographer, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Distinguished Visiting Scholar Committee, Harine Sciences Research Center.

Chairperson ~ Steinberg--Squires Award Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Marine Sciences Research Center Representative to the SUSB and Arts and Sciences Senates.


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Member, National Sciences Foundation Advisory Panel chemical oceanography proposals.

Presented an invited seminar "Hydrogen in Anoxic Marine Enviror..ments" to the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Wormley, England.

Presented an invited seminar "The Hydrogen Cycle in the Anoxic Waters of Salt Pond, VlA" to the Chemical Oceanography Seminar Series, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Presented an invited seminar "Microbial Geochemistry of Hydrogen in Anoxic Marine Environment" to the Oceanography Department Seminar Series, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Presented a paper "Hydrogen Concentration and Cycling in Anoxic Marine Environments" at the AAPG Research Conference at the Geochemistry of Natural Gases, San Antonio, TX.

Presented a paper "Hydrogen Cycling in the Waters Near Bermuda: the Role of the Marine Cyanobacterium Oscillatoria thiebautii" at the American Geophysical Union/American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

Presented a paper "Hydrogen Cycling in Anoxic Environments" at the American Geophysical Union American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Ocean Sciences Meeting in Ne\l Orleans, LA.

Coauthored a paper "Estimates of Relative Strengths of Sources of Atmospheric Methane from its Carton Isotopic. Composition!1 presented at the American Geophysical Union Spring meeting in Baltimore, MD.

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Participated in a field trip to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and extended research cruises aboard the R/V WECO~~ working in the East Tropical North Pacific, the R/V Gyre working in Thompson working in the eastern Pacific.

Unsalaried Guest Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Gary A. Zarillo, Assistant Professor

Current research:

Research grants:



Beach and nearshore processes; sediment dynamics.

"A Critical Assessment of Management Alternatives for Stony Brook Harbor" Sponsor: Villages of Head of the Harbor and Nissequoque.


Participant, MSRC-New York Department of Environmental Conservation cooperative workshop on shore erosion.

Reviewer for National Science Foundation.

Invited presentation on "Sedimentation in the Coastal Lagoons of Long Island's South Shore" at the Estuarine Research Federation 7th Biennial International Conference held in Virginia Beach.

h. Faculty Holding Qualified Appointments

Douglas G. Capone, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Current research:

Research grants:

Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry.

"Pathways of Anaerobic Respiration and Mineralization of Organic Carbon in Hudson River Sediments" Sponsor: Hudson River Foundation.


Accomplishments/Cowmunity service:

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"Effects of Nitrogenous Loading Through Cultural Eutrophication of the Mangrove-Seagrass Ecosystems at La Parguera, Puerto Rico" Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.

"Interactions between Hicrobiota and Persistent Pollutants in Marine Sediment" Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency.

"Nitrogen Fixation and Denitrification in Eelgrass (Zostera) Beds" Sponsor: National Science Foundation.

Chairperson, Search Committee for Coastal Marine Scholar, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Participant, research cruise to the Bahamas to study nitrogen fixation and denitrification in algal mats.

Visiting Professor, Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico.

G. M. Capriulo, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Current research: Microzooplankton/protozoan ecology; marine food webs.

Robert M. Cerrato, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Current research:

Research grants:

Benthic ecology, recolonization, community dynamics.

"Significance to Shellfish Aquaculture of Resuspended Bottom Material" Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.

"Growth, Reproductive Effort, and Physiological Responses of the Bay Scallop" Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.



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"Submarine Burial of Dredged Sediment in Ne-Vl York Harbor" Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.

Member, ~!ri tten Comprehensive Exam Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, University Appeals Board.

Member, Central Awards Committee--Faculty Grants for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education.

Member, Federated Learning Community.

Member, Montauk Marine Basin Scholarship Committee, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Member, Board of· Trustees, North Shore Montessori School.

Reviewer for Oceanic Society and Environmental Protection Agency.

Presented an invited paper "Effects of a Storm-Induced Breach on the Growth of Mercenaria mercenaria" at the Estuarine Research Federation 7th Biennial International Conference held in Virginia Beach, VA.

Lisandro A. M. Chuecas, Adjunct Professor

Current research: Chemical oceanography; descriptive physical oceanography.

Elizabeth M. Cosper, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Current research:

Research grants:

Phytoplankton physiology and ecology.

"Effects of Toxic Pollutants on Phytoplankton" Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.



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"Viability of Diatom Resting Spores in Surface Sediments of New York Bight" Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Member, Distinguished Visiting Scholar Committee, }'1:arine Sciences Research Center.

Member, MSRC Associates Summer Fellowship Program Committee.

Member, Search Committee for Benthic Microbial Ecologist, Marine Sciences Research Center.

Presented an invited paper "Viability of Planktonic Diatoms in Surface Sediments of the New York Bight" at the American Geophysical Union/American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Joint Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

Presented an invited paper "Phytoplankton-Benthic Resting Stages" at the Northeast Monitoring Program, Third Annual Meeting, held in }1ilford, CT.

Linda Duguay, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Current research:

Research grants:


Invertebrate zoology; benthic ecology; biology of benthic foraminifera; algal symbiosis.

"Effects of Sediment-Hicrobe Associations on Deposit Feeding Strategies" Sponsor: National Science Foundation.

Participant, research cruise aboard the R/V Calanus to the Bahamas to study calcification rates of benthic tropical forams.

Vice President, Board of Directors, Stony Brook Day Care Center, Inc.

Member, Organizing Committee, Women and Science Conference, Southampton College.

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Presented a paper "Disruption of Pelletized Sediments by Shallow Water Benthic Foraminifera" at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.

Wayne E. Esaias, Adjunct Associate Professor

Current research: Phytoplankton ecology; photobiology.

Rhodes W. Fairbridge, Adjunct Professor

Current research: Geology; coastal geomorphology; sedimentology; ecology.

P. G. Falkowski, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Current research: Marine phytoplankton ecology; phytoplankton physiology.

H. Herman, Professor (Joint Appointment with Materials Sciences)

Current research:

Current research:

Ocean engineering; undersea vehicles; marine materials.

B. Kinsman, Professor (part-time)

Waves and tides; estuaries.

L. E. Koppelman, Professor (part-time)

Current research:

Current research:

Current research:

Coastal cone management; regional planning; policy studies.

Irving Like, Adjunct Professor

Environmental law.

F. T. Hanheim, Adjunct Professor

Marine geochmistry; ocean policy.

Garry F. Mayer, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Current research: Pollution ecology; ichthyology; evolution and function of morphology.

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W. J. Meyers, Associate Professor (Joint Appointment with Earth and Space Sciences)

Current research: Carbonates; sedimentology.

T. Najarian, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Current research:

Current research:

Water quality modelling; physical oceanography.

R. Nuzzi, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Phytoplankton ecology and marine pollution research.

L. B. Slobodkin, Professor (Joint Appointment with Department of Ecology and Evolution)

Current research: Theoretical ecology; marine ecology.

S. L. Smith, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Current research: Plankton ecology; nutrient regeneration by zooplankton.

D. F. Squires, Professor and Director, New York Sea Grant Institute

Current research: Marine affairs and science policy.

Harold M. Stanford, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Current research: Marine pollution in estuarine and coastal waters; marine geochemistry.

R. L. Swanson, Adjunct Professor

Current research: Physical oceanography; ocean dumping; coastal zone management.

Orville, W. Terry; Adjunct Associate Professor

Current research:

Research grants:


Aquaculture; wetlands management.

"Study at Toxic Metabolites in the Red Tide Dinoflagellate Gyrodinium Aureolum" Sponsor: Biomedical Research Support Grant, U.S. Public Health Service.

Member, Search Committee for Senior Physical Oceanographer.


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Member, Suffolk County Council on Environmental Quality.

Member, Institutional Biosafety Committee, Plum Island Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Trustee, ~lilliam Steeple Davis Trust (Artist-in-residence program).

Member, Scientific Advisory Committee Masho~ack Preserve, Nature Conservancy. Member, Organizing Committee, Orient Civic Association.

Member, Community Resource Development Committee, Cooperative Extension Service Suffolk.

Peter M. J. Woodhead, Adjunct Professor

Current research:

Research grants:

Ecology and behavior of fish; reef ecology; ecology of reefs, natural and artificial; waste disposal in ocean.

"Production of Film 'To Build a reef - the C-WARP project', Directed by L. Feinstein, Producer J. H. Parker lt

Sponsor: Electric Power Research Inst.

"Applicability of Dry FGD wastes for Marine Disposal Constructionlt

Sponsor: NIRO Atomizer A/S. Copenhagen, Denmark.

"Relation of Environmental Variables to Fluctuations in Abundance and in Distribution of Fish Stocks off the U.S. Northeastern Seaboard." Sponsor: New York Sea Grant Institute.

ItQuantitative surveys and assessment of the coal waste block artificial reef lt

Sponsors: New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and Electric Power Research Institute.


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Committee Advisor to the Commercial Fisheries Team of New York Sea Grant Advisory Service, Riverhead, New York, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984.

Counselor on crlS1S "hot line" phone service, for Suffolk County.

Presentation at the Fourth International Ocean Dumping Symposium, Plymouth, England "Experimental investigations of environmentally compatible disposal of coal combustion wastes in the ocean."

Presentation "The use of fly ash for artificial reef construction" at the institute of Water Research and Michigan Sea Grant Conference, 'The use of artificial reefs as a fish management strategy in the Great Lakes', East Lansing, MI.

Presentation "A new resource for recreational fishing reef construction" at "Oceans '83," Marine Tech, Soc. and I. Elec. Electron. Eng., San Francisco, CA.

Presentation "Coal waste utilization in artificial reef construction: at the U.S. EPA/EPRI, National Symposium on Flue Gas Desulfurization, New Orleans, LA.

Presentations "Epifaunal settlement and the processes of community development and succession over two years on an artificial reef in the New York Bight" and ITpatterns of fish habitation in a new artificial reef, quantitative studies" at the Third International Artificial Reef Conference, Newport Beach, S. CA.

Presentations "A constructive disposal option for coal wastes -artificial reefs" and "Fixation of sewage sludge and fly ash: physical and leachate properties" at the Second National Conference on Municipal, Hazardous and Coal Wastes Management, Miami Beach, FL.

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Interviewed on TV Channel 24 (Long Island) in program "Face to face" anchored by Bob Green discussing pros and cons hunting sharks off Long Island.

Participant in TV Channel 43 (central Florida) in program IICoromunity Focus" in documentary and discussion concerning coal waste artificial reef program.

Documentary Film, 20 min., 16 rom, "To build a reef - the C-WARP Project", Director L. Feinstein, Producer J.B. Parker.

J. M. Vaughn, Adjunct Associate Professor

Current research: Transport, fate and effects of viruses in aquatic environments.

F. F. Y. Wang, Professor (Joint Appointment with Department of Materials Sciences)

Current research: Ocean engineering; ocean structurals; energy.

T. E. Whitledge, Adjunct Associate Professor

Current research: Nutrients; chemistry of seawater; ecosystem dynamics.

David R. Young, Adjunct Associate Professor

Current research: Water quality; marine pollution.

c. Promotion and Tenure Actions

(1) Edvlard J. Carpenter promoted to Professor. Robert E. Malouf promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Mary I. Scranton promoted to Associate Professor w"i th tenure.

(2) Non-teaching Professionals

George E. Carroll, Data Processing Manager

Major responsibility for computer systems specification, selection, and installation. VAX-11/730 minicomputer put into service for general scientific timesharing use by MSRC faculty, staff, and students. Established a microcomputer laboratory containing six DEC Rainbow 100B microcomputers with dot matrix and letter quality

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printers and a mUltipen flatbed plotter. The lab also contains an Alpha Nicro AM 100L multiuser microcomputer with eight terminals responsible for the writing of dozens of programs in support of faculty, staff, and student research. Administered the recharge system that provides the financial support for MSRC's computing facilities through recharges to grants and contracts served on the Administrative Computing Policy Advisory Board.

Peter K. deNyse, Assistant to the Director

Served as building manager for MSRC's South Campus laboratory-office buildings "D", "G", "F", "H", and for the Flax Pond Laboratory in Oldfield overseeing the rebuilding of the Laboratory's external sem/vater system. Participated as a crew instructor onboard the Research Vessel ONRUST during L.I. Sound cruises. Appointed a member of the Traffic Appeals Board. Served as an environmental consultant and instructor for the Nassau County Girl Scout Council. Assisted the Associate Director with marine operations.

Marie T. Eisel, Graphic Artist

Directed MSRC's Graphic Arts Department that produced, on average, twenty technical illustrations per day in support of publications by MSRC faculty, staff and students. Maintains photographic equipment and services, including complete Black and W11ite Darkroom, Photostat Camera providing enlargements and reductions of artwork for Publication and Polaroid Copy equipment for rapid slide preparation. Established a flexible system of trained, part-time personnel to meet the fluctuating demands placed on her department. Prepared over 200 drawings to illustrate the textbook "Marine Ecology," written by Professor Jeffrey Levinton of the Ecology and Evolution Department. Prepared drawing for the ongoing series of reference textbooks "Wastes in the Ocean" edited by Professor I.W. Duedall of Florida Institute of Technology. Volumes I & V of the 10 Vol. series are complete. Prepares Drawings and slides for National Audubon Society.

Graham S. Giese, Associate Director

Directed operations of MSRC marine and South Campus facilities. Assisted the Director in such activities as proposal preparation, reviewing research proposals, arranging meetings and workshops, representing MSRC at school and professional gatherings, and guiding visitors.

Jeri Schoof, Assistant to the Director

Responsible for departmental review of all personnel actions. Responsible for the Center's OR and IFR accounts and the DirectorVs research grants and contracts. Continued to oversee the Center's I&DR account. Responsible for production of two newsletters (MSRC Newsletter and Coastal Ocean Pollution Assessment News [COPAS]). Continued to provide administrative support and organization of MSRC meetings, symposia and workshops, and the Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program. Serving on the Purchasing/Accounts Payable

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Management Group. Fiscal coordinator for the Cooperative Agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Coordinated the MSRC Associates Evening/MSRC 16th Birthday Party in March 1984. Served on the 10th Annual Stony Brook Foundation Awards Dinner Committee and served as liaison between MSRC and SBF for Dinner logistics.

Helmut C. Stuebe, Research Vessel Captain

Captain Stuebe bears the sole responsibility for the operation, maintenance and safety of MSRC's principal research vessel, the 55' R/V ONRUST. ONRUST cruises this year have covered all Long Island waters: south coast, Long Island Sound, Peconic Bay at the eastern extremity, and New York Harbor on the west. Ship operations and safety have been excellent. In December and January, when ONRUST was at a Rhode Island shipyard for engine overhaul and annual maintenance, Captain Stuebe oversaw and directed the work which included the removal and replacement of the ship's engine.

Thomas C. Wilson, Jr., Electronics Engineer

Completely rearranged the Electronics and Ocean Instrument Shop. Developed a new accounting system for the shop. Completed 124 jobs commissioned by MSRC faculty, staff, and students. Completed the Temperature/Salinity Calibration facility. Refurbished and calibrated all 31 MSRC current meters. Mobilized meters for 66 meter/months of deployments. Designed and accompanied an ocean instrument display for public exhibition. Established contacts with instrument facilities at other marine science institutions.

(3) New Faculty Appointments, effective 1983-84

Valrie A. Gerard, Assistant Professor; previous position: Senior Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology; Biological Oceanography.

James T. Kirby, Assistant Professor; previous position: Research Assistant, University of Delaware; Coastal Engineering.

James E. Mackin, Assistant Professor; previous position: Research Assistant, University of Chicago; Chemical Oceanography.

Scott E. Siddall, Assistant Professor; previous position: Research Assistant Professor, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, FL.

(4) Terminations, Effective 1983-84

b. G. Passaro, Technical Assistant, resignation. K. Wallace, Postdoctoral Research Associate, non-appointment.

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(5) Postdoctoral Research A~sociates

James Eckman; U.S. citizen; Ph.D. from University of Washington, Seattle; faculty sponsors: Robert Malouf, Glenn Lopez, J. R. Schubel; working on settlement, growth, and survival of juvenile bay scallops (Argopecten Irrandians) within beds of eelgrass (Zostera marina).

Sarah Horrigan, U.S. citizen; Ph.D. from Scripps Institution ot Oceanography; faculty sponsors: Douglas Capone and Edward Carpenter; working on nitrogen transformations in Great South Bay, measurements of nitrification rates and electron capture-gas chromatography to measure N20. Presented a paper "Nitrification in Sediments of Great South Bay (Long Island, New York)" at the Ocean Sciences American Geophysical Union/American Society of Limnology and Oceanography joint meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Howard Levine, U.S. citizen; Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts; faculty sponsor: B.H. Brinkhuis; working on field and greenhouse culture of a red and brown seaweed for the Marine Biomass Program.

Eric Partch; U.S. citizen; Ph.D. from University of Washington, Seattle; faculty sponsors: Harry Carter and Robert Wilson; working on development of effective procedures for assessing the dispersive characteristics of potential offshore disposal sites.

Mario Vieira; Permanent U.S. Resident; Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University; faculty sponsor: Donald W. Pritchard; working on field and modelling study of the processes of movement, mixing and exchange in the Peconics-Flanders Bay estuarine system and estimation of sinking and dispersal of particles by random advection at D~~-16 from Site D current meter records. Co-authored a paper "Statistical and Diagnostic Analysis of the Vertical Variation in Response of the Residual Currents to Meteorological Forcing in the Middle Reaches of Chesapeake Bay" presented at the Estuarine Research Federation's 7th Biennial International Conference, Virginia Beach, VA.

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3.0 Staff Publications


Bokuniewicz, Henry J.; Associate Professor

"Sediment Partitioning at an Eroding Coastal Bluff", Northeast. Geol., Vol. 5, 1983, pp. 73-81.

"Submarine Borrovv Pits as Containment Sites for Dredged Sediments", Wastes in the Ocean, Wiley Interscience, 1983, pp 215-228.

"Erosion of Long Island's South Shore: A Preliminary Identification and Assessment of Alternative Responses to the Problem", MSRC Special Report~, 1983, 23 pp.

Bowman, Malcolm J.; Associate Professor

"Circulation and Mixing in Greater Cook Strait, Ne'l;v Zealand", Oceanolog. Acta, Vol. 6, 1983, pp. 383-391.

Review of "Introduction to Tides: the Tides of the Waters of New England and New York by A.C. Redfield", EOS, Vol. 62, 1983.

Brinkhuis, B. H.; Assistant Professor

"New York Marine Biomass Program--Biological Studies. Final Rept. 1982-1983 to New York Sea Grant Institute", 1983, 80 pp.

"New York Marine Biomass Program--Culture of Laminaria Saccharina", J. World Mariculture Soc., Vol. 14, 1983.

"Biological Studies in the New York Marine Biomass Program", HcKay (ed.), Seaweed Raft and Farm Designs in The United States and China, 1983, pp. 6-1 to 6-1g:- -- ----

Seaweeds in New York Waters, 1983, New York Sea Grant Institute Publication, Albany, 1983, 21 pp.

Capone, Dou'glas G.; Assistant Professor

Editor, Nitrogen in the Marine Environment, Academic Press, 1983, 900 pp.

"N2~Fixation in Seagrass Communities", Mar. Tech. Soc. ~., Vol. 17, 198j, pp. 32-37.

"Effect of Metals on Mehanogenesis, Sulfate Reduction, Carbon Dioxide Evolution and Hicrobial Biomass in Anoxic Salt Harsh Sediments\!, Appl. Environ. Emicrobiol., Vol. 45, 1983, pp. 1586-1591. ----

"Benthic Nitrogen Fixation", Nitrogen in the Marine Environment, E. J. Carpenter and D. G. Capone (eds.), Academic Press, 1983, pp. 105-137.

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Carpenter, Edward J.; Associate Professor

"Identification and Enumeration of Marine Chroococcoid Cyanobacteria by Immunofluorescence", Applied and Environmental }-ficrobiology, Vol. 46, 1983, pp. 553-559.

"Estimate of Global Marine Nitrogen Fixation by Oscillatoria (Trichodesmium) " , Nitrogen in the Marine Environment, Academic Press, 1983, pp. 65-103.

"Nitrogen Cycling in Near Surface Waters of the Open Ocean", Nitrogen in the Marine Environment, Academic Press, 1983, pp. 487-512.

Editor, Nitrogen in the Marine Environment, Academic Press, 1983, 900 pp.

Carter, Harry H.; Professor

"Maximizing Hard Clam Sets at Specified Locations in Great South Bay by Means of a Larval Dispersion Model", MSRC Special Report 54, 1984, 63 pp.

"On the Estuary as a Filter for Fine-grained Suspended Sediment", The Estuary as ~ Filter (V. S. Kennedy editor), Academic Press, 1984.

Cerrato, Robert E.; Adjunct Assistant Professor

"Benthic Borrow Area Investigations, South Shore of Long Island, Nevl York", MSRC Special Report 51, 1983, 654 pp.

"Effects of a Storm-Induced Breach on the Growth of Mercenaria

mercenaria", Estuaries, Vol. 6, 1983, pp. 308.

Cochran, J. Kirk; Assistant Professor

"L b S d' f h D . . d M b 'I' f 234, 240p d 13'7 oratory tu les 0 t e lagenesls an 0 1 lty 0 U an Cs in Nearshore Sediments", Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 47,

1983, pp. 1369-1379.

"Particle Size Distributions of n-Alkanes and 210pb in Aerosols off the Coast of Peru", Nature, Vol. 304, 1983, pp. 429-432.

"Intercomparison of 210pb Measurements of GEOSECS Station 500 in the Northeast Pacific", Earth and Planetary Sci. Lett., Vol. 65, 1983, pp. 393-404.

,,210po and 210pb Distributions in the Central and Eastern Indian Ocean", Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., Vol. 65, 1983, pp. 433-452.

"Radiometric Determination of the Growth Rate of Nautilus in Nature", Nature, Vol. 308, 1984, pp. 725-727.

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Conover, David 0.; Assistant Professor

"Adaptive Significance of Temperature-dependent Sex Determination in a Fish", American Naturalist, Vol. 123, 1984, pp. 297-313.

Book Review "Stock Concept International Symposium", Q. Rev. BioI., Vol. 58, 1983 pp. 274.

lIField and Laboratory Observations of Spawning Periodicity and Behavior of a Northern Population of the Atlantic Silverside, Menidia menidia (Pisces: Atherinidae) " , Environmental Biology of Fishes, Vol. 10, 1984.

Cosper, Elizabeth M.; Adjunct Assistant Professor

"Phytoplankton-Zooplankton Coupling in Water of the Outer Continental Shelf, Hudson Canyon to Cape Hatteras, June 1979", Est. Coast. Shelf Sci., Vol. 18, 1984, pp. 145-155.

"Viability of Planktonic Diatoms in Surface Sediments of the New York Bight", EOS, Trans., Amer. I. Geophys. Union, Vol. 64, 1984, pp. 1049-1050. -- -

Duguay, Linda; Adjunct Assistant Professor

++ "Comparative Laboratory and Field Studies on Ca Deposition and Carbon Fixation Associated with Algal Endosymbionts", J. Foraminiferal Research, Vol. 13, 1983, pp. 252-261.

Fuhrman, Jed A.; Assistant Professor

"Adaptations of Bacteria to Marine Subsurface Waters Studied by Temperature Response", Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., Vol. 13, 1983, pp. 95-98.

"Close Coupling Between Uptake and Release of P..mino Acids in Seawater", EOS, Vol. 64, 1984, pp. 1095.

"Do Bacteria-sized Marine Eukaryotes Consume Significant Bacterial Production?", Science, Vol. 224, 1984, pp. 1257-1260.

Gerard, Valrie A.; Assistant Professor

"Ecological Observations on a Branched, Loose-lying Form of Macrocystis pyrifera (L.) C. Agardh in New Zealand", Bot. Mar., Vol. 27, 1984, pp. 105-109.

Kirby, James T. Jr.; Assistant Professor

"Propagation of Obliquely Incident Water Waves over a Submerged Trench", J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 133, 1983, pp. 47-63.

"Oblique Envelope Solutions of the Davey-Stewartson Equations in Intermediate Water Depth", Phys . .£i. Fluids, Vol. 26, 1983, pp. 2916-2918.

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"A Parabolic Equation for the Combined Refraction-Diffraction of Stokes Waves bv Mildly Varying Topography", J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 136, 1983, pp. 453-466. --

"A Note on Linear Surface Wave-Current Interaction Over Slowly Varying Topography",~. Geophys. Res., Vol. 89,1984, pp. 745-747.

"Wave Diffraction Due to Areas of Energy Dissipation", J. Waterways, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Vol. 110, 1984, pp~ 67-/9.

"Verification of a Parabolic Equation for Propagation of Weakly Nonlinear Waves", Coastal Engineering, Vol. 8, 1984.

Lopez, Glenn R.; Assistant Professor

"Absorption and Gut P~fsage I~me of Microalgae in a Suspension Feeder: An Evaluation of the Cr: C Twin Tracer Technique", Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., Vol. 17, 1984, pp. 57-64. -- ---

"Feeding Biology of Two Species of Pisidium in Littoral and Profundal Sediments" Lammi Notes (Publication of Lammi Biological Station, University of Helsinki), Vol. 11, 1984, p. 25.

Malouf, Robert E.; Associate Professor

"An Evaluation of Spawner Transplants as a Management Tool in Long Island's Hard Clam Fishery", J. Shellfish Research, Vol. 2, 1984, pp. 165-172.

"Experimental Plantings of Juvenile Hard Clams in the Waters of Long Island, New York", ~. Shellfish Research, Vol. 3, 1984. (in press)

McHugh, J.L.; Professor Emeritus

"Fishery Management ll, Springer-Verlag, 1984, v + 207 pp.

"Jeffersonian Democracy and the Fisheries Revisited", Global Fisheries: Perspectives for the 1980s, Springer-Verlag, 1983, pp. 73-96.

"An Overview of the Hard Clam Resource", Proceedings of a Management Perspective on the Hard Clam Resource in Great South Bay~ To\vu of Islip, 1983,-pp:-3--9-.------

Okubo, Akira; Professor

"Lagrangian Diffusion Equation and its Application to Oceanic Dispersion", ~. Oceanogr. Soc. Japan, Vol. 39, 1983, pp. 259-266.

"Projected Consequences of Dumping Sewage Sludge at a Deep Ocean Site Near New York Bight", Can. ~. Fish. Aquat. Sci., Vol. 40, 1983, pp. 228-241.

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Peterson, William To; Assistant Professor

"Diets and Selective Feeding by Larvae of Atla.ntic Hackeral Scomber scombius on Zooplankton", Har. Ecol. Prog. Ser., Vol. 17, 1984, pp. 65-75. - -- -- -

"Factors Affecting the Elimination of PCBs in the Marine Copepod Acartia tonia", Est. Coastal Shelf Sci., Vol. 17, 1984, pp. 421-430.

Schubel, J.R.; leading Professor

"Erosion of L.I. 's South Shore: A Preliminary Identification and Assessment of Alternative Responses to the Problem", MSRC Special Report 50, 1983, pp. 22.

"Proceedings of the Second Pollutant Transfer by Particulates Workshop", MSRC Special Report 52, 1983, 53 pp.

"On reducing the Need for Haintenance Dredging in the Port of New York and New Jersey", HSRC Special Report 55, 1984, 131 pp. and Appendices A and B.

"On the Estuary as a Filter for Fine-grained Suspended Sediment", The Estuary as ~ Filter eV. S. Kennedy editor), Academic Press, 1984.

Scranton, Mary I.; Assistant Professor

"Gaseous Nitrogen Compounds in the Marine Environmentl!, Nitrogen Compounds in the Harine Environment, Academic Press, 1983, pp. 37-64.

"Hydrogen Cycling in the vJaters Near Bermuda: The Role of the Nitrogen Fixer Oscillatoria thiebautii", Deep Sea Research, Vol. 31, 1984, pp. 133-143.

"Hydrogen Cycling in the Waters Near Bermuda: The Role of the Marine Cyanobacterium Oscillatoria thiebautii", Trans Am. Geophys. Union, Vol. 64, 1983, p. 1085.

"Hydrogen Cycling in Anoxic Environments", Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, Vol. 64, 1984, p. 282.

"Estimates of Relative Strengths of sources of Atmospheric Methane from its Carbon Isotopic Composition", Trans. Am Geophys. Union, Vol. 64, 1983, p. 282.

Wilson, Robert E.; Associate Professor

"Up"Vlelling and the Distribution of Chlorophyll a vTithin the Bay of Concepcion, Chile", Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Vol. 18, 1984, pp. 25-36.

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Woodhead, Peter M. J.; Adjunct Professor

"Assay for Toxicity of Stabilized Coal Combustion Residues in the Sea. I. Toxicity Assays with Cultures of a Marine Diatom", Chapter 24, Wastes in the Ocean, Volume 4, Energy Wastes in the Ocean, Duedall-,-I:-W., Park, P. K., Kester, D. R. an~Ketchum, B. H. (eds) , John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. (in press).

"Assay for Toxicity of Stabtlized Coal Combustion Residues in the Sea. II. Tests with Flouhder Eggs and Larvae, and with Shrimp'l, Chapter 25, Wastes in the Ocean, Volume 4, Energy Wastes in the Ocean, Duedall, I.-W.:-park, P. K., Kester, D. R. and Ketchum, ~~ (eds), John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. (in press). ---

"Biological Colonization of Coal Waste Materials at an Artificial Reef Site, 20 m Deep in the New York Bight", Chapter 26, Volume 4, Energy vTastes in the Ocean, Duedall, I. W., Park, P. K., Kester, D. R. and Ketchum~B:-H. (eds), John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. (in press). ---

"Large Scale Demonstration Coal Waste Artificial Reef", Chapter 22. Wastes in the Ocean, Volume 4, Energy Wastes in the Ocean, Duedall, I. W., Park, P-.-K-:-:-Kester, D. R. and Ketchum, B. H .-(eds), John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. (in press). ---

"Biological Compatability of a Reef of Coal Waste Blocks in the Ocean", Chapter 23, Wastes in the Ocean, Volume 4, Energy Wastes in the Ocean, Duedall, I. W., Par~P. K., Kester, D. R. and Ketchum-,-B. H. (eds) , John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. (in press).

"A New Resource for Recreational Fishing Reef Construction", Ocean '83, Conference Proceedings, Marine Technology Soc. and Inst. of Electronic Engineers, San Francisco, August 1983. (in press).

Wurster, Charles F.; Associate Professor

"Effects of Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Pollutants on Phytoplankton", Estuaries, Vol. 6, 1983, pp. 331.

"Resistance May Be an Important Mechanism by Which Marine Microbes Respond to Environmental Toxicants", Est. Coast. Shelf Sci., Vol. 17, 1983, pp. 573-579.

"Factors Affecting the Elimination of PCBs in the Marine Copepod Acartia tonsa", Est. Coast. Shelf Sci., Vol. 17, 1983, pp. 421-30.

"A Two-species Marine Algal Bioassay for Detecting Aqua.tic Toxicity of Chemical Pollutants", Water Research, Vol. 18, 1984, pp. 187-194.

Zarillo, Gary A.; Assistant Professor

"Impact of Man on a Major River Delta System", 19th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, 1984, Houston, TX.

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ANNUAL REPORT

1983-84

MARINE SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER

PART II

A SUMMARY OF 1983-84 HIGHLIGHTS A~~ A LOOK AHEAD

The Marine Sciences Research Center continues to grow in stature as a center of excellence in coastal oceanographic research, graduate education, and public service. I have pointed this out repeatedly and now have more compelling evidence to substantiate my claims. In the report of our most recent 5-year review completed in December 1982 (report submitted in April 1983) two of the Nation's most distinguished oceanographers l stated:

"The Marine Sciences Research Center is rapidly acqulrlng international stature as one of the very best coastal oceanography 'centers in the world."

While this assessment is gratifying, it only reinforces our goal--to become the international center of excellence in coastal oceanography; in research, in graduate education and in public service. We believe that this goal is an appropriate one for the marine center of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and for the marine center of the largest public university system in the world. Again quoting from McCarthy and Reid's report:

"Its location is excellent. The variety of coastal domains, proximity to a major urban influence, and economic importance of marine resources of the waters in the vicinity of Long Island are uniquely extreme for any comparable stretch of coastline in this country."

The MSRC has been developed carefully to exploit special problems and opportunities of Long Island, New York State, and the Northeast United States. Nowhere in the United States, perhaps in the World, is there a location more ideal than Long Island for development of an

IDr. James J. McCarthy, Aqassiz Professor of Oceanography and Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University; and Professor Robert O. Reid, Chairman of the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&M University.

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international center of excellence in coastal oceanography. The range and variety of natural environments in a limited geographical range is greater than an)~here else in the United States; and the diversity of intensity of the uses that society makes of these environments rival those of any comparable area in the world. These uses and the resulting conflicting demands cause problems, problems which become opportunities for scientists to serve science and society. The opportunities are so numerous and so large that at times they seem insurmountable.

Draw a circle with a radius of 50 miles around the Empire State Building and you account for more than one in every ten residents of the United States. Nearly 7 million people live in Long Island alone, approximately 3 million in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. If Long Island were a State, it would be the 10th most populous state in the United States. If it were a Nation, it would be more populous than 50% of all the Nations in the World today. Not one of those 7 million people lives as much as 10 miles from a coastal marine environment. One can not; not and live on Long Island. Add Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island too and the population jumps to more than 9 million; everyone of whom lives within 10 miles of the coast. For each of these people the Coastal Ocean has a particular significance. New York's Coastal Ocean is a source of food; of recreational and of aesthetic enjoyment; a livelihood; and a place to dispose of wastes. In each of these categories New York is a leader. Let's quickly run through a few of the uses we make of our Coastal Ocean.

o An estimate 40 to 50 million people visit New York's ocean beaches every year. With 80 "beach days" a year, more than 500,000 people enjoy our beaches on an average "beach day."

o Gateway National Park is the Nation's busiest National Park. Last year it received 10.1 million more visitors than Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks combined.

o New York has more than 3,000,000 recreational fisherperson8; about half are marine. They spend about $250,000,000 every year in pursuit of their avocation, not counting what they spend only to Florida in the value of its recreational fisheries.

o New York has more than 400,000 registered pleasure boats and an estimated 150,000 unregistered boats; many of these are used primarily in marine waters.

o Long Island's recreational industry is valued at more than 2.5 billion dollars a year. Most is marine-related.

o New York State has between 13,000 and 14,000 commercial fishermen, nearly all of whom are marine fishermen. The aggregate value of the fish at the dock is estimated at more than $45,000,000 a year.

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o Long Island is the birthplace of aquaculture in the United States with activities dating back to the early 1800's.

o One small, shallow estuary along the south shore of Long Island--Great South Bay--during the 1970's produced more than 50% of the Nation's total harvest of hard clams, employing, more than 6,000 people at its peak. Even today the industry has an aggregate value of more than $100,000,000 per year when all the multipliers are applied. Although now in serious trouble, the hard clam fishery remains a major industry.

o The Port of New York and New Jersey is one of the World's most important ports. In terms of total value of cargo handled, it ranks first among all United States ports. In terms of tonnage of cargo handled, it ranks second behind New Orleans.

o To maintain the Port's channels, some 8 to 10 million cubic yards of material must be dredged each year. Most of this has been dumped in the New York Bight Apex. About 10% of the total volume of material dredged in "polluted" and fails to pass the criteria for ocean disposal. Alternative disposal sites and strategies must be found if the operation of the Port is not to be adversely affected.

o The only economic source of sand for the New York metropolitan area for fill and construction aggregate is submerged beneath the sea--below the sea floor of the Lower Bay of New York Harbor and the adjacent continental shelf. Historically, the Lower Bay of New York Harbor has been the World's largest open-pit sand mine.

o While Long Island only has about 0.6% of the Nation's total shoreline, it has more than 10% of that part of the total which has been designated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as having "critical erosion problems.!:

o Pow"er Plants located on Ne,,;v York's coastal marine waters tvithdraw more than 9 million gallons of water every minute, pass them and the small organisms they entrain through condensers and return them to the environment at elevated temperatures.

o More than 70% of all sewage sludge barged to the ocean by the entire United States is dumped in the New York Bight Apex. The amount of sewage sludge dumped into the ocean off Netv York probably will increase over the next decade, although it may be dumped further seaward.

The list goes on and on, but the point is clear. We Ne\v Yorkers make extremely varied and intense uses of our coastal marine environments. It also is clear that these multiple uses make conflicting demands on our Coastal Ocean and that those demands cause problems. These problems become opportunities for marine scientists to serve science and society. It was in response to these problems and opportunities that the Marine Sciences Research Center (MSRC) was

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created as a SUNY-wide center by a resolution of the SUNY Board of Trustees in 1965. The first appointments to the Marine Sciences Research Center (MSRC) were made in 1968. This year the MSRC celebrates its 16th birthday. By all accounts, the MSRC is an adolescent; an institution in its formative years. But over that brief span of 16 years the MSRC has achieved a remarkable degree of distinction among oceanographic institutions. Much of that success is attributable to its special character which has been planned and nurtured carefully to fill a niche of enormous importance to New York and the Nation, and one which takes full advantage of Long Island's special qualities.

One feature that distinguishes the MSRC from most of the Nation's other leading oceanographic institutions is its clear and persistent focus on the Coastal Ocean, from approximately the outer edge of the continental shelf inland to the last traces of sea salt. The Coastal Ocean is the part of the World Ocean with which people have their most intimate contact and upon which they have their greatest impact. It also is the part of the World Ocean that has been neglected by most oceanographers and by most oceanographic institutions. Problems are more complex than in the deep sea, solutions less tidy. And for many the romance of the deep sea, the so-called "blue ocean", is missing. Not so for those who work and study at the MSRC. It is in the Coastal Ocean where they have elected to make their contributions to science and to society. The MSRC is the only comprehensive coastal oceanographic center in New York, and indeed the only one in the entire northeast United States. It is one of only a handful of such institutions in the country.

A second feature that distinguishes the MSRC from other oceanographic institutions, coastal and deep sea, is its commitment to the timely translation of advances in science and technology into forms that can be applied readily by decision makers to resolve complex environmental problems.

The MSRC has grown over the past 16 years from a small Organized Research unit into a comprehensive coastal oceanographic research center with a staff of approximately 100 and an annual budget of nearly $4,000,000. It has developed from an Organized Research unit with no educational mandate into a Center '\;vi th programs leading to the degrees of Masters of Science and Doctor of Philosophy which enroll nearly 100 students. Students come from around the world to study at the MSRC. Over the past five years students have come from every continent except Antarctica.

More than 95% of the Center's graduate students are supported, and more than 80% of their support comes from non-State sources, primarily grants and contracts. Most work on problems of direct importance to New York.

Over that past decade the Center's sponsored research budget has increased by nearly ten-fold; from less than $300,000 in 1972 to more than $2,200,000 in 1982. The Center has a broad funding base with sponsored research support from international bodies, private foundations, regional institutions, counties and municipalities,

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states, and from every federal agency that supports research in the marine sciences.

Not only is the goal to establish the MSRC as the international center of excellence in coastal oceanography an appropriate one; it is an attainable one with only a modest infusion of new resources. I would venture that no other unit of the University--perh2ps of the system--offers a comparable opportunity for attainment of international pre-eminence for such a small investment. I have outlined my estimates of those resources in other documents and elsewhere in this report. I repeat them here for emphasis.

4 6 - 1 I' 1 to tacu ty lnes 3 to 5 support lines 4 to 6 TAIGA lines $500,000 in equipment support, primarily for a mid-size computer

With these resources the MSRC would be transformed swiftly and surely into the International center of excellence in coastal oceanography.

MSRC is still small. Its faculty numbered only 24 at the end of the 1983-84 AY. The present faculty of 24 is a modest number for the faculty of an oceanographic center that is truly interdisciplinary in character, particularly to the center for the entire SUNY system. [The University of Delaware~College of Marine Studies has a full-time, tenure-track faculty of 28. The University of Rhode Island's School of Oceanography has a full-time, state-funded faculty of 31, Scripps Institution of Oceanography has >50. The University of Maryland's Center for Estuarine and Environmental Studies has a faculty of 36.] Only by focussing its resources in a single unit--the Marine Sciences Research Center--and by that unit focussing its attention on the Coastal Ocean has SUNY been able to achieve a program of distinction in the marine sciences with a modest investment of resources.

In our most recent 5-year review, the reviewers stated: "Compared to other departments of marine sciences within university systems, MSRC has relatively little base support from the parent body.

There are several important areas of coastal studies unrepresented within the MSRC, areas where the addition of one, or two, new faculty members would permit us to take advantage of unusual opportunities. Such areas are water quality modelling and fishery management. Other areas are under-represented. But our most critical need is for additional technical support and secretarial lines.

Changes in personnel resources over the past eight years are summarized in Table 1 and OTP support in Table 2 and 3.

1These are adjusted from previous estimates to account for existing commitments.

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Table 1. Summary of MSRC Personnel Resources, 1975-'84

Academic Year

No. Faculty Lines 1975-'76 1976-'77 1977-'78 1978-'79 1979-'80 1980-'81 1981-'82 1982-'83 1983-'84

O.R. 8 8 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 I. & D. R. 4 4 4 4 5 6 8 11 12 Sea Grant 1 1 1* 17~i~** 1 IFR Recharge --- 1** 3**-;~ 1****-;>

Total 12 12 14 15 16 17 21 22 24

No. NTP Lines 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

No. SG Lines 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5

* The agreement between SUSB and N.Y. Sea Grant Institute called for SUSB to assume fiscal responsibility for the position after the first 3 years through assignment of a new faculty line to MSRC. This has been accomplished.

** To fill a critical faculty need in our academic program we proposed to the AVP in 1980 that we would fund a new faculty line 100% during the first year and 50% during the second year, if SUSB would pick it up in the third year with assignment of a new line to MSRC. The proposal was accepted, a new faculty member was hired, and a line was provided to MSRC for the 1982-83 AY.

*** Two new faculty members were hired on the IFR account in 1981 and were transferred to the I&DR budget in 1982-83. We proposed to the Administration that the line vacated when Dr. J. L. McHugh retired in June 1982 be split into two assistant professor lines. The Administration agreed with this strategy and split occurred September 1982. The third person on the IFR was the faculty TIlember supported 50% MSRC - 50% SUSB and became 100% SUSB effective September 1982.

**** The agreement between SUSB and N.Y. Sea Grant Institute calls for 100% funding by Sea Grant 1982-83, 67% Sea Grant/33% SUSB 1983-84, 33% Sea Grant/67% SUSB 1984-85, and 100% SUSB thereafter. This line supports a specialist in marine phycology.

MSRC has suffered a net loss in OTP resources over this same ten year period. These are summarized in Table 2 and in more detail in Table 3.

~","*** One new faculty member was hired on the IFR account in 1983 with the understandjng the Administration would provide 25% funding 1984, 50% funding 1985, 75% funding 1986 and 100% funding thereafter.

Source

O.R. I. & D.R.

Total

O.R.

Temp. Servo S. & E. Recharge

Totals

1975-'76

$73,338 5,000

$78,338

1975-'76

$ 3,500 35,238 34,600

$73,338

1976-'77

$73,030 3,600

$76,630

1976-'77

$ 4,380 25,200 33,450

$73,030

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Table 2. Summary of OTP Support, 1975-' Rtf

1977-'78

$77,800 2,600

$80,400

Table 3.

1977-'78

$ 4,000 45,200 28,600

$77,800

1978-'79

$78,060 3,850

$81,910

Academic Year

1979-'80

$75,740 3,500

$79,240

1980-'81

$80,500 11,500

$92,000

Summary of OTP Support, 1975-'84

1978-'79 1979-'80 1980-'81 -

$ 4,500* $ 5,000* $ 6,300"' 42,700 42,700 44,900 30,860 28,040 29,300

$78,060 $75,740 $80,500

*exc1udes TS positions funded by and for Sea Grant

I. & D. R.

Temp. Servo $ 500 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 S. & E. 4,400 3,500 2,500 3,500 3,500 7,500 Recharge 100 100 100 350 3,700 4,000 ----

Totals $ 5,000 $ 3,600 $ 2,600 $ 3,850 $ 7,200 $11,500

1981-'82

$81,450 11,850

$93,300

1981-'82

$ 6,500* 47,700 27,250

$81,450

$ 0 7,500 4,350

$11,850

1982-'83

$77,400 10,800

$88,200

1982-'83

$ 7,200 47,200 30,200

$84,600

$ 0 7,300 3,500

$10,800

1983-'84

$83,400 10,400

$93,800

1983-'84

$ 7,200 50,600 32,800

$90,600

$ 0 8,000 2,400

$10,400

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Over the past ten years our extramural funding of sponsored research has increased about a factor of ten and continued growth is anticipated.

During the 1982-83 AY the MSRC initiated t,vo important ne"l programs: The Coastal Harine Scholar Progr8.m and the Distinguished Vi.siting Scholar Program. Both programs were funded with State support. Within three years we expect both to be funded from private sources.

o Coastal Marine Scholar Program

The Coastal Marine Scholar program is designed to bring to the MSRC each year two exceedingly bright and creative, young coastal marine scientists fresh from their Ph.D.'s. The terms of their appointments as postdoctoral fellows will be limited to three years. Candidates are identified through aggressive international searches. The primary criterion in selecting Coastal Marine Scholars is evidence of outstanding scholarship and potential for major breakthroughs. The secondary criterion in selecting Scholars is evidence of research interests that complement those of the MSRC's faculty. Scholars shall be entirely free to pursue their own research interests but the presence of other scholars who share those interests is desirable. Each Scholar receives his/her academic year support from the Center. Summer support comes from members of the faculty who sponsor the Scholar.

The Scholars appointed during the past two years are listed

Dr. James E. Eckman 1 , 1982, Ph.D. University of Washington, Marine Benthic Ecology; animal flow interactions.

Dr. Sarah G. Horrigan2 , 1982, Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Microbial Ecology; nutrient cycling.

Dr. M. Carmela Cuomo, 1984, Ph.D. Yale University, Benthic chemistry and larval ecology.

Dr. William C. Dennison, 1984, Ph.D. University of Chicago, Influence of sediment chemistry on seagrass growth rates.

o Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program

The Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program is designed to bring to the MSRC each year for periods of one to two weeks each, a small number (4-6) scholars with international reputations of distinction.

The scholars may come from any field, from any institution, from anywhere in the world. The one quality each must have is a distinguished record of scholarly achievement. Potential will not do.

lDr. Eckman will join the faculty of the University of Georgia's Skidaway Institute of Oceanography in September 1984.

2Dr . Horrigan 'viII join the f acul ty of MSRC in September 1984.

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Nominations for Distinguished Visiting Scholars are sought from everyone within the MSRC. Final selection is made by the Distinguished Visiting Scholar Committee composed of faculty, staff, and graduate students. Each Distinguished Visiting Scholar has at least two hosts--at least one member of the faculty, and one, or more, graduate students. The hosts are responsible for coordinating the visit, for scheduling academic and social events, and for ensuring that the Distinguished Visiting Scholar and the MSRC benefit from the visit. Each Scholar is expected to present at least two seminars in his/her specialty, one general lecture, and be available for consultation. In practice most did much more than this.

The Distinguished Visiting Scholars for the past two years, their fields and their home institutions are listed below.

1982-83 AY

Faroouq Azam (microbial ecology), Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Sallie W. Chisholm (phytoplankton ecology), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Joel C. Goldman (phytoplankton ecology), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Ronald A. Heath (physical oceanography), New Zealand Oceanographic Institute.

Paul H. LeBlond (physical oceanography), University of British Columbia.

Kenneth H. Mann (marine ecology), Dalhousie University. Peter J. LeB. Williams (microbial ecology), Southampton

University.

1983-84 AY

Robert Aller (biogeochemistry), University of Chicago. Brian L. Bayne, Institute for Marine Environmenta] Resources,

Plymouth, England. Kenneth Bowden (physical oceanography), University of Liverpool. Edward A. Boyle (chemical oceanography), Massachusetts Institute

of Technology. Simon A. Levin (mathematics ecology), Cornell University. Tom Fenchel (microbial ecology), Aarhus University. Lawrence Mysak (physical oceanography), University of British

Columbia. Leonard Pietrafesa (physical oceanography), North Carolina State

University. Mary Wilcox Silver (pelagic ecology), University of California. John Simpson (physical oceanography), University College of North

Wales, Menai Bridge, U.K. L. Don Wright (physical oceanography), Virginia Institute of

Harine Science.

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The Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program is supported in part by the MSRC Associates.

RESEARCH

The continuing effort to generate outside support for the research and instructional programs of the MSRC has brought in more sponsored funding than ever before. Based on Research Foundation reports, for the third year in a row the annual MSRC sponsored research e2~penditures have exceeded $2,000,000. At present MSRC investigators hold more than fifty active sponsored research grants and contracts with a total value exceeding $4.5 million. This represents an average of over $200,000 per state-funded faculty position at MSRC.

Figure 1 illustrates the growth of sponsored funding at MSRC over the last 10 years.

The research of the MSRC is of several kinds. Most is of the traditional mode. Individual scientists pursue their own interests by securing support for their research through conventional funding mechanisms. MSRC scientists have been enormously successful in these ventures bringing in more than $3.00 for every $1.00 they receive in faculty salaries from the State. This activity is at the heart of the MSRC's development as a center of excellence in coastal oceanography, but it is not enough. As an Organized Research unit of a public university--a public service institution--the Center has an obligation to maintain a good match between society's problems--real and perceived--and the programs it conducts. In the traditional mode where individual researchers pursue their own interests, the problem solves select the problems. To maintain consistently a good match between society's problems and the problem solvers, the problems must playa role in "selecting" the problem solvers. The Center has developed several mechanisms to ensure maintenance of an appropriate match.

In December 1980, the M.SRC signed a Cooperative Agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which calls for the MSRC to take a national leadership role in designing and conducting coastal oceanographic research programs, in translating research results into forms readily usable by decision makers, and in developing strategies to ensure multiple-usage of the Coastal Ocean with predictable and acceptable impacts on the environment, on its living marine resources, and on the spectrum of uses society chooses to make of the Coastal Ocean.

The MSRC does not take advocacy positions on environmental questions. It sticks to what it does best---science. Put it constantly searches for ways to use science to serve society by improving the effectiveness with which advances in science and technology can be factored into environmental decision making. The Nation's record in this regard has been poor. There are many reasons for this. In part it is the fault of the scientist for failing to cast the results of research into forms that can be used readily by decision makers. In part it is the fault of the decision maker for

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failing to insist upon an identification and analysis of the full range of management alternatives before setting policy. In part it is because the problems are so complex. In part it is because the data and information are so numerous, so widely dispersed and often in forms nearly impossible to utilize in any sensible way on time scales appropriate to the decision maker. Recent examples of MSRC's efforts to improve the situation are described briefly.

In 1982 the MSRC initiated wi th support from the ~'!illiam H. Donner Foundation a new program--the Coastal Ocean Science and Hanagement Alternatives (COSMA) Program--to expand and institutionalize the Center's already extensive activities in using science to assist decision makers. The program concentrates on developing and evaluating new and more effective tools and techniques for using scientific data and information in environmental management. COSMA also will undertake a series of projects, each an important interdisciplinary problem of at least regional interest. Problems to be investigated through COSMA must be approved by an Advisory Board. Once a problem has been selected a project director is appointed and working groups selected with representatives from each of the disciplines required for a rigorous, interdisciplinary analysis. Often this will require that COSMA draws upon the full force of the SUNY system--a role appropriate for a SUNY-wide center. The working group is charged with responsibility for identifying the full range of plausible management alternatives and for assessing the public health, environmental, ecological, economic and socio-political impacts associated with each alternative. Finally, the results of the analysis are cast in forms that facilitate appropriate comparisons B.nd in terms that are readily usable by .decision makers.

MSRC scientists have completed an assessment of dredging and dredged material disposal alternatives for the Port of Nevl York and New Jersey and a study of shore erosion of Long Island's south shore through COSMA.

At the request and with the support of Suffolk County, we have undertaken through COSMA a study of the management alternatives to rehabilitate and sustain Suffolk County's hard clam fishery. COS}ili is responsible for making a rigorous technical assessment of the full range of management alternatives--singly and in different combinations--and for casting the results of this analysis into forms which can be used to develop a comprehensive management plan. The Long Island Regional Planning Board will be responsible for developing the management plan; MSRC scientists will collaborate.

To improve the interface between the environmental sciences and decision making, we have been developing microcomputer based information systems. A system, developed with funding from the National Oceanographic Data Center and the ~\filliam H. Donner Foundation deals with the Port of New York and New Jersey. The information is organized in over 50 worksheet files using the Lotus 1-2-3 applications program. Information on the waters of the Port and its shores are retrieved using menus implemented as Lotus 1-2-3 macro instructions. The user can obtain the characteristics of a particular

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location in the Port or can identify all segments of the Port that have specified characteristics. The tidal dispersal of pollutants in the Port can be modeled using one of the worksheets. The system is accompanied by an atlas that defines the linear coordinates used for indexing the shores and the waterways.

We are currently developing a modified version of the system to support the permitting needs of the New York District of the Army Corps of Engineers. This system uses the recently developed Lotus Symphony program to search a set of files for potential conflicts that could arise from granting the permit. Once the coordinates of the proposed projects have been entered, the system provides a printout that identifies adjacent cultural resources in the National Register of Historic Places, critical wildlife and natural areas and other pertinent information. Following the demonstration of a portotype we expect to develop an operational system covering the entire coastal area of the New York District.

With funding from the Maritime Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, we are completing an Information system for the Port of New Orleans and its connections with the Gulf of Mexico. Our first demonstratio~ of the system was held at Dillard University of New Orleans. A final demonstration of the New Orleans System is planned for October 1984. We are assisting Dillard University in their development of computerized information systems for Regional Response Teams, under the supervision of the U.S. Coast Guard, to deal with oil spills and other Port emergencies.

In 1982 the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) designated the MSRC as their coastal oceanographic Data Development Facility and charged it with leadership in developing and testing mechanisms to facilitate the use of oceanographic data and information in environmental decision making that affects the Coastal Ocean. Initial efforts carried out in collaboration with COSl'f.A have concentrated on exploiting the power, simplicity, and availability of the personal computer as a tool to facilitate decision making. This past year the MSRC has been developing a computer-assisted data and information system for the Port of New York and New Jersey using personal computer. Within the past few months it was asked by the Federal Maritime Administration to develop a similar system for the Port of New Orleans.

The MSRC responds to crises when they occur. Examples are the anoxia event in the New York Bight in the summer of 1976 and the breaching of the barrier island at Moriches by a winter storm in 1980. But, the MSRC plays a more important role, one which perhaps only universities and a small number of private and national research laboratories can fulfill: to identify potential problems, lorg before they become crises, while they are still at a stage that Herman Helville would have called "loomings"--indistinct images on the horizon. And having identified a "Looming," design an appropriate research program; secure the necessary funding; carry out the research and cast the results of that research into forms readily usable by decision makers to prevent the "Looming" from becoming a crises. The role is that of a problem averter. It is akin to the practice of

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environmental preventive medicine, and it is a. practice that receives considerable attention within the MSRC.

The recent (June) National Academy of Sciences report on acid rain coupled with the likelihood of early and recurrent oil crises suggest strongly that the Nation's air quality standards and criteria will be made more stringent and that our dependency on coal will increase substantially in the near future. A result will be the production of enormous volumes of coal wastes--fly ash and scrubber wastes--which we will have to dispose in an environmentally acceptable manner. Because of research started seven years ago by MSRC scientists, a potential waste disposal crises for Long Island fer many other coastal areas throughout the World can be averted.

In 1976 MSRC scientists anticipated that the Country would run short of oil in the 1980's, that many oil-fired power plants would convert to coal and that coastal areas could have serious problems disposing of the resulting coal wastes--fly ash and scrubber wastes--as raw waste products. The Center proposed combining the fly ash (fine-grained powder) and the calcium sulfate scrubber waste (which has the consistency of toothpaste) with additives to produce stabilized blocks and to test their suitability as construction materials for artificial reefs. The first tasks were to determine whether stable blocks could be produced and whether contaminants would be leached from them. Technology was developed to produce stable blocks for a range of waste components and curing conditions. Extensive laboratory tests showed that water forced through the blocks under pressure did not purge contaminants from the blocks. The blocks locked up contaminants far better than we had expected. The next step was to determine whether organisms would settle and grow on and in the blocks in nature and whether these organisms would take up contaminants. In 1977 a small experimental reef of stabilized coal waste blocks was placed in an estuary near the University. Control reefs made of concrete blocks and natural rocks were constructed nearby. Three years of monitoring demonstrated that the coal waste blocks supported a lush growth of plants and animals, as abundant and diverse as the flora and fauna on the concrete blocks and of the rocks and that these organisms were not enriched in contaminants. The final test was to demonstrate the feasibility of transferring the block making technology to the factory floor and then to construct a large reef composed of 500 tons of coal wastes as 18,000 blocks, each the size of a standard concrete block, in the ocean. The reef was constructed on 12 September 1980 in the Atlantic Ocean in 70 feet of water about 4 miles southeast of Fire Island Inlet on Long Island's south shore. Governor Hugh L. Carey, New York State Energy Research Development Authority Commissioner James La Rocca and Stony Brook President John H. Marburger threw over the first block. An extensive research and monitoring program of this reef has demonstrated that blocks made of stabilized coal wastes not only is an environmentally acceptable method for disposal of coal wastes, but that it can enhance our uses of the environment for recreational fishing. Small experimental reefs have been constructed in Chesapeake Bay and Lake Ontario by MSRC's scientists working in collaboration with local institutions. The waste disposal strategy now has been tested in

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fresh water, brackish water and full sea water and with support from appropriate State and Federal regulatory agencies and management agencies. A film--"To Build A Reef, the C-WARP Project"--is available that describes the development and findings of the Center 1 s Coal Waste Artificial Reef Project.

Because of the unusual ability of stabilized coal wastes to "lock-up" contaminants, HSRC scientists now are stabilizipg sewage sludge and some industrial wastes with coal wastes and conducting extensive tests in the laboratory to determine whether they could be disposed of safely in that form.

Through the New York Sea Grant Institute's Harine Biomass Program MSRC researchers are investigating the feasibility of developing commercial seaweed "energy farms" in the coastal waters of New York. This project is an important part of the over-all plan to reduce dependency on foreign sources for our energy needs. On an energy farm, seaweeds would be cultivated, harvested and then fermented to produce methane, alcohol, or natural gas. Growth rates of nine major species of local seaweed were determined in tank cultures at the Flax Pond Laboratory's greenhouse. Based on their seasonal growth patterns, chemical composition, and digestibility, three or four species have been selected as the most attractive candidates for biomass farms. The biology of these species are being studied in greater detail and faster growing, hardier strains will be developed. Preliminary work has been conducted with cultivating these seaw"eeds offshore in small raft-like structures. MSRC biologists are working with SUSB engineers on an experimental test farm that will be deployed in Long Island Sound this Fall to investigate the economic feasibility of large-scale marine biomass farms.

In January 1980 the barrier island along Long Island's south shore was breached near Moriches by a winter storm. That day MSRC received a call for help from Suffolk County Executive Peter Cohalan. The following day MSRC scientists began to install instruments in Moriches Bay to assess the effects of the breach on flooding of coastal areas, on salinity levels within Moriches Bay, and on how the increases in salinity would affect hard clams and other living marine resources in the back bay area. They also took a longer view of the problem. The 1980 breach at Moriches was not the first time Long Island's barrier island had been breached, and it would not be the last. There was a need tor a predictive tool which decision makers could use to arrive quickly at a decision whether-or-not to repair a breach. Quick action could save enormous amounts of soft money. Such a predictive tool has been developed. It is a computer model \vhich simulates the hydraulics of Moriches Bay and Inlet. This model can be used to determine the probable environmental impact of any future breach of the barrier island, not only for Moriches Bay, but also for the other bays along Long Island's south shore. Concurrent biological studies demonstrated that subtle changes in salinity of the Bay which might result from such a breach are reflected by a change in the patterns of diurnal, and longer period growth rings in clam shells.

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One of the most crucial problems facing the Nation's ports--large and small--concerns the management of dredging and disposal operations. The persistent shoaling of navigation channels makes dredging imperative in order to maintain navigable waterways for commerce and recreation, but the disposal of dredged sediment can be especially troublesome if the sediments are contaminated.

Subaqueous burial of dredged sediment beneath the sea floor may be one way to better isolate and contain contaminated sediments as well as to restore the disposal site to its original condition. Such a project has never been done, but MSRC biologists, geochemists and geologists have collaborated to show that the technology is available to construct a deposit of dredged sediment in a pit and to cover the deposit with sand to reclaim the sandy sea floor at the site. They have designed such a research project for New York Harbor. The first stage of the operation has been completed successfully.

MSRC scientists designed at the request of the New York Sea Grant Institute a comprehensive plan for an interdisciplinary study of the Great South Bay. When the study was designed in 1978 the objective was to improve our understanding of the processes that made the Great South Bay the World's most productive hard clam factory and to make that knowledge available to decision makers in forms appropriate for development of strategies to conserve this important resource and industry. By the time the study had begun, the objective had shifted to acquiring this knowledge to rehabilitate a fishery that was in serious trouble. Over the past 5 years, more than $800,000 have been provided through the New York Sea Grant Institute, and more than $1 million in all, for this important study. Most of the research has been carried out by scientists at the MSRC. The results of the numerous scientific projects, many of which have been published in scientific journals, now are being integrated into a book for broader audiences. Many of the findings already have been integrated into management strategies by the towns, the county and the State to rehabilitate the hard clam fishery.

The MSRC's close and effective partnership with the New York Sea Grant Institute has played a key role in the development of the MSRC as a comprehensive center of excellence in coastal oceanography and, as a result, in its ability to respond effectively to New York's problems and opportunities. It was through Sea Grant's professorship program that the HSRC vias able to initiate new programs in shellfish biology and seaweed mariculture. It was through the New York Sea Grant Institute's ability to respond quickly and its willingness to invest in high risk research with potentially high payoff that the MSRC has been able to launch a number of its most important projects; projects which have developed into large, mUlti-year interdisciplinary studies with substantial support from several agencies. These include the Coal Waste Artificial Reef Project (C-WARP), the Marine Biomass Project, the Great South Bay Study, and a study to assess the feasibility of combining sand mining and waste disposal.

The MSRC is working with the New York Sea Grant Institute to establish within the Center an aquaculture and fisheries experiment

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station--the first in the Nation! The station could play enormously important roles in stimulating one of New York's most promising high technology, growth industries--aquaculture--and in revitalizing ar.d stabilizing its important fisheries and in developing new fisheries. The Experiment Station would have programs of research, education, and public service and would have a diagnostic facility which would be an activity of the Veterinary College of Cornell University.

While the geographical focus of the CenterTs research activities is New York's coastal waters, the MSRC's faculty, students and staff work in coastal environments throughout the 1"Torld. The MSRC has worked with developing countries to plan for the orderly development and conservation of their important coastal areas in ways that are consistent with their economic priorities. It has worked with developed countries to conserve, and when necessary, to rehabilitate important coastal areas. As a result of its activities here and abroad, the ~cronym MSRC has come to stand not only for the Marine Sciences Research Center, but also for the center that is ~aking Scientific Research Count.

EDUCATION

Graduate Programs

t1SRC's graduate programs continue to grow in size and in stature. Enrollments during the 1980-81 AY, the 1981-82 AY, and the 1982-83 AY are summarized below:

AY 1980-81 1981-82 1982-83 1983-84

M.S. Program Full-time Students 61 62 69 70 Part-time Students 16 20 14 9

Ph.D. Program Full-time Students 13 2] 22 22 Part-time Students 2 6 4 5

Quality of students as measured by GRE's) grade point averages, and letters of recommendation continue to show improvement and the MSRC's students now rank among SUSB's best entering graduate students. Twenty-two students received the M.S. degree in Marine Environmental Sciences during the 1982-83 academic year. On June 1983, we had a total of 83 full-time and 10 part-time students enrolled in the MES and Coastal Oceanography programs.

Jessie Smith-Noyes Fellowship Program

The MSRC 1 s Jessie Smith Fellowship Program has been established as a prestigious program for students in the marine sciences. Noyes Fellowships are used to support outstanding young scholars working on important environmental problems of the coastal zone. The stipends are the highest at SUSB. The award provides full support for two graduate students at $9,500 each for the calendar year. The MSRC has

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had support from the Noyes Foundation for more than twice their normal period of giving. We are now seeking a replacement to insure continuation of a privately sponsored fellowship program of distinction.

During the 1983-84 AY the Center's Jessie Smith-Noyes Fellowship Program supported in full two pre-doctoral graduate students, Hans Dam and James Mitchell.

Mr. Dam received his B.S. in Oceanography from the University of Washington in 1982. tVhile an undergraduate he completed a comparative study of nearshore and open 'vater coastal zooplankton assemblages. A scholarship awarded by the Venezuelan government supported his undergraduate studies. He entered the M.S. program at Stony Brook in 1982, and is working toward the degree with a study of fine-scale patchiness in the zooplankton of Long Island Sound. As a result of his work he has recently submitted a report on vertical and horizontal coupling betw"een plankton patches. Mr. Dam has received a Sigma Xi award for his research.

Mr. Mitchell graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1980 with a B.A. in Biology. While he was an undergraduate a U.C. President's Undergraduate Fellowship award supported his independent research on the ecology of Antarctic paleo-oceanography as inferred from cysts of nannoplanktonic flagellates. His undergraduate and graduate research led to ten papers in refereed journals. Mr. Mitchell came to Stony Brook in 1982. Be is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree with a study of the microzones of nutrient enrichment which occur around individual marine organisms.

Two Graduate Student Award Program

MSRC continued two graduate student award programs with support from private sources. One, the Steinberg-Squires Award is a $200 prize awarded annually for the best thesis by an HSRC graduate student. The other, the Montauk Marine Basin Scholarship carries a $1,000 award to a graduate student in support of his/her research of a particular importance to Long Island. High risk projects with great potential payoff to Long Island are favored. Support for the 1982--83 AY has been secured.

Year Name

1983 Edward Ambrogio

1983 Rochelle Araujo

1983 Seth J. Ausubel

1983 Howard Barton III

1983 Ann Elisabeth Bass

1983 Lisa Campbell

1983 I-Juinn Cheng

1983 Brian T. Duncan

1983 Thomas Edwards

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DEGREES GRANTED 1983-1984 AY

Students Receiving Master of Science Degrees, Titles of Theses, and Chairpersons of Supervisory Committees

Advisor

Robert M. Cerrato

Iver W. Duedall

William T. Peterson

B.H. Brinkhuis

Robert E. Malouf

Edward J. Carpenter

Glenn R. Lopez

Charles F. Wurster

Peter M.J. Woodhead

Thesis Title

Animal-sediment relationships along the South Shore of Long Island, NY.

Seasonal vertical distribution of trace metals in the Central Bay of Concepcion, Chile.

Distribution, abundance and feeding of the eggs and larvae of Atlantic Mackeral (scomber scombius L).

Nitrogen uptake and translocation by eelgrass -(Zostera marina).

Growth of hard clams, Mercenaria mercenaria, feeding on chlorophyte and cyanobacterial picoplankton.

Identification and enumeration of marine chroococcoid cyanobacteria by immanofluorescence.

The feeding behavior of nucula annulata and proxima (bivalvia; nuculidae).

The development of resistance to PCB by marine phytoplankton.

Dissolution processes of stabilized coal wnste on fresh water and in seawater.

1983 Walter P. Fitzpatrick III B.H. Brinkhuis Seasonal variation of trace metal levels in polychaete worms in New York harbor.

1983 Mark H. Fleisher

1983 Nancy Eunice Helm

1983 Jeffrey H. Overton

David o. Conover The temperature-sensitive peri of of sex determination in Menidia menidia.

Robert E. Malouf The formation of growth breaks and incremental ridges in the shell of the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians.

Henry J. Bokuniewicz A process to select options for productive use disposal of dredged material.

1983

1983

1983

1983

1983

1983

1983

1984

1984

1984

1984

1984

1984

1984

1984

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Students Receiving Master of Science Degrees, Titles of Theses, and Chairpersons of Supervisory Committees

Shaun M. Schneier

Suzanne E. Schrey

Harvey Simon

Elizabeth Turner

Thomas C. Wilson

Nobuyuki Yamamoto

John M. Zimmerman

Sergio G. Andrade

Eric Boampong

Suzanne B. Demond

Ronald P. Kiene

Amy Beth Knutson

Doreen M. Monteleone

Eugene C. Revelas

David S. Ullman

Peter K. Weyl

Edward J. Carpenter

William T. Peterson

Robert M. Cerrato

B.H. Brinkhuis

Glenn R. Lopez

Peter K. Weyl

B.H. Brinkhuis

William T. Peterson

David O. Conover

Douglas G. Capone

Robert E. Nalouf

William T. Peterson

Robert N. Cerrato

Robert E. Wilson

The development of space specific coastal land information files for a microcomputer decision assistance system.

The abundance and distribution of the toxic dinoflagellate Gonyaulax tamarensis in Long Island estuaries.

Management alternatives for the spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) fishery of the Turks and Caicos Islands, B.W.I.

Effects of a storm-inducted breach on Nercenaria mercenaria in Moriches Bay.

Sulfate reduction and anaerobic decomposition associated with the seagrass Zostera marina.

Bacterial abundance in relation to surface area and organic content of sediments.

A microcomputer based information retrieval system for coastal zone management.

First order analytical growth model of Laminaria saccharina with realistic dependence on seasonal factors.

Abundance and Distribution of Eggs and Early Larvae of Bay Anchovy, Anchoa Mitchilli in Long Island Sound and Controlling Environmental Factors.

Temperature-dependent sex determination in Cyprinodon variegatus and Fundulus heteroclitus.

Effects of organic pollutants on sulfate reduction and methanogenesis in salt marsh sediments.

Sediment as a source of trace metals to the bivalve Mercenaria mercenaria

Year to year variations in abundance and feeding ecology of sand lance, Ammodytes americanus, larvae in Long Island

Sound, New York. The burrowing behavior of the hard clam, Nercenaria

mercenariao Subinertial current oscillations in western Long Island

Sound.

Year Name

1983 Stephen M. Chiswell

1984 V. Monica Bricelj

1984 Mary C. Gibbons

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COASTAL OCEANOGRAPHY PROGRAM

Advisor

Malcolm J. Bowman

Robert E. Malouf

Robert E. Malouf

Dissertation Title

Vorticity and upwelling near an isolated feature on the continental shelf.

Effects of suspended sediments on the feeding physiology and growth of the hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria.

Some aspects of predation upon the hard clam Mercenaria mercenaria by crabs.

Name of Student

Betty Ann Adamson

Sergio G. Andrade

Seth Jo Ausubel

Ann Eo Bass

Joseph Bergstein

James Eo Bauer

Joanne Bowsman

Vincent Breslin

Vo Monica Bricelj

Wendy Brown

Lisa Campbell

Stephen Chiswell

Year

1982/83

1982 1983 1984

1983/84

1981/82 1982/83

1981/82 1982./ 83

1981

1982

1982/83

1982/83

1981 1981/82 1982/83 1982 1983 1983/84

1983/84

1981/82 1982

1982

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A PARTIAL LISTING OF STUDENT AWARDS for the 1981/82, 1982/83 and 1983/84 Academic Years

Award Name

Sea Grant Scholar

Chilean Gov't. Scholar Award Chilean Gov't. Scholar Award Chilean Gov't. Scholar Award

Sea Grant Scholar

Sea Grant Scholar Sea Grant Scholar


Women's Seamen's Friends' Society of CT Scholar Award

Women's Seamen's Friends' Society of CT Scholar Award

Sea Grant Scholar

Sea Grant Scholar

American Assoc. of University 'Homen Fellowshi p Sea Grant Scholar Sea Grant Scholar Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Sea Grant Scholar Sea Grant Scholar

Sea Grant Scholar

Jessie Smith Noyes Fellowship Sigma Xi

Summer Graduate Research Assistantship

Amount

$6,250

Unknmvn Unknown Unknown

$6,250

$5,500 6,250

$5,500 6,250

$1,000

1,000

$6,250

$6,250

$5,500 5,500 n,250 6,500 6,250 6,750

$6,250

$7,500 50

$ 700

Sponsor'"'

NYSGI

Chilean Gov't. Chilean Gov't. Chilean Gov't.

NYSGI

NYSGI NYSGI

NYSGI NYSGI

\,JSFS of CT

WSFS of CT

NYSGI

NYSGI

AAUW NYSGI NYSGI NSF NYSGI NYSGI

NYSGI

JSNF SRS

SUSB Grad. Sch.

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Name of Student Year At-lard Name Amount Sponsor'"

Hans Dam 1983/84 Jessie Smith Noyes Fellowship $9)500 JSNF

Suzanne B. DeMond 1983/84 Sea Grant Scholar $6,250 NYSG1

Joseph L. DiLorenzo 1981/82 Sea Grant Scholar $3,500 NYSG1 1982/83 Sea Grant Scholar 3,500 NYSG1 1983/84 Sea Grant Scholar 3,500 NYSG1

Valery E. Doris 1983/84 Graduate Council Fellowship 6,000 SUSB Grad. Sch.

Cathy Drew 1981 Sigma Xi $ 400 SRS

Brian T. Duncan 1981 Jessie Smith Noyes Fellowship $7,800 JSNF 1982/83 Sea Grant Scholar 5,500 NYSG1

John Ellsworth 1980 Jessie Smith Noyes Fellowship $7,500 JSNF

Gene C. Feldman 1982 NASA Graduate Student Researcher's Scholar $13,000 NASA 1983 NASA Graduate Student Researcher's Scholar 13,000 NASA 1984 NASA Graduate Student Researcher's Scholar 15,000 NASA

Ronald Filadelfo 1980/81 Sea Grant Scholar $5,500 NYSGI

Walter Fitzpatrick III 1980/81 Sea Grant Scholar $5,500 NYSG1 1981/82 Sea Grant Scholar 6,250 NYSG1

Paul Flagg 1979/80 Sea Grant Scholar $5,500 NYSG1

Richard A. Fogel 1981/82 Sea Grant Scholar $6,250 NYSG1 1982 Sigma Xi 175 SRS

Mary C. Gibbons 1980 Sigma Xi $ 100 SRS 1981/82 Sea Grant Scholar 6,250 NYSGI 1982/83 Sea Grant Scholar 6,250 NYSGI 1982 Montauk Marine Basin Scholarship 1,000 MMB

Eugenio Gomez-Reyes 1982 to Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, $4,485 UABCM 1987 Mexico Award-School of Marine Science per year

Stephen Heins 1983/84 Sea Grant Scholar $6,250 NYSG1

Name of Student

Myrna Jacobson

Jennifer Jesty

Joseph P. Kerner

Ronald P. Kiene

Suam Kim

Amy Beth Knutson

Benjie Korol

Jonathan G. Kramer

Vladimir G. Koutitonsky

Helene R. Laufer

James T.S. Liu

Stephen McCafferty

Kim NcKown

Year

1981

1981 1983

1981/82 1982/83 1983/84

1982

1981

1981/82 1981 1981 1983/84

1983/84

1980/81 1981

1981 1982 1983

1981

1980/81 1981/82

1980/81 1981/82 1981

1982 1982 1983/84

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Award Name

Sigma Xi

Jessie Smith Noyes Fellowship NOAA Student Travel Award

Graduate Council Fellowship Graduate Council Fellowship Graduate Council Fellowship

Sigma 'Xi

Korean Government Scholarship

Sea Grant Scholar Montauk Marine Basin Scholarship Sigma Xi Sea Grant Scholar

Sea Grant Scholar

Jessie Smith Noyes Fellowship Sigma Xi

Canadian Government Scholarship Canadian Government Scholarship Canadian Government Scholarship

Buttonwood Foundation Scholarship


Sea Grant Scholar Sea Grant Scholar Montauk Marine Basin Scholarship

Graduate Summer Research Assistantship Sigma Xi Sea Grant Scholar

Amount

$ 200

$7,800 600

$5,500 5,500 6,000

$ 100

Full

$6,250 500 100

6,250

$6,250

$7,500 200

Full Support Full Support Full Support

$1,500

$6,250 6,250

$5,500 6,250 1,000

$ 700 200

6,250

Sponsor~"

SRS

JSNF NOAA

SUSB Grad. Sch. SUSB Grad. Sch. SUSB Grad. Sch.

SRS

Korean

NYSG1 }ITYlB SRS NYSG1

NYSGI

JSNF SRS

Canadian Govt. Canadian Govt. Canadian Govt.

BF

NYSG1 NYSG1

NYSG1 NYSG1 1-'lMB

SUSB Grad. SRS NYSG1

Name of Student

George McManus

Katherine Minsch

James Mitchell

Doreen Monteleone

George Nardi

Glynis Nau-Ritter

John Nicholson

Paul Novelli

Carrie Paige

Moon-Jin Park

Yong C. Park

Eugene Revelas

Gregg Rivara

Young Jae Ro

Year

1980 1982/83

1982/83

1984

1983/84

1981 1981

1982

1981 1982 1984

]981/82 1982/83

1981/82

1983/84

1984

1982/83 1983/84

1982 1982

1983/84

1981 1982 1983 1984

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Award Name

Sigma Xi Jessie Smith Noyes Fellowship

Sea Grant Scholar

Jessie Smith Noyes Fellowship

Sea Grant Scholar

Sigma Xi International Exchange Students Program

Award awarded jointly with Harvey Simon Sigma Xi

Intercampus Doctoral FellovlShip Jessie Smith Noyes Fellowship Summer Research Fellowship


Sea Grant Scholar

Sea Grant Scholar

Summer Research Fellowship


Sigma Xi Montauk Marine Basin Scholarship

Sea Grant Scholar

Partial Fulbright Award Fulbright Award Fulbright Award Fulbright Award

Amount

$ 200 9,000

$6,250

$9,500

$6,250

$ 200 3,000

300

$5,500 9,000

700

$6,250 6,250

$6,250

$6,250

$ 700

$6,250 6,250

$ 200 1,000

$6,250

$5,000 9,385 9,385 7,440

Sponsor*

SRS JSNF

NYSGI

JSNF

NYSGI

SRS IESP

SRS

SUSB/NYU JSNF SUSB Grad. Sch.

NYSGI NYSGI

NYSGI

NYSGI

SUSB Grad. Sch.

NYSGI ~TYSGI

SRS MMB

NYSGI

Fulbright Prog. FP/IIE FP/IIE FP/IIE

Name of Student

David J. Sarokin

Suzanne Schrey

Harvey Simon

Timothy Slauson

Sharon Sneed

Barry Snyder

Pitiwong Tantichodak

David J. Ullman

Raymond Valente

Seth M. Yarish

Jose A. Zertuche

Philip Zion

Year

1981

1982 1982/83 1983/84

1981 1982

1982

1982

1983/84

1983/84 1984

1983/84

1982 1983

1983/84 1984

1983

1982 1983

1981

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Award Name

NYS Assembly Scholar Program

Sigma Xi Sea Grant Scholar Sea Grant Scholar

Sigma Xi International Exchange Students Program

Award awarded jointly with George Nardi Sigma Xi

Sigma Xi

Sea Grant Scholar

Sea Grant Scholar Summer Research Fellowship

Fulbright Award

National Science Foundation Fellowship National Science Foundation Fellowship

Sea Grant Scholar Summer Research Fellowship

Montauk Marine Basin Scholarship

CONACYT - Mexican Government Scholarship CONACYT - Mexican Government Scholarship

Graduate Council Fellowship

Total of awards in dollars - approximately $634,456

Amount

$7,500

$ 125 6,250 6,250

$ 200 3,000

125

$ 250

$6,250

$6,250 700

Unknown

$6,900 6,900

$6,250 700

$1,000

$9,000 9,000

$5,000

Sponsor,'c

NYSA

SRS NYSGI NYSGI

SRS IESP

SRS

SRS

NYSGI

NYSGI SUSB Grad. Sch.

FP/IIE

NSF NSF

NYSGI SUSB Grad. Sch.

MMB

Mexican Gov't. Mexican Gov't.

SUSB Grad. Sch.

*Sponsor Codes

AAUW BF FP/IIE IESP JSNF LMFR MHB NS/DSA NASA NOAA NSF NYSA NYSGI SI SRS SUSB/NYU UABCH WSFS of CT

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- American Association of University Women - Buttonwood Foundation - Fulbright Program - Institute of International Education - International Exchange Student's Program - Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation - Lerner Fund for Marine Research - Montauk Marine Basin - N. Steinberg-D. Squires Award - National Air and Space Administration - National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration - National Science Foundation - New York State Assembly - New York Sea Grant Institute - Smithsonian Institution - Scientific Research Society - State University of New York at Stony Brook/New York University - Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Nexico - Women's Seamen's Friends' Society of Connecticut

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COOPERATIVE PROGRAMS WITH OTHER SUSB UNITS

A five-year B.S.-M.S. program is sponsored jointly by MSRC and the Department of Earth and Space Sciences, and a five-year B.E.-M.S. by MSRC and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The joint program with the DepartTIent of Earth and Space Sciences is for students concentrating in geological oceanography, and the joint program with the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is for students concentrating in coastal engineering and marine sciences. These programs are described briefly belO\v.

5-YEAR B. S. 1M. S. PROGRAJ:1 BETWEEN ESS AND MSRC

Geological Oceanography at Stony Brook

The Department of Earth & Space Sciences and the Marine Sciences Research Center offer a cooperative undergraduate/graduate course of study in Geological Oceanography leading to the B.S. and M.S. degrees.

Students enter the Geological Oceanography track in the Earth and Space Sciences Department to obtain the Bachelor of Science Degree. In their senior year they may, with approval, begin to take graduate courses offered by the Marine Sciences Research Center. This accelerated program will enable most students to obtain their B.S. and M.S. degrees in five years.

5-Year B.E./M.S. Program Between the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) and the (MSRC)

A new joint CEAS/MSRC-BE/MS program. has been formulated and approved, which enables a student majoring in Engineering Science to specialize in marine environmental sciences and to obtain both an undergraduate engineering B.E. degree and a master's degree in an additional fourteen months.

The new program permits a student to obtain a B.E. degree within CEAS and a master's degree in marine sciences in a period of 5 years and two summers. The central commitment which is required on the part of the undergraduate student is the addition of several marine science core courses. These courses are included within the CEAS approved list of technical electives for Engineering Science undergraduate.

The following are the major points ror this approved courses of study:

1. Students must meet all requirements for entrance to CEAS.

2. Students declare to the 5-year course of study no later than the middle of the Junior year, and receive tentative approval for entry to the MSRC program.

3. During 4th year, students substitute 2, or at most 3, marine sciences graduate core courses for approved CEAS technical electives.

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4. During 4th year, students apply for admission to mari~e sciences graduate program and must meet all entrance requirements. Students are advised by a joint CEAS-MSRC committee of 6 members, who specify and carefully monitor course work. This committee evaluates the student's progress no later than the Spring semester of the Senior year for approval to continue in the program.

5. Students enter MSRC, complete course work and thesis requirement for M.S. degree by end of summer following 5th year.

UNDERGRADUATE ACTIVITIES

New Undergraduate Courses

During the 1982-83 AY the HSRC offered its first undergraduate courses. Four new courses were approved by the Curriculum Committee. These are (1) MAR 101 Long Island Sound: Science and Use, (2) ~~R 302 Marine ~1icrobiology and Microbial Ecology, (3) MAR 333 Coastal Oceanography, and (4) MAR 487 Research. In addition to these four courses, the MSRC assumed full responsibility for a fifth undergraduate course, previously listed as ESS 104 Oceanography. Beginning with the 1983-84 AY, ESS 104 was redesignated MAR 104.

Brief descriptions of the new MAR courses are presented below.

MAR 101 Long Island Sound: Science and Use

"Long Island Sound, Science and Use" is a lower division, three-credit course designed to introduce the non-science major to one of the most important coastal marine environments of the region--Long Island Sound. The course is patterned closely after and coordinated closely with the course of the same name offered each year at Yale University. Both courses are offered in the same term. The same topics are covered. Yale faculty and Stony Brook faculty are exchanged for a number of lectures. Stony Brook students join their colleagues from Yale on field trips along the shores of Connecticut and Long Island, and aboard the R/V ONRUST in Long Island Sound. A joint Stony Brook-Yale student conference will be held each year, alternating between New Haven and Stony Brook.

~illR 104 Oceanography (Formerly ESS 104)

An examination of the Horld Ocean and the processes that control its major features and the life that inhabits it. Suitable for non-science majors. Fall, 3 credits.

t-'f..AR 302 l1arine Hicrobiology and Microbial Ecology

Introduction to the evolution, diversity, and importance of the microbial flora of the sea. Lectures will highlight the physiological distinctions and ecological functions of each of the major microbial groups (viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoans, algae). Particular emphasis will be placed on the role of these microorganisms in many of

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the elemental (geochemical) cycles of the oceans. Aspects of the microbiota as agents of environmental pollution and/or detoxification will also be discussed.

MAR 333 Coastal Oceanography

A comprehensive examination of the natural biological, chemical, and geological, and physical processes that characterize the coastal ocean, and an assessment of how society has impacted it.

HAR 487 Research

With the approval and superVlSlon of a faculty member, a student may conduct research for credit. The student must submit a research proposal for approval before the beginning of the credit period. A written report of the work must be submitted before the end of the credit period. The co~rse may be repeated once.

New Minors in Environmental Studies with the FLC

The MSRC has worked with the Federated Learning Communities to develop three new minors in the general area of "Environmental Studies:" (1) Environmental Sciences and Public Policy, (2) Environmental Studies and the Planning Sciences, and (3) Long Island Regional Studies.

Environmental Sciences and Public Policy is designed especially for students in the biological and physical sciences; Environmental Studies and the Planning Sciences for students in the social sciences and humanities. The fate of these minors is uncertain.

HSRC and ESS

The Center assists the Department of Earth and Space Sciences in offering a minor in marine geology/geological oceanography. ~e have no plans to develop a major oceanography or in the marine sciences. These are not appropriate majors; particularly not for those who expect to pursue careers in oceanography or the marine sciences.

Opportunities for Research and Field Experience

The Center always has offered Stony Brook undergraduates opportunities for research in the laboratory and in th field, including sea experience. We expect the number of students taking advantage of these opportunities will increase now that we are offering undergraduate courses.

OCEANOGP~PHY CO~RSES FOR NON-SPECIALISTS

Summer Course: CEE 576 The Marine Environment of Long Island

Each year MSRC offers introductory courses in the marine sciences for non-specialists.

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For a number of years we have offered "The Marine Environment of Long Island" through the summer session. This course explores the geology of Long Island and the oceanography of its surrounding waters. The physical and chemical processes that mold the environment as well as the flora and fauna are examined during field trips, cruises, laboratory exercises, and lectures. The course continues to be very popular.

CEB 578 Long Island's Coastal Narine Environments

Several years ago we designed a new 3-credit CED course to introduce lay people to some of Long Island's marine environments including: wetlands, Long Island Sound, Great South Bay, New York Harbor, and the New York Bight. The course combines lectures with laboratory exercises and field trips. Some time is spent aboard the R/V ONRUST. Some years the course is offered in Riverhead at the Eastern Campus of Suffolk County Community College.

CEB 579 Science Applied to Coastal Problems

This course, which will be offered for the first time in the summer of 1984, lS designed to prepare secondary school science teachers to share with their students the sense of excitement and satisfaction that accompanies the application of the sciences to the understanding and proper management of the coastal environment. We will present the basic principles of coastal physics, chemistry, biology and geology, and demonstrate their application to the solution of coastal problems.

Summer Internship Program

In the summer of 1982 the MSRC launched a new internship program ---'------"designed to give outstanding undergraduates an opportunity to conduct

research in the marine sciences. Two young women--one a geology major from Dartmouth, the other an engineering major from Yale--were selected from among a number of outstanding applicants to spend six weeks at MSRC during the first summer. Each conducted an independent research project that work at sea and in the laboratory. They presented the results of their research to the staff and students of the MSRC and prepared papers which were presented at a scientific meeting. Both students worked under the supervision of Professor Bokuniewicz.

Another young vlOman was selected for the summer of 1983. A student from Brown University, she worked with Professor Douglas Capone on the effect of several heavy metal and organic pollutants on bacterial N2 fixation on the roots and rhizomes of seagrass. She and Professor Capone have published a paper on this work.

Three students, Andrea Ray a geology major at the University of Chicago, Michael Cole a physics major at SUNY Stony Brook, and George Smith an environmental sciences major at Wesleyan University, have been selected as our 1984 Summer Fellows. Ms. Ray will work with Dr. James Eckman and Mr. Smith will work with Dr. Gary Zarillo, and Mr. Cole will work with Dr. Graham Giese.

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PLANS FOR NEW EDUCATIONAL PROGRAHS

The only new educational "program" we have plans at present for developing is a cooperative graduate program in aquaculture between the Marine Sciences Research Center and the SUNY College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University.

Collectively, the Marine Sciences Research Center of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the SUNY College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University could initiate a joint graduate program in aquaculture that from its outset would rival the best programs in the country in quality and in scope. The program would ensure a steady supply of high quality researchers well acquainted with the problems and opportunities of New York's living marine resource industries. An added direct benefit to the State would be that most of the graduate students in this program would conduct their thesis research on problems associated with New York's living marine resources and their commercial exploitation.

SUNY-WIDE ACTIVITIES

o The Annual Hudson River Instructional Cruises open to all SUNY campuses had to be discontinued because of lack of support. In previous years nearly all of the support has been provided by the Center. vIe hope to develop a cost-sharing plan with participating units to allow us to renew the cruises next year.

o SUNY-Wide Laboratory

A "lab away from home" was opened in December 1978 at HSRC to give students from any of SUNY's 64 campuses a convenient place to carry out their work when researching on Long Island. The lab ,,,hich can accommodate L}O students, has an oven for drying organisms and sediment samples and facilities for preserving organisms. Teaching aids include binocular microscopes and slide and movie projectors.

The lab, "SUNY's outlet to the sea," was funded by the New York Sea Grant Institute and the Chancellor's Office.

Groups from the SUNY campuses of Buffalo, New Paltz, Oswego, Herkimer, Cortland, Oneonta~ Binghamton, and others have used the SUNY-wide laboratory.

Groups usually arrive on a Friday evening and settle in for a busy weekend. The next days may be spent aboard the R/V ONRUST gaining "hands-on" experience. Using the different types of oceanographic sampling gear: plankton nets, trawls, bottom grabs, water bottles, current meters or bottom corers, or going on a tour of the vessel with a member of the crew demonstrating and explaining the operation of the electronic navigation and search gear: Loran, Mini-Ranger, Radar, Side Scan Sonar, bottom and sub-bottom profilers. The day may also

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be spent walki~g the barrier beaches or sloshing through the salt marshes at Flax Pond collecting the smaller inhabitants or the surf and marsh or just recording field observations.

The evenings are usually spent in the lab, working over the gatherings of the day.

They leave for their home campuses, tired, happy and carrying enough samples and specimens for a year's work. For many of them this trip has been their first "close-encounter" \vi th the sea.

o Flax Pond Laboratory

In May 1979, a special long-term (25 year) space-use agreement was signed by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC) and the State University of New York (SUNY) transferring responsibility for the Flax Pond Laboratory from DEC to SUNY. Money was also provided in the SUNY budget to begin rehabilitation of the Laboratory.

The Laboratory is available for SUNY-wide use and provides SUNY scientists with an attractive facility for conducting experiments that require holding of marine organisms for extended periods.

The past two years, a number of cosmetic and fundamental changes were made to the Laboratory to make it more functional, and a more pleasant place to work and study. The seawater system is inadequate.

This past year we were successful--with SUSB support--in replacing that part of the system that pumps water from the Pond and gets it to the storage tanks in the Laboratory. This year we will concentrate on replacing the distribution system within the Laboratory.

Another major change was the addition of a new greenhouse complete with a continuous seawater system for cultivating seaweeds and other marine plants. Construe'tion of the greenhouse was funded entirely with research dollars. The greenhouse is a key element in the Center's large biomass project which is designed to assess the feasibility of farming seaweeds for the production of natural gas.

During the past year the HSRC also added two environmental chambers to the Flax Pond Laboratory, entirely with research dollars. Other modifications to the Laboratory are required.

Earlier this spring (1984), we received a grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Research Resources Program for improvements to the Flax Pond Lab. We have a request in the 1984-85 SU1~ budget for $100,000 for further up-grading of the Lab.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

International activities are an important and growing component of the MSRC's programs in research, graduate education, and public service. Within the past 5 years we have had graduate students from 22 countries:

Argentina Australia Canada Chile China Colombia Ghana Great Britain India Italy Japan

Korea Mexico New Zealand Norway Pakistan Peru South Africa Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Venezuela

A few of the Center's international activities are summarized briefly by country below.

Africa

The UN-sponsored course on coastal zone management to be offered in Abidjar, Ivory Coast in January 1981 by MSRC faculty was postponed. The UN has requested we offer the course in 1982 or 1983 when an alternate host government has been selected.

Chile

The scholarly collaboration initiated in 1978 between scientists of the MSRC and the Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography (DMBO) of the University of Concepcion (Chile) continued this year. Dagoberto Arcos, a faculty member of DMBO, spent the 1981-82 academic year at MSRC completing requirements for the M.S. degree. Two MSRC staff members spent a month in Chile teaching an instrumentation course. Dr. Peter Weyl has assumed the role of coordinator for the Chile exchange program and is seeking funding to continue the program.

Professors Carter and Schubel participated in a coastal zone management workshop in Concepcion, Chile, in September 1982 and taught an intensive one-week course in physical oceanography.

In 1984 the MSRC extended its collaboration programs in Chile by executing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Chine.

J. R. Schubel visited China in October 1981 to collaborate with Chinese scientists on papers on China's estuaries which were presented at the Estuarine Research Federation (ERF) annual meeting in November. Dr. Schubel and Dr. Chi-Yu Chen, of Shanghai Normal University, were joint chairmen for the session on Chinese estuaries. After the ERF meeting, a delegation from China visited MSRC for about 10 days.

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One Chinese scholar and one Chinese graduate student are now at MSRC pursuing their academic and research goals.

The MSRC and the Second Institute of Oceanography expect (Hangzhou) to begin a joint study of the Hangzhou Bay sometime in the fall of 1984.

Denmark

As a guest of the Danish Research Council, Dr. Jed Fuhrman participated in a field program to study the microbial ecology of the coastal waters off Denmark.

Finland

Dr. Glenn Lopez of MSRC and Dr. 1smo Holopainen of Joensuu University, Finland, are working on a two year project funded by the U.S.-Finland Cooperative Science Program of the National Science Foundation to investigate the feeding behavior and population dynamics of the species Pisidium which is a freshwater clam.

Japan

Dr. Edward J. Carpenter and Dr. Douglas Capone were hosts to Dr. Toshiro Saino from the Ocean Research Institute of the University of Tokyo in May. Dr. Carpenter had visited Japan in 1981 to work with Saino on N2 fixation by Trichodesmium, a marine phytoplankton. Dr. Saino's visit is a continuation of the collaborative research on this organism.

Korea

President Oh of Chonnam University indicated during his visit to SUSB in August 1982 that he would like to develop collaborative research and educational programs in the marine sciences with MSRC and invited J. R. Schubel to visit Korea. This visit will took place in June 1984.

Mexico

Professors D. W. Pritchard, J. R. Schubel and B. Kinsman continued to work on Hexican coastal problems. Pritchard spent some time in Baja, California at the Centro de 1nvestigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensedada where he is titular head of their section devoted to the study of esteros--evaporation driven coastal basins.

New Zealand

A Memorandum of Agreement in Marine Sciences establishing an educational exchange program bet\veen the Universi ty of Auckland and SUSB was signed in August 1980. Professor Bowman and his group continue to carry out collaborative studies in New Zealand waters with support from NSF and the New Zealand Government.

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Pakistan

J. R. Schubel attended a vlOrkshop and presented an invited lecture at a UN-sponsored meeting in Karachi in mid-November 1982. The purpose of the meeting was to assist in preparing a plan for orderly development of the Indus River and estuary. MSRC was invited by the Director of Pakistan's National Institute of Oceanography to submit a proposal for a collaborative study of the Indus River and estuary. The proposal has been submitted.

Portugal

}lr. Jorge Castenheiro of Comissao Nacional do Ambiente spent part of June 1982 at the MSRC reviewing progress on a study of the Tejo estuary. Professors Carter, Pritchard, Schubel and Vieira expect to collaborate in the design and execution of the next phases of the study with support from the UNDP.

The MSRC has been asked by the University of Las Palmas (Canary Islands, Spain) to assist them in the development of their ne\¥" Center for Marine Sciences. The Coordinator of their Center, Professor Jesus Perez Pena will spent one month at MSRC in fall 1983.

The MSRC and the Universidad Politecnica de Las Palmas signed a Cooperative Agreement for collaborative educational research in the marine sciences. The program at Las Pa1mas will be Spain's first graduate program in the marine sciences and the MSRC was selected after a Spanish delegation visited a number of U.S. oceanographic institutions. J.R. Schubel visited Las Palmas in May 1984 to participate in the inauguration of the Cooperative Agreement.

Thailand

J. R. Schubel and R. H. Carter have been selected by Chulalongkorn University and approved by UNESCO to assist the Marine Sciences Department of Chulalongkorn University in developing a comprehensive program of research and education in the marine sciences. Professor Harry H. Carter spent the month of June (1983) in Thailand.

Trinidad

The MSRC has been asked by the UNDP to assist in the development of a marine program for Trinidad.

Western Pacific (WESTPAC) Region

J. R. Schubel continues to serve as WESTPAC correspondent at the National Science Foundation's request. He participated in the WESTPAC meeting held in Jakarta in October 1981 and was one of the organizers for the 1983 meeting in Australia.

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PUBLIC SERVICE

Public service is an important mission of the MSRC and one which we take seriously. The importance of this role was pointed out explicitly in the resolution of the SUNY Board of Trustees which led to the creation of the MSRC.

In a recent SUNY publication, public service was described in the following way:

"At the State University of New York, Public Service means using our teaching and research skills to improve the quality of life in the State. It means helping to encourage economic development and revitalization. It means cooperating with small businesses, corporations, unions, and Stat~ and local governments. It means turning our 64-campus network into a knowledge delivery system for responding to the needs of a modern information-based economy. ,:

The MSRC is active in public service in each of these areas. The MSRC is an organized research center. Research is our raison d'etre. Research is at the heart of everything we do including public service. A few highlights are summarized below.

Nowhere in the world is there a location more ideally suited than Long Island for development of an international comprehensive center of excellence in coastal oceanography. More than seven million of us live on this Island, nearly three million in Nassau and Suffolk Counties alone. We live on a long, narrow strip of sand surrounded by 'vater. Not one of us lives as much as 10 miles from a coastal environment--from some coastal environment. Probably nowhere in the world is the quality of so many people's lives tied so closely to the quality of their coastal environments as on Long Isla~d. Not only is the quality of our lives coupled closely to the waters that surround us, but the quality of our lives is linked tightly to the waters beneath our feet--our groundwater--which we depend upon entirely for our drinking, domestic and industrial waters.

Quality of Life

The MSRC assist in responding to and resolving environmental crises when they occur. Examples include: the breaching of the barrier island at Moriches on 15 January 1980; the floatable event that brought large amounts of obnoxious floatable sewage-related materials onto our South Shore beaches during the summer of 1976; and the 1976 anoxia event in the N.Y. Bight Apex--the crashing of levels of oxygen dissolved in the vlater to near zero levels Hhich led to massive kills of benthic organisms, particularly surf clams.

We are in a sense members of the State--and indeed the Nation's-marine environmental fire fighters. We are prepared and ready to help, but we playa far more important role. That role is to identify potential problems, incipient problems, problems which if left

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unattended could develop into environmental crises. We have a responsibility to identify these incipient problems and to respond to them; to design research programs and secure funding to carry them out; to use the results of research to develop strategies to prevent these incipient problems from becoming full-blovm crises.

This is a difficult task, but an exceedingly important one. It is one which academic institutions must fill. One has to look ahead by reading the "environmental tea leaves" to identify what Herman Melville called "Loomings," indistinct images on the horizon, to sort out those that represent real threats from the mirages, and to concentrate on them.

The MSRC specializes in "Loomings." Two that we have identified within the past few years which have proven to be important are (1) the need to develop creative, environmentally beneficial ways to dispose of large volumes of coal wastes when oil-fired power plants convert to coal, and (2) the need to develop strategies to ensure a stable supply of sand and gravel for the metropolitan New York area and the need to ensure a stable sink for contaminated dredged materials. The first "looming" led toOliY large Coal Waste Artificial Reef Project which demonstrated that coal wastes could be stabilized into solid blocks and used to construct artificial fishing reefs, not only without any adverse environmental impacts, but with positive effects--the enhancement of recreational and commercial fisheries. The second "looming" led to a large project which calls for an assessment of the feasibility of combining submarine sand mining with disposal of contaminated wastes in the excavated pits followed by capping with clean sand.

Our most recent "looming" relates to the possibility of satisfying much of New York's natural gas requirements through the anaerobic microbial digestion of seaweeds grown on floating farms. This project is now in its third year and the likelihood that the "looming" can be realized is increasing.

Advisor to Local, County, State, and National Governmental or International Agencies

Each faculty member serves on average, on bet'\veen two and four local, county, and State, National, environmental advisory committees and boards.

A few examples:

o Marine Resources Council of Long Island's Regional Planning Board.

o Suffolk County Council on Environmental Quality.

o Land-Use Committee for Suffolk County.

o Three-Village COIT®ittee for Gifted and Talented.

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o Moriches Inlet and Beach Stabilization Committee.

o A number of tm·ffi' and county citizen's environmental councils including; Setauket, Stony Brook, Oldfield, Southold, Dix Hills, E. Hampton, Bellport, Port Jefferson, and Mattituck.

o Outer Continental Shelf Group.

o Tidal Hydraulics Conmittee.

o American Shellfish Association.

Advisor to Local Businesses

MSRC personnel are active in assisting and advising local businesses at no cost. Among those to whom we provided service over the past year are:

o Blue Point Oyster Company.

o Shelter Island Oyster Company.

o Long Island Oyster Farms, Inc.

o Shinnecock Indian Tribal Aquaculture Project.

o Montauk Shark Fishing Festival.

o Bayshore Shark Fishing Festival.

Economic Development and Revitalization

The MSRC is committed to the timely translation and application of recent advances in science and technology to assist in the economic development and revitalization of New York's industries.

This assistance has been provided to small and large businesses and industries alike; to industries that depend upon the extraction of renewable and non-renewable resources from the Sea; and to industries that use the Sea as a receiver for their waste products. In the latter case, the Center has been a leader in developing strategies to accoIT@odate mUltiple uses of coastal areas with predictable and acceptable impacts on the environment, on public health, and on the living marine resources, all at acceptable costs.

The most recent example of the MSRC's commitment to assisting economic development and revitalization is our proposal to the New York State Science and Technology Foundation to establish a new institute within the MSRC devoted to the enhancement of New York's living marine resource industries.

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A few examples include:

o Assistance to the Shinnecock Tribal Indian Oyster Hatchery in design and development, and operation of their hatchery.

o Assistance to the Blue Points Oyster Co. in overcoming problems of feeding larval and seed oysters and clams. This section of Blue Points is now run by an MSRC graduate.

o ABsistance to the Construction Aggregates Company on submarine sand mining problems.

a Assistance to Lawrence Aviation in developing acceptable and economical ways of disposing of chemical wastes.

Education as Public Service

Continuing Education. Each year we offer a number of courses through CED.

Summer Courses. Nearly every summer we offer a popular course entitled "Long Island's Coastal Environments" which is designed specifically to acquaint elementary and secondary school teachers with the natural processes that characterize our coastal environments, with the ways in which society has altered those processes, and with the attempts to conserve and rehabilitate these important areas.

High Schools. MSRC averages about two presentations per month to Long Island high schools.

Intern Program for Gifted and Talented High School Students. Nearly 50 students have spent 6 to 15 weeks each at MSRC through this program over the past 5 years.

Flax Pond and Flax Pond Laboratory. Each year the MSRC conducts an average of more than 20 field trips to the Pond and the Laboratory.

Short Courses and Workshops. Each year the MSRC organizes and conducts short courses and workshops to assist home owners, individual entrepreneurs, small businesses, local and regional governmental agencies and other individuals and groups in resolving important problems and in exploiting opportunities that arise from interactions between society and the coastal ocean. Among the topics dealt with over the past two years are hard clams, low cost shore protection measures, Moriches Bay breach and inlet stabilization, dredging and dredged material disposal, and mariculture in New York.

Turning our 64-Campus Network into a Knowledge-Delivery System for R~nding to the Needs of a Hodern Information-Based Economy. As a SUNY-wide unit, we have a special responsibility for providing leadership in drawing upon the expertise in marine sciences throughout the system to focus it on important scientific and societal problems.

Saying it is one thing, doing it quite another. It is difficult enough to get people in different departments to cooperate. Put them

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in separate colleges and universities, in some cases hundreds of miles apart, and the difficulty of the problem increases exponentially. Still, the MSRC has had a remarkable degree of success. A couple of examples are described briefly below.

In 1981, we negotiated successfully a "cooperative agreement" between the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the SUNY Research Foundation on behalf of the MSRC. The initial cooperative agreement is with NOAA's Office of Marine F'ollution Assessment and calls for NSRC to use talent throughout SUNY in assisting them in the solution of critical problems in the U.S. coastal ocean that result from society's uses of these waters.

One product of this cooperative agreement deals specifically with information: the production of a national newsletter devoted to problems of the Coastal Ocean and with ways of dealing with these problems. Sample newsletters are included in this report in Appendix A.

In 1982 the MSRC received an award of more than $150,000 from the William H. Donner Foundation to establish a new program within the MSRC--the Coastal Ocean Science and Management Alternatives Program. The program calls specifically for the MSRC to draw upon talent from throughout SUNY to assist in the resolution of complex, interdisciplinary problems that arise from society's use of the Coastal Ocean. It is a new and novel approach to coastal zone management which builds upon what we do best--science. Once a problem has been selected for analysis by COSMA a team of investigators will be formed. They will identify the full range of plausible alternative ways of dealing with the problem and evaluate critically the public health, environmental, economic, and socio-political impacts associated with each alternative. The results will be cast in forms appropriate for decision makers.

Shortly after COS~~ was established, the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center designated the MSRC as its national coastal Data Development Facility and provided $100,000 in support through COS}J"..P.>. for its first project--the development and testing of a computer-based data and information system for the Port of New York and New Jersey to facilitate planning and management through analysis of alternatives. Through this project, we will support a graduate student in history at SUSB and expect to involve others from SUSB and from other SUNY units.

At the request of the Research Foundation, J.R. Schubel assembled a team of two investigators, one from State College at Oswego, the other from State College at Buffalo, to assist him in analyzing the present status of the PCB problem in the Hudson River and the program proposed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to deal with it. The project was carried out under the State's TAIN program. The MSRC recently assisted in a second TAIN activity; this one related to Long Island's groundwater resources.

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Public Service in the International Arena

He concentrate our research and our public service on New York, but we play an increasingly more important role nationally and internationally.

Several exawples of international activity are listed below.

o Development of a research plan for the Bay of Concepcion, Chile (Tinker Foundation and International Sea Grant Program).

o Design and application of a computer-based coastal classification system for planning and orderly development of Chile's coastline (Tinker Foundation and International Sea Grant Program).

o Development of a research plan for the Rio de 1a Plata Estuary, Argentina (United Nations).

o Correspondent for all research activities on the transport of pollutants in the coastal zone throughout the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) Region.

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ON FACTORS LIMITING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MSRC INTO THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF

EXCELLENCE IN COASTAL OCEANOGRAPHY

In the report of the MSRC's latest 5-year review, two distinguished oceanographers 1 made a number of important observations about the quality of the MSRC and the resources provided by the University to support it. O~ce again, I quote directly from their April 1983 report:

"The Marine Sciences Research Center is rapidly acquiring international stature as one of the very best coastal oceanography centers in the world. Its location is excellent. The variety of adjunct coastal domains, proximity to a major urban influence, and economic importance of marine resources of the waters in the vicinity of Long Island are uniquely extreme for any comparable stretch of coastline in this country. " (p. 1-2)

" ... there is a definite need for additional staff in chemistry/geology ... " (p. 5)

"The resources available to students for learning and applying computer skills are marginal. Computer use in oceanography may be developing faster than it is in some other fields of science, and at MSRC, we are concerned that soon the current facilities will be inadequate to keep pace. The students have difficulty getting access to computer courses at Stony Brook, there are insufficient facilities within the Center for the students to develop the necessary skills, and for a research group this size there is a definite lack of technical skills to assist the scientists and graduate students in computer use." (p. 7-8)

"Most students would welcome the chance to be more involved in teaching, but the Center apparently has far less teaching fellow support than is average for the campus." (p. 9)

" ... it seems that a basic inequity still exists 'tvi th regard to teachi'ng fellow allocations to the Center." (p. 9)

IDr. James J. McCarthy, Agassiz Professor of Oceanography and Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

Professor Robert O. Reid, Chairman of Department of Oceanography, Texas A & M University

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In their conclusions the reviewers point out:

"COMPARED TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS OF :t-'IARINE SCIENCES WITHIN m~IVERSITY SYSTEMS, MSRC HAS RELATIVELY LITTLE BASE SUPPORT FROM THE PARENT BODy." L

and they go on to caution

"They have done well up to the present time~ but at its current size there are some strains that could lead to difficulties in the near future. The student support problem is a source of undesirable anxiety, and needs immediate attention .... Additional support for facilities is also urgently needed. This is very evident in the area of computer access, and the use of some other resources, such as the Flax Pond facility, is being pushed to the limit." (po 9-10)

My own assessment is that the MSRC is one of the very best coastal oceanography centers in the world and that with a modest investment of resources it would be transformed swiftly and surely into the comprehensive international center of excellence in coastal oceanography. My assessment of the extent of the resources needed to achieve this transformation has changed little over the years.

They are: 4 to 6 Faculty lines 3 to 5 Support lines 4 to 6 TAIGA lines $500,000 in equipment support, primarily for a mid-size

computer

If the plan which I have submitted to the Provost and which he has endorsed is followed, one can expect to see the MSRC continue to grow in stature. I remain convinced that the MSRC presents Stony Brook with its greatest opportunity to add a new world class activity with a minimum investment and to do it in a field unique in SUNY and in New York, and unusual in the World. It is a field which will become increasingly more important to New York.

A LOOK BACK A11J) A LOOK AHEAD

Last year 'VJe selected three important new proj ects for the academic year that just ended: (1) to create within the MSRC the Nation's first Aquaculture and Fisheries Experiment Station, (2) to create a prestigious Visiting Committee for the MSRC, and (3) to establish a computer laboratory for student use. We were successful in numbers (2) and (3) and failed in (1). The creation of an Aquaculture and Fisheries Experiment Station shall be our top priority for this academic year.

2Upper case mine for emphasis

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MSRC Visiting Com~ittee

During the 1983-84 AY we established a Visiting COIT~ittee made up of distinguished people to help guide us in the continued development of the Center. Members of the Visiting Committee are listed below:

Professor George S. Benton

Dr. Randolph W. Bromery

Honorable Hugh L. Carey

Mr. Gerald Cohen

Mr. E. Virgil Conway

Dr. Charles S. Davidson

Mr. Charles Entenmann

Mr. George J. Gillespie III

Professor James McCarthy

Professor M.P O'Brien

Professor Roger Revelle

Honorable William E. Simon

Dr. Harry Woolf

Johns Hopkins University

Professor and former Chancellor of the University

of Hassachusetts

Former Governor of New York

Lawrence Aviation

President of the Seaman' for Savings

H.I.T.

Entenmann's Bakery

Partner in the law firm of Cravath, Swain & Moore

Director of Harvard University's 1-1useum of Comparative Zoology

Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley

Scripps Institute of Oceanography

Chairman of Wesray Corporation and former Secretary of the Treasury

Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies

The Visiting Committee held its first meeting on 26-27 July 1984. The visit started with dinner at the President's home on 26 July 1984 and ended late afternoon on 27 July 19B!}. Members of the Visitir..g Committee are enthusiastic about the Center and we look forward to a productive partnership.

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Computer Laboratory

We set as a goal for the 1983-84 AY to establish 1;<7l.thin the 1,ISRC a computer laboratory primarily for student use, and to have at least 10 work stations, each equipped with a personal computer and printer by the end of the academic year. The need for an expansion and enhancement of the Center's computing facilities and services were highlighted in the 1982 5-year review of the Center:

"The resources available to students for learning and applying computer skills are marginal. Computer use in oceanography may be developing faster than in some other fields of science, and at MSRC, we are concerned that soon the current facilities will be inadequate to keep pace .... there are insufficient facilities within the Center for the students to develop the necessary skills, and for a research group this size there is a definite lack of technical skills to assist the scientists and graduate students in computer use."

"Additional support for facilities is also urgently needed. This is very evident in the area of computer access, "

The Computer Laboratory is nearly complete. It has five terminals on an Alpha Micro computer, five Rainbow personal computers and two printers.

Aquaculture and Fisheries Experiment Station

Once again we have set as a goal to establish within the MSRC during the next academic year the Nation's first Aquaculture and Fisheries Experiment Station. The Station will be a unit cf the MSRC, but 'viII have a "diagnostic facility" staffed through SUNY's College of Agriculture and Life Science of Cornell. It shall draw upon expertise from throughout the SUNY system. The model we are proposing for the Station is appropriate for the NSRC because of its SUNY-vlide mandate.

The Station shall have many of the features of the Living Marine Resources Institute (LIHRI) proposed earlier by the MSRC to the New York Science and Technology Foundation through their Centers for Advanced Technology. The Station shall have comprehensive programs of research, extension, public service and education in aquaculture and fisheries. Major roles of the Station shall be to use advances in science and technology to rehabilitate and sustain New York's existing marine resource industries--in aquaculture and fisheries--and to stimulate development of new ones.

New resources will be required to initiate the proposed Aquaculture and Fisheries Experiment Station. In Stony Brook's 1985-86 budget we have requested new faculty and staff positions and funds for expansion of the Flax Pond Laboratory.

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We shall pursue the establishment of an Aquaculture and Fisheries Station with renewed vigor and with a firm commitment. We shall try to enlist the support of the Urban Development Corporation and other State Agencies. This is our top priority for this academic year.

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Appendix A Annual Report of 1983-84


DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES

Departmental Colloquia and Seminars

July 26, 1983

August 11, 1983

August 23, 1983

September 13, 1983

September 16, 1983

September 20, 1983

Dr. N.N. Madhiasdha, University of Mangalore, India

"Effect of Some Pollution on Fish"

Jeff Zimmerman, Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee

"A Lagrangian-Eulerian Diffusion Study in the North Sea"

Howard Barton III, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

"Uptake and Translocation of Nitrogenous Nutrients by Eelgrass (Zostera Marina)"

Mr. Mark Altabet, The Biological Laboratories, Harvard University

"Natural Abundance of lSN as a Natural Tracer for Nitrogen Cycles in the Marine Environment: Evidence from the Warm Core Rings Study"

Hans Dam Guerrero (Jessie Smith Noyes Fellowship recipient), Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

"1vlicro and very fine zooplankton patchiness in Long Island Sound and its significance to survival of fish larvae"

Professor Beibei Ling, Harbin Shipbuilding Engineering Institute, People's Republic of China and' Visiting Scholar at Institute of Science and Technology, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

"A Study of the Laws of Small-Scale Horizontal Turbulent Diffusion and the Predictions of Pollution in the Coastal Area"

September 27, 1983

October 4, 1983

October 6, 1983

October 18, 1983

October 21, 1983

October 25, 1983

October 28, 1983

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Dr. Co Lavett STIith, Curator, Department of Ichthyology, American Museum of Natural History

"The Inland Fishes of New York State as a Research Resource"

Howard G. Levine, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

"The Green Seaweed DIva as a Monitor for Pollution in Coastal Waters"

Dennis Puleston, Resident Naturalist aboard LINDBLAD EXPLORER, Brookhaven National Laboratory (retired)

"The Arctic and its Wildlife"

Dr. Cindy Lee, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Massachusetts

"Amino Acids on Particles: Effects of Primary Productivity and Biological Decomposition"

Willie Thorsteinsson, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook

"Some aspects of the biology and the fisheries of lump fish (Cycloptens lumpus)"

Dr. Mary Scranton, Assistant Professor of Chemical Oceanography, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

liThe Hydrogen Cycle in Anaerobic Marine Environments"

David R. Young, Dames & Moore Marine Services, California

ltBiomagnification and Biodimunition of Pollutants in a Food Web of Los Angeles Harbor"

October 28, 1983

November 1, 1983

November 4, 1983

November 7, 1983

November 8, 1983

November 17, 1983

November 18, 1983

A-3

Professor Emeritus K.F. Bowden, Department of Oceanography, University of Liverpool, England

"Aspects of r-1ixing in Estuaries"

Dr. William Peterson, Harine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook

"The Effects of Hydrography and Phytoplankton on the Population Dynamics of Temora longicornis (Copepods) in Long Island Sound"

Kirk Cochran, Harine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

"The use of naturally occurring radionuclides to determine growth rates of marine organisms"

Professor Bruce Wilkins, Cornell University

"Influencing Those Using Marine Resources'!

Dr. Edward R. Sholkovitz, Dept. of Chemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.

"The Geochemistry of Plutonium and Cesium-137 in Marine and Lake Sediments"

Professor Bob Wilson, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

"Some Aspects on Flow Through Straits"

Sarah Horrigan, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

IINitrificatiol1 in the sediments of Great South Bay"

November 29, 1983

December 6, 1983

December 16, 1983

December 21, 1983

January 18, 1984

January 25, 1984

January 27, 1984

A-4

Prof. George C. Hilliams, Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook

"Systematics and Population Genetics of North American Catadromous Eels"

Dr. Robert Whitlatch, Associate Professor, Marine Sciences Institute, University of Connecticut

"Animal-Sediment Relations in the Deep Sea"

Dr. Edward Carpenter, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

"Nitrogen cycling in Great South Bay"

Thomas Edwards~ Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

"Dissolution of Calcium from Stabilized Coal Waste in Freshwater and in Seawater"

Brian L. Bayne, Institute for Marine Environmental Research, Plymouth, United Kingdom

"Energy and Nutrient Budgets -Physiological and Some Population Processes"

Yong Ahn Park, Professor and Associate Dean, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University

"Late Quaternary Sedimentation on the Continental Shelf Off the South-East Coast of Korea"

Dr. Woollicott Smith, Director, Data Analysis Laboratory and Associate Professor, Dept. of Statistics, Temple University

"Design of Surveys and Experiments in Marine Environments: Three Examples"

February 1, 1984

February 8, 1984

February 14, 1984

February 15, 1984

February 17, 1984

February 20, 1984

A-5

Barry F. Taylor, Professor of Marine Science, Division of Marine and Atflospheric Chemistry, Rosenteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami

"Anaerohic TransformHtion of Aromatic Compounds by Bacteria"

Shen Huan-ting, Associate Professor, Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Visiting Professor, Marine Scj.ences Research Center, Stony Brook

"Flow and Mixing of the Changjiang Estuaryf!

Professor Fred Short, Jackson Marine Laboratory, University of New Hampshire

"Nutrient Resource Limitation in Two Tropical Seagrass Environments"

Professor Douglas Y. Shapiro, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico

"Social Group and Behavioral Control of Sex Reversal in Coral Reef Fishes"

Gene Feldman, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

"Satellite ocean color observations of the eastern equatorial Pacific: the effect of 1982 and 1983 El Nino."

Tom Fenchel, Institute of Ecology and Genetics, Aarhus, Denmark

"From ciliates to the microbial cycling of elements and back to ciliates again--or the remarkable ecology of loxodid ciliates"

February 21, 1984

February 22, 1984

February 29, 1984

March 2, 1984

March 2, 1984

March 5, 1984

I'larch 7, 1984

A-6

Tom Fenchel, Institute of Ecology and Genetics, University Aarhus, Denmark

"Protozoan bacterivory in seawater"

Tom Fenchel, Institute of Ecology and Genetics, University Aarhus, Denmark

"How to Catch Bacteria"

Professor James E. }'1ackin, State University of New York at Stony Brook

"Practical Aspects of Ammonium Adsorption in Marine Sediments"

James Mitchell, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

"Polyamines in the Physiological Ecology of Phytoplankton or Do Putvescine, Cadavarine, Spermidine, and Spermine Really Stink?"

Jose Antonio Zertuche-Gonzalez, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

"Plant-Sediment Interaction: What has been done and what do I 'vant to do?"

Professor Simon A. Levin, Section of Ecology & Systematics, Cornell University

"Evolution in an ecological context: dispersal, host-parasite interactions, and aspect diversity"


"Hathematico.l Challenges in the prediction of the responses of ecosystems to anthropogenic stresses"

:Ha.rch 9, 1984

March 21, 1984

Harch 21, 1984

Harch 26, 1984

March 27, 1984

March 28, 1984

Harch 30, 1984

March 29, 1984

A-7


t:pattern formation: ecological and mathematical aspects"

Professor Edvw.rd A. Boyle, DeparLment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Trace Element Enrichments in the Mediterranean Sea"

Dr. Pat M. Glibert, Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

"Comparative Photosynthetic Capacity and Primary Productivity of Winter and Summer Phytoplankton Assemblages of Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts"

Professor Edward A. Boyle, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, MIT

"Birth of a trace element geochemist"


"Comparison of Atlantic and Pacific paleochemistry records over the last 250,000 years"


"Trace element enrichments in the Nediterranean Sea"


"Analysis of lead in seawater samples"

Professor Jerome Williams, U.S. Naval Academy

"Light in Estuaries: Concepts and Measurements"

April 2, 1984

April 3, 1984

April 4, 1984

April 4, 1984

April 4, 198L!-

A-8

Professor Leonard Pietrafesa, Department of }larine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina University, Raleigh, NC

"Gulf Stream frontal features; models and observations"

Professor Leonard Pietraresa, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina University, Raleigh, NC

"The effects of bottom topography on the coastal circulation and vorticity in The South Atlantic Bight"

Professor Leonard J. Pietrafasa, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University

"Processes Affecting the Oceanography of the South Atlantic Bight"

Dr. Patricio A. Bernal, Head; Biotecmar Department, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Talcahuano, Chile

"Low-Frequency Biological Variability in the California Current Ecosystem and its Physical Forcing"

Professor Leonard Pietrafesa, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina University, Raleigh, North Carolina

"Physical processes affecting the distributions of nutrients and transport pathways for larvae and juvenile fish in The South Atlantic Bight"

April 16, 1984

April 16, 1984

April 17, 1984

April 17, 1984

April 18, 1984

April 18, 1984

April 19, 1984

A-9

Suzanne B. DeMond, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

"Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Cyprinodon Variegatus and Fundulus Heteroclitus (Pisces: Cyprinodontidae)11

Lawrence Mysak, Professor of :tathematics and Oceanography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

"EI Nino-southern oscillation episodes and fish populations in the northeast Pacific"

Professor Mary W. Silver, Marine Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

"Marine snow: Islands of ocean life"

Lawrence Mysak, Professor of Mathematics and Oceanography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

"Generation of Rossby Waves in the North Pacific"

Lawrence Mysak, Professor of Mathematics and Oceanography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

"Meanders, eddies and instabilities off Vancouver Island"


"Feeding of the deep ocean - the rain of detritus"


"Interesting and new marine bacteria"

April 20, 1984

April 30, 1984

April 30, 1984

May 1, 1984

May 2, 1984

May 21, 1 98 if

May 22, 1984

A-10


"Algal symbioses in pelagic marine cOInmuni ties"

Professor Thomas M. Powell, Division of Environmental Studies, University of California at Da'ilis

"Chaos and Instability in Hodels of Phytoplankton Competition for Nutrients"

John Simpson, Professor of Oceanography, University College of North Wales, Menai Bridge, United Kingdom

"Continental Shelf fronts and enhancement of ocean productivity"

John Simpson, Professor of Oceanography, University College of North Wales, Menai Bridge, United Kingdom

"Local tidal mlxlng models, spring-neap adjustments, and feedback mechanisms for shelf frontsf!

John H. Simpson, Professor of Oceanography, University College of North Wales, Menai Bridge, United Kingdom

"The Effects of Mean Currents on Shelf Fronts"

Professor Robert C. Aller, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago

"Effects of macrobenthos on the chemistry of marine sedimer,.ts"

Professor Robert A. Aller, Department o~ Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago

"Solute transport and distribution in the bioturbated zone of marine sediments"

May 23, 1984

hay 25, 1984

May 30, 1984

June 4, 1984

June 22, 1984

A-11

Professor Robert A. Aller, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago

"Spatial patterns of early diagenesis and sediment-water solute exchange off the Chang Jiang, East China Sea"

Professor Robert A. Aller, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago

"The central role of iron diagenesis in sediments on the Amazon shelf"

R.L. Swanson, Research Associate, Sea Grant College Program

"Some Observations on Ocean Management"

Philippe Douillet, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

"Effect of Bacteria on the Nutrition of the Brine Shrimp Artemia Fed Dried Diets"

Chih-Shin Shieh, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook

"Stabilizing Sewage Sludge Using Fly Ash: Physical and Chemical Behavior in Seawater"

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