2024

September:

• Olivia Patrinicola off to Bermuda for research cruise in the Sargasso Sea
• Vlahos begins term as National Science Foundation Rotating Program Manager for Polar Programs

August:

• New Publication: Air-surface exchange of halomethoxybenzenes in a Swedish subarctic catchment TF Bidleman, K Agosta, E Shipley, M Tysklind, P VlahosScience of the Total Environment 948, 174849 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174849
• Lauren Barrett successfully defends her doctoral dissertation!!!!!!
• Savannah presents her REU research
• Vlahos presents at University of South Africa on Carbon Capture and Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal
• Postdoctoral Researcher Danielle Freeman Joins Group
• New graduate students Olivia Patrinicola, Quin Zabel and Erich Nitchke join group

July:

• New Publication: Timescales for the Spray-Mediated Gas Exchange of Carbon Dioxide L Hendrickson, P Vlahos, L Romero, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 12 (7), 1128 https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse12071128
• New Publication: Droughts and deluges: changes in river discharge and the carbonate chemistry of an urbanized temperate estuary. LJ Barrett, P Vlahos, MA McGuinness, MM Whitney, JMP Vaudrey, Frontiers in Marine Science 11, 1398087 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1398087
• Savannah presents her summer research at Mystic Aquarium (July 19th)
• Molly Aubrey officially joins group as a summer researcher.
• Vlahos on Capital Hill as STAC co-chair with Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) reporting on results of Long Island Sound appropriations.

June:

• New Award: Our new NOAA ECOHAB Award has been fully funded!
• New Publication: Assessing physical and biological lake oxygen indicators using simulated environmental variables and machine learning algorithms CF Chang, P Vlahos, M Astitha Environmental Modelling & Software 176, 106024
• New Publication: Exploring Outputs of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste, and Pollution Prevention  ML Diamond, G Sigmund, MG Bertram, AT Ford, M Ågerstrand, G Carlini, …Environmental Science & Technology Letters
• Vlahos attends United Nations Open Ended Working Group III – the final meeting that will set up the new global Science and Policy Panel on Chemicals and Waste (Geneva June 16-20)
• New REU Student – Savannah Cecchini joins the group!

May:

• Group attends Long Island Sound Research Conference (Erich’s first platform presentation!)

1. 1. 1. Carbonate System Parameters in Long Island Sound Waters. Erich Nitchke, Samantha Rush (University of Connecticut), Katie O’Brien-Clayton (Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection), and Penny Vlahos (University of Connecticut)
      2. Droughts and Deluges: The Effect of River Discharge on the Carbonate Chemistry of Long Island Sound. Lauren J. Barrett, Penny Vlahos, Mary A. McGuinness, Michael M.
         Whitney, Jamie M.P. Vaudrey,
      3. Assessing Environmental Social Services in Connecticut: A Subset of the Long Island
         Sound Watershed. Lucy Hendrickson, Yogesh Kumar, Steven Matile, University of
         Connecticut

• Vlahos attends SETAC Europe (May 5-9)

1. 1. 1. 6.11.P Science for Global Management of Chemicals  Penny Vlahos¹, Lena Vierke², Miriam L. Diamond³ and Marlene Ågerstrand⁴, (1)University of Connecticut, Storrs(2)German Environment Agency (UBA), Dessau-Rosslau, Germany(3)University of Toronto, Canada(4)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
      2. 6.11.P-Mo531 Recommendations for the Deliverables of the new Science and Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution Prevention  Penny Vlahos¹, Martin Scheringer², Miriam L. Diamond³, Marta Venier⁴, Marlene Ågerstrand⁵, Andreas Schaeffer⁶, Anna G Soehl⁷, Noriyuki Suzuki⁸ and Rainer Lohmann⁹,
      3. 6.11.T-01 Why we need science free of Conflict of Interest for Global Management of Chemicals  Miriam L. Diamond¹, Andreas Schäffer², Martin Scheringer³, Marlene Ågerstrand⁴, Ksenia J Groh, PhD⁵, Gabriel Sigmund⁶, Bethanie Carney Almroth⁷, Rainer Lohmann⁸, Anna G Soehl⁹, Noriyuki Suzuki¹⁰, Marta Venier¹¹ and Penny Vlahos¹²
      4. 6.11.P-Mo532 The International Panel on Chemical Pollution (IPCP): Academic scientists’ voice in support of the Intergovernmental Science−Policy Panel on Chemicals and Waste Rainer Lohmann¹, Marlene Ågerstrand², Thomas Backhaus³, Miriam L. Diamond⁴, Joan O. Grimalt⁵, Andreas Schäffer⁶, Martin Scheringer⁷, Anna G Soehl⁸, Noriyuki Suzuki⁹, Marta Venier¹⁰ and Penny Vlahos¹¹
      5. 6.11.P-Mo533 Obstacles to Scientific Input in Global Policy  Bethanie Carney Almroth¹, Amila Abeynayaka², Miriam L. Diamond³, Marina Olga Fernandez⁴, Trisia Farrelly⁵, Sedat Gündoğdu⁶, Ibrahim Issifu⁷, Andreas Schäffer⁸, Idun Rognerud⁹, Martin Scheringer¹⁰, Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez¹¹, Penny Vlahos¹², Rufino Varea¹³, Martin Wagner¹⁴ and Marlene Ågerstrand¹⁵
      6. 6.11.P-Mo537 Enhancing POPs Measurements and Reporting for Air: Keeping up with the Demands of the Global Monitoring Plan
         Tom Harner¹, Jacob Mastin¹, Lauren South¹, Amandeep Saini¹, Jasmin Schuster¹, Anita Eng¹, Derek C.G. Muir², Victor Hugo Estallano Schulze³, Haosong Jiao³, Ramon Guardans⁴, Gamini Manuweera³, Penny Vlahos⁵ and Kei Ohno⁶

April:

• Rush and Vlahos attend ARTofMELT planning workshop at the Umiversity of Stockholm (April 22-24)
• European Geophysical Union (EGU) Vienna, Austria (April 14-19)

• Vlahos Chairs NACSETAC Conference in Woods Hole (April 11 and 12)
• Vlahos facilitates global webinar on the UN’s Science Policy Panel on Chemicals and Waste (April 1oth)
• Vlahos Presents at UConn Health Symposium (April 3)

March:

• New Publication – Occurrence and toxicological relevance of pesticides and trace metals in agricultural soils, sediments, and water of the Sogamoso River basin, Colombia, Gallego, J.L.,  Shipley, E.R., Vlahos, P., Olivero-Verbel, J. Chemosphere, 141713
• New graduate student Quin Zabel awarded the Jorgensen Fellowship!

February:

• Great New Video Released on our Arctic Research
• Our group presents at the AGU-Ocean Sciences in New Orleans
  • AI14B-2329: Modeling CO2 emission from an evaporating sea spray drople Lucy Hendrickson Penny Vlahos, Leonel Romero
  • HE14C-2615: Non-conservative nature of Boron in low salinity Arctic ice and ice melt zones, Samantha Rush, Penny Vlahos, Kitack Lee,
    Chang-Ho Lee, Lauren Barrett
  • CB34A-1068: Interactions between acidification and hypoxia in a seasonally eutrophic temperate estuary, Long Island Sound, Lauren Barrett and Penny Vlahos

January:

• New publication Kidney disease hotspots and water balance in a warming world MC Nieves, A Powers, S Anand, P Vlahos Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension 33 (1), 122-129
• Lauren Barrett heads to DC as Knauss Fellow!!!!

2023

December:

• Vlahos podcast on a Changing Arctic for the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
• Lauren Barrett Hosts Shell Day 2023 Event
• Vlahos attends United Nations Second Open Ended Working Group on Forming a Science Policy Panel on Chemicals and Waste in Nairobi Kenya

November:

• New Publication Conflicts of Interest in the Assessment of Chemicals, Waste, and Pollution A Schäffer, et al., Environmental science & technology 57 (48), 19066-19077
• Lucy Hendrickson gives Brown Bag

October:

• Samantha Rush returns from two months of research in Korea!
• Vlahos goes to Capital Hill with Citizens Advisory Committee representing the Science and Technical Advisory Committee of Long Island Sound
• Vlahos on National Science Foundation Review Panel
• Vlahos presents at “Securing our Sustainable Future“

September:

• Lauren Barrett receives Knauss Fellowship and will be going to DC in the legislative branch
• Vlahos presents at Joint CAC/STAC Meeting in Stamford, CT
• New publication: Sediment-water fluxes of inorganic carbon and nutrients in the Pacific Arctic during the sea ice melt season https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2023.105116
• New publication: A New Approach to Predict Tributary Phosphorus Loads Using Machine Learning – and Physics-Based Modeling Systems https://doi.org/10.1175/AIES-D-22-0049.1
• New publication: A Hitchhiker’s guide to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) monitoring in air: Establishing a baseline network in Sri Lanka DOI: 10.1016/j.apr.2023.101901
• Samantha Rush goes to South Korea to perform boron analyses in Professor Kitack Lee’s group at Pohang University of Science and Technology.

August:

New publication: Riverine Discharge Fuels the Production of Methylmercury in a Large Temperate Estuary https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c00473

Barrett leads 2023 Shell Day Event in Long Island Sound (Aug. 23rd)

Lucy Henrickson begins NSF Team Terra Fellowship Program

July:

Rush, Henrickson & Barrett present at Gordon Research Conference in Chemical Oceanography in NH

Vlahos Section Leader in Anthropogenic Tracers in the Sea at Gordon Research Conference in Chemical Oceanography in NH

Emma Shipley successfully defends her doctoral research July 11th!

June:

New publication: Obstacles to scientific input in global policy in Science

New publication: Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research in Global Change Biology

ARTofMELT cruise completed successfully!

Vlahos presents to crown princess Victoria of Sweden and the Minister of Climate on the successes of the cruise and directions for Arctic Research

NAC SETAC Conference in Amherst MA – Vlahos is incoming president

Lucy Hendrickson attends SOLAS summer program in Cape Verde in West Africa

May:

Rush, Barrett & Vlahos joint ARTofMELT research expedition on icebreaker ODEN for 6 weeks!

Shipley and Hendrickson present at Feng Colloquium

Accepted: A new approach to predict tributary phosphorus loads using machine learning and physics-based modeling systems in Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems

April:

Emma Shipley presents at European Geophysical Union in Vienna, Austria (April 22-28)

Lauren Barrett presents at European Geophysical Union in Vienna, Austria (April 22-28) Session OS3.3 – Effects of anthropogenic pressure on marine ecosystems Early melt-season nutrient and inorganic carbon sediment-water fluxes in the Bering and Chukchi Seas Lauren Barrett, Penny Vlahos, and Doug Hammond

Hendrickson and Vlahos meet shipment in Sweden and set-up ship laboratory for ARTofMELT expedition.

New publication: Describing Natural History and Exploring Risk Factors for Kidney Function Decline in Persons With CKD of Uncertain Etiology in Sri Lanka in Kidney International Reports

March:

New publication: Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16689

New publication: A new approach to predict tributary phosphorus loads using machine learning and physics-based modeling systems in Artificial Intelligence
for the Earth Systems.

New publication: Approach to Early Diagnosis of CKDu by Assessing an at Risk Community in Sri Lanka in Kidney International Reports

Shipment leaves for ARTof MELT expedition (this has been a busy month)

February:

Vlahos attends United Nations open ended working group for the Science and Policy Panel on Chemicals and Waste in Bangkok (Jan 30-Feb 3rd).

Whittington awarded  the Team-TERRA graduate fellowship  for 2023-2025

January:

New publication Key Principles for the Intergovernmental-Science Policy Panel on Chemicals and Waste in Environmental Science and Technology https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c08283.

Applicant Abigail Whittington nominated for Harriott and CLAS fellowships.

Vlahos elected as a Councilor on the Connecticut Academy’s Governing Council.

2022

December:

New NSF Project Funded – We have just been awarded an NSF grant to join the ARTofMELT expedition aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden in May/June 2023!

November:

Vlahos attends the UN World Ocean Assessment III Planning Workshop in The Hague, Netherlands (Nov 28-30th) in the first round of five regional workshops in the third cycle of the United Nations World Ocean Assessment aiming to inform the scoping of the next assessment(s), raise awareness and provide information, receive feedback, and generate interest from the regional scientific community.

Mary McGuinness presents her Masters research on Alkalinity in Long Island Sound Embayments (ALISE) (Nov. 18th)

• Vlahos gives Environmental Science Seminar at O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs – November 3, 2022, at 3:00 PM ET Hosted by Dr. Marta Venier A Changing Arctic: Discerning Biogeochemical Signatures of Arctic Marginal Ice Zones

1. October:

• Lauren Barrett ties the knot! Congratulations Lauren & Tim
• Samantha Rush and Vlahos attend ARTofMELT workshop at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.

1. September:

• New publication in Nature Communications Earth & Environment: Non-conservative nature of boron in Arctic marginal ice zones 2022-09-19 | Journal article DOI: 10.1038/s43247-022-00552-0 Penny Vlahos; Kitack Lee; Chang-Ho Lee; Lauren Barrett; Lauren Juranek.
• NSF Arctic Data Center  2022. Boron in seawater, ice and brine in the Bering and Chukchi Seas May-June 2021. doi:10.18739/A2V698D41.
• Emma Shipley conducts field research in Sweden on bromo and chloro anisols in coastal waters.

1. August:

• Samantha Rush awarded best poster content at the SOLAS Summer School 2022 and $500 for a research cost/travel award
  
• Final sampling time-point for ALISE I project

1. July:

• paper accepted in Nature Communications Earth & Environment – Non-conservative nature of boron in Arctic marginal ice zones

1. June:

• New NSF Award – Vlahos and Romero have received a new award from the National Science Foundation  to study carbon dioxide gas exchange in sea spray under high winds (SSAGE).
• Mary McGuiness wins best graduate student platform at NAC SETAC
• Emma Shipley presents her natural halogenated bromophenol/anisol work at NAC SETAC

1. May:

• Our group’s research featured by the Long Island Sound Study
• Emma Shipley presents at SETAC Europe
• Lauren Barrett and Mary McGuinness present at the Long Island Sound Research conference May 18th
• Vlahos on Fulbright Specialist visit at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
• Group approved for Swedish Polar Research effort May/June 2023 on the Icebreaker Oden

1. April:

• Samantha Rush receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)
• Lucy Hendrickson has been accepted into the Team-TERRA cohort for 2022-2024
• Vlahos gives talk at Connecticut College

1. March:

• Shipley et al. 2022 “Agrochemical exposure in Sri Lankan inland water systems” is published
• Vlahos participates in ARTofMELT workshop planning for Arctic 2023 field effort.
• Vlahos presents as panelist at the Mystic Aquarium “Global View of The Environment“
• Vlahos serves on NSF panel

1. February:

• Vlahos elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
• Ocean Sciences 2022 presentations by our group:

1. 1. 1. 1. Concentrations of boron along an arctic marginal ice zone  Penny  Vlahos, Session Block: HL11 Arctic Ocean processes, progress, and potential explored through synthesis supported research 01, Session Format: Oral Session Date and Time: 3/3/2022: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Room: Room 05

         2. Detection and Quantification of Brominated Natural Products in Arctic and Mid-Latitude Coastal Air and Waters  Emma  Shipley, Session Block: HL11 Arctic Ocean processes, progress, and potential explored through synthesis supported research 02 Session Format: Oral Session Date and Time: 3/3/2022: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room: Room 05

         3. Carbonate System Dynamics in the Chukchi Sea Summertime Marginal Ice Zone   Lauren  Barrett, Session Block: HL11 Arctic Ocean processes, progress, and potential explored through synthesis supported research 02 Session Format: Oral Session Date and Time: 3/3/2022: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room: Room 05

         4. Alakalinty of Long Island Sound Coastal Embayments  Mary A McGuinness, Session Block: CB16 Advancing our understanding of biogeochemical coupling with models and observations in estuaries and coastal waters 03 Session Format: Oral Session Date and Time: 3/2/2022: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Room: Room 06

2. January:

• Vlahos and Abadia awarded seed grant to study environmental water quality impact on cognitive development in children in target communities along the Magdalena River in Columbia.
• Vlahos receives Fulbright Specialist award to work on global pollutants at ETH in Zurch.
• Applicant Lucy Henrickson nominated for Jorgensen Fellowship
• Applicant Samantha Rush nominated for Harriot & CLAS Fellowships

1. 2021
2. December:

• Emma’s paper on “Agrochemical exposure in Sri Lankan inland water systems” accepted in Environmental Advances
• Our paper “Water Sources and Kidney Function: Investigating Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology in a Prospective Study” in Nature Partner Journals – Clean Water (NPJ – Clean Water) by Vlahos et al. is published

1. November:

• Emma Shipley presents “04.10.24 Development and Validation of Two Polymers for In Situ Passive Sampling of Munitions Compounds” at the NA SETAC Meeting.
• Emma Shipley presents at Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Steering Council progress meeting.
• Lauren Barrett presents her work “Internal consistency of the inorganic carbon system in Long Island Sound” at the Biennial Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF 2021).

1. October:

• Paper accepted “Water Sources and Kidney Function: Investigating Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology in a Prospective Study” in Nature Partner Journals – Clean Water (NPJ – Clean Water) by Vlahos et al.
• IPCP International Workshop hosted Oct 2oth 2021. Over 500 registrants from over 69 countries.

1. September:

• Paper accepted “Linking multi-media modeling with machine learning to assess and predict lake chlorophyll-α concentrations” in Journal of Great Lakes Research  by Christina Feng Chang, M. Astitha, D. Wanik, J. Yan, C. Tang V. Garcia.

1. August:

• Nature Geosciences paper published in Aug 5th issue “The role of sea spray in atmosphere–ocean gas exchange“
• Our Nature Geosciences paper highlighted in “News & Views-Big potential for tiny droplets”
• Emma Shipley deploys passive samplers in gridded environmental sampling effort in Washington State.
• Vlahos appointed Associate Head for Department of Marine Sciences

1. July:

• Whitney & Vlahos present to CT Department of Energy & Environmental Protection on strategies for reducing hypoxia in Long Island Sound.
• Sampling for the ALISE project officially begins. This samples the carbonate system in Long Island Sound Embayments.
• Vlahos selected as Connecticut co-chair of the Science and Technical Advisory Committee  (STAC) for Long Island Sound.

1. June:

• Manuscript accepted “The role of sea spray in atmosphere ocean gas exchange” by Allison Staniec, Penny Vlahos, and Edward Monahan [Paper #NGS-2019-08-01764D]  Nature Geoscience.
• Lauren Barrett presents “Over-specification of the inorganic carbon system of Long Island Sound” at the ASLO 2021 meeting
• Vlahos selected for Fulbright Specialist Roster (2021-2025)
• Our group returns from arctic cruise to Seward, Alaska.

1. May:

• Our group sets off to Dutch Harbor Alaska for a 2 week pre-cruise COVID quarantine (May 3rd)
• We embark on the RV Sikuliaq (May 18th)
• Manuscript accepted “The Mid Atlantic Bight dissolved inorganic carbon system observed in the March 1996 DOE Ocean Margins Program (OMP) -A baseline study” Ting-Hsuan Huang, Wei-Jun Cai, Penny Vlahos, Douglas Wallace, Ernie R. Lewis, Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Front. Mar. Sci. | doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.629412

1. April:

• all equipment is shipped for Arctic cruise
• Kidney Progression Project Symposium (April 28th) – we presented the results of our NIH KiPP projects in a virtual symposium with over 60 attendees from 11 countries.

1. March:

• New Project funded by NSF –  Arctic Marginal Ice Zone Alkalinity (AMIZA) 

1. February:

• Rebha Raviraj is awarded summer undergraduate research fellowship and will be joining our lab in summer 2021 to conduct work on microplastics.
• Vlahos serves on NASA panel

1. January:

• New publication in Environmental Science and Technology “Reducing Hypoxia in an Urban Estuary Despite Climate Warming“ Whitney & Vlahos
• Vlahos elected to Board of International Panel on Chemical Pollutants

1. 2020
2. December:

• New Project funded by LISS – Alkalinity in Long Island Sound Embayments (ALISE)
• New publication in Microplastics and Nanoplastics, “Are litter, plastic and microplastic quantities increasing in the ocean?”  F. Galgani et et.,

1. November:

• New publication in Environmental Research Letters “Synoptic assessment of coastal total alkalinity through community science” Rheuban et al.,
• Emma Shipley presents at NA SETAC 1.08.02 – Development and Testing of Two Polymers for In Situ Passive Sampling of Munitions Compounds
• ALISE sampling effort July sampling
• LIS Respire sampling continues with additional diurnal sampling

1. October:

• RO1 proposal funded to conduct a 5 year study continuing our water quality work in Sri Lanka Funded with colleagues from Stanford University.
• ALISE sampling effort
• LIS Respire sampling continues with additional diurnal sampling

2. September:

• New publication in Water Resources Management “Future Projections of Water Temperature and Thermal Stratification in Connecticut Reservoirs and Possible Implications for Cyanobacteria“ C. A. Mullin, C.J. Kirchhoff, G. Wang, P.Vlahos https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027185
• Lauren Barrett presents at the virtual RAE/CSO 2020 Summit – The National Coastal Estuarine Summit  September 29 – October 1, 2020
• ALISE sampling effort
• LIS Respire sampling continues with additional diurnal sampling

1. August:

• ALISE sampling effort
• LIS Respire sampling continues with additional diurnal sampling

1. July:

• Allison Staniec successfully defends her doctoral Research. Way to go Allie!
• ALISE sampling effort underway
• LIS Respire sampling cruise re-starts following COVID hiatus

1. June:

• New publication in the New England Journal of Medicine “Using GIS Mapping to Track Hot Spots of Kidney Disease in California” Shuchi Anand, M.D., Allison Staniec, B.A., Maria Montez-Rath, Ph.D., Penny Vlahos, Ph.D. a Stanford University School of Medicine and UCONN collaboration combines human health with environmental water quality.
• Allison Staniec selected for the prestigious NSF DISCO XXVI program! DISCO participants (currently 25 per meeting) are selected from universities all over the world, with a majority of attendees from U.S. universities. The number of participants to date (DISCO I–XXVI) exceeds 640, and they were selected from an applicant pool that exceeded 80 eligible doctorates in recent years.

1. May:

• Vlahos present to the Governor’s Council on Climate Change GC3 Wetlands Work Group.
• Our labs re-open May 20th for restricted research operations.

1. April:

• Vlahos participates in Global Environmental Facility (GEF) panel for special report by the IPCP on Conventions.
• Labs close due to Coronavirus

1. March:

• Book: Recent Advances in the Study of Oceanic Whitecaps: Twixt Wind and Waves –

1. Editors: Vlahos, Penny, Monahan, Edward C. (Eds.) by Springer is published.
7. February:
8. 

• CP13C-01 Biogeochemical Controls on Pelagic Respiration Rates in Long Island Sound
  Lauren Barrett, Penny Vlahos, Jamie MP Vaudrey and Michael M Whitney, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States. Monday, 17 February 2020
• CP23A-03 Organochlorine Pesticides (OCPs) and Total Mercury in Stranded Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) Pups from the Northeast Atlantic
  Raul Flamenco, United States; California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Biological Sciences, Pomona, CA, United States, Penny Vlahos, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, Zofia Baumann, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States and Tracy Romano, Mystic Aquarium, Mystic, CT, United States. Tuesday, 18 February 202
• CP33A-08 Carbon and Nitrogen balances of the Long Island Sound Estuary
  Penny Vlahos¹, Michael M Whitney¹, John R Mullaney², Christina Menniti³ and Jonathan Morrison⁴, (1)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (2)USGS Connecticut Water Science Center, East Hartford, CT, United States, (3)University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, East Hartford, CT, United States. Wednesday, 19 February 2020

• AI33A-01 The Growing Awareness of the Various Roles Bubbles Play in Air-Sea Exchange
  Edward C Monahan¹, Penny Vlahos¹ and Allison Staniec², (1)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States. Wednesday, 19 February 2020
• CP34A-08 Biogeochemistry of the Mahaweli River, Sri Lanka
  Emma Shipley¹, Penny Vlahos², Rohana Chandrajith³, Prasanna Wijerathna⁴ and Sachintha Senarathne⁴, (1)University of Connecticut – Avery Point Campus, Groton, CT, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (3)University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Department of Geology, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, (4)University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Wednesday, 19 February 2020
• CP44F-1431 Nitrogen sources and fluxes in Western Long Island Sound
  Christina Menniti¹, Michael M Whitney², Penny Vlahos² and Allison Byrd², (1)University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United StatesThursday, 20 February 2020
• AI44A-2412 Gas Exchange via Sea Spray: A Refined Model
  Allison Staniec¹, Penny Vlahos² and Edward C Monahan², (1)University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States. Thursday, 20 February 2020

1. January:

• Our newest member Mary McGuiness nominated for and receives the Crandall Fellowship
• Lauren Barrett presents her Shell Day results at the CT Shellfish Commission in New Haven January 11th

1. 2019
2. December:

• Book edited by Vlahos & Monahan has final proofs approved by Springer Publishers.
• Byrd et al., (2020) Tidally resolved observations of organic carbon exchange through Eastern Long Island Sound  in Estuaries and Coastal Shelf Science is published https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2019.106463
• Vlahos et al., (2020) Nitrogen Budgets of the Long Island Sound Estuary in Estuaries and Coastal Shelf Science is published https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2019.106493
• 7th Respire Program Cruise is completed

1. November:

• UN WOA II revisions completed
• Vlahos presents seminar at City College New York (November 22nd)
• Shipley presents Assessing agrochemical pollution in shallow well waters and chronic kidney disease in endemic Sri Lankan villages at NA SETAC in Toronto
• Vlahos presents A baseline atmospheric passive sampling network of legacy and emerging organic contaminants in Sri Lanka at NA SETAC, Toronto
• Vlahos Chairs session on passive sampling in NA SETAC

1. October:

• KiPP data collection is completed marking the end of the three year NIH study following a 300 person cohort of individuals inflicted with CKDu.
• Staniec and Vlahos participate in the Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions: Scoping directions for U.S. research workshop – October 1-3, 2019 in Sterling VA.
• Vlahos presents seminar at Wellesley College (October 21st)
• 6th Respire Program Cruise is completed

1. September:

• Fulbright Scholar Jorge Louis Gallego Zappata joins our lab group  for a six month research collaboration from Cartagena Columbia
• 5th LISS Respire Cruise completed
• Vlahos joins Dean’s Strategic Planning Process group

1. August:

• Our summer REU student Raul Flamenco wins the summer REU Fellowship and will be presenting his research from our group at the 2020 Ocean Sciences meeting in San Diego CA.
• 2 more LISS Respire Program cruises completed
• Lauren Barrett (doctoral candidate) takes the lead in the first Shell Day event of the Northeast Coastal Acidification Network. Our lab participated as the analysis center that analyzed alkalinity samples for all Connecticut citizen science groups.
• Emma Shipley completes biogeochemical field work along the Mahaweli River in Sri Lanka

1. July:

• Vlahos and Monahan complete Festchrift “Twixt Wind and Waves”and submit book to Springer Publishers
• United Nations World Ocean Assessment 2 Chapter is in! We completed the first draft for review.
• Monahan Symposium on July 25th!
• Emma climbs Machu Picchu 🙂
• Vlahos et al paper on the first Nitrogen fluxes in Long Island Sound is accepted! This is an exciting part of our LIS biogeochemical flux efforts.
• Second LISS Respire Program cruise

1. June:

• Allison Byrd’s first paper is accepted in Coastal, Estuarine and Shelf Science. Great job Allison!
• Raul Flamenco joins our team as a summer REU
• Last Western LIS cruise which concludes our EPA biogeochemical flux field efforts.

1. May:

• First LISS Respire Program is underway! We joined the CT Department of Energy and ENvironmental Protection’s RV Dempsey crew for the first of many monthly sampling events over the next two years.
• Allison Byrd presents her Masters. Congratulations Allison on completing your Masters research. Happy you will be sticking around for a bit this summer!

1. April:

• Emma Shipley tied for first place at the NE SETAC conference in Boston MA for her presentation on contaminants in Sri Lankan air and drinking water!

1. March:

• Vlahos presents at 3rd International CKDu meeting in MArch 23-25 (San Jose, Costa Rica)
• The Long Island Sound Research Conference March‎ ‎15‎, ‎2019 (Port Jefferson, NY) presentations from our group:
  • Assessing the Distributions of Carbon and Nitrogen Between the East River Tidal Strait and Western Long Island Sound Allison Byrd, University of Connecticut
  • Nitrogen Budgets of the Long Island Sound Estuary Penny Vlahos, University of Connecticut
  • Linking Nitrogen Sources to Western Long Island Sound Water Quality Michael M.​ ​Whitney, University of Connecticut
  • Distributions of Alkalinity in Long Island Sound Allison Staniec, University of Connecticut

1. February:

• Lauren Barrett officially joins our group as a new doctoral researcher!

1. January:

• Vlahos attends UN meeting Capacity Building meeting for the second World Ocean Assessment

1. 2018
2. December:

• The Long Island Sound (LIS) Respire Program is funded! Official Announcement Link. This EPA-NYSG & CTSG funded project will constrain the biogeochemistry of LIS over two years.

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2. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Presentations from Our Group

• OS23A-04 Nutrient Exchange in Western Long Island Sound through the Highly Urbanized East River Tidal Strait. Allison Byrd, Penny Vlahos and Michael M Whitney
• OS41C-2040 Degradation Rates of Natural Organic Matter in Long Island Sound. Oriana Strieleman, Allison Byrd, Allison Staniec and Penny Vlahos
• A11G-2284 Sea Spray: Potential Contributions to Global Gas Exchange. Allison Staniec, Penny Vlahos and Edward C Monahan
• OS41C-2042 Resolving Shifting Nitrogen Budgets of the Long Island Sound Estuary. Penny Vlahos, Michael M Whitney, John R Mullaney, Jonathan Morrison and Christina Menniti

1. October:

• Celebration of Lifetime achievement for Prof. Donald Mackay in Toronto, Canada (Oct. 30&31)
• Vlahos & Schensul present in Fogarty NIH meeting Bethesda MD, (Oct. 29&30)
• Vlahos attends UN Regular Process on the State of the Oceans Report II in Odessa, Ukraine (Oct. 17&18)
• Anand et al. manuscript accepted “Prospective Biopsy-Based Study of Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology in Sri Lanka“Clinical J. of the Am. Soc. of Nephrol.
• Sea Grant Awards seed grant to our group to explore organic alkalinity in coastal zones!

1. September:

• Manuscript Accepted in Biogeosciences Discussions “Carbon cycling in the North American coastal ocean: A synthesis“, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2018-420
• NIH awards our KiPP project a supplemental award to extend the study until June 2020.

1. August:
   • LISS Western Long Island Sound Cruises Aug 14&15
   • Mean Annual Fluxes of Carbon in Coastal Ecosystems of Eastern North America – Dataset published and now available   https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1594
   • Manuscript Accepted in Global Public Health “Kidney Progression Project (KiPP): Protocol for a Longitudinal Cohort Study of Progression in Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology in Sri Lanka” Vlahos, Schensul, Nanayakkara, Chandrajith, Haider, Anand, Silva, Schensul
   • Manuscript Accepted in Science of the Total Environment “Tracing the cycling and fate of the munition, Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine in a simulated sandy coastal marine habitat with a stable isotopic tracer, 15N-[RDX]” Ariyarathna, Ballentine, Vlahos, Smith, Cooper, Böhlke, Fallis, Groshens, Tobias
2. July:

• Manuscript accepted in Environmental Pollution: Occurrence and Partitioning Behavior of Perfluoroalkyl Acids in Wastewater Effluents Discharging into the Long Island Sound By Elmoznino, Vlahos & Whitney
• Staniec attends SOLAS summer school in Corsica, France (June 23 – Aug 3)
• The United States Carbon Cycle Science Program is an inter-agency partnership and has released the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2). We have contributed to Chapter 16. Coastal Oceans and Continental Shelves, pages 651-695.
• Vlahos selected on US pool of experts for United Nations .State of the Marine Environment, 2nd  Assessment

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2. June:

• Dominion Foundation presents our group with a $10000 award to expand and improve the DUCOS station.
• Vlahos NIH meeting in DC (June 25, 26)
• Vlahos Fulbright visit to Columbia (June 9 to 24)
• Second LISS western cruise takes place (June 7 and 8th)
• Oriana Strieleman (NSF-REU, summer 2018) joins group 🙂

1. May:

• Vlahos selected to join inaugural subcommittee on Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions across the OCB (Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry) and SOLAS (Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study) programs https://www.us-ocb.org/about/ocb-subcommittees/subcommittee-on-ocean-atmosphere-interactions/ 

1. April:

• Vlahos awarded Fulbright to  the University of Cartagena Program in Environmental Toxicology in Cartagena, Colombia
• Jessica presents research at SURF spring meeting at Storrs.
• Emma Shipley Awarded UCONN’s Jorgensen Fellowship for doctoral studies.
• Vlahos co-chairs NIH panel

1. March:

• Manuscript Accepted in Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (2018) “Investigation of a new passive sampler for the detection of munitions compounds in marine and freshwater systems” Warren, Vlahos*, Smith,  Tobias; Manuscript ID ETCJ-Feb-18-00089. https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/etc.4143
• NIH R-21 Baseline survey complete. We now have the baseline data, have successfully recruited 300 participants with Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) and have begun analyzing their well waters for nutrients and agrochemicals in Wilgamuwa, Sri Lanka.
• Jessica Hinckley accepts  summer fellowship at Dominion Energy. Congratulations Jessica we are proud of you. Jess will also remain with us throughout the summer on Fridays to continue work on the DUCOS timeseries.

1. February:

• Najjar et al., “Carbon budget of tidal wetlands, estuaries, and shelf waters of Eastern North America” accepted in Global Biogeochemical Cycles [Paper #2017GB005790RR]

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3. Ocean Sciences Presentations from Our Group

• CD14A-0018 Investigating Dissolved Gas Concentrations and Alkalinity in a Long Island Sound Time Series Hinckley & Vlahos, 
  

  Monday, February 12, 2018. 04:00 PM – 06:00 PM

• AI41A-01 The Contribution of the Spume Drops Torn off Wave Crests to the Air-Sea Exchange of Gases at High Wind Speeds Monahan, Staniec &Vlahos,
  

  Thursday, February 15, 2018. 08:00 AM – 08:15 AM – B116

• AI41A-04 The Relative Importance of Gas Exchange via Sea Spray Droplets Determined from Modeling Applied to 19 Distinct Ocean Sub-regions Staniec, Vlahos & Monahan, Thursday, February 15, 2018. 08:45 AM – 09:00 AM – B116
• BN41A-05 Carbon Budget of Tidal Wetlands, Estuaries, and Shelf Waters of Eastern North America Najjar et al., Thursday, February 15, 2018. 09:00 AM – 09:15 AM- D137-D138

• BN51A-03 Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Exports from Long Island Sound to the Mid-Atlantic Bight Byrd, Vlahos, Whitney & Warren
  

  Friday, February 16, 2018. 08:30 AM – 08:45 AM – D137-D138

• CD44B-0181 Nitrogen Budgets in the Long Island Sound Estuary  Vlahos, Whitney, Mullaney, Morrison &Menniti
  

  Thursday, February 15, 2018. 04:00 PM – 06:00 PM – Poster Hall- Poster Hall

1. January:

• Allison Staniec receives SOLAS Summer Fellowship in Corsica, France.

1. 2017
2. December:

• Andreas, Vlahos & Monahan paper “Spray-Mediated Air-Sea Gas Exchange: The Governing Time Scales” accepted in Journal of Marine Science & Engineering, http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/5/4/60

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2. AGU Presentations from Our Group

• OS33A-1440 Constraining the Exchange of Carbon and Nitrogen in Eastern Long Island Sound  Allison Byrd, Joseph K Warren, Penny Vlahos and Michael MWhitney, Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 13:40 – 18:00. New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Poster Hall D-F.
• OS24A-05 Variations in organic carbon fluxes from Long Island Sound to the Continental Shelf Penny Vlahos and Michael M Whitney, Tuesday, 12 December 2017, 17:00 – 17:15. New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 275-277.
• OS51A-1139 Tracking the Fate of Explosive-Trinitrotriazine (RDX) in Coastal Marine Ecosystems Using Stable Isotopic Tracer Thivanka Sureni Ariyarathna¹, Mark Ballentine¹, Penny Vlahos², Richard W Smith³, John Karl Bohlke⁴, Craig R Tobias⁵, Stephen Fallis⁶, Thomas Groshens⁶ and Christopher Cooper¹, 15 December 2017, 08:00 – 12:20. New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Poster Hall D-F
• B23I-03 Using Multi-media Modeling to Investigate Conditions Leading to Harmful Algal Blooms Valerie Garcia¹, Catherine Nowakowski², Marina Astitha³, Penny Vlahos⁴, Ellen J Cooter⁵ and Chunling Tang¹, Tuesday, 12 December 2017, 14:10 – 14:25. New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 356-357.
• A51D-2096 Modelling the Evolution of Sea Spray Droplets on a Global Scale Allison Staniec¹, Penny Vlahos² and Edward C Monahan², Friday, 15 December 2017, 08:00 – 12:20. New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Poster Hall D-F.

2. November:

• Vlahos, Warren, Smith & Tobias  presentation “An in situ passive sampler for the detection and remediation of explosive compounds” in Washington DC, Nov. 29th SERDP/ESTCP Symposium.
• Monahan, Staniec & Vlahos paper accepted in JGR “Spume Drops:Their Potential Role in Air-Sea Gas Exchange”   http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017JC013293/full

1. October:

• DUCOS time series up and running live! http://ducos.uconn.edu/
• Our first Long Island Sound Study Sampling Cruise Oct 16 & 20th in Western end.
• Event: “Water – One of the 21st century’s biggest challenges” Vlahos (panelist) The Salon at the Benton: Art & Conversation http://events.uconn.edu/event/55535/2017-10-13

1. September:

• Field effort in Sri Lanka Sept 20 to 27th. We set up the extraction apparatus for the field team and optimized the survey instrument.

1. August:

• Final Sea Grant sampling cruise takes place in eastern LIS
• First EPA/LISS cruise takes place in central and western LIS

1. July:

•  Staniec & Vlahos manuscript “Timescales for determining Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen Trends in the Long Island Sound Estuary” accepted in  Continental Shelf Research http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278434317302455

1. June:

• manuscript accepted: “Organic Carbon Patterns and Budgets in the Long Island Sound Estuary” Vlahos and Whitney in special issue of Limnology and Oceanography  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lno.10638/full
• Both Allisons Staniec & Byrd attend Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry meeting at Woods Hole
• Vlahos & Whitney present at Long Island Sound Science and Technical Advisory Committee (June 16th)
• Joseph Warren completes and presents his Masters work (June 8th)
• Vlahos presents poster and platform presentations at International Passive Sampling Workshop (IPSW) in Toronto, Canada (June 1 & 2)

1. May:

• Undergraduates Jessica Hinckley (Marine Sciences) and Stephen Cangliosi (Biomedical Engineering) have just started up our Dominion-UConn carbon and oxygen time series at UConn Avery Point. This is the first continuous time series for simultaneous pCO2, dissolved oxygen and pH in Long Island Sound.
• Vlahos nominated for HORIBA award (Kyoto, Japan)
• Vlahos & Monahan present at SOLAS meeting in Corsica, France
• Vlahos & Schensul present at NIH all investigators meeting in Bethesda MD

1. April:

• manuscript accepted: “A Novel in Situ Sulfate Sampler for Aquatic Systems” Vlahos, Warren, Houghton and Fike in the American Chemical Society: Earth and Space Chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.7b00012
• Vlahos & Schensul present at Global Meeting on Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology in Mexico City

1. March:

• Vlahos presents at North American Carbon Program all investigators meeting “Organic Carbon Patterns and Budgets in the Long Island Sound Estuary” (Penny Vlahos, Michael Whitney) https://www.nacarbon.org/cgi-bin/meeting_2017/mtg2017_ab_search.pl?action=3&ab_id=290 
• Vlahos presents at the National Academy of Sciences in Mexico City “Chemistry, the oceans and climate” with the “Best of UConn” team http://www.mexicoescultura.com/actividad/163543/en/the-best-university-of-connecticut-in-mexico.html#prettyPhoto

1. February:

• Jessica Hinckley receives Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) for summer 2017 to work on alkalinity and CO2 in Long Island Sound.
• Allison Staniec presents “Dissolved oxygen and temperature trends in Long Island Sound” at ASLO in Honolulu Hawaii https://www.sgmeet.com/aslo/honolulu2017/viewabstract.asp?AbstractID=28999

1. January:

• Vlahos launches R21 project meeting in Sri Lanka Jan 4 to 14th

1. 2016
2. December:

• Whitney & Vlahos Awarded New Funding for the Project LISS 01719: “Nutrient and Carbon Fluxes through Long Island Sound (LIS), Linking River Sources to Impacted Areas”, beginning in Spring 2017 that will be coupled with ongoing studies in Eastern LIS.
• Thivanka Ariyarathna successfully defends her doctoral dissertation (Dec. 2)

1. November:

• SeaGrant cruise 3 uderway
• Vlahos and Schensul attend Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology in Chicago in preparation for studies in Sri Lanka
• Catherine (Catrina) Nowakowski  our summer undergraduate research fellow (SURF), (advised by Astitha and Vlahos) was one of 3 recipients of the CMAS best student poster award and the only undergraduate recipient of the award!!!! Way to go Catrina! She presented her summer work -“Prediction of harmful water quality parameters combining weather, air quality and ecosystem models with in-situ measurements”.  https://www.cmascenter.org/

1. October:

• SERDP project is named project of the year for 2016 (Tobias and Vlahos).

1. September:

• Vlahos and Schensul Awarded NIH R21 Grant to study Environmental Factors related to Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown (CKDu) Etiology in Sri Lanka
• Warren presents at the UConnThomas John and Bette Wolff event.

1. August:

• Vlahos receives Dominion Grant to establish a pCO2 time series in eastern Long Island Sound http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/20160825/NEWS/160829963/1020?utm_source=enews&utm_medium=Energy%2BNews&utm_campaign=Thursday
• Thivanka has her baby! Congratulations!!!
• Joseph Warren selected as one of 5 nominees for the Thomas John and Bette Wolff prize for his work as an NSF Accelerate UConn summer fellow

1. July:

• Thivanka’s paper accepted in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry “Biodegradation and mineralization of isotopically labeled TNT and RDX in anaerobic marine sediments”

1. June:

• Vlahos Presents seminar in Arctic Research Center at University of Aarhus (June 22)
• Thivanka Ariyarathna wins best platform presentation at NE SETAC (June 16)
• Vlahos gives plenary talk at University of Lund Sweden (June 14)

1. May:

• First Long Island Sound Field Effort Completed!
• Allison Staniec presents poster at Long Island Sound Meeting
• Joanne Elmoznino gets hooded! (May 8th)

1. April:

• Vlahos gives TEDx talk “Humanity and the Bacteria Model”  SSR2016PV.mp4
• Vlahos presents final project report in Vicksberg, MS for SERDP-SEED Project.

1. March:

• Samplers from Baltic cruise retrieved!!!!
• Warren (Entrepreneurial head) & Vlahos (Academic Head)  awarded stage 2 NSF ICORPS Summer Fellowship  for EVA SYSTEMS LLC.
• Ballantine’s manuscript is accepted! Uptake and fate of hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) in coastal marine biota determined using a stable isotopic tracer, 15N – [RDX] Chemosphere 06/2016; 153:28-38. OI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.03.038

1. February:

• Ocean Sciences 2016 A34C-2670: Setting an Upper Limit on Gas Exchange Through Sea-Spray Penny Vlahos¹, Edward C.  Monahan¹, Edward Andreas^{2, 1}Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, 1080 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT 06340, USA, ²NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., 25 Eagle Ridge, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA
• Vlahos and Warren receive NSF- Accelerate UConn award

1. January:

• Article accepted in the Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces Volume (GTWS 2016) – The Potential Role of Sea Spray Droplets in Facilitating Air‑Sea Gas Transfer Edgar L Andreas¹, Penny Vlahos², and Edward C Monahan^{2 1} NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., 25 Eagle Ridge, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA ² Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, 1080 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT 06340, USA

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3. 2015
4. December:
5. Joanne Elmoznino successfully defends her doctoral dissertation!!!!
6. November:
7. SETAC North America presentations
8. 381 Tracing the cycling and fate of the explosive 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene in coastal marine systems with a stable isotopic tracer, 15N – [TNT] R. Smith, C. Tobias, Univ of Connecticut / Dept of Marine Sciences; P. Vlahos, Univ of Connecticut / Depts of Marine Sciences and Chemistry;M. Ballentine, T.S. Ariyarathna, Univ of Connecticut / Dept of MarineSciences; J.K. Bohlke, USGS / National Research Program; S. Fallis, Naval Air Warefare Center Weapons Division / Chemistry Division

9. 382 Biotic uptake and incorporation of munitions derived nitrogen measured in three simulated coastal habitats M. Ballentine, T.S. Ariyarathna, R. Smith, Univ of Connecticut / Dept of Marine Sciences; P. Vlahos, Univ of Connecticut / Depts of Marine Sciences and Chemistry; J.K. Bohlke, USGS / National Research Program; S. Fallis, Naval Air Warefare Center Weapons Division / Chemistry Division; C.Tobias, Univ of Connecticut / Dept of Marine Sciences

10. WP018 Tracking the metabolism of explosives in coastal marine ecosystems using stable isotopic tracers: Role of sediment T.S. Ariyarathna, Univ of Connecticut / Dept of Marine Sciences; P. Vlahos, Univ of Connecticut / Depts of Marine Sciences and Chemistry; M. Ballentine, R. Smith, C. Cooper, C. Tobias, Univ of Connecticut / Dept of Marine Sciences

12. October:
    • Vlahos & Whitney receive research award to study carbon and nitrogen export from Long Island Sound to the continental shelf
    • Joseph Warren is presents in Aarhus, Denmark Friday October 2nd (see conference link)
13. September:

• Joseph Warren on field study in Baltic/NATO cruise (Sept 15-27)
• Joanne Elmoznino begins her professional career at Pfizer! (and hands in her doctoral dissertation!)

1. August:

• Field Study in Halifax Harbor
• New Rapid extractor arrives
• Rick Smith’s paper accepted in Environmental Science & Technology

1. June-July:

• Prof. Vlahos begins Fulbright Specialist visit!  Follow her experiences in Sri Lanka!
• Kristin Raub’s paper accepted in Marine Environmental Research
• Thivanka Ariyrathna’s paper accepted in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

1. April-May

• Prof. Vlahos presents at NATO SPS (MODUM) meeting in Hamburg, Germany

1. March

• Prof. Vlahos receives Fulbright Specialist Award
• Prof. Vlahos presents at SERDP meeting in Washington, DC

1. February

• Prof. Vlahos presents at ASLO in Granada, Spain
• Kristin Raub receives Knauss Fellowship!!! Congratulations Kristin
• Alison Staniec receives Outstanding Scholar Award!!! Woohoo

1. January

• Rick Smith’s paper accepted in Environmental Science & Technology
• Mark Ballantine’s paper accepted in  Environmental Contamination & Toxicology