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December 2003
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November 2003
November 13th, 2003: Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals
In order to provide unbiased information about the important issue of marine mammals and marine noise, the MARGINS Office will maintain a web page, posting links to relevant information on the issue of ocean noise and marine mammals.
November 5th, 2003: MARGINS Announces First Annual Student Prize — AGU 2003
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October 2003
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September 2003
September 9th, 2003: New meeting announcement, Fifth International Conference on Asian Marine Geology jointly with First Annual Meeting of IGCP-475 DeltaMAP, and APN Project on the Mega-Deltas of Asia, on the Meetings page.
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August 2003
August 29th, 2003: Important information for non-US participants in meetings and conferences in the US. Visa regulations have been updated, and stricter rules apply, even for travelers entering on a visa waiver program. This important information is posted on the new MARGINS US Visa Information webpage.
August 29th, 2003: The MARGINS AGU Fall Meeting Sessions List for 2003 has been updated with a number of new relevant sessions. Link on the Meetings pages.
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July 2003
July 30th, 2003: The recurrent MARGINS AGU Fall Meeting Sessions List for 2003 has been posted on the Meetings pages.
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June 2003
June 20th, 2003: The Spring 2003 issue of the MARGINS Newsletter, number 10, is off to the press. It is already available for download as a PDF file from the MARGINS Newsletter page. From the contents: ODP Leg 205 Costa Rica SubFac and SEIZE article, Marine Mammals and Acoustic Research update, MARGINS event response and the Anatahan eruption, Data Management, Funded Programs 2003, MARGINS Post-doctoral Fellows, and more...
June 9th, 2003: On June 4th, the Columbia Earth Institute and the MARGINS office posted a press release about the recent eruption of the Anatahan volcano in the Northern Mariana Islands, and the role of the MARGINS Office as a scientific event response center. Read the press release on the Earth Institute's web page or go directly to the press release.
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May 2003
May 21th, 2003: A
special Anatahan Volcano
website has been posted because of the recet eruption and on-going
investigations by MARGINS teams. The photos of the eruption posted
are spectacular; don't miss them. The webpages will be updated
and expanded, so make sure to revisit them for updates.
May 20th, 2003: The MARGINS
Meetings Webpage has a new design, and has been updated.
Each meeting announcement is now a separate webpage, designed
to be printed directly from the web browser.
May 12th, 2003: NOAA's Operational
Siginficant Event Imagery webpage has posted satellite images
of the eruption of the Anatahan volcano (see
below). Two images are available, the first from May 10th (available
in preview
(65K) and standard
(388K) sizes) and the second from May 13th (also available
in preview
(65K) and standard
(682K) sizes). The links will open the images in separate
browser windows.
May 12th, 2003: Anatahan
volcano erupted at about 9:00 GMT on May 10. The eruption
was observed from a small ship deploying seismographs for the
MARGINS Mariana Subduction Factory imaging project. A helo sent
out by the CNMI emergency management office reported an ash cloud
reaching to about 40,000 ft. The eruption continued on May 12.
The island had been visited by the team on May 6 and there were
no indications of an eruption at that time. The island is currently
uninhabited. According to the Smithsonian web site, the volcano
has not previously erupted during historic times. The MARGINS
Office will monitor the developments and post any news on this
page.
May 9th, 2003: The
MARGINS Office Administrator, Joan Basher, left the office today,
to move across the Atlantic Ocean to Geneva, Switzerland.
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April 2003
April 29th, 2003: Calls
for single or collaborative proposals to conduct scientific research
associated with EarthScope and
support activities that further the scientific and educational
goals of EarthScope has been published on NSF's
website. The deadline is July 16th, 2003. Further information
is posted on this
web page.
April 29th, 2003: The
deadline for session
proposals for the AGU
Fall Meeting 2003 is May 20th.
April 5th, 2003: The
information and links page about marine mammals and ocean noise
has been removed from the MARGINS website. For the moment, the
Office is unable to provide any information relating to this issue,
and any questions should be directed to the Marine
Mammals Protection and Earth Science Research web page at the
website of Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory's Office of Marine Affairs
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March 2003
March 25th, 2003: A
special information page with information related to the issue
of ocean noise and marine mammals has
been posted on the MARGINS website. The page is permanently accessible
from the Related Documents page.
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February 2003
February 28th, 2003: The MARGINS
Meetings web page has been updated with three
new meetings: OCEANS III MILLENNIUM in
Alicante, Spain, and two JOI/USSSP sponsored workshops,
Planning workshop for Future Scientific Drilling
of the Indian Ocean Submarine Fans in Boulder,
CO, and Interplay of Collisional Tectonics and
Late Cenozoic Glacial Climate in Alaska and the Northeastern
Pacific Ocean at the University of Texas at Austin.
February 27th, 2003: A
report from last September's Oceanic Mantle Dynamics
Workshop in Snowbird, Utah is now available for downloading
as a pdf file at the OMD
web site. This report, entitled "Ocean Mantle
Dynamics Implementation Plan: Report of a Community Workshop",
includes the following recommendations:
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A decade-long program
of focused, coordinated studies, centered around experiments
made possible with a new generation of ocean bottom seismic
instrumentation and incorporating constraints from petrology,
geochemistry and geodynamic modeling, could make tremendous
progress towards solving the outstanding questions of mantle
dynamics
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An Ocean Mantle
Dynamics (OMD) program should have three major components: (1)
large, process-oriented, interdisciplinary OBS experiments
and related shore-based studies to test current models of mantle
circulation; (2) two leapfrogging regional arrays of OBS to
fill in gaps in the global seismic network and improve resolution
of global earth structure;, and (3) an offshore complement
to USArray to study ocean-continent crustal and upper mantle
structure
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An OMD program
should foster an interdisciplinary approach to addressing mantle
dynamics problems involving seismologists, petrologists, geochemists,
geophysicists, modelers, theoreticians and experimentalists
from both the ocean and earth science communities
The science that can
be done by an Oceanic Mantle Dynamics program, and the resources
required, are described in the workshop report.
February 26th, 2003: The
136-page report from the R/V
Ewing Mid-Life Refit Workshop, held at Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory on October 22-23, 2002, is now available on-line
as a downloadable
PDF file.
February 12th, 2003: NSF
Budget Proposal for FY 2004: Significant Increases But Shy
of Doubling Path. The National Science Foundation
(NSF) would receive $5.481 billion in President Bush's fiscal
year (FY) 2004 budget request, a $453 million or 9% increase
over the President's FY 2003 budget request and 14.8% greater
than the level at which the agency is currently funded. The
Geosciences Directorate would receive an increase of nearly
13% over current funding levels to $688 million. At first glance
this year's budget request for GEO is 0.5% smaller than the
President's FY 2003 budget request, but last year's proposed
budget was artificially bloated by proposed program transfers
from NOAA, the USGS, and EPA. Congress rejected the transfers,
which would have totaled nearly $75 million. Without considering
last year's proposed transfers, GEO's budget would receive
an 11.5% increase over the FY 2003 request. Read the full story
at the AGU
Science Legislative Alert website.
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January 2003
January 20th, 2003: Whale
beachings: Geotimes has
an informative news article about the case of the beached
Cuvier's beaked whales in Gulf of California. It is impartial,
presents the facts and outlines some of the important implications
and ramifications for the future of academic seismic and
acoustic research. The death of the whales has been linked
to seismic investigations within the RCL Focus Initiative
of the MARGINS Program, and this
news article (link will open in new window)
summarizes the story and
explains where matters stand at present.
January 15th, 2003: This
year's first issue of EOS (vol. 84, no. 1, page
3) contains an article about the MARGINS-NSF-IFREE
workshop on the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Subduction Factory, held
in September 2002 in Honolulu, Hawaii
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