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SFOS Newsletter
Spring 2008
Faculty and Staff Standouts
- Marine Advisory Program Agent Don Kramer recently received the Elizabeth Stier Humanitarian Achievement Award from the Institute of Food Technologists for his outreach work across Alaska. He was also made an IFT Fellow, the highest distinction that IFT members can achieve based on leadership and service in their field and to IFT. The Minnesota Section of IFT also presented Kramer with the 2008 Macy Award for outstanding food technology cooperation between scientists.
- The Census of Marine Life, a worldwide effort to catalog all sea life, was named one of the six most important experiments in the world by Discover magazine. SFOS faculty Russ Hopcroft, Rolf Gradinger, Bodil Bluhm and Katrin Iken have a leadership role in this international program.
- Kate Wynne, marine mammal expert with the Marine Advisory Program, is currently in Ghana in West Africa. Wynne is training Ghanian government officials and university students as fisheries observers.
- Rolf Gradinger, Katrin Iken, SFOS intern Rebecca Neumann, and SFOS alumnus Alexei Pinchuk are currently out in the Bering Sea on the USCG icebreaker Healy as part of the six-year study of the Bering Sea Integrated Ecosystem Research Program/Bering Ecosystem Study, a joint research project between the National Science Foundation and the North Pacific Research Board.
- Jennifer Reynolds is a member of the organizing committee for the 2008 GEOHAB (Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping) meeting at the end of April in Sitka, Alaska. SFOS’ Global Undersea Research Unit is helping sponsor the event. The meeting theme is deep-sea marine benthic habitats and high-seas marine protected areas. More than 100 scientists are expected to attend, with many international visitors, from Norway, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
