Activities
Renovations of AREAC's Analytical and Saltwater Research Laboratories, October 2018
A $2.5 million renovation under the CUNY 2020 Challenge Grant awarded to Brooklyn College is set to begin in October 2018. This will be the first renovation of AREAC since its creation 20 years ago. The analytical laboratory will be almost completely renovated, with new lab benches, hoods, etc. The Saltwater Research Laboratory will also undergo renovations to meet the changing needs of current faculty.
Ocean Optics XXIV, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 2018
John Marra will attend this conference and report research from his World Ocean Circulation Experiment project, entitled "The Compensation Depth in the Open Ocean."
Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, Victoria, British Columbia, June 2018
John Marra attended this conference and convened a special session, "Sustainable Aquaculture: Issues, Tools, and Trends."
Ocean Optics XXIII, Victoria, British Columbia, October 2016
John Marra attended this conference and reported research from his NASA project on a new "Primary Productivity Database."
Inaugural Sustainable Agriculture Investment Conference, September 2009
Martin Schreibman is scheduled to speak on recirculating aquaculture systems at this conference in Manhattan.
Brooklyn Food Conference, April 2009
John Marra and Phillson Warner (Cornell Cooperative Extension) spoke at the Brooklyn Food Conference on the importance of aquaculture.
Nature, Ecology and Society Colloquium, CUNY Graduate Center, March 6, 2009
John Marra was part of the Public Participation and Production of Natural Water Resources Panel, chaired by Melissa Checker, Urban Studies, Queens College. John spoke on "Food From the Ocean: The Changing Seascape."
Ocean Sciences Meeting, Nice, France, January 2009
John Marra attended the Ocean Sciences Meeting and presented research from the GAP Workshop and the ONDEQUE cruise (see below). Frank Grasso also attended, and presented research on lobster behavior.
Ocean Optics XIX, Barga, Italy, October 2008
John Marra attended this conference and reported research from his NASA project on "Ocean Productivity From Absorption and Light (OPAL)."
GAP, March-April 2008
John Marra was an invited speaker and experiment group leader (Phytoplankton Group) at the Group for Aquatic Productivity Workshop, held in Eilat, Israel. The publication, based on his presentation, is entitled Net or Gross: Weighing in With 14C and is in press in Aquatic Microbial Ecology.
ONDEQUE Cruise, July 2008
ONDEQUE is the name of a project supported by the National Science Foundation, "The Control of Photosynthetic Quantum Yield of Phytoplankton by Light Intensity and Diapycnal Nutrient Flux' (OCE 05-50725)." The last of three oceanographic cruises occurred last July. Nicole Braudy, an undergraduate in the Department of Geology, came along on the cruise to help with the operations.
