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MBL Catalyst, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2011
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Photography Captions and Credits
Cover: Iceberg near Palmer Station, Antarctica (J. Orfanon). Inside front cover: MBL President and Director Gary Borisy (E. Armstrong); Iceberg (J. Orfanon).
Page 1 top to bottom: Headwaters of the Kuparuk River at Green Cabin Lake, Alaska (C. MacKenzie); Chinstrap penguin, Antarctica (C. Neill); Jon Waterhouse, foreground, director of the Yukon River Intertribal Watershed Council, and Max Holmes, left, with elders and community leaders in Zhigansk, Siberia, one of the sampling sites on the Lena River for the Arctic Great Rivers Observatory project (C. Linder).
Pp. 2-3: banner: Eriophorum vaginitum (C. Neill); background: Headwaters of the Kuparuk River at Green Cabin Lake, Alaska (C. MacKenzie); top: Maize harvest in Mbole, Tanzania. Staple crop yields in Mbole and other African Millennium Villages have nearly tripled over the past three years, due to the introduction of high-yield seeds and fertilizer (Millennium Promise); middle: MBL scientists and colleagues deploy a mooring in high seas during a research cruise of the Laurence M Gould to Palmer Station, Antarctica (K. Legg); right: A citizen volunteer measures water conditions for the Coalition for Buzzards Bay, an environmental advocacy group based in New Bedford, Massachusetts (courtesy of the Coalition for Buzzards Bay); left: Annual reindeer census near Zhigansk, Siberia (M. Holmes); right: Chinstrap penguin, Antarctica (C. Neill).
Pp. 4-5: Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts (NASA Earth Observatory (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov); inset: Man with binoculars (Dreamstime.com); MBL senior scientist Anne Giblin sampling in West Falmouth Harbor, Massachusetts (T. Kleindinst).
P. 6: Jody Potter , University of New Hampshire, and Suzanne Thomas, MBL, collecting stream samples to analyze for nitrogen (D. Drake); Peridinium microbe (D. Patterson, ICoMM); Spectral fluorescence image of 15 different species of human oral microbes grown in the laboratory and labeled with taxon specific probes in a CLASI-FISH experiment (A. Valm).
P. 7: Jellyfish (Getty Images); MBL Catalyst Campaign chairman Jeffrey Pierce (T. Kleindinst).
P. 8, top: Brooks Range, Alaska (courtesy of MBL Logan Science Journalism Program); inset: Artwork by Kolya Kolesov, 15 years old, of Zhigansk, Siberia (courtesy of M. Holmes);
P. 9, top: Reindeer herder near Zhigansk, Siberia (M. Holmes); Jon Waterhouse, foreground, director of the Yukon River Intertribal Watershed Council, and Max Holmes, left, of Woods Hole Research Center with elders and community leaders in Zhigansk, Siberia, one of the sampling sites on the Lena River for the Arctic Great Rivers Observatory project (C. Linder).
Pp. 10-11: Agricultural fertilizer (Millennium Promise); top: Farmers in Sauri, Kenya (Millennium Promise); MBL Senior Scientists Linda Deegan and Chris Neill (fourth and fifth from left) with PIRE project colleagues in Sauri, Kenya (courtesy of Chris Neill).
Pp. 12-13: Scientists working with Max Holmes of Woods Hole Research Center on the Polaris Project look out at the Kolyma River in Siberia (C. Linder); MBL Distinguished Scientist Jerry Melillo (T. Kleindinst); Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant, Boston (courtesy of Massachusetts Water Resources Authority); Leopard seal, Antarctica (J. Orfanon).
P. 14: left: Frontiers in Reproduction students (J. Cherry); Plum Island, Massachusetts, estuary (Courtesy of Plum Island Ecosystem LTER site); Rotifer (illustration by S. Casper).
P. 15: Greenhouse Gas Flux Measurement System (J. Tang).
P. 16: Hugh Ducklow, senior scientist and director, MBL Ecosystems Center (T. Kleindinst); Adélie penguin colony (H. Ducklow).
P. 17: Great Sippewissett Marsh, Falmouth, Massachusetts, circa early 1970s (I. Valiela). Back cover, left to right: MBL Street sign (P. Wilmot); Whitman Investigators (T. Kleindinst).
References and Additional Information
Bay Watch (Pp. 4-5)
Coalition for Buzzards Bay:
http://www.savebuzzardsbay.org/
Ipswich River Watershed Association:
http://ipswichriver.org/
News & Notes (P. 6)
Beaulieu, J.J., et al. (2011) Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks. PNAS 108: 214-219. [PDF]
Valm, A.M., Mark Welch, J.L., Rieken, C.W., Hasegawa, Y., Sogin, M.L., Oldenbourg, R., Dewhirst, F.E., and Borisy, G.G. (2011) Systems-level analysis of microbial community organization through combinatorial labeling and spectral imaging. PNAS 108: 4152-4157. [PDF]
International Census of Marine Microbes:
http://icomm.mbl.edu/
Census of Marine Life:
http://www.coml.org/
MBL Catalyst Campaign: The Science of Life Accelerated (P. 7)
http://connect.mbl.edu/
Arctic Worlds, Old and New (Pp. 8-9)
Arctic Great Rivers Observatory
http://www.arcticgreatrivers.org/
Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research Site, Toolik Lake, Alaska
http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/ARC/
Yukon River Intertribal Watershed Council
http://www.yritwc.org/
Holmes, R. M., et al. (2011) Seasonal and annual fluxes of nutrients and organic matter from large rivers to the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas. Estuaries and Coasts 34: (published online 02 March 2011) [PDF]
As Africa Goes Green (Pp. 10-11)
Brown-MBL Partnership:
http://www.mbl.edu/brown/
Millennium Villages project:
http://www.millenniumvillages.org/
Alliance for A Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA):
http://www.agra-alliance.org/
Hazell, P.B.R. (2002) Green Revolution: Curse or Blessing? International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC.
http://www.ifpri.org/
Living in a Climate-Changed World (P. 12-13)
Karl, T.R., Melillo, J.M., and Peterson, T.C., eds. (2009) Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. U.S. Global Climate Change Research Program, Washington, DC. [PDF]
http://www.globalchange.gov/
How Do Your Greenhouse Gases Grow? (P. 15)
Pattey, E., et al. (2006) Application of a tunable diode laser to the measurement of CH4 and N2O fluxes from field to landscape scale using several micrometeorological techniques. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 136, 222-236.
What’s for Dinner? (P. 16)
Palmer Station Antarctica Long-Term Ecological Research
http://pal.lternet.edu/
Schofield, O., et al. (2010) How do Polar Marine Ecosystems Respond to Rapid Climate Change? Science 328: 1520-1523. [PDF]
An Early Wake-Up Call (P. 17)
Valiela, I., and Teal, J.M. (1979) The nitrogen budget of a salt marsh ecosystem. Nature 280, 652 – 656.
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