SMAST faculty, staff and students authored or co-authored some three dozen posters and oral presentations at Ocean Sciences 2014 last month (February 24-28) in Honolulu, Hawai’i.
In addition, three SMAST faculty co-chaired technical sessions: Dean Steven Lohrenz co-chaired session 068 – “Understanding biogeochemical and ecosystem responses to natural and human-induced interactions, drivers and pressures in coastal regions”; Prof. Mark Altabet co-chaired session 008: “Revising biogeochemical stoichiometry: The oceans beyond Redfield on a changing planet”; and Prof. Miles Sundermeyer co-chaired session 012 on “Oceanic submesoscale processes.”
Co-sponsored by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, the American Geophysical Union, and The Oceanography Society, Ocean Sciences is the world’s premier conference of marine scientists and oceanographers. The biennial meeting is believed to have set an attendance record this year, estimated at more than 5000, based on preregistrations.
SMAST personnel authored or co-authored a total of 
One measure of SMAST’s productivity is the participation of its personnel in professional meetings, where scientists report research results to their colleagues. At Ocean Sciences 2010 last month in Portland, Oregon, SMAST faculty, students and staff authored or co-authored 44 posters and presentations, including four invited talks. In addition, SMAST faculty chaired three thematic sessions. The Ocean Sciences Meeting, the premier such gathering in North America, is the joint meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, and the Oceanography Society. (For a full list, with abstracts, of SMAST contributions at Ocean Sciences 2010, click