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Publications/Refereed Conference Abstracts:

  • Barry Gross, Viviana Vladutescu, Fred Moshary, Sam Ahmed. “Assessment of a QCL Laser approach for the simultaneous measurement of ambient ammonia and ozone.” Infrared, Mid-IR, and THz Technologies for Health and the Environment II – Submitted to SPIE Optics East, July 2007.
  • J. Zhou, A. Gilerson, I. Ioannou, B. Gross, F. Moshary and S. Ahmed. “Continuous
    Spectral Measurement of Backscattering in Sea Water.” Submitted to SPIE Optics East 2007
  • Y. Kyei, K. Edoh, G. Tang and J. P. Roop. “Higher-Order Compact Finite-Difference
    Schemes Designed through Minimization of a priori Error.” submitted to Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Presentations

  • S. Ahmed, “Development Challenges of Systems and Technologies for Atmospheric and Coastal Water Quality Monitoring.” Fourth NOAA Education and Science Forum Science, Stewardship and Sustainability October 30, 31 and November 1, 2006, Florida A&M University, NOAA Environmental Cooperative Science Center, Tallahassee, Florida.
  • David Santoro. “Continuous Wave Frequency Modulated Aerosol Lidar.” Fourth NOAA Education and Science Forum Science, Stewardship and Sustainability, October 30, 31 and November 1, 2006. Florida A&M University, NOAA Environmental Cooperative Science Center, Tallahassee, Florida.
  • Samir Ahmed, Alexander Gilerson, Jing Zhou, Soe Hlaing, Ioannis Ioannou, William Jerez, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary. “Impact of Backscattering Spectra and Fluorescence on NIR Retrieval Algorithms for Coastal Waters.” Accepted for AGU meeting, Mexico, May 2007.
  • J. Zhou, A. Gilerson, I. Ioannou, B. Gross, F. Moshary and S. Ahmed. “Continuous Spectral Measurement of Backscattering in Sea Water.” Submitted to SPIE Optics East 2007
  • S. Ahmed. “Development Challenges of Systems and Technologies for Atmospheric and Coastal Water Quality Monitoring.” Fourth NOAA Education and Science Forum Science, Stewardship and Sustainability October 30, 31 and November 1, 2006. Florida A&M University NOAA Environmental Cooperative Science Center, Tallahassee, Florida.
  • Adewuyi, Y. G. “Combinative Sonophotochemical and Sonophotocatalytic Oxidation Processes for the Treatment of Pollutants in Water: an Overview and Future Research Needs.” Paper 572b. AICHE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 12 – 17, 2006.
  • Adewuyi, Y. G. “Sonochemical Removal of Nitric Oxide from Flue Gases.” Paper No. 557b. AICHE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 12 – 17, 2006.
  • Adewuyi, Y.G. “Ultrasonic Irradiation as an Advanced Oxidation Technology for Water
    Treatment: Investigation of Process Parameters using a Novel Reactor. TiO2 Photocatalysis (TiO2 -12) and Advanced Oxidation Technologies (AOTs).” International Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, September 25-28, 2006.
  • Mark Sorenson, Dale Sullivan*, Phillip Alanis, Brian Shamp, Koua Cha and Alam
    Hasson. “Quantification of Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from California Dairy Facilities.” 28th Annual Central California Research Symposium, California State University Fresno, April 12, 2007
    * ISET Student
  • Bililign; Understanding Climate Change-Capstone Interdisciplinary Problem of the Century, March 17, 2007, 64th Joint Annual Meeting of BKX/NIS North Carolina A&T State University.
  • Bililign; NOAA Educational Partnership Program Scientific Environmental Technology Cooperative Science   Center NOAA-ISET, Fourth NOAA Education and Science Forum Science, Stewardship and Sustainability October 30, 31 and November 1, 2006. Florida A&M University NOAA Environmental Cooperative Science Center, Tallahassee, Florida.
  • Homaifar “Sensor Fusion Analysis Using Fuzzy Integral and Bayesian Network
    Techniques,” to 10th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2007 Conference.
  • Rob Fatland, Sonia Nagorski, Cathy Connor, Matt Heavner, and Eran Hood ;Seamonster Education: A Sensor Network Project in Southeast Alaska; Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco; 2006.
  • Rob Fatland, Matt Heavner, Eran Hood, Cathy Connor, and Sonia Nagorski; Seamonster:
    A Smart Sensor Web in Southeast Alaska: Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco; 2006.

Student Posters

  • Undergraduate Earth System Science Education Methods used for Undergraduate Education at the University of Alaska Southeast Environmental Sciences Program: Matt Heavner, Eran Hood, Cathy Connor
  • Dissolved Oxygen Levels in Urban Streams: Matt Nelson, Jon Bower, Lisa Hoferkamp, Eran Hood
  • The Influence of Changing Glacier Coverage on the Physical Hydrology and Hydrochemistry of Coastal Watersheds in Southeastern Alaska: Logan Berner and Eran Hood
  • Distribution of Pacific Sleeper Shark (Somniosus Pacificus) Bycatch in Yakutat Bay from Interviews with Longline Fishermen: Suzie Teerlink
  • Breeding Site Fidelity and Philopatry in Ringed Seals (Phoca hispida):Micaela E. Ponce and Brendan P. Kelly

Publications and Presentations Apri1-2007-Sept. 30-2007

Thrust Area I: Presentations and Publications: (Students Underlined)

  1. Thrust Area I group meeting, June 11, 2007: Attended by all members except Adewuyi.  All participants presented their research progress and discussed potential ISET-ISET collaboration.
  2. Assefa: The design of luminescent sensors based on gold-gold interactions.” Spring, 2007; Also gave a talk at the ACS national meeting in Boston on August 21, 2007 .
  3. Assefa: Spectroscopy of luminescent coordination polymers”; Presented on Luminescent Sensors at Thrust Area I meeting, CUNY, June 11, 2007.
  4. Darkus Jenkins, David Pollard, Z. Assefa presented a poster at the NOAA ISET advisory meeting, April, 2007
  5. Darkus Jenkins presented a poster at the ACS, 7th Annual “Poster/Vendor Night” meeting organized by Syngenta Crop Protection.  The title of her poster was “Synthesis, x-ray crystallography, and photoluminescence studies of gold(I) complexes with tri-2-furyl phosphine.”
  6. Darkus Jenkins, and Z. Assefa presented a poster at the ACS, spring national meeting on “Synthesis, x-ray crystallography, and photoluminescence studies of gold(I) complexes with tri-2-furyl phosphine. ” PI presented.
  7. Chuen Meei Gan, Leona Charles, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, and Sam Ahmed’s will present “Ceilometer instrument in NIR for 24/7 observations of aerosols” at the AGU conference in Dec 2007.
  8. S. Chaw, Y. Wu, B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed presented “Raman-Mie lidar measurements of low and optically thin cloud” at the SPIE Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA (Aug 2007).
  9. Viviana Vladutescu, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, and Sam Ahmed presented “Assessment of a QCL laser approach for the simultaneous measurement of ambient ammonia and ozone” at the SPIE Optics East Meeting, Boston, (Sept 2007)
  10. S. Bililign presented “Understanding Climate Change- Capstone Interdisciplinary Problem of the Century” at the AAU-Department of Physics, Ethiopia; July 2007.  The lecture will also be presented atthe 3rd National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology Information, Greensboro, NC (Sept. 2007).
  11. Chris Ware, and S. Bililign presented a poster, “Cavity ring down Spectroscopy,” at the NOAA-EAC meeting, Greensboro, NC, April 2007.
  • Joshua Locklear, Shane Gutierrez, and Emily Howden have submitted abstracts for poster presentations at PittCon 2008 (March 2-6, 2008, E.N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA).
  1. Darkus Jenkins attended the NOAA EPP CSC student recruitment trip to Silver Spring, Maryland on August 3, 2007. 

Publications

  1. Darkus Jenkins, and Z. Assefa, “Tri-2-furyl-phosphine oxide: An oxidation product of the weak Lewis base tri-2-furylphosphine” Acta Cryst. 2007, E63, o3510 - o3511.
  2. Z. Assefa, “Terbium(III) Tris[dicyanoargentate(I)] Trihydrate: a 4f -4d bimetallic coordination Polymer” Acta Cryst,, 2007, E63, o162.
  3. Z. Assefa, “Hydrothermal synthesis, Structural, Raman, and Luminescence studies of Am[M(CN)2]3×3H2O and Nd[M(CN)2]3×3H2O (M = Ag, Au):Journal  of  Solid State Chemistry  2007, in Press.
  4. D. Jenkins, and Z. Assefa, “Synthesis, X-ray crystallography, and photoluminescence studies of four coordinate gold(I) complexes with the weak Lewis base tri-2-furyl phosphine ligand”  Inorg. Chem. 2007, in Prep.
  5. J. Zhou, A. Gilerson, I. Ioannou, B. Gross, F. Moshary and S. Ahmed, “Continuous spectral measurement of backscattering in sea water,” Proc. of SPIE, 6755, Boston, MA, September, 2007.

Thrust Area II: Publications and Presentations: (Students Underlined)

  • Y. Kyei, K. Edoh, G. Tang and J. P. Roop. “Higher-Order Compact Finite-Difference Schemes Designed through Minimization of a priori Error,” submitted to Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations.
  • Y. Kyei, G. Tang, J. P. Roop, and K. Edoh. “Higher-Order Compact Finite Difference Schemes for Elliptic equations in three Dimensions Designed through Minimization of a priori Error,” in preparation.
  • Y. Kyei and G. Tang. “Higher-Order Compact Volume Methods for Conservation Laws,” in preparation.
  • S. Suda, Y. Kyei, and G. Tang. “Hurricane Tracks and Direction Changes in the Gulf of Mexico,” in the 14th SPGRE Annual Poster Session Abstract Collection, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel, NC, July, 2007
  • Fred Semazzi, “A Multi-Scale Investigation of Climate Variability Over Africa” Presentation at UNCAR, http://www.fin.ucar.edu/it/mms/webcasting_archive.htm
  • Fred Semazzi gave an invited presentation as part of NCSU’s Millennium Seminar series.  The first lady of North Carolina organizes the series.  The series hosts eminent speakers from around the world who speak on topics of high importance.  See http://www.unctv.org/climatechange/.

Thrust Area III: Publications and Presentations ( Students Underlined)

  1. Gladkova, I., Gottipati, S., and Grossberg, M. D., “A new lossless compression algorithm for satellite earth science multispectral imagers,” Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6683, Satellite Data Compression, Communications, and Archiving III.
  2. Gottipati, S., Goddard, J., Grossberg, M. D., Gladkova, I., and Roytman, L. M., “A comparative study of lossless compression algorithms on MODIS data,” Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6683, Satellite Data Compression, Communications, and Archiving III.
  3. Walls, J., Esterline, A., and Homaifar, A., “Sensor Fusion Analysis Using Fuzzy Integral, Bayesian Network and Neural Network Techniques,” (in print) ROVISP International Conference 2007, Penang, Malyasia, 28-30 November 2007.
  4. Walls, J., Esterline, A., and Homaifar, A., “Sensor Fusion Analysis Using Fuzzy Integral and Bayesian Network Techniques,” (submitted) 17th IFAC World Conference 2008, Seoul, Korea, 6-11 July 2008

Student’s visits, student/faculty presentational and attendances:

  1. Kawana Fuller visited NOAA from Aug. 13-14 for the Pilot Project meeting. 
  2. Kawana Fuller and Austin Frazier (advisors A. Esterline and Y. Li), had an abstract “Storing Weather Data and Supplying it to the Web,” accepted for the Third National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, North Carolina A&T State University, September 12-14, 2007.
  3. Students Michael Burns and Allen Graham gave a presentation entitled “Building a pilot sensor grid portal at NCAT” in the Grid Computing Workshop on Apr. 14, 2007 in Greensboro, North Carolina. 
  4. Charla Gaskins attended the Third National Surface Transportation Weather Symposium in Washington, DC from July 25-27.
  5. M. J. Heavner, E.  Hood, D. R. Fatland, and C. Connor gave a presentation, “Architecture and Design of a Sensor Web in Southeast Alaska,” at the North Pacific Environmental Satellite Workshop for Coastal and Marine Applications, May 29, 2007.
  6. M. J. Heavner gave a presentation, “Sensor Webs in Digital Earth: An IPY Legacy,” at the Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth, June 8, 2007, Berkeley, CA.
  7. M. J. Heavner, D. R. Fatland, E. Hood, and C. Connor gave a presentation, “SEAMONSTER: A Sensor Web Technology Implementation and Testbed in Southeast Alaska,” at the NASA Science and Technology Conference, College Park, MD, June 19, 2007.
  8. E. Hood E, M. J. Heavner, D. R  Fatland, and C. Connor gave a presentation, “Applications of a Sensor Web in Southeast Alaska,” at the North Pacific Environmental Satellite Workshop for Coastal and Marine Applications, May 29, 2007.
  9. E. Hood, M. J. Heavner, R. Fatland, J. Jones, and R. Hock gave a presentation, “Monitoring Glacier Hydrology and Mass Balance on a Small Temperate Glacier Using a Sensor Web,” at the International Association Hydrologic Sciences Workshop: Glaciers in Watershed and Global Hydrology, Obergurgl, Austria, 21-25 August, 2007.
  10. D. Kumar gave a presentation, “Discovery of Patterns in the Global Climate System using Data Mining,” at University of Central Florida in May 2007.
  11. E. Nezwi gave several presentations: i) “Best Practices for Developing LiDAR-Derived DEMs,” at the ASPRS Conference, Tampa, FL, May 2007; ii) “Development of a Four-Year Geomatics Program with a 2+2 Curriculum,” at the ASPRS Conference, Tampa, FL, May 2007; iii) “Rainfall Harvesting and Water Treatment Strategies in Under-Developed Regions,” at the ASCE EWRI Water Congress, Tampa, FL, May 2007.  He has also submitted an abstract, “Improving Traffic Safety Under Adverse Weather Conditions,” for the Fourth National Conference on Surface Transportation Weather

 

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