Dr. Robert Mason robert.mason@uconn.edu Room 388 - Marine Sciences Building UCONN Avery Point Campus

News

Sept: Maria participates on a cruise at the BATS station. Also spends times collecting air and water samples in Bermuda.

August: Maria and Amina participate in a cruise in the coastal/shelf region of New England

July/August: Terill and Genevieve collect samples at Northeast coastal sites as part of the Dartmouth/Superfund project

July/August: Rob spends 5 weeks in South Africa with three students (Susan, Alex and Nikki) collecting samples and visiting universities as part of the NSF-International Programs funded study

July: Andrew Crouch and Shirley le Roux visit from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

July: Terill successfully completes her PhD Comprehensive Exams

July: Bian Liu leaves and starts a new position at the University of Geneva

June: Susan, Maria and Rob setup rain and air sampling equipment on Bermuda

June: Rob and Susan take part in a Geotracers Intercalibration cruise in the North Atlantic

May: Rob visits Korea and then China. Gives a plenary presentation at the 10th International Estuaries Biogeochemistry Symposium

April: Rob in Rome for a UNEP Fate and Transport Workgroup Meeting

April: Maria Andersson joins the group as a post-doc

March: Alta de Waal and Christiaan van der Walt visit from CSIR, South Africa.

February: Rob visits Sweden to act as external examiner for Maria Andersson

January: Rob attends UNIDO Mercury meeting in Bangkok

December: Tristan completes his BS studies (major in Marine Chemistry). Moves to Wesleyan University for MS studies

December: Rob attends Geotracers Intercalibration Cruise Meeting and presents a paper at the AGU Meeting in San Francisco

October/November: Rob makes presentations on developing a national mercury monitoring network at meetings in Maryland and Virginia.

November: Genevieve visits South Africa to help setup a mercury lab and to collect field samples

November: Rob, Bian and Genevieve attend the SETAC Meeting in Milwaukee, WI and present papers

October: Rob attends a Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP/UNIDO) Mercury Meeting in Glasgow.

October: Rob attends the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) Global Partnership on Mercury Air Transport and Fate Research Meeting in Washington, DC

October: Terill and Rob participate in a field cruise on the Chesapeake Bay and shelf

August: Rob and Terill attend the Chemical Oceanography Gordon Conference in New Hampshire and present posters

June: Tristan, Rob Busch, Terill, Susan and Rob travel to South Africa for an extended mercury sampling trip

May 19-21: Oguz, Genevieve and Tristan collect samples on the Penobscot River in Maine

May 17: Mason Lab Group Retreat

May 4: Semester ends.

April: Tristan and Rob Busch present a poster at the UCONN Frontiers in Undergraduate research

April: Rob attends the Geos-Chem Meeting at Harvard University

March: Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination, coedited and coauthored by Rob, is published.

March: Bian joins research group.

March 7-8: Rob participates in Mercury Analytical Methods workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa

February 4-9: Rob gives a talk and Terill and Tristan present posters at the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography meeting in Santa Fe.

February: Oguz joins research group.

November 5-9: Rob attends the SETAC Meeting in Montreal

October: Tristan attended the American Physical Society Nuclear Physics Division meeting and presented a poster

September: Rob visits South Africa to collect mercury samples and to attend the Joint CACGP/IGAC/WMO symposium "Atmospheric chemistry at the interfaces"

August 5-11: Terill, Eun Hee, Genevieve and Rob attended the 8th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant and all made presentations. Carrie Miller, a former student, won an award for the best poster.

July 7-16: Terill, Genevieve, Eun Hee, Udonna, Tristan and Rob took part on a research cruise on the Chesapeake Bay and shelf measuring mercury speciation and reactions in water and sediments

Week of June 12: Eun Hee and Rob traveled to Bermuda to set up the automated Tekran air mercury speciation unit for a two month depolyment

June 5: Rob traveled to Moscow, Russia to present at the Task Force Meeting on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution

May 7: Rob traveled to Warnemunde, Germany for the 9th International Estuarine Biogeochemistry Symposium

4/17: Terill Hollweg and Genevieve Bernier on a 10 day cruise in the Chesapeake Bay/shelf region.

4/7: Tristan presents Chesapeake Bay research at UCONN Storrs campus Frontiers of Undergraduate Research

3/ 27: Terill Hollweg and Rob Mason will be on a 3 day cruise on the RV Pelican in the Gulf of Mexico.

3/13: Eun Hee Kim collecting samples in South Africa.

3/6: SPRING BREAK. Rob Mason and Eun Hee Kim travel to South Africa for a meeting on setting up a mercury research program in South Africa.

2/20: AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting in Hawaii. Rob Mason presenting.

2/13: ICP-MS installation finally completed!