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Lots of good news for this newsleer. First I am delighted to welcome REU students to campus for the summer. Six students are here, working with a number of CBL faculty. They will be joined later by a NOAA InFish student who will be working with Mike Wilberg. I know each will have a wonderful summer. I know also that I can rely on each of you to make them feel welcomeOn May 19, UMCES held our Graduate Commencement. Since we are a small instuon, UMCES can take a lile me to celebrate each student individually. Congratulaons go out to Lauren Rodriguez, Sarah Jones, Emma Green, and Stefenie Shenoy - all of whom walked. Unable to walk, but equally deserving of congratulaons are Nikki Barbour, Chris Hayes, Kae Lankowicz, Nicholas Coleman, Alex Gibbs, Maddie Lahm, Andrea Pfa, and Samantha Schiano. It was a great graduang class.The Commencement is also when awards are announced. Kudos to Jerry Frank (Presidenal Award for Outstanding Research Support), Ryan Woodland (Graduate Mentoring) and Isabel Sanchez (UMCES Student Service). It was great to see so many CBLers recognized for their disnguished contribuons.I intend to host a community Open House early in the autumn, likely on September 9th. This will be the rst since 2019. In previous years, we had welcomed approximately 1,000 people to campus to show them what we do and why it is important. There will be lots of opportunies to parcipate across the lab - we will need volunteers for everything. I would ask that you begin thinking about what you can do.Finally, many of you have heard me menon concerns over the recovery of CBL's community. I am announcing a monthly prize for those who are making substanal contribuons to the lab's community. Each month I will give away a $100 gi coupon to the person(s) I think have been helping to create a strong sense of CBL community. The rst award goes to Chris Turner for his leadership in supporng Christmas in April. Chris has been the CBL crew chief for the last two years, organizing a group of enthusiasc CBLers who work renovang a local home for a day. Thanks Chris - come by and get your gi card.CHESAPEAKE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY | SOLOMONS, MDMAY 2023ISSUE 81Lab Lines1IN THIS ISSUE:DIRECTOR’S VIEW24SAFETY CORNER NEW AND RETURNING FACES/PUBLICATIONS514IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
In Case You Missed It2Slava Lyubchich parcipated in the 6th virtual high-level meeng for Insurance Supervisors in Arab countries "Implicaons of Climate Change on the Insurance Industry: Adaptaon and Migaon Strategies in Arab Region" organized by Arab Monetary Fund on May 18th.Chrisna Goethel received an American Scandinavian Fellowship for 2023-2024 and will be headed back to Iceland spring 2024 for three trips to work with an undergraduate student in Akureyri for their senior project. Ryan Woodland was awarded the 2023 recipient of the UMCES Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. Ma Stefanak aended Convocaon this year to accept the award on Ryan's behalf.Carys Mitchelmore connued engaging sciensts on the issue of the environmental risk of sun-screen ingredients (UV lters) at the 33rd Annual Meeng of the Society of Environmental Toxicol-ogy and Chemistry (SETAC) held in Dublin (April 30 - May 4). She chaired a plaorm session and a discussion forum and gave presentaons highlighng UMCES' research (Dr. Mitchelmore, Gonsior and Heyes) in collaboraon with Dr. Renegar at Nova Southeastern University in Florida which has invesgated the concentraons of UV lters near Florida coral reefs and their potenal hazard us-ing coral laboratory toxicity tests.Jackie Grebmeier and Lee Cooper traveled to the Korean Polar Research Instute in Incheon, Re-public of Korea May 20-25, 2023 to give presentaons at a planning workshop on developing a Siberian DBO, an expansion of the successful Distributed Biological Observatory network that they lead in the Pacic Arcc region (see hps://dbo.cbl.umces.edu/).With the successful NSF-supported Synopc Arcc Survey on the USCGC Healy during Sept-Oct 2022 to the North Pole, the Arcc Service Medal (image aached) was awarded by the US Coast Guard to the following CBL team members on the cruise: Lee Cooper, Jackie Grebmeier, Chrisna Goethel, Cedric Magen and Brian Marx.
In Case You Missed It3Join a CBL volleyball game every Friday at 4 pm! They've already had several excing games this season, and guarantee a great me. If you'd like to receive email reminders about upcoming games, please email Slava Lyubchich. Don't miss out on the fun!
In Case You Missed It4Dave Secor was featured in an arcle about blue caish on the front page of the Balmore Sun! Check out the arcle here. Dave Secor has also received a vising Professor posion at University of Tokyo Atmosphere and Ocean Research Instute in Chiba Japan: hps://www.aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/; hosts: Dr.s Shingo Kimura and Hikaru Itak-ura. During the November 2023-January 2024 research visit, he will research heatwave impacts on Chesapeake Bay and Hudson River striped bass pro-ducon using archived otoliths he's collected throughout his career. New and Returning FacesThe Testa Lab welcomes Eva Bailey and Chrisana Meyer to their team to help with summer eld-work. Eva is a former CBL FRA and is a master of sediment-water ux incubaons. Although she will be primarily working aboard the Carson for two research cruises in the Patapsco estuary this summer, you may see her around the lab in August. Chris just graduated from UMBC and will be a regular in the Testa lab helping with Pier monitoring, Calvert County Monitoring and sediment-wa-ter uxes.The REU students arrived at CBL on May 23rd. If you see some new faces around campus please introduce yourself! The following six new students have joined for the summer: Spencer Blackwood - Lyubchich LabMaddie Glenna - Lapham LabGrace Guinan - Gonsior/Liang LabsSam Irwin - Harris LabDavid Priche - Testa LabAdriana Velez - Kilbourne LabDey, A. K. Lyubchich, V., and Gel, Y. R. 2023. Mulvariate modeling of precipitaon-induced home insurance risks using data depth. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Stascs. [Cont. No. 6294] Gemery, L., Cronin, T.M., Cooper, L.W., Roberts, L.R., Keigwin, L.D., Addison, J.A., Leng, M., Magen, C., and Marot, M.E. (2023). Mul-proxy record of ocean-climate variability during the last 2 millennia on the Mackenzie Shelf, Beaufort Sea. Marine Micropaleontology 69, 345-360. hp://doi.org/10.47894/mpal.69.3.04 [Cont. No. 6257]Arai, K., Castonguay, M., Lyubchich, V., and Secor, D. H. 2023. Integrang machine learning with otolith isoscapes: reconstrucng connecvity of a marine sh over four decades. PLoS One 18(5): e0285702.hps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285702 [Cont. No. 6299]Publications
Safety Corner: Chemical Storage in Refridgerator/FreezersFlammable materials should never be stored in a domesc refrigerator or freezer because they are not made for this type of storage. Explosions and injuries can occur by storing these types of chemicals in domesc units. Following, is a link to a laboratory accident involving a domesc refrigerator. Fortunately, no one was in the lab at the me of this accident. hps://www.coolingpost.com/world-news/lab-explosion-due-to-domesc-fridge/There are dierences between domesc and ammable refrigerators/freezers. Domesc refrigerators/freezers have an interior defrost mer, thermostat switch and/or interior lighng that can cause an electrical spark. If there are chemical vapors present, this can lead to an explosion. Flammable units have a spark-free interior and are designed to store ammable liquids (ash point < 100°F/38°C). Unlike the domesc units, the electri-cal components of the ammable storage units are housed outside the refrigerator/freezer. Refrigerators and freezers which are safe to store ammables will be labelled as a ammable materials refrigerator/freezer and UL listed as ammable material storage or hazardous storage. There are also explosion-proof units which have a spark-free interior and exterior. These units prevent the ignion of vapors inside and outside the refrigerator/freezer. All electrical components are housed in a sealed conduit outside the unit. There is no power cord, so the unit must be hard wired to the power source. These are generally used in rooms where there is a ammable atmosphere such as a solvent dispensing room.Be sure to store the chemicals within these units in an orderly fashion. They should all be correctly la-beled and contained within the refrigerator/freezer. They should not be falling out or on top of each other when the door is opened. If necessary, secure them in a secondary container or use Velcro to hold them in place if they are on the door. Do not store ammables with strong acids or oxidizers.References• hps://www.freezerlink.com/ammable.html• hps://www.ehs.washington.edu/system/les/resources/FS-freezers.pdf• hps://www.labrepco.com/2016/04/19/ammable-material-stor-age-hazardous-locaon-refrigerators-and-freezers/• hps://labfreezers.net/blogs/blog/similaries-and-dierenc-es-between-ammable-material-storage-and-explosion-proof-re-frigerators-freezers• hps://labcold.com/2016/03/laboratory-sparkfree-savvy/www.umces.edu/cbl | 410-326-4281P.O. Box 38 | 146 Williams Street | Solomons, MD 20688-00385