President/Governing Board

President/Governing Board

What Time Is It?

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Robert R. Christian

East Carolina University

Department of Biology

www.actionbioscience.org/environment/christian.html

Robert Christian, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor of the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences and Research Distinguished Professor of Biology at East Carolina University. He was President of the Estuarine Research Federation from 2005–2007. His research focuses on coastal ecosystems— particularly salt marshes, estuaries, and coastal lagoons along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the USA, and in the Mediterranean. In these various ecosystems, he has studied nutrient cycling—especially the nitrogen and carbon cycles and energy flow.

 

It was the best of times,

it was the worst of times…

—Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities 

From the President: Greetings from Paris…

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Robert Howarth

Professor in Ecology & Environmental Biology

Cornell University

leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/fellows/howarth

Dr. Robert Howarth chairs the International SCOPE Biofuels Project, is President of the Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation, directs the Agrictural Ecosystems Program at Cornell University, and represents the State of New York on the science and technical advisory committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program. Howarth is also the Founding Editor of the journal "Biogeochemistry" and served as Editor-in-Chief from 1983 to 2004.

Howarth's research program is focused broadly on the following topics: the interaction of climate and land-use as regulators of nutrient flows from large watersheds; the effects of biofuels on the environment; deposition of nitrogen gases, particularly near vehicle and agricultural emission sources; human alteraton of global and regional nitrogen and phosphorus cycles; complex biogeochemical feedbacks that occur in estuaries during eutrophication; and the interaction of biotic, physical and biogeochemical factors as controls on nitrogen fixation.
 

CERF has an important election coming up this summer for the future leadership of the Federation, and we have a great slate of candidates.

From the President: The State of OUR Union

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Author: 
Bob Howarth CERF President 2007-2009, rwh2@cornell.edu

I write this early in 2009, and I hope the new year finds you well. The economy is in shambles, and most if not all of us are feeling unprecedented pressures. CERF is financially sound, but needs the continued support of the membership. To many of us, CERF is a very important community, and in times of stress, it becomes all the more important to participate in the community. Please let me know if there is anything I or CERF can do to help you as individuals, and please do continue to be active in CERF.  

Call for Nominations for 2009-2011 Governing Board

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Author: 
CERF Headquarters

We invite you to propose the names of colleagues, who you would like to see considered for the future leaders of the Federation. Past President Robert Christian (christianr@ ecu.edu) chairs the Nominations Committee and welcomes your suggestions for candidates for President-Elect, Secretary, and two Members-at-Large by 30 March 2009.

CERF off to a Great Start and Some Thoughts on Biofuels

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Robert Howarth

Professor in Ecology & Environmental Biology

Cornell University

leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/fellows/howarth

Dr. Robert Howarth chairs the International SCOPE Biofuels Project, is President of the Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation, directs the Agrictural Ecosystems Program at Cornell University, and represents the State of New York on the science and technical advisory committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program. Howarth is also the Founding Editor of the journal "Biogeochemistry" and served as Editor-in-Chief from 1983 to 2004.

Howarth's research program is focused broadly on the following topics: the interaction of climate and land-use as regulators of nutrient flows from large watersheds; the effects of biofuels on the environment; deposition of nitrogen gases, particularly near vehicle and agricultural emission sources; human alteraton of global and regional nitrogen and phosphorus cycles; complex biogeochemical feedbacks that occur in estuaries during eutrophication; and the interaction of biotic, physical and biogeochemical factors as controls on nitrogen fixation.
 

Who We Are, What We Do, and a Little about Conferences

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Robert R. Christian

East Carolina University

Department of Biology

www.actionbioscience.org/environment/christian.html

Robert Christian, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor of the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences and Research Distinguished Professor of Biology at East Carolina University. He was President of the Estuarine Research Federation from 2005–2007. His research focuses on coastal ecosystems— particularly salt marshes, estuaries, and coastal lagoons along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the USA, and in the Mediterranean. In these various ecosystems, he has studied nutrient cycling—especially the nitrogen and carbon cycles and energy flow.

 

Each ERF President has an agenda and priorities to address during her or his term. One of mine is to improve the interrelationship between the Federation as an organization and its members. As a teacher and ecologist, I am a firm believer in the idea that such interrelationships can be strengthened through better knowledge of the parts and how the parts interact.

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