<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sorry for any double postings. This briefing is scheduled for Aug. 31, before the next newsletter.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NASA ANNOUNCES MEDIA BRIEFING ABOUT OCEAN PLANT GROWTH</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NASA is hosting a media teleconference about a new technique that</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">enables scientists to determine what limits the growth of ocean</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">plants and affects world climate. The telecom starts at 1 p.m. EDT</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thursday, Aug. 31.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Briefing Participants:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- Paula Bontempi, ocean biology and biogeochemistry program scientist,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NASA Headquarters, Washington</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- Michael J. Behrenfeld, ocean plant ecologist, Oregon State</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">University, Corvallis, Ore.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- Scott Doney, senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The study focused on the tropical Pacific Ocean, an area of the ocean</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">that plays a particularly important role in regulating atmospheric</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">carbon dioxide and the world's climate. This study solved the mystery</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">why healthy looking ocean plants, or phytoplankton, are actually not</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">so healthy. An article on this technique appears in the Aug. 31 issue</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">of Nature.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">at: <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio">http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Related images will be available during the teleconference at:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2006/mystery_plants.html">http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2006/mystery_plants.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial">**********</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Office for Earth System Studies Tel: 509-527-5948 </FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Whitman College </FONT></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Fax: 509-527-5961</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Walla Walla, WA 99362</FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><A href="mailto:weiler@whitman.edu">weiler@whitman.edu</A></FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Programs for Recent PhDs </FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><A href="http://aslo.org/phd.html">http://aslo.org/phd.html</A></FONT></FONT></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><A href="http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/">http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/</A></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"></FONT></SPAN></FONT> <P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">DIALOG poster <A href="http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf">http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf</A> </FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"></FONT></FONT></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">DISCCRS poster <A href="http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf">http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf</A> </FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"> </FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"> </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica"> </FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>