Florida International University Spring April 26,2010 Commencement Ceremony Session 3

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Florida International University Spring May 3,2011 Commencement Ceremony Session 2

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Florida International University Spring May 3,2011 Commencement Ceremony Session 3

Florida International University Commencement Ceremony May 3,2011 at US Century Bank Arena ( Session 3) Colleges graduated: Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work College of Nursing and Health Science

Florida International University Spring April 30,2012 Commencement Ceremony Session 1

Florida International University Commencement Ceremony April 30,2012 at US Century Bank Arena ( Session 1) Colleges graduated: College of Arts and Sciences

Florida International University Spring April 30,2012 Commencement Ceremony Session 2

Florida International University Commencement Ceremony April 30,2012 at US Century Bank Arena ( Session 2) Colleges graduated: College of Public Health and Social Work College of Nursing and Health Sciences College of Arts and Sciences

Florida International University Spring April 30,2012 Commencement Ceremony Session 3

Florida International University Commencement Ceremony April 30,2012 at US Century Bank Arena ( Session 3) Colleges graduated: College of Arts and Sciences College of Architecture and the Arts

Response of spring diatoms to CO2 availability in the Western North Pacific as determined by next-generation sequencing

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have enabled us to determine phytoplankton community compositions at high resolution. However, few studies have adopted this approach to assess the responses of natural phytoplankton communities to environmental change. Here, we report the impact of different CO2 levels on spring diatoms in the Oyashio region of the western North Pacific as estimated by NGS of the diatom-specific rbcL gene (DNA), which encodes the large subunit of RubisCO. We also examined the abundance and composition of rbcL transcripts (cDNA) in diatoms to assess their physiological responses to changing CO2 levels. A short-term (3-day) incubation experiment was carried out on-deck using surface Oyashio waters under different pCO2 levels (180, 350, 750, and 1000 µatm) in May 2011. During the incubation, the transcript abundance of the diatom-specific rbcL gene decreased with an increase in seawater pCO2 levels. These results suggest that CO2 fixation capacity of diatoms decreased rapidly under elevated CO2 levels. In the high CO2 treatments (750 and 1000 µatm), diversity of diatom-specific rbcL gene and its transcripts decreased relative to the control treatment (350µatm), as well as contributions of Chaetocerataceae, Thalassiosiraceae, and Fragilariaceae to the total population, but the contributions of Bacillariaceae increased. In the low CO2 treatment, contributions of Bacillariaceae also increased together with other eukaryotes. These suggest that changes in CO2 levels can alter the community composition of spring diatoms in the Oyashio region. Overall, the NGS technology provided us a deeper understanding of the response of diatoms to changes in CO2 levels in terms of their community composition, diversity, and photosynthetic physiology.

Spring snowmelt and midwinter thaw and refreeze north of 60°N based on Seawinds QuikScat 2000-2009

The scatterometer SeaWinds on QuikSCAT provided regular measurements at Ku-band from 1999 to 2009. Although it was designed for ocean applications, it has been frequently used for the assessment of seasonal snowmelt patterns aside from other terrestrial applications such as ice cap monitoring, phenology and urban mapping. This paper discusses general data characteristics of SeaWinds and reviews relevant change detection algorithms. Depending on the complexity of the method, parameters such as long-term noise and multiple event analyses were incorporated. Temporal averaging is a commonly accepted preprocessing step with consideration of diurnal, multi-day or seasonal averages.