MOGEL is on the move!

The MOGEL group which has been located at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, part of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, is moving to Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. As you navigate through our website please be aware that information on certain pages has not yet been updated. Updates will be completed as soon as information is available for the new facility at Old Dominion University.

What is MOGEL?

Under the direction of Professor Rodger Harvey, our group focuses on organic geochemistry and biogeochemistry of aquatic environments. We have a diverse group of projects ranging from Chesapeake Bay to the Arctic Ocean.

What's New?

Eli Moore receives $3000 Summer Fellowship from the University of Maryland Department of Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences. The funds will be used toward the completion of Eli's dissertation investigating the fate of marine protein down the water column and eventual incorporation in sediments.

 

Keep an eye out for "Bacterial hopanoids as tracers of organic carbon sources and processing across the western Arctic continental shelf" in an upcoming issue of Organic Geochemistry! It is a paper detailing Karen and Rodger's work with bacterial hopanoids. Also be on the lookout for "Organic sources and carbon sequestration in Holocene shelf sediments from the western Arctic Ocean" in Continental Shelf Research, a paper detailing Jessica, Rodger, and former Mogelite Laura Belicka's work on lipids in the Chukchi Sea.

 

In January 2011, Rodger, Karen, and Hannah Fink (a UMB toxicology graduate student) attended the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage, Alaska to present research findings from the Chukchi Monitoring in a Drilling Area (COMIDA) Project. Results include organic contaminant distributions in surface sediments of the Chukchi Sea, trophic patterns of lipids in the Chukchi benthos, and toxicological biomarker assessments in Arctic cod. Click below to view the posters presented by:

Rodger Harvey

Karen Taylor

Hannah Fink

 

Dr. Rodger Harvey Gives Keynote Address

Rodger Harvey presented a synthesis of recent results gained from the Bering Sea Ecosystem Study at the Alaskan Marine Science Symposium (http://bsierp.nprb.org/).

MOGEL Travel Log

Rodger Harvey and Rachel Pleuthner completed a month long BEST cruise in late spring in the Bering Sea. Jessica Faux relieved them and completed a second, month long BEST cruise during the summer.

Click here to read about the MOGEL group's BEST cruises of 2010.

 

Rodger Harvey and Karen Taylor completed a COMIDA cruise in the Chukchi Sea during late summer.

Click here to read about the COMIDA cruise of 2010.