"Gunter Library News" is the monthly e-newsletter highlighting current events and happenings at the Gunter Library at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, University of Southern Mississippi. |
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Gunter Library reopened on Tuesday, September 8th after being closed following Spring break in March. Library coordinator Maryanne Anthony remains on remote work and can be reached at guntergcrl@usm.edu when you need interlibrary loans, documents delivery, or other access service needs. For help with instruction, research, and collection development needs, you may use guntergcrl@usm.edu or email Joyce.Shaw@usm.edu. Part time library assistants Martha Brown and Marjie Williams are back and working at the library. During the pandemic time, library “tea time” is suspended. To ensure physical distancing, the library is limited to 6 library users at a time. Once the university lifts restrictions, we will bring back “tea time” and allow more people to use the library simultaneously. We are open 8 am to 5 pm, closed during the lunch hour, Monday through Friday. Drop in and say hello!
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Time to order books!
Now is the time to submit your recommendations for books to be purchased to support your teaching and research. Please include as much information as possible--author, title, date, publisher, etc.
Thank you for your support of Gunter Library!
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Resource of the Month:
"guntergcrl@usm.edu"
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This email will open a world of help for you!
Use this email to:
· Get help finding resources—books, journal, articles, reports, etc.
· Request an interlibrary loan or document delivery
· Get something scanned
· Ask about library services
· Get links to helpful subject guides
· Ask about Gunter Library hours and days of service
· Submit a recommendation for books for Gunter Library
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New Gunter Library Intern |
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Let’s welcome Kristen Dean, who is doing an internship at Gunter Library for the Fall 2020 semester. Kristen is a graduate student in the Master of Library & Information Science program at Southern Miss. She has over twenty years of experience in education and holds a Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education and a Master of Education in Secondary Education from Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia. She is a mother of three and enjoys kayaking, running, painting, and costume construction. |
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Deep Water Horizon - 10 year anniversary |
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On September 8, 2020, Gunter Library opened its poster display documenting the history of the work done at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL) and Mississippi Alabama Sea Grant Consortium (MASGC) about the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The poster is titled The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory & Mississippi Alabama Sea Grant Consortium: 10 Years of Science and Sustainability. Ariel Jordan, USM School of Library & Information Science practicum student, and Joyce M. Shaw, head of Gunter Library and practicum student mentor, created the poster for the annual SAIL Conference which was held virtually in April 2020. A list of publications generated by GCRL & MASGC scientists and students which includes times cited information for each entry based on Web of Science and Google Scholar data is available upon request. Informational leaflets and bulletins created by MASGC for the public are available, as well. As part of this 10 year retrospective, the GCRL Science Café on September 29, 2020, will be presented by Dr. Frank Hernandez who will focus the research he and others are doing about the DWH disaster. The Marine Education Center is assisting with the Zoom GCRL science Café.
(photo above courtesy of U.S. Department of Defense)
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Patches of oil wash in with the waves in Orange Beach, Alabama in June of 2010. The spill covered over 50,000 square miles and reached all of the Gulf states.
Photo credit: Tyrone Turner
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A brown pelican coated in heavy oil wallows in the surf June 4, 2010 on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana.
Photo credit:
Win McNamee, Getty Images
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Oil covered beach in Pensacola, Florida, June 23, 2010 as oil from the spill began to wash ashore.
Photo credit:
Edmund D. Fountain
St. Petersburg TImes/AP
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Date/Time: September 23rd, 1:00 pm
Student: Meg Oshima
Title: “A management strategy evaluation of the impacts of interspecific competition and recreational fishery dynamics on Vermilion Snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens) in the Gulf of Mexico”
Zoom Information: https://usm-edu.zoom.us/j/95946037113?pwd=cmdyVjluS1QzQms4dFpzQXdqQnAzdz09
Meeting ID: 959 4603 7113
Passcode: VJEETfF1
Date/Time: September 24th, 2:00 pm
Student: Courtney Stachowiak
Title: "Assessing the Nursery-Role Function of Pelagic Sargassum for Juvenile Fishes in the Northern Gulf of Mexico"
Date/Time: September 28th, 2:00 pm
Student: Emily Gipson
Title: "Feeding Ecology of Larval and Juvenile Deep-Pelagic Fishes in the Northern Gulf of Mexico"
Date/Time: October 1st, 9:00 am
Student: Olivia Lestrade
Title: "Microplastic Abundance, Distribution, and Impacts on Sargassum-Associated Juvenile Fishes in the Gulf of Mexico"
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Zoom information will be email via GCRL-all prior to each defense. |
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COA Virtual Seminar Series |
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The COA Seminar Committee is excited to announce the seminar schedule for the fall semester. Seminars will be held approximately every other Friday from 9:30-10:30 am. All seminars will be virtual, using Zoom. The schedule is as follows:
Department of Biology, College of Charleston
School of Marine Science & Policy, University of Delaware
University of Florida/Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Institut des Sciences de la Mer, Université du Québec à Rimouski
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
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Zoom information will be emailed via GCRL-all prior to each seminar |
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Laptop Loan Program For Students |
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We are pleased to announce that the application is now open for the Cook Book Laptop Loan program. This program is made possible through the generosity of the USM Foundation as well as an allocation from the CARES funding.
Loaner laptops will be available on both the Gulf Park and Hattiesburg campuses. Students will specify their campus on the application form. The applications will be reviewed with priority going to students who have no technology available to them off-campus.
To request a laptop, fill out the request form via the link below. It will require you to login with your USM SOAR credentials: https://usm.libwizard.com/f/cookbook Students will be contacted once there is a laptop available and instructions on how to pick it up. Note: laptops must be picked up in person at the respective campus locations.
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Photo credit: University Police Department - GCRL |
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Masked bandits have been sighted roaming the campus foraging for food and lounging on University Police Department vehicles. Seen only at night and during the wee hours of the morning, the marauders have seduced other night creatures to join their nocturnal escapades. Seen here are three well-known masked culprits with their partner in crime, a cat (far left bottom corner of photo) |
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Upcoming Virtual Science Café
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"Deepwater Horizon: from ecological catastrophe to scientific opportunity"
Tuesday, September 29 , 6:00 p.m.
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Zoom information will be sent via GCRL-all prior to the event |
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Speaker:
Frank Hernandez
Associate Professor - Fisheries Oceanography Ecology
Division of Coastal Sciences
School of Ocean Science and Engineering
University of Southern Mississippi
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest marine oil spill in history, impacting organisms and habitats from shorelines to the deep sea. One habitat particularly at risk was Sargassum, a floating brown algae in offshore waters that provides habitat for many marine species, including juvenile fishes, juvenile sea turtles, and sea birds, among other animals. Using an updated version of the “scientific method” as a guide, I will discuss how my colleagues and I examined the impacts of the oil spill on Sargassum and its associated fishes, as well as the new research questions that emerged that led us to explore more aspects of this critical habitat.
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The neuston collecting sargassum in the beautiful blue water
(Photo: Sandra Huynh)
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A green sea turtle spotted from the boat swimming amongst the Sargassum.
(Photo by: Sandra Huynh)
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The R/V Point Sur as the sun sets over the Port of Gulfport.
(Photo by: Carla Culpepper)
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The science team launches the "neuston" net at sunset.
(Photo by: Sandra Huynh
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The science team celebrate their last net tow of the cruise.
(Photo by: Sandra Huynh)
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Sponsored by: Mississippi Alabama Sea Grant Consortium
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"Like" the GCRL Science Cafe Facebook page for more information about upcoming Science Cafe events. |
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Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
Joyce Shaw, Head Librarian - 228-872-4213
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