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In Memoriam We are very sad to report that former SIO postdoc Rupert Ford died March
30 from a sudden illness while attending the EGS meeting in Nice. After
his time (1994-95) at SIO, Ford accepted a faculty position at Imperial
College in London. He had done important work on the interactions between
waves and vortices, and on the dynamics of western boundary currents.
He will be remembered by his colleagues for his prodigious mathematical
talents, his generosity and good humor, and his infectious enthusiasm
for science. Calendar Friday, April 6 RON MCCONNAUGHEY'S RETIREMENT PARTY (Note change of location) - Bye Bye
Party in the IGPP Munk Lab Conference room for our bud Ron! 4 p.m. BE
THERE! Tuesday, April 10 MOC MEETING - The Marine Operations Committee meeting will be held in 114 Scripps Building at 1330. (Jason Strimpel, x42840) CRD SEMINAR - Dan Vimont, University of Washington, will present, "Footprinting: A Seasonal Connection Between the Mid-latitudes and Tropics" in 101 Nierenberg Hall at 3:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. The seminar is sponsored by the Climate Research Division. (Carolyn Baxter, x46584) Wednesday, April 11 PERSPECTIVES IN OCEAN SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES - Wolf Berger will present "The St. Francis-of-Assisi Regime Shift in the Santa Barbara Basin," addressing a major shift in climate conditions that occurred around 800 years ago--the type of natural change that makes it extremely difficult to identify the human impact on the ocean-climate system--at the Birch Aquarium at 8 a.m. Bagels, juice, and coffee served at 7:30 a.m. All SOS donor-level members will be invited at no charge. However, SOS members and all nonmembers will be charged $8/person. Students and faculty free. All inquiries/reservation requests should be directed to x47336. UCSD-TV will tape all presentations and each will be available for viewing on the aquarium Web site: aquarium.ucsd.edu. ECOLOGY LUNCHEON SEMINAR - Karen Stocks, SIO, will present "Informatics Tools in Biogeography - Development of a Prototype Online Analysis System for Seamounts" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12:15 p.m. Bonnie Becker, bjbecker@ucsd.edu) Thursday, April 12 CAL SPACE SEMINAR - Renee Fredet, will present a title to be announced at the Jacobs School of Engineering (EBU1, Room 4307) at 12 noon. Questions? Call 822-1597. AOS SEMINAR - Kalon Morris will present "A Steady Model of Surfzone Circulation" in 330 NTV Building at 4 p.m. (Amber Rieder, amber@mpl.ucsd.edu) Notices BEST IN THE WEST - Over 1,700 high school students from 19 regions across the nation met in Miami Beach, FL, April 2-3 to compete in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl finals. La Jolla High School, who took first place at the Southern California regional competition held here at Scripps in February, represented Southern California in the national finals. La Jolla placed 8th out of the 19 schools competing in the finals, going further in the competition than any other team from the western United States, earning them the honor, "Best in the West." Their prizes include $500 worth of scientific equipment and marine science text books for their school. Lexington High School in Boston, took the first place honor for the 4th consecutive year. (SIO Communications, x43624) NEW WEB SITE HELPS ACADEMICS ON SABBATICAL LIST FIND HOUSING - Sabbaticalhomes.com is dedicated to bringing academics on sabbatical leaves, research trips or exchange programs together on the Web. It is a place where scholars can go to post their homes for rent and/or exchange, list their accommodation search, or search for what other academics have posted in the database. As one user said, "it is a sorely needed service." It fills a gap between academics' need to operate in a world community and the lack of universal services. Professors on sabbatical have very specific accommodation requirements. First, they usually need to rent/exchange property based on the rhythms of an academic calendar. Most rental services prefer not to accommodate these non-standard time requirements. Second, they are often looking for furnished homes with an office. Professors renting or exchanging homes from other professors are more likely to find suitable accommodations. The Web site was launched last June and has now more than 500 current listings from 16 countries on four continents. It has even started to help returning users. Individuals can still list for free until the one thousandth posting and may browse free of charge. Check out www.sabbaticalhomes.com. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES - Do you value having an annual hard copy edition
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Web copy of this document is meeting the needs of Scripps academics and
staff. Ship News Melville Weekly Report - Melville arrived in Guam on March 23 and offloaded Hawaii's HMR-1 system. The surveys yielded near complete side scan coverage of the arc and back-arc south of 16oN. The HMR group departed, with hearty thanks from the chief scientists, and we sailed on the morning of the 24th. We sampled WSW of Tracy Seamount and then up the axis of the back-arc rift from 13o30'N to 14o30'N. We then worked eastward along a cross-chain of arc volcanoes and into the main arc front. We have been working around Esmeralda Bank the last two days, and are now moving north towards an arc cross-chain west of Guguan Island. We have completed 32 dredge lowerings and eight glass core samples. The weather has been remarkably good, though the days have not passed without incident. A very unusual wire snag on D23 cost us a dredge and pinger, and the port thruster fell ill and has gone on holiday for the remainder of the cruise. We are consequently picking our dredge courses carefully and cruising at a leisurely 8 knots. Most of the cross-chain arc volcanoes and subsidiary volcanic structures we have sampled are inactive, but have yielded interesting samples. There are a number of relatively mafic olivine-plagioclase phyric basalts, as well as andesites, dacites, and a variety of volcaniclastic rocks. Olivine and clinopyroxene-rich ankaramitic rocks have been recovered from the southern flanks of Esmeralda Bank and Ruby Seamount. The pipe dredge was successful--in fact a bit too successful, as we had a hard time dealing with 200 kg of cold, wet mud. A couple minor modifications to one of the dredges (small pipe catchers on the side and a weighted plastic bucket in the chain bag) have yielded more modest, but very useful, sediment and volcaniclastic samples in many hauls. We are on schedule to complete 75 dredges, and will begin working our way south again on Friday. We have been recovering a variety of biological specimens from some of the shallower seamounts, including brittle stars, crinoids, and soft bodied organisms (not in great shape after the dredge). If anyone's interested in seeing them, let us know.
R/V ROGER REVELLE
R/V MELVILLE
R/V NEW HORIZON
R/V ROBERT GORDON SPROUL
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