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May 11 - May 18, 2001 vol. 38 no. 19 Calendar Friday, 11 May MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Alison Murray, Desert Research Institute, Reno,
Nevada, will present "Application of DNA Microarrays to Assess Microbial
Gene Expression and Genomic Relatedness in the Shewanella genus" in 4500
Hubbs Hall at 12 noon. SPECIAL CMBB SEMINAR - Olivier Pertz, Biozentrum, University of Basel,
Switzerland and Scripps Research Institute, will present "Assembly of
Minicollagens in the Hydra Nematocyst or How to Assemble a 150 Bar Resistant
Structure" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 3 p.m. SCRIPPS ANCIENT MARINER'S TG - Come on down to SIO's Nimitz Marine Facilities and Marine Physical Laboratory for an Ancient Mariners' TG, 4-8 p.m.. Lots of things in store! Tours of FLIP and R/V Revelle! Tours of the Marine Physical Lab shop! Watch the ceremonial turnover of the ROV Advanced Tethered Vehicle (ATV) from the Navy's Deep Submergence Unit to our Director Charlie Kennel! Hosted beverages and munchies (donations gratefully accepted at the door, but not required)! The Scripps Ancient Mariners include anyone who is presently or has ever worked, taught, or studied at Scripps, adding their time, talent, and energy to creating this Institution's world class reputation. Sign onto the Ancient Mariner's website at http://scripps100.ucsd.edu and watch for future events. Our Director Charlie Kennel has given all-hands planning to attend permission to leave campus at 3:30 p.m. (with the permission of your supervisor). DIRECTIONS: Head south on Rosecrans all the way to the southern end, 297 Rosecrans St, just before the Navy Sub Base. Watch forblue and white balloons on your left, and the sign at the entrance. Turn left into the SIO Nimitz Marine Facility. Carpools are recommended as there is limited parking, plus that way you can designate a driver! Hope to see you there! (Kevin Hardy, khardy@ucsd.edu) Tuesday, May 15 CRD SEMINAR - Ming Cai, University of Maryland, will present "A Theory for the Prevailing Easterlies and Eastward-shoaling Sloped Thermocline Over Equatorial Pacific Basin and the Accompanying ENSO Variability" 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, May 16 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - (Note location!) Michael Schubert will defend his doctoral dissertation entitled "Wnt family genes in the cephalochordate amphioxus: structure, phylogenetic analysis, and developmental expression." It will be held in IGPP Munk Conference Room at 2:00 p.m. The public is invited. (Tanya Levi, tlevi@ucsd.edu) Thursday, May 17 CALSPACE SEMINAR - Clifton Phillips, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, will present "Multi-Spectral Self-Induced Shock Layer Radiance Measurement" in Jacobs School of Engineering (EBU1) Room 4307, 12 noon - 1 p.m. Questions? Please call (858) 822-1597 Friday, May 18 SWFSC SEMINAR - Matt Rutishauser, Institute of Marine Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, will present "Fur Seals on the Rocks (With a Twist): Thermoregulation and Body Composition in Young Antarctic Fur Seals" in the large conference room at 11 a.m. (Nancy La Roche Nancy.La.Roche@noaa.gov) SPECIAL CRD SEMINAR - Shoshiro Minobe, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, will present "Structures and Impacts of Pentadecadal and Bidecadal Oscillations" in 101 Nierenberg Hall at 1:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served at 1:15 p.m. The seminar is sponsored by the Climate Research Division. (Carolyn Baxter, x46584) Notices THANKS! A special thanks to the Scripps judges who spent an afternoon selecting this year's San Diego Science and Engineering Fair Scripps Century Award winners. The student backboards have been on display at the Scripps Library the past two weeks. This year's judges are: Doug Bennett, Arlene deStrulle, Mike Kirk, Fred Fisher, Jeff Graham, Kevin Hardy, Paul Harvey, Chris Massell, and Rob Rhew. The awards are coordinated through the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Education Department with support from the Scripps Director's Office. We appreciate your time! SOLAR POWER SOURCES MEETING - A meeting has been scheduled with Jack Hug and Mort Shayegan from UCSD Physical Plant Services to discuss solar power sources at Scripps. If you would like to attend, please meet in 4500 Hubbs Hall on Wednesday, May 23 from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Solar information has been compiled by concerned SIO researchers. You may access that information at http://abbot.ucsd.edu/solar.html. Ship News R/V NEW HORIZON - The first mooring deployment cruise for the Wind Events
and Shelf Transport (WEST) main field program left San Diego for the Point
Reyes area on April 29. WEST is an interdisciplinary field and modeling
program funded by the NSF Coastal Ocean Processes (CoOP) initiative. Our
general purpose is to better understand the shelf physical, optical, chemical,
and biological response to wind forcing. Principal investigators from
SIO include John Largier, Clive Dorman, and Ed Dever. Other PI's are at
the Romberg Tiburon Lab (SFSU), UC Davis, and UC Santa Cruz. We deployed
five moorings over the shelf north of Point Reyes. Our central mooring
is located at the 90 m isobath between Bodega Marine Lab and NDBC 46013.
Two peripheral moorings are at the 40 and 130 m isobaths on the same cross-shelf
line, and the other two peripheral moorings are 10 km north and south
of the central site on the 90 m isobath. All moorings include ADCP current
meters, temperature loggers, anemometers and moored CT's with transmissometers
and fluorometers. The central and inshore moorings include moored nitrate+nitrite
sensors. The central mooring also includes a full meteorological package
designed by Lloyd Regier and Jim Dufour (SIO/IDG) and near surface biooptics
sensors deployed for Raphe Kudela (UCSC). We plan to maintain moorings
at these sites until the summer of 2003. Conditions during the transit
from San Diego to Point Reyes were rough. We were relieved when we arrived
and encountered atypically calm winds for deployment. This was especially
welcome as the peripheral moorings are a new configuration designed by
Paul Harvey (SIO Hydraulics Lab, Center for Coastal Studies). This new
design allows servicing of surface buoy components between turnarounds
using a small boat. We got an unplanned chance to try small boat servicing
of components when it became apparent one of the buoy Argos transmitters
wasn't broadcasting. We determined the cause was interference from the
radar reflector and repositioned it on the buoy. After deployments we
took CTD casts at each of the moorings for initial comparisons with the
moored sensors. Following our cruise end at Redwood City on May 9, other
WEST PI's will conduct a month long survey cruise in the vicinity of the
moorings. We hope the combination of mooring, survey, remote sensing,
and shore based data (including HF radar) will allow us to characterize
the most relevant time and space scales of forcing and response for the
system. Throughout the trip we relied on expert assistance from all the
New Horizon crew and from Steve Rusk, our res tech. They enabled us to
get the moorings safely in the water while good conditions prevailed,
and to them I say many thanks for a job well done! R/V Roger Revelle http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/supp_groups/shipsked/Revelle/Revelle.html
R/V Melville http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/supp_groups/shipsked/Melville/melville.html
R/V New Horizon http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/supp_groups/shipsked/NewHorizon/newhor.html
R/V Robert Gordon Sproul
David Starr Jordan http://www.pmc.noaa.gov/schedule/ds.htm
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