January 5-12, 2001 vol. 38 no. 1

Calendar

Saturday, January 6

MULLIN MEMORIAL SERVICE - Please join us as we celebrate the life of our wonderful colleague and friend, Mike Mullin. The memorial service in his honor will be held on the grass by the Snack Bar, south of the SIO Pier, beginning at 2 p.m. In remembering Mike, you are all encouraged to wear black socks. (Jill Ives, x43948)

Monday, January 8

JOINT CRD/PORD/COMPAS SEMINAR - Simon Tett, UK Met Office, Hadley Centre, UK, will present, "Some Uncertainties in Attributing Recent Climate Change to Human Influences" in 101 Nierenberg Hall Conference Room at 11 a.m. The seminar is sponsored by COMPAS. (Detlef Stammer, x23376)

Tuesday, January 9

MOC MEETING - The Marine Operations Committee meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. in 114 Scripps Building. (Kathy Sholan, kathy@sio.ucsd.edu)

GROW MEMORIAL SERVICE - A memorial service for Harry Grow will be held at the aquarium by the memorial tiles next to the whale fountain at 4 p.m. Please join us. Contact Ginny Dobias, x44794

Wednesday, January 10

FIRST ECOLOGY LUNCHEON SEMINAR OF 2001 - Michael Rose, professor of biology, UC Irvine, will present "Aging, Evolution, and Immortality" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12 noon. (Erica Goetze, egoetze@ucsd.edu)

LIBRARY DATABASE CLASSES - Two library database classes will be held in the SIO Library: * The BASICS class (11 a.m. - 12 noon) is an orientation to library services, searching the Roger and Melvyl Catalog, CDL databases and other journal article databases available to you. Learn how to get free journal articles and interlibrary loans. Covers search tips and techniques to help you find library materials like electronic journals. * The WHAT'S NEW class (12:30-1:30 p.m.) covers SIO's AVANTI web-based article delivery service, requesting books and articles from CDL databases and how to set up your CDL Profile and create Updates so you can get your CDL database search results emailed to you every week. No reservations are necessary. Information about SIO Library classes is available on the SIO Library home page at: http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio. "Classes" is a link under Services; or contact Susan Berteaux, x20534. (sberteaux@ucsd.edu)

Thursday, 11 January

LUNCH AND LEARN: "Focus on UPDATES" (11:30 a.m.-12 noon and 12:30-1 p.m). Do you want to learn how to set up your CDL Profile and Create UPDATES so you can get your CDL database search results emailed to you every week? Do you want help revising an existing UPDATE? Half-hour library classes on UPDATES will be held in the SIO Library. No reservations are necessary; you can bring your lunch into the training room. (Susan Berteaux, x20534, sberteaux@ucsd.edu)

AOS SEMINAR - Tuncay Akal will present "Research Activities of the NATO SACLANT Undersea Research Centre" in 330 NTV Building at 4 p.m. (amber@mpl.ucsd.edu)

Friday, January 12

UNIFIED LAB FACILITIES PANEL - The next Unified Laboratory Facilities Panel (ULFP) meeting will be at 11 a.m. in 114 Scripps Building. Everyone is welcome to attend. (Pat Castillo, pcastillo@ucsd.edu)

Notices

GREAT NEWS! Just in time to start the new year right, we received news that the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation will continue its generous support for global change research with an award of $850,000! Now in its thirteenth consecutive year of providing funding for Scripps, Vetlesen supports numerous projects throughout the institution. In addition to funding new and continuing research projects, Vetlesen grants have frequently been used to provide necessary matches for support from federal sources. (Edwina Riblet, eriblet@ucsd.edu)

YOU'RE INVITED ON A VIRTUAL EXPEDITION! Join Scripps researchers on a scientific expedition to study the volcanoes of Costa Rica via the Internet beginning, January 4. The Scripps Web site, titled Volcano Expedition, will allow users to log on and follow a two-week-long field trip to six active volcanic areas in the highlands of Costa Rica in Central America. Headquartered in the Costa Rican capital city of San Jose, the expedition, led by Scripps geochemist Dr. David Hilton, will make daily forays into the tropical rain forests and higher elevations of the Costa Rican interior. Web users will be able to travel along with the team by logging on to receive daily scientific reports from the field. Users of all ages will be able to access a virtual encyclopedia of information about volcanoes and related geophysical phenomena, along with questions and answers and science classroom activities. The site will feature photographic documentation of the expedition, along with videos on the field research being conducted by a multinational team of earth scientists and graduate students. Please take a look at the NEW Scripps Volcano Expedition Web site: http://scripps.ucsd.edu/volcano.

LAST CALL FOR CELL PHONES - WOW! Thanks to you all, my couch has basically disappeared! Keep those broken or unused cell phones coming! I'll collect them to be refurbished and given to domestic violence victims until next Friday, January 12. Drop them off at 119 Scripps Building, or 0210. THANKS so-o-o MUCH! (Jill Ives, x43948)

DEADLINE FOR THE 2000 SIO CONTRIBUTIONS--2/1/2001--Each year the Technical Publications Office requests reprints of your publications. The Contributions publications are the only official record of papers published by Scripps authors for each calendar year. Data from the bibliography may be broken down into divisions, disciplines, used in major proposals, or in other bibliographic material. The citations are kept on computer for the convenience of all, and they are available on Scripps's web site as a searchable database. The deadline for submitting reprints to the Editorial and Publications Committee for the 2000 Contributions is Thursday February 1, 2001. Guidelines for submission may be found on the Web at www.sio.ucsd.edu/scripps_news/ techpubs/contribguide.html/. For each reprint published during calendar 2000, please submit 3 copies along with a reprint information form to the Technical Publications Office (0233B). Reprint forms are available by calling x41295 or e-mail techpubs@sio.ucsd.edu. (Nan Criqui, Technical Publications)

Ship News

R/V Roger Revelle

R/V Melville

R/V New Horizon

In port San Diego

R/V Robert Gordon Sproul

R/P FLIP

R/V David Starr Jordan

PLEASE NOTE - The SIO LOG is the in-house newsletter for staff, students, faculty, and retirees of Scripps Institution of Oceanography/ UCSD. All seminars, celebrations, lectures, and events are for these individuals only, unless otherwise noted. Public lectures will be advertised in the SIO LOG and in the local news media.