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May 25 - June 1, 2001 vol. 38 no. 21 Calendar Friday, May 25 MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Stephen Schroeder will present a title to be announced in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12 noon. SPECIAL CRD SEMINAR - Xu Liang, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley, will present "Improvements on the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) Model" in 101 Nierenberg Hall Conference Room 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) SWFSC SEMINAR - Steve Dawson, University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand, will present "Hector's Dolphin: Conservation Issues, Abundance Surveys, and Management" in the SWFC large conference room 11 a.m. (Nancy La Roche, nancy.la.roche@noaa.gov) Monday, May 28 HOLIDAY!!!!!!!!!! Don't come to work......(pray for sunshine!) Tuesday, May 29 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - Linda Z. Holland will defend her doctoral dissertation entitled "Evolution of the Chordate Body Plan: Amphioxus (Branchiostoma floridae) as a Stand-in for the Ancestral Vertebrate" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 10 a.m. The public is invited. (Tanya Levi, tlevi@ucsd.edu) DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - Amy M. Shankle will defend her doctoral dissertation entitled "Population Variability in the Red Tide Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum micans" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 2 p.m. The public is invited. (Tanya Levi, tlevi@ucsd.edu) BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY FUTURES SEMINAR - (Note the changed time.) Craig Smith, University of Hawaii, will present "Future Themes in Biological Oceanography: From the Bottom Looking Up" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 5 p.m. Craig may be reached in 226 Ritter Hall, x25675, from Tuesday through Thursday. (Elizabeth Venrick, x42068) Wednesday, May 30 ECOLOGY LUNCHEON SEMINAR - Craig Smith, University of Hawaii, will present "Ecology of Whale Falls at the Deep-Sea Floor" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12:15 p.m. (Erica Goetze, egoetze@ucsd.edu) Thursday, May 31 CALSPACE SEMINAR - Stephen J. Morris, MLB Company, will present "Micro Air Vehicle Design Optimization and Flight Test Results" at the Jacobs School of Engineering (EBU1) in room 4307 at 12 noon. Questions? Please call (858) 822-1597. Friday, June 1 MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Armand Kuris, UC Santa Barbara, will present "Interspecific Interactions: Adaptive Peaks and their Ecological Attributes" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12 noon. Notices FIRST YEAR MARINE BIOLOGY STUDENT PRESENTATIONS - As a significant part of their graduate career at SIO, all graduate students of Marine Biology have to present the results of their research after the first year at SIO. Come and join us and show your support for these important presentations: Thursday, May 31, 4500 Hubbs Hall Friday, June 1, 4500 Hubbs Hall WALTER HONORED BY NAVY LEAGUE! Walter Munk, IGPP research professor of geophysics, emeritus, has been honored by the Navy League of the United States with the 2001 Albert A. Michelson Award. Given in honor of Michelson, the first American Nobel laureate, the award recognizes scientists whose research has significantly improved the nation's maritime forces or the U.S. industrial technology base. "Munk has served the Navy for over fifty years as one of the founding greats of modern oceanography," the Navy League noted in the award announcement. Congratulations, Walter! (SIO Communications, x43624) CONGRATULATIONS JEREMY! Jeremy Jackson, professor of oceanography with the Geosciences Research Division and Marine Biology Research Division, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was recognized for "world-class scholarship, teaching, and leadership in marine biology and ecology, ecologic and evolutionary theory, and paleontology." (SIO Communications, x43624) WHO'S RETIRING NOW? Our pal Bob Lum, SIO Purchasing, will retire May 31 after 1,265 years at UCSD & SIO(...just kidding! It's over 36!). His retirement party will be at 4p.m. in T-29 on June 15. "The Ginny and Jim Wells Show" will take place on June 22 at T- 29 (they've got 65 years combined!). And, the Grad Department's Ginny Dobias will retire on June 30. Details of her party later.......(Jill Ives x43948) Ship News Drift Expedition, leg one, first progress report - On station off central Oregon, gathering GPS and acoustic data to track Juan de Fuca Plate convergence with North America across the southern Cascadia Subduction zone. Before personnel transfer off Newport, with de Moustier on board for the transit from San Diego, we carried out successful tests of ancillary equipment for Revelle's new Simrad EM 120 swath sounding system and collected topographic data for our colleagues. Precision transponders installed last year at this site, improved GPS receivers, and reference stations operated by helpful colleagues ashore are all contributing data of high quality - should support our goal of centimeter level position determinations for comparison with last year's (and next year's scheduled) observations. Four Birch Aquarium docents and two Leeds University undergraduates are learning about shipboard life in fair weather with the supportive attitude and good food provided by the ship's force. Plan to move to Juan de Fuca Ridge geodetic sites on Monday. (Spiess and Chadwell) Ship News 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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