Scripps LOG

June 11 - June 18, 1999 no. 36 vol. 23


In Memoriam

Thomas Erskine Chase, who worked at Scripps from 1960 until 1976, passed away last January in Menlo Park, California after a long struggle with infections following earlier surgery. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida on Sept. 11, 1931. After serving in the Navy during the Korean conflict, Tom moved to San Diego where he met his wife Marlene and graduated from SDSU. First employed as "the only geologist" in the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Tom worked with H.W. "Bill" Menard to produce an atlas of the bathymetry of the Central Eastern Pacific Ocean that soon became sought after by tuna fisherman because fish were being found near previously uncharted seamounts. After moving to Scripps to work more closely with Menard, Tom headed up a much larger project of producing a series of charts and phyScrippsgraphic diagrams covering the whole North Pacific for the Navy. These were the first unclassified detailed maps of Pacific Ocean seafloor topography created with geological insight that were available to the scientific community. They became the standard for later work by Tom, Menard and, Jacqueline Mammerickx in the South Pacific and elsewhere, as well as a major source for DBDB5, one of the first digital bathymetric data bases. In 1970 Tom became the head of the Geological Data Center which was newly established to archive and display the geophysical data collected on Scripps expeditions. He used his creative abilities to design and construct a projector system, the first of many contraptions (his word) he was to build throughout his career, to enlarge microfilmed seismic reflection profiler data into a "hanging gardens" of these data which were in great demand by the offshore oil exploration industry. Tom's open, friendly people skills were put to good use while he also served as the institution contact for oil industry members of the Scripps Industrial Associates which provided significant financial support to Scripps during the 1970s and 1980s. In 1976 the U.S. Geological Survey lured Tom away to Menlo Park where he continued his career making bathymetric charts, camera systems, and other data display devices until his retirement last year. Although it has been some time since Tom was at Scripps, he is still fondly remembered by his friends here as a friendly, energetic, and helpful colleague who will be sorely missed. He is survived by his wife, Marlene; three daughters, Ramona, Constance and Michelle; and six grandchildren. (Stuart Smith, Geological Data Center, Scripps, ssmith@ucsd.edu, &;George Sharman, National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, ssmith@ucsd.edu.

Calendar

Friday, June 11

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - Joellen L. Russell will defend her doctoral dissertation entitled "The Biogeochemistry of Southern Ocean Intermediate and Mode Waters" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 3 p.m. The public is invited. (Melanie Al-Rawi, x41694)

Monday, June 14

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - Helene Vervoort will defend her doctoral dissertation entitled "Novel Anticancer Agents from Ascidiacea" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 11 a.m. The public is invited. (Melanie Al-Rawi, x41694)

Tuesday, June 15

TOASTMASTERS - "The Pier Review" meets every Tuesday from 12 noon - 1p.m. in 114 Scripps Building. It's a friendly, supportive place to develop your speaking skills and confidence. We welcome guests! Come check us out. Contact Elaine Parent, 558-0122 or eparent@ucsd.edu for details.

Wednesday, June 16

SPECIAL ECOLOGY LUNCHEON SEMINAR - Dariusz Stramski, Scripps, will present "Marine Plankton, Ocean Optics, and Ocean Color Remote Sensing: New Challenges at the Turn of the Century" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12:15 p.m. (Catherine Johnson, clj@ucsd.edu)

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - Aaron Michael Thode will defend his doctoral dissertation entitled "Beamforming the Blue Whale Blues: 3D Tracking, Geophysical InverScrippsn, and Source Signature Recovery of Blue Whale Sounds by the Channel Islands, California" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 2 p.m. The public is invited. (Melanie Al-Rawi, x41694)

Thursday, June 17

MSPPC MEETING - The June meeting of the Marine Sciences Physical Planning Committee (MSPPC) will be held 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. in the Scripps Director's Office Conference Room 114. Information will be presented on the CMBB Concept Plans, and the Proposed Footbridge Concepts. Follow-up items will be presented on the Seawater Tank Replacement Project Landscape Plans, and Report - Community Group Presentation Regarding Strobic Fans, as well as miscellaneous construction updates. If you have any questions, please contact either Cathy Presmyk, x43860, or Jonathan Berger, x 42889.

BIOSIS PREVIEWS (12-1p.m. and 1:30-2:30.p.m.) - Discover why BIOSIS Previews (aka Biological Abstracts) is better than Current Contents or Medline for molecular and cellular biology, phyScrippslogical biology, developmental biology, or for biology in general. Learn how to fine-tune a search to include concepts like movement, or pathology or microscopy techniques, and how to limit results to phyla or multiple phyla like fish or invertebrates or non-human mammals. This one-hour library database class will be offered from 12 - 1 p.m. and 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the Scripps Library Training Room. No registration is necessary; it is OK to bring your lunch &;beverages into the Training Room. For more info, call x20534 (Susan Berteaux,sberteaux@ucsd.edu).

Friday, June 18

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - Cleridy Lennert-Cody will defend her doctoral dissertation entitled "Phytoplankton and High-frequency Internal Waves: Predictable Patchiness Through the Water Column" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 2 p.m. The public is invited.

Notices

JOHN D. ISAACS SCHOLARSHIP WINNER - Sarah Lynette Reiver, a senior at La Quinta High School, has been named the winner of the prestigious John D. Isaacs Memorial Sea Grant Scholarship. This $10,000 award recognizes superior research in marine science or technology and seeks to encourage students to pursue further studies in marine science. Reiver's winning project was, "Determining the Nutritional Requirements for Optimizing Growth of Emiliania huxleyi."

CALL FOR PROPOSALS - The Department of Defense (DOD) announces the fiscal year 2000 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) call for proposals. This program will be administered through the Army Research Office (ARO), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), and the Research and Engineering Directorate of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). Through this DURIP competition, DOD intends to award approximately $45 million for fiscal year 2000, subject to the availability of funds. These funds will be awarded via grants made by ARO, ONR, AFOSR, and BMDO (henceforth referred to as "agencies"). Grants will be for the purchase of research equipment costing more than $50,000, items that typically cannot be purchased within the budgets of single investigator awards. Proposals, in the quantity and format described in the announcement found at ONR's URL below, must be received by the appropriate DOD office no later than 4 p.m. local time on Thursday, 19 August 1999. http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/special/onrpgafm.htm.

COFFEE WITH CHARLIE - The next "Coffee with Charlie," a monthly get together with Director Charlie Kennel, will be June 22, at 10 a.m. In 4500 Hubbs Hall. These are intended to be informal discusScrippsns where you can come in, relax, and enjoy a leisurely morning with the Director. Come on by and enjoy some coffee &;bagels!

NATALIE NEAL RETIRES - Natalie Neal is retiring at the end of June, after 3 years in Scripps Academic Personnel, 3 years in Nierenberg Hall, and 2 years in the School of Medicine. You are invited to come to 114 Scripps Administration Building for treats and goodbyes on Monday, June 28, 12:30 - 3 p.m. (Jill Ives, x43948)

WHOOPS! Unless we are planning the Scripps Beach Picnic to be INSIDE the Dive Locker, looks like August 7 won't work----tide's too high. (Not that August 14 is much better, but it will have to do.) So, get out the eraser and put down that the Scripps Beach Picnic will be Saturday, August 14. (Jill Ives, x43948)

BLUE WHALES VISIT Scripps - On Wednesday and Thursday of last week, alert whale researchers at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center noticed some distinctive whale blows about 5 miles off the end of Scripps Pier. These did not appear to be the common gray whale. After setting up their "big eyes" (25x) binoculars, they were able to identify these as blue whales. Blue whales have been seen from the balcony of the Fisheries Center at least twice in the past, always in the last week of May or the first week in June. Last year, blue whale researchers from Cascadia Research in Olympia Washington obtained 20-30 identification photographs from blue whales off San Diego. Attempts to photograph blue whales this year have been thwarted by rough seas but will continue this weekend and for as long as the whales remain. They are not expected to stay long. Blue whales are the most common whale seen off the southern California coast in summer and fall, but worldwide they remain one of the most depleted of the large whale species. San Diego is apparently a snack bar and rest area for blue whales during their northward migration from the Costa Rican Dome to major feeding areas located from the Santa Barbara Channel to Northern California and out to 100 nmi offshore. (Jay Barlow, 546-7178)

Scripps PARKING DECALS HAVE ARRIVED! You have until June 30, 1999 to obtain your Scripps parking decal. Beginning July 1, 1999 parking citations will be issued. There is no grace period. Please remember that ONLY Scripps EMPLOYEES OR Scripps GRADUATE STUDENTS MAY BE ISSUED AN Scripps PARKING STICKER. If you are a graduate student who has not had a parking sticker in the past, please see Melanie Al-Rawi in the Graduate Department for the appropriate parking form.

To obtain an Scripps Parking Sticker for your UCSD A or B Permit, you have four choices:

1) Telephone - Call Lynn Cannella at x 42830
2) Email "parking@Scripps"
3) In person - Room 104, Scripps Building, from 8 a.m. - noon and
1p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
4) Web: www. http://Scripps.ucsd.edu/forms/parking.htm

The following information is needed:
1) Name, department, mail code, and phone number
2) Employee or student I.D. number
3) 1999-2000 UCSD A or B Parking Permit Number

Note: Your vehicle information is not required. Your permit may be used
for any vehicle you are driving.


Ship News

R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, Weekly Scientific Report, June 4, 1999: Since our last report, The Nathaniel B. Palmer has picked up last OBS from the Drake Passage in winds gusting to 40 kts and building seas. It is good to have a 6000 ton ship when working in poor weather. Picked up land party from Prat and transfered them to Frei Base. Recovered the 14th and last OBS from the Bransfield Strait under remarkably calm wind (5 knots, slight seas). Good weather continued, allowing rapid removal of land station next Endurance Glacier on Elephant Island. After picking up 4 passengers from Arktowski Polish) station, we were diverted to Vernadsky (Ukranian) station for a medical evacuation. The route there was via the Lemaire Passage, which surely ranks among the scenic wonders of the world. Having loaded the patient, we are crossing the Drake Passage in mild weather on our way north to Punta Arenas, Chile, having completed a successful cruise. (LeRoy Dorman/Scripps)

R/V Melvillle, Weekly Scientific Report #2, Avon-7, June 9, 1999: Work continues at the N. Central Pacific site to collect various organic and inorganic carbon pools for natural radiocarbon abundances. We (Druffel and Bauer groups) have nearly completed a 24 depth profile of filtered seawater and suspended particulate matter, and three depths for colloidal organic matter for lipid biomarker analyses and radiocarbon analyses of organic compound classes. We are also conducting meter net tows in the upper water column and doing gravity coring. We (Repeta group) have concentrated dissolved organic matter from water at 8 depths to 14C date specific sugars and carbohydrates. Bronk and Campbell groups' experiments to determine the autotrophic release and uptake of dissolved organic nitrogen are nearly complete. Calm seas and winds below 8 knots have caused a dramatic warming of the upper few meters of the mixed layer. We are fat and happy eating the numerous mahi mahi caught by the officers and crew, and wonderfully prepared for our dining pleasure by our two magnificant cooks, Tony and Ricardo. Captain, officers and crew continue to provide expert support to the scientific crew. We are leaving station early on 13 June to arrive Honolulu on 15 June. Aloha. (Ellen Druffel/UCI and Jim Bauer/Coll.of Wm &;Mary)

CRUISE MAP INDEX/AREA/ CH SCI/INSTITUTION/ PORTS DAYS/AGENCY/
DATES PURPOSE/ PROPOSAL NO./ STATUS/CLEAR
CAPTAIN/CHIEF ENGINEER/STS TECH
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R/V ROGER REVELLE

5
06 Jun NP7/Japan, East Sea/ Watts, D.R./URI/ Pusan 15/ONR/F
19 Jun Mooring Deployment N00014-98-1-0200 Pusan Japan,S.Korea

T.Desjardins/P.Mauricio/T.Koonce/D.Jacobson

R/V MELVILLE

12 Jun NP8/Off Hawaii/ Repeta, D./WHOI/ at sea 04/NSF/F
15 Jun Chemistry OCE 98-18654 Honolulu
16
E.Buck/R.Wheatley/J.Charters/R.Comer
17
18 Jun NP12-NP9/NPAC/ Colosi, J./WHOI/ Honolulu 18/ONR/F
03 Jul Acoustic Laboratory N00014-97-1-0259 Astoria
4
E.Buck/R.Wheatley/G.Pillard/R.Moe

R/V NEW HORIZON

02
03 Jun NP9/Off Newport/ Goldfinger, C./OSU/ Newport 10/NSF/F
11 Jun Geological Oceanography OCE97-31023 Newport Canada
12
J.Manion/R.Frei/R.Dickau/S.Mogk

13 Jun NP9/Off Newport/ Collier, R./OSU/ Newport 12/NSF/F
23 Jun Chemical Oceanography OCE98-11417 Newport
24
C.Curl/R.Frei/L.Butler

R/V ROBERT GORDON SPROUL

09 Jun NP9/Columbia Frasier/ Simenstad, C./UW/ San Diego 45/NSF/F
23 Jul OCE94-12028 Eureka Canada

L.Zimm/J.Potts/S.Baiz

R/P FLIP

In port in San Diego

R/V DAVID STARR JORDAN

06 May NP9/
12 Jun Juvenile Rockfish/DS-99-03



Editor: Jill Ives
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
Scrippscomm@Scripps.ucsd.edu

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