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June 15 - June 22, 2001 vol. 38 no. 24 Calendar Friday, June 15 BOB LUM'S GOLF FIESTA - Four p.m. is the tee-off time for Bob Lum's retirement party, Friday, June 15. Don't get caught in a sand trap! Come to T-29 for excellent eats and say hasta la bye bye to one of SIO's most favorite amigos! (Caddie Senora Jill Ives, x43948) Monday, June 18 SPECIAL CRD SEMINAR - Ji Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, will present "Role of Terrestrial Hydrologic Memory in Modulating ENSO Impacts in North America" 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) Tuesday, June 19 ASTROBIOLOGY SEMINAR - Jennifer Blank, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, Physics & Applied Technologies Division, LLNL, will present "Was Johnny Appleseed a Comet? (or, The Generation of Peptides in Impact Events)" in 329 SERF/UCSD (Bldg. 930 on UCSD Campus Map) at 2 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Contact Oliver Botta (534-2995; email: obotta@ucsd.edu) or Lois Lane (phone: 534-1891; email: llane@ucsd.edu). Wednesday, June 20 ECOLOGY LUNCHEON SEMINAR - Wiebke Ziebis, SIO, will present "Shallow-water Hydrothermal Vents in the Aegean Sea: Investigations of Biogeochemical Processes, Bacterial Populations, and Benthic Community Structure Along Extreme Environmental Gradients"in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12:15 p.m. (Bonnie Becker, bjbecker@ucsd.edu) SDNHM SEMINAR - Please join the San Diego Natural History Museum in Balboa Park for the next program in its Baja California Lecture Series. Miguel A. Cisneros Mata, Director of Evaluation and Management, National Institute of Fisheries, Mexico City, will present "Fisheries Management, Co management, and Biodiversity in the Gulf of California," 7-9 p.m., in the Museum's new Charmaine and Maurice Kaplan Theater. Price is $6 for SDNHM Members, Seniors 60 and over, full-time Students, Military, and Children 6-17; and $8 for nonmembers. Please call (619) 232-3821 ext. 203 for reservations or visit www.sdnhm.org for more information. Thursday, June 21 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - Christine Salomon will defend her doctoral dissertation entitled "The Cellular Localization of Bioactive Secondary Metabolites in Sponges, Ascidians and their Associated Symbionts" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 2 p.m. The public is invited. (Tim Ryan, tryan@ucsd.edu) MSPPC MEETING - The June meeting of the Marine Sciences Physical Planning Committee (MSPPC) will be held from 10-11:30 a.m. in 114 Scripps Building. MSPPC will be discussing the following items: 1) Fencing along the edge of the bluff (information); and 2) the appropriateness of "Potential Action" agenda items. If you have any questions, please contact either John Desch (jdesch@ucsd.edu/x 44464) or Jonathan Berger (jberger@ucsd.edu/ x 42889). Friday, June 22 ALOHA JIM & GINNY! Jim and Ginny Wells will say "Aloha" to SIO on June 22 at 4 p.m. up at Palapa T-29. Hula on up in your Hawaiian shirts and leis.....see you there! (Jill Ives, 43948) SPECIAL SUMMERTIME TG - Come over to Surfside after the Aloha Party for a cold one (or two!) Sponsored by the Director's Office! Notices CONGRATS, WOLF! Wolf Berger was awarded the Francis P. Shepard Medal from SEPM, Society for Sedimentary Geology, for his work in Marine Geology. Jerry Winterer and Joe Curray are previous recipients of the award here at SIO. The medal honors the memory of the late Francis P. Shepard, professor at SIO from 1937 until 1985. (Renate Herritt, rherritt@ucsd.edu) ISAACS SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED - The 2001 John D. Isaacs Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Hannah Gray, a senior at Morro Bay High School at the California State Science Fair in May. California Sea Grant awards the scholarship each year to a California high school student who plans to study marine science at a California university. Gray's project examined the ability of the Pacific oyster to filter pathogenic bacteria from contaminated seawater. The $12,000 scholarship will be paid in four annual installments to UC Santa Cruz, where Gray plans to commence her undergraduate studies in marine biology this fall. For more information and to view photos from the science fair, go to http://www csgc.ucsd.edu/communication/education/Isaacs.html (Marsha Gear, x40581) GET OUT YOUR ERASER - Ship Scheduling has a new fax number, (858) 822-5811. (Jason Strimpel, x42840) Ship News Melville in the East China Sea - Greetings everyone from the East China Sea (29 39 N 126 49 E). The Melville has been holding station near this location since May 29th, conducting ocean acoustic and environmental measurements as part of ASIAEX (Asian Seas International Acoustics Experiment). Aboard are science teams from the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, MPL-SIO, and University of Rhode Island. Also aboard are five guest scientists from the PRC; two from the Institute of Acoustics in Beijing, one from Northwestern Polytechnic University, and two from the Hangzhou Applied Acoustics Research Institute. Since June 2 we have coordinated our operations with the Chinese research vessels Shi Yan 2 and Shi Yan 3, also here as part of ASIAEX. All three vessels have been constantly confronted by a fleet of Chinese, and occasionally, Japanese fishing vessels that ply these waters. Daily, a Japanese coast guard P3 flies by to observe the scene. Importantly, we have been able to maintain our moorings (vertical line arrays, a wave buoy, autonomous sediment porosity profiler), because of the vigilant lookout maintained by Captain Dave Murline and the crew of the Melville. In terms of weather we've experienced a couple of 2-day periods of high winds (25 kts) and seas (2-3 m), followed by 2-day periods of calm, balmy days. Regardless of the weather, we've maintained a tight deployment and recovery schedule with the help our Res Tech, Shad Baiz. In a few days we will head for Shanghai, to conduct a port call required by the State Oceanic Agency (SOA) of the PRC. We have harvested a wonderful data set on acoustic propagation and scattering in an Asian littoral sea, along with the required oceanographic data for its interpretation. A remarkable achievement considering the inauspicious beginnings associated with Melville's mechanical problems in Guam and the political problems of last March. (Peter H. Dahl, Chief Scientist)
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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