Scripps LOG

June 25 - July 2, 1999 vol. 36 no. 25


Calendar

Monday, June 28

SEE YA, NATALIE! Bring your lunch and come by for some goodies and say goodbye as we launch yet another retiree, Natalie Neal. Come to 114 Scripps Building at 12:30 p.m. (Jill Ives, x43948)

Tuesday, June 29


LIBRARY ORIENTATION (Two classes, 10:30-11:30 a.m. and noon-1p.m.) This one-hour introduction to Library Databases and Services covers the basics: Web verScrippsns of Roger, CDL (Melvyl Catalog), key databases, Services (ILL, Circulation, Reference), plus database search tips and techniques. Discover how to borrow books via San Diego Circuit and CDL. Learn about Library Express services and downloading citations for use in bibliographic software like Endnote and Reference Manager. This class is held in the Scripps Library Training Room. No registration is necessary. It is OK to bring your lunch into the training room. (Susan Berteaux, sberteaux@ucsd.edu, x20534)

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 30

WHAT'S NEW? (Two classes, 10-11a.m. and 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) This class goes beyond the basics to show you new library resources and database features like Science Citation Index, California Digital Library (general info, setting up your Profile, Request, Updates, CDL databases and the old Melvyl Catalog), new library databases and e-journals (how to find your favorite e-journal), "How to" tips (download, print, e-mail), InterLibrary Loan (books), and article delivery. Come to the Scripps Library Training Room. No registration is necessary. It is OK to bring your lunch into the training room. (Susan Berteaux, sberteaux@ucsd.edu, x20534)

PORD SEMINAR - Robert Pickart, WHOI, will present "Bottom Boundary Layer Structure and Detachment in the Shelfbreak Jet of the Middle Atlantic Bight" in 101 Nierenberg Hall at 3:30 p.m. (Paul Robbins, probbins@ucsd.edu)

KECK CENTER DEDICATION - Come one, come all as we christen the W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Ocean Atmosphere Research (the wooden buildings by Nierenberg Hall) on June 30, at 11 a.m. After the brief ceremony, you are all invited to an all-hands luncheon by the deep pool. If at all possible, please walk up. (Jill Ives, x43948)

MATT'S TA-TA PARTY - Don't forget Matt Unwin's retirement party at 3 p.m. in T-29. Come on up! (Jill Ives, x43948)

Thursday, July 1

SWFSC SEMINAR - Carrie Newell, Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon, will present "Zooplankton, Birds, and Whales: A Perspective from a Teacher at Sea" in SWFSC Large Conference Room at 11 a.m (546-7000)

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - Britton B. Stephens will defend his doctoral dissertation entitled "Field-based Atmospheric Oxygen Measurements and the Ocean Carbon Cycle" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 1:00 p.m. The public is invited. (Melanie Al-Rawi, x41694)


Notices


DAVID HESSLER ENDOWMENT ESTABLISHED - The David Hessler Endowment for Deep-Sea Biology has been established at the Scripps Library to honor the memory of Dr. Robert Hessler's son David and to honor Dr. Hessler's own contributions to deep-sea biology. Given the constraints in academic library funding, this library endowment affords a freedom in collecting library materials supporting deep-sea biology that is not available to other subjects at Scripps Library. Colleagues and friends have contributed to this endowment honoring Dr. Hessler and his son. Dr. Hessler is a regular user of Scripps Library, and Scripps Library staff have always greatly enjoyed assisting him. It is a special pleasure to have an endowment established honoring him and his son David. Donations to this endowment continue to be accepted. (Peter Brueggeman, x41230)

WE NEED QUESTIONS - The Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education needs questions for the next National Ocean Sciences Bowl. This national program is to increase the interest and awareness of high school students in ocean sciences. Questions are needed for a day-long "Jeopardy" style competition, hosted by Scripps, for the Southern California Region. It is very helpful to our local high schools if we have questions that apply to our region of the U.S. If not, when they compete in the national competition, teams from regions who submitted questions have a distinct advantage. Following is specific information:

1. CORE will pay $1.50 for every question that passes technical review.

2. All questions must be submitted no later than Sept. 15. Payment will
follow the review process. Payment will be sent approximately Oct. 15.

3. All questions must be submitted via the Internet using the format that
will be located on the CORE Web site, http://core.cast.msstate.edu. Questions submitted any other way will not be accepted.

4. CORE staff will assign a topic area(s) to each question writer.
Questions need to be within that topic area.

5. Question writers are requested to commit to a certain number of questions. If this "goal" is reached, the writer will receive an additional bonus based on the total amount of questions written and their final check amount.

6. Writers will be given a "code number." This number will be used to identify the number and type of questions submitted by each writer.

Interested? If you are, Amy Lorenzen at CORE needs the following as soon
as possible (Contact her at alorenzen@brook.edu)

* Contact information, both electronic and otherwise. Please make sure the info is current, and include info for summer months if you plan on being elsewhere.

* Speciality----in what area you feel most comfortable writing questions.

* Background-----not a resume, just a quick look at your marine science background.

* An estimate of how many questions you anticipate writing.

Thanks SO much! (Liz Winant, x46638)

NEW PERSONNEL - Scripps Communications has a new assistant that you will be hearing from......Jen Matthews, a native San Diegan, received her degree at UC Santa Barbara. She loves sports like volleyball, snowboarding, wakeboarding, surfing, golf, diving, and running; maintains a 60-gallon aquarium, and likes to travel to exotic places. Come say "Hi!" in Room 123 in the Scripps Administration Building. (jmatthews@ucsd.edu)

MMMMMMMM! Something new and refreshing! Blueberry and Strawberry Banana Smoothies are now available at the Scripps Snack Bar to quench your thirst.....$2.25 small, $2.95 large. They're good! (Jill Ives, x43948)

SHEESH....JUDY'S GOING, TOO! Judy Lancaster, assistant to the director of IGPP, is retiring on June 30 after 17 years at Scripps. She came to work in 1982 with me, Tom Jordan, and LeRoy Dorman at the Geological Research Divisionand moved to IGPP in 1984 when Tom left for MIT and John became director. During these years she shepherded students, from Paul Silver through Peter Shearer, through Jeff Babcock, through their Ph.D.s. She sent scientists, students, and engineers to sea and back on many expeditions and shipped tons of equipment to the far reaches of the planet. Curious to see what life at sea was all about, she sent herself to sea for an extended visit on a expedition in the tropics. Judy has managed million of dollars of research grants and contracts without a single hitch. She has seen and supported many changes including the conception, planning, and construction of the IGPP Revelle Laboratory. Judy's approach to her job and responsibilities has always been profesScrippsnal, but she's also managed to mix in a lot of fun --- impossible odds without that! Judy has sent the IGPP director to and fro to his second home in Washington, D.C., countless times and managed to keep everything afloat. From T.S. Eliot's "Little Gidding".

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

This has been true too many times for Judy and she's decided to look for new opportunities where her experience, wit, talents, patience, and skills will be tested anew. For myself, and thinking of Einstein, "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." IGPP, Scripps, and I shall miss her greatly. ---John Orcutt

MSDS SHOP CLOSED FOR INVENTORY - The Marine Science Development Shop will conduct inventory beginning June 23 and continuing through June 30. No material will be sold----no exceptions. (Matt Unwin, x42941)


Ship News

R/V New Horizon, Weekly Scientific Report, TECFLUX PROGRAM Leg 2, 21 June 1999: In the current project, we are focusing on the oceanographic and biogeochemical processes associated with exposed and decomposing methane hydrates at an active continental margin - the Cascadia accretionary prism off the coast of Oregon. The primary goals of our project will be: 1) to trace and determine the, source, inventory and flux of methane input to the water column ; 2) to determine the fate of that methane and associated fluid flows; 3) to examine relationships between methane inventories, methane oxidation rates, and regional oceanographic or geophysical forcing. This NSF-funded research is an integral part of an international cooperative study of the hydrates at Cascadia called the TECFLUX program. Our cruise carries researchers from COAS-Oregon State U., Humboldt State U., GEOMAR-U.Kiel, and U. Victoria. The primary objective of this second New Horizon TECFLUX cruise is to study the input, distribution, and fate of dissolved methane and other solutes released from fluid and gas seeps on the seafloor. This fluid is carried by cold seeps venting along fractures and faults in the sediments accreting to the continental margin as the Juan de Fuca Plate subducts beneath the North American continent. Material is transferred to the water column as diffuse porefluids and direct vent fluids as well as in a gas phase (methane bubbles). Methane distributions and biogeochemistry at this site involve significant deposits of the solid clathrate hydrate of methane. Upon leaving Newport at 14:00 hours on June 13 with 13 scientists onboard, we began the CTD surveys until the following morning when we recovered a current meter mooring. The mooring was first installed in April and contains two instruments characterizing the currents, temperature and pressure in the lower 100 meters of the water column where most of the methane is dissolved. After downloading the data, we redeployed the mooring the same day, taking advantage of optimal weather conditions. The 200 meter-long mooring was dropped at 44deg 38.50' N, 125deg 06.42' W (P-code GPS) in 673m water depth, near NH45 on the Newport Hydroline (essentially identical to its initial position). Final coordinates will be posted several days after the completion of our cruise. The mooring will be turned around several more times this summer to give TECFLUX water column researchers up to date viScrippsns of the environmental conditions. Currents in the benthic boundary layer have also been measured daily by a lander which also samples water and collects digital videos of macro aggregates. The bulk of the station time has involved 24 bottle CTD-rosette casts characterizing the distribution, flux, and oxidation rates of methane and related chemical species. Beyond the normal Seabird sensors, the CTD carries new experimental sensors for dissolved methane and electrochemical properties of the water column which have guided our water sampling. As of this writing (6/20/99), we have collected over 30 CTD casts, with almost half of these focused on Northern Hydrate Ridge. Other sites include: two E-W sections extending onto the upper slope to the north and south of the Ridge; targets at the Southern Hydrate Ridge (site of previous solid hydrate recovery); and several other benthic features suggestive of past or ongoing methane releases (pockmarks, mud volcanoes, carbonates, etc.). Onboard chemical analyses include methane concentrations (two techniques), dissolved oxygen, TOT-CO2 and Alkalinity, C14-labled methane oxidation rates. An extensive sample set is being collected for shore analyses which will include: carbon isotopes in methane and DIC, oxygen isotopes in water, trace metals, and nutrients, and salinity. We expect to continue our CTD surveys through June 22, arriving back in Newport on the morning of June 23. We then hope to sleep for 6 days until the beginning of the next TECFLUX cruise with the Atlantis/Alvin. (Robert Collier/OSU)

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

20, 21, 22, 23
24 Jun NP9/Japan, East Sea/ Talley, L./Scripps/ Pusan 25/ONR/F
17 Jul Hydrographic Measur. N00014-98-1-0200 Pusan 05/ONR/F
18,19 Japan,S.Korea
D.Murline/P.Mauricio/T.Koonce/D.Jacobson Russia

R/V MELVILLE

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

24
25 Jun NP6-NP9/48-10N,127-10W/Spiess, F./Scripps/ Newport 14/NSF/F
07 Jul Convergence OCE97-30870 at sea Canada

J.Manion/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

28 Jun NP9/Off San Diego
11 Jul DS-99-04/MERRP



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

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