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Scripps LOGJuly 2 - July 9, 1999 vol. 36 no. 26CalendarMonday, July 5ADMINISTRATIVE HOLIDAY - Hey, turn off that alarm clock!
Tuesday, July 6TOASTMASTERS - "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.NoticesCONGRATS, DR. SEYMOUR - Norman B. Estabrook, President of the Marine Technology Society, has announced that Dr. Richard J. Seymour has been selected as an MTS Fellow based upon his significant contributions to the society and in recognition for outstanding accomplishments in marine science and technology. Dr. Seymour is a research engineer at Scripps. Since the first such honor was bestowed in 1975, only 164 Fellows have been designated by MTS. Other MTS Fellows associated with Scripps include John A. Knauss, Fred N. Spiess, Kevin Hardy and Oskar H. Kirsten.HEY, DOUG! Please welcome Doug Bennett to the Scripps staff. Doug joined Scripps on April 1 as the new Executive Assistant to the Director. He moved to San Diego from Maryland where he worked as a support contractor at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center for 13 years. Although Doug has a broad background in supporting large, multidisciplinary earth science research programs, his first love is for the oceans. Growing up in Maryland, he spent every free moment in, on, or near the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay. Now that he's in San Diego, he hopes to take similar advantage of the Pacific Ocean. When time and money permit, Doug likes to listen to music, snow ski, bike, play tennis, scuba dive, and travel. Stop by the Director's Office and say "Hi!" GIVE THE GIFT OF LIFE - The Birch Aquarium at Scripps and the San Diego Blood Bank are teaming up for their 7th annual blood drive to be held at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. Two Bloodmobiles will be present in the Aquarium's traffic circle outside the main entrance on Tuesday, July 20, from 10 a.m - 2 p.m. The public is invited. No reservations are necessary. For participating in the event, donors will receive: - One free admisScrippsn pass to the Aquarium (transferable) The San Diego Blood bank reminds the public of the following: Please
eat before donating; bring your picture identification and donor ID card
if you have one, and if you have donated within the past 56 days please
disregard this notice. Thank you for being a regular blood donor! For
more info about the San Diego Blood Bank, call: 1-800-479-3902, or Jen
Matthews, x43624; jmatthews@ucsd.edu. Ship NewsR/V Melville, Weekly Scientific Report, North Pacific Acoustic Laboratory, 29 June 1999: On this cruise we are interested in measuring ocean sound-speed structure and bathymetry along an acoustic transmisScrippsn path from a source off the island of Kauai to 5 vertical receiver arrays located on Sur ridge off Point Sur, California. Both large and small scales are of interest; from the climatological scales down to the scales of internal gravity waves. The acoustic transmisScrippsn data will be used to infer large-scale ocean heat content and the average energy of the internal-wave field. To this end 13 CTD casts to the ocean bottom, and 17 CTD casts to 1500m are planned. In addition 760m depth XBTs will be deployed every 30 km, and 5 high resolution calibrated XBT surveys (max depth 460m) will be done. In a high resolution survey a total of 80 XBTs are dropped over a 120-km range. We are also recovering 2 moorings which were deployed last summer and which have been recording upper ocean temperature, salinity and current at various sample intervals from 20 to 2.5 minutes. For bathymetry we are utilizing the Melville's SEA BEAM sonar. At the writing of this note we have performed 11 deep CTDs and 10 1500m CTDs, we have deployed 109 760m XBTs and we have performed 4 high resolution surveys deploying a total of 320 calibrated XBTs. We have also recovered our western mooring and the second eastern mooring recovery is coming up tomorrow. Our XBTs have revealed a moderately energetic mesoscale field and a strong upper ocean internal wave field. Our western mooring data looks very good except for a small 12 hour period on the 23rd of January 1999 where the mooring was mysteriously pulled down 400m and then released again. SEA BEAM data indicates an ominous seamount rising to 2100m depth halfway between Kauai and California; a potential acoustic blockage point. Our progress towards California continues to be hindered by persistent trade winds which we hope will abate to facilitate more hydrographic stations. (John Colosi/WHOI)NOTOW Seafloor Geodesy Expedition Report #1, New Horizon - Gathering data at a one second interval from each of three GPS antennas, and at an eight second interval from five preciScrippsn acoustic transponders at the northern Cascadia Subduction Zone site. Our Canadian colleagues are recording similar GPS data at Vancouver Island reference sites. All previously installed transponders are working except the one installed in 1991, and we have replaced that with a fresh unit. Captain and Mates are doing a very fine job of holding the ship within 50 meters of the array center for hours on end, although they surely would like to have the dynamic positioning of Revelle working for them. Good food, smooth machinery operation and mild weather all contributing to a good start for this leg. Will be at this site (48-10 N,127-10 W) for a few more days and then move to 44-40 N on the Cleft Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. (Spiess, Hildebrand, Chadwell) CRUISE MAP INDEX/AREA/ CH SCI/INSTITUTION/ PORTS DAYS/AGENCY/ R/V MELVILLE 17 R/V NEW HORIZON 08 Jul NP6-NP9/44.6N, 130.3W/ Chadwell, D./Scripps/ at sea 05/UC/F J.Manion/R.Frei/L.Butler R/V ROBERT GORDON SPROUL L.Zimm/J.Potts/S.Baiz R/P FLIP In port in San Diego R/V DAVID STARR JORDAN Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego Scrippscomm@Scripps.ucsd.edu
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