June 29 - July 6, 2001 vol. 38 no. 26

Calendar

Wednesday, July 4

ADMINISTRATIVE HOLIDAY - Have a blast!!!!

Thursday, July 5

SALK INSTITUTE SEMINAR - Brent D. Mishler, Director, University and Jepson Herbaria Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, will present "Deep Green: Phylogeny of the Land Plants and Prospects for Comparative Genomics" at Salk Institute in the Trustees Room at 4 p.m. (Joseph Noel/Elise Larsen, 858-453-4100 x1383).

Notices

SIO BEACH PICNIC - Calling all volunteers! The eagerly-anticipated SIO Beach Picnic will be held August 18. We need your help! Contact Jill Ives (jives@ucsd.edu,) or Karen Garst (kgarst@ucsd.edu). Appreciate it!

ONE-TIME UCRP SERVICE CREDIT ALLOCATION PROGRAM - The University of California Retirement Plan (UCRP) Service Credit Allocation Program was created to provide retirement service credit to certain eligible UCRP members in recognition of past time worked in temporary positions. During the week of June 18, more than 15,000 University staff employees were notified that they had automatically received either one or two years of retirement plan service credit under this program. The additional service credit increases the value of their future retirement benefits if they otherwise qualify to receive retirement benefits. This program is specifically for UC employees working in staff appointments. A separate program is being developed to provide UCRP service credit to eligible academic personnel. Information about service credit for academic personnel will be provided later this year.

TO REQUEST AN ALLOCATION: The automatic allocations announced in June were based on the best available records, and it is possible that they did not identify everyone who is eligible. If you are a staff employee who did not receive an automatic allocation, you may be eligible to receive an allocation upon request. You are eligible for a UCRP service credit allocation if you:

1. Had an active University staff appointment on January 1, 2001 (or were on an approved leave with or without pay on that date); and

2. Were an active UCRP member on January 1, 2001 (or will become a UCRP member by December 31, 2001); and

3. Had a period of temporary employment at UC that:

* occurred before January 1, 2001; and
* lasted at least six consecutive months, based on your appointment start and end dates (regardless of the hours or percentage of time worked).

To receive an allocation, your past University employment must not be exempt from this program. The deadline for allocation requests is July 31, 2002. If you think you may be eligible, see the One-time UCRP Service Credit Allocation Program booklet for complete eligibility requirements, forms, and instructions on requesting an allocation. [Include the following in campus press release: The booklet is available on UCbencom or from your Benefits Office.] Your Benefits Office can also answer your questions about this program.

Ship News

FLIP 24 June - We're back in the saddle again, drifting on FLIP off the Patton Escarpment 220 miles west of San Diego. Our task is to christen and debug our new "Deep-8" Doppler sonar system. This device is to be lowered to the biological scattering minimum around 300-400m. It will profile both upward and downward into the stronger scattering regions. The goal is to map water velocity and scattering intensity over 600 m of the upper ocean every 30 s with 3 m depth resolution. So far all is going well. The Deep-8 will be used in conjunction with our high speed profiling CTD system when FLIP participates in the Hawaii Ocean Mixing Experiment this October. The Cruise is notable in that FLIP, Jack Benny and I are all celebrating our 39th birthday. Of the three, FLIP is holding up the best, with Benny a distant second. Tom Golfinos has the ship in great form and Paul Porcioncula is providing gourmet fare. Thanks to George Trekas and the MPL Shop crew for their fine work on the new sonar. (Rob Pinkel, MPL).

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
will depart when load-out is complete

R/V New Horizon http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/supp_groups/shipsked/NewHorizon/newhor.html

R/V Robert Gordon Sproul
http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/supp_groups/shipsked/RobertSproul/sproul.html

David Starr Jordan http://www.pmc.noaa.gov/schedule/ds.htm

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