July 20 - July 27, 2001 vol. 38 no. 29

Calendar

Friday, July 20

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - Alex De Robertis will defend his doctoral dissertation entitled "Small-scale Spatial Distribution and Swimming Behavior of Euphausiids in Relation to Visual Predation Risk" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 10 a.m. The public is invited. (Tim Ryan, tjryan@ucsd.edu)

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - Kay Bidle will defend his doctoral dissertation entitled "Bacterial Control of Oceanic Silicon Cycling from Diatoms" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 2 p.m. The public is invited. (Tim Ryan, tjryan@ucsd.edu)

Tuesday, July 24

BAS BLOOD DRIVE - 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Aquarium Traffic Circle - The San Diego Blood Bank and Birch Aquarium at Scripps have teamed up for our 9th annual summer blood drive. Donation of blood saves lives and every pint counts! Summer is a critical time for maintaining blood supplies at the Blood Bank. Two blood mobiles will be present in the aquarium's traffic circle. Please eat before donating and bring picture ID and donor ID card if you have one. If you have donated blood within 56 days of July 24, you are not eligible to donate at
the Birch Aquarium. Reservations will not be taken.
All Donors will receive:
* One free pass to the Birch Aquarium at Scripps (transferable)
* Commemorative Blood Drive t-shirt or Touch Light
* San Diego Chargers 2-for-1 Preseason Ticket Voucher
* Entry in grand prize drawing
For more information, call the San Diego Blood Bank: 1-800-479-3902. UCSD Parking lot at Birch Aquarium is $3.00 (or bring A,B, or S parking permit).

Friday, July 27

MBRD SEMINAR - Lory Santiago-Vazquez, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara, will present "Eicosanoid Biosynthesis in the Tropical Coenocytic Chlorophyte Acetabularia Crenulata" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12 noon.
(Carolyn Sheehan, x24989)

Notices

SCRIPPS OPEN HOUSE - It's baaaaaack! To celebrate the UCSD 40th anniversary, Open House will take place throughout campus on SATURDAY, OCT. 20. The Scripps Open House will be 11 a.m.-4 p.m. All at Scripps, the San Diego community, family, and friends are invited to this free event showcasing the science and fun of Scripps. Activities at Scripps being planned include science demonstrations; a surf clinic; music and entertainment by Scripps performers; food; tours of the pier, Old Scripps Building, and Old Directors' House;
and lots of family fun! A request for volunteers will be coming, so please consider helping out. (Note: The Birch Aquarium at Scripps is self supporting, and therefore, will not be free for Open House. Regular admission applies; coupons and discounts are welcome.)
(SIO Communications, x43624)

FRIEMAN PRIZE WINNER - Many congratulations to Fabrice Veron, winner of the 2001 Edward A. Frieman Director's Prize, for his paper entitled "Experiments on the Stability and Transition of Wind-Driven Water Surfaces." Way to go! (Marcelle Hawkins, mjhawkins@ucsd.edu)

BAS BBQ TO DEBUT! Weekends in August at the Birch Aquarium: August 5 - September 3 - A sizzling summer calls for sizzling a BBQ! Weekends in August, visitors to the aquarium will delight in fresh, hot barbecued food served in Smargon Courtyard near the new shark reef
exhibit. Make plans to bring your friends and family for a lunch outing overlooking the Pacific Ocean (and don't forget that we have thousands of fish to see too!). (Lydia Cobb, lkcobb@ucsd.edu)

GEOREF JOURNAL ARTICLE DATABASE - Great news for users of the GEOREF Journal Article Database! On the SIO Library homepage at http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio, the link to GeoRef now goes to the new Cambridge Scientific Abstracts' product. Finally.......GeoRef users can set up an "Alert" to receive weekly e-mail updates of new citations! You can save your searches and quickly run a complex search without re-typing terms and phrases. The new GeoRef provides a simpler way to use your bibliographic software (i.e. Endnote, Procite, Reference Manager, Biblioscape). If you need to know if a journal is indexed by GeoRef you can quickly check the GeoRef Serial List. Note: You should *not* use the CDL version of GeoRef (at Stanford) for citations to recent literature; the CDL version of\ Georef (at Stanford) has *not* been updated since October 2000. For more information about using GeoRef contact Susan Berteaux in the SIO Library. (sberteaux@ucsd.edu, x20534)

GAY PRIDE PARADE - The UCSD Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community is proud to sponsor an entry into the Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade, Saturday, July 28, at noon in Hillcrest along University Avenue. For more information and upcoming LGBT activities at UCSD contact Shaun Travers, rainbow@ucsd.edu or x23493.

Ship News

R/V REVELLE - Greetings from the Revelle! We have completed 4 weeks of velocity and hydrographic surveys of the NECC at 105W, 100W, and 95W between 3.5N and 8N. We are now beginning our sections at 90W. The thermocline here is extremely shallow (as little as 25m near 8N!) and slopes strongly toward the south. Strong inertial oscillations have been apparent in our drifter deployments and will be resolved by our sections which span the 3-6 day periods. Our box surveys of the NECC core at 95W revealed divergence on the order of 1/10 of the local inertial frequency - which we expected from quasigeostrophic theory. We have experienced some equipment problems, but have managed with hard work and determination to obtain most of our observational goals. The crew of the Revelle and the science party have been exceptional in their perseverance and dedication. Our weather has not
changed significantly for 4 weeks - persistent humidity, clouds, warm air (apparently not hot because of the cloud cover), and intermittent rains. The seas and swell always range from 1-2m. We are looking forward to success here at 90W, after which we will start thinking of
Costa Rica and home!

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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