Calendar

Friday, August 10

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - David C. Rowley will defend his
doctoral dissertation entitled "Antiviral Natural Products from
Marine Sources" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 2 p.m The public is invited.
(Tim Ryan,tjryan@ucsd.edu)

Notices

MSPPC CANCELLED - The August 16, 2001 meeting of Marine Science
Physical Planning Committee (MSPPC) has been cancelled. The next
meeting will be September 20. Please let Jon Berger, x42889, or
John Desch, x44464, know if you have any questions.

SIO BEACH PICNIC - Be sure to bring the kiddies to the "Blast on the
Beach,' Saturday, August 18, 12 noon - 6 p.m. Get your FREE way cool
sea creature key chain! Enjoy yummy snow cones, nachos, hot dogs,
salad, rolls, and famous salmon chowder at 2:30 p.m. Groove to the
sounds of the terrific band, "Spaceman Spiff." Have your face painted
while wearing a crazy balloon hat made by a clown. It' s a BLAST!
Flyers with parking permits and hand stamp coupons will be sent out
to MSOs and available in SIO Communications and the reception area of
the Administration building. Come one come all! (Jill Ives, x43948)

WALTER MUNK HONORED -- In cooperation with the International
Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO), Prince
Rainier of Monaco has created the Prince Albert I Medal in the
physical sciences of the oceans. A special committee appointed by
IAPSO President, MIT Prof. Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli has selected
Scripps's Prof. Walter Munk as the first winner of the Prince Albert
I Medal. The medal will be presented for the first time at the
IAPSO/IABO Joint Assembly in Mar del Plata, Argentina, at the
ceremony dinner on Oct. 24, 2001. The medal is named in honor of the
late Prince Albert I of Monaco who, in 1919, organized the
Oceanography Section of the International Union of Geodesy &
Geophysics (IUGG). The medal will be awarded biannually by IAPSO.
Congratulations, Walter! (SIO Communications, x43624)

Ship News

R/P FLIP - On 02 August, 2001, R/P FLIP departed for a four month
deployment to Hawaii, towed by the Navy tug USNS Sioux. FLIP will
arrive in Pearl Harbor on 14 August and on 20 August proceed to the
northeast of Oahu where it will be moored for 30 days supporting the
ONR/SPAWAR Rough Evaporation Duct (RED) Experiment, returning to
Pearl Harbor on 19 September. Following a brief inport period in
Pearl Harbor, FLIP will sail south of Oahu to support the ONR/NSF
HOME project. Officer in Charge of FLIP is Tom Golfinos. (Bill
Gaines, MPL).

DRIFT Leg 3 Report, 8 August 2001- Keir Becker, ch. sci., U. of Miami
Primary objectives of DRIFT Leg 3 are to emplace multi-year
subseafloor hydrogeological experiments in two holes drilled by DSDP
and ODP on the southern flank of the Costa Rica Rift. These are
similar in concept to "CORK" observatories deployed since 1991 by
ODP, but are deployed by the MPL Control Vehicle and hence are
sometimes termed "wireline CORKs". The CORK team from University of
Miami - RSMAS and Geological Survey of Canada are collaborating with
an MPL team led by Fred Spiess. The two holes selected for these
initial wireline CORK installations are located in an area of active
off-axis hydrothermal circulation in young oceanic crust beneath a
relatively thick and impermeable sediment cover. Since arriving on
location about a week ago, a wireline reentry temperature log of one
of the holes - Hole 896A located on a buried basement high - confirms
predictions of vigorous upflow of 60-70 =B0C formation fluids and
indicates that these fluids are produced from at least two distinct
zones within basement. In the past three days, this hole has been
instrumented with pressure gauges and downhole temperature sensors,
but the attempt to isolate the producing formations with two packers
has not met with success. In the next week, we plan on installing a
similar observatory in a reference site about 1 km away, Hole 504B,
and then measuring detailed profiles of surface heat flow in the area.

CRUISE MAP INDEX/AREA/ CH SCI/INSTITUTION/ PORTS DAYS/AGENCY/
DATES PURPOSE/ PROPOSAL NO./ STATUS/CLEAR

R/V Roger Revelle
http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/supp_groups/shipsked/Revelle/Revelle.html
29 JUL NP13/1N 84W/ Becker K./RSMAS/ Pto. Calder 23/NSF/F
17 AUG Borehole Instrum. OCE98-19316 Pto. Calder
18,19 20

R/V Melville
http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/supp_groups/shipsked/Melville/melville.html
7,8 WHOI Loading
09 AUG NP10,NP10// transit/n.a./ Naha 9/NAVY/F
18 AUG transit, plankton coll n.a. Lae Japan,
FMS, PNG
IN5,IN5// n.a./n.a./ 3/NSF/F
n.a.

R/V New Horizon
http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/supp_groups/shipsked/NewHorizon/newhor.html
15 AUG NP9/38 N 122 W to 38M Bishop, J./LBL/ San Diego 14/NSF/F
28 AUG 1/Autonomous Profilers NOPP- San Diego

R/V Robert Gordon Sproul
http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/supp_groups/shipsked/RobertSproul/sproul.html
21 AUG NP9/Off San Diego/ Hildebrand, J./SIO San Diego 9/NAVY/F
30 AUG Marine Mammal Monitor /N00014-00-1-0572 San Diego

David Starr Jordan
http://www.pmc.noaa.gov/schedule/ds.htm
DEP: 07/30/01 San Diego, CA DS-01-05 20 SWFSC
ARR: 08/18/01 Newport, OR ORCAWALE

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