SIO Log

September 8 - September 15, 2000 vol. 37 no. 36

Calendar

Tuesday, September 12

MOC MEETING - Marine Operations Committee will meet at 1:30 p.m. in 114
Scripps Building. (sylvia@sio.ucsd.edu)

Wednesday, September 13

PORD SEMINAR - J½rgen Theiss, SIO, will present "Hamiltonian
Balanced Models" at 3:30 p.m. in 101 Nierenberg Hall . (Arne Biastoch,
abiastoch@ucsd.edu)

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - Noah Knowles will defend his doctoral
dissertation entitled "Modeling the Hydroclimatology of the San
Francisco Bay/Delta Estuary and Watershed" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 3 p.m.
The public is invited. (Tanya Levi, tlevi@ucsd.edu)

Friday, September 15

SPECIAL CRD SEMINAR - Pavel Groisman, U. S. National Climatic Data Center,
Asheville, NC, will present "Non-traditional Cloud-related Climatologies:
Their Use for Analyses of Contemporary Climate Changes and the GCMs
Behaviour" in 101 Nierenberg Hall Conference Room at 11a.m. Refreshments
will be served at 10:45 a.m. The seminar is sponsored by the Climate
Research Division. (Carolyn Baxter, x46584)

Notices

G­NTER LUGMAIR WINS LEONARD MEDAL - G½nter W. Lugmair, a research chemist
and geochemist in SIO's Geosciences Research Division, was awarded the 2000
Leonard Medal at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society. He
was presented the award by the Meteoritical Society "in recognition of
extensive and fundamental contributions to meteorite, lunar, and
terrestrial isotope geochemistry and the chronology of the solar system."

EXPEDITIONS REUNION PLANNED - The 50th reunion of Scripps's first
expeditions to the deep Pacific will take place on Saturday, September 30,
at Nimitz Marine Facility. This reunion will be for the early 1950s cruises
including the Transpac, MidPac, Capricorn, Northern Holiday, and Shellback.
Anyone involved with Scripps, or directly or indirectly related to the
cruises, is invited. The day's events are scheduled from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. We will open at 9 a.m. for registration, coffee, and donuts. The day
will be comprised of an informal symposium, where key speakers will share
their experience and memories from these cruises, and discuss the
importance of the cruises in the history of SIO and the science of
oceanography. Deborah Day, SIO Archivist, would be very interested in any
memorabilia that you may have and can bring. She can be reached at:
dday@ucsd.edu; (858) 534-5970; Mail Code 0219. There will be ship tours.
Please RSVP to Mary Wood (858) 822-1866 by September 15, 2000. (Kirk
Gardner, kgardner@ucsd.edu)

EARLY HISTORY OF SIO ON WEB - An early history of SIO (dating from 1912 and
written by SIO's founding director William E. Ritter) was scanned for the
SIO Archives website. It is linked from SIO Archives' HISTORIES page as
well as from the SIO Archives' Bibliography of the History of SIO. Direct
url is: http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/archives/texts/ritter-1912/. The
citation is: Ritter, William E. The Marine Biological Station of San Diego,
its History, Present Conditions, Achievements, and Aims. University of
California Publications in Zoology, v.9, No. 4, 1912. pp.137-248, pls.
18-24, and 2 maps. Deborah Day, the SIO Archivist, wrote an annotation for
this work as follows: "...the most comprehensive early history of the
Scripps Institution written by its founder and first director. This
history includes staff lists, a historical sketch, a description of Scripps
facilities including its campus and research vessel ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, its
scientific results, its program for the future, a bibliography of staff
publications, and appendices including its original articles of
incorporation, by laws, a floor plan of the George H. Scripps Building, and
photographs...." (Peter Brueggeman, x41230)

SIXTY YEARS AT SCRIPPS?!? Yep, you heard it right! Chuck Colgan (25),
Jill Ives (20), and Cindy Clark (15) invite you to their Survival
Celebration TG, at Surfside, Friday, October 6.........sixty down, sixty to
go! (Jill Ives, x43948)

Ship News

R/V Revelle - Weekly Scientific Report - 09/07/00 - The first leg of the
Hawaii Ocean Mixing Experiment (HOME) survey sailed from Honolulu on August
29. The goal of the HOME survey is to find evidence of enhanced mixing
along the Hawaiian Ridge. The first week of the cruise has been devoted to
ship surveys using SeaSoar and Revelle's new Doppler sonar. All equipment
has been working wonderfully as we have surveyed along the ridge from Oahu
to French Frigate Shoals (FFS). Several days were spent examining the
region around FFS, with the finding of regions of large overturns and
strong shear over the ridge crest. Isopycnal displacements on the order of
50-100 m are common near the ridge. Shears in excess of open ocean values
have been found at some distance from the ridge. Soon we plan to deploy
five profiling microstructure floats at locations along the ridge. The
floats will profile for two weeks, and will be recovered the last week of
the cruise. (Daniel Rudnick/UCSD/SIO)

CRUISE MAP INDEX/AREA/ CH SCI/INSTITUTION/ PORTS DAYS/AGENCY/
DATES PURPOSE/ PROPOSAL NO./ STATUS/CLEAR
CAPTAIN/CHIEF ENGINEER/STS TECH
========================================================== ================
R/V ROGER REVELLE

27,28
29 AUG NP12/Off Hawaii/ Rudnick, D./SIO/ Honolulu 36/NSF/F
29 SEP HOME Project OCE98-19521 Honolulu
30,1

C.Curl/P.Mauricio/G.Pillard

R/V MELVILLE

21 AUG SP3A/15-1S, 77-91W/ Bruland, K./UCSC/ San Diego 40/NSF/F
28 SEP Upwelling OCE98-11114 Arica Ecuador,
29 Peru

E.Buck/R.Wheatley/R.Wilson

R/V NEW HORIZON

2
03 SEP NP9/Off Central Taylor, P./NAVO/ Redwood Cit 17/NAVY/F
18 SEP Calif./CENCAL Phys.O. TBD San Diego

D.Murline/R.Frei/S.Rusk

R/V ROBERT GORDON SPROUL

07 SEP NP9/Off San Diego/ Wiggins, S./SIO/ San Diego 2/STATE/F
09 SEP Test Cruise UC Ship Funds San Diego

12 SEP NP9/Off San Diego/ Chave, A./WHOI/ San Diego 01/NSF/F
12 SEP HOME Equipment test-De OCE98-20759 San Diego

L.Zimm/J.Potts/S.Baiz

R/P FLIP

In port in San Diego

R/V DAVID STARR JORDAN

19 Aug NP9/Off Mexico
08 Sep ETP Dolphin Survey, Leg II

CHEERS!!!!!!

**********************************************
Jill Hammons Ives
Director of Special Events
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
9500 Gilman Drive, 0210
La Jolla, CA 92093-0210
858-534-3948 (office)
858-534-5306 (fax)
http://www-sio.ucsd.edu/

*The SIO LOG is the in-house newsletter for staff, students, faculty and retirees of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCSD. All seminars, celebrations, lectures, and events are for these individuals only, unless otherwise noted. Public lectures will be advertised as such in the SIO LOG and in the local news media---Thanks!