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7 - 14, 2001 vol. 38. No. 36 Tuesday 11 September MOC MEETING - The Marine Operations Committee meeting will be held at 1330 in the 114 Scripps Building. (Jason Strimpel, x42840) Notices GEAR UP FOR FALL CLASSES - SIO Library now offers Electronic Reserves for your courses or graduate seminars; students will be able to access your course materials 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Your course E-Reserves Web Page can contain links to electronic journal articles, electronic books, PowerPoint presentations and scanned images of paper materials such as course notes and practice tests. Connect to UCSD's Electronic Reserves at: http://reserves.ucsd.edu/. Select a Department: Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Our sample course, SIO999 (SIO E-Reserves Demo Page), will give you an idea how the service can work for your class. Information about SIO Library course reserves is online at http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/services/reserves.html or contact Susan Berteaux (sberteaux@ucsd.edu, 20534). SIO OPEN HOUSE - We've tons of fun in store for you---because "Oceanography is fun!" Bring the family, your neighbors, your in-laws, & the gang to SIO on Saturday, October 20, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Find out, "What in the World Do We Do at Scripps?" Come see dozens of science kiosks showing SIO's incredible research! Watch terrific Irish dancers perform on stage! Roving musicians, "The Jackstraws," will play sea ditties! Come to the totally rad Surf Clinic! Both the Old Scripps Building and the Old Director's House---our two historical buildings---will be open for tours! You'll be greeted by a quartet of trombones! Food galore! There will be stations all over the snack bar grass for face painting, science demonstrations, and fish printing! The SIO Pier will be open! Catch shuttles from UCSD or park anywhere on campus......be sure to come! (Jill Ives, x43948) LEARN TO SURF AT THE SIO OPEN HOUSE - Come on down to the beach and catch a wave with scientists from Scripps as they teach you the basics of surfing! You will also learn how waves are generated, why they are different shapes, and which are the best to surf. Come to the north side of Scripps Pier between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on October 20. Surfboards will be provided. Bring your own wetsuit if desired. (Ages 8 and up; must be able to swim. Minors MUST be accompanied by a parent/guardian.) GREAT RATES! Any staff/students/scientists of Scripps will receive 25% off rates when booking rooms at La Jolla Cove Suites. This discount applies for personal or business use. The sales manager recently reminded the Birch Aquarium of this agreement that was set up years ago. Call La Jolla Cove Suites: 858-459-2621 Ship News FLIP - Rough Evaporation Duct (RED) Experiment Status Report of 05 September 2001 - The RED experiment is focused on assessing the effects of the air-sea boundary layer on microwave and electrooptical signal propagation near to the sea surface. Crucial to the success of RED is the Marine Physical LaboratoryÌs Floating Instrument Platform FLIP, which is currently moored six miles off the northeast coast of Oahu, Hawaii. There are ten scientists and engineers aboard FLIP who have installed instruments measuring mean and turbulent meteorological quantities, sea wave heights, directions, and kinematics, upward and downward radiance, near surface bubble generation, atmospheric particle size distributions, laser probing of the atmosphere, and sources for both microwave and electrooptic signals. In addition to FLIP, two land sites are instrumented with receivers and meteorological sensors, two oceanographic buoys are deployed and two aircraft are flying various tracks to sense both sea and atmospheric conditions. In all, more than 25 people from four countries, six universities, and four government agencies are directly involved with the RED experiment. Nearly every sensor planned for RED is now operational and data from these sensors are being archived. Conditions have ranged from winds at more than 20 knots with 6 to 8 foot seas to winds less than 10 knots with 2 to 3 foot seas. We are looking forward to collecting data for another 10 more days. (Kenn Anderson SPAWAR Code D858) CRUISE MAP INDEX/AREA/ CH SCI/INSTITUTION/ PORTS DAYS/AGENCY/ R/V Melville R/V New Horizon R/V Robert Gordon Sproul David Starr Jordan
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