SIO Log

September 29 - October 6, 2000 vol. 37 no. 39

Calendar

Friday, September 29

MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Sarka Southern, SW Fisheries Science Center, will
present "Molecular Analysis of Stress Response in Dolphins and Whales: New
Techniques for Monitoring Environmental Stress" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12
noon. (Brian Palenik, x47505)

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - Jana Davis will defend her doctoral
dissertation entitled "Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of a Tidepool Fish
Assemblage in San Diego, California" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 2:00 p.m.
The public is invited (Tanya Levi, tlevi@ucsd.edu)

GEOPHYSICS SEMINAR - Toshiro Tanimoto, UC Santa Barbara, will present
"Gravitational Energy Change by Earthquakes" in IGPP Munk Lab Conference
Room at 3 p.m., refreshments at 2:45 p.m. (Bridget Smith,
bsmith@mahi.ucsd.edu)

Sunday, October 1

LECTURE AND BOOK SIGNING - Join Christopher Wills, professor of biology at
UCSD, and Jeffrey Bada, professor of marine chemistry at Scripps, on Oct. 1
in the Birch Aquarium classroom as they discuss the engaging issues brought
to light in their new book, "The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval
Soup." The lecture and book signing event begins at 2 p.m. How did life
originate on Earth? What did the earliest primitive organisms look like?
Were they based on RNA, DNA, or on something we would hardly recognize
today? Is there life elsewhere in the universe? During the lively
presentation and discussion on the origin of life, Wills and Bada will
describe the steps by which living organisms first appeared, and show how,
right from the beginning, the forces of evolution were at work. The lecture
includes demonstrations of origin-of-life experiments. (Mario Aguilera,
x43626)

Tuesday, October 3

CRD SEMINAR - Huijun Yang, College of Marine Sciences, University of South
Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, will present "A Unified Theory for Ocean
Climate Variability" in 101 Nierenberg Hall at 3:30 p.m. Refreshments will
be served at 3:15 p.m. The seminar is sponsored by the Climate Research
Division. (Carolyn Baxter, x46584)

Wednesday, October 4

ECOLOGY LUNCHEON SEMINAR - Mark Ohman, SIO, will present "Nonlinear
Zooplankton Population Dynamics: A Perspective on the North Atlantic" in
4500 Hubbs Hall at 12:15 p.m. (Bonnie Becker, bjbecker@ucsd.edu)

Friday, October 6

MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - (Please note different location!) David
Valentine, UCSD, will present a topic to be announced in 10 Old Scripps
Building at 12 noon. (Brian Palenik, x47505)

SPECIAL TG -- 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, at 3:30 p.m........sixty down, sixty
to go! (Jill Ives, x43948)

Notices

ATTENTION: MEMBERS OF THE SIO STAFF COUNCIL - The Fall 2000 meeting of the
SIO Staff Council is scheduled for Tuesday, October 31 at 12 noon in
Sumner Auditorium. An election will be held for two positions: Staff
Council Secretary and one member of the Committee on Committees. Ballots
will be sent via campus mail to all members of the Staff Council. Other
communications concerning the meeting will be done via the SIO Log and the
Web at http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/sio_only/supp_groups/staffcouncil. If you
have questions, comments, or items for the agenda, please send your e-mail
to areisner@ucsd.edu.

OTHER WORKS DEADLINE - Any faculty or staff who had an article, book, or
similar document published during fiscal 2000 (July 1, 1999-June 30, 2000),
which is NOT appropriate for the SIO Contributions, please send a copy of
that publication to Technical Publications 0233B, before October 16, 2000.
These citations will be listed in the "Other Works" section of the 2000
Annual Report. (Nan Criqui, ncriqui@ucsd.edu, x41295).

Ship News

FLIP - The FAIRS experiment continues on schedule and without any major
difficulties. We continue to drift west and are now over 100 nautical
miles from Moss Landing, where the science crew change boat will leave on
Sunday. All participants have deployed their equipment in good working
order. We have had low wind and swell conditions since arriving and are
now hopeful that we will get some rougher weather. The scientists from NRL
and APL working on the microwave emissivity of foam have taken advantage of
the mild conditions to deploy a unique device for controlled generation of
sea foam. The "foam raft" is a 3 m x 7 m frame that floats on the surface
and supports an array of flexible porous tubing. Compressed air forced
through the tubing causes a large uniform patch of sea foam. The foam
patch is large enough to fill the field-of-view of the passive microwave
radiometers. This is the first time the emissivity of sea foam has been
measured in the open ocean. We have had a number of curious visitors to
FLIP in a wide range of size. A grey whale stopped by on the first day and
we have had a couple of visits from dolphins. Lazy ocean sunfish hang
around almost every day along with couple of yellow fin tuna. Albatross
are a common sight and one day we had an Osprey sitting on the end of the
port boom. (Andy Jessup, APL UW)

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

2,3
04 OCT NP12/Off Hawaii/ Gregg, M./UW/ Honolulu 38/NSF/F
06 NOV HOME Project n/a Honolulu
7,8

T.Desjardins/P.Mauricio/S.Mogk

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/P.Bueren/R.Wilson

30,1
02 OCT SP3A/18S, 85W/ Weller, R./WHOI/ Arica 16/NOAA/P
14 OCT Mooring Deployment n/a Arica Chile
15

E.Buck/R.Wheatley/R.Comer

R/V NEW HORIZON

In port in San Diego.

R/V ROBERT GORDON SPROUL

24 SEP NP9/Off San Diego/ Mahn/SIO/ San Diego 6/STATE/F
29 SEP sediment sample collec UC Ship Funds San Diego

L.Zimm/J.Potts/T.Baiz

01 OCT NP9/off San Diego/ Rathburn, A./USD/ San Diego 1/Other/P
02 OCT student cruise na San Diego

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

L.Zimm/J.Potts/S.Rusk

R/P FLIP

15 SEP NP9/37N,123-20W Jessup/UW
15 OCT

R/V DAVID STARR JORDAN

12 SEP NP9/Off Mexico
30 Sep ETP Dolphin Survey, Leg III

CHEERS!

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Jill Hammons Ives
Director of Special Events
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
9500 Gilman Drive, 0210
La Jolla, CA 92093-0210
858-534-3948 (office)
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