September 28 - October 5, 2001 vol. 38 no. 39

Calendar

Wednesday, September 26

ECOLOGY LUNCHEON SEMINAR - Elizabeth Torres, CSLA, will present
"Shedding Light on the Evolution of Bioluminescence in Cypridinid
Ostracode Crustaceans" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12:15 p.m. (Tonya Huff,
tonya_h6@yahoo.com)

Friday, September 28

MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - James Lake, UCLA, will present "The Annelid
Genome Project" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12 p.m. Kim Thamatrakoln
(kthamatr@ucsd.edu)

HAPPY 98TH BIRTHDAY, SIO! TG sponsored by the Scripps Ancient
Mariners, 4:30-7:00 p.m., on the east side of La Jolla Shores Drive,
north of Nierenberg Hall, at the Keck Center for Ocean Atmosphere
Research (OAR), Niiler Gardens. Check out the map at
http://igpp.ucsd.edu/GIF/mapSIO.jpeg, building 34. Co-chairs Stu
Smith and Jim Stewart, and the Ancient Mariners committee, welcome
you to join them at this evening celebration. Food, drink,
camaraderie, and displays! Scripps Ancient Mariners is an informal
club for anyone who ever worked, studied, or taught at Scripps, their
spouses, or anyone who still does! There are no dues (you paid those
already with all your years of service.) You don't have to be ancient
to be a mariner! (Kevin Hardy, khardy@ucsd.edu)

Saturday & Sunday, September 29 & 30

"WET WEEKEND" - Dive into "Wet Weekend" on Saturday and Sunday, Sept.
29-30, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps and
discover a weekend-long underwater extravaganza featuring: a dynamic
gathering of more than 20 organizations representing ocean recreation
and conservation, hands-on water and dive activities, a new diving
exhibit, remote-operated vehicles, stimulating dive presentations,
and more! A "first" for the Birch Aquarium: Visitors will have the
opportunity to get more than their feet wet as they discover the
thrill of SCUBA diving in a 25,000-gallon tank, with instruction
provided by professional dive instructors. The opening of a new
exhibit, "San Diego's Underwater Pioneers," will explore the
fascinating history of diving in San Diego. Historic SCUBA diving
artifacts and equipment will also be on display, contrasting today's
highly advanced SCUBA gear. "San Diego's Underwater Pioneers" is
curated by esteemed author and underwater photographer Eric Hanauer,
whose brilliant images will compliment this dive exhibit.
Presentations by San Diego's most noted underwater divers are
scheduled daily at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m. Topics include wreck
diving, cove diving, and diving the Yukon and around the world.
(SIO Comm, siocomm@ucsd.edu, x.43624)

Tuesday, October 2

CRD SEMINAR - Alberto Arribas, University of Madrid, will present,
"Sensitivity Of Iberian Peninsula Climate to Deforestation" in 101
Nierenberg Hall Conference Room 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 3

SPECIAL CRD/PORD SEMINAR - Phil Jones, Climatic Research Unit, School
of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, will present,
"How Warm Has The 20th Century Been In The Context Of The Last
Millennium?" in 101 Nierenberg Hall Conference Room at 3:30 p.m.
Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. The seminar is sponsored by
the Climate Research Division and the Physical Oceanography Research
Division. (Carolyn Baxter, x46584)

ECOLOGY LUNCHEON SEMINAR - Ted Cranford, SDSU, will present "Click,
Whistle, Pop! Implications for the Functional Morphology of Sound
Generation in Toothed Whales" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12:15 p.m.

Thursday, October 4

SPECIAL CRD SEMINAR - Sumant Nigam, Department of Meteorology,
University of Maryland, will present, "Structure and Dynamics of the
Pacific/North American Pattern of Wintertime Variability" in 101
Nierenberg Hall Conference Room at 9:30 a.m. Refreshments will be
served at 9:15 a.m. The seminar is sponsored by the Climate Research
Division.(Carolyn Baxter, x46584)

APPLIED OCEAN SCIENCE SEMINAR - Jules Jaffe, SIO, will present
"Counting Critters in a Patchy Environment: A Proposed Solution" and
John Hildebrand, SIO, will present "Studies in Marine Mammal
Acoustics" in 330 NTV Building at 4 p.m. (Amber Rieder,
arieder@ucsd.edu)

Friday, October 5

MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Ted Bullock, SIO, will present "Biodiversity
in the Behavior Machine" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12 p.m. Kim
Thamatrakoln (kthamatr@ucsd.edu)

Notices

PIER FLAG IN LIECHTENSTEIN NEWS - The newspaper from Liechtenstein
printed the photo of the American Flag on our SIO Pier!!!!!!!!!
Pretty cool, huh?

ATM AT BAS - Starting October 4, a USE Credit Union ATM machine will
be installed at the Birch Aquarium......finally!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS - The afternoon of November 8 will be a ceremony
to rename Endurance Hall. Details forthcoming. (Jill Ives, x43948)

INTERESTED? Anyone interested in attending a terrific UCSD Women's
Volleyball game, on Saturday, October 13, vs. Sonoma State? It
starts at 7 p.m. in RIMAC Arena. The team is 9-2 this year, so it
should be a good match. For FREE TICKETS, call (x48460).

WELCOME BABY CLINTON! On Sunday, 23 Sept 2001, Douglas and Tanya
Alden welcomed Clinton Douglas into the world. He weighed in at 7lbs
11oz, stretches out to 20 in., and has a head of red hair. He is
truly amazing.

WE NEED YOUR HELP! A centerpiece of the upcoming SIO Open House
(Saturday, October 20) is a series of scientific and technical
displays telling "What in the World Do We Do at Scripps?" We'd like
to see your cool science and oceanographic instrumentation on
display, even as basic as a sonobuoy or XBT. Your participation will
be a welcome addition for our day with on-campus family and
off-campus friends! Display kiosks, with tables and chairs, will be
set up along the road near Snackropolis. Presenters receive event
T-shirts and visors. There will be lots going on at SIO and all over
UCSD that day, and it promises to be a lot of fun! For more
information on the UCSD 40th Open House festivities, visit
http://openhouse.ucsd.edu. Please contact Kevin Hardy
(khardy@ucsd.edu, x 46937) or Doug Bennett (dbennett@ucsd.edu) for
more information on being part of the scene! Thanks! (Kevin Hardy,
khardy@ucsd.edu).

JOB OPENING IMMEDIATELY - 25574
CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER (100% Career)
PORD, Hiring Salary Range: $52,700 - $81,800
Open Until Filled - Apply Here
Payroll Title: Management Services Officer. Full Salary Range:
$52,700 - 110,800/year.
DESCRIPTION: Serve as the chief administrative officer of the
Physical Oceanography Research Division, a large multi-disciplinary
organized research unit, the Climate Research Division, the Center
for Atmospheric Sciences, and the California Space Institute at SIO,
a multi-campus research institute of the University of California.
Responsible for the annual administration of over $40 million in
appropriations/allocations and $20 million in expenditures in federal
contract, grant, private gift, and donation funds, which includes:
managing the daily administrative activities in conjunction with the
research activities of all four units; provide support to the
Directors for recruiting, merit review, and promotion of over 70
academic personnel and over 140 staff employees; liaison with
government agency program and administrative directors; analyze the
budgetary needs of principal investigators; prepare models and
options for academic and space management planning; plan for
expansion of computer resources for both management and scientific
applications. Serve on technical and advisory committees for the
University and subcommittees of the institution, including those
developing policies for personnel, space, accounting, and development
of new facilities. Please apply for immediate consideration
referencing job #25574. Send resume to resume@ucsd.edu or UCSD Human
Resources , 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla 92093-0967. EEO/AAE.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - Nominations are now being accepted for the
2002 William A. Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest.
The prize was created to honor the memory of William A. Nierenberg,
who served as Director of SIO from 1965 to 1986. Known for his
boundless curiosity and whirling energy, Dr. Nierenberg helped build
Scripps into one of the world's leading environmental research
institutions. The winner of the 2001 Nierenberg Prize was Professor
E. O. Wilson of Harvard University. The Nierenberg Prize recognizes a
major contribution to science in the public interest by a top
individual, a significant group of persons working together, or a
leading organization. This prize reflects the mission of Scripps --
to seek, teach and communicate scientific understanding of the Earth
for the benefit of society and the environment. It also reflects the
institution's vision -- the search for a sustainable balance between
the natural environment and human activity. The prize includes a
$25,000 cash award, a bronze medal, and an allowance for travel to
the award ceremony. To be eligible, the nominee must be present at
the award ceremony and make a presentation on the prize-winning work
at that public forum. An individual or an organization may submit
nominations in the English language. The nomination should include a
brief outline (one page or less) of the significance of the work of
the nominee and contain the nominee's full name, and if possible
their title, affiliation, and contact information, including
telephone and mailing addresses and email addresses. The name and
address of the submitter must be at the bottom of the page. One
submission per person (or organization). The date for the 2002 award
ceremony is June 2, 2002. The deadline for receiving nominations is
Oct. 15th, 2001. They should be sent to:
Karen Garst
Administrator, Nierenberg Prize Committee
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
9500 Gilman Drive, 0210
La Jolla, CA 92093-0210
Kgarst@ucsd.edu

Ship News

Report of R/V Melville, Cook Expedition Leg 12 August 19 September
24, 2001 - Huon Gulf Drowned Coral Platforms, Papua New Guinea - The
focus has been to sample drowned coral platforms for dating in the
Huon Gulf of Papua New Guinea, just north of Australia. Ages should
reflect sea level low stands over the past 400 Ka, and possibly the
ages of glacial terminations. Tectonically the region is subsiding
rapidly due to the collisional load of the mountains to the north
that override the margin of the Papuan peninsula. Preliminary study
suggests a variable elastic thickness of the lower plate normal to
the collision. We had 18 days of diving with the ROV Jason and
recovered 17 elevator loads of rock and several smaller loads on the
Jason platform. Grabbing samples with the claw proved more effective
than any of the add-on tools we brought along. We retrieved
individual samples as heavy as 80 pounds, with a total weight of
recovered reef material in excess of 2700 pounds. This appears to be
the largest load of rock recovered on any Jason cruise, and the
success of this program has relied heavily on the great skill of the
Jason pilots and navigators. From most sites we recovered excellently
preserved coral, including abundant porites, acropora and favid
corals. Unexpectedly, the oldest and deepest sites generally gave the
best results, including more coral samples with less alteration. Our
last dive was on a deep (2400 m) pinnacle reef near the trench axis,
where we recovered some good coral samples with little visible
alteration. The new, near-bottom DSL120 worked very well for sidescan
images, in spite of initial difficulties. We covered most of the
platforms with DSL120, allowing us to focus on the most promising
dive sites at the platform edges. We also imaged the entire Huon Gulf
(deeper than 300 m) with seabeam. The seabeam and DSL120 surveys
showed that pinnacle reefs leave subduction tracks in the steep walls
of the upper plate of the collision zone, as the tracks are about the
size of these pinnacles and they are oriented in the direction of
plate motion. Organisms living on the fossil carbonate platforms are
diverse and vary significantly with depth. Overall the equipment
worked very well and the different groups (Scripps, WHOI, University
of Hawaii, UC Santa Cruz, Univ. of Minnesota - Duluth, University of
Papua New Guinea, and Geological Survey of Papua New Guinea)
interfaced effectively and amiably. The captain and crew of the
Melville have been outstanding. The last cruise of Jason has been an
unqualified success and we look forward to the new era of the J2.
(Eli Silver)

FLIP - FLIP completed support for the Rough Evaporation Duct (RED)
experiment and returned to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 19 September.
U.S.S. SALVOR successfully moored FLIP at 21-41.017' N 157 50.142'W
at 0800 on the 24th of August. Sensors came online slowly, as
considerable preparation was needed. For example, to prevent
contamination of atmospheric particle measurements, approximately 100
feet of 10-inch ducting was installed to vent diesel exhaust from the
generators to the end of the face boom. The RED experiment
terminated on 14 September with a total measurement set of 20 days.
FLIP was recovered by U.S.S. SALVOR on the 18th of September and was
towed back into Pearl Harbor on the 19th of September. The RED
experiment focused on assessing the effects of the air-sea boundary
layer on microwave and electrooptical signal propagation near to the
sea surface. There were ten scientists and engineers aboard FLIP who
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. Throughout RED,
nearly every sensor was operational and data from these sensors were
archived for later analysis. Conditions 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. Six microwave transmitters were installed on FLIP
and radiated toward a shore-based receiver located at the Marine
Corps Base Hawaii over a 26-km path. Data were recorded from 28
August through 14 September. One X-band amplifier partially failed
(dropping 15 dB in power output) but, even in this degraded mode, the
received signals were well above the receiver noise threshold and the
unit was not replaced with the spare. Received signal levels from the
262.85 MHz transmitter never exceeded -90 dBm, which, as expected,
indicates that there were no surface-based ducts created by either
subsidence or advection. The dominant propagation mechanism was
evaporation ducting throughout the entire measurement period. Data
recorded during the last few days of August appear to indicate strong
evaporation ducting accompanied by high winds and high waves.
However, all of the RF data need to be compensated for FLIP's motion
(approximately +/- 10 degrees rotational and +/- 200 m translational)
before definitive statements can be made. (Kenn Anderson, SPAWAR
SSC- SD, code D 858)

CRUISE MAP INDEX/AREA/ CH SCI/INSTITUTION/ PORTS DAYS/AGENCY/
DATES PURPOSE/ PROPOSAL NO./ STATUS/CLEAR
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R/V Roger Revelle
http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/supp_groups/
shipsked/Revelle/Revelle.html
27 SEP SP3A/Nazca S.A. Plate/ Chadwell, D./SIO/ Pto. Calder 37/NSF/F
31 OCT Marine Geophysics OCE98-20026 Callao Peru

R/V Melville
http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/supp_groups/
shipsked/Melville/melville.html
25 SEP IN5/from Lae to Suva/ transit/n.a./ Lae 9/NSF/F
02 OCT transit/plankton colle n.a. Suva PNG, Fiji,
3 Solomons,
Vanuatu

R/V New Horizon
http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/supp_groups/shipsked/
NewHorizon/newhor.html
09 SEP NP13/0-10 N/ Rudnick, D./SIO/ Manzanillo 35/NSF/F
13 OCT transit fuel/personnel OCE00-02598 Manzanillo

13 OCT NP13/0-10 N/ Rudnick, D./SIO/ Manzanillo 5/NSF/F
18 OCT transit fuel/personnel OCE00-02598 San Diego

R/V Robert Gordon Sproul
http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/supp_groups/shipsked/
RobertSproul/sproul.html
29 SEP NP9/off San Diego/ Kaufmann/USD/ San Diego 1/PRV/P
29 SEP Multi-discipline stude na San Diego

02 OCT NP9/Off Oceanside/ Babcock/SIO/ San Diego 1/NSF/F
02 OCT testing of ocean botto OCE99-07905 San Diego

04 OCT NP9/Off San Diego/ Constable, S./SIO/ San Diego 1/NSF/F
05 OCT Equipment test/recover OCE00-02381 San Diego

07 OCT NP9/Off San Diego/ Constable, S./SIO/ San Diego 2/NSF/F
08 OCT Equipment test/recover OCE00-02381 San
Diego

David Starr Jordan
http://www.pmc.noaa.gov/schedule/ds.htm
DEP: 10/01/01 Underway DS-01-05 4 SWFSC
ARR: 10/04/01 San Diego, CA ORCAWALE