SIO Log

November 3 - November 10, 2000 vol. 37 no. 44

Calendar

Friday, November 3

MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Gary Cherr, Bodega Bay Marine Labs, UC Davis, will
present a topic to be announced in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12 noon. (Brian
Palenik, bpalenik@ucsd.edu)

GEOSCIENCES MARINE CHEMISTRY & GEOCHEMISTRY SEMINAR - Russ Flegal, UC Santa
Cruz, will present a topic to be announced in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 4 p.m.
(jbowles@ucsd.edu)

AQUARIUM TG FOR SIO STAFF - The Birch Aquarium at Scripps welcomes all SIO
faculty, staff, and students to unwind after work, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Admission is free for SIO staff. All are invited to enjoy drinks for $1
and free munchies. In addition, the Aquarium bookshop will be open and
everything in the store is 20% off tonight! Remember, we have a University
parking lot so bring your parking pass or $3 for parking. We hope to see
you there -- hang out among the fish and your friends and catch the sunset
from the tide-pool balcony! (Barbara Ramsey, x47769)

Monday, November 6

PORD SEMINAR - Shafer Smith, GFDL, will present "The Scales, Energies and
Vertical Structure of Mid-ocean Eddies: Theory and Numerical Tests" at 10
a.m. in 101 Nierenberg Hall. (Arne Biastoch, abiastoch@ucsd.edu)

NSCORT/EXOBIOLOGY & MARINE CHEMISTRY - Buford Price, University of
California, Berkeley, will present "Life in Solid Ice?" in 4500 Hubbs Hall
at 4 p.m. Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. (Karen Murray, x40638)

Tuesday, November 7,

CRD SEMINAR - Jeffrey S. Whitaker, CDC, Boulder, CO, will present
"Subseasonal Variations in Tropical Convection and Week Two Prediction of
Western North American Rainfall" 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, November 8

ECOLOGY LUNCHEON - TBA in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12:15 p.m. (B.J. Becker,
bjbecker@ucsd.edu)

PORD SEMINAR - Niklas Schneider, SIO, will present "Anatomy of Decadal
North Pacific Variability" at 3:30 p.m. in 101 Nierenberg Hall. (Arne
Biastoch, abiastoch@ucsd.edu)

Thursday, November 9

SPECIAL SEMINAR - Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education,
will present " Antievolutionism Attacks Cosmology, Geology, and Biology" in
4500 Hubbs Hall at 12 noon. Dr. Scott, a physical anthropologist, is
executive director of the NCSE, a membership organization that works to
improve the teaching of evolution, and science as a way of knowing. She is
coauthor of the National Academy of Sciences publication "Teaching about
Evolution and the Nature of Science." (Richard Rosenblatt,
rrosenblatt@ucsd.edu)

AOS SEMINAR - Ming Yang of the National Cheng Kung University will speak on
"The Joint Taiwan-US COSMIC Space Project: Using GPS on Low-Earth Orbiting
(LEO) Satellites to Observe Global Atmospheric Temperature and Pressure
Profiles and Gravitational Signals" in 330 NTV Building at 4 p.m. (Amber
Rieder, arieder@ucsd.edu)

Friday, November 10

MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Robert Lehrer, UC Los Angeles, will present
"Natural Peptide Antibiotics from Marine Animals" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12
noon. (Brian Palenik, bpalenik@ucsd.edu)

Notices

LITHIUM BATTERY CONFERENCE - On November 15 at 8:30 a.m. in the OAR
conference room, there will be a lithium battery conference.
Representatives from Electrochem will be on hand to discuss topics such as
shipping, handling, disposal and product selection. Space is limited
therefore, please RSVP to Dana Dahlbo, x42907.

UCSD 40TH ANNIVERSARY -- UCSD is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a
year-long series of special events. UCSD will demonstrate the years
of growth in quality, strength, and breadth since Roger Revelle,
considered the "father" of UCSD, envisioned an educational and research
mecca rising from a dusty La Jolla mesa. A major focus of the celebration
will be 40 "gifts" of service to the communities of San Diego County. In
a variety of ways, the campus will feature more than 300 activities and
programs that UCSD currently provides throughout the area. For more info,
visit the web site:http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/calendar/40th/default.asp.(Scripps
Communications, x43624)

Ship News

Ship News R/V Melville, Weekly Scientific Report, 30 October 2000: We have
completed our second survey, of part of the Anti-Bauer Scarp, and are
transiting to Tahiti. Corresponding offsets and fracture zone traces at
both Bauer and Anti-Bauer scarps allow for an accurate alignment of the
conjugate margins (now separated by ~1000 km of younger EPR). The two
scarps exhibit a marked asymmetry with Bauer having steep fault scarps
(reactivated abyssal hill faults) facing the modern EPR ridge crest, while
Anti-Bauer has a much gentler slope into its bounding trough (without
significant abyssal hill reactiviation). The principal conclusion is that
rifting to form the scarps was along a westward-dipping master fault with
Bauer Scarp representing the footwall and Anti-Bauer the hangingwall. We
have also successfully deployed a third oceanographic float and will launch
three more as we transit to Tahiti. (B. Eakins, UCSD/SIO)

CalCOFI 0010NH Scientific Report 30 Oct 2000 - CalCOFI 0010NH has ended
with the completion of all 66 standard stations. On our homeward transit,
Catherine Johnson will complete 4 more Mocness tows for a total of 14. Sta
87.70 was redone because of a torn net. The weather for the last week has
greatly improved much to the relief of the scientists and crew. The
gale-force winds forecasted never materialized. Comparison of 10m
temperatures to 50yr mean values continue to show this season's condition
are normal, except for some anomalously cool water off Pt Conception
indicating late season upwelling. Green water and euphausid-filled
cod-ends support this impression. The Optical Plankton Counter (OPC) has
operated at 100% over the entire cruise. Data have been collected for all
stations except one where nets were cancelled due to foul weather. The
MOCNESS is once again operational after weather-related damage was
repaired, and four additional tows, at Santa Cruz Basin, Santa Barbara
Basin, and CalCOFI stations 83.60 and 80.60, have been made. Very high
numbers of the copepod Calanus pacificus, presumed to be dormant, were
collected in Santa Barbara Basin at 25 m above the sill depth of 475 m. The
uncharacteristically bad weather for this year's October outing made Tim
Nightigale's radiometric measurement very difficult. The almost constant
cloud cover meant little validation work could be done. In addition, the
heavy swell caused problems with disturbed water in the SISTeR's field of
view. Nonetheless, the SISTeR and SOAP recorded skin and bulk temperatures
nearly continuously throughout the cruise. Bird and marine mammal
observations for this last week include one of the strangest sightings, a
juvenile Peregrine Falcon that followed the boat nearly 200 miles off Pt.
Conception. A Red-tailed Tropicbird and a Red-billed Tropicbird were also
seen in that area. A Sabine's Gull was recorded offshore, along with large
numbers of phalaropes. Many groups of loons were seen flying south in the
nearshore waters off Pt. Conception. Marine mammals noted include Common
Dolphins, Dall's Porpoise, Bottlenose Dolphins, and Fin Whales. The
fishermen have brought several more 20-40lbs albacore onboard.
Anticipation is high for tomorrow's run south through 18degC waters but we
all hope we can do our trick or treating on the beach. (Jim Wilkinson)

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

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
9,10
11 NOV NP12/Off Hawaii/ Hildebrand, J./ Honolulu 29/NSF/F
07 DEC Sea Floor Geodesy SIO/OCE98-19708 Hilo
Nov. 23 intermediate stop in Hilo

T.Desjardins/J.Weaver/G.Pillard

R/V MELVILLE

16 OCT SP3/NP13-SP2/ Eakins, B./SIO/ Arica 5/STATE/F
07 NOV Transit/SeaBeam Survey UC Ship Funds Papeete Peru,
Chile,
France
SP3A// n.a./n.a./ 16/NSF/F
n.a.
SP3// n/a/n/a/ 2/NOAA/F
n/a

E.Buck/P.Bueren/R.Comer
8,9,10
11 NOV SP1/SP1-5/20S, 150W/ Larson, R./URI/ Papeete 47/NSF/F
22 DEC SEA BEAM OCE98-18776 Apia France,
23,24 Samoa,
Cook
Islands,
D.Murline/P.Bueren/S.Baiz
Kiribati

R/V NEW HORIZON

06 NOV NP9// // San Diego 0(Non-Op)/
06 DEC Overhaul San Diego

R/V ROBERT GORDON SPROUL

04 NOV NP9/Off San Diego/ Bishop, J./LBNL/ San Diego 03/NSF/F
06 NOV Autonomous Profilers n/a San Diego
NP9/Off San Diego/ Davis, R./SIO/ 00/NSF/F
Autonomous Profilers n/a

L.Zimm/J.Potts/S.Rusk

09 NOV NP9/Off San Diego/ Melville, K./SIO/ San Diego 7/NSF/F
15 NOV Deploy buoy OCE98-12182 San Diego

17 NOV NP9/off San Diego/ Lonsdale, P./SIO/ San Diego 3/STATE/F
19 NOV Class trip UC Ship Funds San Diego

L.Zimm/J.Potts/B.Wilson

R/P FLIP

23 Oct
10 Nov Synthetic Aperture D'Spain/MPL
Sonar

R/V DAVID STARR JORDAN

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