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November 16 - November 23, 2001 vol. 38 no. 46 Calendar Friday, November 16 MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Barbara Prezelin - CANCELED SPECIAL PHYSICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM - John Bahcall, Institute for Advanced Study, will present "Solar Neutrinos: Where Are We? Where Are We Going?" at UCSD in 4322 Mayer Hall at 2 p.m. (Patti Hey, x21468) Tuesday, November 20 CRD SEMINAR - Peter G. Baines, CSIRO, Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Australia, will present, "Atmospheric Response to Thermal Forcing in Mid-latitudes, with Application to the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave", 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) Thursday & Friday, November 22 & 23 ADMINISTRATIVE HOLIDAYS - Particularly this year, give thanks from your heart.......... Notices SCRIPPS IN THE NEWS 2001 - Head over to 114 in the Scripps Administration Building on Thursday, December 6 to check out displays of local, regional, national, and international Scripps news coverage during 2001. Newspaper, magazine, TV, and radio clips will be on hand, along with a tasty selection of treats. (Scripps Communications, x43624) CHARLES GRAHAM - Our friend Charles is still in rehab as a result of his car accident last February. If you would like to donate vacation hours to him via the Catastrophic Leave Program, please contact Amber Reynolds Fehling, arfehling@ucsd.edu, or x46836. (Jill Hammons, x43948.) ChiPS 3RD ANNUAL FOOD & CLOTHING DRIVE - It's time to clean out your closets for the 3rd Annual CHiPS Food and Clothing Drive, November 28 - December 7. Last year we collected over 2,000 items!! Stay tuned for details on locations to place items (it will be a building near you). Items accepted will be new and used men's, women's, and children's clothing. We'd prefer new wrapped toys, please. Non perishable food, new household cleaners, and new female cosmetics will be accepted. Used costume jewelry, baby items, household goods are also great. Please make sure everything is in good condition. Your generous donations will be given to three shelters. December 7 will culminate the drive at a Surfside TG. Thank you!! P.S. If you absolutely have to donate items before November 28, contact us for the drop off location. (ksharp@ucsd.edu, meriah@ucsd.edu. Ship News Weekly Report #1 from the R/V Revelle 2359 GMT 14 November 2001 - We are approaching the SW end of the Nazca Ridge. We have mapped and dredged several seamounts and obtained some rock samples from these old volcanoes that want to keep their age a secret. The food is fantastic. The ship's support has been superb. The multibeam maps are marvelous. The bottom of the dredge bag has been brimming with broken blocks of black basalts, especially as we approach the "big bend" area. We will continue connecting the altimetry "dots" on our way west to Rapa Nui. Our maps and rock samples will enable us to test hotspot fixity in the Pacific Basin, to characterize the variability of geochemistry of the Easter/Salas y Gomez hotspot source, and to characterize the variability of the seamount geomorphology along this very long seamount chain that stretches from Peru to Rapa Nui over a time span greater than 30 Ma. The spirits of the scientific party from the University of South Florida, University of Hawaii, Bishop Museum in Honolulu, and Oregon State University are high. (David Naar, Paul Wessel, Kevin Johnson, and Doug Pyle, respectively). Cook Expedition Leg 16- Weekly Science Report, Wednesday,
November 14, 2001 - We have been in transit from Papeete, Tahiti to our
study area just west of the East Pacific Rise and south of the Garrett
Fracture Zone, at about 15 S, 116 W. Along the way, we've had excellent
weather and nice views of atolls in the Tuamotos. We have been gathering
underway geophysics data, including SeaBeam2000 bathymetry and sidescan,
magnetic and gravity anomalies, and 3.5 kHz sub-bottom profiler. Our trackline
covers new ground except where we crossed the Pukapuka ridge system at
about 130.5 W. We found some previously unmapped elongate ridges parallel
to and about 50 km south of the Pukapuka ridges. Everyone is in good spirits
and healthy, the food has been fantastic, and we are all looking forward
to our first dredges and ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS) deployments beginning 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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