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December 1 - December 8 , 2000 vol. 37 no. 48 Calendar Monday, December 4 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - Christopher A. Francis will defend his doctoral dissertation entitled "Diversity and Molecular Mechanisms of Manganese(II)-Oxidizing Bacteria" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 10 a.m. The public is invited. (Tanya Levi, tlevi@ucsd.edu) Tuesday, December 5 NSCORT/EXOBIOLOGY & CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCES SEMINAR - Jason Dworkin, NASA Ames Research Center, will present "Ice Astrochemistry" in 329 SERF / UCSD (Bldg. 930 on UCSD Campus Map) at 2 p.m. (Cheryl Matson, x43460 cmatson@ucsd.edu) Wednesday, December 6 ITRAX XRF MICROSCOPE DEMONSTRATION - Cox Analytical Systems, Sweden, and SIO, invite you to a demonstration of the new Itrax CXRF microscope for elemental and density analysis. Two demos will be held in 10 Old Scripps Building....one at 10 a.m. and one at 2 p.m. Please RSVP to Kevin Walda, kwalda@ucsd.edu, x43558. Refreshments will be served. PORD SEMINAR - Olwijn Leeuwenburgh, SIO, will present "The Effect of Ocean Currents on Sea Surface Temperature" in 101 Nierenberg Hall at 3:30 p.m. (Arne Biastoch, abiastoch@ucsd.edu) Thursday, December 7 AOS SEMINAR - Ken Melville will present "Small-Scale Air-Sea Interaction: At Sea, in the Air, in the Lab, and on the Computer" and Eric Terrill will present "High Seas, Breaking Waves, and Air Entrainment" in 330 NTV Building at 4 p.m. (Amber Rieder, arieder@ucsd.edu) Friday, December 8 MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - (Please note different location!) Farooq Azam will present a topic to be announced in 100 Endurance Hall at 12:30 p.m. (Brian Palenik, bpalenik@ucsd.edu) CHiPS COMES TO THE RESCUE AGAIN - Come to the special TG at Surfside after work. Rock Bottom will graciously give one free beverage for every 3 items donated, so clean out your closets to support the 2nd Annual CHiPS Food and Clothing Drive, December 4-8! 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 and toys (especially new toys, unwrapped), non-perishable food, new household cleaners, female cosmetics, used costume jewelry, baby items, and household goods. Everything must be in good condition, please. Your donations will be given to two shelters, The Alpha Project (www.alphaproject.org) and My Sister's Closet (YWCA). There will be two marked boxes at each location, one will be for men's used/new clothes and the other for everything else. Please, remember to thank Rock Bottom next time you visit. (meriah@ucsd.edu) Notices WE WANT YOUR OLD CELL PHONES! I know you've got one or two old unused or broken cell phones laying around, perhaps in that junk drawer in the kitchen? Well, I want that phone! At this time of year, we'd like you all to get involved in a wonderful program---CALL to PROTECT is a non-profit organization that refurbishes cell phones and distributes them to potential domestic violence victims through participating local abuse organizations and police departments. All phones are fixed and programmed to dial 911. Members of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association donate free emergency air time. This is the wireless industry's response to domestic violence, providing those in danger with instant access to help. Pretty neat, huh? So, bring your phones to my office (119 Scripps Building) by January 5. Then our friends at UCSD Police Department will come pick them up! It'll make you feel good knowing you are doing good. Many thanks, friends. (Jill Ives, x43948) CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS DEBRIEF - SIO Director Charlie Kennel invites everyone to hear an informal seminar from the participants of the UC Revelle Program on Climate Science and Policy who attended the recent Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-6) in The Hague, Netherlands. Come to the IGPP Munk Conference Room on December 11, 1- 2 p.m. Professors Somerville, Weiss, and Ramanathan, along with Dr. Molitor and three graduate students were part of a UC delegation and gave presentations on climate science for media, delegates, and other attendees at the Conference in the Hague. The seminar on December 11 will be a chance for the UCSD/SIO community to hear the perspectives of our participants on how the science-policy relationship works. (Lisa Shafer, x22489) HOLIDAY PARTY - All staff, faculty, students, and pals are invited to our wonderful Ho, Ho, Holiday Party, Wednesday, December 13, beginning at 5 p.m!!!!!!! BRING FOOD TO SHARE and your dancing shoes! The toe-tapping sounds of "Benny Hollman & the Velvetones" will start at 6 p.m. Then at 6:30 p.m., marvel at the amazing talent of the incredible Japanese Shoken Ji Taiko Drummers, and this year (due to the fact the party is on a "school night") the raffle will be held earlier.......at 7 p.m. After that, the band will start rocking out, so get ready! Your old friends (Santa and Rudolph and Elfie and Wild Reindeer) will be back again. Child care will be available in the aquarium classrooms. So, get into the holiday spirit and plan to come to this great event! (Jill Ives Claus, x43948) UPCOMING SPECIAL SEMINAR - Join Jonathan Samet, professor and chairman of the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, as he presents "Airborne Particles and Human Health -- Research Challenges and Tough Policy Questions" on Wednesday, December 13, in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12:30 p.m. Samet is the PI for the National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study (NMMAPS - see www.healtheffects.org). He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1997 and is presently Chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter. (Lisa Shafer, x22489) SCRIPPS IN THE NEWS - Join your SIO pals on Thursday, December 14 for "Scripps In the News 2000," a showcase of SIO's worldwide news coverage. Drop by 114 Scripps Building any time throughout the day for delicious snacks and drinks, and an opportunity to see the TV, magazine, and newspaper clips about you & SIO from 2000. (SIO Communications, x43624) Ship News Weekly Report - NECR05RR - During the past two weeks we have been constructing
a seafloor geodetic array on the submerged southeast flank of Kilauea
Volcano, on the Big Island of Hawaii. Volcanic activity within the East
Rift Zone of Kilauea create debris slides and steep island flanks, leading
to large scale undersea landslides. On the southeast flank of Kilauea
Volcano is the most active of these features - the Hilina fault and landslide
system. Where exposed on the subaerial portions of the island, this fault
system has an average deformation rate of 10 cm per year and is monitored
by an array of GPS satellite tracking stations. The goal of our project
is to monitor the submerge portions of the Hilina fault and landslide
system. At first arrival on station we collected complete SeaBEAM 2112
bathymetic multibeam sonar data, and then partial coverage sidescan sonar
data and seafloor photographs using the DeepTow fish. These data helped
us to define the geologic setting of the fault and landslide system. The
upper portions of the slide, although steep (15° average slope),
have a smooth surface texture, even at the photographic scale. A bench
is located at mid depths along the slide; this feature defines the boundary
between smooth materials of the upper slope and extremely rough materials
- boulder sized rock fragments - of the lower slope and toe of the landslide.
Using these data, sites were selected for seafloor precision transponder
deployments to monitor the submerged motions of the landslide. Seven precision
transponders, configured as a connected chain of triangular arrays, are
now deployed on the southeast flank of Kilauea. These transponders allow
5 triangle centers - groups of three transponders each - to be points
whose location can be determined by acoustic ranging to the ship. The
Revelle position is determined to the centimeter level using three GPS
antennas, two located on fan-tail towers and one located on the main mast.
A fixed GPS station recording at a one-second rate was installed at the
USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory to tie the shipboard measurements to land
GPS. Combining these GPS and acoustic data provide a seafloor virtual
benchmark whose location is determined to the centimeter level. The successful
deployment of the seafloor transponders in this unforgiving, rocky terrain
required some instrument recoveries and redeployment using Science report #3 COOK- 4 Expedition - We have identified the Tongareva triple junction on our first crossing north of the Southern Cook Island chain at about 18 degrees south. Here the Cook Islands are actually a double chain and the triple junction is also apparent on our previous crossing between the two sub-chains. The abyssal hill morphology is very apparent on both sides of the triple junction in the Seabeam data. At this latitude, the triple junction itself is amorphous and resembles a lava flood plain, whereas farther south it is usually marked by a distinct rift zone. The gravity data to the south also suggest generally thinner lithosphere on the fast spreading side relative to the slow spreading side and usually an abnormally thin zone exactly at the triple junction. We are now beginning our intensive surveying in the Penryn Basin. (Roger Larson) CRUISE MAP INDEX/AREA/ CH SCI/INSTITUTION/ PORTS DAYS/AGENCY/ 11 NOV NP12/Off Hawaii/ Hildebrand, J./ Honolulu 29/NSF/F 07 DEC NP12// Lonsdale/n/a/ Hilo 09/NSF/F 17 DEC NP9/San Diego/ n.a/n/a/ San Diego 38(Non-Op)// 11 NOV SP1/SP1-5/20S, 150W/ Larson, R./URI/ Papeete 47/NSF/F 25, 26 06 NOV NP9// // San Diego 0(Non-Op)/ 09 DEC NP9/Off San Clemente Taylor, P./NAVO/ San Diego 10/NAVY/F 28 NOV NP9/Off San Diego/ Checkley, D./SIO/ San Diego 01/NAVY/F In port San Diego 20 NOV Manzanillo, Mexico DS-00-04 20/SWFSC
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