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November 30, 2001- December 7, 2001 vol. 38 no. 48 In Memoriam Madeleine Sophie Binet Langille died at San Diego Hospice on November 15, 2001. Madeleine was the wife of the late Rear Admiral Justin Edward Langille, III, USN, former commandant of the 11th Naval District (San Diego). Upon retiring from the Navy, "Jack" became the Deputy Director of SIO from 1982-1987. Madeleine was born in Seattle on July 10, 1926. She was an alumna of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Seattle University, and the School of Nursing at Stanford University. She was a gifted artist and musician, excelling in oil painting, watercolor, sculpting and Ikebana, as well as piano and violin. She will be remembered by all who knew her for her wonderful charm and wit, and her for ever-gracious heart. She lived well, laughed often, and loved much. In lieu of flowers, Madeleine's family suggests donations to St. Madeleine Sophie's Center serving the developmentally disabled (619/442-5129). Calendar Friday, November 30 MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Cheryl Hayashi, UCR, will present "Diversity and Conservation of Sequences in the Spider Silk Gene Family" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12 noon. (kthamatr@ucsd.edu) Monday, December 3 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE - Akkharawit Kanjana-Opas will defend his doctoral dissertation entitled "New Antifungal Compounds from Marine Fungi" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 10:00 a.m.The public is invited. (Tim Ryan,tjryan@ucsd.edu) Thursday, December 6 SCRIPPS IN THE NEWS 2001! - Make plans to head down to 114 in the Scripps Administration Building anytime between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. for a tasty selection of news and food. Check out displays of local, regional, national, and international Scripps news coverage during 2001. See and read about your colleagues across all areas of Scripps. Newspaper, magazine, TV, and radio clips will be on hand, along with a savory selection of treats. Hey, you may see YOU! (Scripps Communications, x43624) CALSPACE SEMINAR - Art Wolfe, CASS/UCSD, will present "Does the Fine-Structure Constant Vary over Cosmological Time-Scales?" in 4307 Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD, at 12 noon. (Irene, x21597) AOS SEMINAR - Dave Chadwell, "Ocean Geodesy at MPL: Tectonic, Atmospheric and Navigational Applications" and Ed Dever will present a title to be announced in 330 NTV at 4 p.m. (Amber Rieder, arieder@ucsd.edu) Friday, December 7 MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Liz Mann, SIO, will present "Trace Metals and the Ecology of Marine Cyanybacteria" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12 noon. (Kim, kthamatr@ucsd.edu) Notices SIO HOLIDAY PARTY - It's almost heeeeere! Bring the family to our wonderful Holiday Party at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps, Friday, December 21, 5-10 p.m. Rock out to the terrific sounds of "Hot Rod Lincoln"! Santa will be there; so will Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer! Our dear friends, the E.W. Scripps Associates donor group, will again provide yummy turkey and all the fixins! However, we still need you to BRING food to SHARE! Anyone wishing to help us set up, please show up at 3:30 p.m. There will be no child care this year since the kids seem to hang with their parents throughout the party. PLEASE keep an eye on them......Anywhoooo, bundle up and come to this fabulous party! (Jill Hammons, x43958) ARE YOU A RECENT Ph.D.? - New initiatives and symposia have been developed to complement and expand DIALOG, the highly successful Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Limnology and Oceanography. Visit http://aslo.org/phd.html or go to http://www.aslo.org/ and click on the "Programs for Recent PhDs" button. These initiatives have several elements, designed to introduce recent Ph.D.s to the international community and provide capstone experiences to facilitate interdisciplinary understanding and networking:
DIALOG brings together graduates across the full spectrum of aquatic sciences. Now entering its fifth program cycle, the next symposium is planned for October 2003 in Bermuda. DIACES: Due to the unique nature of issues at the land-water interface, a new symposium will focus on these environments and human impacts. The Dissertations Symposium for the Advancement of Coastal, Estuarine and Great Lakes Science (DIACES) is planned for October 2002 in Puerto Rico. DISCCRS: The Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research (DISCCRS) brings together graduates across the atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic sciences engaged in the study of climate change and its impacts. The DISCCRS symposium is planned for March 2003 in Puerto Rico. Students, please register your Ph.D. dissertations at http://aslo.org/phd.html. In addition to being a wonderful form of recognition, the registry and associated database enables one to develop a better sense of scientific discipline and the community. Once registered, graduates will receive symposium updates, job announcements, and other information of interest for career development. (Susan Weiler, program Director, weiler@whitman.edu) AQUARIUM PASS HOLIDAY SALE - The Birch Aquarium at Scripps is holding its annual UCSD HOLIDAY TICKET SALE! NOW through December 18: UCSD staff, faculty, and students can purchase aquarium passes for just $6.00 per ticket (regularly $8.50) when 6 or more are purchased. Discounted aquarium tickets have no expiration or printed prices: an excellent idea for stocking stuffers and holiday visitors! PURCHASE BY CHECK.....Make checks payable to UC Regents. Include name, department, mail code, and number of tickets desired when ordering by mail (minimum of 6). Send check/orders to: Sharon Laabs, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Mail Code 0207, or PURCHASE BY VISA/MC. Call 534-4109 for credit card purchases. (Lydia Cobb, lkcobb@ucsd.edu) Ship News Melville Cook Expedition Leg 16 - Weekly Science Report, Wednesday, November 28, 2001- Continuing our program of exploring the origin of intraplate volcanic ridges and seamounts west of the East Pacific Rise, we've had a busy week. We deployed 16 ocean-bottom seismometers (OBSs) along a 450-km-long line crossing the Sojourn Ridge and Hotu-Matua seamount chains. Interspersed amongst the deployments were dredges of rocks on the flanks of Matua, surveys of a series of small seamounts between Sojourn and Hotu-Matua and of part of Sojourn, and our first dredge of Sojourn itself. We recovered excellent samples from Sojourn; not as young and fresh as some of the rocks from Matua, but nice pieces of a tubular basalt form large enough for argon-argon age-dating and enough glass for good geochemical analyses. After completing the deployments, we turned around and headed south along the line shooting airguns to be recorded by the seismometers with the goal of measuring changes in crustal thickness and structure beneath the volcanic ridges. Five of the six airguns worked well, but one was an obdurate beast that only fired a few shots and also probably "fried" a circuit in the triggering electronics. Nevertheless, the shooting line should be successful and we are looking forward to playing back the first data on the first two OBSs recovered from the seafloor last night. On the social scene, Thanksgiving dinner was excellent. Thanksgiving decorations festooned the main lab, we celebrated a birthday of one of the scientists, and last night, there was a dance party on deck as we steamed toward the first OBS recovery. Unfortunately, returning to the OBSs at the end of the shooting line required a reversal of course that put the quarterdeck on the windward side, so that the participants were occasionally splashed by waves as they danced. (PIs Don Forsyth, Spahr Webb, Dan Scheirer, Katie Donnelly) R/V New Horizon CALMEX Cruise - Cruise NHO1 departed San Diego November 16th . The objective is to collect a suite of multicores and gravity cores to conduct studies of how carbon oxidation varies between basin along the California margin in response to varying carbon rain and oxygen concentrations. During Leg 1 we collected in Santa Monica Basin, Santa Barbara Basin and then steamed south to Soledad Basin off the southwestern margin of Baja. The open margin south of Soledad basin was the last site visited prior to steaming to La Paz to begin the second Leg of the expedition. Pore waters were squeezed from multicores at each site for measurement of TCO2, NH3, d13C of DIC and CH4 in sediment pore waters. Multicores were also sectioned at millimeter scale for isotopic and trace element study of biogenic carbonate (benthic foraminifera) that is precipitated in the upper few millimeters of the pore waters. The carbon isotopic composition of the biogenic carbonate extracted from the millimeter samples will be measured later for comparison with pore water data in order to develop a proxy for reconstructing pore water profiles in ancient sediments. During the first 10 days 11 multicores were collected and processed for geochemistry of pore waters and for millimeter sampling of biogenic carbonate. The multicorer worked well once additional wooden skids were installed on four opposing sides of the multicorer feet. A total of 3 gravity cores were collected and processed for geochemistry. Multiple attempts to recover gravity cores longer than 2 meters failed, apparently due to problems with the core catcher, which appears to be too stiff to allow sediments to penetrate the core barrel. Five CTD casts were collected. The water samples will be analyzed for CH4, Oxygen and d13C of DIC. (Lowell Stott, Chief Scientist) CRUISE MAP INDEX/AREA/ CH SCI/INSTITUTION/ PORTS DAYS/AGENCY/ R/V Melville R/V New Horizon R/V Robert Gordon Sproul 04 DEC NP9/along side Marfac/ n.a./n.a./ San Diego 21(Non-Op)/ David Starr Jordan
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