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Friday, January 26 SEMINAR - Kim Nardi, Department of Fisheries, Western Australia, will present "Comparison of Open and Closed Fishing Areas for Resident Reef Fish in the Abrolhas Islands, Western Australia" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 10 a.m. All are welcome. (Paul Dayton, pdayton@ucsd.edu) MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Sunny Jiang, UC Irvine, will present "Viruses in the Sea" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12 noon. MARINE POLICY SEMINAR - Director Charlie Kennel, PEW Oceans Commission member, will present "Fish Are Eating Up All the Policy on the Oceans" in Sumner Auditorium at 2:30 p.m. This talk is scheduled as the first of what we hope to be a regular series of seminars on marine policy at Scripps. Anybody interested in marine policy issues is invited to attend and stay for a discussion. (Paul Dayton, pdayton@ucsd.edu) Monday, January 29 GEOSCIENCES MARINE CHEMISTRY & GEOCHEMISTRY SEMINAR - Susan Trumbore, UC Irvine, will present a topic to be announced in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 4 p.m. (Julie Bowles, jbowles@ucsd.edu) Tuesday, January 30 CRD SEMINAR - Mark Jacobson, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, will present "Control of Black Carbon, the Most Effective Means of Slowing Global Warming" in 101 Nierenberg Hall 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, January 31 ECOLOGY LUNCHEON SEMINAR - Russ Davis, SIO, will present a topic to be announced in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12:15 p.m. (Chris Janousek, cjanouse@ucsd.edu) PORD SEMINAR - Eugene Benilov, University of Limerick will present "Barotropic and Baroclinic Instability of Flows over Short-scale Bottom Topography" in 101 Nierenberg Hall at 3:30 p.m. (Arne Biastoch, abiastoch@ucsd.edu) NEW DIRECTIONS FOR NCAR - Tim Killeen, the new Director of the National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), will present "NCAR'S Emerging
Strategic Plan for Research, Education, and Service to the Community"
at 3:30 p.m. in 4500 Hubbs Hall. NCAR is in the process of developing
a strategic plan that will have the theme of "NCAR as an integrator."
Following the lecture, all are invited to a special wine and cheese reception
in T-29. Thursday, February 1 COMPAS SEMINAR - Masao Kanamitsu, Climate Prediction Center, Camp Springs, MD, will present "Atmospheric Modeling for Climate Prediction" in 101 Nierenberg Hall at 9:30 a.m. (Detlef Stammer, dstammer@ucsd.edu) SPECIAL SEMINAR - Melissa Wagner, candidate for the MLRG Research position, will be visiting SIO on February 1 and 2. On Thursday, February 1, she will present a seminar titled "Nucleic Acid-Based Indices of Zooplankton Growth and Nutritional Condition" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 1p.m. (Mari Vargas, mari@coast.ucsd.edu) AOS SEMINAR - Tim Gallaudet will present "Ocean Acoustic Backscattering
Measurements With A 68kHz Cylindrical Array" in 330 NTV Building at 4
p.m. Friday, February 2 MARINE BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Shana Goffredi, MBARI, will present "Energy Acquisition and Allocation in Vesicomyid Clam Symbioses" in 4500 Hubbs Hall at 12 noon. CAS & CALSPACE SEMINAR - Wayne Schubert, Department of Atmospheric Science,
Colorado State University, will present "The Use of Potential Vorticity
in Tropical Atmospheric Dynamics" in 101 Nierenberg Hall at 3 p.m. Notices A BIG THANKS TO MAURY KAPLAN AND THE SIO DIRECTOR'S CABINET! At the last
meeting of SIO Director's Cabinet, Fred Borrelli, who is spearheading
volunteer fund raising efforts for the Robert Paine Scripps Center, announced
that fellow Cabinet member Maury Kaplan's $100,000 challenge had been
matched. Cabinet members had made gifts and pledges totaling $120,000
in the past year! (The grant was officially received from the San Diego
Foundation Charmaine and Maurice Kaplan Fund at the recommendation of
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice C. Kaplan.) This is in addition to a $250,000 challenge
from Cabinet member Shelia Davis. To date, almost half the $5,000,000
goal for the project has been raised from members of the Scripps family
and the SIO Director's Cabinet. MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Ed Renger is retiring after nearly 30 years. Join
us at the Martin Johnson House on Friday, February 16, between 1500-1800
and help us give him the rowdy send off that he deserves. To help him
remember us, please lend your favorite Ed photos (the more embarrassing
the better) and your politically incorrect jokes to Sherry Cummings (x46780),
Jim Wilkinson or Dave Wolgast (both x20674). DEADLINE FOR 2000 SIO CONTRIBUTIONS--2/1/2001- Each year the Technical Publications Office requests reprints of your publications. The Contributions publications are the only official record of papers published by Scripps authors for each calendar year. Data from the bibliography may be broken down into divisions, disciplines, used in major proposals, or in other bibliographic material. The citations are kept on computer for the convenience of all, and they are available on Scripps's Web site as a searchable database. The deadline for submitting reprints to the Editorial and Publications Committee for the 2000 Contributions is Thursday February 1, 2001. Guidelines for submission may be found on the Web at www.sio.ucsd.edu/scripps_news/techpubs/contribguide.html/. For each reprint published during calendar 2000, please submit 3 copies along with a reprint information form to the Technical Publications Office (0233B). Reprint forms are available by calling x41295 or e-mail to techpubs@sio.ucsd.edu. (Nan Criqui, Technical Publications) REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS - The California Sea Grant College Program is now
soliciting preliminary proposals for university-based research to begin
in 2002. Sea Grant supports innovative research, education, and advisory
activities that will increase the understanding, assessment, development,
utilization, and commercialization or conservation of our ocean and coastal
resources. Research programs considered for support by Sea Grant typically
include studies on ocean engineering; marine affairs; aquaculture; fisheries;
coastal ocean resources; and new marine products. Please refer to the
California Sea Grant College Program Strategic Plan, "Looking Ahead, 2001-2005"
for further details on research priorities for each of the subject areas.
The strategic plan may be viewed on our web site at http://www-csgc.ucsd.edu.
Submission of preliminary proposals via the California Sea Grant web site
is encouraged. To receive a hard copy of the preliminary proposal application
package, e-mail a request to proposal@seamail.ucsd.edu or contact the
Sea Grant office at x44440. The deadline for submission of proposals is
March 1, 2001 at 5:00 p.m. Ship News CalCOFI Cruise 0101JD January 22, 2001 - DAVID STARR JORDAN - The second half of CalCOFI cruise 0101JD has been marked by a welcome improvement in weather and sea state. All aspects of our operations are progressing smoothly. We are presently finishing station work and moving ahead to our northern lines to finish the CUFES egg survey. Although plankton volumes are still low some patches of euphausids are being encountered in the northern half of our station grid. The lack of hake eggs in the underway sampling is noteworthy because January is when they are usually found. Ralf Goericke's prediction of abundant salps after his disembarking was realized in at least one bongo tow off Pt. Conception. Our hydrographic survey reveals the California Current running well offshore bordered by warm and cold core eddies offshore and nearshore respectively. These observations are supported by shallow chlorophyll maximums at stations within the current. Overall, chlorophyll-a is low in our grid pattern with a small high to low demarcation on either side of the current. Updating our 10 meter temperature anomalies shows a dual divergence with temperatures in the northern half of the grid as much as 1.8 degrees below CalCOFI's 50-year mean temperature. Temperatures in the southern portion of the grid are as high as 1.6 degrees above the long term mean. The weather Gods have been meaning well lately with lots blue skies and blue seas of Beaufort 3 and below. The friendly skies and oceans are very much to the liking of our seabird observer on the flying bridge. For the past few days we have been in areas where the most frequently seen seabirds are small, i.e. Phalaropes, Storm-Petrels and small Alcids and this make spotting and identifying of these birds much easier. The Western Grebe ranks number one on our most abundant seabird list, however this is the result of one sighting of approximately 700 individuals close to the coast of Santa Barbara. In total we have increased our seabird list to 41 different species during this cruise. Other vertebrates seen during the past week were a couple of Northern Fur Seals, California Sea Lions, two schools of Dall's Porpoises - one of them riding the bow for 30 minutes - and seven ocean sunfish, Mola Molas. We thank the captain and crew for all their hard work which made all our findings possible. The smooth seas have renewed our appetites which the cooks have surfeited with ambrosial foods ranging from mahi to spareribs. In other words, after the first week we were hungry and the food's been yummy. (Dave Wolgast)
R/V ROGER REVELLE In dry dock San Diego R/V MELVILLE
R/V NEW HORIZON In port San Diego R/V ROBERT GORDON SPROUL
R/P FLIP In port San Diego R/V DAVID STARR JORDAN
PLEASE NOTE - The SIO LOG is the in-house newsletter for staff, students,
faculty, and retirees of Scripps Institution of Oceanography/ UCSD. All
seminars, celebrations, lectures, and events are for these individuals
only, unless otherwise noted. Public lectures will be advertised in the
SIO LOG and in the local news media.
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