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December 21 - January 11, 2002 vol. 38 no. 51 HOLIDAY GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES FOR A PEACEFUL AND JOYOUS NEW YEAR Calendar Tuesday, January 8 CRD SEMINAR - Zhengyu Liu, University of Wisconsin, will present, "Evolution of El Nino in the Holocene: Modeling, Theory and Implications" 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, X-46584) Notices HOLIDAY HOURS - The following office will be closed for the holidays:
AHOY, MATEY! Gray whales are passing by San Diego this winter! Celebrate the annual gray whale migration with the Birch Aquarium, where you can enjoy whale watching cruises with Scripps naturalists, whale exhibits in the museum, a migration lecture series, and whale classes for kids. Also, the aquarium will feature a life-size inflatable gray whale that visitors can walk through to explore the internal anatomy of this fascinating marine mammal. Come celebrate the gray whale migration season with the Birch Aquarium and San Diego Harbor Excursion! We have teamed up to offer naturalist-guided whale watching EVERY DAY, December 26 -March 31, 10:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. OR 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Scripps naturalists will be aboard each cruise to search for gray whales as they migrate past our shores on their way to the lagoons of Baja California, Mexico, to breed and give birth. Each whale watcher will also receive a "Whale-of-a-savings" coupon with tempting discounts to Anthony's Fish Grotto, San Diego Maritime Museum, Seaport Village, San Diego Harbor Excursion, and the Birch Aquarium. Cost: adults (13 and up): $23; youth (4-12 with paid adult): $15 To register, please call San Diego Harbor Excursion at 619/234-4111. TOASTMASTERS - Pier Review Toastmasters meets every Tuesday at noon in the Director's Office Conference Room, 114 Scripps Building. It's nearly time to make New Year's resolutions, and being a better public speaker an excellent one! Come join us in our next meeting 1/8/02. Happy Holidays. (Joseph Han, x23266, johan@ucsd.edu) SIO COASTER CONNECTION BEGINS JANUARY 2! After a survey showing significant interest in a Coaster Connection to SIO, the service will begin on January 2, thanks to UCSD Shuttle Operations! This is a pilot program until May 2002 and will only be continued if we use it, so come get on the Coaster! The shuttle will meet the 7:45 a.m. south-bound Coaster at Sorrento Valley, and depart SIO at 4:40 p.m. to meet the 5:17p.m. north-bound Coaster. Please note the SIO stops will be at the SIO Library and at Nierenberg Hall. For questions or comments, please contact psalameh@ucsd.edu or rvanboxtel@ucsd.edu. See you on the Coaster! BOBBLE HEAD NIGHT AT THE SPORTS ARENA - Hey, all you hockey fans and those of you curious about this frozen fun---get ready for a great game when your San Diego Gulls face off against Fresno on Saturday, January 26 at 7 p.m. But get there early because the first 5,000 fans get a Mark Woolf bobble-head figure! Whoo-hoo!! Tickets are just $10. You save a buck and support Birch Aquarium at Scripps Volunteer Services at the same time! These tickets are available NOW from Maureen Strauss, Volunteer Coordinator (mstrauss@ucsd.edu, x45604) and make great stocking-stuffers! NEW YEAR AND NEW CALL FOR SIO CONTRIBUTIONS - Academics
and staff will be receiving the annual SIO Contributions call-for-copy
packet from Technical Publications in early January 2002. Submission forms
and general information will be included. The deadline for submissions
to the 2001 SIO Contributions will be February 11, 2002. All submissions
must include 3 copies of the publication and a submission form. Articles
must have been published in 2001 or before. No in press or submitted manuscripts,
please. A list of the SIO Contributions submission guidelines is available
at http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/techpubs/CONTRIBUTIONS/contribguide.html. Ship News Melville Cook Expedition Leg 16 - Weekly Science Report, Wednesday, December 19, 2001 - As we approach the holiday season, we are thankful for the good cheer on board the Melville and for the opportunity to be accomplishing some exciting science. Captain Murline and the crew have been tremendous, and the technical group of Bob Wilson, Seth Mogk and John Chatwood have worked long and hard to make sure the gathering of data went as smoothly as possible. This week we have successfully brought back and recovered all the ocean bottom seismometers that were deployed in two microearthquake arrays and have begun re-deploying them in another larger array for our long-term monitoring of distant earthquakes. Dredges and mapping suggest that some of our initial guesses at the age relationships between different sets of seamounts and volcanic ridge are incorrect. Of course, further analysis of the rocks on land will be required to confirm these impressions. In our off-hours, we have begun to organize a quoits tournament. As always, we greatly appreciate the efforts of Dan Englebrecht and Jay Erickson in preparing such fantastic meals. (PIs Don Forsyth, Spahr Webb, Dan Scheirer, Katie Donnelly) 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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