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May 12, 2005
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Universities'
Newspapers Win Awards
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 11- The
student newspapers at San Diego State University and the University
of California, San Diego took multiple honors in the
second annual California College Media Competition. More
3,500 Scientists
to Gather in N.O.
Times-Picayune (New Orleans), May
11- On May 26, John Orcutt, director of the
Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary
Physics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
in La Jolla, Calif., will explain how the modern equipment and
techniques used to measure the Indian Ocean tsunami should help
guide scientists working to create the global monitoring system
to track other natural hazards, such as earthquakes, volcanoes,
and hurricanes, and the rising sea level and spread of disease
that may accompany global climate change. More
UCSD Connect
Dropping UCSD Connection
North County Times, May 11- UCSD
Connect, the famous technology networking program of UC
San Diego Extension, is going solo. Connect will become
a nonprofit 501c (3) organization, said Mary Walshok,
a founding member of Connect and associate vice chancellor of
public programs at UCSD. Its purpose: to help
form and nurture new businesses, a vital part of San Diego County's
entrepreneurial cultural. More
Acoustic 3-D Imaging Unveils
Swimming
Behavior of Microscopic Ocean Plankton
Kansas City infoZine, May 12- A new
Fish TV system, developed by scientist Jules Jaffe
of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
in La Jolla, Calif., allowed an international team of scientists
to analyze and track more than 375,000 individual zooplankton
swimming across currents at two coastal sites in the Red Sea.
Along with Jaffe and Peter Franks
from Scripps, the team included Amatzia Genin and Ruth Reef
from the Hebrew University, and Claudio Richter from the Center
for Tropical Marine Ecology in Bremen, Germany. More
