As part of my job, I help maintain the data acquistion systems for the ROADNet project at SIO. One of the larger components of ROADNet is our Real-Time image bank, which serves as a repository for images collected from cameras and frame grabbers at a variety of locations. These include ...

SIO managed to make it on the Apple home start page under the news stories for April 13th. The item links to an article about the iCluster, which is a huge tiled display of twelve 30 inch Apple cinema displays downstairs from my office. sio/iCluster The writeup is here.

4312 The Lau Basin is a large abysal plain that seperates the Fiji islands from the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific. From http://ridgeview.ucsd.edu/page/laubasinbrief.htm: The Lau basin lies east of Fiji and west of the convergent intersection between the Australian and Pacific plate, the Tonga trench. It is a back-arc ...

I received an email today on a work mailing list about damages to the Sri Lankan National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA). They were sending out a plea to the scientific community for help in replacing some of their lost research equipment: autoclaves, glassware, computers, a research ship. They ...

R/V Maurice Ewing

Life goes on here on the Melville. Due to the bad weather we have had to scrap a couple of stations that were selected as optional at the beginning of this cruise. Other than that, nothing really to report other than that R/V Maurice Ewing, run by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, ...