The lazarette Gazette NEWS FROM The University ofTexas at Austin MARINE SCIENCE INSTITUTE Port Aransas, Texas 78373-1267 Vol. 2, Issue 20, 22 October 1993 In this issue ofLazarette Gazette -. Joan Holt: Texas Chapter or"AFS meets in PA ......................... cover Tony Amos: Birthday #56 in the Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 MSI Personnel listing for Fall 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Regular sections: trip reports & travel-p. 2, egabrag woes -p. 4, attaboys -p. 5, marine education services -p. 6, seminars -p. 6, personnel -p. 7, tony's tidings -p. 10, cruise reports & boat operations -p. 11, editor's note ~p. 12 TEXAS CHAPrER OF AFS MEETS IN PORT ARANSAS The Texas Chapter ofthe American Fisheries Society held their annual meeting in Port Aransas at the Marine Science Institute on September 15-17, 1993. One hundred and thirty-nine members from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and from several Texas universities converged on Port Aransas for the two day meeting. Nineteen presentations given in the technical session included several by our UTMSI scientists and students: • Habitat Selection by Immigrating Larval Fish in a South Texas Estuary, Scott Holt and Jim Tolan. • Ontogenic Shifts in Diet, Habitat and Diel Feeding Periodicity of Schoolmaster Snapper (Lutjanus apodus), Jay Rooker. __•Evaluation ofLarval Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) Releases for Stock Enhancement, Scott Holt and Cameron Pratt. • Free Amino Acids and Salinity Stress in Red Drum Larvae Liz Young-Abel and Joan Holt. In addition to the technical session there was a Special Symposium on Fish Stockings -Pros and Cons. Guest speakers for the symposium were Brian Murphy -Texas A&M, Dave Philipp -Illinois Natural History Survey, Joan Holt -UTMSI, Gary Carmichael -U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Phil Pister -DeserfFishes Council, Wayne Boyd -Texas Association of Bass Clubs, and Roger McCabe -Texas Parks anci Wildlife. A lively discussjon following the presentations was finally ended when airline schedules and growling stomachs took precedence. The highlight of the conference was a cajun shrimp boil and raffie held at Roberts Point Park Pavilion. Several kegs of beer ran out before the raffle prizes did, but a quick trip to the Family Center saved the evening. Proceeds from the raffle and auction are used for scholarships awarded annually to recognize academic and professional excellence among students enrolled in fisheries-related curricula at universities in Texas. I want to give a special thanks to Sandy Clark and the Islander for contributions to the raffle and to the scholarship fund. -Joan Holt MORE NOTES FROM THE VOYAGE OF THE RIV OKEAH 1 September 1993: The barometer kept dropping throughout the night. CTD stations 39 and 40 were difficult and cold and windy. After #40 we steamed towards the Diomede Islands to make "The Big Phone Call". It was not made. At Little Diomede the wind was steady at 30 knots and the scene was bleak and foreboding. The village on Little Diomede is crammed onto a tiny spit of land above which loom steep rocky slopes with many huge boulders, like menhirs on the top. It was obvious that we could not get the Zodiac ashore so we then circumnavigated both Big and Little Diomede Islands to see how the weather would turn out. Bad. Heading to the north we encountered huge waves which crashed over the bow and smashed Cliff Rice's fog-collecting equipment. Slowing down to secure gear, we continued around the Islands. doubt if that has been done many times before. Returning 'to Little Diomede after noon the ship sounded its horn several times (I thought it was an emergency signal as we . have never had any emergency drills and do not know what the signals are!) The horn roused nobody on the island and no radio communication was established-so we started off to the east towards Alaska and around tea-timf. (wafers for tea today), arrived at the glorious spot 2 known as Tin City. This is a DEW line listening post with ominous radars on the hill. The place seemed abandoned and certainly presented a bleak scene with heaps of_ tailings, abandoned buildings, cranes, bulldozers, and military-style buildings and just a couple oflightsglowing in the gloom. As I write this the Zodia~ is going off but I am going to bed as it's my bed-time. When I wake up I will be 56. · September 1993 -56 Today! "NE winds 15, Low 32~ chance ofsnow." This was the weather forecast from Kotzebue, Alaska, which is off to our right about 100 miles. They must be in a different .universe! Here we have been battered by winds of 30-40 knots for 24 hours and 20-30 knots for another day before that. I have had two birthdays where I thought I was in jeopardy. The first was my 15th, when I literally froze, unable to move, standing on the top of the "Striding Edge" near Helvellyn in the Lake District of England. It took a party of schoolgirls advancing from the other side to rouse me from my panicked state and urge me to go striding along the edge [There are two paths across this knife-edge saddle between mountains, one the hero's path, which I was trying to negotiate, and one the coward's path along which the girls were hiking.] The second [birthday when I felt I was in danger] was today, after we left Tin City. Instead of riding out the storm in the relative shelter of the inlet (I hear that the Captain was uncomfortable being parked next to a U.S. military establishment), we headed out to do stations in the Bering Strait. There has been a mysterious banging and grinding noise whenever we have rough weather and rum.or says that it is a stabilizer fin which got loose when the ship hit heavy ice a while ago. Sometimes it "moans", but in the rough seas of early this morning it was banging and grinding with a horrifying noise. When we fmally arrived at station 41 it was marginal conditions for doing a CTD, but we did it anyway. The station was in a "forbidden territory", -a walrus and seal area, but the Captain said if we did it at night it would be OK. Then we backtracked to station 42 and conditions were worse -huge wire angle -very difficult to ·et the CTD in, and especially out of, the water With the antiquated [deck] equipment.they have. After that ~said "No More CTDs!", but they insisted on doing a bottle cast, whereupon the winch broke down and they barely got the bottles back. So then we headed north into the seas and for hours have been pitching and heaving in 16-foot seas and a 35-knot gale. They are going to celebrate my birthday at dinner time so I am trying to get a snooze in before -I usually sleep from now until midnight. 2145 -My birthday party was memorable! After dinner I was presented with a cake and several presents. Alla Tsyban gave me two volumes of the BERPAC papers in Russian. I got a box of Russian chocolates, a vase with some of the plants from St. Paul Island, a care package from the Americans and Canadians (candy, a can ofbeer, an airline bottle ofJose Cuervo,.sardines, soups, etc.), and two poems. I was serenaded by Dr. Tsyban at the piano in Russian and English and by the Americans in American. I sang my two set pieces (Green Grow the Rushes 'O and Waltzing Matilda), and all the time we were heaving through the seas with waves occasionally breaking on the windows of the Officer's Mess. I had to excuse myself because I am still working the night shift. Now at 2200 hours the seas ·show some sign of abating and I certainly feel better about things than I did this morning. Oh! and we crossed the Arctic Circle on my birthday. Goodnight! -Tony Amos Travel ending between October 9 -22 +Robert Moore, October 7-9, Denver, Colorado, to attend Society of Mining Engineers Program Committee meeting. +Ron Benner, October 8-13, Seattle, Washington, collaborative research with Dr. John Hedges at the University of Washington. +Ken Dunton, October 11-12, San Marcos, present invited seminar at Southwest Texas State University, Strategies ofgrowth and photosynthesis in marine macrophytes from polar and subtropical environments. +Terry Whitledge, October 11-12, Washington D.C., attend BERPAC (Bering Sea-Pacific Ocean) program investigators meeting on past and future Russian/American joint expeditions. +Ron Benner, October 15-19, Long Island, N.Y., attend Department of Energy Ocean Margins Workshop. +Hayden Abel, October 21, Galveston, Lifeboat training course. MfilHe 3 HaeM returns -For several issues, comments from our Russian correspondent have been absent. I have missed walking on the beach due to a minor foot injury, but I was able to go walking this week and met him once more. M:ol: He 3 HaeM had been thinking about our financial problems with the RIV LONGHORN and the small amount of time she is used by UT researchers, and he had noticed the lack of response to the editorials on project RIV -2000 (the suggestion to replace both LONGHORN and KATY with a single vessel). He allowed as how (he has become very Texanized in his speech) since no one seems to be much concerned, he had thought of an easier solution-late some night secretly take LONGHORN out and sink her, meanwhile·have Ed Zieglar repaint the name on KATY by flashlight to LONGHORN. He felt like all those who use KATY won't care what the name is and others won't notice. But he wasn't sure what to do about the MSI scientists (two) who did have research cruises on LONGHORN this year. Misadventures with the RIV VAGABOND -In 1963, a 38 ft. Elco sedan cruiser was donated to UT by Pontiac Refining Corporation. Our misadventures began when we picked her up. We (Herman Moore, Carol Martin, and yours truly) fired up the engines and motored a few hundred yards to a marine service station and began pumping in premium fuel for her Cadillac Crusader V-8's. Carol said Herman, I wonder what this other filler cap goes to? A close inspection of the other cap revealed the word fuel. The filler where Herman was putting fuel unfortunately was lettered water. To compound the misery, if you overfilled (we did) the water tanks, the extra ran into the bilge. Herman and Carol were both chain smokers; this was one time they didn't light up. Our first trip we voyaged up the Arroyo Colorado to where some valley town was releasing sewage. One MSI Scientist had a technique for testing salinity: sticking his finger in the water and tasting it; which he did repeatedly. He no longer uses this method (he became more than a little sick). As we moved along at high speed, I was too close to the edge of the channel, and as I relinquished the helm, she veered completely out of the channel. I remember clearly Herman saying, Boy, you're out of the channel. (That shows how long ago this was; it has been awhile since anyone called me Boy). In my defense, we were not on the bottom and a slight turn of the wheel would have brought us right back into the channel. Instead, Herman cut the power; we came down off our plane; and flattened both props on the bottom. A long tow back to Port Mansfield and a haulout followed. The souped-up nwtors required the services ofa mechanic about every trip she made. We also had '"he original straight eight Chrysler engines the Elco company (in their superior wisdom) had first installed. ,t/e restored her to this original power and for a short time she was reasonably fast, quiet, comfortable, and dependable. Here follows proof of the adage, if it aint broke -don't fix it. MSI obtained its first Federal funding for ship operations-a grant to improve the RIV VAGABOND. The Chryslers were replaced.:with new diesels. In the 38' Elco the motors were in the stern facing forward with power through V-drives. You hardly were aware of the quiet Chryslers underneath attractive teak covers. But the taller diesels required a higher engine compartment, which meant a shallower cockpit and fiberglassed plywood rather than teak. Most work was done from a small davit located where dual wet exhausts dumped noise, smell, and fumes through the transom. This arrangement was bad with the gas engines; the loud and smelly diesels did not enhance the pleasure of working a long day at that davit. We had lots of problems with overheating and many visits by mechanics and technical representatives until we finally found some plastic tape which was clogging up the cooling system. In 1969 the RIV VAGABOND was sold. Much good research was accomplished with this boat, including the field work for Frank Moseley's MA, Biology of the red snapper, Lutjanus aya, of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico; Frank Plucker's MA, Stable carbon isotope ratios oforganic matter ofGulfofMexico shelfsediments; and some of the field work for Larry Maurer's MA The near-shore distribution and macro-molecular contents ofthe dissolved organic matter ofTexas estuarine and GulfofMexico waters. She made 86 separate voyages with 42 of these in the Gulf of Mexico. For years Pat Parker had a chart on the wall showing the many transects and samples taken by the RIV VAGABOND from Port Isabel to Freeport. During these years she had a number of different captains: Herman Moore, Don Nutt, Bob Harrelson, and Elgie Wingfield. On some voyages for Dr. Parker, her scientific(?) crew consisted of Jesse Esparza (Maintenance Man), Jerry Lockhart (Building Attendant) and John Thompson (Often Seasick). -John Thompson Dr. John Baskin, Professor at TAMU-Kingsville a hate that name change!!) formerly Texas A & I University (my old stomping grounds) called today to tell me how much he enjoyed and appreciated his October 8 visiting class trip aboard the WV KATY. He was especially complimentary of both Captain John Turany and MES educator Bob Huntington's work with his class, their friendliness and the amount and quality of information they shared with the students. He said that the students were still excited and talking about the trip and that they were putting up a display in the hall ofthe science building featuring photographs of the trip. He was really appreciative ofthe fact that UTMSI has the Marine Education Services program and makes its excellent facilities available to visiting class groups. -Rick Tinnin VISITING CLASS SCHEDULE FOR OCTOBER I -27, 1993 GROUPS ## ARRIVE REMARKS DEPART SWTSU, Dr. Earl 25 l Oct BOAT ONLY TAMU-Galv, Dr. Guevara 23 1 Oct BOAT/DORMS 2 Oct Tarleton St., Dr. Murray 45 2 Oct BOAT/DORMS 4 Oct Heritage School, Lynn Mundy 22 7 Oct BOAT/DORMS 8 Oct TAMU-Kings., Dr. Baskin 25 8 Oct BOAT ONLY McNeil HS, Susan Willson 35 9 Oct BOAT/DORMS l l Oct Port Aransas HS, Mica Crownover 25 13 Oct BOAT ONLY Marion HS, Keith McDonald 25 14 Oct BOAT ONLY UT Arlington, Bob McMahon 40 14 Oct BOAT/DORMS 17 Oct SWTSU, Stan Sissom 20 15 Oct BOAT/DORMS 17 Oct Marshall HS, Bill Slingerland 25 18 Oct BOAT ONLY Chilton ISD, Don McGinty 8 19 Oct BOAT/DORMS 21 Oct St. Austin's, Jane Slater 25 21 Oct BOAT ONLY UT Brownsville, David McNeely 20 21 Oct BOAT/DORMS 22 Oct SWTSU, Sandra West 15 22 Oct BOAT/DORMS 24 Oct Dedman Scho. UT-Austin, Declerck 15 22 Oct BOAT/DORMS 24 Oct Riviera HS, Josephine Smith 25 24 Oct BOAT/DORM 25 Oct Parkdale School, Lynda Davis 50 26 Oct BOAT ONLY Long MS, Marty Newman 58 26 Oct BOAT/DORMS 27 Oct • Dr. Maria Alice Ramos, Instituto Nacional de Investigacao das Pescas, Final maturation and ovulation in Portuguese marine fish -morphological aspects, Auditorium, October 1, 3:45 pm. • Dr. Donald A. Davis, Marine Science Institute (FAML), Nutritional requirements in the feeding of marine fish and shrimp, Auditorium, October 8, 3:45 pm. • Dr. Saiid Farghali, Suez Canal University, The marine science in the Red Sea: prospectives and possibilities of international cooperation, Auditorium, October 13, 3:45 pm. • Dr. Larry Pomeroy, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia-Athens, Regional and seasonal variations in the microbial loop, Auditorium, October 15, 3:45 pm. •Dr. Gary Upchurch, Southwest Texas State University, Vegetation and climate change and extinction at the CretaceousTertiary boundary, Auditorium, October 22, 3:45 pm. MS! Employees Proud Parents of- P.A.LS.D. SIX WEEKS HONOR ROLLS (missed last issue) • H.G. OLSEN ELEMENTARY A HONOR ROLL fourth grade: JoAnna Jackson • BRUNDRE'IT MIDDLE SCHOOL AIB HONOR ROLL seventh grade: · Daniel Jackson BOY SCOUT TROOP 29 COURT OF HONOR -October 12 •Earning merit badges in geology, horsemanship, swimming, leatherwork, and advancing to the rank of second class: Chris Kalke Halloween Costume Contest -October 29; let everyone see UTMSI's "SPIRIT" by wearing a costume and participating in the Halloween Costume Contest. Prizes for scariest, originality, cutest. MSI PERSONNEL --FALL 1993 PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, INSTRUMENTATION Anthony F. Amos, Research Associate MARICULTURE-FINFISH 'Connie R. Arnold, Ph.D., Associate Director-Mariculture & Senior Research Scientist D. Allen Davis, Ph~D., Postdoctoral Fellow Scott A. Holt, M.S., Research Associate Cecilia M.·Riley, M.S., Research Scientist Associate I -Ying-Chun Liu, M.S., Laboratory Research Assistant III ·David 0. Jirsa, B.S., Graduate Research Assistant *A. Scott Williams, B.S. (UT-Austin) Maotang Li, B.S., Research Scientist Assistant ··James M. Tolan, B.S., Research Scientist Assistant Cameron M. Pratt, B.S., Laboratory Research Assistant III ··Kathy F. Binney, B.S., Laboratory Research Assistant III Gilbert Ramos, Laboratory Research Assistant III ··nana J. Allen, Laboratory Research Assistant II Carl W. Moore, Technical Staff Assistant II MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 'Ronald H. Benner, Ph.D., Research Scientist J. Dean Pakulski, Ph.D., Research Scientist Assoc. I Bopaiah A. Biddanda, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow Andrew R. Zimmerman, M.S., Research Scientist Assistant ·steven P. Opsahl, M.S., Graduate Research Assistant Rainer M. W. Amon, M.S. ·Andrew Biersmith, B.S. (UT Austin) Brenda L. Hamman, }3.S., Research Scientist Assistant David A. Jorissen, B.S., Research Scientist Assistant MARINEZOOPLANKTONECOLOGY 'Edward J. Buskey,. Ph.D., Research Scientist ·scott E. Stewart, M.S. ·susan L. Brown, B.S., Graduate Research Assistant ·Jay 0. Peterson, B.S., Graduate Research Assistant Cammie J. Coulter, B.S., Research Scientist Assistant COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY 'James N. Cameron, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist (on leave of absence) SEAGRASS & MACROALGAE BIOLOGY & ECOLOGY 'Kenneth H. Dunton, Ph.D., Research Scientist ·James E. Kaldy, M.S., Graduate Research Assistant ·J. Michael Dibble, B.A., Graduate Research Assistant *Andrew B. Czerny, B.S., Graduate Research Assistant *Sharon Herzka, B.S., (UT-Austin) ·Kun-Seop Lee, B.S., Graduate Research Assistant ··susan V. Schonberg, B.S., Research Scientist Associate ·I ..Kimberly R. Jackson, Laboratory Research Assistant I FISH BIOLOGY 'Lee A Fuiman, Ph.D., Research Scientist ·nennis M. Higgs, M.S. ·Kirsten R. Poling, B.S., Graduate Research Asst. MAR/CULTURE-LARVAL FISH STUDIES #G. Joan Holt, Ph.D., Research Scientist Philippe Douillet, Ph.D., Research Scientist Assoc. II "Jay Rooker, M.S., Graduate Research Assistant "Kristen C. Drescher, B.A. (UT-Austin) ""Eric W. Curtis, B.S., Research Sci. Assistant Patricia A. Serna, B.S., Lab. Research Assist. IV Patricia L. Pickering, B.S., Lab. Research Asst. IV Janie Munoz, Lab. Research Asst. III BENTHIC ECOLOGY 'Paul A Montagna, Ph.D., Research Scientist Jian Li, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow Richard D. Kalke, M.A., Res. Scientist Assoc. III ··Raouf IGlada, M.S., Research Scientist Asst. *Antonio Mannino, B.A., Graduate Research Asst. *Gregory T. Street, B.A., Graduate Research Asst. "Mark J. Lanzotti, B.S. (UT-Austin) Robert J. Rewolinski, B.S., Research Scientist Asst. Kristen K. Triplett, B.S., Research Scientist Asst. **Chris M. Martin, B.S., Research Scientist Asst. Robert S. Burgess, Lab. Research Assistant IV ··carrol A. Simanek, Office Assistant PHYTOPLANKTON ECOLOGY "Curtis A Suttle, Ph.D., Research Scientist Hudson R. DeYoe, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow "Matthew T. Cottrell, M.S. Amy M. Chan, B.S., Research Scientist Associate I "Troy A. Roepke, B.S., Graduate Research Assistant °Feng Chen, B.S., Graduate Research Assistant "D. Randy Garza, B.S., Graduate Research Assistant *Kristen M. Rodda, B.S., (UT-Austin) MARINE TOXICOLOGY & REPRODUCTIVE PHYSIOWGY "Peter Thomas, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist Izhar A. Khan, Ph.D., Research Scientist Associate I Yong Zhu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow "Charles W. Laidley, M.S., Graduate Research Assistant "Lestarini D. Budiantara, B.S., Graduate Research Assistant "Jonathan H. Pinter, B.A. "Jennifer L. Dicocco, B.S., Graduate Research Assistant "Andrew Biersmith, B.S., (UT-Austin) William E. Beasley, Jr., B.F.A., Lab. Res. Asst. III ""Diane E. Breckenridge, Laboratory Research Assistant III Woodie R. Lawson, Laboratory Helper USFWS COOP. MARINE TOXICOLOGY FIELD UNIT R. Scott Carr, Ph.D., Unit Leader1 Duane Chapman, M.S.1 MARINE CHEMISTRY, ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY "Beth A. Trust, M.S., Graduate Research Asst. (UT--Austin) MARINE NUTRIENT CHEMISTRY 'Terry E. Whitledge, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist Dean A. Stockwell, Ph.D., Research Associate "Zhihong Zheng, M.S., Graduate Research Assistant "Russell J. Seguin, M.S., Teaching Assistant Susan M. Becker, M.A., Research Scientist Assistant *"Marylynn I. Tinnin, B.S., Research Scientist Assistant U.T. Austin Students (in residence at Port Aransas, Major Professor/Co-Supervisor at MSI) Charles W. Laidley, M.S., (Clark Hubbs, Professor, Zoology Department/Peter Thomas, Co-Supervisor) Russell J. Seguin, M.S., (P.L. Parker, Professor, Chemistry Department/Terry Whitledge, Co-Supervisor) Visiting Scientists China Maotang Li, B.S., Institute of Oceanology, Academia Sinica, Qingdao Ying-Chun Liu, M.S., Qingdao Marine Products Museum, Qingdao, Columbia Philippe Douillet, Ph.D., Bogota Patricia A. Serna, B.S., Cartagena Egypt RaoufW. Kilada, M.S., Marine Biology Department, Faculty Science, Suez Canal University India Bopaiah A Biddanda, Ph.D., Biological Oceanographic Institute, National Institute of Oceanography, Mercara Shampa Ghosh, Ph.D., Environmental Toxicology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Visva Bharati University West Bengal lzhar Khan, Ph._D., Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi Japan Yong Zhu, Ph.D., Central Research Institute, Taiyo Fishery Co. Ltd., Tsukuba ADMINISTRATION "Terry Whitledge, Ph.D., Acting Director & Professor John H. Thompson, B.B.A., Assoc. Director -Adm. Secretarial Office Kathleen F. Quade, Administrative Associate Patricia S. Baker, Technic~l Secretary Colleen C. Pike, B.A., Senior Office Assistant, FAML Personnel/Benefits Office ToAnn S. Page, Administrative Associate Fiscal Office Lynn. M. Amos, Executive Assistant Victoria W. Roberson, Accounting Clerk III Faye. L. Smith, Accounting Clerk III Erin K. Meuth, B.A., Accounting Clerk I Venus N. Mills, B.A., Stores Clerk III ··sandra J. Birdwell, Office Assistant Office of Marine Education Services Richard K Tinnin, M.S., Research Associate Robert V. Huntington, B.S., Research Scientist Assistant Linda T. Fuiman, Office Assistant Library Ruth L. Grundy, B.S., Professional Librarian Tommye J. Adams, B.S., Library Assistant II **Mervat F. Kilada, Office Assistant . Boat Operations Donald L. Gibson, Senior Captain (RIV LONGHORN) John J. Turany, Boat Captain (RIV KATY) Noe T. Cantu, Boat Captain Hayden B. Abel, Boat Captain Mark W. McGarity, Mate Maintenance Jerry L. Clanton, Maintenance Mechanic Supervisor James L. Raeder, Plumber (Leader) J . Charles Hutchins, Plant Maintenance Mechanic William E. Piepmeier, Refrigeration Mechanic John L. Shedd, Electrician Veril D. Barr, Maintenance Worker II Ronald R. Revell, Carpenter (Leader) Michael W. Horn, Carpenter Ollie T. Bandy, Painter John S. Shaw, Storekeeper John M. Garlington, Building Attendant II Grounds Johnnie W. Yarbrough, Grounds Maintenance Leader Michael H.F. Gibson, Gardener Amador M. Guajardo, Gardener David D. Hernandez, Maintenance Worker II Benny Rodriguez, Gardener Custodial Dolores Villarreal, Building Attendant Leader Norma I. Otero, Assistant Building Attendant Leader Olga S. Davila, Building Attendant II Josephine R. Jones, Building Attendant II Elsa S. Benavides, Building Attendant II Maria L. Selvera, Building Attendant II Cafeteria Antonia V. Martinez, Cook ··Anita Mireles, Cook Security Adolphus J. Aldridge, Building Monitor Melvin E. Ervin, Guard, University Police Dennis N. Hendricks, Guard, University Police ··Robert Johnson, Guard, University Police DEPARTMENT OF MARINE SCIENCE Peter Thomas, Ph.D. Acting Chairman & Professor Patrick L. Parker, Ph.D., Associate Chairman & Professor Connie R. Arnold, Ph.D., Professor E. William Behrens, Ph.D., Associate Professor Ronald H. Benner, Ph.D., Associate Professor Edward J. Buskey, Ph.D., Associate Professor James N. Cameron, Ph.D., Professor (on leave of absence) Kenneth H. Dunton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Lee A. Fuiman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor G. Joan Holt, Ph.D., Associate Professor Bassett Maguire, Ph.D. Professor Paul A. Montagna, Ph.D., Assistant Professor J. Robert Moore, Ph.D., Professor J.A. Colin Nicol, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus Carl H. Oppenheimer, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus Curtis A. Suttle, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Teny E. Whitledge, Ph.D., Professor D. E. Wohlschlag, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus • !itudent •• part time or temporary personnel listing compiled by JoAnn Page Tide Predictions-October 25--31 (For tidal heights at the tide tower, South Jetty, theAransas Pass. Heights are in feet above or below mean sea level. The shaded area is nighttime. Remember, this is tidal height, not tidal current. Slack water is when the wiggly line crosses the MSLline, not at peaks and valleys, where the tidal current will be a full flood or ebb.) :x: m 1 ~:I: 0 .... -1 .... ~ -2 Tide Predictions for the Month ofNovember ::r: m 2 ::r: H mG'> H:I: G'>-I 0 ::r:0 -4 :;c -1 -1 ':;' ~ ::r: 2 fT1 2 IH fT1 G'> Hx G'>-4 0 x0 -4 c... -1 -1 ... c x fT1 2 xH mG'> H ::r: lil-4 0 :x:0 -4 ... -1 ti" -1 .....ti" :x: m 2 I H m lil H I lil -4 0 I 0 -4 c:; -1 -1 :; rt -2 mI 2 I H mH lil x :x: Ci) -4 0 0 -I c..... -1 -1 ... -2 -2 c 10 Weather Report-October 4-17 Small boat trips during September - date personnel boat area of operations 9/1/93 Dunton/Czerny Big Whaler East Flats 9/2/93 9/8/93 918193 Montagna/Mannino Holt/Pratt Dunton/Kaldy Kleberg Kleberg Big Whaler North Jetty Lydia Ann Channel East Flats 9/13/93 9/15/93 9/17/93 9/20-24/93 9/20-25/93 9/22/93 Holt/Pratt Dunton/Kaldy Dunton/Kaldy Holt/I'olan/Pratt Thomas/Laidley Dunton/Kaldy Kleberg Big Whaler Big Whaler Jet/Air-Boat Lowe Jefferson Aransas, Redfish Bays, E. Flats East Flats Laguna Madre Lower Laguna Madre Galveston Bay East Flats 9/23/93 9/28-29/93 9/29/93 9/29/93 8130193 Holt/Pratt Holt/Pratt Whitiedge/Stockwell Thomas/Beasley Dunton/Kaldy Kleberg Kle~erg Jet/Air-Boat Lowe Jefferson Lydia Ann Upper &Lower Laguna Madre Nueces Bay Lavaca Bay East Flats Ifit had not been for Tony Amos and his The Great East Flats Vehicle-Sticking Event of 1993 (see I the previous issue of the LazGaz), I would not have written about misadventures with the RIV VAGABOND. I decided that if Tony can openly confess to his more recent embarrassments, then I should be willing to relate some historical mortifications of my own. And speaking of being mortified, that was Captain Don Nutt when he broke both new radio antennaes backing the RIV I VAGABOND into the boathouse-as he returned from testing them, after breaking the old ones backing into the boathouse the day before. From now on we will give a full month of tides in I advance. This may be more useful (and saves a cut and paste operation required for the old, two week, format). And the weather report format is changed to something perhaps easier to read (and saves some work as it can be imported directly from Tony's computer whereas before Andi Wickham had to reenter everything). Special thanks to Tony Amos for more of his cold cruise and to Joan II Holt for the report on the UFS meeting. Thanks also to Rick Tinnin, Linda Yates, Lynn Amos, JoAnn Page, Patty Baker, and Kathy Quade. -John Thompson