4 May 2005

Please submit notices for OCEAN CURRENTS to Su Tipple (Box 357940, tipple@ocean.washington.edu) by noon on Tuesdays. Notices for Master's presentations, General Examinations, and Final Examinations must appear in OCEAN CURRENTS two weeks prior to the event to meet School of Oceanography requirements. For possible late entries, and websites for seminars in related departments, check our Web page at

http://www.ocean.washington.edu/2004/news/currents/currents.html

EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY

••••WORLD UNIVERSITY NETWORK/EARTH SYSTEMS VIDEO SEMINAR — Drs Roberta Hamme (Scripps) and Steven Emerson (Oceanography), “Gases and gas exchange between the ocean and atmosphere,” 9:00, HSB T-239. Directions to this location can be found at http://www.washington.edu/admin/comtech/video/videoconf_t239.html .

••••FACULTY MEETING — Will be held at 10:30 in 123 MSB. Coffee and pastries will be available at 10:15.

••••PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LUNCH SEMINAR — Two talks by second-year Oceanography graduate students are presented: Mike Zarnetske, “Implications of acoustic source motion for moving ship tomography,” and Beth Curry, “The dynamics of river plume liftoff points,” 12:30, 425 OSB.

MONDAY, 9 MAY

••••MASTER'S PRESENTATION — Li Ren, “Decadal changes in North Pacific salinity,” 10:00, 425 OSB. Dr Riser is chairperson of her committee.

WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY

••••GENERAL EXAMINATION — (Michael) Brady Olson, 2:00, 123 MSB. Dr Lessard is chairperson of his committee.

MONDAY, 16 MAY

••••FINAL EXAMINATION — Neil Banas, “Dynamics of Willapa Bay, Washington: A tale of raging tides, feral oysters, and extremely unbalanced salt fluxes,” 11:30, 425 OSB. Dr Hickey is chairperson of his committee.

STUDENT SERVICES

LATE COURSE DROP PERIOD — Use of annual drop required, $20 fee assessed, through 15 May.

2004/2005 ACADEMIC CALENDAR is available online to check deadlines for dropping and adding courses and make other registration changes. You can find the calendar at <http://www.washington.edu/students/reg/0405cal.html>.

GENERAL

INFORMATION FOR PREPARING PROPOSAL BUDGETS

••••BENEFIT RATES: Faculty—22.6%, Classified Staff—28.3%, Professional Staff—25.5%, Graduate Students—11.7%, Hourly/ Sea Pay/Undergrads—10.2%, Graduate Stipends—8.6%.

••••INDIRECT COST: On campus: 51.6% effective 1 July 2002. Off-campus rate: 26% (no rate change 7/1/02). For salary projections, please see Carolyn Fisher, 115 OTB, 3-4330.

••••GRAD OPERATING FEE: 03/04—$2041/qtr, academic year; $2104 summer. 04/05—$2296/qtr, academic year; (proj.) $2367 summer. 05/06 (projected)—$2526/qtr, academic year; (proj.) $2604 summer. 06/07 (projected)—$2779/qtr, academic year; (proj.) $2864 summer. 07/08 (projected)—$3057/qtr, academic year; (proj.) $3150 summer. 08/09 (projected)—$3363/qtr, academic year; (proj.) $3465 summer.

WEBSITES FOR SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS IN RELATED DEPARTMENTS

Applied Mathematics

http://www.amath.washington.edu/seminars

Applied Physics Laboratory

http://www.apl.washington.edu/edu_opportunities/seminar_series/seminar_series.html

Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

http://www.fish.washington.edu/news/fishline/fishline.html

Atmospheric Sciences

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/cgi-bin/calendar.perl

Biology

http://protist.biology.washington.edu/bio2/news/seminars

Computer Sciences

http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis/Colloquia

Earth & Space Sciences

http://www.ess.washington.edu/Program/Seminars

Electrical Engineering

http://www.ee.washington.edu/research/colloquium/

JISAO

http://tao.atmos.washington.edu/seminars/

Math

http://www.math.washington.edu/Seminars/semin_conf.php

Physics

http://www.phys.washington.edu

PMEL

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/home/seminars/index.html

PMEL/FOCI

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/foci/seminar.html

QRC

http://depts.washington.edu/qrc/events.cgi

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