Congratulations to SUESI! She has beaten her *own* tow depth record by 100m. The EM lab's Scripps Undersea EM Source Instrument or SUESI recently recached a depth of 5100m while collecting data for the Alaskan Megathrust project. Read more about the data (and occasional coral) SUESI and her fellow instruments are collecting on Steve Constable's cruise blog here: https://marineemlab.ucsd.edu/Projects/Megathrust/

A bit of high seas drama over the weekend aboard R/V Sikuliaq. Two of the first six ocean-bottom (OBEM) instruments were run over the ship's thrusters during their recovery. While the instruments can't be put to use again this cruise, at least their data loggers were recovered. Not a complete tragedy in the Shakespearian sense, but a rough day nonetheless.

Follow along as IGPP Director Steven Constable and his team travel to the Alaska Peninsula to collect data about how the regional transport and release of water impacts seismic activity. The first instruments were deployed last Sunday: https://marineemlab.ucsd.edu/Projects/Megathrust/.

The ALERTWildfire network of cameras, some of which are hosted by HPWREN, proved effective in pinpointing remote, forested regions of Southern California fire locations in the summer of 2018. This success has fostered plans to broaden the network by creating "virtual fire towers."This success has fostered plans to broaden the network by creating "virtual fire towers." On April 24th, HPWREN co-founders Hans-Werner Braun (SDSC) and Frank Vernon (IGPP) workshopped with stakeholders and first responders at Palomar Obervatory to discuss the network deterimine its future growth.

It is with heavy hearts that we share the loss of IGPP's founder and first director, Walter Munk, who passed away Friday, February 8th.

Born October 19, 1917, Walter was an intellectual giant, and his pioneering research into surf forecasting, swell propagation, ocean currents, tides, time series analysis, ocean acoustics, and ocean temperature, along with his abundant prizes and accolades, will be remembered by many.  However, all those of us who frequented the halls of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics La Jolla will have a special memory of him.