Huge congratulations are due to WHOI, the NTSB and the US Coast Guard for successfully locating the voyage data recorder (VDC) of the sunken cargo ship El Faro.  There was tremendous team effort to support the realtime video streaming of the operations was a team effort with teammates from the University of Rhode Island’s Inner Space Center, Comm Systems, Verizon Satellite Solutions Group , and IGPP/SIO’s HiSeasNet (HSN: https://hiseasnet.ucsd.edu).

The Huffington Post's Max Gunn shares his admiration for the storied curiosity and career of IGPP's Walter Munk in this essay.

Congratulations to IGPP alum, Diego Melgar (2014) for winning the Seismological Society of America's 2016 Charles F. Richter Early Career Award!

The Charles F. Richter Early Career Award honors outstanding contributions to the goals of the Society by a member early in her or his career. Previous recipients include a former IGPP postdoc Miaki Ishii in 2009: www.seismosoc.org/awards/richter_award/#recipients.

Director of IGPP, Guy Masters, has accepted a new role at SIO. As of March 31, Masters will serve Associate Vice Chancellor/Deputy Director for Research (AVC-DDR). IGPP professor of geophysics Steve Constable will commence his new role as Director of IGPP on March 31. 

Congratulations to Fernando Paolo and Helen Fricker. Their article: "Constructing improved decadal records of Antarctic ice shelf height change from multiple satellite radar altimeters," appears in the May 2016 issue of Remote Sensing Environment. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425716300268