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WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION Women Pioneers In NEWSLETTER WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MARCH 1995 Ketchum Award to be Presented Women Pioneers in Oceanography- April 13 The ninth B.H . Ketchum Award lecture will be presented by Christopher Martens of the Univer­ sity of North Carolina IUNC) at Chapel Hill April 13 at 2:30 p.m. in Redfield Auditorium. A reception will follow. Martens, a professor of marine sdences and geology at UNC, will speak on "IliogeocherrO Processes Controlling the Chemistry of Coastal sediments." He is considered one of the leading chemical oceanographers investigating the bi0- geochemical recycling of carbon in ooastaI systems. A colleague notes that his largest scientifIC contribution has been the nearty twenty-year record of biogeochemical measurements carried out at Cape Lookout Bight, perhaps the longest time series of such measurements in existence. "Chris has pioneered many of the measurements used in his studies, and certainly is a leader in using a multiparameterJmultiproxy approach and in the Women 's CommiNee Chair Chris Wooding (left) introduces Betty integration of biogeochemical measurements." Bunce. Bunce received a WHOI rocking chair. Continued on page 8 Belly Bunce Honored Ruttenberg Receives ONR Honor Scientist Emeritus Betty Bunce was honored March 1 at the Assistant Scientist Kathleen Ruttenberg of the second "Women Pioneers in Oceanography" seminar in celebra­ Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department tion of Women's History Month. The celebration is sponSOfed by has been selected as an Office of Naval Research the Women's Committee of WHOI. IONR) Young Investigator. Speakers included Chris Wooding, Women's Committee Ruttenberg was one of 33 investigators selected Chair; Cecily Selby, WHOI Trustee; Deborah Smith, Associate for awards from a pool of 409 applicants who Scientist in the Geology and Geophysics Department; Scientist responded wnh research proposals to ONR. The Emeritus John Ewing of the Geology and Geophysics Depart­ Young Investigator program is designed "10 attract ment; Betty Ewing; and Director Bob Gagosian. outstanding university faculty members to the Deborah Smith highlighted Betty Bunce's career and her Navy's research program, to support their research, unusal entry into oceanography_ A physical education major and to encourage their teaching and research with an interest in government and constitutional law, Betty careers." Awards of $75,000 per year for three Bunce received her B.S. degree from Smith College in 1937. years are given to each recipient. Her love of sports led to graduate work in physical education and In a letter to Oirector Bob Gagosian announcing a position as a physical education teacher. Her contact with the award, Chief of Naval Research Marc Pelaez WHOI came through a chance 1944 summer vacation to Woods cited Ruttenberg's academic aChievements, her Continued on page 4 Continued on page 2 MARCH 1995 WHOI Graduate Aboard Space Lt. Col. Sherwood Spring and Major Jerry Ross, visited the Institution in Shuttle Endeavour November 1986 to present a memento to the staff. Kathryn D. Sullivan, the first woman to walk in space, visited the The recent Space Shuttle Endeavour Oceanographic Institution in April 1984 10 talk with graduate students mission had a WHOI connection through and staff. While a graduate student in geology in 1974 Sullivan worked Astronaut Wendy B. Lawrence, a 1988 gradu­ with WHOI scientists and made a cruise to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technol­ aboard the Institution's Research Vessel Knorr. She is now the Chief ogyfWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution Scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Joint Graduate Program in Oceanography and Sullivan is scheduled to visit WHOI again in June to speak with gradu­ Oceanographic Engineering. One of the small ate students. mementos she was to bring with her into space Other astronauts have also worked with WHOI staff on oceanogra­ was a WHOI patch. phy-related projects from space. NASA'S Space Shuttles have all taken Lawrence received a Master of Science their names from famous oceanographic ships of discovery. degree in oceanographic engineering from the Bill Curry Named New G&G Chair joint program. She began her graduate studies in Woods Hole in June 1986 and left shortly Senior Scientist William B. Curry has after receiving her degree in September 1988. been named the new chair of the A 1981 graduate of the United States Naval Geology and Geophysics Department. Academy with a B.S. degree in ocean engi­ effective November 1. neering, lawrence returned to Annapolis to Bill Curry received his B.S. degree in teach at the Naval Academy~ and was accepted geology from the University of Delaware into NASA's astronaut p!'ogram in 1992. in 1974 and his Ph.D. degree in geology The recent mission was Lawrence's first trip from Brown University in 1980. He in space. She served aboard Endeavour as a joined the WHOI staff as a postdoctoral mission specialist, trained to operate the investigator in February 1980 and was shuttle's robotic arm, and participated in appointed a postdoctoral scholar in April medical and other experiments. The shuttle of that year. In 1981 he was appointed landed in California March 18 after a record an assistant SCientist. was promoted to 1&-day mission. Lawrence plans to visit the associate scientist in 1985 and to senior Institution in the next few months. scientist in March 1994. Bill's research WHOI has other connections to the space interests include quantitative CenozoiC program. The Space Shuttle Atlantis, which paleoclimatology and paleoceanography, and the sedimentation made its first voyage in October 1985, is dynamics of marine particulates. named for the Institutk>n's first research vessel, Associate Director for Research Jim Luyten said Mike Purdy will the 142-foot ketch Atlantis. The shuttle carried step down as chair at the end of October Mafler four years of dedi­ a piece of the mast of the Institution's sailing cated service to the Department. Michael has done an outstanding vessel on its maiden voyage. Two of the job of providing leadership at the Institution and for the community." astronauts aboard that Atlantis shuttle mission, Ruttenberg continued from page 1 ability to contribute to the strength of the nation's R&D, and the commit­ ment to her expressed by university administrators. 'We believe that The Newsletter is published monthly for Young Investigators,like Dr. Ruttenberg, are the best and brightest employees, students and members of young academic researchers this country has to offer." the Woods Hole Oceanographic Ruttenberg joined the WHOI staff in 1989 as a postdoctoral fetlow. Institution community. Copy deadline is The following year she was named a postdoctoral investigator, and in the 25th of the month. Ideas for stones, 1993 was named a visiting investigator. She was appointed an assistant photos, and items of interest to the scientist in May 1994. community are welcome and should be A 1982 graduate of the University of California at San Diego with a sent to: Editor, Newsletter, News Office, B.A. degree in chemistry and anthropology (double major), Ruttenberg Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, received her Ph.D. in geology from Yale University in 1990. Her thesis Woods Hole, MA 02543. Telephone was titled MDiagenesis and Burial of Phosphorus in Marine Sediments: 50&457-2000 ext. 2270 or 3340. Implications for the Marine Phosphorus Budget." While at Yale she received the Estwing Hammer Prize for Outstanding Performance in WriterlEditor: Shelley M. Lauzon Geology and the Best Student Paper Award from the Estuarine Re­ Staff Support: Kathleen Patterson search Federation 10th Biennial Estuarine Research Conference. 2 WHOI NEWSlETIER MARCH t995 WHOl's Contributions to World War II would the water be and at what distance from the beach? Editor's Note: As celebrations occur in Europe and the Pacific marking On the answers to these questions the 50th anniversary of the closing months of World War II, the depended the size of landing craft and the Institution's many contributions to the war effort come to mind. The technique of landing. And then came the following comments, from a newspaper article and the 1945 Annual question of prediction. At what time would Report, offer a brief glimpse of those days. surf conditions be most favorable for a landing at this specific point? ~Soldiers who went ashore through surf in North Africa , Sicily, Answers to all these problems were the Normandy, and various Pacific islands had, as one of their protec ~ proper field of the oceanographer, and it !ions, painstaking hours of research and prediction which gave their was to research institutions such as the commanders foreknowledge of wave conditions on the beaches," said Oceanographic that the Navy turned when, an April 12, 1946 Falmouth Enterprise article entitled "How Woods early in the war, responsibility for amphibi­ Hole Sea Data Aided Assault Troops." ous landings was given to the admirals ... " "The Navy announces today that the Oceanographic Institution at The newspaper article goes on to Woods Hole was the source of some of the vital information upon discuss wave research at WHOI, develOJr which commanders of amphibious assaults based their schedules for ment of instruments for visual observations invasions. To those in charge of landing operations, some of the of wave characteristics, and weather most important questions concerned conditions of the water into forecasting. "Starting with much theory and which their troops would be landed. How strong was the surf? How some knowledge scientists had, during the high would waves be? How strong the tide? How deep or shallow course of the war, progressed from the painstaking trial and error of visual obser­ vation and conclusion to a mechanized system for recording and evaluating their work with waves," the Falmouth Enterprise article noted. wSurf forecasts made possible the initial landing of General Patton's Seventh Army at Sicily in 1943.
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