Space at Scripps Oceanography

• Reserving a Room
• Borrowing Audiovisual Equipment
• Reserving Surfside
• Furniture/Office Problems
• Pier Access
• Computer Labs
• Printers & Poster Printers (Plotters)
• Collections

Reserving a Room

Various rooms can be reserved for events and meetings at SIO, with different points of contact. The SIO Department oversees the following rooms:

• Eckart Fishbowl
• Eckart SeaCave
• Eckart Computer Lab Classroom 225
• Eckart Lecture Hall room 227
• Eckart Conference room 229
• Eckart Classroom 236
• Hubbs Hall room 3300
• Nierenberg Hall room 101
• Ritter Hall room 229
• Spiess Hall room 330
• Vaughan Hall room 100
• Vaughan Hall room 147
• Vaughan Hall room 300
• Vaughan Hall room 328
• Vaughan Hall room 348

To reserve, please check the room availability on this calendar first and then fill out the Room Reservations request form.

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Borrowing Audiovisual Equipment

The Department offers LCD projectors, GoPros, Macbooks, Mac VGA/HDMI adapters, and video cameras for check out. Please contact the Assistant Student Affairs Coordinator (858.534.3206) in the Eckart Building, 2nd floor reception area for availability and checkout.

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Reserving Surfside

Surfside is intended for the sole use of the Scripps graduate student community.

• To reserve, the primary contact must be a current Scripps graduate student.
• To reserve Surfside, please fill out this online form. You can check the space's availability on this calendar.
• If the space is available, current SIO graduate students can gain key card access to the southern door using their ID.
• Alcohol permits are required for all events where alcohol will be consumed.  Most events also now require that alcohol be served by a licensed professional bartender. Please review UCSD's alcohol policies before requesting a permit.  Alcohol permit requests must be submitted at least three weeks in advance of the event date; permits can be requested through this form.

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Furniture/Office Problems

Ph.D. students will be assigned office space and a key from the Section Heads of their Research Division. If appropriate, students can request office furniture by contacting the facilities contact for your research division.

If you are unsure of which research division that you belong to, please ask your advisor. If you are an incoming student and do not have an advisor, please contact the department office, Gilbert Bretado.

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Pier Access

To request key card access to the pier, graduate students can fill out this request form.
If volunteering (such as with SCOPE) or leading a tour as a TA, please contact the PI or outreach coordinator.

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Computer Labs

Graduate students can access the computer lab in the Eckart Building, on the second floor in room 220B Monday through Thursday 8 am - 7 pm and Fridays 8 am - 5 pm. The facility includes a Macintosh and a PC computer, printers, a scanner, and a plotter printer.

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Printers & Poster Printers (Plotters)

Graduate students can use a plotter located in the Eckart Building, second floor, room 220B. The plotter prints images 36 inches wide and up to 150 feet long on glossy paper.

Before printing, please visit the official website and set up a Laser Printing account to pay.

Please note that the process can be confusing and time consuming.  Please refer to this handy student-written guide.

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Collections

Special Collections at Scripps include:

• Benthic Invertebrates collection: More than 50,000 specimens that can be used to support graduate coursework or research. Contact Professor Greg Rouse.
• Cored Sediment and Microfossil collection: More than 6,600 sediment cores with a focus on cores from the Pacific Ocean. The Microfossil collection contains the raw samples, prepared microscope slides, and field notes from pioneering paleontologists. Contact Professor Dick Norris.
• Dredged Rocks collection: Over 3500 samples representing hot spots, island chains, seamounts, abyssal plains, coral reef rocks, icerafted debris, manganese nodules, and other rare rocks. Contact Professor Dick Norris.
• Fish and Invertebrates collection at Birch Aquarium: 57 display tanks, featuring approximately 3,000 fish from the Pacific Northwest; Southern California; Baja California, Mexico; and various locations in the South Pacific. Contact Fernando Nosratpour.
• Marine Vertebrate Collection: Approximately 2 million alcohol-preserved specimens, representing more than 5,500 species of fishes that are available for loan. Contact Professor Philip Hastings.
• Pelagic Invertebrate Collection The Scripps Pelagic Invertebrate Collection (PIC) is among the world's preeminent collections of marine zooplankton, including more than 137,000 whole zooplankton samples containing some 10⁸ specimens.  Contact Professor Mark Ohman.

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