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Walter Munk 1917-2019
La Jolla bracelet company partners with ‘The Bachelor’ SEE PAGE 7
With more than 100 life-sized mosaic images of local marine life, The Map will provide interactive, identificationbased learning opportunities for schoolchildren and visitors each year to Kellogg Park. DON BALCH / VILLAGE NEWS
Mayor proposes new regulations for electric scooters SEE PAGE 2
Palisade at Westfield UTC opening to residents this summer SEE PAGE 7
The Map project has stalled, more funds needed BY DAVE SCHWAB | LA JOLLA VILLAGE NEWS
It’s difficult to figure out whether the restoration of The Map project, a 2,400square-foot mosaic depicting La Jolla Shores marine life, is a monumental work of art, or a cutting-edge educational tool. Actually, it’s both. The original Map, completed in 2008, deteriorated and had to be replaced. Its replace-
ment is presently spread across the concrete floor inside a Scripps Institution of Oceanography building. The brainchild of famed, late centenarian Scripps oceanographer Walter Munk and his wife, Mary Coakley Munk, who represents nonprofit Friends of La Jolla Shores, creation of The LithoMosaic Map is nearing completion. Once funding is found, The Map is to be
returned to its previous location, the educational plaza at Kellogg Park near the playground and restrooms. But there’s a problem: More money is needed to complete the project. The Munks have donated $300,000 to the project, with $500,000 yet needed to fund its installation, which will include educational panels and landscaping. Friends of La Jolla Shores
and the Walter Munk Foundation for the Oceans are spearheading the project. The timetable for funding and replacing The Map in Kellogg Park has been pushed back now to sometime in September, following Munk’s death, at age 101, on Feb. 8. Of The Map, Julie Scarpella, project restoration SEE MAP PG. 8
Walter Munk, who gave the Allies a strategic edge in World War II, helped nurture a university into existence, and became a living synonym for oceanography, died Feb. 8 at his home in La Jolla. He was 101. As a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, Munk made groundbreaking observations of waves, ocean temperature, tidal energy in the deep ocean, ocean acoustics and the rotation of the earth. As an advocate of science and broader scholarship, Munk served as an advisor to presidents and the Pentagon and conferred with public figures including the Dalai Lama and Pope Francis. His convictions led him to refuse to sign a loyalty oath required by the University of California during the peak of SEE MUNK PG. 15