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La Jolla museum to close for retrofit By DAVE SCHWAB
Twice a year the sunset lines up perfectly with the Scripps Pier in La Jolla. Local photographer Evgeny Yorobe captured the moment in May 2014. To see more of his landscape photography, visit www.sandiego-landscapes.com. PHOTO BY EVGENY YOROBE
100 years of science research at Scripps Pier By DAVE SCHWAB The pier at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography is marking its centennial in 2016. An important support facility for research and educational activities, Scripps Pier serves as a collection site for clean seawater, marine animals and atmospheric and oceanic data. It is also a launching site for small boats. “The Scripps Pier is an icon of San Diego but for
‘The Scripps Pier is an icon of San Diego but for we scientists, it’s also an icon of research.’ MARGARET LEINEN, DIRECTOR OF SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY
we scientists, it’s also an icon of research,” said Margaret Leinen, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “One of the world’s oldest ocean temperature measurement records originates at that pier. It’s a hub for the iconic carbon-dioxide
measurement program operated by our Keeling lab, and is the locale of everything from sampling of marine life to the mapping of surface currents using high-frequency radar.” Leinen added, “The pier, like the rest of our cam-
pus, owes its existence to the generosity of Ellen Browning Scripps. I have to think she’d be proud to see how vital it is a century later.” Since construction of the original pier in 1916, the Scripps Pier has been a prominent landmark on the La Jolla coastline. Since August 1916, the pier has been the site of daily seawater temperature and salinity measurements, the longest continSEE PIER, Page 2
ELLEN BROWNING SCRIPPS MEMORIAL PIER Old: Original Scripps Pier, built in 1915-1916, was a 1,000-foot-long facility for acquiring clean seawater for the campus laboratories and the public aquarium. Ellen Browning Scripps provided the money, $36,000, for its construction. It was demolished in 1988. New: The new Scripps Pier, built in 1987 at a cost of nearly $4 million, just south of the old wooden pier, is 1,084 feet long, 22 1/2feet wide and is 2,600 feet east of a 600-foot-deep submarine canyon. Research uses: 500 boat launch; by using the pier, scientists can bypass 95 percent of surf; NOAA wave sensors are mounted on bottom at the end of the pier; Plankton samples can be taken from end of the pier, etc.
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) La Jolla will close, likely for a couple of years, in January 2017 for an addition/retrofit quadrupling its current gallery space from 10,000 to about 40,000 square feet. “La Jolla is our flagship, and now we'll have room to house our permanent collection of more than 4,700 art objects,” said Kathryn Kanjo, the museum's deputy director of arts and programming and soon-to-be David C. Copley director/CEO. “This is really to create a building that matches the caliber of our collections, so people can return time and again and have this art history lesson unfold for them.” Annabelle Selldorf of New Yorkbased Selldorf Architects, has been engaged to lead the museum reconstruction project. Kanjo said the revamped museum will have enough space to have changing special exhibits, as well as a new art park in the current parking lot, and two new outdoor terraces to take advantage of the exquisite ocean views. Composed of both its oceanfront La Jolla campus and three downtown buildings on Kettner Boulevard, MCASD campuses have hosted several contemporary art exhibitions a year, plus other public events and educational programming. The La Jolla building also housSEE MUSEUM, Page 6