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Groundbreaking For New Ocean Science Project At UCSD

By Ed Joyce / Reporter

Published September 15, 2009 at 11:27 AM PDT

This story was published more than 15 years ago.

Groundbreaking Ceremony at UC San Diego for the new ocean science buildings. From left to right: Patrick Gallagher, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Standards and Testing; Tony Haymet, Director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography; Gary Locke, U.S. Secretary of Commerce; San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders and Margaret Spring, Chief of Staff for the NOAA.

Groundbreaking For New Ocean Science Project At UCSD

Ground has been broken on two new ocean science buildings on the UC San Diego campus. The project is expected to create more than 1,000 construction jobs.

The federal government is paying for most of the project with a grant and federal stimulus dollars. Construction is expected to start this year and finish in late 2011.

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One building will house the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Southwest Fisheries Science Center. Research in the building will include the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems and fisheries.

The second building is funded with a grant from another federal agency and by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke says the lab facility will be used for marine research.

"This investment will also create and support jobs and add to our storehouse of knowledge about both climate and our marine environment," Locke says.

Construction of the second lab is scheduled to start in early 2011 and be completed in late 2012.

Locke says the two facilities will help provide a healthy ocean legacy for future generations.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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