Lives
Monday, 25 September
Fred N. Spiess, 86
Professions: Oceanographer and marine explorer who helped create an unusual floating laboratory that has yielded a bounty of information about underwater acoustics and sea currents; joined the Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps in 1952; director of the laboratory from 1958 to 1980; director of the Scripps Institution from 1964 to 1965; named a distinguished professor emeritus of oceanography in 1990; began his career as a naval submarine officer.
Degrees: Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; M.S. Harvard, 1946; B.A. UC Berkeley.
Passions: Interested in the geological formation of the seafloor, the effects of plate tectonics, and the phenomenon of eruptions of nodules of metals and volcanic material from the earth’s interior.
Death: September 8, 2006 in San Diego, CA.
From the [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/science/earth/25spiess.html New York Times].
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