Another central area is the broadly defined climate activity that was spearheaded by Namias, Isaacs, Somerville, and their groups, as well as the Marine Life Research Group and the Ocean Research Division. Closely related is the CO2 research program, made famous by Keeling but strongly contributed to by many other meteorologists, oceanographers, and biologists in the institution. Craig has had only a peripheral connection with this research. During this period, there has been great innovation in shipboard computing and interfacing with sensors. The campus facilities have been constantly upgraded and are at the state of the art in marine science software. This includes the first academic Sea Beam installation, supported equally by the Office of Naval Research and private contributions. Craig was not involved in these developments either.
When UCSD started to function academically, Craig was a leader in an initiative to deactivate SIO as an academic institution and transfer ...
