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Geophysical

Union, the

Acoustical Society of America and the

Marine Technology

Society, and a member of the

Maritime

Historical Society, the Society for

Industrial

Archeology, Sigma

Xi and Phi Beta

Kappa. During 1990-92 he was president of the

Ocean Sciences section of the

American Geophysical Union and chaired its Fellows Committee in 1994-96. He was also an active mem- ber of the Scholia Club of San Diego.

In 1965 he was awarded the

Franklin Institute's Wetherill Medal for his role in the development of

FLIP. He received the Marine

Technology Society's Distinguished

Achievement Award in 1971. He was presented the U.S. Navy's highest award for scientific achievement, the

Captain Robert Dexter Conrad

Award, in 1974 for "outstanding achievement in planning, conducting and administration of research and development."

In 1980 the American Association for the Advancement of Science awarded Spiess and his coauthors the

Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the outstanding paper published in

Science that year. In 1983 he received the Maurice Ewing medal from the

American Geophysical Union and the

U.S. Navy for outstanding contribu- tions to marine geophysics. In 1985 he was awarded the Acoustical

Society of America's Pioneers of

Underwater Acoustics medal and the

Lockheed Award for Ocean Science and Engineering from the Marine

Technology Society.

In 1985 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for significant breakthroughs in ocean engineering, including the development of FLIP, Deep Tow and precision benthic navigation. In 1990 he received the Navy Distinguished

Service Award for leadership in ocean technology. Most recently, he was awarded the 2006 Distinguished

Technical Achievement Award from the Oceanic Engineering Society of the Institute of Electrical and

Electronics Engineers "for six decades of advances in ocean engineering while developing sea-going research tools." His daughter Kathy Dallaire will accept the award on his behalf on

September 20.

Spiess served the University of

California Academic Senate both locally and UC-wide. At UC San

Diego, he was chair of the

Committee on

Planning and

Budget during 1986-88, the

Graduate

Council in 1983- 84, the

Committee on

Privilege and

Tenure in the 1970s and chair of the San Diego

Division in 1985- 86. He served as vice chair and chair of the UC-wide

Academic Council and Assembly in 1988-89 and 89-90, respectively, including acting as one of the two faculty representatives on the UC

Board of Regents during that period.

From 1998 to 2001 he chaired the

UC Academic Senate Task Force for the startup of UC's new campus at

Merced. His contributions in this arena were recognized in 2000 with the Oliver Johnson Award for out- standing service to the Academic

Senate. At Scripps he served on and chaired many committees, including

Scripps Staff Council (1962-64). He was a leader in the restoration of the historic Old Scripps Building, includ- ing serving on the Building

Restoration Committee (1976-87).

He was awarded the UC San Diego

Campus Ministry Award for academ- ic leadership in 1989.

In addition to his university and civic activities, he was the moderator of the Congregational Church of La

Jolla during 1984-85, and served for many years as the church's financial secretary. people & companies

Fred Spiess, David Chadwell, John Hildebrand.

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