YALE UNIVERSITY'S RESEARCH 



Nino (literally "the child"), which is the warm counter- 

 equatorial current coming from the north, had displaced the 

 normal pattern of the cold Humboldt Current. For the first 

 time since 1925 El Niiio had a real effect on climatic condi- 

 tions in northern Peru. The water was much warmer, and 

 there was a good deal of rain. These conditions existed for 

 about two months, changing for the better in the latter part 

 of April, with the climate reverting to normal by the middle 

 of May. It was a great scientific scoop for the expedition, for 

 never before has a scientific expedition of oceanographers 

 been present as this phenomenon of nature appeared. The 

 laboratory ship went south as far as Pisco Bay, Peru, and 

 picked up much data. Such things take a long while to pre- 

 pare, to put together. It will probably be two or three years 

 before we get all the results. As the author had the honor of 

 being at Cabo Blanco when the expedition was there, I can 

 assure you that some very interesting information besides 

 football, baseball and hockey scores is going to come out of 

 New Haven in the next two or three years. 



In the meantime, Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Anderson, Sr., 

 and their sons, Wendell, Jr., and John, were busy fishing and 

 were joined by other friends. They turned over to the scien- 

 tists many sailfish, striped marlin, a 648-pound black marlin 

 caught by Mrs. Jack Anderson, and a 792 -pound black taken 

 by Wendell Anderson, Sr., as well as many specimens of big- 

 eye tuna. Many roosterfish were caught, and Ed Migdalski 

 was kept very busy making molds to be shipped back to the 

 museum. 



When Yale's plans for exhibition come to fruition, in the 

 not too distant future we hope, we will see the Peabody Mu- 



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