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International Course in Ground‐water Hydrology (Barcelona)
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

An International Post‐Graduate Course in Ground‐Water Hydrology will be held in Barcelona, Spain, beginning January 14 and ending on June 26, 1970. The course will be held at the Advanced Technical School of Industrial Engineering. This series of courses was organized in response to the interest of water resources experts throughout the world in problems related to the exploration for and exploitation of ground water.
Hydrological Atlas of Canada
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Canadian National Committee for the International Hydrological Decade has published a set of preliminary maps and a two‐part graph concerned with major hydrological parameters for the Canadian mainland and islands. The four maps and the graph have been compiled as part of the Hydrological Atlas of Canada.

The maps are entitled: Mean Annual Runoff (in inches); Mean Distribution of Runoff; Mean Flow; Selected Streamflow Gauging Stations. The graph is entitled, Duration Curves of Monthly Flow for Selected Streamflow Gauging Stations, sheets 1 and 2.
Report indicates critical need for large radio astronomy facilities
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation has emphasized the critical need for new, large radio astronomy facilities to maintain the impetus of the U.S. effort in radio astronomy. This report was submitted to the Foundation by the ad hoc Advisory Panel for Large Radio Astronomy Facilities (the Dicke Panel). In the two years that have passed since the first meeting of the panel, new discoveries such as pulsars and the existence of then unsuspected interstellar molecules have been made in radio astronomy. The continued design studies for new facilities previously recommended by the panel have been substantially advanced, and the panel strongly urges that the Arecibo telescope be resurfaced to be useful at shorter wavelengths, and that the Owens Valley Array be constructed.
New product
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Atlantic Oceanographic Laboratory's Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada, has announced the development of a new oceanographic tool. The rock‐core drill, developed over a four‐year period by John Brooke of AOL's mechanical design group, is operated by the department's Marine Sciences Branch; AOL is part of the Bedford Institute at Dartmouth, N. S. Completely automatic, the drill is powered by the pressure of the ocean itself. A timing mechanism opens a valve allowing seawater to flow through a hydraulic power unit into a low‐pressure reservoir. Another mechanism regulates the drill pressure on the rock face.
The support of science: The President's Page
Authors: Landsberg Helmut E.
Published: October 2011

Recently much has been said and written about the problem of financing science in the United States. Over the past quarter century this financing has become a major domain of the federal government. Since the end of World War II not only mission‐oriented research but also basic research has been supported. Almost every government agency has taken part in this development, but in recent years the National Science Foundation has been the principal sponsor of the more fundamental aspects of science. One important segment of this support has been graduate education, to maintain and increase the flow of new scientific talent into our society. The growth rate of financial support has been fairly large, and the question has been raised of whether this increase has not been out of proportion to the general growth of the country in terms of economy and population. Many of us have become accustomed to fairly substantial and occasionally lavish support of research activities. The recent deceleration in the flow of federal funds has been alarming. Instead of increments there have been decreases, and not even the inflationary trend has been covered.
Symposium on volcanoes and their roots
Authors: Decker R. W.
Published: October 2011

The Department of Geology at Oxford, England, was the excellent host to the Symposium on Volcanoes and Their Roots held on September 7–13, 1969. One hundred and twenty‐four papers were presented in sections on Plutonic Nodules, Diamond Pipes, Calderas, Age and Isotope Studies, Tectonic and Structural Controls, Prediction of Volcanic Activity, General Geophysical Aspects, and General Papers. Well over 300 delegates and students attended the meetings.
Symposium on rock mechanics
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Twelfth Symposium on Rock Mechanics will be held at the University of Missouri at Rolla on November 16–18, 1970. The general theme of the meeting is Dynamic Rock Mechanics, and subjects for papers include various methods of rock disintegration, properties and methods of measuring dynamic rock, stress waves and stress fields in real rock materials, and applications of dynamic rock mechanics in drilling, blasting, boring, and hypervelocity impact. Final papers must be submitted by July 15, 1970.
Space pictures help oceanographers
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Pictures from space, such as this one showing the sun's reflection on the waters around several Indian Ocean islands, are becoming increasingly useful to marine scientists. The U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office believes such pictures reveal complex ocean surface phenomena which are impossible to view by ordinary means. Close study of the photograph has helped oceanographers to discern water mass movements, including currents and waves.
Satellite data help in preparation of weather maps
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The U.S. weather bureau reports the temperature measurements obtained from experimental satellite soundings have proved so valuable that they are being used to prepare the basic maps of northern hemisphere weather. The soundings are made by a device called SIRS, Satellite Infrarad Spectrometer, which is one of the instruments aboard the Nimbus 3 launched April 14, 1969. Beginning on October 21 SIRS soundings were incorporated in the three major analyses of northern hemisphere weather prepared daily at the ESSA National Meteorological Center.

SIRS is a 91‐pound instrument that measures the infrared energy radiated by the atmosphere at 7 wavelengths in the 15‐micron absorption band of carbon dioxide.
Summer Institute in Systems Hydrology
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A Summer Institute in Systems Hydrology for undergraduate college teachers of hydrology, engineering, agriculture, geology, or soil science will be conducted at the University of Arizona June 15–August 7, 1970, with the support of the National Science Foundation. Courses to be presented include systems modeling in Hydrology, operations research in water resource systems, and computer‐aided experimentation in probabilistic and deterministic modeling of hydrologic and water resource systems. Further information and application forms may be obtained from Chester C. Kisiel, Hydrology and Water Resources Office, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85701.
National Industrial Solid‐Wastes Management Conference
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The University of Houston will host the National Industrial Solid‐Wastes Managelnent Conference on March 24–26, 1970. This conference is co‐sponsored by the university and the Environnlental Control Administration of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The program will consist of technical papers on organic and mineral industrial wastes characterizations and collection, handling, processing, conversion or utilization; by‐product production processes from wastes; secondary material processes; and economics and resource recovery techniques from urban and industrial solid wastes. Abstracts for technical papers will be welcome.
Book Reviews
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The hydrology and climatology of La Plata River Basin in South America are shown on 17 maps in a report recently issued by the Organization of American States. The maps, accompanied by a 272‐page text, form one of the most complete coordinated summaries of hydrological and climatological data for any of the major river basins of the world.

La Plata River basin has an area of about 3,100,000 km2 (1,220,000 sq mi, or slightly less than the whole Mississippi River basin) and comprises parts of 5 countries—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The principal stream course, that of the Paranaiba‐Parana Rivers, is about 4000 Km. (2500 mi.) long, and extends from the Brazilian Plateau near Brazilia, the capital of Brazil, to Buenos Aires, in Argentina. Principal tributaries include the Paraguay, Pilcomayo, and Uruguay rivers.
American Geophysical Union, National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council: Statutes and Bylaws
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The American Geophysical Union is hereby established by the National Research Council. The Council of the American Geophysical Union is the United States National Committee of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.
International Symposium on Land Subsidence
Authors: Johnson Arnold I.
Published: October 2011

Approximately 150 engineers and scientists from 15 countries attended the International Symposium on Land Subsidence held at Tokyo, Japan, from September 17 through 24, 1969. The symposium was sponsored by Unesco, the International Association of Scientific Hydrology (IASH), the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ISSMFE), the Science Council of Japan, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and the Japanese National Commission for Unesco. The symposium was organized within the framework of the International Hydrological Decade (IHD). All papers sessions were held at the conference center of the Akasaka Prince Hotel in Tokyo.
New oceanographic facilities
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Regents of the University of California have approved a proposal by Scripps Institution of Oceanography calling for construction of an $18.6 million experimental inshore oceanographic facility.

The Regents in their approval stipulated that non‐state funds would have to be used for both the building and the operation of the facility. Although no funds are presently available to the project, there appears to be a strong probability of future federal funding. It is proposed that the new facilities will extend a half mile into the Pacific off the Scripps Campus in La Jolla as a manmade island. The design provides for on‐scene laboratories for special work in biology, physics, and geology; fish storage tanks at appropriate levels; and a harbor for small to medium sized research vessels. A study has indicated that the facility would serve as a tie uniting the advantages of deep water close to shore a major university with a faculty whose function includes both teaching and research, a medical school that is rapidly developing but is still flexible, and an oceanographic institution that operates land and floating facilities, which, combined with the proposed island, would make possible the strongest conceivable interdisciplinary research program. It is anticipated that this combination will make it possible to undertake a broad basic program on problems on man and the sea, not only of how to get him there and back but how to enable him to work effectively and for a long time anywhere on the continental shelf or slope.
Institute of marine sciences re‐named
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The University of Miami's Institute of Marine Sciences has changed its name to the Dorothy H. and Lewis Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences in recognition of an endowment provided to the University by the Rosentiel Foundation.
New journal for oceanographers
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The American Meteorological Society has announced the publication of a new journal, Journal of Physical Oceanography. It will be a quarterly, under the editorship of Robert O. Reid, and it is anticipated that the subject matter of the journal will include observational and theoretical aspects of such topics as ocean circulation, surface waves, internal waves, inertial oscillations, oceanic turbulence, turbulent mixing, thermo‐chemical properties of sea water, interpretive regional studies, tracer techniques and application, non‐linear coupling of modes of motion, vertical convection processes, and oceanic tides and other long wave phenomena. The departments of the journal will be Articles and Notes or Correspondence.
Under‐ice petroleum exploration
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A new concept in under‐ice petroleum exploration has been described by Marine Resources, Inc., called UNITOW. The system consists of a vehicle oneand‐one‐half feet wide by 12 feet long that will be submerged through a 24‐inch hole drilled in the ice pack. The vehicle will tow a cable up to one mile to a second, predetermined hole, A series of hydrophones on a following cable will be pulled between the two holes. These will be used as the detectors with conventional seismic sources. The vehicle is battery‐operated and steered by a combination of gyro and acoustic homing signals.
A theory of magnetic storms and of the aurorae
Authors: Alfvén Hannes
Published: October 2011

The correlation of the magnetic storms and aurorae with the solar activity indicates that they are due to some agent emitted from the sun. As this agent causes magnetic and electric disturbances on the earth, it probably consists of charged particles. But, as Schuster1 has shown, the emission of a sufficient amount of particles, all having the same sign, is impossible because it would give rise to an enormous space charge. This difficulty is avoided if the emitted agent is assumed to consist of the equal amount of positive and negative particles.
Electromagnetic science series
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The ESSA/CU series of short summer courses in electromagnetic science will again be offered in two sections from July 27 through August 8, 1970.

Sponsored by the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) of the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) and the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Colorado, the classes are another in the continuing series of tutorial and specialized courses dating back to the radio propagation courses offered by the former Central Radio Propagation Laboratory.
National Fall Meeting 1969
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The meeting was held at the Jack Tar Hotel in San Francisco, December 15–18, 1969. AGU's second western exhibition was held concurrently. The exhibits included: The Combined Book Exhibit, Inc.; General Electric Co.; Soiltest, Inc.; Spatial Data Systems, Inc.; TRW Systems Group; California Division of Mines and Geology; Environmental Science Services Administration; Naval Undersea Research and Development Center; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; U.S. Geological Survey; and the Lunar Module.

Just under 1000 registrants participated in what was felt to have been a very successful meeting. The complete program with abstracts was published in the November 1969 issue of EOS on pages 601–700.
International Symposium on Electromagnetic Distance Measurement and Atmospheric Refraction
Authors: Janes H. B.
Published: October 2011

An International Symposium on Electromagnetic Distance Measurement (EDM) and Atmospheric Refraction was held at Boulder, Colorado, June 23–27, 1969. The symposium was arranged by Special Study Groups 19 and 23 of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) and was sponsored jointly by the American Geophysical Union and the Environmental Science Services Administration. The ESSA Research Laboratories served as hosts.

In the opening address, A. Marussi of the University of Trieste, President of the IAG , expressed the theme of the symposium in the following way: ‘In 1959 the first EDM Symposium was held in Washington. The discussions were helpful to change the mental attitude of geodesists; in fact, it completely revolutionized their way of thinking. It helped us over the step from two‐dimensional to three‐dimensional geodesy, especially with the launching of the first earth satellite in 1957.’
The President's Page: Conversion of physicists
Authors: Landsberg Helmut E.
Published: October 2011

The time may well be here when academic Physics will again take an interested look at its offspring, Geophysics. This will not be an entirely voluntary action in some quarters but will come about because of the decline in funding for certain aspects of modern physics and because of the tightening job market for physicists. There is little doubt that any broadly educated physicist will be able to find a suitable niche in the wide realms of geophysics.

Only a few decades ago there was continuous interaction between physics and geophysics on a broad front. The pages of history of both sciences are studded with the same names for over a century. It was the age when scientists moved easily between the laboratory, the real world, and theory. This was natural for Gauss, Lord Kelvin, Lord Rayleigh, Helmholtz and others. In atmospheric physics, especially relating to the high levels of the atmosphere, the connection never ruptured. The aurora, the ionosphere, the interplanetary medium, remain the happy tumbling place for natureminded physicists. We may recall here that the exploration of atmospheric electric phenomena led to at least one Nobel Prize in Physics, through the discovery of cosmic rays
International Tsunami Symposium
Authors: Zetler Bernard D. , Adams Wm. Mansfield
Published: October 2011

The International Symposium on Tsunamis and Tsunami Research was held in Honolulu, Hawaii, October 7–10, 1969. Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, USSR, and the United States sent representatives.

There were three seminars: (1) Seismic Source and Energy Transfer, convened by S. Soloviev; (2) Tsunami Instrumentation, convened by Vitousek; and (3) Tsunami Propagation of Runup, convened by K. Kajiura.
Proposed hot oil pipeline
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Department of the Interior has released a report by the U.S. Geological Survey analyzing the potential effects of a proposed hot oil pipeline buried in Alaska's permafrost. Arthur H. Lachenbruch, author of the report, indicates that it is concerned with identifying potential problems before they occur, and that if the pipeline is properly designed, constructed, and maintained in compliance with the design, these problems will not occur. The proposed pipeline would be constructed from Alaska's North Slope petroleum fields south to the ice‐free port of Valdez, a distance of approximately 800 miles. Some conclusions are given below.
New NSF programs
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation has outlined two new programs, the International Decade of Ocean Exploration and The Arctic Research Program, for which it will have lead agency responsibilities. Plans were revealed by T. O. Jones, Acting Deputy Assistant Director for national and international programs, in testimony presented to the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Development, Committee on Science and Astronautics, House of Representatives. NSF is requesting $15 million for IDOE and $2 million for the Arctic Research Program in fiscal year 1971.

Jones pointed out that the goals of IDOE are directed toward practical problems that affect man, and that the first year's efforts will be concentrated factors that will help man predict modifications in the oceans, whether caused by nature or by man himself; (2) Investigation of specific oceanic areas with special attention to food chains and pollutants; (3) Studies of selected areas of the ocean bottom to facilitate location of natural resources and to improve our knowledge of the sea floor.
Symposium on man‐made lakes
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

An International Symposium on Man‐Made Lakes, Their Problems and Environmental Effects, is being organized by the Scientific Committee on Water Research (COWAR). This conference is to be held in Knoxville, Tennessee, from May 3 through 7, 1971. Topics will include An International Symposium on Man‐Made Lakes, Their Problems and Environmental Effects, is being organized by the Scientific Committee on Water Research (COWAR). This conference is to be held in Knoxville, Tennessee, from May 3 through 7, 1971. Topics will include water temperature and chemical quality; aquatic ecosystems, including eutrophication, aquatic weeds, and fishery biology; siltation, including amounts, control and removal; effects upon adjoining terrestrial ecosystems; seepage; microclimate and evaporation; fishery development; resettlement and marginal agriculture; public health effects, including water vectors, insects, and water quality; seismic problems; and recreation and transportation effects. This will be a broad interdisciplinary symposium for which individual papers are invited.
Education in Forest Hydrology in the United States
Authors: Sopper William E.
Published: October 2011

The first survey of formal instruction in forest hydrology, forest watershed management, and forest influences was made in 1953 by Dils [1954]. This survey was updated in April 1956 and published as part of the Society of American Foresters, Division of Watershed Management committee report on the training of men in forest hydrology and watershed management [ Wilm et al., 1957]. It appeared again in 1960 in a report by Dils on the status of educational programs in watershed management [ Dils, 1960]. As of 1960 Dils reported that 18 of the 28 accredited forestry schools and 2 of the non‐accredited forestry schools offered one or more professional courses dealing with watershed management under a variety of titles, including water resource management, watershed analysis, forest influences, and forest hydrology.
Canadian report
Authors: MacDowall J.
Published: October 2011

The Canada Centre for Inland Waters (COW) at Burlington, Ontario, one of the principal Canadian agencies involved in the Field Year, has compiled a summary of activities and resources which it is prepared to commit to IFYGL core programs. The Inland Waters Branch has recently redefined its priorities in the light of national needs in Canada. Water quality problems have been given highest priority and water quantity problems, including ice, waves, etc., have been made third priority. In our view, much of the IFYGL circulation, water movement, and energy budget programs will make direct contributions to understanding of diffusion and assimilation of waste inputs, including heated inputs, to Lake Ontario, and thus falls into the highest priority category. The following statement of our willingness and ability to support various IFYGL projects is in line with this interpretation of these priorities.
U.S./IHD Contributions
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Chow, Ven Te, and Dale D. Meredith, Water Resources Systems Analysis; Part 1, Annotated Bibliography on Stochastic Processes; Part 2, Annotated Bibliography on Programming Techniques; Part 3, Review of Stochastic Processes; Part 4, Review of Programming Techniques: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801: July, 1969.

Simpson, Eugene S., Contributions on the Status of Arid Lands Research: Ground Water in Australia; U.S. Army Natick Laboratories, Natick, Massachusetts; 22 pp., 1 map, bibliography; August, 1969.
Notes and commentary
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Proceedings from the Symposium on Floods and Their Computation, held in Leningrad in August 1967 have been published and are now available for $28.00 from the Secretary of the International Association of Scientific Hydrology.

The Symposium was organized by Unesco, WMO and the Government of the Soviet Union with the cooperation of IASH. The Proceedings, published in two volumes, contain a total of 109 papers organized into three sections: ‘General Problems: Theory of Rainfall‐Flood Formation and Methods of Flood Computation,’ ‘Theory of Formation and Methods of Computation of Snowmelt Floods,’ and ‘Influence of Basin Characteristics on the Elements of Flood Hydrographs.’
Graduate education troubles
Authors: McCormac Billy M.
Published: October 2011

Currently there is much discussion about the state of health of graduate education. There are many complaints that universities are suffering serious consequences as a result of federal fund reductions.

This article addresses the university administration and faculty approach to graduate education and the federal funding policy for universities. It also contends that some areas of graduate education are in serious trouble. The rapid reduction in federal funds may overshoot and injure education before it recovers to the proper level. There is an appropriate minimum. Enhanced university graduate education is possible in spite of a reduction in federal funds. A considerable amount of federal funds being given to universities is inappropriate and should be eliminated. The crucial problem is to ensure that available funds are properly utilized. Current university administrative and faculty policies are often injuring those elements that they claim to assist. It does not seem that the academic community is making much real self‐appraisal of the status of graduate education.
A shift in temperature
Authors: Dolezalek Hans
Published: October 2011

On August 9, 1968, the President signed the Metric Systems Study Bill, PL 90‐472, and investigations are now being conducted under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce.

If it should be decided that sometime we shall shift from the Fahrenheit temperature scale to a metric one, it must also be decided whether the Celsius or the Kelvin scale is to be used. In European countries, this is a difficult problem since the population is so well accustomed to the freezing temperature being zero and boiling temperature being 100. In this country, we are in a more favorable situation: freezing and boiling temperatures have odd numbers in the Fahrenheit system anyhow; and to change from 32 to 273, and from 212 to 372 seems to be less difficult. Thus, why not skip the intermediate step of going from Fahrenheit to Celsius? We could go all the way from Fahrenheit to Kelvin. The reaction of the concerned community to this suggestion might prove interesting.
IFYGL
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The complexity of interrelationships of physical, chemical, and biological aspects of the Great Lakes and the use of their waters was exemplified by papers given at the Thirteenth Conference on Great Lakes Research held March 31 through April 3, 1970 in Buffalo, New York.

This conference, sponsored by the International Association for Great Lakes Research, included roughly 200 papers on approximately 25 different subjects at 40 sessions during the 4 days. Often as many as 5 sessions were going on at the same time. In addition, there was a symposium on the International Field Year for the Great Lakes.
U.S./IHD contributions
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Gardner, Wiiford R., Neutron meter use in soil‐moisture measurements, a report of a survey conducted by the U.S. Work Group on Nuclear Techniques in Unsaturated and Saturated Zones; Isotopes and radiation technology, Vol. 7, No. 3, 297–;305, 1970.

Veatch, Fred M., Analysis of a 24‐Year Photographic Record of Nisqually Glacier, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, U. S. Geol Surv. Prof. Pap. 631, 1 map, 52 pp.; 1969.
Walter H. Bucher Medal to David T. Griggs
Authors: Knopoff Leon , Griggs David T.
Published: October 2011

David Griggs was a student of physics at Ohio State University when his participation in an expedition, led by his father, to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes exposed him to the notion that the earth itself is a glorious laboratory for the study of physics. This seed was cultivated by Spieker and Bucher, and Griggs went to Harvard to study with Bridgman in order to apply the latter's techniques to the determination of the properties of geologic materials. The focus of his work in the years since has been principally on the nature of creep and flow in rocks.

In 1939 Griggs published a singular paper on mountain building that showed him to be one of the first to recognize the pertinence of models of convection in the mantle to the problems of deformation of the upper parts of the earth. His model involved mantlewide convection, which may not be pertinent in the light of recent developments. Nevertheless, Griggs, with considerable foresight, saw the importance of determining the state of motion of the earth's interior as a clue to the determination of the state of irregularity of its surface. The modern notions of plate tectonics have been a happy return to the ideas of David Griggs.
Conversion of physicists
Authors: Lanzerotti L. J.
Published: October 2011

President Landsberg 's editorial ‘Conversion of Physicists’ (May EOS) is, as he notes, very timely in several respects. Perhaps the closest relationship between physicists and geophysicists in the AGU exists at present in the Section of Solar‐Planetary Relationships. Indeed, personnel conducting planetary and space research in many physics departments in the United States regularly participate in AGU meetings and publish in the Journal of Geophysical Research. The recent (April 1970) establishment of a Division of Cosmic Physics in the American Physical Society at first appeared to be a likely vehicle for establishing closer relationships between physicists and geophysicists in the areas of cosmic rays and planetary physics.
Origin of the Moon by capture and its consequences
Authors: Singer S. Fred
Published: October 2011

I am going to discuss four topics, ranging from celestial mechanics to speculative propositions regarding the early history of the solar system: (1) A new calculation of the orbit evolution of the moon that suggests the capture of the moon as a separate body in tidal interactions with the earth; (2) The consequences of this capture on the earth itself and on its early history; (3) The consequences of the capture on the moon, its thermal history, and its surface features; and (4) Some consequences to the early history of the solar system: the existence of many moon‐like bodies in the inner part of the solar system; the angular momentum of Venus; the origin of Phobos and Deimos.

Of the many proposed modes of origin of the moon, some violate physical laws; many are in conflict with observations; all are improbable. Perhaps the least improbable—based on new tidal theory calculations and on the interpretation of lunar surface material data—is capture of the moon as it passed near the earth in a direct (prograde) orbit, shortly after the formation of moon and earth, about 4.5 billion years ago. (Capture of the moon from an initially retrograde orbit that had been proposed some years ago, leads to physically unacceptable consequences.) The effects of capture on the earth would have been cataclysmic, leading to intensive heating of its interior, to volcanism, and to the immediate formation of an atmosphere and hydrosphere. Thus capture of a moon may have given rise to the unique properties of the earth (in the solar system) and to the early evolution of life, about 3.5 billion years ago.
NSF awards five Sea Grants
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A National Science Foundation grant of $385,600 to the University of Southern California will make possible the beginning of a major Sea Grant activity in that state.

Four institutions that have already demonstrated capability to serve their region and the nation as major resources in marine affairs are also receiving renewal grants. They are: Oregon State University, which will receive $1.4 million, the University of Rhode Island, which was granted $.9 million, the University of Michigan, receiving $.72 million, and the University of Miami, which was allotted $.75 million.
UARL changes name and location
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Upper Air Research Laboratory at the University of Utah is announcing a change in name and location. As of July 1, most of the research programs formerly conducted by UARL will be assumed by Space Science Laboratory (SSL) in the Center for Research in Aeronomy, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Space Science Laboratory will be composed primarily of personnel who have been employed by UARL. The laboratory will still be under the direction of Kay D. Baker.
New graduate study program at LSU
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Louisiana State University has instituted a new graduate study program leading to the degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Marine Sciences.

Development of interdisciplinary studies leading to the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in marine sciences has been part of LSU's over‐all participation in the federal government's National Sea Grant College and Program Act, administered by the National Science Foundation. Designated as a ‘Coherent Project Grant,’ the Sea Grant Program is awarded by the NSF to institutions that are developing a broadly‐based program in the marine coastal sciences.
Peruvian earthquake preliminary investigation
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The ESSA Coast and Geodetic Survey has issued a report on a preliminary field investigation of the May 31 Peruvian earthquake. In terms of lives lost it was the most disastrous in Latin American history and perhaps in the history of the western hemisphere. At least 50,000 persons died as a result of building collapse and a giant avalanche of ice and mud. The report was prepared by S. T. Algermissen of the ESSA Coast and Geodetic Survey Geophysics Research Group, who was one of the first scientists to reach the more remote regions affected by the earthquake.
IHD Coordinating Council Sixth Session Geneva, Switzerland July 6”11, 1970
Authors: Heindl L. A.
Published: October 2011

The Coordinating Council of the International Hydrological Decade, at its Sixth Session, accomplished its three main objectives. These were: 1. To strengthen its executive committee, the Bureau; 2. To reorganize its Working Groups and other task forces and to redefine their terms of reference; and 3. To establish a Working Group to prepare a long‐term plan of activities in international hydrology after the Decade is over.

The Council met in Geneva, Switzerland, on July 6–11, 1970, at the invitation of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which has its headquarters in that city. This is the first time that the Council has met outside of Paris, and this move was a recognition of the role of international agencies in the activities of the Decade and, in particular, the role of the WMO. The meeting was held in the new WMO building, in its spacious and comfortable Executive Chamber.
Books
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Australian Water Resources Council Hydrological Series No. 2. Canberra, 1969

This progress report by the Australian Water Resources Council outlines a very comprehensive and methodological approach to the selection, operation, and projected benefits of an expanded network of representative basins. The systematic steps in the development of the concept could well arouse envy in those who, by necessity, are faced with a fragmented approach.
Foreign reports available on loan
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The office of the U.S. National Committee for the IHD has limited numbers of the following reports available for short‐term loan. Libraries of university departments of hydrology and similar institutions will be given preference in filling requests.

Copies of all issues of the IHD Bulletin are available on loan from the IHD office. Reprints of recent issues are available for distribution until the supply is exhausted.
Expanding the membership
Authors: Bell Peter M.
Published: October 2011

In fulfilling its mission as a scientific society, the AGU serves scientists, engineers, and individuals with a multitude of occupations oriented toward geophysics. A broad diversity of interests is expressed in the membership, reflecting the many scientific programs encompassed by the AGU.

AGU membership has grown to over 10,000, and it becomes increasingly important to guard against an unwieldy or unmanageable structure that might tend to dilute the high intellectual structural standards of the society. Members who are scientists in the many areas of geophysics and who are actively conducting research contribute in a major way to the purpose of the AGU, and therefore their needs should be served. It is also acknowledged that the interests of geophysical science are furthered if scholarly participation can be encouraged by people whose work and occupations are only marginally associated with geophysics.
The Geodynamics Project
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Some programs developed during the Upper Mantle Project, e.g., the studies of continental margins and island arcs, world rift system, and Andean geophysical program, were long‐term efforts that would certainly extend beyond the termination of the UMP. This was explicitly stated by J.M. Harrison, then President of ICSU, in his 1966 announcement of the designation of 1968–1970 as the terminal phase of the UMP.

In 1968 various countries recognized the need to begin planning of a long‐range effort to follow the UMP and to capitalize on the important developments that were being called a ‘revolution in earth sciences.’ A recommendation to this effect was made in April 1968 by AGU and the Geophysics Research Board (See June 1968 Transactions, pp.448 and 502). Later in 1968, with the approval of ICSU, IUGG and IUGS formed an ad hoc committee to consider plans for a long‐range program of solid‐earth studies. On the basis of the recommendations of the ad hoc committee (See February 1970 EOS), ICSU established the Inter‐Union Commission on Geodynamics to plan and coordinate the Geodynamics Project. The Geodynamics Commission held its first meeting in Flagstaff, Arizona, in June 1970. The commission prepared the following statement of objectives of the Geodynamics Project which was approved by the ICSU General Assembly, September 1970.
U.S. Team mapping last of Antarctica's unexplored regions
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

One of the most remote coastal regions in Antarctica is now being mapped and its geology described by a team of U.S. Geological Survey engineers and scientists.

The first season's exploration of a planned 3‐year project was conducted during the 3‐month period from November 1969 to February 1970 along the Lassiter Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula—that narrow finger of land jutting northward toward South America. The area explored included the Latady, Scaife, Wilkins, and Hauberg mountains, the Rare range, and parts of Wetmore glacier, an area that totals more than 6000 square miles. Aerial photographs taken of this region in 1967 were used to compile a sketch map that served as a guide to the explorers.
U.S.”Japan Cooperative Ice Study
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Ocean‐Atmosphere Research Institute, on recommendation of the United States‐Japan Committee on Scientific Cooperation has received a grant from the National Science Foundation in partial support of a study of large‐scale sea‐ice, sea temperature, and weather interrelations, and their significance for long‐range foreshadowing.

A team of Japanese oceanographers and meteorologists headed by Kantaro Watanabe, Chief, Oceanographic Section, Kobe Marine Observatory, will cooperate with an American group headed by Irving I. Schell, Senior Scientist, Ocean‐Atmosphere Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Moscow geochemical congress
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

An International Geochemical Congress has been scheduled for July 20–25, 1971, in Moscow, USSR. It will be sponsored by the International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry and the USSR Academy of Sciences.

The theme of the meeting is the geochemistry of processes in the earth's crust, with particular reference to their physico‐chemical aspects. The congress will be organized into sections on magmatic, hydrothermal, metamorphic, and sedimentary processes.
CIRES Visiting Fellowship Program
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) on the University of Colorado campus is intended to promote research and teaching in solid‐earth geophysics, oceanography , radio propagation, the physics of the upper and lower atmospheres, and solar terrestrial relationships, and to serve as a center for multidisciplinary collaboration of research workers from Boulder and the entire world.

The permanent Fellows of CIRES are J.C. Harrison, G.C. Reid, J.R. Wait, and J.W. Warwick.
Interdisciplinary Program in Engineering Meteorology
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A Bachelor of Science degree program in general engineering, with strong curriculum support in atmospheric sciences, has been developed at the University of Oregon by John Campbell, Head of General Engineering, and Wendell Hewson, Chairman of Atmospheric Sciences. Campbell and Hewson feel that interdisciplinary curricula are a logical, approach to making university students knowledgeable in the areas of today's crucial problems. This program in engineering meteorology is designed to help prepare students to cope with problems of air pollution in our technological society.

The engineering curriculum coordinates the physical and mathematical science background, the social sciences, the engineering sciences, and the senior analysis and design program. The Department of Atmospheric Sciences provides courses and counseling for the meteorological part of the program, which amounts to approximately 20% of the 204 quarter‐hour graduation requirement. This is one of the more promising of a number of interdisciplinary options offered in the General Engineering program.
NSF Grant for Ecological Studies
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to several research groups to conduct a study on the ecology of a major part of the United States. The study is aimed at bringing about better understanding of the interrelationships among air, water, and land resources.

The $1.2 million grant, to be administered by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the Atomic Energy Commission, will be divided among research groups at the University of Georgia, Athens; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; the Research Triangle Group (composed of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and North Carolina State University, Raleigh); and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Investigators from many other institutions will also participate.
Water pollution control
Authors: Kostecki Donald F.
Published: October 2011

I am writing in reference to an article by Leonard B. Dworsky in the August issue of EOS dealing with what the author feels are the necessary steps toward an effective and credible program of water pollution control.

That public expectations need to be adjusted to real world solutions can hardly be denied. The general public is all too often led to believe that there is an instant solution to every problem, and many self‐appointed ‘experts’ have led the public to believe that this is also true of pollution. But even among those who realize effective pollution control requires a dedicated, continuous effort, there is room for disagreement as to the means of achieving effective control. For example, Dworsky prefaces most of what he feels are necessary actions with the phrase, ‘Congress should … ’. This preface leaves me with many reservations about both the effectiveness of the measures that need to be taken and their credibility.
Mexican and American scientists to study sea‐floor motions in Gulf of California
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Mexican and American scientists will monitor ground motion under the Gulf of California in a project aimed at learning more about sea‐floor spreading and how such movements may affect California's great San Andreas Fault.

The principal investigators are Cinna Lomnitz and Frederico Mooser (University of Mexico), Clarence R. Allen (California Institute of Technology), and James N. Brune (University of California, San Diego). They and other researchers will establish an 8‐station seismological network around the gulf with funds from the National Science Foundation.
IAESTE/U.S. expands training program
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience provides students of engineering, architecture, agriculture, and the sciences with on‐the‐job practical training in other countries. Through its reciprocal exchange mechanism, the IAESTE program has placed over 135,000 students among its 43 member countries since its founding in Europe in 1948. Within the broad definition of the program's operation, over 175 fields of study and specialization are now included. Students in the program range from those having completed their sophomore year to students enrolled for study at a 4‐year, degree‐granting school.
The President's Page: AGU and oceanography (guest editorial)
Authors: Maxwell Arthur E.
Published: October 2011

The President of the Union has been kind enough to invite the Section Presidents to use this page of EOS to present his ideas on how the Union can continue to serve the membership effectively‐particularly from each Section's viewpoint. As President of the Section of Oceanography, I am pleased to respond to the invitation. Oceanography, perhaps more so than other sections has some ideas that I feel need discussion in a forum such as this in order to provide feedback from the broad membership of AGU. Some of the ideas I will discuss have been around for some time, others are more recent and result from changes taking place in the world around us.
Editing JGR—Space Physics
Authors: Dessler A. J.
Published: October 2011

Two years have passed since my responsibilities for editing the space physics section of the Journal of Geophysical Research were handed on to an able successor. During this period, my feeling that the membership of the American Geophysical Union wishes to know more regarding the editing of their journals has been reinforced. The various journals of the American Geophysical Union, along with the meetings it sponsors, provide the chief justification for the AGU's existence as a scientific organization. Because its journals are central to many aspects of the scientific endeavors of the AGU and its individual members, interest in the functions and responsibilities of the editors is wide and natural. It was therefore surprising to me to find that these functions and responsibilities are, to a large extent, poorly understood, perhaps, only for the simple reason that editors write little about the details of their editorial philosophy and their job.
Air and space studies planned for southwest
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

An area in Arizona, extending from the Mexican border to Prescott, and from the New Mexico State line westward to the Yuma County line, has been selected as a special target for ecological studies based on remote sensor data from high‐altitude aircraft and earth‐orbiting satellites. Designated as ARETS (Arizona Regional Ecological Test Site), the project will be directed by University of Arizona, Office of Arid Land Studies, under contract to the U.S. Geological Survey, and in cooperation with NASA. Participation includes other federal, state, and local agencies having environmental interests in the region. Highlight targets for study will be the Phoenix‐Tucson metropolitan areas.
International Symposium on Man‐Made Lakes: Knoxville, Tennessee, May 1971
Authors: Scudder T. , White G. F.
Published: October 2011

Though ecologically man has been the dominant organism for millenia, his environmental impact has increased tremendously since the industrial revolution With the post‐World War II proliferation of national development plans, this impact has spread throughout the globe A major example is the construction of large‐scale dams that result in the creation of distinctive man‐made lake ecosystems, which contain not just the lake with its terrestrial margin, but also the human population of the lake basin.