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Environmental Engineering Meeting
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The American Society of Civil Engineers will hold their sixth National Meeting on Environmental Engineering on October 13–17, 1969, in Chicago, Illinois. The American Geophysical Union will be one of the co‐sponsors of the meeting. Harmon F. Smith will represent AGU in cooperating with ASCE in the planning and conduct of this significant activity.
Air Pollution Control Conference
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Second International Air Pollution Control Conference of the International Union of Air Pollution Prevention Association (IUAPPA) is being planned for December 6–11, 1970, and will be held at the Sheraton‐Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. The Conference will consist of plenary sessions where only specifically solicited papers, reports, and speeches will be presented in either English, French, German, Japanese, or Spanish, with simultaneous translation into these five languages; and concurrent sessions for papers chosen from among those submitted. The concurrent sessions will be limited to presentations and simultaneous translation in English and French, the two official languages of the IUAPPA. Session topics planned include: chemistry and physics, meteorology, medicine and biology, engineering, control administration, and surveys.
Survey of Alaska's continental shelf in the Bering Sea
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Aero Service Corporation, a division of Litton Industries, is scheduled to begin an aeromagnetic survey of 300,000 square miles of Alaska's continental shelf in the Bering Sea for 15 oil companies. The purpose of this survey is to define favorable sedimentary basin outlines, provide estimates of the probable thickness of the sedimentary formation, and develop regional and local structure trends.
Awards presented at Fiftieth Annual Meeting
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Walter B. Langbein, Senior Research Hydrologist of the United States Geological Survey, has made a most distinguished record as an original and innovative worker in the earth sciences. In the large and diverse group of men who know him and his work, Langbein is considered one of the great hydrologists of his time.

If one considers the range and depth of his contributions to a number of specialized aspects of water science, these estimates of his ability can be appreciated. No other hydrologist has made original contributions in such diverse fields as floods and flood hydrology, unit hydrography, soil temperature, lake and river sedimentation, the water balance of closed lakes, evaporation, reservoir storage, navigability of waterways, velocity gradients in conduits, river meanders, hydraulic geometry of channels, kinematic waves in river bed materials, and base level in physiography, to name merely a few important areas
New products
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A new gravity‐measuring system is capable of resolving gravitational acceleration with a sensitivity sufficient to distinguish the effect of one‐foot vertical displacement on the earth's surface (0.1 milligal). Developed by Textron's Bell Aerosystems Company, the Motion Stabilized Gravity Measuring System (BGM‐2) is built around a standard accelerometer and coupled with a small Varian computer (620/i) that separates wave motion from the changes in gravity while permitting simultaneous collection of other data. The computer integrates the following inputs into a common data storage block: the reduced gravity readings, magnetometer readings, depth soundings, navigational information, and pulse rates from a crystal oscillator.
Scientific translations: The President's Page
Authors: Landsberg Helmut E.
Published: October 2011

One of the unfortunate victims of nineteenth century nationalism was the common language for scientific publication. Up to that time Latin had continued as a lingua franca among scientists. But the competition of local academies, sponsored by princes jealous of each other, led eventually to the use of the vernacular for scientific communication.

Yet in the interval up to World War I it developed that most scientific work was concentrated in a few major nations and publications were over 90 per cent in English, French, and German. The universal language of diplomacy was French and it was adopted by some of the important scientific bodies in countries with other, particularly, Slavic tongues as the medium for their scientific communications. Most notable among these was the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences in what was then St. Petersburg.
Global monitoring programs in perspective
Authors: Singer S. Fred
Published: October 2011

Ten years ago we completed the International Geophysical Year. It was a magnificent effort of worldwide geophysical observations, marked by the emergence of the first satellites. The IGY was also a landmark in organization. Under the leadership of Sydney Chapman, Lloyd Berkner, Joseph Kaplan and Marcel Nicolet, the IGY became a model in international cooperation for other programs that followed.
Symposium on world water balance
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A symposium on the World Water Balance, convened by Unesco and organized in collaboration with the United Kingdom National Commission for Unesco and the World Meteorological Organization, with the support of the International Association of Scientific Hydrology, will be held in Reading, England, July 15–23, 1970. Participation by U.S. authors in this symposium is being organized by the U.S. National Committee for the International Hydrological Decade and the Section of Hydrology, American Geophysical Union. Any papers submitted should be related to the following themes around which the program will be developed: Distributions—Water in the atmosphere, surface water (including snow and ice), underground water; Balances and Exchanges—Transports, fluxes and phase changes; Geographical Features—Globally significant space and time scales; Research Requirements—Accuracy and adequacy of observations, theoretical developments, formulation of physical and mathematical models of large‐scale waterbalance problems.
Airborne refractometer
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The first flight tests of an airborne refractometer to measure humidity changes were made last summer as one of the scientific projects of the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment. The instrument has a small barrel‐shaped device mounted atop a twin‐engine aircraft. This sampling cavity and its associated electronics measure refractive index at microwave frequencies with great accuracy.
Gravity investigation of the Elk Hills (U. S. Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1), California
Authors: Corbató Charles E.
Published: October 2011

As part of a study by the U.S. Geological Survey of the geology and geophysics of the Elk Hills oil field (U.S. Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1), a detailed gravity survey is being conducted over the area of the known hydrocarbon reservoirs and the surrounding region. An extremely accurate survey is being conducted to use the results for isolation of small anomalies that are possibly attributable to accumulations of petroleum and natural gas [McCulloh, 1967].

An initial survey of 615 stations is completed over 250 km2 centered on the west half of the Reserve (Figure 1). A similar survey, with an additional 600 stations planned, is in progress for an area of about 260 km2 over the eastern portion of the reserve. Elevations are known to the closest ±3 cm and horizontal positions to ±15 meters. Measurements of gravity at the surface appear to be reliable to ±0.01 mgal. The entire network of gravity stations is tied to stations 268 of Chapman [1966] in the town of McKittrick.
Oceanic and continental gravity investigations by Oregon State University
Authors: Couch R. W. , Heinrichs D. F.
Published: October 2011

Since 1962 the Department of Oceanography, Oregon State University, has obtained gravity measurements in the Hawaiian and Aleutian archipelagoes, along the continental margin of North America from San Francisco Bay, California, to Cape Spencer, Alaska, and in Oregon. From 1963 through 1968 approximately 37,000 measurements were made in the regions delineated in Figure 1. These measurements provided the basis for the construction of gravity anomaly maps and studies of selected crustal and subcrustal structures.

Underwater gravity meter measurements were used in 1962 to establish a near‐shore marine gravity range along the northcentral Oregon Coast near Newport, Oregon [Rinehart and Berg, 1963]. The marine gravity range provides a gravity difference of approximately 60 mgal and an accuracy of 1 mgal with a 90% level of confidence. Traverses of the Newport gravity range were made at the beginning and end of all surface ship gravity surveys of the Department of Oceanography. Estimates of the uncertainty in surface ship gravity measurements due to meter nonlinearity and sea state and navigation quality were obtained from data collected over the marine gravity range and off Oregon and Northern California [Dehlinger, 1964a; Dehlinger et al., 1966a].
Call for papers, Marine Conference
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The 6th Annual Conference of the Marine Technology Society will be held at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., June 29–July 1, 1970. Subjects include: facilities and equipment, research and education, exploration and ocean operations, resource utilization and economics, and resource management and law. These areas should be considered in their broadest sense to include any subject that could contribute to more effective utilization of the ocean and its resources. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and must be received by October 1, 1969. Final papers, prepared in accordance with specifications that will be provided, must be submitted to the Papers Chairman by April 30, 1970.
New products
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Schonstedt Instrument Company has introduced the first Digital Magnetometer for laboratories and industry. The Model DM‐2000 single‐axis magnetometer displays ambient field values directly in milligauss on four non‐blinking decimal readouts. Designed to meet the need for rapid, repetitive measurements in laboratory and production testing, the unit offers operating as well as reading simplicity. A two‐position range switch is the only adjustment.
International Seminar for Hydrology Professors
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The International Seminar for Hydrology Professors (ISHP), the first of its kind in the United States, was held at the University of Illinois, Urbana, from July 13 to 25, 1969. The seminar was attended by 133 participants from 20 countries and from 35 of the 50 United States. In addition, many faculty members of the University of Illinois audited various sessions without direct participation.

The principal objectives of the seminar were to acquaint professors of hydrology and related subjects with new technical developments related to hydrology, to examine the current status and needs in hydrological education, and to explore new directions for hydrological teaching and research. The seminar was directed by Ven Te Chow, Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, University of Illinois.
Lloyd Berkner Memorial: The President's Page, Guest Editorial
Authors: Droessler Earl G.
Published: October 2011

For forty years Lloyd Berkner was a vigorous participant in geophysics. His career began with his short‐wave radio propagation studies in Minnesota and Antarctica in the 1920's, and continued, with a wider and wider group of colleagues, in studies of the ionosphere, the arctic and antarctic regions, meteorology, and the origin of the atmosphere. His achievements included his remarkable leadership of the American Geophysical Union and the International Council of Scientific Unions, his profoundly expansive vision which was brought to reality in the International Geophysical Year, his chairmanship over landmark National Academy reports in meteorology and space sciences, his leadership in the Associated Universities Incorporated, the Institute of Radio Engineers, in the formation of the Graduate Center of the Southwest (now the University of Texas at Dallas), the Environmental Science Services Administration, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. His untimely death in 1967 at age 62 came in the midst of his exciting new personal research on the origin and the chronology of the earth's atmosphere.
International geophysics: Report from Spain
Authors: Whitten Charles A.
Published: October 2011

At the Fourteenth General Assembly of IUGG in Switzerland in 1967, the Spanish National Delegation invited the Associations of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI) and Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) to hold their next meetings in Madrid. These Associations accepted this invitation, and the general scientific assembly was held September 1–12, 1969. Each of the four sections of AGU attending (Seismology, Tectonophysics, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism, and Solar‐Terrestrial Relationships) will no doubt receive scientific reports from their delegates. The purpose of this report is to give some impressions of this particular scientific assembly, the first of its kind to be held under the new plans for meetings adopted by IUGG in 1967.
Symposium on coastal geodesy
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

An international Symposium on Coastal Geodesy will be held in Munich, Germany, July 20–24, 1970. The opening session will be held at the Bavarian Academy of Science. Other work sessions will take place at the Technical University of Munich. The purpose of the conference is to bring oceanographers and geodesists together for discussions on sea‐level observations and calculations and the possible use of artificial satellites in coastal geodesy.
UMC international symposium
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The International Upper Mantle Committee announces an International Symposium on Mechanical Properties and Processes of the Mantle to be held on the campus of Northern Arizona University at Flagstaff on June 24, 1970. The conference will consist of technical sessions (June 28–July 1) and field trips. The program will emphasize two themes. The first concerns reports on laboratory experimental results important to the understanding of the dynamics of large‐scale motions in the mantle and the synthesis and‐interpretation of these data.
Astrophysics Fellowship Program
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics of the University of Colorado and the National Bureau of Standards has announced a fellowship and postdoctoral research associateship program for 1970–1971. Ten visiting fellowships in laboratory astrophysics and one fellowship in space physics (in conjunction with the University of Colorado–s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics) are available to applicants with extensive postdoctoral research experience. There are no restrictions as to citizenship or national origin, and no set duties or obligations for visiting fellows under this program. Applications should be submitted in 1969, with a final deadline of January 15, 1970.
International Field Year for the Great Lakes
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Coordination. The Canadian and United States activities in the International Field Year for the Great Lakes are now coordinated through two full time national coordinators who together coordinate the binational Field Year activities, and individually coordinate activities in their respective countries.

Stanley J. Bolsenga, the U.S. Coordinator, is with the Corps of Engineers Great Lakes Research Center at the U.S. Lake Survey in Detroit, Michigan. Joseph MacDowall, the Canadian Coordinator, is at the Canada Centre of Inland Waters at Burlington, Ontario. The two men are in close contact by telephone and through personal meetings.
Notes
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The New Zealand Hydrological Society publishes the Journal of Hydrology—New Zealand semiannually. The Journal has been published since 1961, but the U.S./IHD office only recently received its first copy—VoL 7, No.2, 1968. The format is compact (14×22 cm; 87 pages in available copy), and printed on glossy paper in 12‐point type. Photographic reproduction is excellent.
Recent foreign reports available on loan
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Australia

Australian‐Unesco Committee for the IHD, 1968, Australian Activities in hydrology (Rev. Ed.); Pt. 1, Australia, 163 pp.; Pt. 2, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, 23 pp., 5 maps; Pt. 3, Antarctica, 14 pp., 1 map.

Australian Water Resources Council, 1969, Water Resources Newsletter No. 12—June 1969; Dept. of Natl. Development, Canberra, Australia, 70 pp.
Water Resources Monographs
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The AGU is initiating a series of tutorial monographs in the area of water resources. In response to the demands of workers in the water resources field who find themselves faced with the problem of trying to extract from the current flow of technical literature those contributions that are truly meaningful in their own applications, it is planned to publish on a continuing basis, critical in‐depth monographs covering a variety of selected topics. These monographs will be produced in a relatively inexpensive format to ensure availability to the maximum number of potential users, both students and practitioners, and to make possible periodic updating of the work. The main emphasis of each monograph will be on the application of the selected area, although the theoretical background of techniques will also be covered.
New vessel for Scripps
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A new oceanographic research vessel has joined the fleet of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the 245‐foot, 2075‐ton Melville. The Melville becomes the largest ship in operation for Scripps. Built at an estimated cost of $7 million, including equipment, the ship has a maximum capacity of 62 scientists, technicians, and crew members.
NSF Summer Institute
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

An eight‐week Summer Institute in ‘Physical Properties and Behavior of Soils’ will be held at the Technological Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, from June 22 to August 14, 1970. The program will include four courses plus a series of seminars by distinguished professors and practicing engineers. The included courses, which will each meet five hours per week, and their respective instructors are: Processes of Soil Genesis, Arley G. Franklin, Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University; Physics and Chemistry of Soils, Charles A. Moore, Department of Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle; Physical Behavior of Soils, Raymond N . Yong, Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University; Engineering Properties of Soils, Raymond J. Krizek, Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University. Although each course may be regarded as an individual entity, there will be a planned effort to correlate course material in order to minimize duplication and maximize the effectiveness of presentation. Emphasis will be directed toward providing a rigorous treatment of fundamental principles, a thorough knowledge of available analytical tools, and an appreciation for the practical application of these techniques.
Travel grants for “Ocean World”
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The joint oceanographic assembly, ‘The Ocean World’, will be held in Tokyo, Japan, September 14‐25, 1970 (see August 1969 NEWS). Application has been made to the National Science Foundation for a grant to support the travel of participants who might otherwise not be able to attend this assembly. Although word of approval of this grant has not been received, interested persons are encouraged to apply.
Author's reply
Authors: Dessler A. J.
Published: October 2011

There is indeed a disagreement between Prof. DeBremaecker and myself with regard to our views of the proper role of the university in our society. While it should be clear from my paper that I am opposed to neither applied research nor land‐grant colleges, it should be equally clear that I am concerned that the high degree of organization that would be required in order to become directly involved in operational solutions to urban problems could interfere with both the basic research programs and the educational functions of the university. Urban problems are much more complex than agricultural problems. It does not follow that success in dealing with the technical problems of agriculture implies success in dealing with the combined social‐economic‐technical nature of urban problems.
The President's Page: Still the endless frontier
Authors: Landsberg Helmut E.
Published: October 2011

There have been some rather adverse reactions to science in recent years. In this context, science, often confused with technology, is held responsible for atomic arms and other devastating weapons systems. Science stands accused of producing poisons that threaten the environment. It has inflicted ubiquitous computers on the common man. These control his taxes, his charge accounts, his credit, and, by implication, his privacy. Any benefits that may accrue in the defense of freedom, in the reduction of disease, or in the ease of living are blandly discounted. Worse yet, scientists have been given dehumanizing attributes. Also they are alleged to be interested only in following their personal curiosities and in solving their abstract problems, as indeed some are. Moreover, science stands accused of syphoning funds away from socially more desirable goals.
Call for papers—Space Congress
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The First Western Space Congress will be held by the Vandenberg Scientific and Technical Societies Council in Santa Maria, California, October 27–29, 1970. The congress will examine the impact of a decade in space and explore how the technology learned in that decade can be applied to further space exploration and to the betterment of all elements of world society. Among suggested topics are: power systems, oceanography, geophysics, geodesy, medicine, education, satellite applications, and other spacerelated topics. Abstracts should be approximately 300 words and should include the complete title of the paper.
Summer Institute in Geodetic Science
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Ohio State University will host its Fourth Summer Institute in Geodetic Science between June 8 and 12, 1970. The planned topic is ‘Geodetic Science, 1965–1975.’ The course will cover, through lectures and discussions, activities over the last five years and projections for the next five years. The main topics will include concepts in gravity‐data analysis, developments in the determination of the external gravitational field of the earth, developments in position determination methods on a continental and global basis, implications for solid earth geophysics and oceanography and selenodesy.
Sewage and receiving water course
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Methods of investigations on sewage and receiving waters is to be the subject of an advanced course to be held October 5–9,1970, at the Bavarian Biological Research Institute in Munich, Germany.
IHD Mid‐Decade Conference Report: Mid‐Decade Conference, December 8”16 1969; Fifth Session, IHD Coordinating Council, December 17”19, 1969; Paris, France
Authors: Heindl L. A.
Published: October 2011

The Mid‐Decade Conference met to review work accomplished during the first half of the Decade, to make recommendations regarding the program during the last half of the Decade, and to exchange views regarding international hydrology beyond the Decade—beginning January 1, 1975.

Seventy‐one of the 105 nations participating in the IHD program were represented, plus observers from four other states, 7 intergovernmental organizations and 18 nongovernmental agencies. The consensus was that progress in education, extent of networks, and research had been made under the IHD. A 620‐page compendium summarized country activities in 60‐odd IHD projects and included numerous reports by international organizations on what they had contributed.
IFYGL brochure
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A 12‐page, folded letter‐size brochure describing the International Field Year on the Great Lakes has been produced by the office of the U.S. National Committee for the IHD and is available in quantity.

The brochure is aimed specifically at informing potential participants in the Field Year of the purposes, organizations, facilities, and plans of the program. It was produced with the help of the coordinators, Joseph MacDowall and Stanley Bolsenga.
The President's Page: Opportunity and challenge
Authors: Newell Homer E.
Published: October 2011

As we enter upon this next biennium, the American Geophysical Union has before it a time of both exciting opportunity and great challenge. A greatly expanded understanding of earth dynamics beckons, as fascinating new results literally pour forth on the earth's crust and penetrate its interior. With the aid of space techniques a considerable increase in the accuracy of the models of the earth's figure and gravitational field may be expected. The remotest reaches of the oceans and seas are probed as the practical man's interest in the promise of the ocean is joined with the scientist's interest in its mysteries.
Proposed research award for AGU
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

AGU's Water Resources Monograph Series is among thirty‐three research projects selected by Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel to receive grants as authorized under the Title II Program administered by the Office of Water Resources Research. The purpose of the grants is to provide financial support of research into any aspects of water problems related to the mission of the Department of the Interior that are not otherwise being studied. The Title II Program focuses research on a broad spectrum of water resources problems, develops a multidisciplinary approach to water resource problems, and contributes to the attainment of President Nixon's goal that all levels of government, with the help of private groups and industry, and individual citizens under federal leadership will work to restore the kind of environment they want for themselves and for future generations.
Summer Institute on Solar‐Terrestrial Relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The University of Calgary Summer Institute on Solar‐Terrestrial Relationships was held on the university campus under the chairmanship of D. Venkatesan, June 2–5, 1970. A little over 100 participants registered, a majority of whom were from various interested Canadian universities. There were also representatives from some institutions in the United States. The emphasis of the Institute, besides covering the broad aspects of solar‐terrestrial relationships, was to provide a forum for the participants for general discussions and informal exchange of ideas among themselves and with invited speakers.
U.S. scientists study development on Earth's oceanic features
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

In August U.S. Oceanographers conducted a marine geophysical study around a group of islands off the west coast of Africa in search of solutions to the geologic puzzle of how the earth's oceanic features develop.

The study was centered on the Cape Verde Islands, situated in the North Atlantic 330 miles west of Dakar, Senegal. Scientists have found that the islands contain ancient sedimentary rocks 150 million years old that may represent uplifted fragments of old sea floor or material of continental origin, possibly from West Africa.
Geodetic link between Canada and U.S.
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A two‐year program to complete a highly accurate geodetic survey linking Canada with Alaska and the lower 48 states was announced in July.

The U. S.—Canadian satellite triangulation program was initiated in 1964 using the balloon satellites Echo 1 and Echo 2 but was suspended in 1966 when the successful launching of the satellite PAGEOS signaled the start of the worldwide satellite program.
Notes and commentary
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Charles E. Downs has joined the Secretariat of the U.S. National Committee for the IHD as a Staff Associate. In this capacity, he will work directly with the Executive Secretary in support of U.S. Decade activities.

Downs is a native of Arizona and received a B.S. degree in hydrology from the University of Arizona in 1967. In 1968 Stanford University granted him an M.S. degree in civil engineering with emphasis in water resources planning and development, hydrology, water quality, and nuclear civil engineering.
USNC/URSI‐IEEE Call for Papers
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The 1971 USNC/URSI‐IEEE Spring Meeting will be held April 8–10,1971, at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

The meeting will be held in cooperation with the following IEEE Groups: Antennas and Propagation, Circuit Theory, Geoscience Electronics, Information Theory, Instrumentation and Measurement, and Microwave Theory and Techniques.
Nominations for New American Men of Science
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Work on the Twelfth Edition of American Men of Science has begun at the Jaques Cattell Press in Tempe, Arizona, with publication of the first volume of the set planned for mid‐1971. The new edition will follow the general plan of the eleventh edition, an alphabetical arrangement of biographies of scientists in the physical and biological sciences. The continued increase in the number of research scientists in these fields indicates that this edition will be even larger than the last edition. The new edition will be published over a three‐year period, followed by the volumes on the social and behavioral sciences.
International Symposium on Hydrometry
Authors: Smoot George F.
Published: October 2011

Approximately 520 engineers and scientists from 55 countries attended the International Symposium on Hydrometry held at Koblenz, Federal Republic of Germany, from September 13 through 22, 1970. The symposium was convened by Uhesco and organized in cooperation with the World Meteorological Organizations (WMO), Unesco, the National Committee for the International Hydrological Decade of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the International Association of Scientific Hydrology (IASH). The symposium was organized within the framework of the International Hydrological Decade (IHD).

After a welcoming speech by J. Wallner, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, the opening address was presented by S. Dumitrescu, the representative of Unesco. Introductory statements were then delivered by T. Palas, the representative of WMO; by L.J. Tison, the representative of IASH; and by K. Wittock, the representative of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Advance U.S. Oceanographic Survey Vessel Commissioned in October
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship Researcher, the first of a new class of scientific survey vessels developed for full‐range oceanographic investigations on the high seas and the continental shelves, was commissioned in October in Miami.

The nine‐million‐dollar floating laboratory is electronically equipped to probe the ocean's deepest regions. When fully operational, the Researcher will carry the most advanced data acquisition system ever placed aboard an oceanographic vessel. The heart of the $750,000 system is a computer with a capacity of 100,000 arithmetic calculations per second, sufficient to enable it to automatically sample, process, and record oceanographic, geophysical, hydrographic, and meteorological data.
New AE values for iron
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Astronomers are greatly interested in accurate determinations of the abundance of solar iron, determinations that are of critical importance in developing models of the solar atmosphere. They have been puzzled by determinations that seemed to give a much smaller iron abundance in the sun's photosphere than in the corona. The accuracy in determining such abundances is critically dependent upon a basic atomic characteristic—the atomic oscillator strengths, or ƒ values, of the element in question. Gross deviations between a few newly measured Fe I ƒ values in the literature and older, widely accepted comprehensive data tables led atomic physicists J.M. Bridges and W.L. Wiese of the National Bureau of Standards (U.S. Department of Commerce) Institute for Basic Standards to remeasure the ƒ values for iron on a comprehensive scale in hopes of resolving this discrepancy.
Six universities elected to UCAR membership
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Purdue University, the California Institute of Technology, McGill University, the University of Nevada, Oregon State University, and Utah State University have been elected to membership in the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, bringing the total number of UCAR members to 37.

McGill University of Montreal, Canada, is the second university to be elected to international membership in UCAR International members are elected after an invitation to join has been extended by UCAR, and they must meet the same criteria for membership as U.S. members.
Woods Hole chosen as site for first UNOLS office
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has been chosen as the site of the first UNOLS (University‐National Oceanographic Laboratory System) office. Developed as a planning and coordinating mechanism for oceanographic research facilities, the organization has as its chairman, Arthur E. Maxwell, Provost of the Oceanographic Institution, and Jay M. Savage of the University of Southern California as its Vice Chairman. R.P. Dinsmore, former Chief of the Marine Sciences Division of the U.S. Coast Guard, has been designated Executive Secretary and will direct the UNOLS office at the Oceanographic Institution.
New NSF director
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

President Nixon has announced his intention to nominate H. Guyford Stever as the Director of the National Science Foundation. He will succeed William D. McElroy whose resignation was accepted by the President in July of this year to be effective February 1, 1972.

Stever is President of Carnegie‐Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He became President of the university, which was at that time the Carnegie Institute of Technology in February 19655, after more than twenty years on the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Notes and commentary
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Canadian National Committee for the IHD has issued its progress report for 1970, summarizing work carried out in the 1970 field season as reported by project coordinators.

The 199‐page book is organized into five major sections: basic data; inventories and water balance; research; education and training; and exchange of information. Two appendices list IHD projects completed in 1969 and 1970; a third contains an index of coordinators and authors for each project.
Conference on Petrologic Crystal Chemistry
Authors: Boyd F. R. , Burnham Charles , Papike James J. , Prewitt Charles
Published: October 2011

A conference on Petrologic Crystal Chemistry was held September 8–11, 1971, at the Harborview Hotel in Edgar town, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The purpose of this meeting was to bring together persons interested in the overlap between petrology, mineralogy, and crystallography and to allow extended discussion of theoretical and experimental work currently underway.
Scientists finds DDT and other pollutants in Atlantic plants and animals
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Scientists have found concentrations of DDT in most specimens, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in practically all specimens of plants and animals they collected on extensive cruises throughout the Atlantic Ocean.

The cruises, by vessels of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, were part of the continuing United States program for the International Decade of Ocean Exploration. Scientists aboard the vessels were conducting projects designed to obtain baseline data for the study of marine pollution as part of the Environmental Quality Program of the IDOE.
Eighth AWRA Conference
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Eighth American Water Resources Conference will be held October 30–November 2, 1972, at the Sheraton‐Jefferson Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri.
Ninth annual symposium on geophysical theory and computers
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Ninth Annual Symposium on Geophysical Theory and Computers will be held at the Banff School of Fine Arts and Centre for Continuing Education, Banff, Alberta, Canada. August 24–31, 1972. These symposia, formerly sponsored by the Working Group of Geophysical Theory and Computers and the IUGG Upper Mantle Committee, will be sponsored by the IUGG Inter‐Association Committee on Mathematical Geophysics beginning this year.
Short summer course in X‐ray spectrometry
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A two‐week short course in modern spectrometry will be offered at the State University of New York at Albany June 5–16, 1972. The course will develop the basic theory and techniques starting from elementary principles. No previous knowledge or experience is required. The first week will cover basic principles and techniques, and the second week will continue with further fundamentals and practical applications. The latter part of the second week will emphasize non‐dispersive analysis, advanced techniques, mathematical methods, and computer automation of modern X‐ray spectrometers. Registration may be made for one week (either week) or for the entire two‐week session.
Special summer program at MIT
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A special summer program at MIT on ‘Methods of Observation and Analysis of Harbor and Coastal Pollution’ will be held June 19–23, 1972. The program will deal with the methodology of observation and assessment of pollution in harbors and coastal waters. Instruments and data acquisition and interpretation systems will be described and discussed in the context of the dynamics of the processes that govern pollutant traansport and dispersion. The course is intended for engineers and scientists with an interest in pollution assessment.
Unesco field posts
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Unesco occasionally has vacancies of possible interest to geophysicists.The minimum qualifications for these field posts are, generally, a higher university degree as well as several years of professional experience in a position of responsibility.
The Nordic IHD council
Authors: Tollan Arne
Published: October 2011

The cooperation of Denmark, Finlad, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden during the IHD has been one of the highlights of the many regional activities initiated by the program. These Nordic countries (Scandinavia is limited to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) have a long, although not uninterrupted, history of cooperation, many strong ethical and cultural bonds, and no serious language barriers. Moreover, a natural basis for cooperation exists among the three northern mainland countries because of common river basins and physiographic and ecological regions.
New Mexico site selected for proposed radio astronomy facility
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

THE National Science Foundation has announced selection of a 3000‐acre desert site, 50 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico, as the proposed location of a Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, the most sensitive and accurate instrument of its kind in the world. The instrument is essentially a large ‘ear’ for listening to naturallyproduced radio signals from objects within, as well as far outside, our own galaxy. It would provide greatly increased knowledge of objects and processes in the unuverse that are no little understood.
Research positions for university visitors at LSI
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Lunar Science Institute, a center for advanced research on lunar studies, has a number of openings available for Visiting Scientists and Visiting Graduate Fellows. With prior notice, the institute can help arrange access to the lunar data and research capabilities available at the neighboring NASA Manned Spacecraft Center. A small staff of resident scientists provides continuity to the institute programs and assists Visiting Scientists in obtaining access to and using MSC facilities.

Programs currently under way include not only geophysical research on lunar samples, but also analysis of the lunar photos obtained from lunar orbit, lunar surface morphology, genesis of the moon, terrestrial geology and geophysics, planetology, and magnetospheric and plasma physics.
Metropolitan St. Louis Branch
Authors: Pope Fannie F.
Published: October 2011

The annual business meeting of the St. Louis Branch of AGU was held on February 15. Seventy members and guests attended. Chairman William Durbin recognized guests from HQ US Air Force, Washington, D.C.; HQ Air Force, Systems Command, Andrews AFB MD; HQ MAC and HQ AWS, Scott AFB, Illinois; Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; St. Louis University; and University of Vienna, Austria.
IFYGL radar network to measure Ontario watershed rainfall
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Rainfall over Lake Ontario and its basin will be measured more accurately than ever before by a special radar system which, together with a back‐up rain‐gage network, is now in full operation for the International Field Year for the Great Lakes (IFYGL).

U.S. radars located at Buffalo and Oswego, New York, will be tied in with a Canadian radar near Toronto (Woodbridge, Ontario) to cover the entire lake watershed. The Buffalo radar is operated by the National Weather Service of NOAA and has been specially instrumented to undertake this project. At the other end of the lake, a new radar has been erected about eight miles south of Oswego, and is operated by State University of New York at Oswego under contract to NOAA.
The President's Page: State of the Union
Authors: Abelson Philip H.
Published: October 2011

The American Geophysical Union has been one of the most effective of scientific organizations. It has earned and maintained the warm affection of its members, who in turn have served it well. Alert to new trends and flexible, the Union has accommodated and welcomed new developing subdisciplines while ministering to the needs of established fields.

Holding the Union together has been no small task. In any scientific organization there are splitters and uniters, and all too often the splitters go their way. The Union has been fortunate in producing leaders who have worked patiently and skillfully for the common good. In their efforts they have had favorable factors working for them. Geophysics has been an exciting, evolving science with interesting new developments occurring frequently. The activities of the various Sections and the interests of geophysicists overlap in many ways. From the standpoint of intellectual content and economy of effort, an umbrella organization for all aspects of geophysics makes good sense. Other factors tending to strengthen the Union have included its organizational structure and modes of operation.
Symposium on the Earth's gravitational field
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

An International Symposium on Methods and Practical Techniques for the Determination of the Earth's Gravitational Field and Secular Variations in Position will be held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, November 26–30, 1973. The symposium is sponsored by the Australian Academy of Science under the auspices of the International Association of Geodesy.
Date of Gondwana Symposium changed
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The meeting date for the Third International Gondwana Symposium has been changed from August 6–11, 1973, to August 20–25, 1973. The symposium will be held in Canberra, Australia.
Highlights of the Council Meeting, April 16, 1972
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

At its meeting on April 16, 1972, the Council of the American Geophysical Union approved for presentation to the membership amended Statutes and Bylaws. The amended Statutes and Bylaws include substantial revisions that reflect the requirements of the Union as an independent corporate entity; these changes form a necessary prelude to incorporation in the District of Columbia. The question of approval for the amendments to the Statutes has been presented to the memberhship in a mail ballot. The proposed amended Statutes and Bylaws were published in the May 1972 EOS. The Preamble has been rewritten to reflect the impending new corporate status and to highlight the cooperative efforts of the Union with other national and international scientific organizations.
The role of aquitards in multiple‐aquifer systems
Authors: Witherspoon Paul A. , Freeze R. Allen
Published: October 2011

A Penrose Conference of the Geological Society of America, the first in the field of hydrogeology, was held in September 1971 at the Asilo mar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California. Nine separate sessions were organized to cover a variety of topics under the general theme. The seventy‐four participants included ten young doctoral candidates and postdoctoral fellows and at least fifteen men whom one could classify as mandarins of the science. Sixty‐one of the participants came from the United States, six from Canada, three from France, and there were single representatives from Mexico, Israel, England, Iran, and Kuwait.
Lunar rock
Authors: Vinogradov Alexander
Published: October 2011

In February, a Soviet automatic geologist made a soft landing in a mountainous continental area of the moon and took samples of rocks. Academician Alexander Vinogradov describes the results of the investigation of the rock delivered to the earth by the Luna 20 probe.
Title II water resources research program
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton recently announced the selection of 56 research projects for the fiscal year 1973 water research program authorized under Title II of the Water Resources Research Act of 1964.

In announcing the selection of the 56 water resources research projects, Morton cited, "The series of recent tragic events triggered by torrential rainfalls in California, South Dakota, West Virginia, and along the eastern seaboard," as evidence of the destructive capabilities of nature.
Foreign Area Fellowship Program
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Foreign Area Fellowship Program is inviting applications for its annual fellowship competition for the 1973–1974 academic year.

The Program provides support to advanced doctoral candidates at U.S. and Canadian universities for dissertation research in Africa, the Near East, East, South and Southeast Asia, Western Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The Latin American and the Caribbean program also offers postdoctoral individual and collaborative research grants, professional internships, predoctoral summer training fellowships and other appointments.
Project Stormfury hurricane seeding plans
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Project Stormfury hurricane research and modification plans for 1972 were announced recently. The project will be in effect through October 31, awaiting the opportunity to seed hurricanes in an attempt to diminish their force.

Project Stormfury is a joint Department of Commerce/Department of Defense program of scientific experiments to explore the nature of tropical storms and hurricanes, and to investigate the possibility of modifying them. Gulf of Mexico, when the probability is small that the hurricane center will come within 50 miles of a populated area within 18 hours after seeding.