bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Forecast technology to be tested
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is presently conducting a 13‐week test of the accuracy and timeliness of an integrated set o f new tools for short‐range weather forecasting that were developed under NOAA's Program for Regional Observing and Forecasting Services (PROFS). The PROFS program has been proceeding in Boulder, Colo., for the past 6 years Eos, April 13, 1982, p. 233).

The tests, which began May 18, 1987, are based at NOAA's Environmental Research Laboratories in Boulder. Forecasters there are using Doppler radars, upper air profilers, and a new computer workstation.
Historic volcanology document reprinted
Authors: Fiske Richard S.
Published: October 2011

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO), the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.) has reprinted an historic, hard‐to‐find reference on volcanic activity in Hawaii and around the world that was published at the observatory from 1925 to 1955. The Volcano Letter contains the definitive reports of many Hawaiian eruptions, such as activity in Halemaumau at Kilauea from the late 1920s to 1934 and the Mauna Loa eruptions of 1935 and the 1940s; accounts of the development of volcano‐monitoring techniques at HVO; scholarly reports on historic activity at volcanos in Hawaii and around the world; and reports of seismicity in Hawaii and elsewhere.
Geophysical events
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

This is a summary of SEAN Bulletin, 12(5), May 31, 1987, a publication of the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Event Alert Network. The complete bulletin is available in the microfiche edition of Eos as a microfiche supplement or as a paper reprint. For the microfiche, order document E87‐006 at $2.50 (U.S.) from AGU Customer Services, 2000 Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20009. For the paper reprint , order SEAN Bulletin (giving volume and issue numbers and issue date) through AGU Separates at the above address; the price is $3.50 for one copy of each issue number for those who do not have a deposit account, $2 for those who do; additional copies of each issue number are $1. Subscriptions to SEAN Bulletin are available from AGU Fulfillment at the above address; the price is $18 for 12 monthly issues mailed to a U.S. address, $28 if mailed elsewhere, and must be prepaid.
Mount Etna: The Anatomy of a Volcano
Authors: Self Stephen
Published: October 2011

First, let me say that one should be prepared to purchase two copies of this book. The office copy will be permanently on loan to colleagues and students, while the home copy will be yours for enjoyment and reference. This immensely informative book by the British Etna study group, led by John Guest of University College London, will, I am sure, be very popular. It amply fulfills the authors' aims of synthesizing the results of many published and unpublished multinational studies into a coherent picture of Europe's largest and most active volcano.
Is there a fifth force in the universe?
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Scientists will probe the Greenland ice cap this month in an attempt to prove that an undiscovered fifth force exists in the universe. The scientists will measure the Newtonian gravitational constant and attempt to prove that it is dependent on distance. Their findings could have a significant impact on modern physics, including the forcing of a recalculation of the masses of planets and stars.
Fast Glacier Flow
Authors: Whillans Ian M. , Harrison William D.
Published: October 2011

An AGU Chapman Conference on Fast Glacier Flow was held at Whistler Village, Canada, from May 4 to 8, 1986. The timing of the conference seemed particularly propitious because of results of recent observational programs, such as the breakup of the tidewater Columbia Glacier in Alaska, the imbalance of Ice Stream B in Antarctica and the existence of deforming sediment under it, and the surge of Variegated Glacier in Alaska.
New management structure at headquarters
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

On July 1, 1987, AGU Executive Director Fred Spilhaus informed the AGU staff that Judy C. Holoviak has been promoted to the position of Group Director. This is a new management position with responsibility for more than one division. Both the Publications Division and the newly formed Public Information and Marketing Division will report to Holoviak, as will the new Special Assistant for Nonprint Publications.

Spilhaus explained that this new position will permit the headquarters management staff to be responsive to the current AGU growth. A stronger management structure is needed to take advantage of the many opportunities facing the Union. In pointing to the initiatives identified by the Planning Committee, he stated that continued growth is the only likely course for AGU.
Books Board Meeting highlights
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The newly selected members of the AGU Books Board met in Baltimore, Md., on May 22, 1987, with three primary objectives in mind: to discuss the nature and objectives of the AGU books program, to establish mechanisms that will identify member needs and solicit volumes to fill those needs, and to agree on methods of operation for the board members.
Responses to natural disasters
Authors: Maggs William Ward
Published: October 2011

Since 1964, natural disasters caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or extreme weather in the form of floods, droughts, or hurricanes, have been responsible for more than 2,756,000 deaths worldwide in nations other than the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Eastern European Bloc, according to figures tabulated by the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) of the Agency for International Development (AID). Over 95% of these fatalities occurred in developing or third world countries. Damage resulting from these calamities has been severe but extremely difficult to estimate in monetary terms. In 1986, U.S. government and voluntary agencies spent $303 million on natural disaster assistance around the world, 79% of total world assistance. In 1985 the U.S. total was nearly $900 million, 48% of the $1.84 billion world total.
The proposed Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX)
Authors: Gurney R. J.
Published: October 2011

The World Climate Research Program (WCRP) has provided the scientific incentive for a very significant step forward in the development of global oceanic observations, especially the preparation of a new generation of oceanographic satellites that will sense the topography of the mean sea surface, wind stress, sea state, and temperature . On the other hand, progress in understanding the atmospheric and interface processes that control Earth's climate has been based, so far, on information provided by existing global observing systems. These are, to a large extent, the operational heritage of the technological developments undertaken on the occasion of the Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) Global Weather Experiment. These observing systems were designed to determine the basic quantities of dynamic meteorology, atmospheric pressure, temperature, and wind, with the main objective of developing global weather prediction. It is only through the use of ad hoc procedures and empirical schemes that additional information can be inferred from these observations to estimate essential climate‐related quantities such as the cloud cover, radiative fluxes, and rainfall. These ad hoc schemes have limitations that are now seriously hampering further advances in the understanding of the dynamics and thermodynamics of the climate system.
Geophysical events
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

This is a summary of SEAN Bulletin, 12(7), July 31, 1987, a publication of the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Event Alert Network. The complete bulletin is available in the microfiche edition of Eos as a microfiche supplement or as a paper reprint. For the microfiche, order document E87‐09 at $2.50 (U.S.) from AGU Customer Services, 2000 Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20009. For the paper reprint, order SEAN Bulletin (giving volume and issue numbers and issue date) through AGU Separates at the above address; the price is $3.50 for one copy of each issue number for those who do not have a deposit account, $2 for those who do; additional copies of each issue number are $ 1. Subscriptions to SEAN Bulletin are available from AGU Fulfillment at the above address; the price is $18 for 12 monthly issues mailed to a U.S. address, $28 if mailed elsewhere, and must be prepaid.
Geoscientists will meet to organize transects project
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Global Geosciences Transects (GGT) project is a new activity of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP). The objective of GGT is to compile a series of 100 km‐wide crustal transects across major structures in all continents.

The transects will be similar to those being produced by the North American Continent‐ Ocean Transects Program under the coordination of Robert C. Speed (Northwestern University, Evanston, 111.), except that they will include continental interiors and paleostructures (e.g., Precambrian sutures, rifts) as well as continental margins and active tectonic zones
The 1985”1986 Gibraltar Experiment: Data collection and preliminary results
Authors: Kinder Thomas H. , Bryden Harry L.
Published: October 2011

The Strait of Gibraltar has attracted interest for centuries [Deacon, 1971]. Early inquiries concerned the process by which the inflowing surface water could be accommodated into a mass balance for the Mediterranean Sea. Modern interests have shifted focus to the unusual character of strait dynamics, such as the problems of high speed stratified rotating flow in the presence of irregular bottom and side boundaries, and to the mechanisms by which straits affect the adjacent oceanic environment [Bryden and Stommel, 1984].

Early attempts at generalizing the physical oceanography of straits resulted either in accounts that were almost pure description [Zubov, 1956] or in a dynamical analysis that appears to overemphasize friction [Defant, 1961]. More recent thinking has emphasized the dynamical importance of nonlinearity in the momentum equations, because of both the implications of internal hydraulic control on the surrounding ocean and the distinct nature of strait dynamics that is thus implied.
U.S. crustal strain to be measured
Authors: Zurfluech Ernst G.
Published: October 2011

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have entered into an interagency agreement to determine strain in the crust of the eastern two thirds of the contiguous United States. A network of 44 Global Positioning System (GPS) stations is planned, and distance measurements are expected to be accurate within 1 part in 107.

The station spacing (see the distribution, Figure 1) should permit the establishment of relative movements between major tectonic units in the central and eastern United States. GPS measurements use radio frequency signals emitted by several satellites and precise timing to establish the position of a GPS receiving instrument on the ground. Various measurement procedures are possible, but for the strain network the number of cycles from a starting signal and the phase of the last cycle received will be measured for high accuracy. For even greater accuracy, clock effects will be eliminated by differencing phase measurements between satellites and between stations in an interferometric mode.
EPA proposes new rules for injection wells
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed rule changes to strengthen regulations protecting underground sources of drinking water from underground injection of hazardous wastes. The action is authorized by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Safe Drinking Water Act. The proposed rules were published in Federal Register August 27, 1987.

“This proposal assures that hazardous wastes will either be properly treated or placed in an area where they can't contaminate underground sources of drinking water,” said Lawrence J. Jensen, EPA Assistant Administrator for Water. “The regulations would prohibit the migration of untreated hazardous waste out of the injection zone.”
Abstracts [Fall Meeting, 1987]
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The meeting is also organized by themes that cut across interdisciplinary fields and allow meeting attendees to move from section to section while following one avenue of geophysics. Themes at this meeting will include:
[Reply to “Space Station?” by L. H. Meredith] Space Station? We need two
Authors: Farrand William
Published: October 2011

First, the point must be made that this nation desperately needs a space station if it is to maintain any legitimate claim to being a spacefaring nation. Unfortunately, the type space station that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will ultimately put up will probably not be the one best suited to our needs, and it most definitely will not be the most cost‐effective one. I disagree with L. H. Meredith's assertion (statement letter in Eos, September 29, 1987) that there is no role in the space station for microgravity research and manufacturing. However, he hit the nail on the head by saying that its main justification would be in providing “a required step toward the manned exploration of the Solar System.”
NASA announces New Space Physics Division
Authors: Mellott Mary M.
Published: October 2011

A reorganization of the Office of Space Science and Applications was announced at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on September 8, 1987. An important result of this reorganization for members of the AGU Solar‐Planetary Relationships (SPR) Section is the formation of a new Space Physics Division (Code ES), which includes the Space Plasma Physics Branch of the Earth Science and Applications Division, the Solar Physics Branch of the Astrophysics Division, and particle astrophysics/cosmic ray studies formerly overseen by the Astrophysics Division. The new division is divided into four science branches, including Cosmic and Heliospheric Physics, Solar Physics, Magnetospheric Physics, and Ionospheric Physics. The proposed division structure is given in the box. Current division personnel have been assigned responsibilities as presented in the box, but it is expected that the “activity” positions within the division will be filled through open competition within the next 2 years. Division goals, areas of research, and specific branch responsibilities are as follows.
Solar Interplanetary Variability Program
Authors: Smith Ed
Published: October 2011

In the next 3 years (1988–1990) there will be an opportunity for scientists whose research interests include the Sun and solar wind to participate in a new international scientific program. The Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) is sponsoring a program to study solar interplanetary variability during the transition from minimum to maximum in solar activity. T he program, which will include spacecraft and ground‐based observations as well as theoretical modeling and simulation, is called Solar Interplanetary Variability (SIV). It will utilize existing spacecraft and ground‐based capabilities and does not depend on the approval or implementation of any new missions or programs.
Spring 1987 Best Student Tectonophysics Paper
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The AGU Tectonophysics Section selected Gary Acton to receive their Best Student Paper Award for the 1987 Spring Meeting. His award‐winning paper was entitled “Generalized Rift Propagation and Microplate Kinematics.”

Acton, who is currently working on his Ph.D. in geophysics at Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), received his B.S. in geology in 1984 from Indiana University, Bloomington, and his M.S. in geophysics in 1986 from the University of Arizona, Tucson. At Northwestern, he is currently studying the kinematics of propagation rift systems with Seth Stein and Joseph Engeln, the coauthors of the award‐winning paper. He is also investigating Cretaceous paleomagnetisin of the Pacific and North American plates with Richard Gordon and Katerina Petronotis.
Multidisciplinary programs and the solid earth science
Authors: Ernst W. G.
Published: October 2011

Ambitious new integrated multidisciplinary programs in environmental sciences are being organized by national and international groups. Although the initiatives go under various names, the common theme is a global approach to studying interactions among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.

The International Council of Scientific Unions has begun the International Geosphere‐Biosphere Program, supported by the National Academy of Sciences. The National Science Foundation started its Global Geoscience Program in 1986. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been working on Earth System Science since 1983.
Atmospheric Chemical Compounds: Sources, Occurrence and Bioassay
Authors: Ronneau C.
Published: October 2011

Air is the most important element of our environment because it is the most vital of the substances needed to sustain higher forms of life. A few decades ago, it was considered to act as a perfect sink in which smoke and fumes could be infinitely diluted. With the development of fine analytical techniques, it became evident that air is the vehicle for an amazingly complex mixture of chemical species in a variety of physical forms. These species are involved in an everlasting turnover, giving way to countless secondary substances.
[Comment on “Antartic Ice Is Smaller”] Antarctic ice: How much smaller
Authors: Jacobs Stan
Published: October 2011

At the risk of ice picking, I would suggest that one reason the “Antarctic Ice is Smaller” (Eos, December 1, 1987, p. 1625) is that “Iceberg B is Larger” (than it should be). While B9 is certainly nothing to sneeze at, the 208×53‐km dimensions given in the article significantly exceed the ∼160×40‐km size reported on the weekly Navy/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Joint Ice Center (NNJIC) charts. The areal discrepancy (which is greater than 4500 km2) may lie in the latitude gridding of the satellite image. The middle latitude in Figure 1 of the Eos article roughly corresponds to 78°S, but the apparent outline of Cape Colbeck at the right of each image suggests that the latitude labeled 76°S may be incorrect. It is unlikely that B9 is “the largest piece of floating ice on record.”
Neutrinos may pull their own weight in the universe
Authors: Maggs William Ward
Published: October 2011

How many neutrinos are enough? The answer depends on what you need them for. If you want to find them and measure their energy, preferably in a proton decay detector, 1017 must go through the detector to yield just a few records of the particles' passing. But according to a study by physicists at a NASA laboratory, if you're interested in calculating a neutrino's rest mass, the dozen or so the detector catches are sufficient and could help provide an explanation for the “missing mass” that may fill most of the Universe.
Recent Ph.D.s
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Eos periodically lists information on recently accepted doctoral dissertations in the disciplines of geophysics. Faculty members are invited to submit the following information, on institution letterhead, above the signature of the faculty advisor or department chairman:
Data analysis for trace constituents and toxic compounds
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is presenting a symposium entitled “Data Analysis Procedures for Trace Constituents and Toxic Compounds” as part of its 196th National Meeting in Los Angeles, Calif., September 25–30, 1988. Studies of trace constituents and toxic compounds often require statistical procedures beyond those currently in routine use. Large proportions of observations may be below detection limit or reporting thresholds, distributions of data are far from the classically assumed normal distribution, and interpretations may be desired over a multivariate suite of organic or inorganic constituents. This symposium will present applications of data analysis procedures that are appropriate for the interpretation of data having such characteristics.
HYDROCOIN Sixth Workshop and Coordinating Meeting
Authors: Nicholson Thomas J. , Cole Charles R.
Published: October 2011

The Sixth HYDROCOIN (Hydrologic Code Intercomparison Study) Workshop and Coordinating Meeting took place in Washington, D.C, May 26–29, 1987. HYDROCOIN is an international cooperative project for studying, developing, and intercomparing groundwater modeling strategies in the context of radioactive waste management. The workshop had 35 attendees from 10 countries and was hosted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Department of Energy. Its focus was the validation of groundwater flow models and the study of uncertainty and sensitivity analysis methods and techniques.
SSC may join nuclear waste in Nevada
Authors: Maggs William Ward
Published: October 2011

Congress has named Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the nation's future high‐level nuclear waste repository, preempting earlier plans for the evaluation of at least three western sites by the Department of Energy (DOE). The move comes despite opposition by the state's governor and members of Congress. However, amendments to the legislation may placate Nevada with a brass ring of sorts—DOE's Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), a ring 26 km in diameter.

The measure was finalized December 17, 1987, in a House‐Senate conference as part of a $30.2 billion deficit‐reduction bill. 12 last‐minute amendments attached to the bill by Senator Chic Hecht (D‐Nev.) call for compensations to Nevada that could include selection of the state as the future home of the SSC, as well as up to 20 million dollars per year in cash.
Fellowships to India offered
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Postdoctoral scholars and professionals of equivalent standing may apply for one of 21 research fellowships being offered by the Indo‐U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture. The fellowships are to be held in India and are available in any academic discipline. Twelve of the fellowships are long‐term and may be held for 6–10 months, while nine may be held for 2–3 months.

People with little or no connection to India are especially encouraged to apply, as the goal of the program is to broaden the range of research topics in which information is exchanged between the United States and India. Each fellow will receive a stipend of $1500 (of which $1150 will be paid in rupees) per month, a book allowance, and travel allowances for both international and internal Indian travel. Those holding the longer‐term fellowships will receive additional benefits for the transportation and support of dependents. Applicants must U.S. citizens. The program is funded by the U.S. Information Agency, the National Science Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Government of India.
IAHS Secretary General resigns
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

John Rodda (Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, U.K.) resigned as Secretary General of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) at the end of 1987 to take the position of director of the Hydrology and Water Resources Department of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Although he had been elected to a third term as Secretary General, his colleagues supported his choice to take on this new position.

Rodda has been replaced by another very capable appointee, Henny J. Colenbrander (Netherlands Organization for Applied Research, The Hague), who will serve as Acting Secretary General until the next IAHS General Assembly. As Acting Secretary General, his address is CHO‐TNO, PO Box 297, The Hague, 2501 BD Netherlands. Colenbrander also serves as one the AGU Hydrology Section's foreign correspondents for Eos.
New book examines Netherlands Hydrology
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Water in the Netherlands, a new volume written on the 40th anniversary of the Committee on Hydrologic Research of the Netherlands Organization for Applied Research, provides a concise summary of the developments in the field of water in the Netherlands. The 70‐page book, which was issued as Publication 37, is well illustrated, with many graphs and photos in color as well as black and white. The volume may be ordered through TNO Committee on Hydrological Research, PO Box 297, 2501 BD The Hague, Netherlands.
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Werner D. Kahn, 57, a geophysicist in the Geodynamics branch of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, Md.) and a member of the AGU Geodesy Section, died recently.

Lloyd E. Brotson, a member of the Atmospheric Sciences Section since 1942, died recently.
Reserve space on NCAR flights
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The advisory panel for the Research Aviation Facility of the National Center for Atmospheric Research will meet October 17‐18 in Boulder, Colo., to consider requests for research time on five airplanes. The panel will recommend flight hour allocations for April through September 1989. Aircraft available are NCAR's King Air (N312D), Sabreliner (N307D) and Electra (N308D), the T‐28 research aircraft operated by the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and the King Air aircraft of the University of Wyoming.

The panel must receive requests for flight time by August 12 to consider them at the October meeting. To use the NCAR aircraft, send requests to Warren Johnson, NCAR Research Aviation Facility Manager, Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307; tel. Paul Spyers‐Duran, 303‐497‐1036. For the T‐28, write to Paul Smith, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Rapid City, SD 57701‐3995; tel. 605‐394‐2291. For the second King Air, contact John Marwitz, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071; tel. 307‐766‐4947.
New Explorer program starts
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

To provide quick implementation of scientific opportunities for space science investigations, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has begun a new part of its Explorer program. The Small‐Class Explorer program is for missions that can be done on spacecraft carried by Scout‐class launch vehicles and that will take less than 3 years from initiation to launch.

Explorer research areas include astrophysics, space physics, and upper atmospheric physics. Over the years, dozens of small‐ and medium‐sized payloads have been launched in the Explorer program, for example, the Solar Mesospheric Explorer and the Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Experiment. The small‐class program is for small free‐flyers with focused investigations that complement major missions, prove new scientific concepts, or make other significant contributions to space science. The program includes special opportunities for bilateral international cooperation.
Mafic inclusions in granites
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

There will be a special session on Mafic Inclusions in Granites at the 1988 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. The session, called to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Adolph Pabst's classic work, Observations on Inclusions in the Granitic Rocks of the Sierra Nevada, will examine the different types of mafic inclusions in granite with particular emphasis on their significance and origin. Contributions are encouraged on a broad range of topics pertaining to mafic inclusions in granites, including isotopic, experimental, geochemical, petrological, and field studies of inclusions in volcanic and plutonic rocks.

Persons interested in making oral or poster presentations should contact the convenors, Robert S. Hildebrand, Geological Survey of Canada, 588 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E4 Canada or Wayne N. Sawka, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories L‐201, PO Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550.
NSF deadlines
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation has set key deadline dates for grants and proposals due for the next 3 months. Dates given below are subject to change; more information may be obtained by contacting the NSF staff members listed.

The program deadline date means that proposals received after this cutoff date generally will be returned to the proposer. The target date means that proposals received after this cutoff date will be reviewed, although they may miss a particular panel meeting.
Changes coming for Science Board
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The role of a National Academy of Science panel that advises NASA on goals for space science and exploration will be reexamined this fall by scientists, NASA officials, and congressional staff.

The NAS Space Science Board will be the subject of two conferences, the first scheduled for the week of October 24 in Virginia, according to Joyce Purcell of NAS. About 60 scientists and policymakers will discuss the future of space science and how the structure and purpose of the board might change. The sessions were proposed by Louis Lanzerotti of AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., who succeeded Thomas Donahue of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor as chairman of the SSB July 1.
New National Space Club Award
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Space Club has established a new award in recognition of the role that scientists and scientific investigations in space have played in advancing the goals of the United States Space Program. The award will be presented annually to the individual or group of specifically named individuals whose efforts have resulted in a significant contribution to the U.S. Space Science Program.

The first Science Award will be presented at the Goddard Memorial Dinner in Washington, D.C., during March of 1989. The award recipient(s) will be selected by an awards committee appointed by the president of the National Space Club. The committee is chaired by Noel Hinners, Associate Deputy Administrator and Chief Scientist for NASA. Final selection will be completed by the first week in February.
Geology Fulbrights
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Fulbright grants in geology for 1988–89 remain open. Specific opportunities are available in Egypt, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Mozambique, Oman, Poland, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Turkey, U.S.S.R., West Bank, Yemen, and Zimbabwe. Other countries are also open to applications in any discipline, and geology is among their preferred fields.

The grants are available until awarded and are open only to U.S. citizens. In Central and South America and French‐speaking Africa, knowledge of host‐country language is required. For more information, contact the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), 11 Dupont Circle N.W., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20036; tel. 202‐939‐5401.
Panel to allocate aircraft time
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The advisory panel for the research aviation facility (RAF) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research will meet April 17–18, 1989, in Boulder, Colo., to consider requests and make recommendations for flight hour support. Time will be scheduled on the RAF aircraft NCAR King Air (N312D), Sabreliner (N307D), and Electra (N308D) and the T‐28 research aircraft operated by the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, mostly for work to be done October 1989 through March 1990. Deadline for proposals is February 17, 1989. For more information contact Paul Spyers‐Duran, NCAR RAF, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, C O 80307‐3000; tel. 303‐497‐1036
AIP sponsors Science Fellow
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The American Institute of Physics will send its second Congressional Science Fellow to Capitol Hill in 1989–90. Application deadline is February 15, 1989.

The first AIP Fellow is Arthur Charo, Harvard University, one of 42 1988–89 fellows sponsored by 15 scientific societies, including AGU. The Congressional Science Fellowship program is organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fellows spend their year in Washington usually working on staffs of members of Congress or of congressional committees.
Earthwatch Funds Field Research
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Center for Field Research, Watertown, Mass., has designated geological field research as a priority for Earthwatch support. The center will award more than $5 million to 200 projects in 1988 and 1989. Grants range from $7500 to $100,000. The funds come from contributions of Earthwatch field volunteers, so projects applying for support must need direct field assistance as well as money to be eligible. For more information contact Dede Robbins, Associate Director, Center for Field Research, 680 Mount Auburn St., P.O. Box 403, Watertown, MA 02272; tel. 617–926–8200. Preliminary proposals are due 18 months before intended project date; funding decisions are made monthly.
Groundwater hydrology
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The international conference on Advances in Ground‐Water Hydrology was held November 16–19, 1988, in Tampa, Fla. More than 320 scientists and engineers attended the conference, which was dedicated to the memory of the late C. V. Theis, formerly with the U.S. Geological Survey, an AGU Fellow, holder of the Robert E. Horton Medal, and member of the AGU Hydrology Section since 1934. The 3‐day meeting had presentations by more than 100 speakers from Canada, Europe, and the U.S. The conference was organized to review advances in hydrology in the past 10 years. Discussions were held on the need for research and practical applications in groundwater hydrology for the 1990s. The conference was sponsored by the American Institute of Hydrology, in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Protection Agency, Universities Council on Water Resources, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, American Geological Institute, American Society of Agricultural Engineers, American Water Resources Association, Geological Society of America, and International Association of Hydrogeologists.
New IAHS publications
Authors: Colenbrander Henny J.
Published: October 2011

The new IAHS Yearbook, 1987–1991 contains general information about the Association, commissions, committees, and working groups, and officers and names and addresses of IAHS representatives in each member country. Also included are the statutes and by‐laws of the Association; the commissions on Continental Erosion, Groundwater, Snow and Ice, Surface Water, Water Quality, and Water Resources Systems; and the Committee on Remote Sensing and Data Transmission. Copies of the yearbook are available from IAHS Secretary General Henny J. Colenbrander, TNO/CHR, P.O. Box 297, 2501 BD The Hague, Netherlands.

A 1988 edition of IAHS Catalog of Publications is now available on request. The catalog contains a list of all titles and prices for the IAHS series of past proceedings and reports, as well as scheduled new titles; information on subscripting to Hydrological Sciences Journal and ordering other publications (15% discount for standing orders and to IAHS members); and information and application blanks for membership in IAHS. Copies of the catalog may be obtained by request to one of the IAHS publication outlets: Office of the Treasurer, IAHS, 2000 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009; IAHS Press, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, U.K.; or Bureau des Publications de l'UGGI, 140 Rue de Grenelle, 75700 Paris, France.
AIP Science Report
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

More than 500 radio stations are airing two‐minute radio spots from the latest American Institute of Physics Science Report series. AIP released the 24th edition of its popular science broadcasts in May. The twenty new programs, developed by AIP, include seven about geophysics: lightning, snow glitter, geothermal energy, avalanches, the magnetometer, hurricanes, and northern lights. Each feature includes sound effects and narration by scientists; meteorologist Jo Anne Simpson talks about hurricanes, for example. AGU is one of AIP's ten member societies.
Paleomagnetism
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Third Annual Northeast Paleomagnetic Workshop was held September 23 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Laurie Brown of the university's geology department was the organizer. On September 22, Sue Halgedahl of Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory, Palisades, N.Y., gave a lecture on magnetic domain structure and its relationship to paleomagnetic stability.
Volunteer senior scientists wanted
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The American Association for the Advancement of Science plans to establish a nationwide program to involve older scientists as volunteers in public education, business, and government.

The Senior Scientists and Engineers (SSE) program was originated by AAAS in response to projected shortages of experienced scientists in many fields, and to draw on the large and rapidly growing population of post‐retirement professional scientists. SSE began in 1988 as a pilot program in the Washington D.C. area run in conjunction with the American Association of Retired Persons.
Ice Core Facility
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

To support its program of studying ice cores taken from the Greenland, Antarctic and midlatitude ice sheets, the Division of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation is soliciting proposals for operating its ice core curatorial facility.

NSF's current ice core repository is at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where it has been operated under annual contract since 1975. Beginning in Fiscal Year 1991, whoever manages the NSF facility, now to be called the U.S. Ice Core Repository, will do it under a 5‐year cooperative agreement.
Fulbright to Verosub
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Kenneth L. Verosub of the geology department at the University of California, Davis, received a Fulbright grant to do paleomagnetic research in France during the 1989–1990 academic year. In collaboration with French researchers at the Université de Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier, he is studying reversals of Earth's magnetic field recorded in lake and marine sediments in France and Italy.
Streamflow up in 1989
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The combined flow of the nation's three largest rivers—the Mississippi, the St. Lawrence and the Columbia—was up nearly 8% above median in 1989, reports the U.S. Geological Survey. Flow averaged a normal‐range 1.08 trillion gallons per day. Hydrologists at the USGS note the sharp contrast to 1988, when combined flow of the three rivers averaged 18% below median and was in the below‐normal range.

For smaller streams in the U.S., flow conditions were more varied. Of 174 index stream‐gaging stations, 40 reported flows averaging in the above‐normal range, 79 had flows averaging in the normal range and 55 stations registered averages in the below‐normal range.
Contract for supercomputers
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a contract to Cray Research, Inc., Beltsville, Md., for two supercomputers. The systems will improve capability, on an interim basis, at NOAA's National Meteorological Center near Washington, D.C., and at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J.

The award to Cray was for $10.7 million this year, with a total contract life cost over 5 years of $66.1 million. Negotiations resulted in a savings to the government of about $14.6 million, over the contract life, including options.
Granitoid intrusion into the VGP News
Authors: Casey William H.
Published: October 2011

The VGP News is intended to stimulate fruitful thought in important areas of volcanism, petrology, and geochemistry. To achieve this aim, the February and May editions of VGP News are dedicated to a two‐part debate on the origin of anatectic granitoids.
1989 Bowen Award to Ross Taylor
Authors: Burke Kevin
Published: October 2011

Ross Taylor graduated with a B.Sc. degree from Canterbury College of the then University of New Zealand in 1948 and an M.Sci in 1951. He followed the footsteps of Ernest Rutherford and other distinguished New Zealanders (including a surprisingly large number of AGU Fellows in proportion to the small population of New Zealand) by going aboard to further pursue his scientific education.
Sulfur modifies climate
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A study of how sulfur gases from the ocean modify climate by influencing cloud reflectivity will be done April 2–27 off the coast of Washington state by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Scientists on the NOAA research vessel McArthur and a research aircraft from the University of Washington will measure sulfur compounds in the ocean and overlying atmosphere to calculate the rate of emission of the compounds from the ocean. Oxidized sulfur gases and particles in the atmosphere will also be measured to study the growth and formation of cloud condensation nuclei.
GRO gets guests
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Because the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) decided to extend the mission lifetime of the Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO), the agency is starting a guest investigator program for GRO, to get the most out of the onboard instruments.

GRO is a satellite that will be launched from the space shuttle in a nominal 450 km circular orbit with an inclination of 28.5°. Deployment is scheduled for November 1990. The aim is to obtain observations of astronomical gamma rays from 50 keV to 30 GeV for such studies as formation of the elements, particle acceleration in the Sun, stars and steller systems, origin of the cosmic diffuse background, and the origin and evolution of the universe itself. After 20 days of checkout, GRO will spend 15 months doing an all‐sky survey before the 12‐month Phase 1 Guest Investigator Program begins.
Icebreaking ship
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The U.S. Antarctic Program will have a new ship for working in polar waters by early 1992. It will be the first U.S. ship with icebreaking capability dedicated to scientific research. The Polar Duke, currently leased by the National Science Foundation, which manages the program, is ice‐strengthened but cannot break ice.

NSF announced in February that an $83.8‐million contract for construction and 10‐year lease of the 900‐m ship had been signed with Edison Chouest Offshore, Inc., of Galliano, La. The design calls for a crew of 22, support for the research of 37 scientists for cruises as long as 75 days, a helicopter landing deck and housing and maintenance for two 4‐passenger helicopters. The ship will have two propellers with three diesel engines driving each; the six engines can generate 11,070 horsepower. While it is not a true icebreaker, the ship will be able to break ice as thick as a meter at a speed of 3 knots
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Knox Millsaps died in December 1989. He had been a member of the Ocean Sciences Section since 1962.
Aspects of Climate Variability in the Pacific and the Western Americas, Geomonograph 55
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

This monograph provides a regional view of global scale climate variability. Most of the chapters focus on the nature and causes of variability in the eastern North Pacific Ocean and western North and South America. Analyses of paleoclimatic, oceanographic, atmospheric, hydrospheric and terrestrial observations are presented. The volume has 23 chapters in 445 pages. This multidisciplinary effort grew out of the Pacific Climate Workshop (PACLIM), an annual gathering of diverse specialists to discuss topics associated with climate variability within that region.
1990 Ocean Sciences Meeting report and late abstracts
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The 1990 Ocean Sciences Meeting, sponsored jointly by the American Geophysical Union and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, was held February 12–16 in New Orleans, La. There were more presentations and higher attendance than at any previous AGU‐ASLO ocean sciences meeting.
Polarimetric radar modified
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Modification of 11‐cm Doppler radar, to permit measurement of the complete polari‐metric matrix of signals backscattered from meteorological media, was recently completed by the Ground Based Remote Sensing Branch of the Geophysics Laboratory, U.S. Air Force Base, Hanscom, Mass. It is believed that this radar is the only meteorological research radar in the world having such a capability at this wavelength. Signals can be transmitted with either linear or circular polarization and switched pulse‐to‐pulse either between horizontal and vertical or between right and left circular polarization.

Backscattered signals with polarizations identical and orthogonal to that of the transmitted signal pass through coherent and logarithmic receivers and are recorded as time series in 40 selectable range gates. The resulting data archive supports a wide range of analyses, including auto‐ and cross‐covariance calculations and spectral analyses.
DNAG on compact disc
Authors: Hittelman Allen M. , Meyers Herb
Published: October 2011

Data associated with the Geological Society of America's Decade of North American Geology and other companion continental‐scale data sets are now available as a new compact disc product, developed by the National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, Colo. Software is also available that allows users to make scientific maps on a personal computer.
North American transects report
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The North American Continent‐Ocean Transects Program was started early in 1979 by the U.S. Geodynamics Committee (USGC) of the National Research Council. It is the study of the structure and Phanerozoic evolution of the transitional region of the North American hemisphere between its craton and bordering oceanic lithosphere. The USGC recently issued the report “North American Continent‐Ocean Transects Program” as an overview of the program and guide for the future. Copies are available from U.S. Geodynamics Committee, National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20418.
JGOFS 1991”1992
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

This is the fourth announcement in a continuing series from the Division of Ocean Sciences of the National Science Foundation to alert the biological and chemical oceanography communities of opportunities for participation in global ocean flux research. The announcement is based on research priorities developed by the U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (U.S. JGOFS). U.S. JGOFS is moving toward a fully operational phase in the early 1990s. Research priorities have and continue to be reviewed by the U.S. JGOFS Steering Committee with recommendations directed to the NSF Division of Ocean Science and other federal agencies involved with U.S. JGOFS. This announcement calls for proposals for completing the core measurements and for individual, process‐oriented proposals.
Front Range Branch Officers
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Front Range Branch of AGU has installed officers for 1990: Ray Noble, National Center for Atmospheric Research, chair; Sherry Oaks, U.S. Geological Survey, chair‐elect; Howard Garcia, NOAA, treasurer; Catharine Skokan, Colorado School of Mines, secretary. JoAnn Joselyn of NOAA is past chair. Members at large are Wallace Campbell, NOAA; William Neff, USGS; and Stephen Schneider, NCAR.
Scientific personnel shortage
Authors: Mulhall Marguerite
Published: October 2011

The Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space convened a hearing recently to explore the issue of projected future shortages in scientific and engineering personnel. Senator Albert Gore (D‐TN), chairman of the subcommittee, structured this hearing specifically to address the role of the National Science Foundation in this area.