bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
NSF seeks nominations for Waterman Award
Authors: Wainger Lisa A.
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation is asking for nominations for the 14th annual Alan T.Waterman Award. The award recognizes outstanding work by a young researcher in any field of science, mathematics, or engineering and is designed to encourage further highquality research.

The award was established in 1975 to mark the 25th anniversary of NSF and to honor Waterman, the first director of the Foundation. The recipient of the award receives as much as $500,000 for up to 3 years of research or advanced study in mathematical, physical, medical, biological, engineering, social, or other sciences at the institution of the recipient's choice.
Geophysical events
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

This is a summary of SEAN Bulletin, 13 (6), June 30, 1988, 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 E88‐005 at $2.50 (U.S.) by writing to AGU Orders, 2000 Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20009 or by calling toll free on 800‐424‐2488. For the paper reprint, order SEAN Bulletin (giving volume and issue numbers and issue date) through the same 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 also available from AGU‐Orders; the price is $18 for 12 monthly issues mailed to a U.S. address, $28 if mailed elsewhere, and must be prepaid. SEAN Bulletin is available on Kosmos. Type CHECK SEAN on Part A of Kosmos.
Reply [to “Lake Nyos Dam”]
Authors: Lockwood John P.
Published: October 2011

The Lake Nyos natural d am consists largely of unconsolidated pyroclastic surge deposits emplaced during the formation of Nyos maar [Lockwood et al., 1987]. The emplacement age of the d am is critical for an evaluation of this flood hazard to northwestern Cameroon and eastern Nigeria, and for preparation of mitigation strategies. Carbonized wood from the base of the d am has been dated at 5000 and 400 years B.P. by Lockwood and Rubin [1988]. Because of the lack of weathering or of significant erosion of the associated pyroclastic deposits around Lake Nyos we suggested that the youngest radiocarbon age (0.4 kyr) best dated the formation of the Nyos maar and present dam. The 5‐kyr date was obtained on water‐worn material in stream deposits beneath the pyroclastic section; we suggested that this sample was contaminated by radiogenically “dead” CO2.
Job center
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

To better meet the needs of AGU members, a program has been started to increase the effectiveness of the Job Center activity at the Spring and Fall Meetings. As a result, participation in the Job Center at the 1988 AGU Spring Meeting in Baltimore increased substantially compared to previous Spring Meetings. The number of employers, applicants, and interviews scheduled more than doubled compared to the 1987 Spring Job Center.

In order to make the meeting Job Centers even better, a survey is being conducted of employers and applicants who participated in the 1988 Spring Job Center. Evaluation of this survey will be useful in continuing increased participation in and the effectiveness of the Job Center at the 1988 Fall Meeting. Past participants and those interested in the future of the Job Center are encouraged to forward comments and suggestions to AGU, Member Programs Division, 2000 Florida Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20009.
Phobos research proposals sought
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Four more U.S. scientists will be selected to participate in the U.S.S.R.'s Phobos mission. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is seeking proposals for research to be conducted in conjunction with the Soviet mission. Scientists from U.S. institutions who have an established specialty in Phobos or in processes believed to operate on Phobos are invited to submit research proposals. Awards of $30,000–$40,000 will be made annually; support is expected to be available for 3 years.
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

William Ackerman, AGU Fellow, member of the Hydrology section since 1938, and President of AGU from 1966 to 1968, died on June 9. He was 74.

Mahdi S. Hantush, a member of the Hydrology section since 1949, died recently. He was 66.
Water research grants
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Applications are invited for water research projects under the Water Resources Research Grant Program (section 105 of Public Law 98‐242). Application forms are expected to be available on or about August 15, 1988, and may be obtained by writing to the U.S. Geological Survey, Attention: Melissa Calloway, MS 205C, Office of Procurement and Contracts, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 22092, and requesting a copy of Announcement 7442. Applications are tentatively due on or before October 14, 1988. The announcement will state the actual due date for receipt of the applications. Applications may be submitted by water resources research institutes and other qualified educational institutions, private foundations, private firms, individuals, and agencies of state or local governments. The purpose of this program is to provide matching grants for research related to the following general areas of national interest: aspects of the hydrologic cycle; supply and demand for water; demineralization of saline and other impaired waters; conservation and best use of available supplies of water and methods of increasng such supplies; water reuse; depletion and degradation of groundwater supplies; improvement in the productivity of water when used for agricultural, municipal, or commerical purposes; and the economic, legal, engineering, social, recreational, biological, geographical, ecological, and other aspects of water problems.
Along the waterfront
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Gulf Coast province provides an array of scientific dilemmas ranging from the origin of the gulf itself to the causes and effects of long‐lasting circulation of hot, deep waters throughout the thick sedimentary section. The nature of the underlying crust and superjacent sediments and their contained waters; the precise timing of rifting; depositional history and diagenesis of the sedimentary sequence; fluid dynamics; geochemistry; hydrocarbon generation and migration; thermal history, including unusually high thermal gradient; and the fluid pressure regime in the deep sedimentary section are too poorly understood to permit quantitative analysis of processes that are of enormous scientific and practical importance. The area centered on DeWitt and Victoria counties, Texas, on the southeastern extension of the San Marcos arch, is probably the best location for a deep borehole to investigate these important phenomena and problems. The arch extends southeastward from exposed Grenville‐age basement rocks of the Llano uplift and separates the deep South Texas and Houston embayment salt basins. Seaward of the Llano uplift, highly deformed and slightly metamorphosed rocks of the Ouachita‐Marathon orogen have been intersected beneath Cretaceous sediments. The inferred edge of continental crust underlies an extensive Lower Cretaceous reef trend southeast of known Ouachita orogen rocks. Rapid thickening of Tertiary and possibly of Cretaceous sediments southeast of the shelf edge, together with geophysical indications of a relatively shallow Moho, suggests that “transitional continental crust” underlies sediments basinward of the inferred edge of continental crust. This transitional crust, the ultimate objective for a proposed deep well, could be rifted Grenville basement, buried rocks of the Ouachita trend, an island arc related to the Ouachita trend, or exotic continental basement related to a proto‐South American continent. To achieve optimum results to guarantee adequate basement penetration, a borehole should be designed to penetrate a relatively thin succession of lower Mesozoic synrift, graben‐fill sediments seaward of the shelf edge. Because of expected high temperatures and pressures, new technologies will need to be developed to successfully drill and test the well.
NRC to award 100 Fellowships to Minorities
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Research Council will administer about 100 predoctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowships for the Ford Foundation minorities program in 1989. The awards will go to Native American Indians, Alaskan Natives, Black Americans, Mexican Americans and Chicanos, Native Pacific islanders, and Puerto Ricans.

The fellowships will be given in engineering, mathematics, and the humanities and behavioral, social, physical, and biological sciences. No grants will be given in professional fields such as business administration and management, education, or health sciences or to students planning a terminal masters degree. Only U.S. citizens and nationals are eligible.
Geophysicists
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Gulf Coast province provides an array of scientific dilemmas ranging from the origin of the gulf itself to the causes and effects of long‐lasting circulation of hot, deep waters throughout the thick sedimentary section. The nature of the underlying crust and superjacent sediments and their contained waters; the precise timing of rifting; depositional history and diagenesis of the sedimentary sequence; fluid dynamics; geochemistry; hydrocarbon generation and migration; thermal history, including unusually high thermal gradient; and the fluid pressure regime in the deep sedimentary section are too poorly understood to permit quantitative analysis of processes that are of enormous scientific and practical importance. The area centered on DeWitt and Victoria counties, Texas, on the southeastern extension of the San Marcos arch, is probably the best location for a deep borehole to investigate these important phenomena and problems. The arch extends southeastward from exposed Grenville‐age basement rocks of the Llano uplift and separates the deep South Texas and Houston embayment salt basins. Seaward of the Llano uplift, highly deformed and slightly metamorphosed rocks of the Ouachita‐Marathon orogen have been intersected beneath Cretaceous sediments. The inferred edge of continental crust underlies an extensive Lower Cretaceous reef trend southeast of known Ouachita orogen rocks. Rapid thickening of Tertiary and possibly of Cretaceous sediments southeast of the shelf edge, together with geophysical indications of a relatively shallow Moho, suggests that “transitional continental crust” underlies sediments basinward of the inferred edge of continental crust. This transitional crust, the ultimate objective for a proposed deep well, could be rifted Grenville basement, buried rocks of the Ouachita trend, an island arc related to the Ouachita trend, or exotic continental basement related to a proto‐South American continent. To achieve optimum results to guarantee adequate basement penetration, a borehole should be designed to penetrate a relatively thin succession of lower Mesozoic synrift, graben‐fill sediments seaward of the shelf edge. Because of expected high temperatures and pressures, new technologies will need to be developed to successfully drill and test the well.
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 instittion letterhead, above the signature of the faculty advisor or department chairman: (1) the dissertation title, (2) author's name, (3) name of the degree‐granting department and institution, (4) faculty advisor, (5) month and year degree was awarded, (6) category of dissertation subject (Atmospheric Sciences, Hydrology, Ocean Sciences, Solid Earth, or Space Sciences).
AGU Statutes and Bylaws
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The American Geophysical Union, which was established in 1919 by the National Research Council and for more than 50 years operated as an unincorporated affiliate of the National Academy of Sciences, is now a corporation chartered under the laws of the District of Columbia. The Union is dedicated to the furtherance of the sciences of geophysics through the individual efforts of its Members and in cooperation with other national and international scientific organizations.
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Mahdi S. Hantush died recently at the age of 66. He was a member of the Hydrology Section since 1949.

P. O. Wolf, City University, London, England (member of AGU Hydrology since 1957), was elected President of the British Hydrological Society.
NSF deadlines
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation has set key deadline dates for grants and proposals due for the next several months. Dates given below are subject to change; more information may be obtained by contacting the NSF staff member 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.
NFS gives Career Awards to Women
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Five geophysicists are among 38 women who received a total of $1.64 million in Career Advancement Awards in November from the National Science Foundation through its Research Opportunities for Women (ROW) initiative. Individual awards are as large as $60,000 and give recipients opportunities to work with other investigators and develop new lines of research.

Patricia M. Costanzo of the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, is studying dehydrated kaolinites. At the University of Alaska's Institute of Geophysics, Joan P. Gosink is applying remote sensing to snow, ice and permafrost research. Mary Kraus of the University of Colorado, Boulder, is combining field studies and remote sensing to work out the depositional history of the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming. The research of Cecile Penland of the University of California, Los Angeles, is on variability in northern hemisphere geopotential heights. Judith B. Weinstein‐Lloyd of SUNY College at Old Westbury is studying the chemistry of hydrogen peroxide in cloudwater.
Graduate Program in Marine Policy
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The University of Hawaii at Manoa will begin offering a graduate certificate program in marine policy next spring. Students can concentrate on the science or the policy aspect. The science track covers oceanography, ocean engineering, geology and geophysics. The policy track includes law, geography, political science and economics. Also required are a week at sea doing oceanographic research and a semester of observing how legislation and policy are developed.
Geophysical events
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

This is a summary of SEAN Bulletin, 25(10), October 31, 1988, 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 E88‐010 at $2.50 (U.S.) by writing to AGU Orders, 2000 Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20009 or by calling toll free on 800–424–2488. For the paper reprint, order SEAN Bulletin (giving volume and issue numbers and issue date) through the same 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 also available from AGU‐Orders; the price is $18 for 12 monthly issues mailed to a U.S. address, $28 if mailed elsewhere, and must be prepaid. SEAN Bulletin is available on Kosmos. Type CHECK SEAN on Part A of Kosmos
Reply [to “On mantle carbon flux calculated”]
Authors: Des Marais David J.
Published: October 2011

I will address Marty's concern about priority in the publication of 3He‐based estimates for the flux and isotopic composition of mantle carbon (“Who published what, and when?”). I will also discuss our views on the history of mantle/crust exchange.

Our analyses of MORB carbon occurred from 1980 to 1986, in collaboration with H. Sakai, J.G. Moore and J. Delaney, and J. Blank. We reported that a 13C‐depleted component, released by combustion below 500°C, had been added to the samples after their eruption [Des Marais et al., 1983; Des Marais and Moore, 1984; Sakai et al., 1984]. Essentially all of the carbon released above 500°C derived from the original magma and was isotopically similar, both to the value measured earlier for CO2 in MORB vesicles [Pineau et al., 1976; Moore et al., 1977], and also to the average value for the crust. While isotopic comparisons between mantle and crust have indeed “focused the attention of many workers, starting in the 1950s,” the early estimates of mantle carbon were either based on unusual minerals or rocks (e.g. diamonds or carbonatites) whose isotopic composition could not be proved to represent the average upper mantle value, or they were based on analyses that implied (incorrectly) that basalts contain two major, magma‐derived, isotopically distinct carbon components ( −4 to −9 permil, and −20 to −30 permil). Because midocean ridge (MOR) volcanism provides most of the mantle carbon flux, it offers the most representative sample of the upper mantle. Our work, together with H. Craig's measurements of MOR hydrothermal fluids, first showed that carbon isotope discrimination during eruption was less than a few permil, and that, at several ridge sites, the indigenous carbon (not only in MORB vesicles but also in MORB glass) was isotopically quite similar to that of the crustal carbon reservoir.
NASA graduate student grants
Authors: Mellott Mary , Parks George
Published: October 2011

The National Aeronautics Space Administration will award about 80 grants under its Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP). The $12,000 fellowships are given for a year and may be renewed; up to $6000 may be given for tuition and travel costs. Students can apply as undergraduates or graduates and must be U.S. citizens. Application deadline for 1989–1990 is February 1.

NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications sponsors about half the fellowships; the other 40 are distributed through NASA field centers. OSSA awards are in astrophysics, Earth science, life sciences, microgravity science, Solar System exploration, and space physics. OSSA fellows work at their home universities. Fellows selected by centers spend some time in residence, to use unique research facilities and work with center staff.
Planetary materials proposals
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is soliciting research proposals for the Planetary Materials and Geochemistry Program. The program supports scientific investigations that involve laboratory studies of extraterrestrial materials or are aimed at understanding the geochemical nature of the Moon, planets, other satellites, and small bodies of the Solar System. More general studies about the formation and chemical development of the Solar System are also encouraged.

Examples of such work include studies of Solar System formation, chemical differentiation of planetary bodies, and processes necessary to understanding planetary data. Special consideration will be given proposals for lunar sample research, Antarctic meteorite collection, cosmic dust collection, and programrelevant terrestrial research.
Important caves to be identified
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Criteria to identify significant caves on federal land are being developed by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management and the Agriculture Department's Forest Service under requirements of the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1988. The departments gave advance notice of proposed rulemaking March 3 and invited suggestions and comments from the public for 30 days.

The law requires protection, to the extent practical, of significant caves on lands administered by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior and includes authority to issue and revoke permits for collection and removal of cave resources and special provisions for regulation of cave resources on Indian lands. Final regulations must be published by August 18, 1989.
Group for frozen soil and rock
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The American Society for Testing and Materials wants participants for D18.19, its new subcommittee on frozen soil and rock. The group will write standards for engineering practices in northern Canada, Alaska, and other areas where soil and rock are commonly in the frozen or recently thawed state. Three standards are currently under development: axial compressive load tests o n piles in frozen soils, laboratory rate of frost‐heave tests, and laboratory creep testing of frozen soil.

The next D18.19 meeting is June 26 in St. Louis, Mo. Scientists who want to work on the subcommittee should contact Bill Lovell, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47904, tel. 317‐494‐ 5034; or Wendy Dyer, ASTM, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, tel. 215‐299‐5526.
Harold Jeffreys 1891–1989
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Sir Harold Jeffreys, renowned British seismologist, died on March 18, 1989, at the age of 97. A corresponding member of AGU since 1944, Jeffreys received AGU's highest honor, the William Bowie Medal, in 1952. He became a Fellow of the Union in 1962 and was later made an Honorary Fellow when that category was established. Jeffreys was associated for most of his professional life with St. John's College, Cambridge University, England.
Research awards for LTER sites
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Three geophysical studies are among 13 ecological research projects funded this year by the National Science Foundation for work at nine Long‐Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites. The awards, to individual scientists, totalled more than $450,000. LTERs offer unique natural features, secure study sites, and well‐developed data bases.

At the Konza Prairie site in Kansas, Mary K. Firestone of the University of California at Berkeley will study how soil nitrogen and water cycles control production of nitrogen gas. James A. MacMahon of Utah State University will work on reconstruction of ecosystems in arid lands at the Niwot Ridge site in Colorado. In the lowland tropical streams at the Lugillo site in Puerto Rico, Catherine M. Pringle of the University of California at Santa Barbara will look for factors that control algal periphyton growth and nitrogen transformations.
New NAS members
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Academy of Sciences elected 60 new members and 14 foreign associates April 25.

Five new members are geophysists and geologists: William A. Berggren, senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts; Stephen J. Gould, professor of geology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Warren B. Hamilton, research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colo.; Peter Meyer, professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies and chairman of the Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Illinois; and John G. Sclater, Shell Distinguished Professor of Geophysics and associate director of the Institute of Geophysics, University of Texas, Austin.
Geologic applications of surface science
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

We are soliciting contributions to a semi‐annual newsletter covering the general field of surface science studies of geologic materials. Any contributions concerning techniques (AES, XPS, SIMS, ELS, Laser Raman, FTIR, Rutherford Backscattering, solution geochemistry, etc.), processes such as adsorption, and catalysis, and new applications will be welcome.

In the first edition we hope to identify workers currently engaged in surface science studies, cite their recent contributions, and review their ongoing research activities. Subsequent editions can be used as an open forum to discuss topical issues, offer practical advice on analytical techniques, or to rapidly communicate new discoveries. This newsletter will be summarized twice a year in the VGP News. For the first newsletter please send a list of your recent contributions to surface science, a short note on your current research activities, and any suggestions for a name and acronym for this informal group before June 30, 1989. Contributions may be sent to David Mogk, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717.
Ride to direct Gal Space
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The California Space Institute at the University of California, San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography has appointed former astronaut Sally K. Ride as director. James Arnold, founding director of the California Space Institute (Cal Space) is stepping down to teach and d o research full time.

In her new position, Ride will oversee a $3.3 million research institute headquartered at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography that involves all eight University of California general campuses. Since 1987 when Ride left NASA, she has been a fellow of the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University.
Oil reservoir simulation package
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Department of Energy has announced another computer software package available free to oil field operators. The program enables a user to predict possible oil production based on length and location of the wellbore and can simulate expected performance of multiple horizontal or slanted wells in any geometric combination.

The new package is for small independent producers with little computer programming capability. The intent is to help them evaluate potential for boosting production by drilling horizontal or slanted wells instead of the more conventional vertical well.
NASA study grants
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

To expand human exploration of the Solar System, the Office of Exploration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded 20 contracts for ideas, concepts, devices, systems, and trajectory, operation and implementation plans. Winning proposals came from five industry‐related firms, two organizations in the space‐support business, and thirteen universities; they were chosen from 115 entries.

Geophysical studies to be supported include site characterization of the Oregon moonbase (Oregon L‐5 Society, Inc., Oregon City), evolution of design alternatives for exploration of Mars by balloon (Titan Systems, Inc., San Diego, Calif.), design considerations of a lunar production plant (Boston University, Chestnut Hill, Mass.), planetary materials and resource utilization (Michigan Technological University, Houghton), Mars tethered sample return study (University of Colorado, Boulder), Teleprospector, a teleoperated robotic field geologist (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque), and the International Lunar Polar Orbiter (International Space University, Boston, Mass.).
AWG Scholarships
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Association for Women Geoscientists will give two Chrysalis Scholarships in 1990. The awards are for women who returned to school after an interruption in education of at least a year and who are finishing a thesis for a Masters or Ph.D. degree in geoscience.

1989 was the first year for the Chrysalis. The recipient, Diane Bellis, was a doctoral candidate in geochemistry at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro and the mother of four. She received her Ph.D. in May and is currently an AAAS Fellow in the Department of State in Washington, D.C., working on U.S. science policy in Africa and Latin America.
American museum
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Fellowships in Earth sciences will be offered for 1990 by the Department of Mineral Sciences of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Postdoctoral awards support independent work at the museum and are not limited to recent Ph.D.s. Research areas are meteoritics, mineral deposits, mineralogy and petrology. Predoctoral student opportunities range from Earth sciences programs at Columbia University to summer internships at the museum.
Grants
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Engineering Foundation has announced a major expansion of its grant program and has extended the deadline for 1990 applications to December 15, 1989. With a grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research the foundation has added the new Air Force Engineering Research Initiation Grants program to parallel its ongoing Engineering Research Initiation Grants Program. For information contact the Engineering Foundation, 345 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017; tel. 212‐705‐7835.

The Office of Technology Asssessment of the U.S. Congress will select as many as six fellows for 1990–1991. The program is open to individuals working in physical and biological sciences, engineering,, law, economics, environmental and social sciences, and public policy. The annual salary ranges from $28,000 to $55,000. OTA provides congressional committees with analyses of issues involving science and technology, such as energy, agriculture, international security, environment, and education. For information contact Congressional Fellowships, Personnel Office, Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States, Washington, DC 20510‐8025. Application deadline is January 31, 1990.
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Peter Camillo, 41 , a member of the AGU Hydrology section since 1981, died.

Mao‐Fou Wu, a member of the Atmospheric Sciences section, died at 57.
AGU Ocean Science Award
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Ocean Science Executive Committee has announced that nominations are needed for its Award given for outstanding service to the marine science community. Service may include leadership, management, sharing of data, analysis techniques or models, as well as facility or instrumentation development. In every case, the service must go well beyond the normal requirements of an individual's job specifications. The individual must be nationally recognized for such service.

The executive committee will review nominations and designate awardee(s). Nominations should consist of a paragraph describing the individual's qualifications with respect to the award as well as a list of potential referees. While nominations can be considered at any time, it is customary for an annual assessment of potential awardee(s) to occur in early fall. The award is not given on any specific schedule, annual or otherwise. When the award is made, the awardee may select the meeting where he/she wishes to receive the award.
Minority scholarships
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The American Geological Institute sponsors undergraduate and graduate geoscience scholarships for members of ethnic minority groups. U.S. citizens who are majoring in geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, planetary geology, or Earth science education, and who are Black, Hispanic or Native American are eligible.

Undergraduate awards can be as large as $10,000 a year; graduate awards, $4000 a year. Application deadline is February 1, 1990. Contact AGI Minority Participation Program Scholarships, American Geological Institute, 4220 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22302‐1507; tel. 703‐379‐2480.
Eruption plume from Redoubt Volcano
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Redoubt volcano is about 200 km southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, on the west side of Cook Inlet. The current eruption began December 14 about 10 a.m. local time. In 5 minutes the eruption plume reached an altitude of 10.5 km. An explosion December 15 sent one plume of ash and steam to 12 km altitude and another to 8 km.
Phillips funds AWG lectures
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Association for Women Geoscientists Foundation has received a $9000 grant from Phillips Petroleum Company to fund the Phillips‐AWG Distinguished Lectures. The money will pay travel expenses for the women geoscientists listed with the AWG Speakers Bureau.

More than 100 women geoscientists are available through the AWG Speakers Bureau. Their topics cover all the Earth sciences including geology, geophysics, geochemistry, paleobotany, planetary geology and mineral exploration. Their areas of study range from the U.S., Europe and South America to Mars. They come from academia, government and industry in 33 states and the District of Columbia.
Iridium and hot‐spot volcanos
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Condensed gases from a volcano produced by the same hot spot that spilled the Indian Deccan flood basalts at the boundary of the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods contain iridium, according to a new study.

Jean‐Paul Toutain of the Observatoire Volcanologiques and Georges Meyer of the Institut de Physique du Globe, both in Paris, made measurements on sublimates and incrustations around active vents of arc, intracontinental, continental rift, and hot‐spot volcanic environments. In a paper published in the December 1989 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, the researchers claimed that the composition of the deposits represents that of gases emitted by the volcanos. Toutain and Meyer found that only sublimates from the hot‐spot volcano Piton de la Fournaise on Reunion Island in the southwest Indian Ocean contained measurable amounts of of the platinum‐group element iridium; they measured up to 7.5 ppb of the element in sublimates deposited at 250–450°C.
Marine aggregate dynamics
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The direction and scope of the Office of Naval Research's Marine Aggregate Dynamics Accelerated Research Initiative will be the topic of an open‐house style meeting February 14, 7:30–10:00 P.M. in Ballroom D of the Hyatt Regency New Orleans at the Louisiana Superdome. This meeting is scheduled during the AGU/American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Ocean Sciences Meeting February 12–16 in New Orleans.

The critical focus of the ARI is the measurement and modeling of the dynamics of the biological, physical, chemical and molecular processes that drive aggregation and produce aggregates. This new ARI will provide funding in Fiscal Years 1991–1995 to identify and quantify mechanisms that determine the distribution, abundance and size spectrum of aggregated particulate matter in the ocean.
Pearce element ratios: A paradigm for testing hypotheses
Authors: Russell J. K. , Nicholls Jim , Stanley Clifford R. , Pearce T. H.
Published: October 2011

Science moves forward with the development of new ideas that are encapsulated by hypotheses whose aim is to explain the structure of data sets or to expand existing theory. These hypotheses remain conjecture until they have been tested. In fact, Karl Popper advocated that a scientist's job does not finish with the creation of an idea but, rather, begins with the testing of the related hypotheses. In Popper's [1959] advocation it is implicit that there be tools with which we can test our hypotheses. Consequently, the development of rigorous tests for conceptual models plays a major role in maintaining the integrity of scientific endeavor [e.g., Greenwood, 1989].
Ocean Science Educator Award to Inman
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Douglas L. Inman has been selected to receive one of the first Ocean Science Educator Awards from the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research. He is a professor of oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif. Inman is being recognized for his distinguished record as a researcher and educator in Navy‐relevant areas of oceanography. He will receive a 3‐year, $225,000 grant, with most of the funds for support of a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution's Center for Coastal Studies, a teaching and research division founded by Inman.
NSF 1990 Plan
Authors: Jones R.
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation has released its Fiscal Year 1990 Current Plan, making expected cuts in some of the activities it supports. These cuts come on the heels of the reduction of grant and cooperative agreement increments by 2% from their originally committed amounts.

NSF started with the budget request for FY 1990, subtracted the amounts cut by Congress, Gramm‐Rudman‐Hollings sequestration, and the across‐the‐board reductions for the war on drugs, and then calculated an overall funding increase of 8% over FY 1989. Funding for research and related activities was “particularly hard hit,” NSF said, and will increase by only 5%. The increase is 6% when the amount for academic research facilities is included. (That amount would have been lower had not money been reallocated into academic research facilities that was to have been used to build 10–12 new science and technology centers.)
Poker Flat Radar data archived
Authors: Gage Kenneth S.
Published: October 2011

An archive of Poker Flat Mesosphere, Stratosphere and Troposphere (MST) radar observations has recently been completed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Aeronomy Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. The Poker Flat MST radar was one of the first wind‐profiling Doppler radars. Construction began in 1978 near Fairbanks, Alaska, with the support of the National Science Foundation, and the radar was in routine operation from early 1979–1985.

The archive includes observations of vertical and horizontal velocities, Doppler spectral width of horizontal and vertical motions, and signal strength. The observations are essentially continuous in time and cover an altitude range of about 5–30 km and 55–95 km, depending on season and time of day. In preparing the archive, data were carefully checked for consistency, and a special effort was made to optimize the retrieval of data from altitudes with low signal‐to‐noise ratio.
NASA, ONR, EPA deadlines
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Naval Research, and Environmental Protection Agency deadlines are coming up. For more information on a specific grant, contact the person named.
TRW Contributes $10,000
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Solar‐Planetary Relationships Section proposed in fall 1988 that a fund be established to honor Fred Scarf, who died July 17, 1988, while in the Soviet Union for launch of the missions to Phobos (see “Frederick L. Scarf, 1930–1988,” Eos, 69, 1601, 1988). TRW of Redondo Beach, Calif., Fred's employer, agreed to match the money contributed when the amount reached $10,000.

The fund has now grown to just over $8000 and TRW, in good faith that the fund will reach $10,000, has sent AGU a check for $10,000. TRW and AGU both believe that this fund is an especially fitting way for Fred to be remembered.
Observations and Interpretation of Hawaiian Volcanism and Seismicity 1779–1955
Authors: Fiske Richard S.
Published: October 2011

Active volcanos and their associated earthquakes are by far the most dramatic elements of Hawaii's natural history heritage. Indeed, the islands owe their very existence to these forces of nature, so it is not surprising that a host of scientists, journalists, and an even wider variety of citizen observers have, over the years, created a rich and diverse written record of their findings. This volume is the result of an exhaustive effort to gather and distill information from all available references on volcanism and seismicity for the period 1779–1955, a task of enormous proportions.
Lakes to be paired
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Lake Baikal in the U.S.S.R. and Lake Superior in the U.S. will be paired for studying global freshwater problems, by terms of an agreement signed in January by U.S. and Soviet ecological organizations. They will establish twin facilities to be internationally managed at the two lakes, exchange scientists and information, and translate and publish information on global freshwater issues.

The Lake Superior Center, Duluth, Minn., signed protocols with four Soviet ecological organizations and added four Soviet citizens to its board of directors. The center also has arranged for 10 Soviet scientists to attend an international freshwater conference in fall 1990 in Duluth. The conference will address scientific issues relating to large lakes.
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Arnold M. Bass died March 21, 1989, at age 67. He had been a member of the Solar‐Planetary Relationships Section since 1982.

Thomas A. Carney died October 13, 1989. He had been a member of the Atmospheric Sciences Section since 1985.
Reauthorization of earthquake act urged
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Reauthorization of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act was emphatically urged by witnesses at a hearing held March 1 in Washington, D.C., by Representative Doug Walgren (D‐Pa.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Eminent scholar chair to Fred Molz
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The College of Engineering at Auburn University, Auburn, Ala., has named Fred J. Molz to the newly created Elton Z. and Lois G. Huff Eminent Scholar Chair in the Department of Civil Engineering. Molz has been a member of AGU since 1968 and has served on the Hydrology Section's Groundwater Committee.
New shuttle?
Authors: Jones R.
Published: October 2011

A good demonstration of voting power was provided at a March 13 markup hearing of the House Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications. After somewhat heated debate, the subcommittee voted generally along party lines to construct a new unmanned shuttle.

Although the House and Senate have not agreed on final Fiscal Year 1990 NASA authorizing legislation, which both chambers passed last year, the subcommittee put its final touches on a new 3‐year NASA authorization bill. H.R. 4196 provides a 23% increase in budget authority, authorizing $3.4 billion in FY 1991, $11.2 billion in FY 1992, and $16.2 billion in FY 1993. Space interests have long sought a multiyear authorization, claiming it would ensure budget stability.
Chairman's corner
Authors: Bassett William
Published: October 2011

The Mineral Physics Committee is in its sixth year and my chairmanship will draw to an end at the AGU 1990 Spring Meeting. The Committee has agreed to recommend that Steve Kirby be appointed the next chairman. Steve, who is an experimentalist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif., has contributed a great deal to our understanding of rock deformation and especially the role of phase transitions in the release of stored strain energy. He will be a very able leader who can strengthen our ties to sister disciplines.
Coastal Ocean Committee Formed
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Ocean Studies Board of the National Research Council has appointed the Committee on the Coastal Ocean (CoCO) in response to increased scientific and public concern. The committee will examine present coastal ocean research efforts and evaluate the degree to which important research topics are being addressed by various federal and state agencies.
Regional and mesoscale modeling of ice covered oceans
Authors: Johannessen Johnny A. , Haugan Peter M. , Owens W. Brechner
Published: October 2011

Members of the ice‐ocean modeling community discussed and compared modeling approaches, capabilities, limitations and future goals at the Regional and Mesoscale Modeling of Ice Covered Oceans workshop, held near Bergen, Norway, October 23–27, 1989. The goal was to determine how well geophysical processes present in ice‐covered oceans are understood and modeled, and to identify data from upcoming field investigations, including satellite remote sensing, that can be used to determine processes that crucially control climatic changes on seasonal or longer time scales. Sponsored by the International Association for Physical Sciences of the Ocean, the Office of Naval Research, and Rieber Shipping Ltd., the workshop attracted more than 60 attendees from the U.S., Canada, U.S.S.R., Japan, New Zealand, France, F.R.G., U.K., Italy, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

Forty‐two papers were presented in five separate sessions that addressed formation of eddies, jets and vortex pairs; marginal Ice Zone and interior ice dynamics; data blending and assimilation techniques in regionaloperational modeling of the Greenland and Barents seas; coupling of sea ice to atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers; and sea ice‐ocean coupling in large‐scale circulation models. The discussions that followed formal presentations in each session are summarized in this report.
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Boris S. Browzin died at age 77. He had been a member of the Hydrology Section since 1957.

John H. Goncz died at age 57. He had been a member of the Seismology Section since 1975.
[Comment on “NASA big winner in budget” by M. Mulhall] Planetary research loses
Authors: Chapman Clark R.
Published: October 2011

The news story “NASA Big Winner in Budget” (Eos, March 6, 1990, p. 315) is misleading, especially since it is printed in a publication that chiefly addresses scientists. One can imagine that the 24% increase in the budget of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration benefits someone, but that certainly does not include working planetary research scientists.

The article says that the budget “contains healthy increases for most activities.” Seeing the apparent increase in the Research and Analysis (R&A) line‐item for Planetary Exploration (from $70.6 to $89.5 million between Fiscal Year 1990 and FY 1991), one might think that planetary research will suddenly benefit after a decade of erosion and decline. But that is not true.
SuperWAGS Campaign
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

In the 30 years since the publication of the paper by Colin Hines on Atmospheric Gravity Waves (AGW) in the ionosphere, hundreds of papers describing theoretical and experimental investigations of AGW sources and propagation phenomena have been published (see reviews by Yeh and Liu [1974], Francis [1975] and Hunsucker [1982]). Several global campaigns called “Worldwide Atmospheric Gravitywave Studies (WAGS)” [Argo and Hunsucker, 1985] have been carried out, and results of the WAGS 1 campaign of October 14–19, 1985, were reported in a special issue of Radio Science [Argo and Hunsucker, 1988] and in several other journals.
Senate passes clean air bill
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

In an 89 to 11 vote the Senate passed a clean air bill aimed at reducing pollution by the turn of the century by imposing tougher controls on American industry. The bill is the first revision of the Clean Air Act of 1970 in 13 years and calls for new limits on auto pollution to clean up smog in most U.S. cities, decreasing by half emissions by power plants that cause acid rain to protect the ecology, and increasing technological controls on factories to protect against cancer‐causing and toxic substances. The bill will add about $20 billion per year to the estimated $33 billion cost of complying with current pollution laws.
Fencing position
Authors: Shaw G. , Eagleson P. , Gordon A. , Smith S. , Settle M.
Published: October 2011

It is clear that most actions taken by Congress have been the result of pressure by constituents. At the 1989 fall meeting of the AGU Council, a Union position on fencing was approved, which said such pressure by members of AGU did not meet professional standards. Fencing refers to the practice of protecting parts of agency budgets from reduction, denying agency administrators the latitude to adjust such parts in response to changing appropriations for the agency. Recent actions by members of Congress to counteract efforts to circumvent peer review clearly indicate that there is support in Congress for the scientific integrity of the research funding process by the federal government. AGU's fencing position (below) supports such actions and the continued need for scientific integrity in the funding of research. Your support of the position is requested.