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1978 Midwest Meeting
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The 1978 Midwest Meeting of the American Geophysical Union was held at Saint Louis University on September 25–27, 1978. Cosponsors were Saint Louis University, Washington University, and the Defense Mapping Agency of Saint Louis. There were technical sessions in eight subject areas, with 59 contributed papers (the meeting program, including abstracts, is available on microfiche). Total attendance was 115.
Total eclipse February 26
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Hundreds of professional and amateur astronomers are planning to converge on a narrow path in the northwestern United States and central Canada on February 26 to observe this century's last total solar eclipse in North America.

The eclipse will begin at about 1609 universal time (UT), when the moon's shadow will touch the earth at sunrise in the northwest Pacific Ocean west of the state of Washington.
Einstein stamp to be issued
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A commemorative stamp honoring Albert Einstein will be issued by the U.S. Postal Service on March 4 in Princeton, New Jersey, during a series of events scheduled to celebrate the centennial of his birth by The Institute of Advanced Study.

Einstein, born in Germany on March 14,1879, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 and became a citizen of the United States in 1941. He died in Princeton on April 18, 1955.
Earthquake increase in 1978
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The number of significant earthquakes and of earthquake deaths in the world rose sharply in 1978 over the previous year, but for the first time in four years the world went without a ‘great’ earthquake of magnitude 8.0 or larger, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The Survey's National Earthquake Information Service (NEIS), Golden, Colorado, said that the number of significant earthquakes (6.5 or greater on the Richter scale or lesser ones that cause casualties or considerable damage) in the world rose from 36 in 1977 to 62 the following year. Deaths caused by earthquakes increased more than fivefold, from 2800 in 1977 to 15,195 last year, with most of them occurring in a major earthquake in Iran.
North Pacific oceanography
Authors: Paskausky David F. , Shaw Richard
Published: October 2011

A joint meeting of scientists from the U.S. and the USSR to discuss cooperative physical oceanographic research in the North Pacific was held May 23–26, 1978, in Novosibirsk, USSR. Since the Russians were primarily interested in climate, they were particularly attracted by the North Pacific Experiment (Norpax) program, which has the overall goal of investigating the interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere on long time and space scales. Although they expressed great interest in ocean forecasting on time scales (several days or less) of use to the oceanographer, they proposed two areas for joint research, both related to climate considerations and only incidental ly useful for short‐term ocean prediction: (1) a study of the effect of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies on precipitation and on the temperature of the atmosphere and (2) a study of the correlation between SST anomalies and summer cloud systems over the oceans. These areas overlap (1) with the Equatorial Dynamics Study (EDS) in Norpax, which is a component of the First Garp (Global Atmospheric Research Program) Global Experiment (FGGE) and which will observe the large‐scale and long‐term Pacific equatorial circulation fluctuations from January 1979 to July 1980, (2) with the Anomaly Dynamics Study (ADS), which is designed to investigate the mechanisms responsible for SST and upper ocean heat content anomalies in the mid‐latitude North Pacific, and (3) with the Eastern Pacific Ocean Circulation Study (EPOCS) planned for 1979 by the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Antarctic meteorites
Authors: Cassidy W. A.
Published: October 2011

Meteorites were apparently formed as rocks about 4.6 b.y. ago, or at least their minerals seem to have been formed at that time. Meteoritic minerals therefore were forming at about the same time the planets and moons were forming by aggregation from the stuff of the primordial solar nebula. Because of this, meteorites should give us clues to the chemical and physical processes operating at the time the planets formed.

Certain stony meteorites resemble igneous rocks in their textures, others seem to be metamorphosed aggregates, and others resemble sediments that have been only slightly lithified. Iron meteorites, whose principal constituents embrace a range of nickel‐iron alloy compositions, would not be found under ordinary conditions at the surface of the earth but might be found in its core or as segregations within small bodies under highly reducing conditions.
NSF target dates for proposals
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The following listing gives the target dates for proposals to NSF in particular programs. Proposals received after the cutoff date will be reviewed although they may miss a particular panel meeting. Further information can be obtained by contacting the NSF staff member listed with each entry.
Flood frequency analysis
Authors: Posey C. J.
Published: October 2011

Panattoni and Wallis' treatment of the flood frequency analysis problem i s masterful; one hopes that its appearance will put and end to the proliferation of naive efforts to establish a nonsubjective statistical method. Their treatment of the systems analysis phase of the problem makes use of the latest computational techniques, but one doubts that the results could be superior to those reached by the engineers who designed the river control system built by the Miami Conservancy District between 1913 and 1918 and described in its Technical Report, Part VII. Records on the operation of the project, kept for more than 50 years, should provide an opportunity to test whether Panattoni and Wallis' technique of using the roughness coefficient as a fitting parameter is a valid approach.
One hundred years of Earth science in the public service
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

For a century the USGS has mapped and studied the rocks and water of the nation by means of both classical and newly developed techniques.

The U.S. Geological Survey was founded on March 3, 1879, to consolidate some of the functions of the several federal surveys that were conducted in the West after the Civil War. The newly organized Survey continued to study the Grand Canyon area to answer questions posed by John Wesley Powell's exploration of the Colorado Plateau country begun in 1869. Under Clarence King, its first director, the Geological Survey continued investigations of significant mining districts, an interest King had pursued as head of the earlier U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. King also extended the new agency's work nationally by gathering mineral statistics for the 1880 census.
Water resources monograph series: A new publication opportunity
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

To broaden the number of topics covered and to increase the frequency of publication in the series, the Board of Associate Editors for the Water Resources Monograph Series aims to release 4–6 outstanding monographs each year. Authors who are interested in helping to achieve this goal are invited to prepare an outline for consideration by the Board.

The Board will review the outlines of proposed volumes for acceptability of subject, its treatment for the series, as well as its suitability for the intended audience. The outline must be complete enough to allow the Board to see the development of the presentation.
Seasonal sea ice zone workshop
Authors: Paskausky David F.
Published: October 2011

A workshop to discuss present and future research needs in the seasonal sea ice zone (SSIZ) was held at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California from February 26 to March 1,1979. The SSIZ is defined as the area delineated by the maximum and minimum contemporary extent of ice cover plus a region inward and outward from the ice boundary that is significantly influenced by the boundary. Owing to seasonal migration of the ice boundary, this geographically significant area encompasses large expanses of deep ocean as well as most of the polar shelves in both the Arctic and Antarctic.

The workshop consisted of seven panels (10 to 12 members each). The schemata was presentation of review papers on the first day followed by three days of panel and interdisciplinary sessions.The steering committee will publish a proceedings which will include the review papers, panel reports, and an extensive summary of future needs by the committee.
Data: Management and service
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

During the coming decade, the Environmental Data and Information Services (EDIS) of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration expects the volume of environmental data and information requests to continue increasing, many new applications to be developed, and demand for shorter response time to user data requests to accelerate. To meet these and other user needs, EDIS is undertaking a program that will integrate its current separate data base operations under a single data archive management and users services (DAMUS) system. The system is expected to be in full operation in approximately 18 months.

Presently, EDIS' data processing operations involve three separate, independently operated computer systems with different hardware and software capabilities. These three systems have met EDIS' requirements in the past, however, because of the need for quicker, multidisciplinary access from different geographic locations, increasing volumes of incoming environmental data in frequently changing data formats an modes, processing costs, and shrinking manpower, it has become necessary to develop alternative approaches to maintain a viable data and information service. To achieve the degree of integration required to meet national needs, the independent systems are to be replaced by a single system.
Global ocean data inventory and climate data base
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

In response to a request by the United Nations Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) for member states to provide data management services for oceanographic data collected during the First Garp Global Experiment, (FGGE), also known as the Global Weather Experiment, the Environmental Data and Information Service of NOAA (EDIS) will serve as a Responsible National Oceanographic Data Center for the FGGE Operational Year (RNODC‐FOY. In this capacity, EDIS will (1) develop a global inventory of all ocean data collected during FOY and (2) create a global ocean climate data base of selected FOY physical oceanographic parameters. All data will be exchanged through normal international exchange channels.

The global ocean data inventory will contain directory information regarding all known oceanographic data of any kind recorded during FOY (December 1, 1978 through November 30, 1979). The inventory will be available both in published form and online to computer terminal users internationally via either Tymnet or Telenet. The global ocean climate data base will include physical oceanographic data for this same period acquired by the RNODC‐FOY. Bathythermograph data, Nansen/Nisken bottle data, salinity‐temperature‐depth data, and current meter data, as well as phosphate, silicate, oxygen, and sea level data will be formated and quality controlled.
Some remarks on IMS and an outline of the Chinese program
Authors: Tschu Kang‐Kun
Published: October 2011

This is a brief account of a proposed observational program to be carried out in China during IMS. It consists mainly of four parts: (1) reform and reinforcement of the existing stations, (2) installation of new equipment for IMS, (3) analysis of IMS data and study of STP, and (4) coordination of scientific activities at home and abroad. Altogether, 16 items are proposed.

For the realization of these four modernization projects we should like to learn everything good for us. But now, I want to take this opportunity to talk about an observational program, which I proposed to the Academy several months ago, to be carried out in China during IMS.
Eruption of Soufriere on St. Vincent
Authors: McClelland Lindsay
Published: October 2011

A series of powerful explosions from Soufriere produced large ash clouds and several pyroclastic avalanches, forcing the evacuation of more than 17,000 persons from the north end of St. Vincent. This eruption is particularly noteworthy because of the wide variety of observations made by various scientific teams (from land, low‐flying aircraft, a high‐altitude research plane, and from satellites). When these data are analyzed and integrated, the geophysical community can look forward to an unusually well‐documented account of an episode of explosive island‐arc volcanism. At present, however, the following preliminary account can be presented.
NSF announces programs
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation–s Integrated Research Division of the Applied Science and Research Applications' Directorate has described new funding, amounting to a total of $5 million for FY 1979, available for a new program for basic research on ‘specific topics.’ Two of these topics of possible interest to geophysicists are described by the NSF below
Stratigraphic code revision
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature is conducting a major revision of the Code of Stratigraphic Nomenclature. The need for this revision stems from many sources. There are many new tools and concepts which have been developed in the years since the 1960 revision of the code. The code has had only slight revision since then.
Time: Measured responses
Authors: Damon Paul E. , Gentry Robert V. , Kazmann Raphael G.
Published: October 2011

I was dismayed by Raphael G . Kazmann's conclusion in his review of a symposium on ‘Cosmochronology, geochronology, and the neutrino crisis’ (Time: In Full Measure, Eos Trans. AGU, 60(2), pp. 21–22, January 9, 1979) that essentially casts in doubt the entire science of geochronology, on the basis of an absurd interpretation of the origin of ‘polonium’ halos in minerals observed by Robert Gentry. I have no doubt that Gentry's halos exist, but to ascribe the halos to ‘primordial’ 218Po unsupported by 222Rn can be quickly reduced to an absurdity by the following argument: (1) 218Po has a half‐life of 3 minutes; (2) more than one 218Po atom would be required to produce a halo; (3) the probability of 1 atom of 218Po surviving after 490 minutes is 1 out of 16.5 × 1048 based upon the exponential decay law; (4) 16.5 × 1048 atoms of 218Po are equal to the mass of the earth. Therefore, in order to accept the assertion that Gentry's halos are caused by unsupported primordial 218Po, either the earth must be composed entirely of 206Pb (the stable isotope in the 238U chain following 218Po) or the earth must have been less than 490 minutes (8.2 hours) old at the time the mineral was formed so that a n amount of 218Po less than the mass of the earth was originally present. Clearly the earth is not composed entirely of 206Pb. It is no less credible to suggest that the earth and its strata were formed and intruded by granitic magma that subsequently cooled to the point where both the mineral and the halo were stable all in less than 8.2 hours. ‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ said Alice in Wonderland.
Pioneer Venus malfunctions
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The infrared instrument aboard the Pioneer Venus Orbiter spacecraft has been returning degraded data, and efforts to correct the problem have not succeeded. The instrument has returned excellent data for 72 orbits of the planet (one orbit per day), enough for a thorough infrared survey of Venus.

The problem appeared on February 14, when the regulated voltages which supply power to the instrument began registering 6–7 V instead of the required 10 V. This difficulty had occurred even earlier on three occasions, but each time the instrument was reset by ground command with almost no. loss of data. Tests continue to be performed on the instrument, and a review board is studying the problem. Experimenter Fred W. Taylor, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is hopeful that the instrument may still be revived.
Wave energy extraction device
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Lockheed‐California Company scientists Leslie S. Wirt and Duane L. Morrow have designed an artificial atoll (Figure 1) in which the shape has been mathematically refined to make waves spiral into core of unit producing a whirlpool action. Waves, which are massive pulses of kinetic energy, arrive at 10‐second intervals and are directed into the perimeter of the vertical chamber at the top. The energy is continuously drawn by the turbine wheel at the base of the core. This wheel with its associated vertical shaft is the only moving part of the system. In a typical amount of wave activity, the dam‐atoll unit will provide electrical power generation in the 1–2 megawatt range.
Applications of Geodesy to Geodynamics: 1. Geodesy for Geodynamics, Progress and Problems
Authors: Kaula W. M.
Published: October 2011

The Ninth Geop (Geodesy/Solid Earth and Ocean Physics) Research Conference was sponsored by IAG and Cospar and cosponsored by AGU, DMA, NASA, NOAA, USGS, and the Department of Geodetic Science of the Ohio State University. It took place in the Fawcett Center for Tomorrow, at Columbus, Ohio, October 2–5, 1978 and was attended by 209 persons from 16 countries.

The meeting was divided into eight scientific sessions, each dealing with geodynamic phenomena to which geodesy can be applied. This report is based on the last session which was devoted to general applications.
World coal situation
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Worldwide future problems involving coal may become as acute as those now involving oil, say geologists at the ninth International Congress of Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology, held at the University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign. At the opening session, Gordon H. Wood, Jr., of the U.S. Geological Survey, and Jack A. Simon of the Illinois State Geological Survey discussed the world coal situation to the end of this century. They said that energy problems will increase in the next 20 years and into the next century unless there is ‘vigorous planning and action’ by political, industrial, social, scientific, environmental, and financial leaders.

A few countries have sufficient coal for currently projected needs, but most countries have little or no coal, they said. Problems of world dependence on countries with large coal resources may become similar to those now prevailing with oil. The Soviet Union, United States, People's Republic of China, United Kingdom, Australia, West Germany, Canada, and Union of South Africa contain 97% of the world's coal resources.
Continental reflection profiling
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Described by Cornell University as ‘hard and surprising evidence’ is a theory based on new data of how the Appalachian Mountains were formed when North America and Africa approached and collided millions of years ago.

The evidence is a thin but extensive layer of sedimentary rocks buried under the older crystalline rocks of the southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont province that may also help geologists understand the collisions of continents thought to have formed such features as the Alps, the mountains of Norway, and the Himalayas.
Geologists still dazzled by Jupiter photos
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Scientists of the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, who are members of the Voyager Imaging Science Team studying exotic photographs obtained by Voyager 1 of the moons of Jupiter, continue to find new geologic ‘wonders’ far beyond anyone's expectations.

Laurence Soderblom, of the USGS Branch of Astrogeologic Studies, Flagstaff, Arizona, deputy team leader of the Imaging Science Team and head of the geologic research group, said, ‘We are just beginning to catch our breath after having made preliminary interpretations of the dazzling collection of photographs.’
Applications of Geodesy to Geodynamics: 2. Rotation of the Earth and Polar Motion
Authors: Winkler G. M. R.
Published: October 2011

Studies of the rotation of the earth and of polar motion have both interdisciplinary and global aspects, involving astronomy, geodesy and geophysics, and even cosmology, in regard to the definition of the inertial reference system. Of concern to us is the establishment of the reference system on a plastic earth, the reference in space, theoretical understanding or at least mathematical modeling of earth rotation and polar motion, the various techniques (optical versus radio; satellites versus distant references), data collection and measurement services and user requirements, and maybe most important, the introduction of new techniques with preservation of continuity in the existing services.

The navigation of space probes requires accuracies of 1 to 2 ms in Universal Time and 0.02″ in polar motion, while other users have needs for time and polar motion data with the best available accuracy. Future investigations involving more and increasingly precise data will be used to establish the time span over which the data may be reliably averaged.
NASA outlines objectives of the Voyager missions to Jupiter and Saturn
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The scientific investigations of the Jupiter‐Saturn missions are multipurpose, taking data in a variety of environments. For example, the ultraviolet spectrometer studies planetary and satellite atmospheres and also interplanetary and interstellar hydrogen and helium. The magnetic fields experiment will examine the magnetospheres of the planets and also search for the transition between solar and galactic regions.

It is difficult to separate ‘planetary’ from ‘interplanetary’ instruments and investigations. There is, however, another grouping.
1980–1981 Fulbright Lectureships in the USSR
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

There will be approximately 20 awards, to be administered through cooperating Soviet agencies.

Award period. Applications should be for a full quarter/semester or academic year. Provision is made for a very limited number of Distinguished Professor lectureships for 4–6 weeks. Scholars must have demonstrated superior academic achievement in their age group in order to qualify for these special appointments.
Satellites to play expanded role in water resource studies
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The importance of remote sensing—examining earth's resources with airborne and satellite cameras and other devices—is bound to expand in the study, development, and protection of our water resources, according to Joseph S. Cragwall, Jr., Associate Director, U.S. Geological Survey, opening the Fifth Annual William T. Pecora Memorial Symposium on Remote Sensing.

The symposium was held June 10–15, 1979, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Cragwall, formerly the USGS chief hydrologist, noted that satellites equipped with sophisticated electronic devices have provided scientists with a large amount of hydrologic information that could not otherwise be collected.
Applications of Geodesy to Geodynamics: 4. Horizontal Crustal Movements (Terrestrial Techniques)
Authors: Whitten C. A.
Published: October 2011

Several horizontal control surveys, which have been made to support engineering activities, can be used for crustal movement studies. These might be called ‘Surveys of Opportunity.’ An example is the horizontal control network of Los Angeles County. The time span is more than 50 yr with many repeated surveys, including an extensive resurvey after the San Fernando earthquake of 1971. R. J. Mitchell, L.A. County Engineer, in charge of the survey activities, has recommended an overall resurvey before it is incorporated into the new North American 1983 Datum.
USGS involved in numerous international programs
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

USGS Involved in Numerous International Programs The U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, is now involved with about 100 countries in carrying out a wide variety of international earth science activities, according to H. William Menard, USGS director.

In a recent address before an opening session of the Ninth International Congressof Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology in Washington, D.C. , Menard said that of the Survey's international activities, technical assistance provided by the Survey—mostly to developing nations—represents by far the largest share of money and scientific effort.
Reclamation award
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The University of North Dakota's Department of Aviation has been awarded a $1,035,228 contract by the Bureau of Reclamation to study downwind effects of high‐altitude cloud seeding and to train pilots for weather modification projects. The University will work closely with Reclamation's High Plains Cooperative Program (HIPLEX), the Federal research project in cloud seeding for enhanced growing‐season rainfall in the High Plains region. The 3½‐year contract will enable the flight students to receive specialized training as well as on‐the‐job experience on actual cloud‐seeding projects.

‘HIPLEX scientists report indications of increased precipitation when specific types of clouds are seeded at their tops, at altitudes of 30,000 to 40,000 feet,’ Commissioner of Reclamation R. Keith Higginson said. ‘As these studies continue, the University will attempt to determine if there are effects in areas downwind from seeded clouds.’
Multimillion‐dollar oil shale project
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Equity Oil Company, as operator of the $9 million Equity/Department of Energy (DOE) in situ oil shale project, reported the commencement of project field tests involving superheated steam injections into oil shale‐bearing rocks of the Green River formation in northwestern Colorado.

The project site, 35 miles southwest of Meeker, is at the geographic center of the Piceance Creek Basin, containing the world's largest single known deposit of oil shale.
Ponder names for features on Jupiter's moons
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The job of establishing geographic names for newly discovered volcanoes, impact craters, and other features on the Galilean moons of Jupiter—Io, Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa—is being tackled under international procedures, according to Harold Masursky of the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.

Masursky, a geologist with the USGS Branch of Astrogeologic Studies, Flagstaff, Arizona, is a member of the Imaging Science Team of the Voyager Project. (Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter on March 5,1979; Voyager 2 will fly by the planet on July 9, 1979.)
1978 Financial Report
Authors: Aldrich L. T.
Published: October 2011

The balance sheet for December 31,1978 shows that the Union continues to be in a stable financial condition. However, this stability is vitally dependent on the continued good performance of the publications program. Looking ahead to what appears will be a period of economic, technological, and social uncertainty, one can not be comfortable with the slim reserve that the Union now has.

The 1978 income statement shows a surplus of $353,000 which represents a significant addition to the reserve. Our staff is to be commended for its prudent management of our resources. However, this addition was earned largely through a shortfall of pages published and as of this writing it appears that much of the gain will be erased in 1979. JGR is expected to run 10% over its page budget and Water Resources Research almost 30% over budget.
Canadian‐U.S. Cloud‐Seeding Program
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Two Canadian agencies are joining with the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation to work together in the High Plains Cooperative Program of cloud‐seeding research, Interior Secretary Cecil D. Andrus said recently.

Under a formal memorandum of understanding, the Canadian Atmospheric Environment Service and the National Research Council of Canada will become active partners in the Bureau research program, known as Hiplex.
The William Bowie medal: Citation and acceptance
Authors: Anderson Don L. , Press Frank
Published: October 2011

The forty‐first presentation of the William Bowie Medal goes to Frank Press for outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics and for unselfish cooperation in research. Frank Press joins the ranks of the distinguished seismologists who have received the Bowie Medal. Reading the list of medalists takes one through almost the entire history of seismology. Previous medalists include James B. Macelwane, Harold Jeffreys, Beno Gutenbert, Maurice Ewing, Hugo Benioff, Louis Slichter, and Inge Lehmann, and it is appropriate that Frank Press is now a member of this distinguished group. You may know that Frank has worked with many of these people. As much as anyone, Press built the bridge from their classical tradition to what we look on today as modern seismology.
James B. Macelwane Award: Citation and Acceptance of Robert Keith O'Nions
Authors: Wyllie Peter J. , O'Nions R. K.
Published: October 2011

I have the pleasure to introduce Robert Keith O'Nions, a young man of 34, for the Macelwane Award, not because I have had anything to do with his education and research, but because I was a member of the committee this year, and we both originate from the same country. Keith O'Nions earned his B.Sc. from the University of Nottingham in 1966, traveled to Alberta for a Ph.D. in 1969, became a Postdoctoral Fellow in Oslo during 1970, joined the faculty at Oxford from 1971–1975, and moved to his present home at Columbia University in 1975.

When the time came to find a citationist [sic] for him it turned out that his colleagues at Lamont‐Doherty, who were the obvious choices, were all at sea—and I admit that this is how I feel when I read some of Keith's papers. In a sense, this makes me well‐suited for this introduction, because I cannot spend time explaining his research to you. Instead, I will read to you a couple of paragraphs from his nomination for the award, written by an anonymous friend:
Fourth Workshop on Electromagnetic Induction Sees Launching of Proposed International Project
Authors: Duba A. , Shankland T. J.
Published: October 2011

The Fourth Workshop on Electromagnetic Induction in the Earth and Moon held in the Bavarian village of Murnau, West Germany, September 6–13,1978 had two notable features: one was improved methodology and the linking of electromagnetic information to other geophysical investigations, such as heat flow or seismology; the other was formal approval of a project for international cooperation in studies of electrical anomalies associated with the asthenosphere.

The workshop, sponsored by Working Group III of IAGA (International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy), was devoted to probing electrical properties of the earth from the crust down to depths of 1000 km, as inferred from (a) magnetotellurics (MT), in which both electrical and magnetic observations are made; and (b) geomagnetic deep sounding (GDS), which uses purely magnetic variations. Although the depth resolution of these methods is usually poorer than seismic methods, lateral resolution is usually better. In addition, they have the advantage that a zone of anomalously high conductivity presents a strong effect, whereas seismic waves are absorbed or deflected downward by a low‐velocity zone. It is this feature that makes MT and GDS attractive for studies of the asthenosphere. A summary of the meeting is presented below, followed by a discussion of the Soviet proposal to initiate an international program to study the electrical properties of the asthenosphere: Elas.
Lower Mississippi Region “Rich” in groundwater
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The lower Mississippi River basin region has an estimated 6.3 trillion gallons of groundwater available for use annually, or about three times current groundwater usage, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report.

The report (USGS Professional Paper 813‐N) describes groundwater resources in the 102,000‐square‐mile part of the Mississippi River basin downstream from the Ohio River and east of the Arkansas, Red, and White basins. Parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee are included in the report area.
Lunar sample facility
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The tenth anniversary, July 20,1979, of man's first landing on the moon marked another significant event at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, namely, the dedication of the new Lunar Sample Facility. To lunar scientists this event was the culmination of ten years of planning, designing, and at times even lobbying;; to a few observers in Congress and even in NASA administration the facility seemed an unnecessary and costly duplication at the planning stages, especially during the difficult years of unwinding space budgets and competing projects. It seemed natural to assume that the famous Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) should have sufficed to store the lunar sample collection, but that was not the case.

The problems with storage of the lunar samples became evident early in the Apollo program. First, the LRL was designed to house the astronauts while they were in quarantine. The LRL was sort of an ‘Andromeda Strain’ type laboratory, required by the Public Health Service to protect against possible dangerous disease microbes that may have been returned to earth. There was literally no room at all to store lunar samples; much less was there even a modicum of understanding of the delicate character of the samples or of the steps that would be required to protect them from the effects of the earth's atmosphere. This apparent lack of planning was understandable, however, because initially, collection of samples of the moon's surface was neither an essential part of the scientific plans nor necessarily a part of the mission at all. Actually, the original science package only included various measurements of [particles and fields,] to be collected by instrument. Even when serious efforts were made to include sample collection in the missions, astronauts were heard to say that scientists would have to be content with studying merely lunar dust that may have adhered to their boots and space suits. For obvious reasons, at that stage the astronauts were not intending to tarry on the moon.
McDonnell Douglas Gift
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A gift of $1,848,323 to Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, in support of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences was made by McDonnell Douglas Corporation and presented by James S. McDonnell, McDonnell Douglas board chairman. This gift brings to over $7.5 million the total contributed by the corporation to the university for its activities in the space sciences.

Established in November 1974 by a gift of $4,069,250, the Center has become well known in the space sciences and now has a staff of 56, including faculty, senior researchers, students, and technicians. Their work covers a wide span of activity, including spaceborne experiments to study cosmic rays, laboratory studies of extraterrestrial materials, astronomical observations, theoretical studies of stellar structure and general relativity, and planetary and earth sciences.
Geophysical events
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Tonga Islands eruption(s) and pumice rafts, South Pacific Ocean (all times are local, equal to GMT + 12 hours). The pumice described in last month's Bulletin continued to drift in a generally westward direction in June. In mid‐June, patches of pumice were reported near Vanua Mbalavu, Katafanga, and Yathata, small islands and atolls at the north end of the Lau Ridge (see map). The pumice at Yathata formed a strip 5 km long but only about 5 m wide. Large quantities of pumice were seen during the same period around Late Island (18.81°S, 1 74.65°W), about 400 km ESE of the Lau Group.

The source of the pumice remains uncertain. In mid‐May, streaks of pumice extended back to Late Island from the main raft and the island's cone was covered with white material, which was thought to be fresh ash (see last month's Bulletin). However, activity has been reported at 3 other sites along the Tonga Arc in May and June.
Southern Appalachian data now available
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Data packages obtained by the Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (Cocorp) for 348 km of seismic lines in the Georgia‐Tennessee area of the southern Appalachian region are now available. The packages consist of the following:

1. Basic display package of 28 prints for $90, consisting of location maps, isovelocity plots, and CDP stacked prints of six lines at each of two scales: (a) horizontally 5.6 cm = 3 km, and vertically 5.6 cm = 1 second of two‐way travel time; (b) horizontally 2.8 cm = 3 km, and vertically 2.8 cm = 1 second of two‐way travel time.
Symposium: Oceanography from space
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Committee on Space Research (Cospar), the Scientific Committee on Ocean Research (SCOR), and the Inter Union (IUGG and URSI) Commission on Radio Meteorology (IUCRM) announce a symposium on the subject of oceanography from space to be held in Venice, Italy, May 26–30,1980. The purpose of the meeting is to review recent studies of the oceans, based largely upon observations from space, to examine the accuracy and usefulness of satellite measurements and to delineate future programs of both national and international scope.
Nominations for officers 1980–1982
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Members of AGU are invited to submit additional nominees by petition in accordance with the bylaws. Each petition must be signed by at least 1% of the voting members of the Union or section, as the case may be, and such petitions must be received by the General Secretary by November 30,1979. The number of names required to make a petition nomination is as follows: Union, 122; Geodesy, 5; Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism, 12; Hydrology, 10; Meteorology, 7; Oceanography, 16; Planetology, 11; Seismology, 22; Solar‐Planetary Relationships, 10; Tectonophysics, 7; and Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology, 15.
Geodesy Section
Authors: Wilcox Luman E.
Published: October 2011

The business meeting of the AGU Geodesy Section was held on June 1,1979, during the Spring Meeting of the Union. The president of section, Bernard Chovitz, presided during the business meeting. Chovitz announced that the geodesy sessions at the 1980 AGU Spring Meeting in Toronto will be scheduled for May 22–24. Thus geodesists will be able to attend all the geodesy sessions at the AGU Spring Meeting as well as all sessions of the Second International Symposium on Problems Related to the Redefinition of North American Vertical Geodetic Networks (NAD Symposium 1980), to be held in Ottawa May 26–30,1980.
Pascals barred
Authors: Coachman L. K.
Published: October 2011

May I contribute to the ‘tempest in a teapot’ in Forum? R. H. Bushnell (EOS, 60, July 17, 1979) chides S. A. Morse, who, in an earlier issue (EOS, 60, April 10, 1979), stated a preference for continuing use of the bar, instead of the Sl‐related pascal, as the measure of pressure for his particular work in geophysics. Bushnell said ‘we prefer the pascal.’ I do not know who is included in his regal ‘we,’ but I prefer the bar.

I do not fault Bushnell's statement regarding coherence of the pascal within the SI system of units. However, I believe more considerations are involved in the choice of a unit best suited to a particular purpose than just simplicity of definition. For one thing, scientists invoke units with numerical values when they quantify in their minds visual images of physical phenomena, and therefore the more readily visualized units are to be preferred when conceptualizing relationships. And the most readily conceptualized numbers are certainly 1 to 10. For example, it seems to me to be much easier to visualize and mentally utilize surface atmospheric pressure as being about 1 bar rather than 105 pascal.
Deepest well on Idaho plain
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

An exploratory test well that reached a depth of 3164.9 m is the deepest well drilled, so far, in the eastern Snake River Plain of southeastern Idaho. The hole penetrated a large buried volcanic complex that could be a geothermal resource.

The results of the drilling project are summarized in a recent report available from the U.S. Geological Survey. The report contains geological information obtained from the drilling of an exploratory geothermal test hole this year at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory in Butte County, Idaho.
Scholarship for women in atmospheric sciences
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The second annual June Bacon‐Bercey Scholarship in Atmospheric Sciences for Women has been awarded to Michelle V. Piepgrass, a first‐year graduate student at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the University of Arizona who plans to do research on atmospheric electricity or atmospheric radiation. Piepgrass' parents moved to Guaymas, Mexico, when she was five, and she attended Mexican schools through high school. She majored in physics and mathematics at Linfield College in Oregon, where she became interested in atmospheric sciences as a sophomore. During the summer of 1978, she assisted with staff research at the National Center for Atmospheric Research prior to beginning work on her masters degree in January of 1979.
Proposed change in AGU bylaws
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

On May 27, 1979, the AGU Council approved a change in bylaw 11. In accordance with article 12b of the statutes, which requires proposed amendments to the bylaws to be published in an AGU publication of general circulation no less than 30 days prior to action at a succeeding council meeting, the current bylaw 11 is shown below in its entirety. The proposed amendment, if adopted, would delete the entire second paragraph. 11. Standing Committees shall be: Statutes and Bylaws; Membership; Nominations; Budget and Finance; Publications Fellows and International Participation. The Committee on International Participation shall consist of the Foreign Secretary (who shall be Chairman of the Committee), the President of the Union, the President‐elect of the Union, the retiring President of the Union, the General Secretary, the Executive Director, the principal U.S. Officers of the IUGG, and six additional persons who are eminent geophysicists with knowledge and background in international organization and cooperation and who shall serve for a term identical with that of the Foreign Secretary. The Committee shall develop AGU policy, subject to Council approval, concerning Union participation in the United States National Committee for the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and concerning the relationship of the Union with international scientific societies whose objects pertain to geophysics.
Fall Meeting Fun Run
Authors: Beck Myrl A. , Burmester Russell F. , Butler Robert , Blakely Richard J. , Shive Peter N.
Published: October 2011

This letter has two purposes: (1) to thank the committee in charge of last year's Fall AGU Fun Run for a well organized and most enjoyable race, and (2) to issue a challenge that will assure that the event is run again this year, and, hopefully becomes a recurring annual AGU institution.

Last year's race at Lake Merced, on the Sunday preceding the Fall Meeting, was a great and unqualified success. Race officials (must notably race‐director/starter/timekeeper Bob Kovach) deserve every praise for providing the specific remedy for jet lag and the best possible preventative tonic for the darkened meeting rooms, obscure slides, and strong drink that lay ahead. Despite the newness of the event, several score of normally torpid theoretical geophysicists turned out to blink in the sun and follow a half‐dozen lean and sunbronzed paleomagnetists around the sparkling waters of Lake Merced in the inaugural of a sporting event that may never drive the Boston Marathon off the pages of Runner's World but nevertheless would have provided excellent footage for several prime‐time TV shows. More runners would have showed up, we understand, but for the inability of the average oceanographer, tectonophysicist, or seismologist to find the site.
Offshore oil on the East Coast
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Drilling along the eastern coast of the U.S. in the last several months has proven disappointing in returns for oil and gas prospects, although many of the close‐in leases have yet to be sampled. A very recent report from the U.S. Geological Survey on potential oil‐leasing structures further offshore, however, suggests that there may be huge deposits of oil at distances of 100 to 1 60 miles from the coast under 500 to 1000 fathoms of water and, perhaps, a mile or so of sedimentary rock overburden.

The great oil‐bearing reef complex of the Reforma and Campeche shelf provinces of Mexico can be traced—with the exception of a few gaps—northward through the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic continental margin of the United States, offering an attractive target for testing of oil potential, according to H. William Menard, director of the U.S.G.S.
Pioneer measures Saturn's ring structure
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The first findings about Saturn have come from early pictures of the planet returned by the Pioneer spacecraft. Pioneer completed the first trip to Saturn on September 1.

These early findings show that there are roughly equal amounts of ring material in a region of the outer rings, specifically in or near Cassini's Division, and in Saturn's inner C‐ring. It is believed that there is material in Cassini's Division which separates the outer A‐ and B‐rings, but not much is known yet.
Geoscience energy research: Progress in DOE funding
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Geoscience research that is concerned with energy problems has been typified by a series of vigorous programs supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. The funding, set at approximately $6 million for fiscal 1979, is due to increase by about 30% to slightly more than $8 million for fiscal 1980. There is a clear‐cut national need for this research, and even larger increases in the future may be appropriate.

Presently, energy research in the geosciences is supported by DOE ‘on site’ in national laboratories and ‘off site’ at universities. The institutions receiving support during fiscal 1979 are listed in the accompanying table, with brief descriptions of the general areas of research.
1979 AGU Fellows Citations
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

William A. Bassett for his pioneering work in developing high‐pressure, high‐temperature apparatus and applying these to geophysicatly important problems of the earth's interior. His outstanding achievements are the first measurements of the compressibility of a host of mantle minerals to 300 kbar, development of high‐pressure laser heating techniques which allow mineral synthesis at 300 kbar and 3000°C, and the development of methods of measuring elastic moduli of minerals at high pressures.