bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Recent Ph.D.s
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Eos periodically lists information on recently accepted doctoral dissertations in the disciplines of geophysics. Faculty members are invited to submit the following information, on institution letterhead, above the signature of the faculty advisor or depart ment 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).
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Warren W. Hastings, a member of the Hydrology section since 1976, died on June 18, 1988. He was 77.

Edwin J. Chernosky, 74, died recently. He was a member of the Solar‐Planetary Relationships section.
DOD Geophysical Information Committee
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Department of Defense (DOD) produces a significant amount of information useful for geophysical studies. Some information has restrictions on its availability. While he was AGU President, Peter S. Eagleson established a DOD Geophysical Information Committee to assess the types and amounts of such information potentially available, its importance for open scientific study, and the process by which restrictions are imposed on its use. The committee is also charged with recommending whether the Union should establish a formal position on any issues that might arise during its assessment.
Undergraduate Research Program
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation is inviting proposals for support from its Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program. NSF provides two kinds of support for projects that provide active research opportunities for undergraduates: REU Site grants to fund new programs for undergraduate research, and REU Supplement grants that may be added on to existing NSF research grants in order to fund undergraduate participation.

The goal of the REU Program is to provide opportunities for undergraduates to become involved in research and to gain otherwise unobtainable experience in mathematical and scientific fields. Proposals for REU funding should address the philosophy of the proposer's approach to undergraduate education. Programs that would encourage participation from groups that are underrepresented in scientific fields are especially encouraged.
Smithsonian Fellowships
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Smithsonian Institution is offering research fellowships for 1989–1990. Proposals are sought for Earth science research in meteoritics, mineralogy, petrology, planetary geology, sedimentology, and volcanology. Awards are also offered in biology, the history of science, materials analysis, and several other subject areas.

Awards are made to support independent research in residence at the Smithsonian in association with the research staff there. Postdoctoral and graduate student awards are available. Appointments range from 6–12 months for predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships to 10 weeks for graduate student fellowships. The grants range from $25,000 per year plus allowances for senior postdoctoral fellowships to $3,000 for 10‐week graduate student fellowships.
Geophysical events
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

This is a summary of SEAN Bulletin, 13 (7), July 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 E88‐007 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 “Nuclear waste under glass, further discussion”]
Authors: Crovisier J. L. , Honnorez J.
Published: October 2011

We completely agree with the answer of the authors when they write, “although a full discussion of the subject is beyond the scope of this paper,…studies of nuclear waste glasses show that different glass compositions differ widely in the stability of their surfaces with respect to attack by aqueous media, and…the mechanism cited by Crovisier and Honnorez may apply… ”

The main purpose of our reply to the item by W. W. Maggs (Eos, January 26, 1988) was to state that, “On the whole, we believe that it is not possible to conclude that the presence or absence of magnesium or any other element (and could have added “any other factor”) alone will lead to an increase or a decrease of the glass corrosion rate without considering the whole nuclear waste repository system.” We are glad to note that in the end the authors agree with us with the saying, “One swallow does not make a summer.”
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Hollis Dow Hedberg, a professor of geology at Princeton University, AGU Fellow, member of the Tectonophysics section, and member of AGU since 1947, died August 14 at 85.

Raymond R. Griswold, 83, Life member of AGU in the Hydrology section, died on July 8.
Programs and major activities
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Meetings Committee has defined the following objectives for the AGU Spring and Fall Meetings, the two annual meetings of AGU that are national in scope.

Provide the best possible forum for the communication of the results of on‐going or recently completed research to attract as large a fraction as possible of the active geophysical research community.

Enhance personal contact among individual scientists.

Enhance interdisciplinary understanding.

Provide for discussion of “health of the science” issues.

Serve as an educational forum for individual scientists to broaden their understanding of the scope of geophysical research.
Honors and awards
Authors: Anonymoua
Published: October 2011

A full program of honors and awards recognizes AGU members and other outstanding geophysicists who make significant contributions to geophysical knowledge and understanding. In addition to the presentation of the medals and awards listed below, a select committee annually confers the designation of Fellow on AGU members who have distinguished themselves in geophysics.
Organizational Supporting Members
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Organizations show their support of the objectives of AGU through supporting membership in one of the following dues categories (1989 rates): Sustaining Members ($3600), Contributing Members ($1800), Supporting Members ($600).

Such affiliation is the company's public avowal that it is committed to the support of the objectives of the Union and to the fulfilling of the needs of geophysicists.
Major policies of the Union
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The AGU Publications Committee and the Board of Journal Editors recently adopted standards for the conduct of the publications process of AGU. These standards articulate the way in which we believe most geophysicists behave when acting as author, editor, or reviewer. We do not perceive a problem with the ethical conduct in any phase of the AGU publications activity. Rather we are presenting what is common practice as a reminder to us all and as help to those who may be just embarking on their scientific careers.
AGU Policy on Nondiscrimination and Freedom of Access
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The above principles will apply to all AGU activities. This policy and following guidelines have been developed solely to assure the nondiscriminatory treatment of individual scientists with respect to the programs and activities of AGU. They are not intended to be used to exert political pressure on any facility, organization, or country. Such political activity is not in the spirit of AGU's non‐political tradition or in accord with the Union's advocacy policy. Some specific guidelines are given below for the meetings, publications, and awards programs.
Soil gas group to write new guide
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The American Society for Testing and Materials is setting up a group to develop a standard performance guide on monitoring soil gas in the vadose zone. The guide will be for existing methods of soil gas collection, sample handling, sample analysis, QA‐QC, data reporting, and compositional data analysis.

The group will meet January 22–26, 1989, in Orlando, Fla. Scientists interested in participating can contact Bob Morgan, ASTM, 1916 Race St., Philadelphia, PA 19103; tel. 215‐299‐5505. The work is under D18.21.02 on Unsaturated Zone Monitoring, a subcommittee of ASTM standards‐writing Committee D‐18 on Soil and Rock.
Opportunities at American museum
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The American Museum of Natural History in New York City has announced mineral sciences fellowships for 1989 for predoctoral student study and postdoctoral research. Student awards are for programs at Columbia University and the university's Lamont‐Doherty Geological Observatory and for museum internships. Postdoctoral awards are for 3 months to 2 years. Research in the Department of Mineral Sciences is in mineralogy, petrology, meteoritics, and economic geology.
Geophysical events
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

This is a summary of SEAN Bulletin, 13(9), September 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 E88‐013 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.
13th EGS Assembly
Authors: Barton P.J.
Published: October 2011

About 1000 scientists from all over the world met in March in Bologna at the European Geophysical Society's 13th General Assembly. The meeting sessions were divided among the joint sessions and the three sections of EGS: Section I, Solid Earth and Planets; Section II: Hydrospheres and Atmospheres; and Section III: Upper Atmospheres, Ionospheres, Magnetospheres, and External Geophysics. The joint sessions report was in Eos, October 18, p. 970. A report on Section I meetings follows. Reports on Section II and Section III meetings will appear in future issues of Eos.
Geophysics in the White House
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

AGU President Don L. Anderson has asked the Union's Public Affairs Committee to draft a letter proposing a new position in the office of Science Advisor to the President of the United States. The senior‐level appointee would advise on issues related to the Earth sciences in their broadest sense.

In developing the letter, the committee will serve as a panel in accord with AGU policy on developing advocacy positions and will report to the AGU Council at the December meeting during the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Members of the Public Affairs Committee are Priscilla Grew (chairman), Frank Eden, W. G. Ernst, Richard Hart, Dana Isherwood, Torrence Johnson, Charles Lawson, Sherry Oaks, Donald Piepgras, and George Shaw.
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

F.D. Hansen, 37, a member of the Tectonophysics section of AGU since 1982, died recently.

Gordon A. Newkirk, a member of the Solar‐planetary Relations section since 1961, died recently at 60.
Two NIST Grants for Measurement
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Institute of Standards and technology will give two $30,000 grants for precision measurement in for 1989–l90. The towards go to scientists at academic institutions who are determining values for fundamental constants, investigating related physical pheomena, or developing new fundamental measurement methods. The program was started in 1970 to augment NIST research and encourage academic research and has given 44 grants so far
Suncoast chapter
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The new Suncoast Chapter of AGU, in St. Petersburg, Fla., has elected William M. Sackett of the University of South Florida president for 1989, William O. Sayre of Eckerd College president‐elect, and Jabe A. Breland of the university secretary‐treasurer. The group organized in September 1988 and held elections November 21 at their second meeting, which was attended by AGU executive director Fred Spilhaus. The chapter has 24 members.
Geophysics in the public eye
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The 1988 AGU Fall Meeting was attended by a record number of reporters from all types of media (see inset). Five news releases mailed before the meeting and seven scheduled news conferences drew reporters to the meeting, held December 5–9 in San Francisco. About 25 public information offices and individual scientists contributed 45 news releases for distribution at the meeting.

Media liaisons were appointed by AGU section presidents to act as contacts between scientists and journalists. The liaisons assisted with news conferences, arranged interviews, and directed reporters to interesting papers. The section liaisons were Union, Christopher Harrison (Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, Miami, Fla.); Atmospheric Sciences, William H. Beasley (National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.); Geodesy, Randolph Ware (University of Colorado, Boulder); Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism, Kenneth Verosub (University of Calfornia, Davis); Hydrology, George Leavesley (U.S. Geological Survey, Lakewood, Colo.); Planetology, Torrence Johnson (Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, Calif.); Seismology, Jan Garmany (University of Texas, Austin); Solar‐ Planetary Relationships, Vincent Wickwar (Utah State University, Logan); and Tectonophysics, Paul Segall (U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.).
AGU elects 1989 Fellows
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Twenty‐two distinguished scientists have been elected Fellows of the Union. Fellows are scientists who are judged by their peers as having attained ackowledged eminence in a branch of geophysics. The number of Fellows elected each year is limited to 0.1 % of the total membership at the time of election. The newly elected Fellows are Walter Alvarez, University of California, Berkeley; John R. Booker, University of Washington, Seattle; Peter G. Brewer, Woods Hole Oceanographie Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.; Michael H. Carr, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.; Gedeon Dagan, Tel Aviv University, Israel; James H. Dieterich, USGS, Menlo Park; Thomas Dunne, University of Washington, Seattle; Jack Fooed Evernden, USGS, Menlo Park; Edward A. Flinn, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.; Arnold L. Gordon, Lamont‐Doherty Geological Observatory, Palisades, N.Y.; Gerhard Haerendel, Max Planck Institut, Garching, Federal Republic of Germany; David L. Kohlstedt, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; Robert A. Langel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; James G. Moore, USGS, Menlo Park; Marcia Neugebauer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Robert C. Newton, University of Chicago, Illinois; John A. Orcutt, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif.; Robert B. Smith, University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Bengt U. Sonnerup, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.; Martin A. Uman, University of Florida, Gainesville; Joe Veverka, Cornell University; and James C.G. Walker, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Henry Hotchkiss, 79, a petroleum geologist and AGU member of the Hydrology section since 1948, died on December 22, 1988.

John A. Gledhill, a member of the Solar‐Planetary Relationships (Aeronomy) section of AGU since 1967, died recently. He was 68.
Teaching aids in seismology
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Two videotapes on seismological topics are now available from Bruce A. Bolt, Seismograph Station, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720. T h e two tapes are the first of a series to be produced.

The first, “Mapping Earthquakes” (35 minutes), uses computer graphics to provide an introductory account of intensity, hypocentral location, magnitude estimation, and the patterns of time and space sequence of earthquakes. It is suitable for undergraduate courses in geology and geophysics.
UCAR visitor research programs
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research will continue to offer to visiting scientists opportunities in atmospheric and related sciences at two centers for operational weather prediction for research: the Naval Environmental Prediction and Research Facility (NEPRF) and NOAA's National Meteorological Center (NMC).

Research at NEPRF, in Monterey, Calif., is aimed at improving weather analysis and prediction for U.S. Navy operations. Studies cover a range of phenomena related to atmosphere‐ocean interactions, for example, planetary boundary layer interaction with clouds and radiation, prediction problems related to orography, fine‐scale modeling in coastal regions, and statistical interpretation of model forecasts and remotely sensed data.
Student program
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Earth sciences studies will receive 5% of the funds for the 137 Young Scholars projects funded by the National Science Foundation for 1989. NSF has budgeted $7 million for this second year of the Young Scholars Program. More than 4700 high‐ability secondary school students (grades 8–12) will participate.

The 68 projects that NSF supported in 1988 will again be funded. Four of the 69 new projects are in Earth sciences; for example, the Foundation for Glacier and Environmental Research in Moscow, Idaho, will take ten students for 8 weeks of research on the Juneau ice fields in Alaska.
Faculty shortage to ease
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation recently announced that ten of the 197 Presidential Young Investigator awards went to geoscientists. The program hopes to ease the shortage of faculty in scientific and engineering fields.

By funding research of faculty members at the beginning of their careers, the awards help universities attract and retain outstanding young Ph.D. scientists who may otherwise choose nonteaching careers. Each Young Investigator recipient can receive up to $100,000 per year for 5 years in a combination of federal and matching private funds.
Grants for undergraduates
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

About 4% of the National Science Foundation's total Research Experiences for Undergraduates awards went to the geosciences or related fields. The annually awarded grants are aimed at encouraging students to choose careers in mathematics, science, and engineering. Special emphasis is on providing research participation opportunities for women, minorities, and the physically disabled.

Erich Bloch, director of the NSF, noted that “Talented undergraduate students should be stimulated to choose research and teaching careers in science, mathematics, and engineering. We at NSF hope that actual participation in research projects, and exposure to the excitement, problems, and challenges of research will encourage this interest.”
Best Student Paper
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Michael A. Celaya received the award for best student paper in the GP Section at the AGU 1988 Fall Meeting in San Francisco. His talk, with coauthor Brad M. Clement, was “Time series analysis of two geomagnetic polarity transition records.”

Mike received a B.A. in geophysics in 1986 from Texas A&M University, College Station. He remained at TAMU through August 1988 to earn a M.S. in geophysics under Brad Clement of the Ocean Drilling Program. His thesis work, presented at the Fall Meeting, involved a time series analysis of paleomagnetic polarity transition records, with the aim of better understanding the relationship between secular variation and transitional fields.
Petition nominations for 1990–1992
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The nominees listed below are those of the Union and section nominating committees and have been approved by the AGU Council.

Nominations may also be made by membership petition. There are no age, nationality, residence or other analogous restrictions on who may serve as a n officer. Petitions should be sent to the General Secretary, AGU, 2000 Florida Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20009. They must be received no later than July 7, 1989.
Coastal Center
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The U.S. Geological Survey dedicated its new Center for Coastal Geology June 12 at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. Robert Halley leads the staff of nine USGS scientists studying coastal erosion and pollution and underwater mineral resources in cooperation with the university's Marine Science Department. Current research is on erosion along Lake Michigan and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. The number of USGS scientists at the center should increase to 30 over five years.
Students at DOE
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Department of Energy has selected 365 students for its High School Honors Science Program this summer. They come from the 50 states, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the District of Columbia and from Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Mexico. Each student will spend two weeks at a DOE research laboratory.

In the Earth sciences, students going to the Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, Wash., will study desert, forest, river, stream and ocean ecosystems. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, students will do environmental field work. At Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y., students will use the National Synchrotron Light Source for research in biology, chemistry and physics (see “Synchrotron X Ray Sources in the Earth Sciences,” by S. R. Sutton et al., Eos, 69, 1666, 1988).
Mars research
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is asking for proposals for basic research in its Martian Surface and Atmosphere Through Time program. The goal is to understand the processes that modify the planet's surface: the current state of the surface and the physics, chemistry and dynamics of the atmosphere; causes of annual surface and atmospheric variability' and evolution of the surface and effects of interactions between surface and atmosphere through geologic time.

Proposals should refer to NRA 89‐OSSA‐10 and be sent to Lunar and Planetary Geosciences Review Panel, Lunar and Planetary Institute, 3303 NASA Road 1, Houston, TX 77058; tel. 713‐486‐2149. Deadline is September 1, 1989.
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Edward Ambrose Flinn III, an AGU Fellow and a member in the Seismology Section since 1953, died August 13. He was 57.
NASA research announcements
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces the research proposal deadline for the Origins of Solar Systems Research Program as October 31, 1989, and November 1, 1989, for the Magellan Guest Investigator Program.

Goals of the Origins of Solar Systems Research Program are to complement and extend ongoing research efforts in this area and to foster effective communications among active researchers on this topic. Proposals are encouraged which involve joint research efforts by investigators from different scientific disciplines. All categories of organizations are encouraged to participate, including industry, educational institutions, other nonprofit organizations, and other government agencies. Proposals should be submitted to Origins of Solar System Review Panel, The Lunar and Planetary Institute, 3303 NASA Road 1, Houston, TX 77058; tel 713‐486‐2149.
Thank you
Authors: Cameron Ken
Published: October 2011

The Earth Sciences Board at the University of California, Santa Cruz, wishes to thank the many people who have inquired about the safety of our faculty, students and facilities during the recent earthquake. Seismologists supervised by K. C. McNally and geologists supervised by G. B. Griggs and R. S. Anderson were in the field throughout the week following the quake, measuring aftershocks and ground deformations.
Acoustic image‐processing software
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Several algorithims that display, enhance and analyze side‐scan sonar images of the seafloor, have been developed by the University of Washington, Seattle, as part of an Office of Naval Research funded program in acoustic image analysis. One of these programs, PORTAL, is a small (less than 100K) image display and enhancement program that can run on MS‐DOS computers with VGA boards. This program is now available in the public domain for general use in acoustic image processing.

PORTAL is designed to display side‐scan sonar data that is stored in most standard formats, including SeaMARC I, II, 150 and GLORIA data. (See image.) In addition to the “standard” formats, PORTAL has a module “front end” that allows the user to modify the program to accept other image formats. In addition to side‐scan sonar data, the program can also display digital optical images from scanners and “framegrabbers,” gridded bathymetry data from Sea Beam and other sources, and potential field (magnetics/gravity) data. While limited in image analysis capability, the program allows image enhancement by histogram manipulation, and basic filtering operations, including multistage filtering. PORTAL can print reasonably high‐quality images on Postscript laser printers and lower‐quality images on non‐Postscript printers with HP Laserjet emulation. Images suitable only for index sheets are also possible on dot matrix printers.
Computer grants
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation will offer educational supplements to CISE grants in Fiscal Year 1990. The purpose of the supplements is to establish closer links between CISE‐supported research and undergraduate education and to accelerate transfer into the classroom of research results from work done under existing research grants. Any principal investigator with an active NSF research award from a program in the CISE Directorate can apply for an educational supplement. Proposals should be for creative activities to improve education, not for research.
Philip wins AWRAC Award
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

John Philip, member of the AGU Section of Hydrology since 1951, was recently awarded the inaugural Eminent Researcher Fellowship of the Australian Water Research Advisory Council (AWRAC). Philip, Chief of the CSIRO Centre for Environmental Mechanics in Canberra, Australia, was awarded the Fellowship for his pioneering work on the mathematical physics of water movement in unsaturated porous media and soils.

During his research career over 4 decades, Philip has published over. 230 scientific papers, mainly in hydrology. Sub‐disciplines include soil and porous medium physics, fluid mechanics, micrometeorology, physical chemistry, and mathematical and physical aspects of physiology and ecology. The stipend associated with the AWRAC Fellowship will allow Philip to reduce his administrative duties for a year and mount a full‐time attack on three important water research projects: a boundary layer analysis of water entry into subterranean holes from unsaturated seepage; groundwater pollution from hydrocarbon leaks beneath the water table; and an engineering approach to control of water use and microclimate by plant surface resistance under arid advective conditions.
Brief data reports in JGR
Authors: Cheng Andrew F.
Published: October 2011

It is proposed that the Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics provide means by which appropriate solar‐terrestrial spacecraft and ground‐based data sets stored in national data centers or other accessible places can be described to the space physics community in the format of Brief Data Reports.

Publication of BDRs would make data sets available to scientists who are not directly involved with the missions or experiments. Refereed BDRs would provide for scientific recognition and quality control of the data sets and encourage submission of data sets to national data centers.
[Comment on “Auroral green line” by Shröder, and “The interpretation of the auroral green line” by Hendriksen and Egeland]
Authors: Silverman Sam
Published: October 2011

While I agree with the point made by Shröder (Eos, April 18, 1989) that early work in a subject is generally ignored, and that this is unfortunate, I feel that his implied criticism of the paper by Hendriksen and Egeland (Eos, July 19, 1988) is misplaced and unwarranted.

Hendriksen and Egeland were not writing a definitive review paper in which all contributions to a subject were to be mentioned and/or discussed. They were writing from a particular perspective, emphasizing only those aspects they considered pertinent to their treatment. Other writers, with differing perspectives, would have selected from the literature differently. As will be noted below in more detail, Schroder himself has done just this, in selecting only German work in his comment.
The 1989”1990 eruption of Redoubt Volcano
Authors:   Alaska Volcano Observatory Staff
Published: October 2011

On December 14, 1989, Redoubt Volcano, in south‐central Alaska, erupted after 23 years of quiescence. Volcanic ash and floods generated by the eruption have caused significant damage to aircraft and temporarily curtailed oil production in Cook Inlet. The long‐term effects of continued volcanic activity could be severe on the local economy. The two preliminary reports that follow, “The Eruption and Its Hazards” below and “Volcanic Ash and Aircraft” on the next page, describe the volcanic activity and some of the hazards of the first 6 weeks of the on‐going eruption.
Mars '94
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

U.S. planetary scientists have been invited to participate in the Mars '94 mission of the U.S.S.R. Up to 10 will be selected as Participating Scientists, to do Mars research with Soviet mission scientists using information obtained by instruments on the spacecraft. Of U.S. scientists invited by non‐U.S. principal investigators to participate as co‐investigators, fewer than 10 can be supported. The U.S. program will be directed and managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

In October 1994 the Soviet Union will launch the two Mars '94 probes, which will reach Mars in 315 days. The nominal mission lifetime is 12 months, or half a Mars year, starting at orbit insertion. Each probe will consist of a 3‐axis stabilized PHOBOS‐type spacecraft and a descent module containing a balloon, two or three small stations, and two or three penetrators. Instruments on the spacecraft will do planetary, plasma and trajectory studies.
Ph.D. shortage
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The late 1990s will see a shortage of Ph.D. graduates, according to the Association of American Universities, Washington, D.C. AAU's new comprehensive study, “The Ph.D. Shortage: The Federal Role,” reports that competition for new Ph.D.s is already intense and can only intensify because demand is greater than supply in both academic and nonacademic markets.

Doctoral education plays an increasingly important role in U.S. research and development programs. Students have a pivotal part in doing research and enriching it with new ideas. The AAU report says that graduate students are “major determinants of the creativity and productivity of U.S. academic research, the source of more than 50% of the nation's basic research.’ The market for doctoral education extends beyond the university. In 1985, about 43% of all Ph.D.s employed in this country were working outside higher education; the demand for doctorate recipients in nonacademic sectors continues to grow.
1989 CEDAR Meeting
Authors: Meriwether John W.
Published: October 2011

The fourth annual meeting of the CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics, Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) initiative was held June 21–26 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo.; 222 scientists including 66 students attended. Barbara Emery of NCAR was local meeting organizer. The increase in student attendance, double the year before, was a meeting highlight. The high quality of poster papers pointed to the excellent caliber of the students. The CEDAR initiative has, from the start, emphasized support for students. Their response augurs well for the future of aeromony.
New airborne Doppler radar
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

U.S. and French research establishments will build and share an airborne Doppler radar that they will design to gather data on large‐scale storm structures and global atmospheric processes.

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, Colo., the Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications (CNET) and the Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers in Paris, France, have signed an $11 million agreement for joint development, operation and research use of the radar. The scheduled completion date of the Electra Doppler Radar (ELDORA) system is November 1, 1992.
WOCE ancillary projects, cruise schedule
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The U.S. WOCE Hydrographic Program Implementation Panel (WHPIP) and the U.S. WOCE Science Steering Committee (SSC) on January 26 established the procedure for selecting ancillary projects on U.S. WOCE Hydrographic Program (WHP) cruises.

WOCE is the World Ocean Circulation Experiment, an international effort to understand how the ocean circulation affects climate, to help make it possible to predict climate changes over periods of decades and to discover how human activity is influencing climate patterns (“The WOCE Hydrographic Project,” Eos, 69, 68, 1988, and “U.S. WOCE Program Ready to Begin,” Eos, 70, 874, 1989).
NASA big winner in budget
Authors: Mulhall M.
Published: October 2011

The President's budget request for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration contains a dramatic increase of 24%, or $2.8 billion, over Fiscal Year 1990, bringing the total figure for FY 1991 to $15.1 billion. Of the $4.5 billion the administration has proposed in increases for civilian and defense R&D, NASA receives $2 billion. The largest single increase in the NASA budget is slated for Space Station Freedom, which increases by $700 million (36%) to a total of $2.6 billion. Other big increases go to the lunar/Mars initiative, which is up 47% to a total of $408 million, and the first element of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth, the Earth Observing System (EOS), to receive $264 million.
Reaction to Global Change Budget
Authors: Jones R.
Published: October 2011

A recent hearing of the Subcommittee on Veterans Administration/Department of Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies of the Senate Committee on Appropriations provided an early glimpse of congressional reaction to the administration's global change research budget.
Aeromagnetic Minnesota
Authors: Chandler Val W. , Southwick David L.
Published: October 2011

The Precambrian terranes of Minnesota are revealed in a new shaded relief image (cover) made using high‐resolution aeromagnetic data. The image dramatically portrays geologic relationships (Figure 1) that are almost completely concealed by glacial drift.

In southwestern Minnesota, a complex magnetic signature characterizes the highgrade metamorphic rocks of the 2550‐–550 Ma gneiss terrane; patches of subdued signature delineate overlying basins of 1760–1630 Ma Sioux quartzite. Northeast‐trending aeromagnetic lineaments in the gneiss terrane mark late Archean shear zones.
Educator Award
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Association for Women Geoscientists Foundation is seeking nominations for its second Outstanding Educator Award, which will be given October 30, 1990, at the Geological Society of America meeting in Dallas, Tex.

The award was established to honor college and university teachers who have demonstrated support for women students both inside and outside the classroom.
Water Quality Assessment Program
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A national effort to assess water quality begins this year. The National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) will be undertaken by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with other federal, state, and local agencies, and the private sector. Its purpose, said Department of Interior secretary Manuel Lujan, is to “provide the fundamental types of information needed to develop the most technically sound and cost‐effective solutions to many of the nation's pressing water quality issues.”

$18 million has been proposed for NAWQA in FY 1991, an increase of $11 million over FY 1990, when the program was in a test phase. The program will include about 60 study units, based on river basins and aquifer systems, and will cost about $60 million per year. The study units will represent various settings across the nation and account for a large percentage of the nation's water use.
AGU election results
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The candidates for this year's AGU election were all outstanding individuals and each would have served the Union well. The participation of all the candidates is an example of the kind of volunteerism that makes AGU strong. The new officers should be both congratulated and helped in meeting their responsibilities.
U.S. Continental Scientific Drilling Program: Ongoing activities and scientific research strategy
Authors: Kolstad George A.
Published: October 2011

The Interagency Coordinating Group for Continental Scientific Drilling (ICG/CSD), composed of representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE), National Science Foundation (NSF), and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), has devised a multiyear, multihole scientific research strategy for the U.S. Continental Scientific Drilling Program (CSDP). Using this strategic plan, the agencies of ICG/CSD expect to establish and maintain a management and operational infrastructure for continental scientific drilling.

Phase I is the initial 3‐year, base scientific drilling program beginning in Fiscal Year 1991. Combined funding from the three agencies is expected to be about $3 million per year, to drill 10 to 15 shallow‐ to intermediate‐depth holes over the 3‐year period. The elements of Phase I are: targets of significant scientific importance at shallow and occasionally intermediate depths research using drill holes of opportunity continuing research and development related to CSDP activities archiving, storing and distributing drilling samples collecting, managing and distributing drilling and drilling‐related data.
IRIS Alerts Congress
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Funding for the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) has decreased 30% since the program was started in 1977 (“Reauthorization of Earthquake Act Urged,” Eos, March 13, p. 330). Alarmed by the continued decline in research on earthquake hazard reduction brought on by the decreased funding, the IRIS Consortium has sent a letter to Congress asking that the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act (Public Law 95–124) be reauthorized to reach the original $200‐million‐a‐year goal by 1993.

IRIS, a consortium for seismology, has more than 65 colleges, universities and research institutions as members and undertook the letter to express the concern of the seismological community; 68 individual seismologists have signed (see box). Their message: “We urge you to use the reauthorization of NEHRP to rebuild our deteriorated program of earthquake hazard mitigation.”
Coastal monitoring needs improvement
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Most monitoring of Atlantic and Pacific coastal ecosystems does not “provide the information needed to understand the condition of the marine environment or to assess the effects of human activity on it,” a National Research Council committee has found. The committee reported its work in Managing Troubled Waters: The Role of Marine Environmental Engineering, recently released by the NRC.

The ideal comprehensive monitoring syst em would help avert coastal environmental disasters, the committee said, noting that closed beaches, contaminated waters and sediments, restricted shellfish beds, and ailing fisheries persist even though numerous monitoring programs have been in place for some time. Federal mandates for marine environmental monitoring have been in effect since the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1890. The committe noted that “results have usually been disappointing, and many examples of overlapping, fragmentary, and unrelated monitoring efforts remain.” They suggest a stronger national focus, through periodic reports to Congress that evaluate the monitoring program, the state of the nation's marine environment, and policies that protect it.
AGU advocacy for science
Authors: Eden H. Frank
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.
Geothermal evidence of climatic change
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Borehole temperature data from many geographic areas and new perspectives on the data, including the possibility of climatic change was the focus of the workshop Geothermal Evidence Revelant to Questions of Climatic Change, held in San Francisco, Calif., December 3, 1989, before the AGU Fall Meeting. About 30 people attended, representing many geothermal research laboratories in the United States and Canada.
25 years of International Hydrological Programs
Authors: Johnson A. Ivan
Published: October 2011

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (Unesco) held a commemorative symposium March 15–17, 1990, in Paris to celebrate 25 years of the International Hydrological Decade and International Hydrological Program (IHD/IHP) under its general guidance and supervision. The symposium was attended by one or more representatives of 37 countries, five United Nations organizations, and five international non‐governmental organizations such as the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and International Water Resources Association.
Acoustical oceanography
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Acoustical Society of America has formed a Technical Specialty Group on Acoustical Oceanography. At ASA meetings the new group will have special sessions where they will give invited and contributed papers and have panel discussions about ocean parameters that are measured effectively by acoustical techniques.

The first special sessions will be May 22–23, 1990, at the ASA meeting at Pennsylvania State University, University Park. The focus on May 22 will be acoustical techniques for detection and measurement of internal waves and turbulence; conveners are Robert Pinkel of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif., and Herman Medwin of the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif. Acoustical studies of the physical and biological characteristics of ocean mass boundaries are the discussion topic on May 23. The convener is C. S. Clay, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
CPSMR reorganized
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources received final approval in February from the National Research Council's Governing Board to reorganize itself into two new commissions: the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and their Applications (CPSMA) and the Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (CGER). Norman Metzger will be executive director of CPSMA, and Stephen Rattien, executive director of CGER.
International hydrological decade
Authors: Johnson A. Ivan
Published: October 2011

Realization of the vital importance of water led to development of the International Hydrological Decade (IHD) and the subsequent International Hydrological Program (IHP). The increasing importance of water, vital to all life on this planet, can be visualized easily from the estimation that the total world population will increase to 6.5 billion by 2000, with 50% residing in the humid tropics or other warm regions.

The largest increases are predicted in developing countries. In 1963 R. L. Nace and L. J. Tison pointed out that these developing countries would not only need to receive hydrology technology, but also need the education and training to develop the hydrologic specialists to put that technology into practice and thus solve their present and future water problems.
1990 AGU Fellows
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

AGU congratulates the 25 distinguished scientists who were selected by a committee of their peers to be AGU Fellows in 1990. This selection was based on the individual's attaining acknowledged eminence in a branch of geophysics and on the total number of such individuals selected being highly constrained to no more than 0.1% of the membership. The new Fellows are shown below, with their citations.