bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
New products
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Terex‐Cobey Composter, developed jointly by the Terex Division of General Motors Corporation and its inventor, Herbert T. Cobey, operates to accelerate a natural process by which organic wastes such as garbage, refuse, sewage sludge, and animal manures are converted into a dry, odor‐free, stable fuel resembling lignite. The conversion is accomplished at temperatures up to 170° Fahrenheit generated by aerobic thermophilic bacterial action.
Fall Annual Meeting 1973
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Fall Annual Meeting of AGU was held at the Jack Tar Hotel, San Francisco, California, December 10–13, 1973, with more than 1600 members and guests in attendance. Representatives of the national and local media were also present.

Exhibitors included Geothermal Energy Magazine; Kinemetrics, Inc.; Schonstedt Instrument Company; Spectrex Corporation; TRW Systems, Inc.; Teledyne Geotech; and John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
The President's Page: Maurice Ewing and the Atlantic Continental Shelf
Authors: Abelson Philip H.
Published: October 2011

On the occasion of the 1974 honors banquet of the AGU, I was seated next to Maurice Ewing, who was the recipient that evening of the Bucher medal. (He had received the Bowie award in 1957.) The whole affair was especially pleasant. The other recipients of awards, A.E. Ringwood, Bowie medalist; and Amos Nur, Mcelwane award, have made distinguished contributions, and they are well‐rounded scientists who honor the union. But Maurice Ewing has an especial claim to the warm regard of his colleagues. He has been a member of the union since 1931, and has presented scores of papers at union sessions and served the union in many ways, including the presidency from 1956 to 1959. His pioneering efforts in oceanography captured for him and for this country a preeminent role in the field. I will not attempt to catalog his achievements. Frank Press, who gave the citation, did a splendid job.
Response on receiving the Kemp Medal
Authors: Wasserburg Gerald J.
Published: October 2011

Recently Columbia University awarded Kemp medals for 'distinguishedpublic service by a geologist' to Gerald J. Wasserburg, professor of geologyand geophysics at the California Institute of Technology, and the late PaulWerner Gast, who was professor of geology at Columbia and chief of theDivision of Planetary and Earth Sciences in NASA's Johnson Space Center inHouston. Professor Wasserburg*s response at the presentation constitutes anappropriate tribute to the memory of Paul Gast, who at the time of his deathwas president of AGU's Section of Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology.(Ed.)
NOAA tests laser as environmental sensor
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Using a unique and versatile remote‐sensing system, scientists of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have begun probing clouds, mountain waves and winds, urban air pollution, and a host of weather systems with powerful beams of laser light.

Developed by the Wave Propagation Laboratory (one of NOAA's Environmental Research Laboratories in Boulder, Colorado), the new system is a product of a continuing program in atmospheric spectroscopy. The system had its first field trial during November 1973 in the Denver Brown Cloud study, conducted under the auspices of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Pacific region subject of multination geologic study
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Top earth scientists of more than 40 nations will assemble in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 26–30, 1974, for a conference aimed at advancing the exploration and development of the total energy and mineral resources of the circum‐Pacific area.

The Circum‐Pacific Energy and Mineral Resources Conference is sponsored by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the Committee for Coordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in Asian Offshore Areas (CCOP‐a United Nations funded organization), and the Pacific Science Association (PSA). Major contributors to the ambitious program include several resource specialists of the U.S. Geological Survey.
New tornado detector deployed by NOAA
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

National Weather Service facilities at 20 sites along America's ‘tornado alley’ will test a new and significantly improved electronic tornado detector developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The compact instrument (approximately the size of a typewriter) and its 4‐antenna array constitute the latest model of a device that has been evolving since 1971 in the Wave Propagation Laboratory, one of NOAA's Environmental Research Laboratories in Boulder, Colorado. Cost of the new units is about $2000 each (about $1000 in parts).
Applications of Storm Water Management Models–Short course
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is sponsoring a short course consisting of lectures and workshops on the development and use of computer‐assisted models for the prediction and control of urban storm water quantity and quality. The course will be held August 19–23, 1974, at the university.

Special emphasis will be given to the Environmental Protection Agency's Storm Water Management model. Introductory topics will include rainfall runoff relationships, flow routing, storm water quality, and the development, description, and use of storm water models. Case studies illustrating solutions to combined sewer overflow and storm water discharge problems will be presented.
United Nations survey indicates use of desalination plants spreading
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Large‐scale use of desalination plants to produce drinkable water in the world's arid regions has increased rapidly in recent years. However, there has been no dramatic breakthrough in costs, according to a new United Nations study.

Results of a survey of desalination plants, the second undertaken by the UN, indicates that treatment of sea water and brackish water is now an established procedure in the Mediterranean region, the Caribbean, Australia, Japan, North and South America, and the Middle East, where fuel costs are low. For example, at Juddah, on the Arabian coast of the Red Sea, a single desalination plant produces 5,000,000 gallons of water per day—enough for 100,000 persons.
Promise her anything!
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Arpege, a computer‐based game created at Carnegie‐Mellon University, is designed to train students and employees of government agencies and industry not merely to enhance the ambient atmosphere but to head off pollution disasters.

The Air Pollution Episode Game was completed in August 1973 and is already in service at 15 U.S. and Canadian universities as well as in several pollution control agencies and private firms. Playing instructions have been forwarded by request to Colombia and Mexico. Representatives of a Spanish scientific center are expected to visit CMU soon to examine the game, and the university is getting a steady flow of requests for information about it.
The President's Page: Increasing minority participation in the geophysical sciences [Guest Editorial]
Authors: Whitfield Kennard O.
Published: October 2011

Perhaps the most ignored yet among the most vital resources in the community are the indigenous talents of members of the ethnic minority groups (black Americans, Spanish surname Americans, Indian Americans) and women. Today only a very limited number of persons from these groups have the professional training and experience to assume professional leadership in the geophysical sciences and related fields.

This fact presents community leaders, educational institutions, and professional societies with a crucial problem‐how to develop and utilize the skills of a larger corps of minority specialists in the geophysical professions. Hence the critical question that faces the AGU Committee on Minorities is How can the American Geophysical Union use its resources, most of which are intellectual, with the greatest leverage to increase minority participation in the geophysical sciences both in the short term and over the next generation?
Meeting energy needs
Authors: Abelson Philip H.
Published: October 2011

The Arabs performed a great service for the American people by demonstrating that there are limits to the availability of oil. But now with the end of the embargo, the advent of spring, and more gasoline, many people are resuming their wasteful habits. Some recent opinion polls that have been published in Science [Murray et al., 1974] show that the public does not understand the seriousness of our energy problems and that it believes they will be solved in a few years. The fact is that with our present rate of motion we could find ourselves enduring uncertainties of supply, inflation, and economic dislocations for a decade or more.
Snow mechanics
Authors: Colbeck Samuel C. , Perla R. I.
Published: October 2011

The International Symposium on Snow Mechanics was held April 1–5, 1974, in Grindelwald, Switzerland, under the sponsorship of the International Association of Hydrological Science.

The conference, organized by the International Commission on Snow and Ice, attracted participants from a number of countries to discuss the physical and mechanical fundamentals of snow. Four review papers provided the basis to which authors added new material for the consideration of the small, select group of snow mechanicians.
University establishes Research School of Earth Sciences
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Last year the Australian National University established a Research School of Earth Sciences as an outgrowth of its Department of Geophysics, which had been noted for its programs in experimental petrology and geochemistry, paleomagnetism and geomagnetism, geochronology, rock mechanics, and seismology. These same programs form the nucleus for the new research school.
“Simulation in perspective” Computer conference theme
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

‘Simulation in Perspective’ is the theme of the Summer Computer Simulation Conference to be held July 9–11, 1974, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston.

The conference is sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Meteorological Society, Instrumentation Society of America, Society for Computer Simulation, Society to Help Avoid Redundant Effort (SHARE, an IBM users group), Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE), and AGU.
Awards presented at Fifty‐Fifth Annual Meeting: James B. Macelwane Award to Amos M. Nur
Authors: Anderson Don L. , Nur Amos
Published: October 2011

Amos NUR was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1938 and received his early education in Israel and Switzerland. He received his B.Sc. in Geology in 1962 at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and his Ph.D. in Geophysics from MIT in late 1969. Between 1957 and 1963 he served with the Israeli army, explored for minerals in southern Israel, and did geological mapping in the Swiss Alps. Since 1970 he has been an assistant professor in the Geophysics Department at Stanford University. He is president‐elect of the Tectonophysics Section of the American Geophysical Union.
IHD Council Meeting; End‐of‐decade conference; Tercentenary Symposiums
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The end of the International Hydrological Decade (IHD), which actually comes with the end of 1974, is being marked by three meetings in Paris from August 29 through September 14, 1974. The three meetings are the ninth and last session of the IHD Coordinating Council on August 29–30; the End‐of‐Decade Conference (ENDEC), which extends from September 2 to 14;; and the Tercentenary of Scientific Hydrology, which takes place September 9–12, during ENDEC. All meetings will be held in Unesco House in Paris.

The following schedule of events is based on information available to the U.S. National Committee.
The President's Page: Earthquake prediction and public reaction [Guest Editorial]
Authors: Hamilton Robert M.
Published: October 2011

Within the last year, two earthquakes in the United States—one in New York and the other in California—have been successfully predicted on the basis of variations in seismic wave travel time. Recent studies revealed that two shocks in central California could have been predicted by similar methods. In addition, tiltmeters operating in central California since May 1973 have shown premonitory tilting for at least 10 earthquakes that occurred near an instrument.

Although these seismic wave travel time and tilt precursors were observed for small and moderate earthquakes, magnitude 5 or less, earlier results of a similar nature are on record from the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States for larger earthquakes, including the shock near San Fernando, California, in 1971. The dilatancy‐fluid diffusion theory has been developed to account for the observations. An earthquake prediction capability is apparently not far away.
IAGA Division One, Organizational Plans
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

In January 1974 the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy was reorganized into five divisions, each to concern itself with a specific field of research: (1) internal magnetic fields; (2) aeronomic phenomena; (3) magnetospheric phenomena; (4) solar wind/interplanetary magnetic field; and (5) observatories, instruments, indices, and data.
Metrication subject of international conferencce
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

An International Metric Conference will be cohosted by the Lamar Institute of Metric Services and the Metric Association on August 14, 15, and 16, 1974, in Beaumont, Texas.
Travel grants to attend conference offered to students
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Some 40 awards of air travel and living expenses are being offered by the Institute of Geophysics, University of Hawaii, to enable qualified students to attend the International Woollard Symposium on the Geophysics of the Pacific Ocean Basin and Its Margin, in Honolulu, December 8–10, 1974.
Short course on sulfide mineralogy
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Mineralogical Society of America will sponsor a short course on sulfide mineralogy from November 15 to 17, 1974, immediately preceding the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Miami.

The course will consist of a fundamental review of the crystal chemistry, phase equilibriums, bonding, and physical and chemical properties of sulfide materials. Topics to be included are basic and derivative structures, polymorphism, polytypism, nonstoichiometry, and exsolution; phase equilibriums of mineralogically important systems, experimental techniques, kinetics, and thermochemistry; and crystal field, molecular orbital, and band theory as applied to sulfides.
New product
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A dew point hygrometer that adapts the primary measurement capability of the optical, chilled‐mirror hygrometer to industrial requirements has been introduced by the Environmental Equipment Division of EG&G.

The new Model 440 hygrometer is a compact, portable unit providing continuous direct reading of dew point, with automatic self‐standardization and National Bureau of Standards traceability. It features a broad operating range, rapid response and linear output. The instrument uses the same high‐precision optical technique employed in EG&G laboratory hygrometers, which are often used as standards and calibrators.
Energy: Natural limits and abundances
Authors: von Arx William S.
Published: October 2011

With the decline of ancient civilization—the successive incinerations of the great Library of Alexandria in the fourth century and the Moslem conquest of Egypt in the seventh—it remained for Persian and Arabian scholars to assemble, record, and continue to enlarge knowledge. The western world became aware of this heritage during the Crusades of the twelfth century when translations of Arabic records became available in Latin and various other tongues. These events provided the intellectual fuel for the Renaissance and eventually for the industrial revolution, which, according to so me, has about run its course.

Today the Arabs are again influencing history. They are making us realize that industrialized society is critically dependent upon the natural abundance of fuels. Indeed, by their petroleum export policies, they have forced us to reexamine our patterns of living and our demands upon the resources of the earth.
Activities of the U.S. National Committee for Geochemistry
Authors: Petrie William L.
Published: October 2011

Recent inquiries about the activities of the U.S. National Committee for Geochemistry and its functions have resulted in an attempt toward improved dissemination of information to geochemists and others interested in the field. It is the committee's intent to report regularly in this and perhaps other appropriate organs on its meetings and other activities of interest, including those of its separately supported Subcommittee on the Geochemical Environment in Relation to Health and Disease, and activities of its ad hoc panels, such as the Panel on Orientations for Geochemistry.
Earthquake mechanism and displacement fields close to fault zones: Report on the Sixth GEOP Research Conference
Authors: Allen C. R. , Berger Jon , Mueller Ivan I. , Savage J. C. , Weertman J.
Published: October 2011

The Sixth Geodesy/Solid Earth and Ocean Physics (GEOP) Research Conwas held on February 4–5, 1974, at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California. It was attended by about 100 persons.

James N. Brune, program chairman, opened the conference and delivered the introductory address, a somewhat extended version of which is printed elsewhere in this issue. Brune's paper and the following summaries of the sessions constitute a report of the conference.
U.S. participation in the IMS: Coordination office established in Washington
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

An International Magnetospheric Study Coordination Office has been established in the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the Division of Environmental Sciences, National Science Foundation, in Washington, D.C. Announcement of the new office was made by NSF director, H. Guyford Stever.
Interactions between the Moon and its environment
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Department of Space Physics and Astronomy of Rice University and the Lunar Science Institute (LSI), both in Houston, Texas, are cosponsoring a conference devoted to the broader aspects of the interactions between the moon and its environment under the title ‘Interactions of the Interplanetary Plasma with the Modern and Ancient Moon.’ The meeting will be held September 30 through October 4, 1974, at College Camp, situated by Lake Geneva (Williams Bay), Wisconsin, and adjacent to Yerkes Observatory.
New Great Lakes Laboratory established by NOAA
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the Department of Commerce has established a new Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory to be opened in late summer 1974 at Ann Arbor, Michigan. The new facility will bring together scientists from the National Ocean Survey's Lake Survey Center in Detroit and researchers on the International Field Year of the Great Lakes (IFYGL).
NASA invites participation in Lunar Research Program
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is continuing to encourage and support research on all aspects of lunar science, according to Noel W. Hinners, director of the Lunar Programs office.

Scientists who are not now involved in lunar science programs but who have special research capabilities, new ideas, or new techniques are encouraged to participate in NASA's broadly based programs, which include (1) experimental and theoretical research on lunar materials, (2) lunar data analysis and synthesis, in which published and other generally available data are used, and (3) support of research and technology designed to facilitate achievements in other lunar programs, e.g., theoretical studies, laboratory simulations, meteorite research, and advanced experiment concepts.
Meteorological observations and instrumentation subject of meeting
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Dates have been announced by the American Meteorological Society for its Third Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation, which will have as its theme ‘Observations and Instruments for Mesoscale Phenomena.’ The meeting will be held February 10–13, 1975, at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

AGU is among the scientific societies cooperating in sponsorship of the symposium.
New products
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Four different bases are available for the new H/I Micromanipulator M so that, depending on application, a stationary, traversing, revolving, or magnetic type of platform can now be selected.

This precision micromanipulator provides for vertical, horizontal, and tilting adjustments. Coarse adjustments are by rack and pinion; fine motions are controlled by micrometer spindle.
Forecasting water use in a constrained environment
Authors: Weiss Arden O.
Published: October 2011

Traditional water use forecasting methodologies have been based primarily upon extrapolation of historical trends into the future, using either single or multidimensional regression analysis. However mathematically eloquent, these techniques are in many cases today totally inadequate for providing planners and decision makers with meaningful guidance on expected future water use.

The primary reason for this lies with the pure and simple fact that in more and more cases within the United States, the ‘limits to growth’ concepts are beginning to be felt in both the heavy water using portions of the economy and the portions not related to water. The direct and indirect effects of this on future water use are impossible to predict with any confidence by using forecasting techniques based on the analysis and extrapolation of historical trends. To correct this, the following basic concepts should guide the development and utilization of future water use forecasting procedures.
IFYGL Office moves, now part of GLERL
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The U.S. IFYGL Project Office has moved from Rockville, Maryland, to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where it is the principal component of the newly formed Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

GLERL includes the IFYGL Project Office and scientists from the NOAA/National Ocean Survey's Lake Survey Center in Detroit (and will utilize some of the LSC's facilities, such as the 65‐foot R.V. Shenehon). The laboratory is the newest of the chain of 18 NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratories (whose headquarters is in Boulder, Colorado).
New values of fundamental physical constants published
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A review of the measurements bearing on the fundamental physical constants appears in a publication recently issued under the sponsorship of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Physics, and the National Bureau of Standards.

The review appears in the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, volume 2, number 4. It was prepared by E. Richard Cohen and Barry N. Taylor and is titled The 1973 Least‐Squares Adjustment of the Fundamental Constants.
The First Annual Midwestern AGU Meeting
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The First Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Region of the American Geophysical Union will be held September 25–27, 1975, at Madison, Wisconsin, on the University of Wisconsin campus.

The Midwestern region includes the 12 states Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Iowa, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas and the province of Ontario. About 10% of the AGU membership resides in these states.
AGI Minority Participation Program first scholarship award made
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The American Geological Institute (AGI) has awarded the first scholarship under its Minority Participation Program to Fernando Blackgoat, a Navajo geology student at Northern Arizona University of Flagstaff. The $2000 for the scholarship was provided by AGU.

AGI is now accepting nominations for scholarships for minority geoscience majors and expects to award five or more scholarships averaging $2000 each by the end of this year. Funds for the scholarships are provided by AGI member societies, corporate members and associates, other corporations, and individuals. Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of academic excellence, need, and probable future success in the geoscience family of professions.
President's Commission for White House Fellows invites applications
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The President's Commission for White House Fellows is accepting applications for the 20 fellowships to be granted for the year 1975–1976. This nonpartisan program seeks to draw America's brightest and most promising young people to Washingt on for a closer look at their government and the opportunities it offers for public service careers.

Since the program's inception in 1964, 169 women and men from a variety of professions, cultures, and backgounds have been selected to participate as fellows.
AGU/NASA Topical Conference on Electrodynamics of Substorms and Magnetic Storms
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

‘After using a word for a time, one thinks he understands it.’ This quotation, taken from the remarks of W.I. Axford during the final discussion period of the AGU/NASA Topical Conference on the Electrodynamics of Substorms and Magnetic Storms, aptly points out the need for the transition from morphological knowledge to physical understanding that is now taking place in the study of magnetospheric dynamics. Initial experimental studies have identified the substorm as the basic disturbance mode of the magnetosphere, and appropriately, as the subject of extensive continuing research. But with this morphological information has also come the realization that involved in the phenomenon called the substorm is an abundance of interrelated plasma physical processes that we don't yet understand. A major obstacle to the development of a comprehensive general model of substorms has been that many of these processes apparently can operate in the absence of a recognizable substorm, and not all substorms involve all the identified processes. Perhaps for this very reason the conference was characterized not by a plethora of general substorm theories but instead by reports of progress in our understanding of some of the individual processes that are identified with the substorm phenomenon.
Geysers
Authors: Rinehart John S.
Published: October 2011

Bunsen, of burner fame, and his associate, Descloizeaux, made the first scientific studies of geysers during a journey to Iceland in 1846 [Bunsen, 1848; Descloizeaux, 1847). They did then what we do now with geysers: they analyzed their waters for chemicals; probed their depths with primitive but effective and reliable maximum temperature thermometers; observed circulation patterns within their reservoirs; listened to their gurglings and detonations as instabilities developed; described ejection patterns of the water thrown out during eruptions; and finally, developed a geyser theory that still stands today. Both were clever experimenters, careful analysts, and interesting writers. Gentlemen travelers, explorers, scientists, guides—a whole host of men have written about geysers and speculated on their behavior [Mackenzie, 1842; Langford, 1871; Hague, 1904; Fix, 1939; Vosburgh, 1940; Marler, 1964a; Haynes, 1966; Bonney and Bonney, 1970]. Much of this literature is purely descriptive, extolling the beauties of the geysers, describing their geological settings, their external forms and basins, and their activity.
Symposium on Thermal Waters: Papers solicited
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A call for papers has been issued for the International Symposium on Thermal and Chemical Problems of Thermal Waters, to be held during the Sixteenth General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) on the campus of the University of Grenoble, France, August 29–September 1, 1975. Sponsors of the symposium are the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and the International Association of Volcano logy and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI).

The program will consist of invited and offered papers on thermal water distribution patterns, geothermal zones of the earth's crust, geochemistry of thermal waters in various regions, utilization of the heat components of thermal waters, and thermal pollution.
Conference on Conversion of Refuse to Energy Issues, call for papers
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A call for papers has been issued by the First International Conference on Conversion of Refuse to Energy to be held in Montreux, Switzerland, November 3–5, 1975. The conference will concentrate on the technical, economic, operational, and socio‐environmental aspects of solutions to the dual problems of refuse disposal and energy supply.

Sponsors of the meeting are the World Environment and Resources Council, Swiss Society for Protection of the Environment (SGU), Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the U.S. Environment and Resources Council, which includes the American Meteorological Society, American Phytopathological Society, IEEE, Institute of Environmental Sciences, and Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
RANN guidelines for preparing unsolicited proposals
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation has issued new Guidelines for Preparation of Unsolicited Proposals to the Program of Research Applied to National Needs (RANN). Copies can be obtained by ordering NSF 73‐37 from the foundation.

Tentative plans have been developed for issuance of several proposal solcitations during the current fiscal year in specific elements of the RANN program. Institutions or individuals who wish to receive copies of the RANN solicitations or the guidelines publication should write to the Office of Programs and Resources, Research Applications, NSF, 1800G Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20550.
Laser Doppler measurement methods subject of 1975 Symposium
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A symposium to be held August 25–28, 1975, at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen wiU have as its theme ‘The Accuracy of Flow Measurement by Laser Doppler Methods.’ The meeting is sponsored by the university's Department of Fluid Mechanics and by Disa Elektronik A/S, Denmark.

The purposes of the symposium are (1) to establish the value of Doppler anemometry by quantifying the sources of error associated with the possible components of a laser Doppler anemometer and the possible percision of measurements of velocity correlations and spectra in different flow configurations and (2) to facilitate communication between those who develop, use, or may in the future use laser Doppler anemometry.
Review of Symposium on Deep‐Seated Rocks and Geothermometry
Authors: Boettcher A. L.
Published: October 2011

This Special Session was organized and chaired by Orson L. Anderson for the Fifty‐Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held in April 1974. Five invited papers were presented, four dealing with the mantle of the earth and the fifth with samples of the core.

The first paper, 'The Mantle Sample From the Kimberlites and an Estimated Geotherm,' was by F.R. Boyd, Jr., of the Geophysical Laboratory. Some of the results have been published previously [Boyd, 1973a, b]. Basically, Boyd compared the compositions of pyroxenes in ultramafic nodules in kimberlites with compositions of pyroxenes synthesized under known pressures and temperatures to establish what he interprets as a fossil (Cretaceous) geotherm beneath Lesotho (Africa) and elsewhere, for example, beneath Montana [Hearn and Boyd, 1973] (see Figure 1). In these instances, the high‐pressure (deep) leg of the geotherm is inflected to higher temperatures. The rocks that plot on the lowtemperature, shallower segment of the geotherm have a ‘normal’ granular texture, but those on the deep (high‐temperature) segment are sheared. Boyd suggests that movement of the Cretaceous lithospheric plates sheared the underlying deepseated mantle rocks, concomitantly heating them above their predrift temperatures. Eruption of the kimberlites at about this time quenched in the high‐temperature, high‐pressure compositions of the pyroxenes, thus preserving a record of the perturbed geotherm.
Some data from GATE to be available soon
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Energy from the tropical sun is stored in ocean water and is carried into the atmosphere as the water evaporates. As the water vapor condenses into clouds and liquid droplets freeze, the energy explodes in the form of weather—a solitary cumulus cloud over the sea or an extensive low‐pressure system sweeping up the eastern seaboard of the United States.

On September 23, 1974, GATE—the Atlantic Tropical Experiment of the United Nations' Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP)—completed three months of the most intensive meteorological research ever undertaken. The project, sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization and the International Council of Scientific Unions, involved an area of tropical land and sea covering 20 million square miles and extending from the eastern Pacific Ocean, across Latin America, the Atlantic, and Africa, to the Western Indian Ocean. Seventy nations participated in the research aimed at better understanding the equatorial exchanges of energy and matter that ultimately control much of the world's weather.
Research opportunities for 1975
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The National Research Council has announced its Postdoctoral Research Associateship programs for 1975. These programs provide scientists and engineers with opportunities for postdoctoral research on problems in the fields of atmospheric and earth sciences, chemistry, engineering, environmental sciences, life sciences, mathematics, physics, and space sciences.

NRC administers these programs on behalf of and in cooperation with certain federal research organizations with laboratories at more than 80 geographic locations in the United States. Appointments are awarded on a competitive basis and are open to recent recipients of the doctorate and in some cases to senior investigators. Some are open to citizens of other countries than the United States.
Statistics on energy published by Bureau of Mines
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Facts on where America's energy came from in 1972, how much was consumed, and which sectors of the economy used it, are charted state by state and region by region in a new statistical report from the Interior Department's Bureau of Mines.

In the report, total 1972 energy consumption in the United States is compared with consumption in 1971 and with preliminary figures for 1973. For each state and region the number of mines producing coal and uranium and wells producing oil and gas is given, along with the count of nuclear power stations, hydropower installations, and generating plants running on oil, gas, and coal. Total gross and net energy ‘input’ and consumption are listed regionally and by state. Per capita and total energy consumption are also listed by state, the bureau said, although such figures necessarily include energy contained in that part of the electric power output that is consumed outside the producing state.
Education and Training in Meteorology: Symposium
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (IAMAP) are collaborating in organization of a symposium on Education and Training in Meteorology and Meteorological Aspects of Environmental Problems, to be held in Caracas, Venezuela, during one week in February 1975.

The symposium is one of a series organized jointly by WMO and IAMAP and offered at four‐year intervals. The program was adopted following the first WMO/IAMAP symposium, held in Rome in 1970, which was a notable success.
Water pollution research conference
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Eighth International Conference of the International Association on Water Pollution Research will be held in Sydney, Australia, August 22–27, 1976.

The purpose of the conference is to highlight research trends over a wide range of water situations that are causing growing concern to nations around the world.
IAGA lowers cost of publications
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

To get more of its publications into the hands of users, the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy has reduced the prices on most of its available publications, which include reports of lAGA meetings and symposia and geomagnetic data useful to researchers.

The publications are available through the publications office of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics in Paris.
Solute transport symposium
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Committees on Groundwater, Soil Water, and Water Quality of the AGU Section of Hydrology will sponsor a Symposium on Solute Transport in Subsurface Water during the AGU Fall Annual Meeting in San Francisco in December 1975.

The symposium will consist of two half‐day sessions on transport in the saturated and unsaturated zones and of a panel discussion on practical aspects of solute control modeling.
Greek university establishes Geodetic Astronomy Department
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The University of Thessaloniki has announced establishment of a Department of Geodetic Astronomy under the direction of L.N. Mavridis.

The planned research program will include projects in terrestrial refraction, electromagnetic distance measurement, gravity and magnetic investigations in Greece, space distribution and motions of late‐type stars in the Milky Way, galactic Cepheids, and flare stars.
End‐of‐Decade Conference emphasizes education as top priority for future programs
Authors: Heindl L. A.
Published: October 2011

The International Conference on the Results of the International Hydrological Decade and on Future Programs in Hydrology (the End‐of‐Decade Conference) praised the IHD for its accomplishments, noted areas in which continuing improve ment is needed, and recommended that the highest priority in the program for hydrology in Unesco during the next six years be given to the educational and training needs of developing countries.

Thus the End‐of‐Decade Conference, which met at Unesco House, modified the priorities of the original plan for the International Hydrological Program of Unesco. Scientific advancement had been given the highest priority among six objectives in the original plan. The rationale for the change was based on the conference's assessment of the needs of developing countries. The consensus was that clearly the most pressing requirement of these countries in advancing their hydrological capabilities is for accelerated activities in education and training.
IFYGL Bulletin 11 Now Available
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The eleventh of the IFYGL Bulletin series is now available from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration IFYGL office in the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.

This volume continues the series of interim reports on the progress of the scientific projects and programs and lists the publications resulting from the Field Year for the Great Lakes as of July 1974.

Copies are available from the U.S. IFYGL Coordinator: C.F. Jenkins, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, 2300 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104.
U.S./IHD contributions
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Biological Effects in the Hydrological Cycle: Proceedings of the Third International Seminar for Hydrology Professors, E.J. Monke, Editor. Department of Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Experiment Station, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. 391 pp., 1974.
Good books from UNESCO for teachng hydrology
Authors: Pettyjohn W. A.
Published: October 2011

Several reports prepared by The Working Group on Education and Training in Hydrology of the IHD Coordinating Council have only recently become available to be discussed as a unit. These form part of the Unesco series Technical Papers in Hydrology and were prepared by hydrologists from several different countries, all of whom are involved in the academic field.
Recent and Late Quaternary changes in water level
Authors: Walcott Richard I.
Published: October 2011

Past GEOP conferences have focused on such topics as ocean and earth tides and vertical movements and on various other aspects of earth dynamics. In GEOP 7, several of these topics were brought together in considering the classes of problems and processes that arise in coastal areas related to water level. Those who have been following the GEOP conference series in EOS or who have attended a number of the conferences will have noted the complex interdependence of solid earth and oceanic dynamics, with the themes of deformation and movement interwoven throughout the various disciplines and specializations of geodesy, geology, climatology, and geophysics—which is the physical ecology of the earth, if you like. On the coasts these interrelationships are most forcefully and dramatically evident.
Symposium on urban rainfall and runoff
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

A National Symposium on Urban Rainfall and Runoff and Sediment Control was held July 29–31, 1974, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Twenty‐eight papers were presented at the symposium, which was divided into three main topics: hydrology, sediment, and economic and legal aspects.

The conference was sponsored by the Office of Continuing Education, College of Engineering, at the University of Kentucky in cooperation with the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, and AGU.
The AGU and international participation (guest editorial)
Authors: Kisslinger Carl
Published: October 2011

The geophysical sciences have served effectively as a medium for improving and preserving communications and exchanges between nations. Often this has required crossing barriers that had been erected along the complex paths of international relations. The nature of our subject matter is such that for progress to be made toward the solution of many of the most important problems, geophysicists must be freed from constraints imposed by international boundaries, at the very least with regard to access to data. The immediate applicability of so much of our work to practical problems and the resulting self‐interest of nations, if not more altruistic motives, have kept the lines of contact open most of the time even between countries where relations are strained.
IAGA Division 1: Internal magnetic fields
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

As Part of the reorganization carried out in Kyoto, Japan, in September 1973, the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy concentrated its activities in internal geomagnetism into one division. Included under this heading are topics on the electromagnetic induction of the earth, moon, and other planetary bodies as directly observed. A major theme of this new structure will be to assist in relating geomagnetism and its counterpart in electromagnetic induction to the recent developments in tectonophysics.
Sensing of environmental pollutants—Topic of joint conference
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Third Joint Conference on Sensing of Environmental Pollutants: A Focus on Applications of Science and Technology to the Effective Assessment of Pressing Environmental Problems will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 10–13, 1975. Technical sessions will feature information on the close interrelation of sensing methodology and assessment of environmental problems.

Papers are solicited in the areas of pollutant measurement and assessment of problems associated with personal exposure monitoring; pollutants of current interest; energy extraction, processing, and use; general transportation and other urban activities; agricultural activities; industrial processes; waste disposal methods; interactions between climate and pollution; long‐range global environmental trends; and relationship of data bases and data processing to user needs.
Urban hydrology symposium call for papers
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

Authors are invited to submit papers for presentation at the Second Symposium on Urban Hydrology and Sediment Control to be held at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, July 28–31, 1975. The meeting is sponsored by the University of Kentucky Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers Hydraulics Division, American Society of Agricultural Engineers, University of Kentucky Colleges of Engineering and Agriculture, and AGU.
COSPAR Eighteenth Plenary Meeting and Symposia
Authors: Anonymous
Published: October 2011

The Eighteenth Plenary Meeting of COSPAR and Associated Symposia will be held May 29–June7, 1975, in the Palace of Culture and Sports, Varna, People's Republic of Bulgaria. Accommodations for the participants will be in Golden Sands on the coast of the Black Sea some 18 km from Varna.

From May 29 through May 31, symposia will be held on the following: (1) Fast Transients in X‐ and Gamma‐Rays, (2) Results From Coordinated Upper Atmosphere Measurement Programs, and (3) Gravitational Physiology. Plenary and working group meetings (open except for business meetings) will be held Monday, June 2, through June 6. A final business plenary session on June 7 will close the meeting.
Space science in retrospect
Authors: Newell Homer E.
Published: October 2011

Thirty years ago, when we began to use rockets to explore the upper atmosphere, there were all kinds of questions that needed an answer. Before that time the study of the ionosphere, the aurora, and other high‐altitude phenomena was wholly indirect, that is, by deduction from what was observed from the ground. But this led to endless discussions of what atoms and molecules are there, what are the winds and other motions, what reactions do solar radiations cause, what happens in an aurora, how is the ionosphere formed, and what changes take place between day and night, between the different seasons, and throughout the sunspot cycle. The arguments went on and on and led to few firm conclusions because of lack of the on‐the‐spot measurements needed to choose between the many theoretical possibilities. The sounding rocket (Figure 1) and later the satellite and the space probe changed all that, and they have had a remarkable and salutary impact on a number of scientific disciplines. This influence is well illustrated by both the earth sciences and astronomy.
Antarctic Dry Valley Drilling Project: Report on Seminar 1
Authors: McGinnis L. , Torii T. , Clark R.
Published: October 2011

An Interdisciplinary science seminar on the antarctic Dry Valley Drilling Project (DVDP) of Japan, New Zealand, and the United States (McGinnis et al., 1972) was hosted by the Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington, in Seattle, May 29 to 31, 1974. The seminar was held to provide a forum for scientists, adminstrators, and support personnel to report on achievements of the project to date and to finalize drill sites for 1974–1975.

The seminar is one of many supported through the U.S./Japan Cooperative Science Program. It was jointly sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the U.S. National Science Foundation. The area involved in DVDP studies is shown in Figure 1.