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Foreign grants
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program, a national research grants program, offers opportunities for support of research in Burma, Guinea, India, and Pakistan in astrophysics and earth sciences; anthropology, archeology, and related disciplines; systematic and environmental biology; and museum programs.Grants in the local currencies of the countries are awarded to U.S. institutions for research by senior scientists; collaborative programs involving host country institutions are welcome. Awards are determined on the basis of competitive scholarly review.
Combating illiteracy
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A science course for nonscientists at Columbia University's Columbia College that was created in 1981 as an experiment to combat “the national crisis of scientific illiteracy” has received major new foundation support and has achieved a permanent place in the college's curriculum.The course, The Theory and Practice of Science, has received a $240,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, according to Robert E. Pollack, college dean, professor of biological sciences, and originator of the course. The grant will be used for the preparation and publication in 1985 of a textbook, titled The Scientific Experience, which will permit the course to be taught at other schools around the country.
IRAS discovers second comet
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Astronomers sifting through data sent to earth by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) have discovered an extremely faint comet that came within 210 million km of our sun on January 20. This is the second comet to have been sighted by the satellite in a two‐week period.Comet IRAS (1983F) was found by the orbiting telescope on May 13 (GMT) and was confirmed by ground‐based observers on May 19. The comet is one million times fainter than comet IRAS‐Araki‐Alcock, which was discovered simultaneously by IRAS and the two amateur astronomers for whom the comet is named. IRAS‐Araki‐Alcock passed Earth May 11.
High‐Precision Earth Rotation and Earth—Moon Dynamics: Lunar Distances and Related Observations
Authors: Wahr John M. 
Published: October 2011

The last decade or so has seen the practical development of a number of high‐precision, space‐related geodetic techniques, specifically, lunar laser ranging (LLR), satellite ranging, and very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). One consequence has been an enlarged and improved data base available for studies of lunar motion and earth rotation.The impact on lunar studies has been particularly striking. The vast improvement in lunar positioning data provided by the LLR experiment has revived interest in the previously lethargic business of modeling the lunar orbit and librations (librations are rotational displacements of the moon about its center of mass). Several numerical and analytical models of the orbit and librations have been developed over the past few years. Numerical models, constructed by numerically solving appropriate differential equations, are generally more accurate than existing analytical models and are, in principal, better suited to removing the effects of lunar motion from the LLR residuals. On the other hand, results from numerical models are less amenable to physical interpretation, and so analytical models continue to receive attention. Analytical models are particularly useful in trying to understand the lunar librations, both because of the possibility of excited free librations and because the dynamical behavior of the moon during the forced librations is not completely understood.
Isotope Studies of Hydrologic Processes
Authors: Siegel D. I. 
Published: October 2011

During the past decade, the study of environmental isotopes has become an increasingly powerful tool toward understanding hydrologic processes. The present book, a selection of twelve papers presented at the 1980 Midwest American Geophysical Meeting, is a useful addition to the literature of isotopic methods used in hydrologic studies and will be of particular value to those interested in groundwater flow system analysis and groundwater chemistry.The papers deal with the stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen in water; carbon in bicarbonate; sulfur in sulfate and sulfide; and the radioisotopes of uranium, hydrogen, and radium. The first paper, by the editors, provides a brief but succinct introduction on isotopic processes. Of particular interest to this reviewer are papers by Perry et al. and Desaulniers et al., who explain isotopically light groundwater (δ18O about 5% lighter than modern recharge water) in Illinois bedrock aquifers and clayey Pleistocene deposits in south‐central Canada as Pleistocene recharge during colder climates. Desaulniers et al. used 14C to demonstrate that the isotopically lighter waters in the Pleistocene deposits could be up to 13,000 years B.P.
Valles Caldera workshop
Authors: Riecker Robert E. 
Published: October 2011

A Continental Scientific Drilling Project (CSDP) Workshop, attended by 87 scientists, focusing on the Valles caldera was hosted by the Department of Energy and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, on October 5–7, 1982, in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The caldera, a large, Quaternary magmahydrothermal system, lies at the intersection of the Rio Grande rift and the Jemez lineament in north‐central New Mexico and is a prime site for the first deep drill holes.One major objective of CSDP is to develop a broad scientific understanding of the roots of an active hydrothermal system associated with recent igneous intrusion. Surface geological, geophysical, geochemical, and hydrological data, along with information from shallow exploratory drillholes, will be used in the process of interactive development and testing of models and hypotheses for such systems. Ultimately, deep drilling will be essential to provide direct sampling of fluids and rocks at depth and to measure directly the critical in situ physical parameters. Thus, deep drilling research becomes an integral and necessary component in the synthesis, refinement, and verification of three‐dimensional models of hydrothermal‐magma systems and processes.
Baker heads JOI
Authors: Richman Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

D. James Baker, Jr., dean of the College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, has been appointed to a 2‐year term as president of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. (JOI), a consortium of 10 academic oceanographic institutions. Baker, who has been working parttime in the position since May 15, will begin working full‐time at JOI on November 1. Baker will be on leave from his post at the University of Washington while he is at JOI headquarters in Washington, D.C.; an interim dean has not yet been appointed.Among the tasks Baker envisions for JOI is to work with other groups, including such National Research Council boards as the Board on Ocean Science and Policy (BOSP), on a long‐range plan for the use of satellites in oceanography. Baker is a member of BOSP. JOI also plans to submit a proposal on July 15 to the National Science Foundation for the management of the Advanced Ocean Drilling Program (AODP) with Texas A&M University as the scientific operator. A decision on the proposal is expected in early fall, Baker said.
Lost island found
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

An abandoned ll‐by‐5‐km kidney‐shaped chunk of freshwater ice, used as a research station for 25 years, was rediscovered after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) lost track of the island for 6 months. The recent find may foreshadow another loss, however: The island is drifting through the Greenland Sea and into the North Atlantic where it should melt within several months and d u m p its cargo of oil drums, equipment, and a wrecked plane into the ocean.Known as Fletcher's Ice Island—after Joseph O. Fletcher, a member of the first team of researchers to inhabit the island and a recently retired NOAA climate researcher—the ice chunk has already melted to a third of its original 49 m thickness. A pilot flying over the area to measure annual pollution buildup in the Arctic located the drifting island 242 km from the North Pole near the International Date Line.
New climate center
Authors: Richman Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

An Experimental Climate Forecast Center has been established at the NASA Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheric Sciences (GLAS) by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Climate Program Office. NASA's Goddard Laboratory will provide the computing facilities necessary to process the vast amount of data used in complex numerical climate modeling.As the second of the centers established under the National Climate Program Act of 1978, the Experimental Climate Forecast Center will investigate climate predictability theory and forecasting techniques by using numerical methods in dynamic models of the earth's ocean and atmosphere system. The first center, at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, concentrates on statistically based methods. The principal interest of both centers is the potential for forecasting characteristics of seasonal temperature and precipitation. The director of the new center is Milton Halem; he also will continue as head of the global modeling and simulation branch at GLAS.
IUGG Quadrennial Report Overviews: Hydrology 1979–1982
Authors: Wood Eric F. 
Published: October 2011

The quadrennium 1979–1982 produced notable advances in surface water and groundwater hydrology, as well as important trends toward a more scientific basis for engineering hydrology. Examples of these developments will be given below, as well as an assessment of current trends.One of the most significant areas to emerge during the last quadrennium is stochastic groundwater analysis. The basis for the conceptualization of groundwater flow and transport as a stochastic process is twofold: (1) the realization that hydrologeological environments are extremely heterogeneous, regardless of the scale of modeling or data collection and (2) the use of groundwater flow and transport modeling results within broader water resources or hazardous waste management studies where risk analysis requires and incorporates groundwater uncertainty.
Physics of the Jovian Magnetosphere
Authors: Cheng Andrew F. 
Published: October 2011

Physics of the Jovian Magnetosphere is a comprehensive reference devoted to the latest advances in Jovian magnetosphere physics. Spectacular discoveries by the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft have led to an explosive development in the subject, with unprecedented coverage in both the popular press and the technical literature. Since 1974 no less than four special issues of Science, three special issues of the Journal of Geophysical Research, and special issues of Nature, Icarus, and Geophysical Research Letters have been devoted to Jupiter.Why all the fuss? The Jovian magnetosphere is simply one of the most exotic and interesting objects in the sky.
Science exchanges
Authors: Richman Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

Dwindling scientific and technical exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union and prospects for enhancing such exchanges were discussed at an August 2 hearing by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. The committee also heard overviews on the United States' approach to international exchange of science and technology. The hearing was the first in a series on current and future international science and technology programs.Four of eight science and technology agreements with the USSR that have expired in the last 15 months, including one on space, have not been renewed. The remaining four agreements have been extended into 1987 and 1988. Two others, including one on oceanography, are scheduled to run out in 1984.
Solar system around Vega?
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS), launched in January, has discovered a shell or ring of particles around Vega, the brightest star in the constellation “The Lyre” and one of the brightest stars in the sky. The discovery provides the first direct evidence that solid objects of substantial size exist around a star other than the sun; it also offers the first scientific opportunity to study what may be an early solar system accreting from stellar debris, much like our solar system is believed to have formed.IRAS measured the material to be at a temperature of 90° Kelvin, about the temperature of particles in Saturn's innermost rings. Although the sensitive telescope on IRAS cannot discern the individual particles around Vega, scientists speculated that the particles could range from the size of a pearl to the size of an asteroid or planet. In addition, the composition of the particles is open to debate. The material around Vega probably has not reached the same stage of evolution as our solar system because Vega is less than one fourth as old as our sun.
New editors appointed
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

New editors have been appointed for the Atmospheres and the Oceans sections of the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR), for the policy sciences portion of Water Resources Research (WRR), and for Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics (RGSP).William L. Chameides, associate professor at the School o f Geophysical Sciences at the Georgia Institute o f Technology has been appointed editor of JGR‐Atmospheres beginning January 1, 1984. He succeeds Ralph Cicerone.
NSF education grants
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is soliciting proposals for the development of educational materials and training workshops for science and mathematics programs in elementary and secondary schools. Proposals may be submitted at any time and must specifically deal with projects in mathematics, engineering, the natural sciences (including atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences, physics, astronomy, chemistry, and biology), and computer science.Projects for materials development may deal with programs for the continuing education of teachers; the development of teaching aids to improve classroom instruction; analyses of current elementary and secondary level programs; the improvement of communication among professionals in the field; or applied research directed at understanding and improving instruction and learning.
In Congress Budget Update for NOAA, USGS
Authors: Richman Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

Among the agenda items facing Congress as it reconvenes this week are the fiscal 1984 budgets for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which is part of the Department of Commerce, and for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which is within the Department of the Interior. Fiscal year 1984 begins October 1, 1983. As Congress rolls up its shirtsleeves and gets down to business, Eos presents a status report on the two agency budgets.Both House and Senate appropriations committees have finished their work on the NOAA budget, which had been targeted by President Ronald Reagan for a $799.8 million appropriation request (program level of $843.2 million) in his proposed fiscal 1984 budget (Eos, February 15, 1983, p. 65). The House appropriation for NOAA (H.R. 3134 and H.R. 3222) is $998.5 million, with a program level of $1043.9 million. The Senate Appropriations Committee set its appropriation (S. 1721) at $987.8 million, with a program level of $1041.0 million.
Random Fields: Analysis and Synthesis
Authors: Thomson David J. 
Published: October 2011

Random Fields is a book which I found both technically interesting and a pleasure to read. The problems considered are those of describing multidimensional stochastic data (as opposed to unidimensional, e.g., multivariate, time series data).The presentation is clear and the book should be useful to almost anyone who uses random processes to solve problems in engineering or science. The author's approach is informal and, while not careless, is not intended for mathematical purists. For example, the index contains six references to limited resolution of measurements but none to measure theory.
New consortium on atmosphere
Authors: Changnon Stanley A. 
Published: October 2011

In July 1983 a group of universities and university‐allied institutions established a new, not‐for‐profit consortium on atmospheric resources development.The initial thrust of the Consortium will be to accomplish in‐depth assessments of the scientific status and research needs in three key areas of atmospheric modification. These have been established as research relating to orographic precipitation enhancement with a major focus on application, delivery, and transport of seeding materials; basic research and hypothesis development relating to convective precipitation; and basic, applied, and societal research relating to radiation management. Scientific/technical committees composed of national experts including members of the Consortium and scientists from other institutions are being established. It is envisioned that available funding will be used to bring these three scientific committees together to perform major assessments of the scientific problems and the research needs, as a prelude to development of future research plans to address various scientific questions identified in these three areas of research. The Consortium is seen as a means for establishing the scientific basis for a more focused and better organized research.
Newell library dedicated
Authors: Richman Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

On September 27 the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Green belt, Md., was renamed the Homer E. Newell Library in memory of the man who was once the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) deputy director for space flight programs, director of the Office of Space Sciences, and associate administrator. Newell, who was 68 years old when he died on July 18, 1983, was president of AGU from 1970 to 1972.A photograph of Newell and a plaque will be permanently displayed in the library. The plaque, which will be framed in walnut, reads, “The Homer E. Newell Library, dedicated September 27, 1983, to honor his leadership and contributions to America's space science program.” NASA Administrator James M. Beggs and Mrs. Homer E. Newell were scheduled to participate in the dedication ceremonies.
Naval research fellowships
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) is seeking applicants for 40 fellowships that will be awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in 1984. This program is designed to increase the number of U.S. citizens doing graduate work in such fields as ocean engineering, applied physics, electrical engineering, computer science, naval architecture, materials science) and aerospace a n d mechanical engineering. The fellowships are awarded on the recommendation of a panel of scientists and engineers convened by the ASEE. The deadline for applications is February 15, 1984.The program is open to graduating seniors who already have or will shortly have baccalaureates in disciplines vital to the research aims of the Navy and critical to national defense. As a reflection of the quality of the program, 1983 fellows had an average cummulative grade point average of 3.88; nine had a perfect 4.0.
Research grants announced
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Krueger Enterprises, Inc., has announced the winners of its 1983 Geochron Research Competition. Two awards were granted to support research proposals in each of the following areas: K‐Ar dating, C‐14 analyses, and Stable Isotope Ratio Analyses (SIRA).Winners in the K‐Ar dating area, their school, and their research topics are James J . Hardy, Jr., Northern Arizona Univ., The use of the K‐Ar method to date a major thrust event in west‐central Arizona; and Christopher S. Lynnes, Univ. of Michigan, Correlation with age of magnetization in Cambro‐Ondovician intrusives from Colorado.
Marine minerals plan offered
Authors: Richman Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

The United States should begin taking measures to develop a marine mining industry to help meet mineral requirements. That's the advice offered by the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere (NACOA), an 18‐member group appointed by the President.While NACOA found “no immediate pressures to promote extraordinary government actions to develop a marine mining industry…current conditions should not keep the government and industry from considering and taking measures now to improve our capability to tap the storehouse of minerals in the ocean as we may need them in the future.” Among the measures recommended are coordinating a program on polymetallic sulfide minerals and investigating the possibility o f extending the depth at which submersible research vessels can operate. John A. Knauss, vice president for marine programs at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography, is NACOA chairman.
Physical Properties of Crystals, Their Representation by Tensors and Matrices
Authors: Finger Larry W. 
Published: October 2011

It is unusual to be asked to review a book published more than 25 years ago and it is equally uncommon, therefore, for the reviewer to have a well‐thumbed personal copy of the book; however, Nye's book, currently in the eighth printing of the first edition, is unusual in the clarity of its presentation and its applicability to understanding crystals and their interaction to various types of external events. This reviewer welcomes the opportunity to extoll the merits of this book to a new segment of the geoscience community.In this textbook designed for advanced undergraduates, the author develops a description of the physical properties of crystals in tensor notation and presents the mathematical basis for these properties. He is not concerned with the explanation of particular crystal properties in terms o f atomic structure.
GRL plans issue on Arctic haze
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Arctic haze, a winter‐spring air pollution phenomenon in the Arctic, has recently become the focus of accelerating research interest. In the spring of 1983 alone, at least seven atmospheric research aircraft from four nations were involved in studies related to Arctic haze. Extensive ground measurements of haze parameters were conducted by five countries with interests in the Arctic.These and earlier programs have produced new and exciting information covering a diverse range of topics. To assist in the overall study, interpretation, and dissemination of these data in a timely manner, a special issue/section of Geophysical Research Letters will be dedicated to the subject of Arctic haze and related meteorological/atmospheric studies. Publication is planned for the spring of 1984.
K. C. Yeh: Radio Science Editor
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Advances in satellite technology and computer science have had the greatest impact on radio science in the last quarter century, according to Kung Chie Yeh, the new editor of Radio Science. Yeh, whose term began July 1 (Eos, April 12, 1983, p. 137, February 22, 1983, p. 73), is a professor in the electrical engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign.An international authority on ionospheric radio physics, Yeh also is known for his work on trans‐ionospheric radio wave propagation as it affects earth‐space communications and satellite navigation. Hehas been studying radio science for nearly 30 years.