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Snow and ice management—An AWRA symposium session
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The USNC/IHD Work Group on Snow and Ice, in cooperation with the American Water Resources Association (AWRA), sponsored a session on Snow and Ice Management as part of the AWRA Symposium on Watersheds in Transition, held at Colorado State University (CSU).James R. Meiman, of the CSU Department of Watershed Sciences, summed up the well‐presented papers and stimulating discussion in the following way: (1) ‘We have the bag of tools’ to manage snow and ice in many regions; (2) There are many constraints on the application of knowledge to manage snow and ice on the watersheds for hydrological purposes, and many of these constraints result from the interests of parties who wish to use the watershed for other than water yield; (3) Techniques for prediction of the results of snow‐and‐ice management practices have been successful in restricted areas and are ready to be used and tested in larger ones; (4) It is now necessary to consider the effects of management for water yield in conjunction with management for other purposes so as to develop an understanding of their compatibility; and (5) The techniques developed for management of snow and ice for water yield should now be considered for use in their management for other purposes such as recreation, wildlife conservation, and transportation.
New riometer developed
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A compact, all solid state riometer has been developed at the University of California, San Diego, in connection with a research program to study ionospheric absorption at high latitudes. The unit is particularly suitable for unmanned ground stations where reliability must be high and power consumption low.In the new units the thermionic diodes, which have been used traditionally as a reference noise source, have been replaced by low power planar silicon transistors. These have a good linear response and do not require any special power supplies. A regular sequence of calibrations has been arranged using logic circuitry so that the stability of the riometer can be monitored easily. A crystal clock is an integral part of the unit to maintain accurate timing. The system time constant has been set as low as 0.2 sec in order that rapidly changing details of absorption events can be studied with the instrument.
The professional movement in science
Authors: Godfrey James T. 
Published: October 2011

During the past several years a growing concern has developed among scientists about the apparent lack of attention by professional groups to the more pragmatic details affecting their existence. This feeling is manifested in discussions about cutbacks in research funding, employment difficulties, the sort of research that should be proposed to meet the nation's needs, and whether past research has been relevant to these needs—to name a few examples. The majority of professional organizations seem to have fairly well‐defined roles that often exclude them from effectively tackling these issues.Many of the traditionally ‘pure’ professional societies, whose major functions deal with the dissemination of knowledge within a particular specialty, are attempting to respond to their members' professional concerns. For example, the American Physical Society (APS) addresses itself to such questions as manpower supply and demand and, through the newly organized Forum on Physics and Society, is vocally considering the science and society question. Efforts at embarking on an active program of professionalism, however, have stirred controversy and met some resistance. Similarly, the American Chemical Society (ACS) is moving towards devoting more time to the professional concerns of chemists. In engineering circles, the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics (AIAA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) have all opened Washington offices this past year.
National Water Resources Engineering Meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

‘Water is Everybody's Business’ is the theme of the National Water Resources Engineering Meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The meeting will be held at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Washington, D.C, January 29–February 2, 1973.The ASCE meeting will give those in attendance an opportunity to present and discuss current technical and professional developments in the civil engineering field, concentrating especially in the area of water resources engineering. Forty‐nine technical and professional sessions are scheduled with approximately 200 authors represented.
Solid‐Earth and ocean tides: Report on the First GEOP Research Conference
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Geodesy/Solid‐Earth and Ocean Physics (GEOP) Research Conferences were established to stimulate interdisciplinary research in the fields of geodesy, solid‐earth and ocean physics within universities, research foundations, industrial and governmental organizations. This aim is to be achieved by an informal type of meeting consisting of invited speakers and a discussion panel supplemented by a small number of contributing speakers, when sufficient time is available, to stimulate discussion among the members. This type of meeting is thought to be a valuable means of disseminating information and ideas to an extent that could not be achieved through the usual channels of publication and presentation at scientific meetings.Meetings are held at regular intervals (every three months) during a two‐day period, generally at The Ohio State University. The morning of the first day is generally reserved for a tutorial lecture presented by an eminent scientist.
National Symposium on Estimation of Storm Rainfall Patterns
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A symposium on Estimation of Storm Rainfall Patterns is being organized by the Precipitation Committee of the AGU Section of Hydrology. It will be held in conjunction with the Fall Annual Meeting in San Francisco, December 10–14, 1973.Papers are invited in the following topic areas: modeling of storm rainfall patterns over both fixed geographical areas and over storm‐centered areas, including orographic and convective type storms; effects of the variability of precipitation patterns on the planning, operation, and management of water resource systems; methods for determining the reliability of areal rainfall estimates, as a function of measurement technique, network design, geographical area, time interval, area size, and rainfall type.
1973 Engineering Foundation Conference
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

An Engineering Foundation Conference is scheduled at New England College, Henniker, New Hampshire, July 15–20, 1973, on ‘Energy Research—Alternatives for Policy and Management to Meet Regional and National Needs.’ The conference will be sponsored by the five founding societies plus other professional and industrial organizations that have a primary interest in energy development.The 1973 summer study conference will deal, on an interdisciplinary basis, with the options and alternative arrangements for performance of needed energy‐related research and development. In addition to a series of overview papers, with response from business, government and public interest groups, the conference will feature a series of creative workshops that will seek new organizational forms and managerial techniques appropriate to this critical problem area. In addition to representatives from the primary engineering disciplines, conferees will also include physical scientists, political scientists, economists, architects and planners.
Tracking the Wandering Waters
Authors: McKee E. M. 
Published: October 2011

In 1972 the International Field Year for the Great Lakes finally took to the field as a multidisciplinary study of Lake Ontario. Various physical, biological, and human use factors affecting the entire water mass are being investigated. Measurement of the circulation patterns within the water mass relates to all aspects of the lake and is vital for a true cross‐discipline study.As a brief, concise layman's catalogue of the instruments and techniques presently being used to obtain measurements of currents in the Great Lakes, Measurement of Currents in the Great Lakes is an excellent job. The differences between the fixed meter, or Eulerian technique, and the free‐drifter, or Lagrangian technique, and the advantages of each are clearly stated, as are the discussions of the various support buoys and towers. The technical descriptions and diagrams are explicit and uncluttered with technical details needed only when actually working with the equipment. Appendix 2 provides the concerned reader with the names and addresses of the current meter manufacturers who can supply all the technical information concerning specific meters mentioned in the manual.
Proposals involving ethical and human value implications of science and technology
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Recently, there has been mounting interest throughout our society in the ethical and human value implications of science and technology. This area is related to both technology assessment and environmental impact, as well as to ethics, moral philosophy and law; but it is more specialized than any of these in its sharper focus on cultural and humanistic values as they are challenged, modified or influenced by advances in science and technology.Although the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation have in the past supported activities related to this subject, both foundations, individually and in collaboration, are now prepared, on a selective and limited basis, to consider fresh approaches in support of scholarly activities in this field. Such approaches may include research and other forms of scholarly investigation, together with conferences, colloquia, seminars and similar activities.
AWARE Seminar on Process Design Techniques for Industrial Waste Treatment
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Associated Water and Air Resource Engineers, Inc., of Nashville, Tennessee, is sponsoring a seminar on Process Design Techniques for Industrial Waste Treatment to be held June 26–28, 1973, at the Sheraton—Nashville Hotel.This seminar is directed towards developing an integrated design for treatment of an organic wastewater to meet the new federal effluent criteria. Not only will process concepts be discussed, but also each step in the design will be calculated. Both capital and operational costs will be comprehensively developed for each unit process and for alternative systems.
IUCRM Colloquim on the Fine Scale Structure of Precipitation and EIVI Propagation
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Inter‐Union Commission of Radio Meteorology will hold a colloquium on the Fine Scale Structure of Precipitation and Electromagnetic Propagation. The colloquium will be held from October 23 to 31, 1973, at the Observatoire de Nice. The purpose of this colloquium is to study the fine‐scale structure of precipitation, how this structure relates to characteristics and problems of electromagnetic wave propagation, and to learn more about the detailed vertical and horizontal structure of storms.Key topics will be introduced by review papers which will be prepared and presented by invited speakers. Generally the topics of the review papers will form the basis for the scientific sessions which follow the presentation of all the review papers. The scientific sessions will stress the presentation of recent research results which are germane to the subject of the colloquium.
CCOP technical bulletin
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Committee for Coordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in Asian Offshore Areas (CCOP) was established in 1966 as an intergovernmental body under the sponsorship of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE). CCOP's main function is the promotion and coordination of planning and implementation of offshore geophysical and other prospecting projects on the marine shelves of the member countries, presently comprising Indonesia, Japan, the Khmer Republic, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, the Republic of Viet Nam, and Thailand.In 1968 the first volume of the CCOP Technical Bulletin was issued to publish scientific studies relating to marine geology and offshore prospecting for mineral resources, particularly accounts and detailed reports of the results of offshore surveys conducted through the medium of CCOP.
Seventh International Conference on Water Pollution Research
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The International Association on Water Pollution Research will hold its Seventh International Conference September 9–13, 1974, at the Centre International de Paris. The program will consist of technical sessions for the presentation and discussion of original research and development papers on all of marine freshwater pollution and wastewater treatment; workshop sessions; visits to modern treatment plants, and research institutes and postconference technical tours.Papers may be submitted on the following topics: water quality standards; chemical and biological methodology; legal, administrative problems, river basin management; financing of pollution control authorities; disposal of organic and inorganic sludge; sewerage, aerobic treatment and aeration; anaerobic biological treatment; estuarine analysis and marine environment; tertiary treatment methods; eutrophication; stream analysis and river pollution consideration; fish studies; physical and chemical treatment of municipal and industrial wastewaters; industrial waste treatment; virus methodology and technology; and problems of developing countries and arid zones.
Toward an energy ethic
Authors: Gustavson M. R. 
Published: October 2011

Nationalistic, greedy, myopic, unfeeling, ignorant‐these are the words that so frequently enter current dialogs on energy resources. Enter or end them. For often what starts as a dialog ends in an exchange of charges. The issues continue unresolved.Although important topics frequently lead to heated exchanges, for energy resources there is a deeper set of causes at work. There are disagreements as to the nature or even the existence of the problem. There are differences in the types of consequences that are of primary concern. There is no commonly accepted and suitable framework within which to resolve many of the fundamental issues.
Quake Control Experiment
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The first phase of a field experiment to control earthquakes has been successfully completed by scientists of the U.S. Geological Survey.The announcement of the breakthrough in earthquake research was made by USGS scientists C.B. Raleigh and J.H. Healy of the Survey's National Center for Earthquake Research, Menlo Park, California, and J. Bredehoeft, of the agency's Water Resources Division, Denver, Colorado.
Conference on Fracture Mechanics and Earthquake Source Mechanisms
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Second Geological Society of America Penrose Conference on Fracture Mechanics and Earthquake Source Mechanisms will be held August 27–31, 1974, at the Mountain Chalet, Snowmass‐at‐Aspen, Colorado. The conference immediately precedes the Third ISRM International Rock Mechanics Congress in Denver.Nine morning and evening discussion sessions include invited review papers and a few contributed talks on promising research in experimental fracture mechanics and friction, state of stress in the earth's crust, numerical modeling, physics of tremor sources, and earthquake prediction and prevention. Final program content and format depend on timely and late‐breaking research discoveries.
Second International Symposium In Hydrology: Fort Collins, Colorado September 11”13, 1972
Authors: Feldman A. D. 
Published: October 2011

Approximately 150 persons from 25 countries participated in the Second International Symposium in Hydrology at Fort Collins last summer. The symposium addressed itself to three subjects: floods, droughts, and decision making with inadequate data. The symposium was cosponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the section of hydrology of the American Geophysical Union, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Unesco, the U.S. National Committee for the International Hydrological Decade, and Colorado State University.The first two topics of the symposium, floods and droughts, critically reviewed existing concepts and methodologies used in past water resource applications as well as new concepts and methods from research activities. The five sessions on floods discussed precipitation probability, deterministic systems in surface runoff, hydrologic system simulation, flood frequency analysis, and regional flood frequency analysis. The two sessions relating to drought studies concerned moisture availability as it relates to droughts and the statistical evaluation of droughts. Papers ranged from analyses of specific agricultural droughts to generalized models and the regional economic impacts of droughts. The potential effects of weather modification were also considered. The statistical studies reported included consideration of the temporal and spatial structure of drought events and discussions of old and new distributions to describe the drought processes.
The President's Page: Building the Geodynamics Project
Authors: Drake Charles L. 
Published: October 2011

The President of the American Geophysical Union from 1948 to 1953 specialized in zoology as an undergraduate and received his doctorate in paleontology, although he is best known for his work in sedimentation and structural geology. Perhaps the election of a man with this background was a harbinger of things to come, since recent findings in geology and geophysics have led to a model of the earth in which it is apparent that the data from seismology, paleontology, paleomagnetism, sedimentology, geochemistry, structural geology, and other subdisciplines of the earth sciences are related in a very intimate way.Before his death in 1965 this man, Walter Bucher, wrote a paper entitled ‘The Third Confrontation’ in which he recognized that the earth sciences were in for a major upheaval. Bucher noted that twice before there had been major confrontations between geologists and geophysicists. The first, in 1899, came when Kelvin estimated the age of the earth to be between 20 and 40 m.y., a concept that was distressing to geologists and paleontologists. The second, early in this century, concerned the origin of ocean basins, which, in the eyes of the foremost geologists of the day, were sunken or collapsed continents. This concept was geophysically unappealing.
NSF awards grant to study geothermal area in Montana
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation announced support for research that could be the first step toward development of a hot geothermal area that appears to be located near the earth's surface in the vicinity of Marysville, central Montana.The NSF funding in the amount of $250,200, covers completion of a series of geophysical surveys and selection of a test well site. The project will be directed by the Battelle Memorial Institute's Pacific Northwest Laboratories branch at Richland, Washington.
The Fifth International Postgraduate Course in Geothermics
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The International Institute for Geothermal Research of Pisa has organized an International Postgraduate Course in Geothermics, under the auspices of the National Research Council of Italy, of the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and of Unesco. The course will be held January 15–October 15, 1974.The purpose of the course is the preparation of specialists in the field of geothermics, i.e., in geology, geophysics, and engineering, applied to research and exploitation of geothermal fields. Included will be a period of theoretical lectures and seminars at the International Institute for Geothermal Research in Pisa and a period of practical training. The latter will take place in specialized research centers and in the field, and at the producing steam fields themselves.
Tow icebergs to water‐short areas?
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The once seemingly impractical idea of towing icebergs from the Arctic and Antarctic oceans to watershort coastal areas now appears to be an ‘exciting possibility,’ according to a recently published report written by Wilford Weeks, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, and William Campbell, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior. Recent developments such as the possibility of using satellite photography to locate suitable iceberg fields, the growing need to counteract thermal pollution, and the development of ‘super’ tugboats make the idea of towing and melting icebergs a more feasible and attractive means of supplying needed water in some areas.After preliminary assessment of the availability and transportation aspects of iceberg towing, the authors feel that ‘the results of the study are very exciting and that the possibility of delivering ice to coastal sites in Australia and western South America for a cost of less than one cent per thousand gallons is certainly sufficient motivation to explore the idea is considerably more detail.’
Standard methods for assessing nation's water urged
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A ‘how‐to’ handbook, providing a set of recommended methods for gathering and reporting data on the quantity and quality of the nation's water resources, has been released by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.The result of the combined effort of more than 70 scientists representing 15 federal agencies, the technical report describes and lists selected methods for gathering data on surface water, groundwater, water‐borne chemicals, sediments, and bacteria, and includes a section on the use of automatic water quality monitors.
New publication describes weather services planned
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Intensified efforts to improve severe storm warnings and to foster disaster preparedness are planned by federal agencies during the coming fiscal year. Expanded weather services to aviation also are projected. The newly published ‘Federal Plan for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research: Fiscal Year 1974’ includes activities of all federal agencies conducting such programs.Programs planned for the coming year would cost $504,659,000, an increase of $22,032,000 over fiscal year 1973. For the most part the increase would be used to take advantage of modern technology, including computers, satellites, ocean buoys, automatic weather stations, remote sensing, and automated datahandling techniques, in order to provide improved weather services with reduced manpower.
The President's Page: International Program of Ocean Drilling
Authors: Abelson Philip H. 
Published: October 2011

The United States continues to demonstrate top quality in scientific enterprise and conspicuously in those areas that are sometimes called ‘big science.’ In matters pertaining to the American Geophysical Union, three major examples stick out: lunar exploration, the ERTS program, and the Deep Sea Drilling Project.We can all be proud of the effectiveness with which these programs have been implemented. The three alone would give this nation a legitimate claim t o international distinction in science. Conversations with scientists of other lands confirm that this view is widely shared.