bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Forecast technology to be tested
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is presently conducting a 13‐week test of the accuracy and timeliness of an integrated set o f new tools for short‐range weather forecasting that were developed under NOAA's Program for Regional Observing and Forecasting Services (PROFS). The PROFS program has been proceeding in Boulder, Colo., for the past 6 years Eos, April 13, 1982, p. 233).The tests, which began May 18, 1987, are based at NOAA's Environmental Research Laboratories in Boulder. Forecasters there are using Doppler radars, upper air profilers, and a new computer workstation.
New management structure at headquarters
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

On July 1, 1987, AGU Executive Director Fred Spilhaus informed the AGU staff that Judy C. Holoviak has been promoted to the position of Group Director. This is a new management position with responsibility for more than one division. Both the Publications Division and the newly formed Public Information and Marketing Division will report to Holoviak, as will the new Special Assistant for Nonprint Publications.Spilhaus explained that this new position will permit the headquarters management staff to be responsive to the current AGU growth. A stronger management structure is needed to take advantage of the many opportunities facing the Union. In pointing to the initiatives identified by the Planning Committee, he stated that continued growth is the only likely course for AGU.
Geoscientists will meet to organize transects project
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Global Geosciences Transects (GGT) project is a new activity of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP). The objective of GGT is to compile a series of 100 km‐wide crustal transects across major structures in all continents.The transects will be similar to those being produced by the North American Continent‐ Ocean Transects Program under the coordination of Robert C. Speed (Northwestern University, Evanston, 111.), except that they will include continental interiors and paleostructures (e.g., Precambrian sutures, rifts) as well as continental margins and active tectonic zones
The 1985”1986 Gibraltar Experiment: Data collection and preliminary results
Authors: Kinder Thomas H. , Bryden Harry L. 
Published: October 2011

The Strait of Gibraltar has attracted interest for centuries [Deacon, 1971]. Early inquiries concerned the process by which the inflowing surface water could be accommodated into a mass balance for the Mediterranean Sea. Modern interests have shifted focus to the unusual character of strait dynamics, such as the problems of high speed stratified rotating flow in the presence of irregular bottom and side boundaries, and to the mechanisms by which straits affect the adjacent oceanic environment [Bryden and Stommel, 1984].Early attempts at generalizing the physical oceanography of straits resulted either in accounts that were almost pure description [Zubov, 1956] or in a dynamical analysis that appears to overemphasize friction [Defant, 1961]. More recent thinking has emphasized the dynamical importance of nonlinearity in the momentum equations, because of both the implications of internal hydraulic control on the surrounding ocean and the distinct nature of strait dynamics that is thus implied.
U.S. crustal strain to be measured
Authors: Zurfluech Ernst G. 
Published: October 2011

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have entered into an interagency agreement to determine strain in the crust of the eastern two thirds of the contiguous United States. A network of 44 Global Positioning System (GPS) stations is planned, and distance measurements are expected to be accurate within 1 part in 107.The station spacing (see the distribution, Figure 1) should permit the establishment of relative movements between major tectonic units in the central and eastern United States. GPS measurements use radio frequency signals emitted by several satellites and precise timing to establish the position of a GPS receiving instrument on the ground. Various measurement procedures are possible, but for the strain network the number of cycles from a starting signal and the phase of the last cycle received will be measured for high accuracy. For even greater accuracy, clock effects will be eliminated by differencing phase measurements between satellites and between stations in an interferometric mode.
EPA proposes new rules for injection wells
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed rule changes to strengthen regulations protecting underground sources of drinking water from underground injection of hazardous wastes. The action is authorized by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Safe Drinking Water Act. The proposed rules were published in Federal Register August 27, 1987.“This proposal assures that hazardous wastes will either be properly treated or placed in an area where they can't contaminate underground sources of drinking water,” said Lawrence J. Jensen, EPA Assistant Administrator for Water. “The regulations would prohibit the migration of untreated hazardous waste out of the injection zone.”
Spring 1987 Best Student Tectonophysics Paper
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The AGU Tectonophysics Section selected Gary Acton to receive their Best Student Paper Award for the 1987 Spring Meeting. His award‐winning paper was entitled “Generalized Rift Propagation and Microplate Kinematics.”Acton, who is currently working on his Ph.D. in geophysics at Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), received his B.S. in geology in 1984 from Indiana University, Bloomington, and his M.S. in geophysics in 1986 from the University of Arizona, Tucson. At Northwestern, he is currently studying the kinematics of propagation rift systems with Seth Stein and Joseph Engeln, the coauthors of the award‐winning paper. He is also investigating Cretaceous paleomagnetisin of the Pacific and North American plates with Richard Gordon and Katerina Petronotis.
Multidisciplinary programs and the solid earth science
Authors: Ernst W. G. 
Published: October 2011

Ambitious new integrated multidisciplinary programs in environmental sciences are being organized by national and international groups. Although the initiatives go under various names, the common theme is a global approach to studying interactions among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.The International Council of Scientific Unions has begun the International Geosphere‐Biosphere Program, supported by the National Academy of Sciences. The National Science Foundation started its Global Geoscience Program in 1986. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been working on Earth System Science since 1983.
SSC may join nuclear waste in Nevada
Authors: Maggs William Ward 
Published: October 2011

Congress has named Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the nation's future high‐level nuclear waste repository, preempting earlier plans for the evaluation of at least three western sites by the Department of Energy (DOE). The move comes despite opposition by the state's governor and members of Congress. However, amendments to the legislation may placate Nevada with a brass ring of sorts—DOE's Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), a ring 26 km in diameter.The measure was finalized December 17, 1987, in a House‐Senate conference as part of a $30.2 billion deficit‐reduction bill. 12 last‐minute amendments attached to the bill by Senator Chic Hecht (D‐Nev.) call for compensations to Nevada that could include selection of the state as the future home of the SSC, as well as up to 20 million dollars per year in cash.
Fellowships to India offered
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Postdoctoral scholars and professionals of equivalent standing may apply for one of 21 research fellowships being offered by the Indo‐U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture. The fellowships are to be held in India and are available in any academic discipline. Twelve of the fellowships are long‐term and may be held for 6–10 months, while nine may be held for 2–3 months.People with little or no connection to India are especially encouraged to apply, as the goal of the program is to broaden the range of research topics in which information is exchanged between the United States and India. Each fellow will receive a stipend of $1500 (of which $1150 will be paid in rupees) per month, a book allowance, and travel allowances for both international and internal Indian travel. Those holding the longer‐term fellowships will receive additional benefits for the transportation and support of dependents. Applicants must U.S. citizens. The program is funded by the U.S. Information Agency, the National Science Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Government of India.
IAHS Secretary General resigns
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

John Rodda (Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, U.K.) resigned as Secretary General of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) at the end of 1987 to take the position of director of the Hydrology and Water Resources Department of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Although he had been elected to a third term as Secretary General, his colleagues supported his choice to take on this new position.Rodda has been replaced by another very capable appointee, Henny J. Colenbrander (Netherlands Organization for Applied Research, The Hague), who will serve as Acting Secretary General until the next IAHS General Assembly. As Acting Secretary General, his address is CHO‐TNO, PO Box 297, The Hague, 2501 BD Netherlands. Colenbrander also serves as one the AGU Hydrology Section's foreign correspondents for Eos.
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Werner D. Kahn, 57, a geophysicist in the Geodynamics branch of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, Md.) and a member of the AGU Geodesy Section, died recently.Lloyd E. Brotson, a member of the Atmospheric Sciences Section since 1942, died recently.
Reserve space on NCAR flights
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The advisory panel for the Research Aviation Facility of the National Center for Atmospheric Research will meet October 17‐18 in Boulder, Colo., to consider requests for research time on five airplanes. The panel will recommend flight hour allocations for April through September 1989. Aircraft available are NCAR's King Air (N312D), Sabreliner (N307D) and Electra (N308D), the T‐28 research aircraft operated by the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and the King Air aircraft of the University of Wyoming.The panel must receive requests for flight time by August 12 to consider them at the October meeting. To use the NCAR aircraft, send requests to Warren Johnson, NCAR Research Aviation Facility Manager, Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307; tel. Paul Spyers‐Duran, 303‐497‐1036. For the T‐28, write to Paul Smith, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Rapid City, SD 57701‐3995; tel. 605‐394‐2291. For the second King Air, contact John Marwitz, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071; tel. 307‐766‐4947.
New Explorer program starts
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

To provide quick implementation of scientific opportunities for space science investigations, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has begun a new part of its Explorer program. The Small‐Class Explorer program is for missions that can be done on spacecraft carried by Scout‐class launch vehicles and that will take less than 3 years from initiation to launch.Explorer research areas include astrophysics, space physics, and upper atmospheric physics. Over the years, dozens of small‐ and medium‐sized payloads have been launched in the Explorer program, for example, the Solar Mesospheric Explorer and the Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Experiment. The small‐class program is for small free‐flyers with focused investigations that complement major missions, prove new scientific concepts, or make other significant contributions to space science. The program includes special opportunities for bilateral international cooperation.
Mafic inclusions in granites
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

There will be a special session on Mafic Inclusions in Granites at the 1988 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. The session, called to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Adolph Pabst's classic work, Observations on Inclusions in the Granitic Rocks of the Sierra Nevada, will examine the different types of mafic inclusions in granite with particular emphasis on their significance and origin. Contributions are encouraged on a broad range of topics pertaining to mafic inclusions in granites, including isotopic, experimental, geochemical, petrological, and field studies of inclusions in volcanic and plutonic rocks.Persons interested in making oral or poster presentations should contact the convenors, Robert S. Hildebrand, Geological Survey of Canada, 588 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E4 Canada or Wayne N. Sawka, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories L‐201, PO Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550.
NSF deadlines
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation has set key deadline dates for grants and proposals due for the next 3 months. Dates given below are subject to change; more information may be obtained by contacting the NSF staff members listed.The program deadline date means that proposals received after this cutoff date generally will be returned to the proposer. The target date means that proposals received after this cutoff date will be reviewed, although they may miss a particular panel meeting.
Changes coming for Science Board
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The role of a National Academy of Science panel that advises NASA on goals for space science and exploration will be reexamined this fall by scientists, NASA officials, and congressional staff.The NAS Space Science Board will be the subject of two conferences, the first scheduled for the week of October 24 in Virginia, according to Joyce Purcell of NAS. About 60 scientists and policymakers will discuss the future of space science and how the structure and purpose of the board might change. The sessions were proposed by Louis Lanzerotti of AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., who succeeded Thomas Donahue of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor as chairman of the SSB July 1.
New National Space Club Award
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Space Club has established a new award in recognition of the role that scientists and scientific investigations in space have played in advancing the goals of the United States Space Program. The award will be presented annually to the individual or group of specifically named individuals whose efforts have resulted in a significant contribution to the U.S. Space Science Program.The first Science Award will be presented at the Goddard Memorial Dinner in Washington, D.C., during March of 1989. The award recipient(s) will be selected by an awards committee appointed by the president of the National Space Club. The committee is chaired by Noel Hinners, Associate Deputy Administrator and Chief Scientist for NASA. Final selection will be completed by the first week in February.
Geology Fulbrights
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Fulbright grants in geology for 1988–89 remain open. Specific opportunities are available in Egypt, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Mozambique, Oman, Poland, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Turkey, U.S.S.R., West Bank, Yemen, and Zimbabwe. Other countries are also open to applications in any discipline, and geology is among their preferred fields.The grants are available until awarded and are open only to U.S. citizens. In Central and South America and French‐speaking Africa, knowledge of host‐country language is required. For more information, contact the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), 11 Dupont Circle N.W., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20036; tel. 202‐939‐5401.
AIP sponsors Science Fellow
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The American Institute of Physics will send its second Congressional Science Fellow to Capitol Hill in 1989–90. Application deadline is February 15, 1989.The first AIP Fellow is Arthur Charo, Harvard University, one of 42 1988–89 fellows sponsored by 15 scientific societies, including AGU. The Congressional Science Fellowship program is organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fellows spend their year in Washington usually working on staffs of members of Congress or of congressional committees.
New IAHS publications
Authors: Colenbrander Henny J. 
Published: October 2011

The new IAHS Yearbook, 1987–1991 contains general information about the Association, commissions, committees, and working groups, and officers and names and addresses of IAHS representatives in each member country. Also included are the statutes and by‐laws of the Association; the commissions on Continental Erosion, Groundwater, Snow and Ice, Surface Water, Water Quality, and Water Resources Systems; and the Committee on Remote Sensing and Data Transmission. Copies of the yearbook are available from IAHS Secretary General Henny J. Colenbrander, TNO/CHR, P.O. Box 297, 2501 BD The Hague, Netherlands.A 1988 edition of IAHS Catalog of Publications is now available on request. The catalog contains a list of all titles and prices for the IAHS series of past proceedings and reports, as well as scheduled new titles; information on subscripting to Hydrological Sciences Journal and ordering other publications (15% discount for standing orders and to IAHS members); and information and application blanks for membership in IAHS. Copies of the catalog may be obtained by request to one of the IAHS publication outlets: Office of the Treasurer, IAHS, 2000 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009; IAHS Press, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, U.K.; or Bureau des Publications de l'UGGI, 140 Rue de Grenelle, 75700 Paris, France.
Volunteer senior scientists wanted
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The American Association for the Advancement of Science plans to establish a nationwide program to involve older scientists as volunteers in public education, business, and government.The Senior Scientists and Engineers (SSE) program was originated by AAAS in response to projected shortages of experienced scientists in many fields, and to draw on the large and rapidly growing population of post‐retirement professional scientists. SSE began in 1988 as a pilot program in the Washington D.C. area run in conjunction with the American Association of Retired Persons.
Ice Core Facility
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

To support its program of studying ice cores taken from the Greenland, Antarctic and midlatitude ice sheets, the Division of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation is soliciting proposals for operating its ice core curatorial facility.NSF's current ice core repository is at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where it has been operated under annual contract since 1975. Beginning in Fiscal Year 1991, whoever manages the NSF facility, now to be called the U.S. Ice Core Repository, will do it under a 5‐year cooperative agreement.
Streamflow up in 1989
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The combined flow of the nation's three largest rivers—the Mississippi, the St. Lawrence and the Columbia—was up nearly 8% above median in 1989, reports the U.S. Geological Survey. Flow averaged a normal‐range 1.08 trillion gallons per day. Hydrologists at the USGS note the sharp contrast to 1988, when combined flow of the three rivers averaged 18% below median and was in the below‐normal range.For smaller streams in the U.S., flow conditions were more varied. Of 174 index stream‐gaging stations, 40 reported flows averaging in the above‐normal range, 79 had flows averaging in the normal range and 55 stations registered averages in the below‐normal range.
Contract for supercomputers
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a contract to Cray Research, Inc., Beltsville, Md., for two supercomputers. The systems will improve capability, on an interim basis, at NOAA's National Meteorological Center near Washington, D.C., and at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J.The award to Cray was for $10.7 million this year, with a total contract life cost over 5 years of $66.1 million. Negotiations resulted in a savings to the government of about $14.6 million, over the contract life, including options.
Sulfur modifies climate
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A study of how sulfur gases from the ocean modify climate by influencing cloud reflectivity will be done April 2–27 off the coast of Washington state by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Scientists on the NOAA research vessel McArthur and a research aircraft from the University of Washington will measure sulfur compounds in the ocean and overlying atmosphere to calculate the rate of emission of the compounds from the ocean. Oxidized sulfur gases and particles in the atmosphere will also be measured to study the growth and formation of cloud condensation nuclei.
GRO gets guests
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Because the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) decided to extend the mission lifetime of the Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO), the agency is starting a guest investigator program for GRO, to get the most out of the onboard instruments.GRO is a satellite that will be launched from the space shuttle in a nominal 450 km circular orbit with an inclination of 28.5°. Deployment is scheduled for November 1990. The aim is to obtain observations of astronomical gamma rays from 50 keV to 30 GeV for such studies as formation of the elements, particle acceleration in the Sun, stars and steller systems, origin of the cosmic diffuse background, and the origin and evolution of the universe itself. After 20 days of checkout, GRO will spend 15 months doing an all‐sky survey before the 12‐month Phase 1 Guest Investigator Program begins.
Icebreaking ship
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The U.S. Antarctic Program will have a new ship for working in polar waters by early 1992. It will be the first U.S. ship with icebreaking capability dedicated to scientific research. The Polar Duke, currently leased by the National Science Foundation, which manages the program, is ice‐strengthened but cannot break ice.NSF announced in February that an $83.8‐million contract for construction and 10‐year lease of the 900‐m ship had been signed with Edison Chouest Offshore, Inc., of Galliano, La. The design calls for a crew of 22, support for the research of 37 scientists for cruises as long as 75 days, a helicopter landing deck and housing and maintenance for two 4‐passenger helicopters. The ship will have two propellers with three diesel engines driving each; the six engines can generate 11,070 horsepower. While it is not a true icebreaker, the ship will be able to break ice as thick as a meter at a speed of 3 knots