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Federal plan for weather services
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Plans for an improved severe weather warning system and the use of new technology for more efficient operations highlight a newly released ‘Federal Plan for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research‐Fiscal Year 1975,’ Expanded weather services to aviation are also projected.The plan, published yearly for presentation to the Congress, includes proposed activities of all Federal agencies conducting meteorological programs—the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, and Transportation, and the Atomic Energy Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and National Science Foundation.
The decade is over–IHD coordinating Council holds last session
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The ninth and last session of the International Hydrological Decade Coordinating Council was held at Unesco House in Paris from August 29 to 30, 1974. The session ended on a note of nostalgia for the IHD's 10‐year effort and a note of hope for the succeeding International Hydrological Program (IHP).The principal accomplishments of the session were the termination of the mandates of the existing working groups, the submission of recommendations to the Unesco General Conference for the completion of publications begun but not yet issued, and the preparation of recommendations concerning the operations of working groups and panels to the Intergovernmental Council of the IHP.
Urban flood plains analyzed by USGS
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A recent U.S. Geological Survey study of 26 cities in the United States indicates that the amount of urban area that would be inundated by the 100‐year flood (the flood level that, on average, is exceeded once in 100 years) ranges from 81% for Monroe, Louisiana, to 2.4% for Spokane, Washington.The report is the latest in a series dealing with water in the urban environment and contains data on the areal extent and degree of occupancy of flood plains in the urbanized areas of the selected cities. The USGS was assisted in compilation of the data by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Marine Petroleum and Minerals Committee established by Secretary of Commerce
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Secretary of Commerce Frederick B. Dent today announced the appointment of fifteen distinguished persons to serve as members of the newly formed Marine Petroleum and Minerals Advisory Committee.The purpose of the committee is to advise the Secretary of Commerce on matters pertinent to the department's responsibilities related to marine petroleum and marine minerals resources on means to facilitate cooperation between the private sectors and government in these matters and on related Law of the Sea affairs. Under provisions of the committee's charter there may be up to twenty‐five members, each serving a two‐year term. The members represent the industrial, labor, academic, legal, environmental, and economic sectors concerned with the management, use, conservation, and development of marine petroleum and marine minerals resources.
International Symposium on Hydrological Characteristics of River Basins
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Papers are solicited for U.S. participation in an International Symposium on Hydrological Characteristics of River Basins. Sponsored by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and organized by the Science Council of Japan, the symposium will be held December 1–8, 1975, at the Tokyo Prince Hotel, Tokyo, Japan.The symposium aims are to summarize research results on representative and experimental basins obtained during the International Hydrological Decade and will serve as a forum for exchange of ideas and information on better water management of river basins. In addition to new ideas, concepts, and methods related to research studies, the program will include discussions of changes in the hydrological cycle as influenced by man's activities on water catchments, agricultural land, and urban areas, and changes in hydrological conditions caused by civil engineering works. Two‐day and three‐day study tours are scheduled for immediately after the meeting.
Conference on Soil‐Water Problems in Cold Regions
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Calgary, Alberta, will be the site on May 6–7, 1975, of a conference sponsored by the Special Task Force on Soil‐Water Problems in Cold Regions, Section of Hydrology, American Geophysical Union. The technical sessions will be held at the Calgary Convention Center, and housing of participants will be at the Four Seasons Hotel.Registration will cost $10, if paid in advance, and $12, if paid at the meeting. Copies of the proceedings will be presented to all registrants. Information concerning housing facilities and costs will be sent on request.
SMS‐1 Monitors Weather Systems
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The first U.S. Synchronous Meteorological Satellite (SMS‐1), launched last May by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is in a 22,300‐mile‐high earth‐synchronous orbit that keeps it continuously above one spot in the mid‐Atlantic. From this lofty outpost, the satellite views weather systems over approximately one‐third of the earth and sends back images of what it sees to receiving stations on earth every half hour, night and day.The satellite images served as a basic tool for diiecting ship and aircraft operations during the study conducted last summer by GATE (the Global Atmospheric Research Program‐Atlantic Tropical Experiment, sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization and the International Council of Scientific Unions). The purpose of the study, which ended in September, was to investigate tropical weather systems and their role as the driving force of the earth's atmosphere.
NSF awards grant to Cornell to study Earth's deep crust
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Representatives from four universities will start a project soon to obtain several profiles of the earth's deep crust and upper mantle to provide a better understanding of that region. Data obtained from the project could help petroleum geologists better understand sedimentary basins where much of the earth's oil deposits have been found.The work will be done under a one‐year grant of $378,100 by the National Science Foundation to Cornell University, which will coordinate the effort.
AAAS Section to consider weather‐climate modification
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Four out of six sessions of Section W at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, January 26–31, 1975, in New York will focus on aspects of weather‐climate modification. Topics of the other two sessions are ‘The Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences in Transition’ and ‘Lead: Its Sources, Transport, Sinks, and Impacts.’Subjects of scheduled papers include urban weather anomalies and Metromex, Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP), GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE), International Field Year of the Great Lakes (IFYGL), environmental impact of weather modification, managing the atmosphere—emerging science policy needs, and economic characteristics of weather modification technology.
1975 Title II Water Resources Research Program announced
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton has announced the selection of 26 research projects to initiate the fiscal year 1975 water research program authorized under Title II of the Water Resources Research Act.The Title II program—administered by the Office of Water Research and Technology—provides for research grants, contracts, or other arrangements with educational institutions and with private firms and individuals for the conduct of research that seeks solutions to urgent water problems throughout the nation.
Energy production—Heat and mass transfer problems: Seminar and summer school
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A 1975 International Seminar (August 25–30) and a 1975 International Summer School (August 18–23), sponsored by the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, will be held in Dubrovnik on the Adriatic coast. Both will have the theme ‘Future Energy Production—Heat and Mass Transfer Problems.’In contrast to some earlier seminars, which were devoted to basic research and to the scientific foundations of heat and mass transfer, the sponsors state that the 1975 seminar (and summer school) will center around the specific problems of heat and mass transfer that will be encountered in future energy production. Both basic and applied research problems will be addressed in the context of energy resources. It is intended that the meeting will bring together the practicing engineer and the scientist to discuss common problems, thus introducing the results of applied research in the shortest possible time.
Notes and commentary
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Gilbert F. Cochran, recently of the Desert Research Institute of the University of Nevada system, joined the staff of the U.S. National Committee for the IHD in October. He succeeds Henry S. Santeford, Jr., who resigned in May to become a research hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Anchorage, Alaska.Since 1968 the new staff officer has been, successively, associate research professor, acting director, and deputy director of the Center for Water Resources Research at the Desert Research Institute. During this period he taught graduate level courses in hydrology (principally in ground water‐related fields), and served as a student advisor and on graduate examining committees. His professional specialty is the development of mathematical models.
Soil erosion— Sediment yield research in progress
Authors: Heinemann H. G. , Piest R. F. 
Published: October 2011

The pace of research to understand erosion processes and to determine soil erosion rates and sediment yields has quickened in recent years. Many soil and water conservation planners have recognized the need to more fully understand the complex forces affecting detachment and movement of soil from erosion source to point of deposition.We learned long ago that deposited sediment limits the useful life of conservation structures and that we must optimize conservation designs because of a dwindling supply of good sites. More recently, with the advent of increased environmental concern, the necessity for the broadest consideration of all proposed developments and for predicting the environmental impact of optional soil and water conservation plans has been emphasized. The new awareness of the tremendous volume of urban and right‐of‐way construction erosion and its impact on society has intensified our concern. Furthermore, since sediment is a carrier of agricultural chemicals, the priority for a fuller understanding of soil erosion rates and watershed sediment yields has increased.
Planning for development of water resources
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

How does one plan for development of water resources in a river basin?Is the area suitable for a flood control project? Does it really have great water recreation potential? Would the construction of dams and lakes enable a more judicious use of this water resource?According to Vance Whitfield of the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina, these are among the questions being pondered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in an attempt to find out how the water in the Cape Fear River basin can be used to better advantage.The Cape Fear River, formed by the confluence of the Deep and Haw Rivers, flows for about 200 miles before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean below Wilmington, North Carolina. Its basin has a drainage area of 8570 square miles. The population in the basin area is growing faster than the national average. Increased population, more disposable income, ancd more leisure will inevitably placet additional demands on both the present water supply and the recreational facilities in the basin.
Clues to prehistoric earthquakes?
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A record of ancient earthquakes that extends over thousands of years may be ‘frozen’ into sediments of natural lakes, according to a recent issue of the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Information Bulletin.‘… historic records of earthquakes are too short to allow a true assessment of recurrence intervals; therefore a method has been needed that will enable the seismic history of a region to be extended beyond the limit of historic time,’ writes John Sims of the USGS Menlo Park, California, office. ‘One place where a record of ancient seismic history might be preserved is in lake sediments’.
Soviet scientists test new method of depth probing of Earth's crust
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

According to a slightly abridged translation by Novosti Press Agency of an article by Igor D. Morokhov, deputy director of the USSR State Atomic Energy Commission, first published in Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya, Soviet scientists have recently conducted the world's first experiment in vertical resistivity probing of the earth's crust to a depth of 25 miles by means of a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator. The new method of probing is expected to have many uses in a number of fields including geology, mining, and earthquake forecasting.As more of the earth's mineral deposits that are relatively near the surface approach depletion, ways of prospecting for and developing abyssal deposits are urgently needed. The electromagnetic method widely used for earth probing today is inefficient at great depths, since a tenfold increase in the depth of probing requires a millionfold increase in energy expenditure. In addition, powerful stationary installations are not practical because prospecting requires constant relocation.
Geophysicists
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Walter M. Elsasser, who retired from active service at the University of Maryland in summer 1974, has joined the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in a postretirement research position as adjunct professor.Edward A. Flinn has been appointed director of lunar programs in the Office of Space Science at NASA headquarters in Washington, D. C. He is editor of the planetary surfaces and interiors section of the Journal of Geophysical Research and was secretary of the AGU Section of Seismology from 1970 to 1974.Leonard E. Johnson has been appointed associate program director for geophysics in the Division of Environmental Sciences, Earth Sciences Section, of the National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C.
Climatic Impact Assessment Program
Authors: Donahue Thomas M. , Grobecker Alan J. 
Published: October 2011

As president of the Section of Solar‐Planetary Relationships of the American Geophysical Union I agreed last year, in cooperation with the American Meteorological Society, to sanction, in the name of our union, a scientific review of the Climatic Impact Assessment Program draft monographs 1, 3, and 4. I not only suggested names of referees but, upon request, participated in the process myself.The ‘Executive Summary of the Report of Findings’ by the DOT in my opinion conceals the logical conclusions of the CIAP study as it was presented in the monographs we saw and criticized: it introduces new concepts concerning ultimate SST fleet sizes, flight times, and emission standards without candidly stating the ultimate effect of such fleets by the early twenty‐first century on the stratosphere; and it, together with uncorrected stories based on it and press interviews accompanying its release, have caused serious loss of credibility to atmospheric scientists.
Guide to Canyonlands National Park
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A guide to the geology of the spectacular Canyonlands National Park in southeastern Utah has been prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey and is now available for sale to the public.The booklet was written by S.W. Lohman, and the artwork was done by John R. Stacy, both of the USGS Lakewood, Colorado, office.
AGI Minority Scholarships announced for 1975–1976
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The American Geological Institute's scholarship program for geoscience majors from minority groups (mainly blacks, American Indians, and students with Spanish surnames) is going strong, with 23 AGI minority students receiving support ranging from $250 to $2000 for the current academic year. Money to support the scholarships came from 6 member societies (including AGU with a $2000 donation); 8 mining, oil, and geophysical companies; and many individuals.AGI expects to award about the same number of scholarships, ranging in amount from $500 to $2000 each, for the 1975–1976 school year. Geoscience majors with good academic records who are enrolled at accredited institutions may apply. Both graduate and undergraduate students are eligible. Scholarship recipients will be selected by an advisory committee and recommended for approval by AGI's executive committee. Selection will be based on academic excellence, need, and prospects for success in the geosciences.
Lunar Dynamics and Selenodesy: Report of the Eight GEOP Research Conference
Authors: Doyle Frederick J. , Eckhardt Donald H. , Head James W. , Kaula William M. , Mueller Ivan I. , Sjogren W. L. 
Published: October 2011

The Eight GEOP (Geodesy/Earth and Ocean Physics) Research Conference, on Lunar Dynamics and Selenodesy, was held October 10 and 11, 1974, at the Ohio State University. The conference, the last in the second year of the series, was attended by 66 persons.The meeting was opened by William M. Kaula, who also delivered the traditional introductory address, printed in its entirety elsewhere in this issue. The presentations and the discussions are summarized below by panel sessions.
President's page: International support for Chilean geophysicists
Authors: Spilhaus A.F. 
Published: October 2011

No. But I'm known to be prejudiced in this area. Decide for yourself.One dollar buys your library about 46,000 words of JGR. This amount of material costs over $4.00 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Geochima et Cosmochimica Acta, two of the more reasonably priced, commercially published journals and about $9.50 in Geophysical Surveys. But, you say, ‘ Wait a minute! What about the page charge of $80? That's 6.5c per word.’ OK; if there were no page charge, your library would still pay less than $2.40 for those 46,000 words.
Remote sensing of environment: International symposium
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Center for Remote Sensing Information and Analysis has announced the Tenth International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, to be held October 6 through 10, 1975, on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.The symposium is intended to stimulate an exchange of information concerning numerous aspects of the field through the presentation of reports on work planned, in progress, or completed.
AGU Pacific Northwest Region meets in Seattle
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Pacific Northwest Region of the AGU will meet October 9–10, 1975, at the Lake Wilderness Continuing Education Center of the University of Washington near Seattle, Washington.Contributed papers are invited on all topics of interest to the AGU; however, papers dealing with the north‐west geographical areas are especially encouraged. Reports on current experimnets and student research projects are also welcome.
A challenge
Authors: Manheim Frank T. 
Published: October 2011

To raise the level of interest in Russian translations, it is necessary to markedly increase the percentage of American earth scientists who read the original literature. I propose that AGU consider a major campaign to emphasize and promote a requirement that all students who intend to pursue a research or academic career in earth‐science‐related subjects be required not only to demonstrate a knowledge of written Russian, but to be familiar with pertinent Russian work in their areas of specialization.It is time at long last to shake academicians out of their pre‐World War II attitudes toward the relative importance of the German and French languages. Russian works in earth science are over 50% of the world total; total English language works are around 30%, French 8%, and German 7%.
Seventh WMO congress summary issued
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Seventh Congress of the World Meteorological Organization ended on May 23, 1975, with a record of decisions that will broaden WMO activities in both meteorology and hydrology, according to a meeting summary issued by the U.S. mission to the congress in Geneva.Ammendments to the WMO convention will expand its participation in the field of operational hydrology and provide new international focus for this work.
NASA seeks recruits for lunar research program
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The goal of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in continuing to encourage and support research on all aspects of lunar science is to improve scientific understanding of the origin, evolution, structure, and composition of the moon and of its relationships to the earth and the solar system.NASA's broadly based lunar programs include (1) experimental and theoretical research on lunar materials (samples and Surveyor parts); (2) lunar data analysis and synthesis using published or other generally available data; and (3) supporting research and technology designed to aid in reaching the goals of the other lunar programs, such as theoretical studies, laboratory simulations, meteorite research, and advanced experimental concepts.
Eastern Snow Conference issues call for papers
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The thirty‐third Eastern Snow Conference will be held at the Queensbury Hotel, Glens Falls, New York, February 5 and 6, 1976.The Eastern Snow Conference is an international organization in eastern Canada and northeastern United States concerned with the origin, precipitation, accumulation, character, melt, and runoff of snow from the viewpoint of meteorology, power generation, conservation, engineering, forestry, hydrology and relatered fields.
Seismology, oceanography, and geodesy share benefits from NOAA's Alaskan survey
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has begun a geodetic survey along a 435‐mile segment of the Alaskan oil pipeline that will enable detection of the results of seismic activity.The estimated cost of the survey, conducted under a cooperative agreement with the consortium of petroleum firms building the pipeline, is about $170,000.
Committee to record history of solar‐planetary research
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

At the business meeting of the section on Solar‐Planetary Relationships held on June 19, 1975, as part of the annual AGU meeting in Washington, approval was given to the formation of a Committee on Professional History operating within the section.This step followed an awareness by many members of the section that at a time of unprecedented research and discovery little is being done to properly record and document this unique era of scientific expansion. The final distillation of scientific work is generally preserved in the professional literature, but the process by which these results are achieved—the development and evolution of ideas, the interaction of the scientific community and of the individuals composing it, the role of unexpected results and lucky guesses and so forth—all these tend to get lost and forgotten: as memories fade, people pass away and records are discarded, not much is left for the historian who tries to reconstruct the creative process and the atmosphere in which it flourished.