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A global nuclear waste repository
Authors: Lin Wunan 
Published: October 2011

As a concerned scientist, I think that having a global nuclear waste repository is a reachable goal for human beings. Maybe through this common goal, mankind can begin to treat each other as brothers and sisters. So far, most human activities are framed by national boundaries, which are purely arbitrary. Breaking through these national boundaries will be very beneficial to human beings.Formation of the International Geosphere‐Biosphere Program in 1986 indicates a growing awareness on the part of scientists regarding Earth as a system. The Apollo missions gave us a chance to look back at Earth from space. That perspective emphasized that our Earth is just one system: our only home. It is in deed a lonely boat in the high sea of dark space. We must take good care of our “boat.”
Reply [to “The OSSA budget: Another view”]
Authors: Meredith L. H. 
Published: October 2011

Clearly, Lanzerotti and I both feel strongly about having the best possible NASA program. Although he takes no exception to the programmatic issues raised in my letter, his other points deserve response:

The four Eos articles by myself, Reiff, Alexander, and Solomon all addressed the FY 1989 OSSA budget. The budgets for FY 1990 and future years are still being formulated. Review of the FY 1990 OSSA budget would, of course, be appropriate when the FY 1990 budget proposal is known.
Open discussion should strengthen the total program and noting possible strengths or weaknesses not be viewed as divisive. The Union might want to consider helping in this process by establishing a position on the OSSA program as it relates to geophysics.
HST proposals: October deadline
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Proposals for use of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) are due October 1, 1988, according to a statement from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. The cutoff date has been moved forward during the past year because of rescheduling of Space Shuttle launches.The telescope, which will allow scientists to peer deep into space without Earth's atmosphere in the way, is in line to be carried into orbit by the shuttle in June 1989. Observing proposals submitted by the deadline will be considered for the General Observer program for the period December 1989–November 1990.
Undergraduate Research Program
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation is inviting proposals for support from its Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program. NSF provides two kinds of support for projects that provide active research opportunities for undergraduates: REU Site grants to fund new programs for undergraduate research, and REU Supplement grants that may be added on to existing NSF research grants in order to fund undergraduate participation.The goal of the REU Program is to provide opportunities for undergraduates to become involved in research and to gain otherwise unobtainable experience in mathematical and scientific fields. Proposals for REU funding should address the philosophy of the proposer's approach to undergraduate education. Programs that would encourage participation from groups that are underrepresented in scientific fields are especially encouraged.
Smithsonian Fellowships
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Smithsonian Institution is offering research fellowships for 1989–1990. Proposals are sought for Earth science research in meteoritics, mineralogy, petrology, planetary geology, sedimentology, and volcanology. Awards are also offered in biology, the history of science, materials analysis, and several other subject areas.Awards are made to support independent research in residence at the Smithsonian in association with the research staff there. Postdoctoral and graduate student awards are available. Appointments range from 6–12 months for predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships to 10 weeks for graduate student fellowships. The grants range from $25,000 per year plus allowances for senior postdoctoral fellowships to $3,000 for 10‐week graduate student fellowships.
Reply [to “Nuclear waste under glass, further discussion”]
Authors: Crovisier J. L. , Honnorez J. 
Published: October 2011

We completely agree with the answer of the authors when they write, “although a full discussion of the subject is beyond the scope of this paper,…studies of nuclear waste glasses show that different glass compositions differ widely in the stability of their surfaces with respect to attack by aqueous media, and…the mechanism cited by Crovisier and Honnorez may apply… ”The main purpose of our reply to the item by W. W. Maggs (Eos, January 26, 1988) was to state that, “On the whole, we believe that it is not possible to conclude that the presence or absence of magnesium or any other element (and could have added “any other factor”) alone will lead to an increase or a decrease of the glass corrosion rate without considering the whole nuclear waste repository system.” We are glad to note that in the end the authors agree with us with the saying, “One swallow does not make a summer.”
Programs and major activities
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Meetings Committee has defined the following objectives for the AGU Spring and Fall Meetings, the two annual meetings of AGU that are national in scope.

Provide the best possible forum for the communication of the results of on‐going or recently completed research to attract as large a fraction as possible of the active geophysical research community.
Enhance personal contact among individual scientists.
Enhance interdisciplinary understanding.
Provide for discussion of “health of the science” issues.
Serve as an educational forum for individual scientists to broaden their understanding of the scope of geophysical research.
Soil gas group to write new guide
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The American Society for Testing and Materials is setting up a group to develop a standard performance guide on monitoring soil gas in the vadose zone. The guide will be for existing methods of soil gas collection, sample handling, sample analysis, QA‐QC, data reporting, and compositional data analysis.The group will meet January 22–26, 1989, in Orlando, Fla. Scientists interested in participating can contact Bob Morgan, ASTM, 1916 Race St., Philadelphia, PA 19103; tel. 215‐299‐5505. The work is under D18.21.02 on Unsaturated Zone Monitoring, a subcommittee of ASTM standards‐writing Committee D‐18 on Soil and Rock.
Geophysics in the White House
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

AGU President Don L. Anderson has asked the Union's Public Affairs Committee to draft a letter proposing a new position in the office of Science Advisor to the President of the United States. The senior‐level appointee would advise on issues related to the Earth sciences in their broadest sense.In developing the letter, the committee will serve as a panel in accord with AGU policy on developing advocacy positions and will report to the AGU Council at the December meeting during the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Members of the Public Affairs Committee are Priscilla Grew (chairman), Frank Eden, W. G. Ernst, Richard Hart, Dana Isherwood, Torrence Johnson, Charles Lawson, Sherry Oaks, Donald Piepgras, and George Shaw.
Geophysics in the public eye
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The 1988 AGU Fall Meeting was attended by a record number of reporters from all types of media (see inset). Five news releases mailed before the meeting and seven scheduled news conferences drew reporters to the meeting, held December 5–9 in San Francisco. About 25 public information offices and individual scientists contributed 45 news releases for distribution at the meeting.Media liaisons were appointed by AGU section presidents to act as contacts between scientists and journalists. The liaisons assisted with news conferences, arranged interviews, and directed reporters to interesting papers. The section liaisons were Union, Christopher Harrison (Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, Miami, Fla.); Atmospheric Sciences, William H. Beasley (National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.); Geodesy, Randolph Ware (University of Colorado, Boulder); Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism, Kenneth Verosub (University of Calfornia, Davis); Hydrology, George Leavesley (U.S. Geological Survey, Lakewood, Colo.); Planetology, Torrence Johnson (Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, Calif.); Seismology, Jan Garmany (University of Texas, Austin); Solar‐ Planetary Relationships, Vincent Wickwar (Utah State University, Logan); and Tectonophysics, Paul Segall (U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.).
Teaching aids in seismology
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Two videotapes on seismological topics are now available from Bruce A. Bolt, Seismograph Station, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720. T h e two tapes are the first of a series to be produced.The first, “Mapping Earthquakes” (35 minutes), uses computer graphics to provide an introductory account of intensity, hypocentral location, magnitude estimation, and the patterns of time and space sequence of earthquakes. It is suitable for undergraduate courses in geology and geophysics.
UCAR visitor research programs
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research will continue to offer to visiting scientists opportunities in atmospheric and related sciences at two centers for operational weather prediction for research: the Naval Environmental Prediction and Research Facility (NEPRF) and NOAA's National Meteorological Center (NMC).Research at NEPRF, in Monterey, Calif., is aimed at improving weather analysis and prediction for U.S. Navy operations. Studies cover a range of phenomena related to atmosphere‐ocean interactions, for example, planetary boundary layer interaction with clouds and radiation, prediction problems related to orography, fine‐scale modeling in coastal regions, and statistical interpretation of model forecasts and remotely sensed data.
Student program
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Earth sciences studies will receive 5% of the funds for the 137 Young Scholars projects funded by the National Science Foundation for 1989. NSF has budgeted $7 million for this second year of the Young Scholars Program. More than 4700 high‐ability secondary school students (grades 8–12) will participate.The 68 projects that NSF supported in 1988 will again be funded. Four of the 69 new projects are in Earth sciences; for example, the Foundation for Glacier and Environmental Research in Moscow, Idaho, will take ten students for 8 weeks of research on the Juneau ice fields in Alaska.
Faculty shortage to ease
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation recently announced that ten of the 197 Presidential Young Investigator awards went to geoscientists. The program hopes to ease the shortage of faculty in scientific and engineering fields.By funding research of faculty members at the beginning of their careers, the awards help universities attract and retain outstanding young Ph.D. scientists who may otherwise choose nonteaching careers. Each Young Investigator recipient can receive up to $100,000 per year for 5 years in a combination of federal and matching private funds.
Grants for undergraduates
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

About 4% of the National Science Foundation's total Research Experiences for Undergraduates awards went to the geosciences or related fields. The annually awarded grants are aimed at encouraging students to choose careers in mathematics, science, and engineering. Special emphasis is on providing research participation opportunities for women, minorities, and the physically disabled.Erich Bloch, director of the NSF, noted that “Talented undergraduate students should be stimulated to choose research and teaching careers in science, mathematics, and engineering. We at NSF hope that actual participation in research projects, and exposure to the excitement, problems, and challenges of research will encourage this interest.”
Best Student Paper
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Michael A. Celaya received the award for best student paper in the GP Section at the AGU 1988 Fall Meeting in San Francisco. His talk, with coauthor Brad M. Clement, was “Time series analysis of two geomagnetic polarity transition records.”Mike received a B.A. in geophysics in 1986 from Texas A&M University, College Station. He remained at TAMU through August 1988 to earn a M.S. in geophysics under Brad Clement of the Ocean Drilling Program. His thesis work, presented at the Fall Meeting, involved a time series analysis of paleomagnetic polarity transition records, with the aim of better understanding the relationship between secular variation and transitional fields.
Petition nominations for 1990–1992
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The nominees listed below are those of the Union and section nominating committees and have been approved by the AGU Council.Nominations may also be made by membership petition. There are no age, nationality, residence or other analogous restrictions on who may serve as a n officer. Petitions should be sent to the General Secretary, AGU, 2000 Florida Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20009. They must be received no later than July 7, 1989.
Students at DOE
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Department of Energy has selected 365 students for its High School Honors Science Program this summer. They come from the 50 states, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the District of Columbia and from Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Mexico. Each student will spend two weeks at a DOE research laboratory.In the Earth sciences, students going to the Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, Wash., will study desert, forest, river, stream and ocean ecosystems. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, students will do environmental field work. At Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y., students will use the National Synchrotron Light Source for research in biology, chemistry and physics (see “Synchrotron X Ray Sources in the Earth Sciences,” by S. R. Sutton et al., Eos, 69, 1666, 1988).
Mars research
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is asking for proposals for basic research in its Martian Surface and Atmosphere Through Time program. The goal is to understand the processes that modify the planet's surface: the current state of the surface and the physics, chemistry and dynamics of the atmosphere; causes of annual surface and atmospheric variability' and evolution of the surface and effects of interactions between surface and atmosphere through geologic time.Proposals should refer to NRA 89‐OSSA‐10 and be sent to Lunar and Planetary Geosciences Review Panel, Lunar and Planetary Institute, 3303 NASA Road 1, Houston, TX 77058; tel. 713‐486‐2149. Deadline is September 1, 1989.
NASA research announcements
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces the research proposal deadline for the Origins of Solar Systems Research Program as October 31, 1989, and November 1, 1989, for the Magellan Guest Investigator Program.Goals of the Origins of Solar Systems Research Program are to complement and extend ongoing research efforts in this area and to foster effective communications among active researchers on this topic. Proposals are encouraged which involve joint research efforts by investigators from different scientific disciplines. All categories of organizations are encouraged to participate, including industry, educational institutions, other nonprofit organizations, and other government agencies. Proposals should be submitted to Origins of Solar System Review Panel, The Lunar and Planetary Institute, 3303 NASA Road 1, Houston, TX 77058; tel 713‐486‐2149.
Acoustic image‐processing software
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Several algorithims that display, enhance and analyze side‐scan sonar images of the seafloor, have been developed by the University of Washington, Seattle, as part of an Office of Naval Research funded program in acoustic image analysis. One of these programs, PORTAL, is a small (less than 100K) image display and enhancement program that can run on MS‐DOS computers with VGA boards. This program is now available in the public domain for general use in acoustic image processing.PORTAL is designed to display side‐scan sonar data that is stored in most standard formats, including SeaMARC I, II, 150 and GLORIA data. (See image.) In addition to the “standard” formats, PORTAL has a module “front end” that allows the user to modify the program to accept other image formats. In addition to side‐scan sonar data, the program can also display digital optical images from scanners and “framegrabbers,” gridded bathymetry data from Sea Beam and other sources, and potential field (magnetics/gravity) data. While limited in image analysis capability, the program allows image enhancement by histogram manipulation, and basic filtering operations, including multistage filtering. PORTAL can print reasonably high‐quality images on Postscript laser printers and lower‐quality images on non‐Postscript printers with HP Laserjet emulation. Images suitable only for index sheets are also possible on dot matrix printers.
Philip wins AWRAC Award
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

John Philip, member of the AGU Section of Hydrology since 1951, was recently awarded the inaugural Eminent Researcher Fellowship of the Australian Water Research Advisory Council (AWRAC). Philip, Chief of the CSIRO Centre for Environmental Mechanics in Canberra, Australia, was awarded the Fellowship for his pioneering work on the mathematical physics of water movement in unsaturated porous media and soils.During his research career over 4 decades, Philip has published over. 230 scientific papers, mainly in hydrology. Sub‐disciplines include soil and porous medium physics, fluid mechanics, micrometeorology, physical chemistry, and mathematical and physical aspects of physiology and ecology. The stipend associated with the AWRAC Fellowship will allow Philip to reduce his administrative duties for a year and mount a full‐time attack on three important water research projects: a boundary layer analysis of water entry into subterranean holes from unsaturated seepage; groundwater pollution from hydrocarbon leaks beneath the water table; and an engineering approach to control of water use and microclimate by plant surface resistance under arid advective conditions.
Brief data reports in JGR
Authors: Cheng Andrew F. 
Published: October 2011

It is proposed that the Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics provide means by which appropriate solar‐terrestrial spacecraft and ground‐based data sets stored in national data centers or other accessible places can be described to the space physics community in the format of Brief Data Reports.Publication of BDRs would make data sets available to scientists who are not directly involved with the missions or experiments. Refereed BDRs would provide for scientific recognition and quality control of the data sets and encourage submission of data sets to national data centers.
[Comment on “Auroral green line” by Shröder, and “The interpretation of the auroral green line” by Hendriksen and Egeland]
Authors: Silverman Sam 
Published: October 2011

While I agree with the point made by Shröder (Eos, April 18, 1989) that early work in a subject is generally ignored, and that this is unfortunate, I feel that his implied criticism of the paper by Hendriksen and Egeland (Eos, July 19, 1988) is misplaced and unwarranted.Hendriksen and Egeland were not writing a definitive review paper in which all contributions to a subject were to be mentioned and/or discussed. They were writing from a particular perspective, emphasizing only those aspects they considered pertinent to their treatment. Other writers, with differing perspectives, would have selected from the literature differently. As will be noted below in more detail, Schroder himself has done just this, in selecting only German work in his comment.
Mars '94
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

U.S. planetary scientists have been invited to participate in the Mars '94 mission of the U.S.S.R. Up to 10 will be selected as Participating Scientists, to do Mars research with Soviet mission scientists using information obtained by instruments on the spacecraft. Of U.S. scientists invited by non‐U.S. principal investigators to participate as co‐investigators, fewer than 10 can be supported. The U.S. program will be directed and managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.In October 1994 the Soviet Union will launch the two Mars '94 probes, which will reach Mars in 315 days. The nominal mission lifetime is 12 months, or half a Mars year, starting at orbit insertion. Each probe will consist of a 3‐axis stabilized PHOBOS‐type spacecraft and a descent module containing a balloon, two or three small stations, and two or three penetrators. Instruments on the spacecraft will do planetary, plasma and trajectory studies.
Ph.D. shortage
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The late 1990s will see a shortage of Ph.D. graduates, according to the Association of American Universities, Washington, D.C. AAU's new comprehensive study, “The Ph.D. Shortage: The Federal Role,” reports that competition for new Ph.D.s is already intense and can only intensify because demand is greater than supply in both academic and nonacademic markets.Doctoral education plays an increasingly important role in U.S. research and development programs. Students have a pivotal part in doing research and enriching it with new ideas. The AAU report says that graduate students are “major determinants of the creativity and productivity of U.S. academic research, the source of more than 50% of the nation's basic research.’ The market for doctoral education extends beyond the university. In 1985, about 43% of all Ph.D.s employed in this country were working outside higher education; the demand for doctorate recipients in nonacademic sectors continues to grow.
New airborne Doppler radar
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

U.S. and French research establishments will build and share an airborne Doppler radar that they will design to gather data on large‐scale storm structures and global atmospheric processes.The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, Colo., the Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications (CNET) and the Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers in Paris, France, have signed an $11 million agreement for joint development, operation and research use of the radar. The scheduled completion date of the Electra Doppler Radar (ELDORA) system is November 1, 1992.
WOCE ancillary projects, cruise schedule
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The U.S. WOCE Hydrographic Program Implementation Panel (WHPIP) and the U.S. WOCE Science Steering Committee (SSC) on January 26 established the procedure for selecting ancillary projects on U.S. WOCE Hydrographic Program (WHP) cruises.WOCE is the World Ocean Circulation Experiment, an international effort to understand how the ocean circulation affects climate, to help make it possible to predict climate changes over periods of decades and to discover how human activity is influencing climate patterns (“The WOCE Hydrographic Project,” Eos, 69, 68, 1988, and “U.S. WOCE Program Ready to Begin,” Eos, 70, 874, 1989).