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The President's Page: Opportunities for international initiative
Authors: Newell Homer E. 
Published: October 2011

Geophysics is naturally a global science. From the time of Hutton's ‘great geological cycle’ to the current revival of the concept of continental drift, the periods when earth science was driven to focus on the earth as a whole have characteristically been exciting and ofttimes downright exhilarating. Small wonder, then, that AGU constantly finds itself deeply involved in worldwide scientific activities.Geophysics is also of great practical import. Geophysical research lays the foundation for practical applications in such areas as water conservation, irrigation and watershed management, flood control, monitoring and management of the environment, practical uses of the oceans, land use planning and management, mineral exploration and resource management, weather observation and prediction, effective scheduling and conduct of radio communications, and on and on. Looking further to the future, one may anticipate additional applications in the prediction and even alleviation of earthquakes, in long‐range weather forecasting and weather modification, and in mitigation of severe storms; one may also anticipate substantial advances in understanding and perhaps even influencing climate.
USGS studies Martian landing sites
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The two sites on Mars announced recently by NASA as landing areas for unmanned instrumented Viking spacecraft have been the targets of intensive study by geologists of the U.S. Geological Survey.Plans call for the first lander to touch down in the Chryse region (20°N, 33°W), an area located on a plain north of the lower end of a large channel, on or about July 4, 1976. About a month and a half later, a second lander will touch down in the Cydonia region (44°N, 10°W), not far from the southernmost extent of the north polar cap where the atmospheric water content is at its seasonal high.
Data buoys survive Arctic weather, ice and polar bears
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Several unmanned satellitecommunicating, data‐reporting buoys have drifted in the Arctic ice for more than 15 months in a dramatic demonstration of their ability to operate effectively in one of the world's harshest environments.By mid‐July, two of six 340‐pound buoys being tested in the ice pack north of Alaska had continued to operate since April 1972 despite storms, drifting ice, temperatures of 50° below zero Fahrenheit, and attacks by polar bears. Two remained operational for more than 13 months before they ceased responding to satellite‐relayed signals. Two operated for 2½ to 3 months. Still another buoy, placed in the ice in October 1972, was still operating after nine months. The buoys were designed to operate up to one year.
OWRR announces fiscal year 1974 Title II Water Resources Research Program
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton has announced the selection of 25 research projects for the fiscal year 1974 water research program authorized under Title II of the Water Resources Research Act of 1964.The Title II program, administered by the Office of Water Resources Research, provides for research grants, contracts, or other arrangements with educational institutions, private foundations, or other institutions, and with private firms and individuals for the conduct of research that seeks solution to urgent water problems throughout the nation.
Notes and commentary
Authors: Bourke Austin , Lvovitch M. I. 
Published: October 2011

The following letter was received in the office of the U.S. National Committee for the IHD on April 23, 1973. Professor Lvovitch's reply, dated July 5, 1973, follows.In his interesting paper on ‘The Global Water Balance’ (IHD Bulletin, No. 23, January 1973) Lvovitch is surely in error in suggesting that the basic water balance equation (precipitation is equal to runoff plus evaporation) was first suggested by A. Penck as late as 1896.
Openings on Ocean Affairs Board and Ocean Sciences Committee (NAS)
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Academy of Sciences is seeking qualified persons to fill vacancies on its Ocean Affairs Board and Ocean Sciences Committee.The Ocean Affairs Board is anxious to involve in its activities individuals concerned with atmospheric affairs, coastal zone problems, the economics of marine activities, commercial uses of the sea, and the effects of man on the ocean environment. Individuals with broad experience in ocean policy, management, and national and international matters are particularly desired. Please send your recommendations to R.W. Morse, R. Revelle, J. Fisher, or to R.C. Vetter, Ocean Affairs Board, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20418.
NSF awards 3 contracts for solar energy research
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation has awarded three contracts for a research project designed to hasten the day when solar energy for heating, cooling, and supplying the hot water needs for buildings will become commercially available and socially acceptable.The NSF awarded contracts totaling approximately $1,536,000 to three industry‐university teams to conduct studies for eight months as the first phase of the project.
International Symposium on Lake Hydrology
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Approximately 200 engineers and scientists from 35 countries attended the International Symposium on the Hydrology of Lakes held at Helsinki, Finland, July 23–27, 1973. The symposium was sponsored by Unesco, World Meteorological Organization, and the International Association of Hydrological Sciences. It was organized within the framework of the International Hydrological Decade by the Finnish National Committee for the IHD and the Finnish National Committee for IAHS.All papers sessions were held at the Dipbli Congress Hall on the Otaniemi campus of the University of Helsinki. Eighty‐seven papers were scheduled for presentation concerning physiography, water balance, hydrometeorology, hydraulics, sedimentation, and water management. Of the 87 papers listed on the program, 26 were not presented. Three of the papers were presented in French and the rest in English. Only four papers were presented by U.S. authors. Each half‐day technical session had a chairman and a general reporter, the latter having responsibility for presenting a summary paper on the main topic of the subsequent group of papers. William C. Ackermann, Director of the Illinois Water Survey, served as one of the general reporters, presenting a summary on water management for lakes.
Glacier movement predicted a year in advance
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

For years, Medvezhy (the Bear) glacier, one of the more than 4000 in the Pamirs of Soviet Central Asia, has been studied intensively by researchers of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In the summer of 1973 their efforts were rewarded.When Medvezhy once again began its sporadic and hitherto catastrophic slide toward the Vanch valley last May, it was fulfilling a prediction made by the scientists a year before. The government of Tajikistan had been warned, so that inhabitants of the danger zone, with their cattle and possessions, were relocated in ample time, and no deaths or injuries resulted. Steps were taken to avert or minimize the destruction attendant on similar slides in 1937, 1951, and 1963. But the mood of the Bear as he rose from hibernation in 1973 was no gentler than in those earlier years.
Advanced study institute offered by NATO
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

An Advanced Study Institute on Continuum Mechanics Aspects of Geo dynamics and Rock Fracture Mechanics will be offered by the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, August 11–20, 1974, in Reykjavik, Iceland.The purpose of the institute is to provide a link between mechanics of continuum media and geodynamics by facilitating exchange of knowledge, experience, and ideas among leading scientists in the two fields and participants actively engaged in research and applications.
Gordon Research Conferences, Summer 1974
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Gordon Research Conferences for summer 1974 will be held in New Hampshire and in California. The conference series will extend from June 10 through August 30.Established to stimulate research in universities, industrial laboratories, and research foundations, the annual conference series utilizes an informal type of meeting consisting of scheduled speakers and discussion groups, with ample time made available to stimulate voluntary intercommunication among participants. This type of meeting has proved to be singularly effective as a means not only of disseminating ideas and information but of enabling scientists in related fields to become better acquainted and to form associations that often result in cooperative research efforts.
Aerosols, global temperatures, and climate linked
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

By screening out the rays of the sun, aerosols can reduce the global temperature, and by providing nuclei around which water droplets in clouds can condense or freeze, they can cause rain or snow.Two scientists at the Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado, have drawn together and analyzed data collected by other investigators on aerosol emissions from various sources and the effects of different concentrations on worldwide climate.
Problems related to the redefinition of North American Geodetic Networks
Authors: Whitten Charles A. 
Published: October 2011

One hundred twenty delegates from twenty‐four countries met in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 20th to 25th to participate in an international symposium related to the new adjustments of the North American geodetic networks.The geodetic agencies of Canada, Mexico, and the United States have cooperated for many years in the general development and extension of these control survey networks. Now, because of the remarkable achievements of the last decade, they recognize that it is an opportune time to adopt a new datum for the continental horizontal control network, one that will be accurately referenced to the networks of all other continents, with consideration that it be earth‐centered and a part of a worldwide geodetic system.
Geophysicists
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Four different bases are available for the new H/I Micromanipulator M so that, depending on application, a stationary, traversing, revolving, or magnetic type of platform can now be selected.This precision micromanipulator provides for vertical, horizontal, and tilting adjustments. Coarse adjustments are by rack and pinion; fine motions are controlled by micrometer spindle.
Floating power plants feasibility studied
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Two studies of the feasibility of large floating electric power plants using ocean temperature differences to provide energy for use on land have been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).The design concepts to be analyzed in the research are for plants of 100 Mw or larger. Although power usage varies widely, a 100‐Mw plant might satisfy the needs of residential customers in a city of 300,000 to 400,000 population.
The AGU ad hoc Congressional Liaison Committee
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The AGU Council established an ad hoc Committee on Congressional Liaison at the 1974 annual meeting. The purpose of the committee is to study possible activities in the area of congressional liaison that might be appropriate for AGU.A number of scientific and technical societies have established programs for communication with the legislative branch. Several of these programs include a full‐time staff operating a congressional liaison office while others are much less formal. Thus it is appropriate that the AGU examine the alternatives available with respect to congressional liaison activity. These activities might include: assisting congress in areas where AGU could provide sound technical advice on which legislation could be formulated; keeping the membership informed of legislative activities of interest to geophysicists, perhaps through notes in EOS, which might give the names of the specific congressmen involved; and providing information that might be valuable in permitting the membership to protect their professional interests with regard to pending legislation through various channels independent of AGU.
NSF director announces agency reorganization
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

H. Guyford Stever, Director of the National Science Foundation, has announced a major reorganization of the agency that is designed ‘to provide an effective management structure for dealing with current and future operations. The reorganization has been under active consideration for more than a year and is aimed at strengthening NSF and addressing problems of increased activities,’ he said.An important change involves restructuring the Directorate for Research and the Directorate for National and International Programs along more functional lines. As a result, three new directorates (Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences; Astronomical, Earth, and Ocean Sciences; and Biological and Social Sciences) have been established. Each of the directorates will be headed by an assistant director nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
In defense of language study
Authors: Vitaliano Dorothy B. 
Published: October 2011

I would like to say ‘amen’ to the remarks by Frank T. Manheim in the September issue of EOS. Not only is more than half the world literature in the earth sciences published in Russian, but a good part of that is in monograph form (perhaps 60% of it) and thus not picked up by the translations of leading journals.As Dr. Manheim pointed out, those who can utilize the Russian literature directly have a distinct advantage over those who cannot. But there is an even more compelling reason why we need a ‘critical mass of prominent workers’ who can handle Russian, one which he only hinted at: Where else can we find potential translators of highly technical material? For translations will always be needed, and too few people understand that technical translation differs from other forms in that a sound grasp of the subject is of paramount importance. The English‐speaking scientist with a fair reading knowledge of Russian (or any other foreign language) can turn out much more accurate translations than one who may be thoroughly bilingual but is not familiar with the subject. Even when a technical term is included in the available bilingual dictionaries, it takes a certain amount of familiarity with the subject to know which of several definitions offered is the correct one in a given context; and at the rate that all the sciences are progressing, even the best of dictionaries cannot possibly keep completely up to date.
Smithsonian Institution research fellowship programs
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A fellowship program of higher education and research training in the earth sciences for 1976–1977 for doctoral and postdoctoral candidates, particularly in the fields of sedimentology and paleobiology, mineralogy, petrology, meteoritics, and volcanology, is offered by the Smithsonian Institution.Applications for predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships, supported by $5,000 and $10,000 per year plus research allowances, respectively, are due January 15, 1976.
Maurice Ewing Symposia
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Lamont‐Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, with the cosponsorship of the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research and in cooperation with AGU, will initiate in March 1976 the first of a biannual series of symposia in honor of the late Maurice Ewing, founder of Lamont‐Doherty and past president of AGU.The first symposium is ‘Problems in the Evolution of Island Arcs, Deep Sea Trenches, and Back Arc Basins,’ and it will be held at Arden House in Harriman, New York, from March 28 to March 31, 1976. Among the invited speakers are Sir Edward Bullard, W. R. Dickinson, Warren Hamilton, and Seiya Uyeda.
Sea solar power
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Sea Solar Power, Inc., the firm which recently demonstrated the world's first working model of a sea solar power plant, has just received a contract from the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration to further efforts in specific areas of full size plant design. One of the design requirements of a sea solar power plant is a cold‐water pipe, typically 12 m in diameter, suspended beneath the plant to depths of 1210 m to supply cold condensing water. The contract is for design and engineering evaluation of such a pipe.Sea Solar Power, Inc., was established in 1973 by J. Hilbert Anderson and James H. Anderson, Jr., to develop and perfect a method of producing power by harnessing the temperature differences found in many parts of the ocean. This power would be completely clean and safe and would be much cheaper than established methods of power production.
New products
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Orbisphere Laboratories of Geneva, Switzerland, and York, Maine, announce the Model 2705 Oxygen Detector which provides high‐accuracy oxygen measurements at depths up to 200 m (600 ft). The instrument can be con‐nected to the detector head by long cables, of up to 300 m (900 ft), which permit continuous floating, downstream measurements.The instrument is able to maintain long‐term stability with an average drift of only 0.05 p pm over a 30‐day period.
France joins IPOD
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The French National Center for the Exploitation of the Oceans and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) today signed a memorandum of understanding providing for French support and participation in the international phase of ocean drilling (IPOD) of the Deep‐Sea Drilling Project (DSDP).Under the memorandum, France will contribute $1 million annually for 3 years in support of the DSDP. With the signing, France joins Great Britain, Japan, and the USSR as countries that have joined the United States in the project's international phase.
New seismograph station in Maine
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A new seismograph station has been established by Boston College's Weston Observatory in Allagash, Maine, to assist the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in evaluating seismic risk in the area of the proposed Dickey‐Lincoln dam and reservoir.The station, eighth in the New England system operated by Boston College, was established in late November and has already recorded four small tremors in the area of the St. Lawrence River valley. Funding for the station was completely provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Antarctic Dry Valley Drilling Project: Report on Seminar 2
Authors: Treves Samuel B. , Barrett Peter J. , Thompson Robert B. , Torii Tetsuya 
Published: October 2011

An interdisciplinary science seminar on the Japanese, New Zealand, and American sponsored Dry Valley Drilling Project (DVDP) was hosted by the Antarctic Research Center and the Geology Department of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, January 13–15, 1976.The seminar, like the first one held in Seattle in May 1974, was designed to be a forum for scientists, administrators, and support personnel to report on achievements of the project to date and to consider future drilling in Antarctica. Seventy‐ one people attended the conference.
Science International solicits film clips, news item
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The television series Science International is soliciting film clips and/or information suitable for presentation to the average intelligent nonscientist. Verbal on‐air credit will be given to scientists and their institutions.The series, which is to be hosted by Joseph Campanella, will be syndicated worldwide. It begins this fall in Canada, in January in selected U.S. markets, and in spring in Germany, Japan, Italy, and England.
Report of the treasurer
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Executive Committee of the Union approved the following testimony for submission in writing for the record of the hearings on H.R. 10013 National Climate Program Act held by the Subcommittee on Environment and the Atmosphere of the Committee on Science and Technology.The American Geophysical Union is a scientific society of over 12,000 members. It was founded in 1919 and is incorporated in the District of Columbia as a nonprofit educational and scientific organization. The individual members are concerned with the scientific study of the earth and its environment in space. Among the membership are most of the geophysicists in the United States who have scientific interests in the earth's climate and the factors which govern it.
Results of Atlantic margin probe
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Preliminary results of a 60‐day scientific expedition this past summer that obtained core samples from the ocean floor of the Atlantic continental shelf and slope were announced by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.Among the initial findings was the discovery of a large subsurface zone of freshwater much farther offshore than had been expected. Another finding was the presence of methane gas in sediments on areas of the continental margin which might affect the stability of the sediments.
USGS to assess national petroleum reserve in Alaska
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has undertaken the responsibility for obtaining the data necessary for a more precise assessment of the oil and gas potential in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA).The most recent estimate of 5 billion barrels of oil and gas condensate and 14.3 trillion ft 3 of gas is based on relatively limited information. To gain a better understanding of the geological, geochemical, and geophysical characteristics of the NPRA, the USGS will carry out a test well‐drilling program while collecting and processing 4672 km of seismic surveys. The first year's wells will be four medium‐ depth exploratory or confirmation wells ranging from 3050 to 3660 m and two deep wells ranging from 4500 to 6000 m.
SEAN report
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The following geophysical and astronomical events were reported by the Scientific Event Alert Network (SEAN) , Smithsonian Institution, NHB Stop 129, Washington, D.C. 20560.Volcanic Events.Global volcanic activity appears to have remained low during late May and June. Eruptions continued at Aso, Sakurazima, and Suwanosezima (Japan). A May 24 aerial inspection of White Island (Bay of Plenty, New Zealand) revealed two new ash deposits: the eastern half of the island was covered by gray green ash erupted about May 10, and the main crater contained red pink ash which had fallen during the night of May 23–24.