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Ford Foundation Fellowships
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Ford Foundation is sponsoring 40 three‐year predoctoral fellowships and 10 one‐year dissertation fellowships for minorities for 1987. The predoctoral fellowships include an annual stipend of $10,000 and an annual grant of $6000 to the fellow's institution in lieu of tuition and fees. Dissertation Fellows will receive a stipend of $18,000 and no institutional grant.The program is designed to increase the presence of under represented minorities in the nation's college and university faculties. The minority groups to be considered under this program are: American Indians, Alaskan Natives (Eskimo or Aleut), Black Americans, Mexican Americans/Chicanos, Native Pacific Islanders (Polynesians or Micronesians), and Puerto Ricans. The competition is open to any U.S. citizen who is a member of one of these groups, who is a beginning graduate student or is within 1 year of completing the dissertation, and who expects to work toward a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree. Fellowships will be awarded in the behavioral and social sciences, humanities, engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, and biological sciences. The National Research Council, which is administering the fellowships, can provide more information on which fields of study are and are not eligible for this program.
Recent Ph.D.'s
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Eos periodically lists information on recently accepted doctoral dissertations in the disciplines of geophysics. Faculty members are invited to submit the following information, on institution letterhead, above the signature of the faculty advisor or department chairman:

the dissertation title,
author's name,
name of the degree‐granting department and institution,
faculty advisor,
month and year degree was awarded,
category of dissertation subject (Atmospheric Sciences, Hydrology, Ocean Sciences, Solid Earth, or Space Sciences)
.If possible, include the current address and telephone number of the degree recipient (this information will not be published).
Hollaender Postdoctoral Fellowships
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Health and Environmental Research (OHER) has just established the Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Program to support outstanding recent recipients of doctoral degrees in conducting energy‐related research supported by OHER in the environmental, life, and biomedical sciences. Fellows will receive a stipend of $35,000, and appointments will be made at participating DOE laboratories and approved university laboratories.Applicants must have received a doctoral degree within the past 2 years. (Applicants with M.D. or D.V.M. degrees and research experience will also be considered.) Selection criteria include academic achievements, recommendations, scientific background, statement of research to be performed, and availability of funds and facilities. Fellowships are for 1 year, renewable for a second year upon recommendation of the laboratory at which the fellowship is held.
[Comment on “AGU Authorship Policy” and “More on AGU Authorship Policy”] A response from the establishment
Authors: Birmingham Thomas J. 
Published: October 2011

Recent letters in Forum by Ron Zwickl (Eos, April 15, 1986, p. 186) and C. T. Russell (Eos, July 1, 1986, p. 545) have addressed the proliferation of authors on papers in AGU journals. I assume that the authors have at least the Journal of Geophysical Research‐Space Physics in mind, as both are frequent contributors to our journal (and highly valued referees as well!).There is no doubt in my mind that marginal participants sometimes end up in the bylines of papers we publish. In a few instances, I do not believe that all authors even read the final manuscript: if they did, they would exercise better quality control over the submitted product. I do not agree, however, that AGU should be responsible for determining authorship, even in a tangential way: its concern, manifest through its editors, should be that each article published represents a significant new contribution to the discipline. To me as editor, it's what comes after the byline that matters!
L. Jeff Lefkoff: Congressional Science Fellow
Authors: Katzoff Judith A. 
Published: October 2011

L. Jeff Lefkoff, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS; Menlo Park, Calif.) and doctoral student at Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.), has been selected as the 1986–1987 AGU Congressional Science Fellow. A member of AGU's Hydrology Section, he will begin his 1‐year tenure on Capitol Hill as AGU's 10th Congressional Science Fellow in January.At USGS and Stanford, Lefkoff has conducted research on the hydrologic and economic consequences of various options in water resources policy, especially the use of open markets for water rights. His work for USGS has included development of a computer model, intended for public distribution, for general groundwater management. He has used this model to design aquifer restoration systems and to analyze their hydrologic and economic performance.
NWS winter weather forecast
Authors: Katzoff Judith A. 
Published: October 2011

The Great Lakes area, the East Coast, and the southern rim of the United States may experience relatively stormy, wet weather this winter, according to the winter weather forecast for the continental United States from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service (NWS; see Figure 1). The NWS statement, which predicted average conditions in December, January , and February, also said that the south central portion of the United States has the highest chance of colder than normal winter weather, while the season is expected to bring milder than normal conditions west of the Rockies (Figure 2).The precipitation prediction is the “more interesting, stronger” part of the forecast, according to Donald L. Gilman, chief of the NWS Prediction Branch. This winter's temperature predictions are more cautious than usual, he said.
Exploration, discovery, serendipity, and COCORP
Authors: Drake Charles L. 
Published: October 2011

The Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling, known as COCORP, has now been operating for more than a decade since its original experiment in Hardeman County, Tex. Ten years ago, the idea of a transcontinental deep reflection section seemed an impossible dream, but today, major segments of such a profile have been surveyed. Completion of such a section by the time of the International Geological Congress (to be held in Washington in 1989) is very likely.When the project began, our knowledge of the deep structure of the continents was rudimentary at best. From earthquake seismology, large‐scale seismic refraction experiments, and gravity data, we had a general picture of regional variations in crustal velocities and depth to the mantle, but the details were unknown. From a few exposures and from studies of xenoliths, we had some idea of the nature of the lower crust, but only in special areas. Initial COCORP experiments focused on specific areas in which existing geological and geophysical data suggested that deep reflections could be found and that specific questions could be answered. When these proved successful, the program ventured into the unknown and began a broad reconnaissance of the continental crust of the United States. The success of the early experiments did not go unnoticed by others, and deep reflection experiments are now being conducted in a number of countries.
NSF begins research program for undergraduates
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is planning to commit $9 million during this fiscal year to a program that will enable more undergraduate students to have “hands‐on” research experience. NSF is now seeking proposals for its new “Research Experiences for Undergraduates” (REU) program.“One of the National Science Foundation's principal goals is to ensure an adequate supply of high‐quality mathematicians, scientists, and engineers for the future . . . . There is widespread agreement that hands‐on experience in active research is one of the most effective techniques for training undergraduates for [such careers], and that too few such experiences are now available,” an NSF announcement said.
Allan V. Cox: AGU President 1978”1980
Authors: Richman Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

When Allan V. Cox was presented AGU's John Adam Fleming Medal in 1969, John Verhoogen described Cox's work as “characterized by painstaking care, proper attention to and use of statistics, and great insight.” Those same thoughts were echoed on February 3, 1987, during the memorial service for Cox, who died in a bicycling accident on January 27. The Stanford Memorial Church was crowded with colleagues, students, and friends.The Fleming Medal was presented to Cox in recognition of his studies on the fluctuation of the geomagnetic field. These studies helped to confirm theories of continental drift and seafloor spreading. The medal is awarded annually by AGU for original research and technical leadership in geomagnetism, atmospheric electricity, aeronomy, and related sciences. In addition to the Fleming Medal, Cox received the Antarctic Service Medal in 1970, the Vetlesen Prize in 1971, and the Arthur L. Day Prize of the National Academy of Sciences in 1984. He was a Fellow of AGU and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ian Carmichael receives 1986 VGP Award
Authors: DePaolo Donald J. , Carmichael I. S. E. 
Published: October 2011

It is a great personal pleasure to present to you today Ian S. E. Carmichael as corecipient of the 1986 Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Award. This award is given in recognition of his many contributions, both in research and as an educator. I will describe to you some of these in d u e course, but first I would like to provide you a little background (some of it factual) on a most remarkable man.I first met Carmichael, appropriately, on a field trip to Baja California almost exactly 10 years ago. The objective of this trip was to collect specimens of lava and xenoliths from the San Quintin volcanic Field, but the most memorable aspects for me were the campfire chats, our having to extricate the vehicle from the beach sands, and the fact that I received my first serious lesson in how to attack an igneous rock with a sledgehammer.
FROGS (Friends of Granites) report
Authors: Miller Calvin 
Published: October 2011

This VGP News, which is devoted to petrology, is a good one for noting the existence of FROGS. FROGS is, as the name suggests, an informal organization of people whose research relates in one way or another to granitic rocks. Its purpose has been to promote communication among geoscientists with different perspectives and concerns about felsic plutonism. Initially, a major focus was experimental petrology and integration of field‐oriented and lab‐oriented viewpoints; now that there is the opportunity to communicate with the Eos readership, an obvious additional goal will be to bring together volcanic and plutonic views of felsic magmatism.FROGS first gathered in late 1982 under the guidance of E‐an Zen and Pete Toulmin (both at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Reston, Va.), who saw a need for greater interaction among those interested in granites and for renewed, focused experimental investigations. They produced two newsletters (which were sent out by direct mail) and organized an informal meeting at the Geological Society of America meeting at Indianapolis, Ind., and then turned over the FROG reins to Sue Kieffer (USGS, Flagstaff, Ariz.) and John Clemens (Arizona State University, Tempe). They generated another newsletter, which was directly mailed to a readership that had grown beyond 200.
[Comment on “Vetting of Conference Proceedings papers: Too much of a good thing?”] Review papers: Proceedings vs. journals
Authors: Gary S. Peter 
Published: October 2011

I fully support Stan Cowley's letter in the Forum (Eos, October 21, 1986, p. 803) concerning refereeing standards for conference proceedings. Stan's most important point, in my opinion, should be repeated several times over to all space physicists: “Proceedings are simply not accessible to the same degree as are journals.”I further believe that conference proceedings have wrongly usurped the role of review journals in space physics. The number of space physics papers that have appeared in our AGU review journal in both 1985 and in 1986 is of order unity; in contrast, I count about 30 space physics review or tutorial papers in two Chapman Conference Proceedings from 1985 alone. Perhaps this is appropriate, since “Space Physics” was dropped from the title of this AGU journal 2 years ago. Nevertheless, this decline in journal‐published space science review papers will make life more difficult for future generations of researchers in our field who wish to utilize review papers from this epoch. They, as many of our contemporaries who do not have copies of the appropriate proceedings on their bookshelves, will find that libraries typically have less complete collections of conference proceedings than refereed journals. They will also discover that conference proceedings often circulate, whereas refereed journals usually do not, with the result that they will be much less likely to find the paper they seek if it has been published in a conference proceedings. In other words, as the highly respected Stanley Cowley has said: “Proceedings are simply not accessible to the same degree as are journals.”
Scripps starts Antarctic Center
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (La Jolla, Calif.) is establishing a facility that will supply data on weather, ocean, and ice conditions in Antarctica year‐round using satellite information. Scripps plans to install a computer system for satellite data handling and image enhancement on its campus in April, and an identical system at McMurdo Station in Antarctica in October.The system at the new Antarctic Research Center (ARC) will track two satellites in the Meteorological Satellite Program of the Department of Defense and two TIROS‐N satellites of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Visual data are expected to provide information on glacier movement, crevasse detection, ice mapping, and weather conditions, while infrared data will be used in studies of ocean currents, upwelling, and changing ice conditions, according to Scripps.
Key appropriations subcommittee assignments
Authors: Katzoff Judith A. 
Published: October 2011

Below are membership lists for appropriations subcommittees in the 100th Congress that have direct jurisdiction over geophysical research. Last week, Eos published membership lists for other key congressional committees (Eos, March 10, 1987, p. 138.).Letters to Senate committees should be addressed to the committee, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510; letters to House committees should be addressed to the committee, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515. Initial contacts with committee and subcommittee staff may be valuable. For additional guidelines on contacting a member of Congress or congressional staff, see “AGU's Guide to Legislative Information and Contacts” (Eos, September 30, 1986, p. 739).
Become an AGU Supporting Member
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

You can extend your commitment to the continuing vitality of geophysics by helping AGU to build funds that will provide for new initiatives and assist in funding some of the nonrevenue programs of AGU, such as the congressional science fellowship, minority student scholarships, and student travel grants. The AGU Development Committee is seeking gifts and contributions toward building the endowment of the Union: The vitality of AGU and the vitality of geophysics march hand in hand.Four categories of supporting membership are offered by the Union: Individual Supporting Member $80 per year Life Supporting Member $1,500 Sustaining Member $5,000 Benefactor $10,000
[Reply to Fraser‐Smith's “The Eos October 21, 1986 Cover”] In the eyes of the beholder
Authors: Stern David P. , Potemra Thomas A. 
Published: October 2011

Fraser‐Smith's complaint about dipole field lines being scrunched up in illustrations is much ado about very little. On one memorable occasion, one of us did much worse (see Figure 1); he is still wondering how it happened! The point is that most drawings of the dipole field are cartoons and use a good measure of artistic license, especially artistic renditions like the one gracing the cover of Eos on October 21, 1986, showing fluffy suggestions of field lines with vague overtones of auroral arcs.To the best of our knowledge, no erroneous physical conclusion ever arose from such a cartoon, though a considerable amount of journal space may have been saved. Purists may argue about accuracy, but most readers will agree that, like contact lenses, dipolarity is mostly in the eyes of the beholder.
GISMOS Program and Workshop
Authors: de la Beaujardière O. 
Published: October 2011

Since January 1984, several observation campaigns to study the coupling between the magnetosphere and the ionosphere have taken place. These are part of the GISMOS (Global Ionospheric Simultaneous Measurement of Substorms) Program, the goals of which are to

obtain simultaneous synergetic global measurements of the ionosphere and magnetosphere,
analyze individual events in detail to understand the time‐varying aspects of the ionosphere coupling
provide realistic inputs and boundary conditions for theoretical models, as well as observations against which the model predictions can be tested, and
foster comparisons and interconnections among the models by taking advantage of this global and fairly complete set of observations of specific events.
Let's be sure to do our homework
Authors: Grew Priscilla C. 
Published: October 2011

A strong federal budget for geophysical research requires the active support of Congress. AGU needs to raise the general level of awareness among members of key congressional committees and their staffs of the importance of geophysical phenomena to society and the contributions geophysicists can make in providing scientific information as an ingredient in the formulation of public policy.Effective communication with any legislative body, be it a state legislature or Congress, requires long‐term repeated contact—not just a sudden appearance at the final stage of a budget deliberation or during a crisis when some geophysical event like a catastrophic earthquake or volcanic eruption captures the attention of legislators.
Alfred Wegener: The Father of Continental Drift
Authors: Ledley Tamara Shapiro 
Published: October 2011

This is the biography of a renaissance scientist. Now, when the disciplines of science are becoming narrower and we are beginning to understand the neccessity of broadening our scientific scope, we are presented in this book with the life of a scientist who had the imagination to bridge the confines of one discipline to make a major contribution to another.Alfred Wegener spent most of his scientific life as an observational meteorologist who performed most of his work during expeditions in Greenland and Iceland. The first few chapters of the book clearly identify this as the major emphasis of his scientific work by briefly outlining his life and presenting a detailed description of his Arctic explorations, which ended with his death in Greenland in 1930. His last expedition is described in great detail in an attempt to characterize this man, who as leader of the expedition did everything in his power to safeguard those under him and to maintain continuous scientific investigations.
Testimony before the Subcommittee on HUD‐Independent Agencies of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
Authors: Eagleson Peter S. 
Published: October 2011

The following written testimony was presented on May 8, 1987, by AGU President Peter S. Eagleson on behalf of the American Geophysical Union to the Subcommittee on HUD‐Independent Agencies of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.Mr. Chairman and committee members, my name is Peter S. Eagleson. I am President of the American Geophysical Union. AGU embraces the study of the earth, the planets, and their environment in space and is dedicated to the ideal of unselfish cooperation in research. It is a strong and rapidly expanding organization of more than 20,000 members who are research scientists, professors, students, administrators, engineers, and laymen.
NASA plans to buy unmanned rockets
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on May 15, 1987, that it plans to purchase the services of expendable launch vehicles (ELVs) for NASA missions. According to NASA administrator James C. Fletcher, “a major objective of this plan is to accelerate the deployment of the nation's backlog of space science missions.”“NASA's purpose in seeking expendable launch services is to lessen dependence on a single launch system, the space shuttle,” Fletcher said. “Expendable launch vehicles will help assure access to space, add flexibility to the space program, and free the shuttle for manned scientific, shuttle‐unique, and important national security missions.”
Electron beam observation opportunity
Authors: Raitt John , Banks Peter 
Published: October 2011

Ionospheric researchers will have the opportunity to conduct coordinated radio, radar, and optical observations in conjunction with other space‐based electron beam experiments as part of the upcoming Cooperative High‐Altitude Rocket Gun Experiments (CHARGE) 3 rocket flight in November 1988 at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR, White Sands, N.Mex.). The flight will be particularly interesting because of the high power planned for the electron gun (3.5 kV at 5 A), which is based, in part, on technology developments planned for the successful Excede series of rockets.CHARGE 3 is the third in a series of U.S. flights made in collaboration with investigators from Utah State University (Logan), Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.), the Institute for Space and Astronautical Sciences (Sendai, Japan), and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). The general objectives for CHARGE 3 are fourfold:

to study vehicle charging and diagnosecontributory effects at higher beam currents and energy,
to study ELF/VLF wave generation and propagation from dc and modulated electron beams,
to diagnose beam propagation remotely by studying E region ionization and optical excitation, and
to investigate voltage and current distribution in an electrically tethered space vehicle system at higher beam currents.
IRI 86 and MSIS 86 models updated
Authors: Bilitza Dieter 
Published: October 2011

The International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) is the empirical standard model of ionospheric plasma densities and temperatures, sponsored by the Union Radio Scientifique Internationale (URSI)/Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). An international task group is in charge of updating the model, incorporating new measurements, and releasing improved editions. IRI 86 is based on the decisions made at the Louvain‐la‐Neuve workshop (see the “International Reference Ionosphere Status 1985–1986” issue of Advances in Space Research, vol. 5, no. 10, 1985) and was released at the Toulouse (France) COSPAR meeting (to be published in an upcoming issue of Advances in Space Research, 1987).The Mass Spectrometer Incoherent Scatter (MSIS) neutral atmosphere model was developed and updated by Hedin et al. [1977] and Hedin [1983, 1987]. The model describes the global and temporal variations of neutral densities and temperatures in the upper atmosphere. Its data sources include measurements from several rockets, satellites, and incoherent scatter radars. MSIS 86 will also constitute the upper part of the COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere (CIRA), following the decisions made at last year's COSPAR meeting in Toulouse.