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Polar Research Fellowship offered
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A postdoctoral fellowship program for researchers working on arctic and antarctic research problems is being offered by the Institute of Polar Studies of the Ohio State University (Columbus). The purpose of the Byrd Fellowship program is to provide fellowships at Ohio State for men and women with distinguished academic backgrounds who are pursuing advanced research in any area of this field.The 1‐year postdoctoral award will include a stipend of $24,000 and a research and travel allowance of $3000. The Fellow should have received a Ph.D. degree within 5 years of selection for the program. Selection will be made by a committee consisting of the director of the Institute of Polar Studies and other members from the university and polar studies communities.
GALE improves snow forecasting
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Scientific results from an intensive study of winter storms on the U.S. East Coast last year contributed to improved weather forecasts of two successive snowstorms that virtually closed down Washington, D.C., for several days in January 1987.In the Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment (GALE) field project, scientists took detailed measurements simultaneously from the atmosphere and the ocean to study how these features interact at various stages of an East Coast winter storm, according to project director Richard Dirks, who is with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. “It's interesting that we actually had four storms [in the GALE study] that were of similar intensity to the two East Coast storms” in January 1987, Dirks said. “However, last year the temperatures were warmer, and the storm tracks were located somewhat further offshore and therefore did not significantly affect the northeast corridor with heavy snows.”
USGS sets goals for U.S. Earth science needs
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Citing the importance of the earth sciences in meeting the resource needs of the nation, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has outlined its current goals in meeting its mission to provide essential geologic, topographic, and hydrologic information in service to the public. Some highlights of selected USGS goals that are designed to meet national needs related to the hydrologic sciences include

Timely Reporting of Events and Conditions: Provide timely reporting, and forecasts when possible, of important hydrologic and geologic events and conditions of immediate concern to the public and to government bodies.
Water Resources Assessment: Increase knowledge of the distribution and quality of the nation's groundwater and surface water resources for use in the formulation and evaluation of policies and programs that assure the most efficient use of the nation's water resources.
Hydrologic Processes: Increase understanding of the processes that affect the properties and movement of water and its dissolved and suspended constituents through hydrologic systems.
The Miocene Ocean: Paleoceanography and Biogeography
Authors: Schlanger Seymour O. 
Published: October 2011

This volume brings together research carried out within the Cenozoic Paleoceanography Project (CENOP), a goal of which was to generate paleoceanographic reconstructions of the Miocene Epoch, 24 to 5 Ma. On the basis of stable isotope and quantitative micropaleontological studies, the authors have related these data bases to parameters and processes of the Miocene Ocean, including paleogeography, stratigraphy, circulation, water mass distributions, temperature variability, vertical water mass structure, biogeography, and biotic evolution.That these authors attained their goal is attested to by the quality and scope of the 14 chapters presented in this valuable treatise. The Miocene Epoch was chosen because it was in this interval of time that major ice sheets became a permanent feature of Earth's surface. The presentation of this stunning amount of data and interpretation is very well organized for the researcher as well as for the students and professors who will surely use the book as a basis for seminars.
Geophysicists
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The recording of earthquakes in the United States will take on a new dimension over the next decade with the announced development of a National Seismic Network by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While a new National Seismic Network will significantly improve the U.S. ability to monitor earthquakes at the national and global scale, its capabilities will complement and enhance, rather than replace, most existing networks for detailed monitoring of regional and local seismicity.As described by USGS in a report released in June 1987, the National Seismic Network will be aimed primarily at providing uniform coverage of felt earthquakes in the United States and significant events worldwide. The network will allow the National Earthquake Information Service (NEIS) to improve significantly its ability to provide immediate and accurate locations of earthquakes for emergency response and public information. Installation of the network will start in 1988 in the eastern half of the country, with support from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Electromagnetic induction in Australia
Authors: Lilley F. E. M. 
Published: October 2011

Electromagnetic induction at the terrestrial surface is a general and ubiquitous process. This note, which covers research on the subject in Australia, reflects the writer's own interest and refers particularly to induction by natural source fields in the period range of 1 minute to 1 day.Such source fields arise external to Earth, in the ionosphere and beyond, in the magnetosphere. The process of electromagnetic induction by these fields involves the flow through Earth of tens of thousands of amperes, over scale lengths of thousands of kilometers.
[Reply to “Space Station?” by L.H. Meredith] Space station?colon; Microgravity design is best first step
Authors: Baker D. James 
Published: October 2011

Les Meredith's recent statement in Eos (September 29, p. 770) on objectives and uses of NASA's proposed space station argues that microgravity research, manufacturing, space physics, astrophysics, and Earth observations are not good justifications for the present zero‐gravity design of the station. In my view, he is correct for the general issues of remote sensing, whether it is toward Earth or the planets and beyond. Such observations are indeed better carried out by automated platforms.But in the case of microgravity and space biomedicine, his arguments lose force. Science in the microgravity environment is a field of basic research ranging from materials science to studies of structure of large organic molecules. Today, and for the foreseeable future, the fundamental experiments to be done in the microgravity environment require close interaction with human experimenters, as in a ground‐based laboratory. The space station with its microgravity environment and open access to astronauts, provides an environment consistent with the needs of that field of basic research. As we move to manufacturing, the needs for human interaction may become less, but that is probably decades away.
Oceanographic studies during Project GALE
Authors: Blanton Jackson O. , Lee Tom N. , Atkinson Larry p. , Bane John M. , Riordan A. , Raman S. 
Published: October 2011

The Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment (GALE) was a multi‐institutional project sponsored primarily by the National Science Foundation (NSF), with additional support from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The primary objectives were

to describe the airflow, mass, and moisture fields during the evolution of U.S. East Coast winter storms, with special emphasis on mesoscale processes;
to understand the physical mechanisms controlling the formation and rapid development of East Coast storms; and
to develop and test numerical models for the prediction of East Coast cyclones.
Geomagnetism Program Assessment and Planet Earth Initiative
Authors: Eagleson P. S. 
Published: October 2011

Congressman David Skaggs (D‐Colo.) has requested an assessment by AGU of whether the U.S. geomagnetism program would be strengthened if the U.S. Geological Survey geomagnetic observatories program was transferred to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This assessment is needed by the end of January 1988The AGU Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Section and the Public Affairs Committee recommended that AGU do the study. A panel has been formed to develop a draft AGU position on this issue by early January for subsequent Council approval. The members of this panel will be
Six NSF‐NATO postdocs go to geoscientists
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Six Earth scientists will study in the United Kingdom, Norway, and Italy on postdoctoral fellowships administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of a program sponsored by the North American Treaty Organization (NATO). In all, 57 NSF‐NATO postdoctoral fellowships in science were awarded in March 1988 for study abroad for up to 12 months.The six students that received fellowships for study in geosciences are Henry N. (Spike) Berry (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.), to study geology at the University of Oslo, Norway; Marcus I. Bursik (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.), to study geology at Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K.; Mary S. Hubbard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.), to study geology at the University of Leicester, Leicester, U. K.); Paul R. Lundgren (Northwestern University, Chicago, III.), to study geophysics at the National Institute of Geophysics, Rome; James Webster (U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va.), to study experiment petrology at the University of Edinburgh, U.K.; and Joseph R. Pawlik (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif.), to study biological oceanography at the Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge,U.K.
New deadline for drilling proposals
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation's Continental Lithosphere Program management has announced June 1, 1988, as the deadline for continental scientific drilling proposals that require fiscal year 1989 funding. The Continental Lithosphere Review Panel (CLRP) will consider the proposals. Recommendations by CLRP will form the basis of the Continental Lithosphere 1989 program plan.DOSECC (Deep Observation and Sampling of Earth's Continental Crust, Inc.) will continue to provide the following services:

technical advice about drillhole planning and cost estimates,
solicitation and evaluation of bids,
contracting of drilling and support services,
supervision of drilling, coring, and logging operations,
workshops organized to generate new scientific drilling proposals and to assist in refinement of existing proposals,
feasibility reviews of individual proposals at the request of the CLRP, and
monitoring and coordination of scientific experiments with drilling operations in collaboration with projects' chief scientists.
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: (1) the dissertation title, (2) author's name, (3) name of the degree‐granting department and institution, (4) faculty advisor, (5) month and year degree was awarded, (6) 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).
Help with Bolivia's water resources
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Regional State Corporation for Development (CORDECO) in Cochabamba, Bolivia, is seeking geoscientists who can help plan and carry out a variety of hydrological projects. Water pollution, erosion control, basin management, and small‐scale irrigation programs are all within the scope of these projects, as are land control and reclamation, river regulation and control, and village water supplies.CORDECO will welcome scientists and graduate students who have relevant experience. CORDECO will provide local office and fieldwork facilities (including technicians) and will cover the projects' expenses. The participating scientists must arrange for their subsistence and travel expenses to and from Bolivia to be paid by their own institutions. It is not necessary for the participating scientists to know Spanish.
$10 million for NASA planet studies
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is asking for research proposals for its Planetary Geology and Geophysics program. Competition is open to all organizations and individuals, and requests must be submitted by July 31, 1988.Research in the program is in planetary geology, geophysics, cartography, and geologic mapping. Program scientists are studying the planets, their satellites including ring systems, and smaller Solar System bodies like asteroids and comets. The goal is to learn more about planetary processes, the origin and evolution of the Solar System, and Earth compared to other planets.
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Gyorgy Kovacs, Academician and former Director General of VITUKY, Budapest, Hungary, died April 21, 1988. He was past president of the International Association of Hydrologic Sciences.William C. Ackermann, retired chief of the Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, Ill., and professor at the University of Illinois, died June 9, 1988. His long and distinguished career included membership in AGU's Hydrology Section since 1938. He was a Fellow of AGU, Hydrology Section President in 1962, and President of AGU in 1966. He was president of IAHS in 1970–1971.
ITSA Committee meets
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Organizing Committee for the IAHS Third Scientific Assembly (ITSA) met on May 16, 1988, during the AGU Spring Meeting in Baltimore, Md. The Committee was pleased to have three of the IAHS Officers attend the meeting. Secretary General Henny Colenbrander, TNO, The Hague, Netherlands; Treasurer Charles Riggs, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va.; and President Vit Klemes, National Hydrology Research Institute, Saskatoon, Canada, were all present.The work of the committee resulted later in production of the ITSA Second Circular. The complete circular with registration forms was printed in the July 19 issue of Eos, and is also available from Ivan Johnson , Chairman, ITSA Organizing Committee, 7474 Upham Court, Arvada, CO 80003; tel.: 303‐425‐5610.
Response of Hannes Alfvén
Authors: Alfvén Hannes 
Published: October 2011

I wish to thank you very much for awarding me the Bowie Medal. I appreciate the motivation for it, which is much more than I deserve. Alex has tried to provide some balance by pointing out that I have not solved all of the problems but have left to some of you to solve what I myself consider to be the most important of all cosmical problems, namely the question of matter‐antimatter symmetry.When Dirac had proved that there was a general matter‐antimatter symmetry, my teacher Oskar Klein claimed that there should be a general symmetry also between the amount of matter and antimatter in the universe. This is not generally accepted. Instead it is believed that, for example, one of our closest stars, Alpha Centauri, consists of matter; Alex put it as due to some sort of normal‐matter chauvinism. The question remains as to whether there exists any scientific reason for this belief
CIES Grant competition
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, D.C., has announced the 1990–191 Fulbright Scholar Awards and the 1990–1991 Research Fellowships in India competitions.The 1990–1991 Fulbright grants in research and university lecturing abroad for periods of 3 months to 1 year have openings in over 100 countries, in most academic disciplines. Professionals, retired faculty, and independent scholars are encouraged to apply.
Graduate awards
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Four Minority Fellows and 23 Graduate Fellows will do graduate work in Earth sciences under the National Science Foundation's Graduate and Minority Graduate Fellowship programs. NSF awarded 100 minority and 760 graduate fellowships in April, bringing the total fellowships to 25,000 since the programs began in 1952. About 13% of applicants in 1989 received the $12,300 three‐year awards plus an annual cost‐of‐education allowance of $6000.The programs are part of NSF's “educational pipeline” to encourage outstanding students to go on to graduate work and careers in science, mathematics and engineering, said Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, NSF Assistant Director for Science and Engineering Education. Awards were also made in astronomy, biological sciences and biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics and applications of mathematics, physics, psychology, and social sciences.
$500,000 Grant given to Scripps
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

In support of global change studies, including Earth sciences, physical oceanography, climatology, marine chemistry, and ocean ecology, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York has made a grant of $500,000 to Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Scripps will use the money to support recent Ph.D. scientists who are studying the environment's reaction to conditions such as increasing pollution, ozone depletion, greenhouse effects, climate change, and deforestation.Edward A. Frieman, director of Scripps, said that “A critical need in this growing interdisciplinary field of global change is to introduce a new generation of young scientists to its complex problems and to the novel research strategies required for understanding global phenomena.” The grant from the Mellon Foundation will enable Scripps to attract motivated scientists, who are able to contribute to the important worldwide issue of global change.
NSF solicits program proposals
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation announced a deadline of August 4, 1989, for Science and Technology Research Center proposals. Letters confirming intent to submit a proposal must be received by June 1, 1989. The STC Program was established to help maintain U.S. preeeminence in science and technology and ensure a pool of experienced scientists able to meet the changing needs of science and society.Objectives of the program are to take advantage of complex areas of science and technology requiring the use of equipment and facilities that can only be provided by a campus‐based research center; to involve students, research scientists, and engineers from academia, nonprofit organizations, industry, and federal laboratories in order to enhance the training and employability of professionals; and to provide stable, long‐term funding.
Clean Coal Draft for public comment
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Department of Energy is asking the public to comment on the draft environmental impact statement for 22 clean coal technologies, from precombustion cleaning techniques to coal gasification and fuel cell systems. Incentives to promote use of these new methods for burning coal are included in President George Bush's proposed revisions to the Clean Air Act.The draft is based on a computer model developed at Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, and run at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee. The model estimates the amounts of reduction by 2010 in national emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide that use of the new technologies could achieve. It also compares the amounts and kinds of solid waste produced by clean coal technologies to the solid waste of power‐production technologies in use today.
Smithsonian grants
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Research fellowships for 1990–1991 have been announced for independent research in residence at Smithsonian Institution facilities. The grants range from $3000 to $25,000 depending on circumstances.In Earth sciences, proposals can be made in meteoritics, mineralogy, paleobiology, petrology, planetary geology, sedimentology, and volcanology. In biological sciences, fields available are animal behavior and pathology, ecology, environmental studies, evolutionary biology, marine biology, natural history, paleobiology, systematics, and tropical biology.
Salute to Dr. Virgil A. Frizzell, Jr., American Geophysical Union congressional science fellow
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Mr. Mineta Mr. Speaker, for the last year it has been my privilege to work with Dr. Virgil Allen Frizzell, Jr., the 13th congressional science fellow representing the American Geophysical Union.Dr. Frizzell came to Congress under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship Program. Dr. Frizzell sought his 1‐year fellowship in the House of Representatives because, in his words:Earth scientists generate data that reflect on many Important Issues. We need to learn to communicate and interpret scientific findings better if we are to help legislators make better decisions concerning those issues.
How much deforestation?
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The space agencies of Brazil, the United States, and Europe will work together to determine the extent of global tropical deforestation from satellite imagery and ground observations.The program, conducted as part of activities leading up to the International Space Year in 1992, was undertaken in part to resolve large differences in estimates of recent deforestation in Amazonia by scientists at INPE, Brazil's space agency, and NASA.
Regional aquifer systems
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The fifth in the American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Monograph series “Regional Aquifer Systems of the United States” has just been published as Monograph Series No. 13, “Aquifers of the Midwestern Area,” edited by L. A. Swain and A. Ivan Johnson. The 238‐page publication is available for $18 to AWRA members and $21 for nonmembers.Each AWRA Annual Conference since 1985 has sponsored special seminars describing hydrologic, geochemical, and geologic characteristics of the Regional Aquifer System Analysis (RASA) studies carried out by the U.S. Geological Survey
Geosphere–Biosphere interaction
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The International Association of Hydrological Sciences, in cooperation with the International Institute for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, has just released Monograph 1, Hydrological Phenomena in Geosphere‐Biosphere Interactions: Outlooks to Past, Present, and Future, by Malin Falkenmark.This first volume in the new IAHS series of monographs provides an overview of the present geosphere‐biosphere system, its global patterns, the phenomena of human relevance, and summarizes past trends and changes experienced in hydrological elements and phenomena. The monograph closes with a discussion of the crucial role of hydrological research within the International Geosphere‐Biosphere Program. The monograph sells for $15.
US‐USSR Ocean Research Pact
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The United States and the Soviet Union have agreed to sign a pact that should lead to extensive cooperation in oceanography as well as the protection of intellectual property rights related to the joint research.Under the plan port facilities in each country will be made available to ships involved in joint research. Some planned projects include studies of southern ocean dynamics, mid‐Atlantic Ridge processes, geochemistry of north Pacific sediments, and Arctic erosional processes.