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Origin of the Moon by capture and its consequences
Authors: Singer S. Fred 
Published: October 2011

I am going to discuss four topics, ranging from celestial mechanics to speculative propositions regarding the early history of the solar system: (1) A new calculation of the orbit evolution of the moon that suggests the capture of the moon as a separate body in tidal interactions with the earth; (2) The consequences of this capture on the earth itself and on its early history; (3) The consequences of the capture on the moon, its thermal history, and its surface features; and (4) Some consequences to the early history of the solar system: the existence of many moon‐like bodies in the inner part of the solar system; the angular momentum of Venus; the origin of Phobos and Deimos.Of the many proposed modes of origin of the moon, some violate physical laws; many are in conflict with observations; all are improbable. Perhaps the least improbable—based on new tidal theory calculations and on the interpretation of lunar surface material data—is capture of the moon as it passed near the earth in a direct (prograde) orbit, shortly after the formation of moon and earth, about 4.5 billion years ago. (Capture of the moon from an initially retrograde orbit that had been proposed some years ago, leads to physically unacceptable consequences.) The effects of capture on the earth would have been cataclysmic, leading to intensive heating of its interior, to volcanism, and to the immediate formation of an atmosphere and hydrosphere. Thus capture of a moon may have given rise to the unique properties of the earth (in the solar system) and to the early evolution of life, about 3.5 billion years ago.
NSF awards five Sea Grants
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A National Science Foundation grant of $385,600 to the University of Southern California will make possible the beginning of a major Sea Grant activity in that state.Four institutions that have already demonstrated capability to serve their region and the nation as major resources in marine affairs are also receiving renewal grants. They are: Oregon State University, which will receive $1.4 million, the University of Rhode Island, which was granted $.9 million, the University of Michigan, receiving $.72 million, and the University of Miami, which was allotted $.75 million.
New graduate study program at LSU
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Louisiana State University has instituted a new graduate study program leading to the degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Marine Sciences.Development of interdisciplinary studies leading to the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in marine sciences has been part of LSU's over‐all participation in the federal government's National Sea Grant College and Program Act, administered by the National Science Foundation. Designated as a ‘Coherent Project Grant,’ the Sea Grant Program is awarded by the NSF to institutions that are developing a broadly‐based program in the marine coastal sciences.
IHD Coordinating Council Sixth Session Geneva, Switzerland July 6”11, 1970
Authors: Heindl L. A. 
Published: October 2011

The Coordinating Council of the International Hydrological Decade, at its Sixth Session, accomplished its three main objectives. These were: 1. To strengthen its executive committee, the Bureau; 2. To reorganize its Working Groups and other task forces and to redefine their terms of reference; and 3. To establish a Working Group to prepare a long‐term plan of activities in international hydrology after the Decade is over.The Council met in Geneva, Switzerland, on July 6–11, 1970, at the invitation of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which has its headquarters in that city. This is the first time that the Council has met outside of Paris, and this move was a recognition of the role of international agencies in the activities of the Decade and, in particular, the role of the WMO. The meeting was held in the new WMO building, in its spacious and comfortable Executive Chamber.
Books
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Australian Water Resources Council Hydrological Series No. 2. Canberra, 1969This progress report by the Australian Water Resources Council outlines a very comprehensive and methodological approach to the selection, operation, and projected benefits of an expanded network of representative basins. The systematic steps in the development of the concept could well arouse envy in those who, by necessity, are faced with a fragmented approach.
Foreign reports available on loan
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The office of the U.S. National Committee for the IHD has limited numbers of the following reports available for short‐term loan. Libraries of university departments of hydrology and similar institutions will be given preference in filling requests.Copies of all issues of the IHD Bulletin are available on loan from the IHD office. Reprints of recent issues are available for distribution until the supply is exhausted.
Expanding the membership
Authors: Bell Peter M. 
Published: October 2011

In fulfilling its mission as a scientific society, the AGU serves scientists, engineers, and individuals with a multitude of occupations oriented toward geophysics. A broad diversity of interests is expressed in the membership, reflecting the many scientific programs encompassed by the AGU.AGU membership has grown to over 10,000, and it becomes increasingly important to guard against an unwieldy or unmanageable structure that might tend to dilute the high intellectual structural standards of the society. Members who are scientists in the many areas of geophysics and who are actively conducting research contribute in a major way to the purpose of the AGU, and therefore their needs should be served. It is also acknowledged that the interests of geophysical science are furthered if scholarly participation can be encouraged by people whose work and occupations are only marginally associated with geophysics.
The Geodynamics Project
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Some programs developed during the Upper Mantle Project, e.g., the studies of continental margins and island arcs, world rift system, and Andean geophysical program, were long‐term efforts that would certainly extend beyond the termination of the UMP. This was explicitly stated by J.M. Harrison, then President of ICSU, in his 1966 announcement of the designation of 1968–1970 as the terminal phase of the UMP.In 1968 various countries recognized the need to begin planning of a long‐range effort to follow the UMP and to capitalize on the important developments that were being called a ‘revolution in earth sciences.’ A recommendation to this effect was made in April 1968 by AGU and the Geophysics Research Board (See June 1968 Transactions, pp.448 and 502). Later in 1968, with the approval of ICSU, IUGG and IUGS formed an ad hoc committee to consider plans for a long‐range program of solid‐earth studies. On the basis of the recommendations of the ad hoc committee (See February 1970 EOS), ICSU established the Inter‐Union Commission on Geodynamics to plan and coordinate the Geodynamics Project. The Geodynamics Commission held its first meeting in Flagstaff, Arizona, in June 1970. The commission prepared the following statement of objectives of the Geodynamics Project which was approved by the ICSU General Assembly, September 1970.
U.S. Team mapping last of Antarctica's unexplored regions
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

One of the most remote coastal regions in Antarctica is now being mapped and its geology described by a team of U.S. Geological Survey engineers and scientists.The first season's exploration of a planned 3‐year project was conducted during the 3‐month period from November 1969 to February 1970 along the Lassiter Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula—that narrow finger of land jutting northward toward South America. The area explored included the Latady, Scaife, Wilkins, and Hauberg mountains, the Rare range, and parts of Wetmore glacier, an area that totals more than 6000 square miles. Aerial photographs taken of this region in 1967 were used to compile a sketch map that served as a guide to the explorers.
U.S.”Japan Cooperative Ice Study
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Ocean‐Atmosphere Research Institute, on recommendation of the United States‐Japan Committee on Scientific Cooperation has received a grant from the National Science Foundation in partial support of a study of large‐scale sea‐ice, sea temperature, and weather interrelations, and their significance for long‐range foreshadowing.A team of Japanese oceanographers and meteorologists headed by Kantaro Watanabe, Chief, Oceanographic Section, Kobe Marine Observatory, will cooperate with an American group headed by Irving I. Schell, Senior Scientist, Ocean‐Atmosphere Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Moscow geochemical congress
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

An International Geochemical Congress has been scheduled for July 20–25, 1971, in Moscow, USSR. It will be sponsored by the International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry and the USSR Academy of Sciences.The theme of the meeting is the geochemistry of processes in the earth's crust, with particular reference to their physico‐chemical aspects. The congress will be organized into sections on magmatic, hydrothermal, metamorphic, and sedimentary processes.
CIRES Visiting Fellowship Program
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) on the University of Colorado campus is intended to promote research and teaching in solid‐earth geophysics, oceanography , radio propagation, the physics of the upper and lower atmospheres, and solar terrestrial relationships, and to serve as a center for multidisciplinary collaboration of research workers from Boulder and the entire world.The permanent Fellows of CIRES are J.C. Harrison, G.C. Reid, J.R. Wait, and J.W. Warwick.
Interdisciplinary Program in Engineering Meteorology
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A Bachelor of Science degree program in general engineering, with strong curriculum support in atmospheric sciences, has been developed at the University of Oregon by John Campbell, Head of General Engineering, and Wendell Hewson, Chairman of Atmospheric Sciences. Campbell and Hewson feel that interdisciplinary curricula are a logical, approach to making university students knowledgeable in the areas of today's crucial problems. This program in engineering meteorology is designed to help prepare students to cope with problems of air pollution in our technological society.The engineering curriculum coordinates the physical and mathematical science background, the social sciences, the engineering sciences, and the senior analysis and design program. The Department of Atmospheric Sciences provides courses and counseling for the meteorological part of the program, which amounts to approximately 20% of the 204 quarter‐hour graduation requirement. This is one of the more promising of a number of interdisciplinary options offered in the General Engineering program.
NSF Grant for Ecological Studies
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to several research groups to conduct a study on the ecology of a major part of the United States. The study is aimed at bringing about better understanding of the interrelationships among air, water, and land resources.The $1.2 million grant, to be administered by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the Atomic Energy Commission, will be divided among research groups at the University of Georgia, Athens; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; the Research Triangle Group (composed of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and North Carolina State University, Raleigh); and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Investigators from many other institutions will also participate.
Water pollution control
Authors: Kostecki Donald F. 
Published: October 2011

I am writing in reference to an article by Leonard B. Dworsky in the August issue of EOS dealing with what the author feels are the necessary steps toward an effective and credible program of water pollution control.That public expectations need to be adjusted to real world solutions can hardly be denied. The general public is all too often led to believe that there is an instant solution to every problem, and many self‐appointed ‘experts’ have led the public to believe that this is also true of pollution. But even among those who realize effective pollution control requires a dedicated, continuous effort, there is room for disagreement as to the means of achieving effective control. For example, Dworsky prefaces most of what he feels are necessary actions with the phrase, ‘Congress should … ’. This preface leaves me with many reservations about both the effectiveness of the measures that need to be taken and their credibility.
Mexican and American scientists to study sea‐floor motions in Gulf of California
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Mexican and American scientists will monitor ground motion under the Gulf of California in a project aimed at learning more about sea‐floor spreading and how such movements may affect California's great San Andreas Fault.The principal investigators are Cinna Lomnitz and Frederico Mooser (University of Mexico), Clarence R. Allen (California Institute of Technology), and James N. Brune (University of California, San Diego). They and other researchers will establish an 8‐station seismological network around the gulf with funds from the National Science Foundation.
Solar eclipse
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

There will be an eclipse of the sun on Monday, July 10, 1972, with a path of totality passing from northern Alaska southeastward across Canada to Nova Scotia. Much of its path crosses sparsely inhabited parts of Canada, but the province of Prince Edward Island is directly in the path The capital city of Charlottetown is nine miles from the line and will have 128 seconds of totality (compared with a maximum of 156 seconds in the Hudson Bay area).For this reason the Department of Tourist Development of Prince Edward Island welcomes as many astronomers as possible to be present for this occasion. Plans are underway to build a planetarium on the Island tor the use of visiting scientists, which will remain as a permanent facility after the eclipse. The government of Prince Edward Island is prepared to assist in acquiring hotel reservations and generally expedite all other arrangements for visiting astronomers (although no financialassistance can be offered).
Hydrology of fractured rocks: October–November 1971
Authors: Heindl L. A. 
Published: October 2011

The recent high level of interest in the hydrology of fractured, and particularly fractured carbonate, rocks was again demonstrated at the 1971 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. A field conference, which dealt with the hydrogeology and land‐use problems in fractured carbonate rocks in south‐central Pennsylvania, was conducted on October 30–31, and a Symposium on the Hydrology of Fractured Rocks was held on November 1 in Washington, D.C.Both events were initiated by the U.S./IHD Work Group on the Hydrology of Carbonate Terranes (V.T. Stringfield, Chairman) as complementary parts of a single, over‐all presentation of current thinking in the hydrology of fractured rocks.
IFYGL
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Third Workshop on the International Field Year for the Great Lakes (IFYGL), was held at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., from January 18–21, 1972.The purpose of the Washington Workshop was twofold: (1) to assess the status of projects and scheduling in IFYGL and to evaluate the significance of any apparent problems in the program; and (2) to update and validate the 1972 Technical Plan for the data collection phase of the Field Year.
1973 USGS budget focuses on Earth science data
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

During fiscal 1973, the U.S. Geological Survey will step up efforts to acquire basic earth science knowledge needed for the wise management of land, energy, and mineral resources.V.E. McKelvey, USGS Director, said that ‘if the nation is to cope successfully with clashing resource‐environmental problems arising from the need on one hand for vast amounts of natural resources, while, at the same time, recognizing the need to avoid environmental degradation, such data are fundamental requisites.’
Symposium on the planning of water resources
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

An International Symposium on the Planning of Water Resources will be held December 4–8 , 1972, at the Seeretaria de Recursos Hidraulicos, Mexico City. The symposium is endorsed by the Ministry of Water Resources of the government of Mexico and the International Association of Hydrological Sciences.The topics of the symposium will include: present techniques used in the planning of water resources; data compilation systems and current methodologies of data analysis; methods of integrating and coordinating water resources plans with other national programs; an analysis of results contained in the planning of water resources, based on the experience of the participating countries; ecological interrelationships of water resources development and planning criteria to avert undesirable effects; uses of secondary water and augmentation through transfer, desalting, climate modification, and so forth; and formation of a world technical organization designed to encourage international collaboration through an interchange of information and experiences in water resources planning.
Symposium on remote sensing
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Fighth International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment will be held on the campus of The University of Michigan, October 2–6, 1972. The symposium is open to all who have an interest in remote sensing.Contributed papers will make up the bulk of the program, and all investigators are encouraged to submit contributions related to work planned, in progress, or completed. Although the symposium is not tutorial in nature, the presentations should be designed for maximum interest to the potential user community rather than directed soley to the remote sensing community.
Second international conference on permafrost
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Second International Conference on Permafrost will be held in Yakutsk, USSR, July 16–28, 1973.The conference program will include the following topics for the main sessions: Thermophysical fundamentals of the processes of the formation and development of the cryolithosphcre; regional geocryology; genesis, composition, and structure of permafrost and ground ice; physics, physico‐chemistry and mechanics of permafrost and ice; groundwater of the cryohthosphere; geocryological surveys and predicitons; and principles of controlling geocryological conditions during construction in areas of permafrost.
Geodetic location of acoustic ocean‐bottom transponders from surface positions
Authors: Mourad A. G. , Fubara D. M. , Ruck G. T. , Hopper A. T. 
Published: October 2011

In late 1969, Battelle Memorial Institute‐Columbus Laboratories (Battelle‐Columbus) was involved in a NASA experiment in the Bahamas, the over‐all objective of which was to determine the feasibility of using C‐band radar for ship positioning and for establishing marine geodetic control points.The use of C‐band radar for marine measurements is desirable for several reasons: (1) C‐band radar can be operated in a ranging mode by measuring distances from ship to satellites and provides a particular advantage in that errors in ship velocity are not as critical as they are with the Doppler satellite technique; (2) several ships already have C‐band radar systems on board; and (3) it provides an additional satellite system for geodetic measurements at sea.
Eighth International Conference on Nucleation
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Committee on Nucleation of the International Commission on Cloud Physics, IAMAP, will sponsor the Eighth International Conference on Nucleation to be held in Leningrad, USSR, in July 1973.The conference will be devoted mainly to mechanisms of ice nucleation. The following topics will be discussed: ice nucleation from vapor by deposition nuclei; ice nucleation of water by freezing nuclei, both by contact and immersion; homogeneous ice nucleation of supercooled water; and ice nucleation from thin water films.
Fifty‐Third Annual Meeting 1972
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Fifty‐Third Annual Meeting was held on April 17–21, 1972, at the Sheraton‐Park Hotel, in Washington, D.C. Total registration was 2384, including 1594 members, 295 student members and 495 nonmembers. This registration was just short of last year's total of 2504.During the five‐day meeting 101 invited papers and 1093 contributed papers were scheduled to be given in a total of 100 scientific sessions. This is the same total number of papers as given in 1971 and m11% fewer than the all‐time high of 1230 papers given at the Golden Anniversary Meeting in 1969. Thus it appears that the Annual Meeting has remained on a plateau that contrasts sharply with the rapid growth experienced between 1965 and 1969.
NOAA tests sounds as air pollution monitoring technique
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Scientists of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are testing a system designed for observing and forecasting air pollution conditions through the use of sound. A special instrument called an acoustic echo sounder enables them to see with unprecedented accuracy the height and undulations of the atmospheric inversion, a region of cold air topped by a warm layer that traps and concentrates pollutants.These data together with conventional meteorological methods, enables local authorities to improve their air pollution control warnings and decisions.
The President's Page: Stockholm and Sequelae
Authors: Abelson Philip A. 
Published: October 2011

Many geophysicists are professionally interested in environmental matters and hence followed the preparations for and the conduct of the Stockholm Conference. They were aware of broad international activity in advance of the conference. Some have expressed disappointment that U.S. geophysicists generally were not more broadly involved in the preparations.Published accounts of the Stockholm Conference did little to increase the prestige of the occasion. From this side of the water Stockholm seemed like a rather dull show. True there were histrionics at some of the plenary sessions, but much of the propaganda and self‐serving statements were stale or ridiculous.
New field regions announced by U.S. Geological Survey
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The U.S. Geological Survey has established, for overall administrative purposes, three regions each of which encompasses approximately onethird of the nation.The three regions, Eastern, Central, and Western, will replace the four regions previously maintained by the Geological Survey. Each of the three regions will include several of President Nixon's ten administrative regions and have common boundaries with them.