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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).
[Reply to “Space Station?” by L. H. Meredith] Way station
Authors: Warner Jeffrey L. 
Published: October 2011

I agree with Les Meredith's statement of valid and nonvalid objectives for the space station. The problem with the space station that NASA is proposing is that it is designed to a nonvalid objective, specifically microgravity experimentation. I would support a space station that addressed the valid objective of a way station, but I cannot support NASA's current design.Meredith states that the space station can only be justified as a political action by the United States to reassert its preeminence in space. Meredith lists a valid objective of creating a permanent manned presence to provide a “way station” for future Earth orbital activities and Solar System exploration. Meredith further argues that two other classes of space station objectives, namely a microgravity research and manufacturing facility and an Earth and astronomical remote sensing platform, are not valid because those activities can be better carried out by non‐space station means.
1988–1989 Fulbright Grants still available
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) has announced that some 1988–1989 Fulbright Grants are still available to U.S. faculty in the field of geology. Specific openings are available in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Mauritius, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia; in addition, other countries are open to applications.Scholars of all academic ranks are eligible to apply. Applicants are expected to have a Ph.D., college or university teaching experience, and evidence of scholarly productivity. U.S. citizenship is required.
IUGS Group gathers geodata
Authors: Maggs William Ward 
Published: October 2011

An international group of scientists organized under the aegis of the International Union of Geological Science (IUGS) will try to inventory existing geoscience data bases around the world and test the waters for a new information service based on ongoing research.The IUGS Joint Working Group, composed of geologists and information scientists from Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, France, Italy, and the United States, met September 14–16, 1987, in Vienna, Austria. The group put together a questionnaire to help determine the extent and distribution worldwide of factual and bibliographic information in the geosciences. Ghassan Rassam, group member and AGU Director of Public Information and Marketing, said, “Our intent is to increase the availability of scientific information to earth scientists, and to decrease the redundancy of different data bases now in place.”
Daniel A. Valencio 1928”1987
Authors: Schneider Otto 
Published: October 2011

Daniel A. Valencio, Professor of Geophysics at Buenos Aires University, died on May 28, 1987, shortly before his 59th birthday. A pioneer of paleomagnetism and tectonophysics in Latin America, Valencio was an outstanding teacher and investigator in these disciplines.His original employment as an exploration geophysicist in Argentina and Cuba led him to become interested in solid Earth sciences in general in the 1960s. At that time, he laid the foundations of the Laboratory of Paleomagnetism at the Departamento de Ciencias Geologicas of Buenos Aires University. This facility has become a very active center of research and teaching, with emphasis on an interdisciplinary approach that includes the participation of an important group of pupils.
Groundwater recharge process in an arid environment
Authors: Buros Nathan 
Published: October 2011

A workshop on this topic was held at the University of Arizona in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, February 23–27, 1987. The workshop was cosponsored by the University of Arizona and the U.S.‐Israel Binational Science Foundation, with the support of a number of engineering consulting firms located in Arizona.A broad range of issues was discussed during the workshop. The first day of the meeting was devoted to a discussion of concepts and mechanisms of water transport from the land surface to the water table. The topics discussed ranged from infiltration of run off into ephemeral stream channels to gas movement and vapor transport in the unsaturatedzone.
Flow and transport in the natural environment
Authors: Steffen W. L. 
Published: October 2011

An international symposium on flow and transport in the natural environment was held in early September in Canberra. The meeting, sponsored by the Australian Academy o f Science and hosted by the Division of Environmental Mechanics to mark the official opening of Stage 2 of its laboratory, attracted over 100 scientists representing 10 countries.The symposium, organized around flow and transport processes in soil, plants, and the lower layers of the atmosphere, identified and discussed areas where significant advances have taken place over the past 20 years. In addition, it pointed to gaps and weaknesses in present‐day understanding. A quarter of the meeting was devoted to closely related transport processes arising in industrial applications.
New AGU panels
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Both the 1987 and 1988 AGU Plans adopted by the Council have included initiation of activities to influence public policy and decision making on subjects that are important to advance geophysics. Three panels to formulate Union positions for Council approval have been appointed by the President. These have been announced in previous issues of Eos:

Earmarking and Fencing: December 8, 1987, p. 1647
Geomagnetic Observatories: December 22, 1987, p. 1793
Planet Earth Initiative: December 22, 1987, p. 1793
So that the positions established represent the broadest concensus, it is important that AGU members' views on these issues be communicated to section officers, panel members, or to the full membership through letters to the Eos Editor in Chief.
In Memoriam
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

William H. Beatty III, a member of the AGU Ocean Sciences Section since 1973, died at 41 in June 1987.Noye Johnson, a Dartmouth geology professor and pioneer in the study of acid rain, died on December 27, 1987, in Hanover, N.H. He had been a member of AGU since 1963.
Fulbright Awards for 1989”1990 open
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

More than 1000 Fulbright Fellowships will be awarded for study by U.S. citizens around the world in 1989–1990, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) announced January 29, 1988.The grants are given for research and university‐based lecturing in a wide variety of disciplines and to scholars of all kinds, including retired faculty and independent researchers. The basic requirements are a Ph.D. or similar credentials, university or college teaching experience, and, if necessary, foreign language proficiency.
Along the waterfront
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

James W. Mercer, of GeoTrans, Inc. (Herndon, Va.), will present the 26th Henry W. Shaw Lecture in Civil Engineering on April 15, 1988, at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. The title of his talk will be “Use of Groundwater Models: The Settlement Process at the Chem‐Dyne Hazardous Waste Site.”The National Water Well Association's Special Recognition Award was presented to AGU member Fletcher G. Driscoll of White Bear Lake, Minn.
Groundwater hydrology training offered
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio) is once again offering its unique training course, known as the Interactive Remote Instructional System (IRIS) Ground Water Hydrology Program. The course schedule enables the participants to continue in their present jobs while learning basic principles and contemporary trends.A special instructional feature of the program is that a personal tutor is assigned to each participant, and contact is maintained through correspondence by mail and by telephone via a WATS line. Exercises are graded by the tutors, who include written comments and suggestions.
NSF announces Minority Fellows
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 75 Minority Graduate Fellowships for 1988. Two of the awards are for study in geoscience fields, one in geophysics and the other in meteorology.Nearly 740 Black, Native American, Pacific Islander, and Hispanic students applied for the fellowships, which are based on merit. Honorable Mention went to 214. Twenty more minority students received awards for next year than in 1987, part of an NSF plan to double the number of the fellowships over several years.
January and February streamflow
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

With 72% of the 191 stations in the United States, southern Canada, and Puerto Rico reporting streamflow in the normal to above normal range, 1988 had the second‐lowest streamflow for a January in the last 6 years, U.S. Geological Survey hydrologists report. In December 1987, 75% of the stations had reported flows in the normal to above normal range, and 75% of reportin g reservoirs had contents near or above average. In January 1988, 74% of the reservoirs had contents in that range.The Pacific northwest continued to experience below‐normal streamflow conditions and to have l ow reservoir contents, while the southern Great Plains of Kansas, Oklahoma, and contiguous states had persistently high streamflow. The combined flow of the Mississippi, the St. Lawrence, and the Columbia rivers (the three largest rivers in the contiguous United States) rose 51% from December to January to reach an average of 1,214,800 cubic feet per second (cfs), which is 22% above median.
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 Benefactors, Sustaining, and Life Supporting Members pay no further dues.
Polar glaciology proposals sought
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Polar Glaciology Program of the National Science Foundation is inviting proposals of projects related to the second Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP 2). GISP 2 is concerned with the ice core record of global environmental conditions over the last several hundred thousand years. Funding for the project is due to begin in fiscal year 1989.The deadline for proposal submission is September 1, 1988. For further information, contact Herman Zimmerman, Polar Science Section, Division of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC 20550; telephone: 202‐357‐7894.
AWG Foundation to give new award
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Association for Women Geoscientists Foundation will give its first Outstanding Educator Award at the Geological Society of America meeting in November in Denver, Colo., and is asking for nominations. The award was established to honor college and university teachers who have demonstrated support for their women students.Nominees must teach at institutions that grant undergraduate or advanced degrees in Earth science fields. Support for women students can take many forms, for example, appointing them to committees, recommending them for employment, nominating them for awards, encouraging them to explore career options, and sustaining them while they finish academic work.
Geophysics in the public eye
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Papers given at the 1988 AGU Spring Meeting continue to make news. Representatives from 12 magazines, 5 newspapers, 2 wire services, and a TV station used the press room and attended the 6 news conferences. The journalists were attracted to the meeting, held May 16–20 in Baltimore, Md., by 6 press releases mailed out by the AGU public information staff in the 2 months before the meeting. Correspondents from as far as Sweden and Japan joined U.S. reporters from San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.A count of clippings received by June 6 shows that by May 17, the second day of the meeting, newspapers in 36 states had published articles; that translates to a potential readership of 5 million. News clippings are still arriving, so figures are preliminary.
NSF seeks nominations for Waterman Award
Authors: Wainger Lisa A. 
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation is asking for nominations for the 14th annual Alan T.Waterman Award. The award recognizes outstanding work by a young researcher in any field of science, mathematics, or engineering and is designed to encourage further highquality research.The award was established in 1975 to mark the 25th anniversary of NSF and to honor Waterman, the first director of the Foundation. The recipient of the award receives as much as $500,000 for up to 3 years of research or advanced study in mathematical, physical, medical, biological, engineering, social, or other sciences at the institution of the recipient's choice.
Job center
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

To better meet the needs of AGU members, a program has been started to increase the effectiveness of the Job Center activity at the Spring and Fall Meetings. As a result, participation in the Job Center at the 1988 AGU Spring Meeting in Baltimore increased substantially compared to previous Spring Meetings. The number of employers, applicants, and interviews scheduled more than doubled compared to the 1987 Spring Job Center.In order to make the meeting Job Centers even better, a survey is being conducted of employers and applicants who participated in the 1988 Spring Job Center. Evaluation of this survey will be useful in continuing increased participation in and the effectiveness of the Job Center at the 1988 Fall Meeting. Past participants and those interested in the future of the Job Center are encouraged to forward comments and suggestions to AGU, Member Programs Division, 2000 Florida Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20009.
NRC to award 100 Fellowships to Minorities
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Research Council will administer about 100 predoctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowships for the Ford Foundation minorities program in 1989. The awards will go to Native American Indians, Alaskan Natives, Black Americans, Mexican Americans and Chicanos, Native Pacific islanders, and Puerto Ricans.The fellowships will be given in engineering, mathematics, and the humanities and behavioral, social, physical, and biological sciences. No grants will be given in professional fields such as business administration and management, education, or health sciences or to students planning a terminal masters degree. Only U.S. citizens and nationals are eligible.
NSF deadlines
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation has set key deadline dates for grants and proposals due for the next several months. Dates given below are subject to change; more information may be obtained by contacting the NSF staff member listed.The program deadline date means that proposals received after this cutoff date generally will be returned to the proposer. The target date means that proposals received after this cutoff date will be reviewed, although they may miss a particular panel meeting.
NFS gives Career Awards to Women
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Five geophysicists are among 38 women who received a total of $1.64 million in Career Advancement Awards in November from the National Science Foundation through its Research Opportunities for Women (ROW) initiative. Individual awards are as large as $60,000 and give recipients opportunities to work with other investigators and develop new lines of research.Patricia M. Costanzo of the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, is studying dehydrated kaolinites. At the University of Alaska's Institute of Geophysics, Joan P. Gosink is applying remote sensing to snow, ice and permafrost research. Mary Kraus of the University of Colorado, Boulder, is combining field studies and remote sensing to work out the depositional history of the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming. The research of Cecile Penland of the University of California, Los Angeles, is on variability in northern hemisphere geopotential heights. Judith B. Weinstein‐Lloyd of SUNY College at Old Westbury is studying the chemistry of hydrogen peroxide in cloudwater.
Reply [to “On mantle carbon flux calculated”]
Authors: Des Marais David J. 
Published: October 2011

I will address Marty's concern about priority in the publication of 3He‐based estimates for the flux and isotopic composition of mantle carbon (“Who published what, and when?”). I will also discuss our views on the history of mantle/crust exchange.Our analyses of MORB carbon occurred from 1980 to 1986, in collaboration with H. Sakai, J.G. Moore and J. Delaney, and J. Blank. We reported that a 13C‐depleted component, released by combustion below 500°C, had been added to the samples after their eruption [Des Marais et al., 1983; Des Marais and Moore, 1984; Sakai et al., 1984]. Essentially all of the carbon released above 500°C derived from the original magma and was isotopically similar, both to the value measured earlier for CO2 in MORB vesicles [Pineau et al., 1976; Moore et al., 1977], and also to the average value for the crust. While isotopic comparisons between mantle and crust have indeed “focused the attention of many workers, starting in the 1950s,” the early estimates of mantle carbon were either based on unusual minerals or rocks (e.g. diamonds or carbonatites) whose isotopic composition could not be proved to represent the average upper mantle value, or they were based on analyses that implied (incorrectly) that basalts contain two major, magma‐derived, isotopically distinct carbon components ( −4 to −9 permil, and −20 to −30 permil). Because midocean ridge (MOR) volcanism provides most of the mantle carbon flux, it offers the most representative sample of the upper mantle. Our work, together with H. Craig's measurements of MOR hydrothermal fluids, first showed that carbon isotope discrimination during eruption was less than a few permil, and that, at several ridge sites, the indigenous carbon (not only in MORB vesicles but also in MORB glass) was isotopically quite similar to that of the crustal carbon reservoir.
NASA graduate student grants
Authors: Mellott Mary , Parks George 
Published: October 2011

The National Aeronautics Space Administration will award about 80 grants under its Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP). The $12,000 fellowships are given for a year and may be renewed; up to $6000 may be given for tuition and travel costs. Students can apply as undergraduates or graduates and must be U.S. citizens. Application deadline for 1989–1990 is February 1.NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications sponsors about half the fellowships; the other 40 are distributed through NASA field centers. OSSA awards are in astrophysics, Earth science, life sciences, microgravity science, Solar System exploration, and space physics. OSSA fellows work at their home universities. Fellows selected by centers spend some time in residence, to use unique research facilities and work with center staff.
Planetary materials proposals
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is soliciting research proposals for the Planetary Materials and Geochemistry Program. The program supports scientific investigations that involve laboratory studies of extraterrestrial materials or are aimed at understanding the geochemical nature of the Moon, planets, other satellites, and small bodies of the Solar System. More general studies about the formation and chemical development of the Solar System are also encouraged.Examples of such work include studies of Solar System formation, chemical differentiation of planetary bodies, and processes necessary to understanding planetary data. Special consideration will be given proposals for lunar sample research, Antarctic meteorite collection, cosmic dust collection, and programrelevant terrestrial research.
Important caves to be identified
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Criteria to identify significant caves on federal land are being developed by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management and the Agriculture Department's Forest Service under requirements of the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1988. The departments gave advance notice of proposed rulemaking March 3 and invited suggestions and comments from the public for 30 days.The law requires protection, to the extent practical, of significant caves on lands administered by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior and includes authority to issue and revoke permits for collection and removal of cave resources and special provisions for regulation of cave resources on Indian lands. Final regulations must be published by August 18, 1989.
Group for frozen soil and rock
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The American Society for Testing and Materials wants participants for D18.19, its new subcommittee on frozen soil and rock. The group will write standards for engineering practices in northern Canada, Alaska, and other areas where soil and rock are commonly in the frozen or recently thawed state. Three standards are currently under development: axial compressive load tests o n piles in frozen soils, laboratory rate of frost‐heave tests, and laboratory creep testing of frozen soil.The next D18.19 meeting is June 26 in St. Louis, Mo. Scientists who want to work on the subcommittee should contact Bill Lovell, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47904, tel. 317‐494‐ 5034; or Wendy Dyer, ASTM, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, tel. 215‐299‐5526.
Research awards for LTER sites
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Three geophysical studies are among 13 ecological research projects funded this year by the National Science Foundation for work at nine Long‐Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites. The awards, to individual scientists, totalled more than $450,000. LTERs offer unique natural features, secure study sites, and well‐developed data bases.At the Konza Prairie site in Kansas, Mary K. Firestone of the University of California at Berkeley will study how soil nitrogen and water cycles control production of nitrogen gas. James A. MacMahon of Utah State University will work on reconstruction of ecosystems in arid lands at the Niwot Ridge site in Colorado. In the lowland tropical streams at the Lugillo site in Puerto Rico, Catherine M. Pringle of the University of California at Santa Barbara will look for factors that control algal periphyton growth and nitrogen transformations.