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Author's Reply [to “Comment on “Air pollution: Our ecological alarm and blessing in disguise” by Hugh W. Ellsaesser” Air Pollution Signals]
Authors: Ellsaesser Hugh W. 
Published: April 2012

S.L. Dingman's quote, by deletion of the italicized words, has changed the thrust of the following statement by Lave and Seskin: ‘Thus, we conclude that an objective observer would have to agree that there is an important association between air pollution and various morbidity and mortality rates.’Lave and Seskin set out to quantify, (in dollars) the effect of air pollution on human health. They could hardly have reached this goal without having first concluded that a health effect did indeed exist. Since they both reviewed the literature in considerable detail and needed the existence statement to reach their goal, I believe that it is highly significant that they chose to protect themselves with a caveat rather than to make the stronger statement attributed to them by Dingman. This belief is fortified by their careful delineation of the pitfalls and weaknesses in the literature on health effects both in their introductory sections and in the one specifically entitled ‘Some Caveats.’
NOAA announces plan to monitor climatic change
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

A program designed to take another step toward description of human effects upon weather and climate—and ultimately to learn whether man is inducing serious climatic change—has been announced by Robert M. White, Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The climate of the earth is constantly but slowly varying. In the past, only nature produced the changes; now there is concern that man's activities may also play a role.Under the program, NOAA will seek to learn, for example, whether carbon dioxide in the air is increasing sufficiently to enhance the ‘greenhouse effect’ on the planet and cause an over‐all warming of the earth, or whether particulate pollution could cool the atmosphere.
New oceanic research projects
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

Fifteen oceanic research projects aimed at improving marine environmental prediction and at expanding knowledge of the seabed and its resources are being financed by a $3.35 million grant from the National Science Foundation.The projects, to be conducted by a number of units of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), are part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE).
NSF Program for Research Applied to National Needs
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

The National Science Foundation can play a crucial role as a ‘pilot plant’ in the application of science to solutions of important problems of our society, according to Raymond L. Bisplinghoff, NSF Deputy Director.Among the objectives of the program of Research Applied to National Needs (RANN) cited by Bisplinghoff in testimony. before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development, Committee on Science and Astronautics, House of Representatives are:Advanced Technology Applications. Projects will seek to develop and apply advanced technology relating to energy resources, earthquake engineering, fire research, enzyme technology, urban engineering problems, particle accelerator applications, and technology for rapid excavation and tunneling.
NSF funds National Earthquake Engineering Information Center
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

A National Information Center for Earthquake Engineering to provide professional structural engineers and designers with information necessary for the design and construction of safer and more durable buildings, bridges, and other stnictures, will be established in California.According to an NSF official, the primary goal of the center will be to fill the gap that often exists between research results and the practical problems of the engineer and designer. The center will gather all known research information about earthquake engineering, organize and atsess it, and disseminate it to users who will apply the knowledge to practical problems.
General circulation of the atmosphere
Authors: Manabe Syukuro 
Published: April 2012

Extensive processing of aerologic data has been made by using high‐speed electronic computers. They have yielded better descriptions of the global distributions of various quantities such as wind, temperature, and, particularly, the meridional circulation.Taljaard et al. [1969] extended the analysis of the northern hemisphere by Crutcher [e.g., Crutcher and Meserve, 1970] to the southern hemisphere and obtained the monthly mean fields of geopotential height, temperature, and dew point by compiling the massive observational data. These results have been published in convenient map form and are also available on magnetic tape.
World's hydrologic cycle modeled by NOAA scientists
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

NOAA meteorologists have put mathematical equations to work in a computer and successfully simulated many of the major features of the world's hydrologic cycle.Starting only with equations describing atmospheric motions, the locations and heights of the continents, and sea‐surface temperatures, the computer correctly located rainbelts in the tropics, areas of desert such as the Sahara and western Australia, and the watersheds of some of the world's major rivers, such as the Amazon in South America, the Congo and Nile in Africa, and the Mississippi.
NSF expands Tundra research
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

More than 90 scientists from 32 institutions will participate in an expanded ecological research program in tundra areas of the United States. Alaska, in particular, will be studied, according to William D. McElroy, Director of the National Science Foundation.The investigations will range from studies of bacteria in the soil to bird and mammal populations on Alaska's North Slope, and from nutrient content of lakes and ponds to analysis of the atmosphere. Geographically, scientists will conduct research from inside the Arctic Circle at Barrow, Alaska, south to the mountains of Colorado.
Satellite could speed water data transmission
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

The U.S. Geological Survey has announced a plan to relay streamflow, water quality, and groundwater level data from monitoring stations to a central records center via an earth‐orbiting satellite.In an address in May before the International Workshop on Earth Resources Survey Systems at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Richard W. Paulson, of the USGS water resources division office, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, described an experiment involving 20 hydrologic stations in the Delaware River basin where radio‐telemetered data would be picked up and relayed by NASA's first experimental earth resources technological satellite, ERTS‐A, planned for launching early next year.
Natural Resources Information System
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

The Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Program of the Department of the Interior is contracting for the design and operational demonstration of a Natural Resources Information System (NARIS). The contract will be administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Land Management.The EROS Program, directed by USGS Director W.T. Pecora, is supporting a continuing effort to apply the latest aerospace technologies to problems of managing the vast resources that are the responsibility of the federal government. The program is conducted in cooperation with NASA.
Mineral engineering specialization to be offered at University of Missouri‐Rolla
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

A specialization within the established graduate program in the Mining, Petroleum, and Geological Engineering Department will be offered at the University of Missouri‐Rolla starting in the fall. Designed to emphasize the prevention and control of water pollution, it will prepare mineral engineering personnel to plan, develop, and manage environmental protection and control programs of the mining and petroleum industries.According to Don L. Warner, Director of the mineral industries' environmental program within the department, this specialization has been developed to fill the need for mining, petroleum, and geological engineers to guide the environmental work of mining and oil companies and state and federal regulatory agencies. ‘The program,’ he says, ‘is the first of its type in the nation.’
Notes and commentary
Authors: Downs C. E. 
Published: April 2012

The eighth annual Lake Superior Biological Conference will be held October 8 and 9, 1971, on the campus of Michigan Technological University at Houghton, Michigan.The Conferences originated at Michigan Tech in 1964 as a means of bringing together biologists of the Lake Superior region for an exchange of information on both formal and informal bases. A principal area of interest at the meetings is the ecology of the region.
Books
Authors: Heindl L. A. , Tolson Jan , Downs C. E. 
Published: April 2012

The Physical Environment of Saskatoon, Canada was edited by E. A. Christiansen of the Saskatchewan Research Council in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada. It is NRC publication no. 11378 (1970), contains 68 pages, and sells for $15.This report, according to its own Foreword, is a pioneer example of what can be done in bringing together the ‘essential information of the region’ surrounding a city. It is also an example of expanded ‘urban geology’ prepared as a ‘cooperative study…by a group of local experts…’ As additional information becomes available, the Foreword continues, ‘the accuracy of the over‐all picture presented in this volume will be increased; some corrections might even be necessary. It is essential that all studies of urban and regional geology be regarded as continuing operations, not to be terminated by the publication of even so comprehensive a volume as this.’
Foreign reports available on loan
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

Australian Water Resources Council, Water Resources Newsletter No. 15, December 1970.The Australian Water Resources Council Water Resources Newletter, No. 15, December 1970, contains an account of the activities of the A.W.R.C. and its Committees and Panels as well as new developments in Australian Water Resources activities. This 93‐page newsletter contains major sections on the following topics: Current Activities of the A.W.R.C.; Water Resources Surveys, Measurements, Computations and Analytical Results; Water Resources Development and Management; Environmental and Water Quality Management; Desalination; Water Research; and International Activities, including meetings, conferences, symposia. Also included is a section on legislation, books, and publications.
Magnetosphere
Authors: Brice Neil M. 
Published: April 2012

This report on progress in the magnetosphere covers the calendar years 1967–1970 inclusive. Bibliographical coverage is also for the period 1967–1970: therefore, results presented at conferences but not yet available in published form may be cited.The topic of the magnetosphere has been divided into five sections: magnetopause; magnetosphere structure, tail, and plasma sheet; convection and the plasmapause; storms and substorms; and ring current and energetic particles. These divisions have some overlap and are somewhat arbitrary, but they form a convenient framework for dividing up the new theory and observations. Substantial progress has been made in both theoretical and experimental work and in development of new technology. It is now possible to measure all the parameters (electric and magnetic fields and particles in all energy ranges) known or believed to be important in the physics of the magnetosphere.
Notre Dame scientists study lake pollution
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

Scientists and engineers at the University of Notre Dame will test and evaluate possible methods of reducing pollution in Stone Lake, near Cassopolis, Michigan, under a $46,335 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.Mark W. Tenney, Associate Professor of civil engineering, explained that a group of five researchers has been studying Stone Lake since 1966, when the nearby town removed a sewage plant that polluted the lake. The team found that the small lake, which has no distinct inflows other than rainfall and runoff and no outflow but seepage, has not improved in the five years since the plant was removed.
NOAA Awards $36,500 for Pacific Sea Grant Advisory Program
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

A Sea Grant award of $36,500 will support a Pacific Sea Grant Advisory Program (PASGAP). The regional program is being established because many users of marine resources do not confine their efforts within the boundaries or off the shores of a single state.The NOAA grant was made to Oregon State University, Corvallis, which will act as administrator for the seven participants—the University of Alaska, University of British Columbia, University of California, University of Hawaii, University of Washington, and National Marine Fisheries Service.
Working Symposium on Sea‐Air Chemistry
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

A Working Symposium on Sea‐Air Chemistry will be held at Schraft's Motor Inn, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January 31–February 2, 1972. The symposium is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. It will concentrate on nongaseous chemical transport from the ocean to the atmosphere and will be especially concerned with fractionation of various chemical species during the bubble breading process at the sea‐air interface.The symposium will be composed of several invited papers, and a limited number of contributed papers will be accepted on such subjects as: bubbles as a sea‐to‐air transport mechanism; chemistry of organic surfaceactive material in sea water; surface structure of water; chemical fractionation mechanisms at the sea‐air interface; chemistry of marine aerosols; and use of ion fractionation data in meteorology.
Projections for manpower needs for pollution control are tenuous
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

A report to be issued at the end of the summer by the Air Pollution Control Administration of the Environmental Protection Agency will highlight the tenuous nature of projections of national manpower needs in the pollution control field.Only a year ago, the agency predicted manpower requirements by 1974 of 8000–9000 workers in air pollution work, an increase of some 300% over 1969 levels. These predictions, made at congressional hearings, were termed ‘conservative’ at the time and were expected to be revised upward.
EPA supports research in plastics recovery methods
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

The possibility of recovering and recycling an increasingly large fraction of plastics in municipal solid waste without having to separate them by their chemical types is the goal of a planned three‐year research project underway at the University of Texas in Austin.Funded by a $62,142 research grant from the Office of Solid Waste Management Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, the project will seek to develop a method of solving the crucial problem of recovering, from a common source, three major polymers that are chemically incompatible with each other: polyethelene, polystyrene, and polyvinyl.
Corrections [to: AGU May and July Issues]
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

In the May issue of Eos, AGU section […] The sentence should read: "It was a special pleasure to welcome a foreign visitor, Yee Chang Wang, from the National Taiwan University."In the July issue of the AGU section a line was omitted from Bowie Medalist Inge Lehmann's Acceptance and Response. […] It should read: "At this meeting the European Seismological Federation was founded, a society of which you probably never heard before, and I was made its President."[A correction is also made to the July AGU section in "Post‐deadline Abstracts, SA63a."]
Oceanographic Office publishes reports on surveying with satellites and submersibles
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

The U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office has published two special reports outlining the tools and techniques for surveying the world's oceans from two divergent vantage points—outer space or the ocean depths.The publications are Microwave Observations of the Ocean Surface, SP‐152 (292 pp.), prepared by the office's Spacecraft Oceanography Project, and Manned Submersibles and Underwater Surveying, SP‐153 (156 pp.), authored by scientific personnel in the office's Deep Vehicles Branch.
Joint Commerce‐HUD Earthquake Research Project announced
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

A research project to reduce earthquake hazards through improved land use and building codes and to provide information for improving insurance programs will be undertaken by the Department of Commerce and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.To start the project, HUD will provide $155,000 to NOAA for the eighteen‐month study. NOAA conducts a broad program of studies related to earthquake hazard reduction and has developed strong working ties with the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. EERI, a non‐profit corporation established in the public interest, consists of experts in all aspects of earthquake engineering. A significant aspect of the agreement is that NOAA will be able to call upon the capability in earthquake engineering of the EERI. Also participating will be the National Bureau of Standards and the U.S. Geological Survey.
Symposium on Environmental Assessment of Resource Development Project
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

The Institute for Technology and Society at Sacramento State College held a symposium on the preparation of Environmental Assessment Statements on June 14 and 15, 1971. The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970 both require that the environmental impact of major governmental actions be analyzed and considered before public funding of projects is approved.To comply with this requirement for Environmental Assessment Statements, agencies must determine the scope and depth of the statement. Questions confronting agencies include what is the impact of a project on water quality, runoff, wildlife, air quality, noise levels, waste disposal practices, land use, urbanization, agriculture, health, well‐being, employment, and the economy of a region. The symposium was conceived to provide an opportunity for interested persons, agencies, and educational institutions to meet and express their concepts of what should be contained in and accomplished by Environmental Assessment Statements.
New products
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

Soiltest, Inc., has developed an inexpensive and compact MD‐5 Engineering Seismograph. It can be used by one or two operators to determine depth and classification of subsurface materials.The battery‐powered, all solid‐state instrument weighs only 10 lbs. and measures 11 in.×5 in.×10 in. Power supply is a 6‐volt battery, rechargeable by a built‐in charger or external AC or DC source.
Geophysicists
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

Soiltest, Inc., has developed an inexpensive and compact MD‐5 Engineering Seismograph. It can be used by one or two operators to determine depth and classification of subsurface materials.The battery‐powered, all solid‐state instrument weighs only 10 lbs. and measures 11 in.×5 in.×10 in. Power supply is a 6‐volt battery, rechargeable by a built‐in charger or external AC or DC source.
World's wobble to be watched
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

Scientists from several countries will begin a special satellite observation program next month to determine how much the earth wobbles as it spins in space.George Weiffenbach, head of Geoastronomy Programs for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has announced that his organization would coordinate a fourteen‐month effort to measure the Chandler Wobble. Weiffenbach said the Earth‐Physics Satellite Observation Campaign (EPSOC) would use precise laser observations of orbiting satellites as the basis for observing the irregular motions in the rotation of the earth.
Space facility to include “down‐to‐Earth” study site
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

The U.S. Geological Survey has announced the establishment of a hydrologic science center at a NASA test facility in southwestern Mississippi.According to a joint NASA‐USGS agreement, a Gulf Coast Hydroscience Center will be set up at NASA's Mississippi Test Facility (MTF), about 50 miles northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. The 13,428‐acre test area was used by NASA to test stages of the Saturn V rocket used in the Apollo program. Beginning in 1973 at MTF, NASA plans to test fire rocket engines to power the Space Shuttle.
Eastern Mexico sliding slowly into Gulf
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

The eastern part of Mexico has been sliding slowly into the Gulf of Mexico during the past two million years, according to scientists of the U.S. Geological Survey.The large, slow, landslide‐like phenomenon, which poses no real danger to life or property, involves a huge slab of the earth's crust comprising about 75,000 square miles east of the Sierra Madre Oriental, extending from just below the Texas border to south of Mexico City.
Scientists study data from transatlantic geotraverse
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

Information from the first complete geophysical investigation of the sea floor across an entire ocean is being analyzed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.According to the project's chief scientist, Peter A. Rona, analyses now under way are expected to turn up information toward: a more thorough and valuable understanding of past and present movements of the continents and rifting of the sea floor; an assessment of oil and mineral deposits in the deep ocean; the employment of the theories of sea‐floor spreading and plate tectonics; and a better understanding of earthquake mechanisms.
Coastal Upwelling Experiment
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

The International Decade for Ocean Exploration (IDOE) program of the National Science Foundation has funded a major field program to study coastal upwelling off the coast of Oregon during the summer of 1972.The Coastal Upwelling Experiment (CUE) is an intensive detailed field experiment designed in close coordination with numerical models and theoretical hypotheses, to study the physical dynamics of coastal upwelling. The objective of CUE is to obtain an understanding of the time and space scales of the coastal upwelling phenomenon and the ability to estimate the three‐dimensional velocity and distribution of properties. This is viewed as a first step toward attaining the capability to predict the complex integrated processes (biological and physical) in upwelling ecosystems.
Pollution solution ads
Authors: Adler Cyrus 
Published: April 2012

On Page 656 of the September issue of EOS there appeared a column of wastepaper in the form of an ad by the Advertising Council. The ad suggests that readers write for a booklet on ‘71 Things You Can Do to Stop Pollution.’The Council has circulated other ads with the engaging theme ‘People Start Pollution. People Can Stop It.’ On the surface, this thesis is logically impossible to refute. But what the Council does not do—and understandably so—is to suggest that people can only significantly reduce pollution by changing their life styles and consuming habits.