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NOAA annual grants
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Nearly $1.5 million is available from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in two annual research grant programs.The larger program makes available about $1 million to support cooperative projects between U.S. universities and developing countries. Current projects in the Sea Grant International Cooperation Assistant Program emphasize education and training in marine research and development. For more information write to Thomas Murray, Program Director, Sea Grant Office, NOAA, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
Feasibility of cogenerating power
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A 6‐month feasibility study has confirmed technical expectations for a cogenerating coal gasification power plant that could be built at NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland. The plant would use high‐sulfur coal without polluting the atmosphere and extract twice as much energy from the coal than conventional coal burning.The facility would gasify the coal to produce a clean fuel gas, burn the gas to produce electricity, and recover waste heat to produce more electricity as well as heat for the Lewis Center's 130 buildings and test facilities. Lewis estimates that the plant could be designed and built for $50 to $70 million. Pending funding, design work could begin in 1981, with the plant in operation beginning in 1984. Funding options are being explored.
NASA publishes Mars photo book
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

All but one of the four Viking spacecraft sent to explore Mars are silent now, but they have left a legacy of hundreds of remarkable photographs of the Red Planet.Some of the best of these photographs are included in a new NASA paperback publication entitled ‘Images of Mars: The Viking Extended Mission.’ Collected by Nancy Evans of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Michael H. Carrof the U.S. Geological Survey, the pictures illustrate the varied landscape of one of the earth's closest planetary neighbors.
NWS modernizing its data collection system
Authors: Bell Peter M. 
Published: October 2011

The National Weather Service (NWS) is modernizing its systems for collecting and processing the upper‐air information used to make weather predictions. The program will take 5 years and cost $6.5 million. Under the program, NWS will convert from a manual to an automatic system for entering the data collected at its 114 nationwide field stations into minicomputers for processing. Electronic systems at the field stations will be converted from vacuum tubes to solid state.The NWS field stations track weather and receive data for processing from balloon‐lofted radio devices, called radiosondes. The radiosonde consists of sensors that detect temperature, relative humidity, and pressure at altitudes of 90,000 feet or higher.
Alaska petroleum reserve data
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

New geological and geophysical data on regions of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska are available from the National Geophysical and Solar‐Terrestrial Data Center.Five data sets contain approximately 2000 line‐miles of seismic data (off‐ and onshore), palynological and micro‐paleontological analyses and reports for eight wells, velocity surveys for seven wells, and five interpretative geological and geophysical reports.
Report from IUGG Assembly: IAGA session on correlation between anomalies of potential fields
Authors: Hood P. J. 
Published: October 2011

The convener of the session was R. D. Regan of Phoenix Corporation, Mclean, Virginia, who unfortunately could not himself attend the Canberra meeting because of a schedule conflict. Accordingly he asked P. J. Hood of the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, to chair the session for him. The objective of the session was to examine the correlation between potential field anomalies, and to this end papers which dealt with the theoretical and/or practical aspects of the correlation of local, regional, and planetary gravity and magnetic field anomalies were invited.Six papers were presented during the half‐day session held on the morning of December 14, 1979. The first paper presented was a theoretical one by M. H. A. Hassan and I. A. Eltayeb. They were motivated by the suggestion that the high degree of correlation between the gravitational and magnetic potentials of the earth (such correlation being discovered by Hide and Malin via the use of harmonic analysis) may be due to the presence of small topographical irregularities on the core‐mantle interface. Accordingly, they investigated the motion of an incompressible fluid that flowed over a corrugated solid surface in the presence of a uniform poloidal magnetic field and a toroidal magnetic field which increased from zero in the solid to large values deep into the fluid. The system was rotated uniformly, and they found that the motions set up by the topography traveled deep into the fluid. The gravitational disturbances that were produced by the discontinuity in density at the fluid‐solid interface correlated with the magnetic perturbations (caused by the motion of the fluid) far into the solid. The highest degree of correlation was shown to be approximately +0.79, and this corresponded to a situation in which the magnetic potential was displaced both longitudinally and latitudinally relative to the gravitational one.
Volcanic ash effects on water quality
Authors: Shore Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

No major detectable changes in overall water quality can be attributed to the March through June eruptions of Mount St. Helens, a U.S. Geological Survey report suggests. The report is based on analyses of water samples collected from the Bull Run watershed which supplies metropolitan Portland. Better results were obtained for groundwater quality than for precipitation.To determine whether ashfall changed groundwater, hydrologists in Oregon's water resources program analyzed 25 water samples collected at different times from three streams in the watershed. Temperature, pH, specific hardness, and concentration of dissolved salts and minerals were measured. ‘Our findings show no significant changes in water quality as a result of ashfall,’ says S.F. Kapustka, program district chief.
More thorium reserves
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

An additional 30,100 tons of thorium reserves and 23,200 more tons of probable resources of. the radioactive element thorium occur in the United States, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report. The report updates last year's initial and partial resource assessment.The USGS and the Bureau of Mines estimated last year that the principal known deposits contain 693,000 tons of thorium and that an additional 2.2 million tons occur in disseminated deposits. With the new report's findings, the total of thorium reserves equals at least 2.94 million tons.
1980 Midwest Meeting
Authors: McGinnis L. D. 
Published: October 2011

The sixth annual Midwest AGU Meeting was held at Holmes Center, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, on September 18 and 19,1980. Over 200 registrants presented 95 papers in 12 sessions: Isotope Studies of Hydrologic Processes, chaired by E. C. Perry, Jr., and C. W. Montgomery, Northern Illinois University; Petrology and Geochemistry, chaired by J. Berg, Northern Illinois University; Late Precambrian Magmatism, chaired by J . Berg and M. G. Mudrey, Jr., Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey; Midwest Coal Hydrology, D. E. Lindorff, Illinois State Geological Survey, and T. Naymik, Illinois State Water Survey; Hydrology, D. E. Lindorff; General Geophysics, C. P. Ervin, Northern Illinois University; Tectonics of the Transantarctic Mountains, P. N. Webb, Northern Illinois University; Northern Illinois Deep Drill Hole, B. Haimson, University of Wisconsin, and W. J. Hinze, Purdue University; Rift Tectonics in the Mississippi Embayment, T. C. Buschbach, Saint Louis University; Geology and Tectonics of the Pre‐Mt. Simon Clastics in the Midcontinent, W. J. Hinze and E. G. Lidiak, University of Pittsburgh; Paleozoic Paleomagnetism of the Midcontinent, V. A. Schmidt, University of Pittsburgh; Midcontinent Seismology, O. W. Nuttli, Saint Louis University.The general session was opened with a welcoming address by James D. Norris, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Jack Simon, chief of the Illinois State Geological Survey, described the role of the Survey during its first 75 years and went on to discuss its future responsibilities in an after dinner speech on Thursday evening.
Saturn amazes, puzzles, pleases
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Voyager 1 gave scientists spectacular views of Saturn and its satellites, but it also gave scientists good reason to reshape or scrap previously accepted theories. These include theories of orbit resonance, ring structure, and the evolution of planetary bodies and their atmospheres. Views of Saturn itself paled by comparison with the surprises provided by the complex ring system and Titan's nitrogen‐rich atmosphere.Although data analysis will continue for several years, the Voyager team will be present at the AGU Fall Meeting to discuss more detailed summaries of the Voyager experiments (Eos, Nov. 25) than the preliminary results reported here.
NCAR summer minority employment
Authors: Shore Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

A limited number of summer employment positions are available to college students who have not had extensive exposure to atmospheric science laboratory work. The program, sponsored by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), is open to all students who will have completed sophomore year by the 1981 summer, but it is intended primarily to aid minorities.Accepted applicants will be assigned to a research project that focuses on topics that include atmospheric dynamics, climate, oceanography, acid precipitation, numerical weather prediction, atmosphere physics, and solar and space physics. Students will receive a monthly salary of $750, a housing allowance, and round‐trip air fare to NCAR in Boulder, Colorado.
Mapping the Venusian surface
Authors: Shore Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

President Carter has agreed to include in the fiscal 1982 budget a request for start‐up funds for NASA's 1986 mission to map the surface of Venus, according to the Office of Management and Budget. The Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (Voir) is expected to disclose the presence of such features as continents, ocean basins, mountain belts, rift valleys, fault belts, or volcanos on the planet's surface. Plate tectonic activity may also be revealed.Robert A. Frosch, NASA Administrator, said the Office of Management and Budget assured him that the necessary funding will be requested by the President in the fiscal 1982 budget.
NASA picks Hughes for Galileo contract
Authors: Bell Peter M. 
Published: October 2011

NASA has selected the Space and Communications Group of Hughes Aircraft Co. for work on an estimated $40 million contract for the Galileo probe carrier spacecraft. The work will be performed at Hughes' facilities in El Segundo, California.The carrier will transport the Galileo probe to Jupiter, where the probe will separate and enter Jupiter's atmosphere. It will measure the atmosphere for an hour down to a level where atmospheric pressure is 10 times Earth's surface pressure.
Increased CO2 levels
Authors: Shore Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

Developing countries will play an increasing role in determining the future of atmospheric carbon dioxide, but the Soviet Union, the United States, and the People's Republic of China are mainly responsible for C02 increases. That's the latest word on atmospheric carbon dioxide as presented at one of three Union sessions at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, earlier this month.The session summarized a 1‐year Department of Energy study, conducted by the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, that investigated a variety of possible global effects. Although some of the conclusions are similar to those reached several years ago, namely, that by the year 2050, C02 levels will approach 600 parts per million, or double that of the late 1980s, this Union session was the most comprehensive and detailed presentation of the problem, according to William W. Kellogg of the Aspen Institute and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The session included discussions of the possible consequences of such an increase, of the research needs of the problem, and of the uncertainties that cloud scientific measurement.
9th Caribbean Geological Conference
Authors: Draper Gren 
Published: October 2011

The ninth in a series of Caribbean Geological Conferences, which are held every 3 or 4 years, took place in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, from the 15th to 26th of August 1980. The conference, which was sponsored by the government of the Dominican Republic and the Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, was preceded by 2 days of field trips and was opened by President Antonio Guzman on the evening of the 17th of August. Generous support was provided by Alcoa Exploration Co., Falconbridge Dominicana, and Rosario Dominicana.Geologists and geophysicists from 25 countries presented about 130 papers on a wide variety of topics ranging from geophysics to paleontology. While the whole Caribbean area was discussed, there was special emphasis on the northern Caribbean and Hispaniola, as befitted the site of the conference. The contribution of workers from the Dirección General de Mineriá was particularly notable.
New marine studies center
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Temple University has established a Center for Marine Studies with faculty members from four of its colleges. The center will offer courses leading to a certificate in marine studies.Studies will focus on urbanization's impact on the marine environment and will focus on management and economics of waterfront utilization. In addition, faculty members will be constructing an artificial reef off Absecon Inlet to determine if increasing protective environments will permit increased sport fishing.
Federal Coal Directory
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A new catalog that provides the addresses and the telephone numbers of more than 400 national and local coal‐related offices of the U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Surface Mining, and the Bureau of Land Management is available from the USGS.The 41‐page publication, a cooperative effort of the three Department of the Interior agencies, contains a statement of each of the bureaus' functions and activities and a listing by state of selected headquarters offices and field offices.
Geophysical events
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Mount St. Helens Volcano, Cascade Range, southern Washington, U.S.A. (46.20°N, 122.18°W). All times are local (GMT‐8 h). After the explosions of October 16–18 and the brief period of lava dome growth that followed, activity at Mount St. Helens was limited to vapor emission and occasional seismic activity through early December.Most early November seismic events were caused by rock slides from the crater walls. No significant local earthquakes or harmonic tremor were recorded until mid‐November, when brief episodes of harmonic tremor began, barely within the detection limits of sensitive seismographs on and near the volcano. Intermittent low‐level tremor continued through early December. Stronger tremor started on November 25 at 2054, gradually fading into background noise about 35 min later. Observers in a U.S. Forest Service aircraft reported a slightly brighter glow in the dome area after this event. A second burst of stronger tremor began November 27 at 2034, continuing for about an hour, and several more such episodes, lasting only a few minutes each, were detected through November 30.
RACOONs amass wind data
Authors: Richman Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

Balloons, not furry little animals, are being developed to provide new, inexpensive methods for gathering weather data in the tropics.RACOON—short for radiation‐controlled balloon—is a zero‐pressure balloon which will be used to provide stratospheric wind data for equatorial regions, according to the National Center for Atmospheric Research. These data are unavailable from satellites. Currently, the global rocket network gathers tropical wind measurements for weather forecasting; however, the network is being phased out.
Antarctica: As seismic as other plates
Authors: Richman Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

Antarctica shakes, rattles, and rolls just as much as other slow‐moving plates. Emile Okal, a Yale University seismologist, told colleagues at the AGU Fall Meeting that although the Antarctic plate is not moving across the earth as fast as other continents, it has a seismicity similar to other plates. His findings refute the claim that a ring of spreading ridges that surrounds the plate leaves Antarctica stress free.The small number of reports of plate seismicity, Okal explained, has been used to argue that the ridges that surround the plate are unable to transmit tectonic stresses and would make the Antarctic plate motionless and free of seismic stress. However, when Okal added up the total seismic energy released during the last 55 years, he found it similar to that of the African plate, which is comparable in size.
Mutch memorial plaque unveiled
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A plaque commemorating Thomas A. Mutch, former associate administrator of NASA's Office of Space Science, was unveiled in a ceremony at the National Air and Space Museum earlier this month. Mutch was lost while mountain climbing in the Himalayas in October (Eos, October 28, p. 693). The plaque will be affixed to the Viking 1 lander, renamed the Mutch Memorial Station, during a future Mars mission.A follow‐up Mars mission has been suggested for the 1990's, and although no funding is available now, there is talk, NASA says, of sending a roving spacecraft to Mars that would affix the plaque, scoop up some Martian terrain, and bring the sample back to earth. Until the plaque can be transported to Mars, it will remain at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Science education research program
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A deadline for receipt of research proposals on science literacy and science, technology, and society has been set by the National Science Foundation's Research in Science and Education (RISE) program. March 9 is the target date set by NSF to insure that proposals are considered for the RISE fiscal 1981 budget, which is expected to total $6 million.RISE'S purpose is to examine the science literacy of the U.S. public and to determine the publics needs. Although schools have been responsible for teaching science, only 50% of the American public receive formal science instruction after 15 years of age, according to NSF. Those who do not receive formal training must rely on a combination of electronic and print media, museums, and public agencies for science information.
Seabeam echo sounder
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A Seabeam echo‐sounder system, which produces a real‐time contour map of the ocean floor from a moving ship, will be installed in the research vessel Thomas Washington during the fall of 1981. This will be the first such system installed in an American academic oceanographic ship. Acquisition and installation of the equipment was jointly supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) with a grant from the Fleischman Foundation.Use of the system is open to any investigator from any institution. A national scheduling advisory committee, appointed by ONR and SIO, held its first meeting at San Francisco, December 10, to establish the general areas of operation for the first 18 months of use. During this period the ship will work in the eastern north and equatorial Pacific, and the western North Atlantic, roughly between 15° S to 45° N, 30° W to 165° W. Proposals for work within this area should be sent to appropriate funding agencies (NSF, ONR, NOAA, DOE, et al.).
Johns Hopkins site of Space Institute
Authors: Bell Peter M. 
Published: October 2011

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI) will be located on the Homewood Campus of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. The institute will perform critical mission science activity for the forthcoming space telescope mission. The 13.1‐m spacecraft is to be placed into a 600‐k‐high orbit by the space shuttle, and it will perform scientific investigations for at least 15 years.The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), a consortium of 14 universities, has been selected for final negotiation of a contract to establish, operate, and maintain STSI for the space telescope scheduled for launch in early 1985 on the space shuttle. The contractor's estimated cost for the initial 5‐year contract is approximately $24 million. Additional funding will be required in support of a guest observer and archival research program, as it develops. The contract will contain options for three additional 5‐year extensions.
Geophysical events
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Mount St. Helens Volcano, Cascade Range, Southern Washington, USA (46.20°N, 122.18°W). All times are local (GMT‐8 h). Renewed dome growth took place at Mt. St. Helens in late December, without the large explosions that immediately preceded previous dome‐building episodes in June, August, and October.Activity was limited to minor seismicity and weak vapor emission for about a month after the October 16–18 explosions and dome extrusion. Frequent periods of very low level harmonic tremor, lasting a few minutes to several hours, began to appear on seismic records November 19. Bursts of higher‐level tremor, similar to explosion events seen earlier at Mt. St. Helens, could often be correlated with ejections of vapor columns that sometimes contained ash. A few discrete shallow earthquakes were recorded but remained infrequent until late December.
Gift
Authors: Russell C. T. , Whitten Charles A. , Droessler Earl G. 
Published: October 2011

Something that has not been mentioned yet in the appeal for gifts to AGU is the possibility of funding a scholarship that would be administered by the AGU. To keep geophysics an alive and vital discipline, we must continue to attract the best young minds to the field. If we established a well endowed fund with sufficient resources to more than adequately fund a graduate student through 2 or possibly 3 years of graduate work, the attendant publicity and nationwide attention could do much to attract these good young minds to our field.In your talks with potential donors I urge you to keep the possibility of scholarship endowments in mind.
Geophysicists
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

GeophysicistsBernice Ackerman has been appointed head of the new meteorology section of the Illinois State Water Survey. She has been a professional scientist and a project leader at the Water Survey since 1972.John R. Filson has been appointed chief of the Office of Earthquake Studies at the U.S. Geological Survey National Center in Reston, Virginia. He succeeds Robert L Wesson.Paul S. Julienne, a staff member of the Department of Commerce's National Bureau of Standards, received a bronze medal at the Eighth Annual NBS Awards Ceremony. The medal was awarded for his contributions to the development of theoretical descriptions of atomic collisions in intense electromagnetic fields.