bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Alaskan oceanography
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Physical oceanographers, chemists, and biologists will soon begin studying the seas around northern Alaska as part of an international effort to learn how increased fishing, oil and gas drilling, and land‐based farming will affect marine life. The $2.5 million National Science Foundation (NSF)‐ funded study, called ISHTAR (Inner Shelf Transfer and Recycling in the Bering and Chukchi Seas), will involve scientists from the United States, Belgium, and Denmark.According to NSF, previous studies suggest that, despite a short growing season, the seas around the Bering Strait produce more plant life than most marine areas of the world. However, the source of mineral nutrients for this plant life and its destination in the food web or organic sediment is not well understood. The researchers will trace nutrients from the Yukon River and the deeper waters of the Bering Sea to the continental shelves of the Bering and Chukchi seas in an attempt to better understand what happens to land and marine organic matter when it enters this continental shelf ecosystem.
Coalinga's caveat
Authors: Stein Ross S. 
Published: October 2011

No one had foreseen that a shock as large as Ms 6.7 could strike at the eastern edge of the California Coast Ranges near the town of Coalinga. No faults of any age cut the gently folded sediments at the earthquake focus, and equally astonishing, no ground breakage accompanied the earthquake. A month would pass before surface rupture did occur, in a sequence of large aftershocks (see cover: large blue circles west of the yellow main shock) on a minor adjacent fault.The May 2, 1983, earthquake, which caused $31 million in damage and took one life, alerted the seismological community to the earthquake potential of active folds. Leveling surveys demonstrated that Anticline Ridge (whose fold axis plunges southeast through the main shock) uplifted 0.5 m during the event, while adjacent Pleasant Valley (see cover: red and white squares immediately southwest of the aftershocks) subsided half that amount. The surface deformation is best explained by a fault that slipped over a depth of 4–12 km but does not reach the surface. Identification of earthquake risk has proceeded almost exclusively on the premise that faults capable of generating large shocks must extend to the surface. Surface faults that do not cut young deposits are not deemed active, even if the faults displace older beds at greater depth. At Coalinga, on the other hand, the fault, the seismic slip, and the aftershocks are confined to deeper and therefore older strata. The fault is invisible on seismic reflection profiles, but it is indisputably active. The surface fold which built Anticline Ridge appears to have formed as a consequence of repeated slip events at depth. From the pattern of earthquake deformation, R. Stein and G. King have argued that many folds mask subsurface thrust faults and that these folds may largely deform elastically in jumps, rather than through steady and aseismic ductile deformation. In retrospect, a number of large thrust earthquakes over the last 30 years have uplifted anticlines, dropped synclines, and produced little or no ground rupture, such as the 1964 Ms 7.5 Niigata shock in Japan. Thus, despite the paucity of bounding faults, the folded eastern margin of the California Coast Ranges must now be regarded as a possible target for large thrust events. The uplift rate of the folds should guide judgments of relative activity. Ominously, the Kettleman Hills anticline, which abuts the Coalinga aftershocks to the southeast, is rising at twice the rate of Anticline Ridge. (These processes will be discussed at the AGU Fall Meeting in the Tectonophysics session entitled “Mechanics of Large‐Scale Faulting and Earthquakes,” scheduled for Friday morning, December 7; see abstracts in this issue for more information.)
Rings of Uranus
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Using sophisticated computer enhancement techniques, two astronomers have been able to clearly “photograph” the rings of Uranus (Figure 1). The photographs show that the rings are made of particles that are perhaps the darkest found in the solar system. Creating clear images of the rings is a feat that has proved extremely difficult in the past because the rings are darker than charcoal and are very close to the much‐brighter Uranus.The astronomers, Bradford A. Smith of the University of Arizona and Richard J. Terrile of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), used a camera equipped with a charge‐coupled device (CCD) to record the image at the Carnegie Institution's Las Companas Observatory in the Andes mountains in Chile.
WOCE: Abyssal circulation studies
Authors: Reid Joseph L. , Bryden Harry L. 
Published: October 2011

A meeting of oceanographers from 11 institutions was held March 19–21, 1984 at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) to discuss plans and methods for studying the general circulation of the ocean. This planning meeting for the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and arranged by J.L. Reid of SIO and Harry Bryden of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This report includes not only items discussed at the meeting, but also items submitted afterward by participants and other interested parties.The purpose of the meeting was to identify needs. The conveners did not expect or attempt to arrive immediately at a consensus on which of the areas were most important but tried to assure that all ideas were presented for consideration. Although the projects listed here are meant to be general and comprehensive, they strongly reflect the major interests of those attending and are not meant to exclude other plans or suggestions that may arise. The list presented is, of course, far beyond our present capacity to carry out in its entirety. We hope that it will stimulate even more ideas and that some parts of it can be used to assemble an effective and coherent set of programs to be carried out as part of WOCE.
Friends of science
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Ten members of Congress have been presented with the Friends of Science Award by the National Coalition for Science and Technology (NCST). The awards, honoring significant contributions to science, engineering, and science education, are made every 2 years at the end of the congressional session. The recipients this year are Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R‐N.M.), Rep. Joseph D. Early (D‐Mass.), Rep. Bill Frenzel (R‐Minn.), Rep. Albert Gore, Jr. (D‐Tenn.), Rep. Judd Gregg (R‐N.H.), Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D‐Hawaii), Rep. Stan Lundine (D‐N.Y.), Sen. Sam Nunn (D‐Ga.), Rep. Henry Waxman (D‐Calif.), and Rep. Ed Zschau (R‐Calif).Except for Sen. Inouye, whose term expires in 1986, all of this year's recipients were up for reelection in the national elections held November 6. All were successful in securing another term in Congress. In addition, Albert Gore was successful in his bid for a Senate seat, filling the vacancy left by the retiring Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker (R‐Tenn.)
September streamflow
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Streamflow decreased seasonally in September but remained in the normal or above‐normal range in about 80% of the country, according to the regular end‐of‐month check of the nation's surface and groundwater resources by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Department of the Interior. From 174 key index stream‐gaging stations, USGS hydrologists reported average flows at 110 sites (63%), well‐above average flows (i.e., in the upper 25% of long‐term record) at 34 locations (20%), and well‐below average flows (in the lowest 25% of record) at 30 stations (17%).By geographic location, streamflows were well above average in most western states, including all key stations in Utah (6) and Colorado (4), and in parts of the central and southeastern United States. Streamflows were well below average at all key stations in Hawaii (4), Connecticut (4), Maine (3), and New Hampshire (1) and in parts of Florida, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Oklahoma, Texas, and the east‐central United States.
JGR‐Space Physics editors: 1986”1989
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

AGU is seeking candidates to succeed Bengt U.O. Sonnerup as JGR—Space Physics editor. His term as editor ends December 1985.The successful candidate will handle original contributions on aeronomy, magnetospheric physics, planetary atmospheres and magnetospheres, interplanetary and external solar physics, cosmic rays, and heliospheric physics.
AGU Hydrology Section Committees
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The following is a list of officers and committee members.President: R. Allan Freeze, Department of Geological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (telephone: 604‐228‐6462) (Sabbatical address: August 1, 1984–May 31, 1985; Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 (telephone: 602‐621‐7609)).
U.S. space strategy
Authors: Robb David W. 
Published: October 2011

Following the formal announcement of a national space strategy in August, President Ronald Reagan is moving ahead on many of his administration's declared objectives for strengthening the U.S. role in space‐based research and space exploration.Possibly the most significant long‐term aspect of the administration's national space strategy is its emphasis on international cooperation. While the U.S. space program in the 1960s and 1970s was fueled by intense competition in the race to be the first to put a man on the moon, it may very well be characterized through the beginning of the next century by the spirit of international collaboration. The national space strategy calls for “increased international cooperation in civil space activities,” particularly in the “development and utilization” of the space station. In addition, in late October, President Reagan announced the possibility of a joint U.S.‐Soviet simulated space rescue mission. In his statement, Reagan said that the U.S. “is prepared to work with the Soviets on cooperation in space in programs which are mutually beneficial and productive.”
E&HR Committee reports
Authors: Sancetta Constance 
Published: October 2011

The E&HR (Education and Human Resources) Committee engages in a variety of activities of direct interest to members. This report is to acquaint you with current and future activities of the committee and with the membership of the committee itself. We welcome your suggestions and comments on any relevant topics.Ongoing activities of the committee include oversight of the AGU Minority and June Bacon‐Bercey scholarships, job centers and evening panel sessions at meetings, and response to various requests from the AGU Council. The committee maintains a liaison with the Scientific Manpower Commission and with the Association for Women Geoscientists.
Arctic water pollution research
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, will be the site for an International Conference on Arctic Water Pollution Research: Applications of Science and Technology, April 28–May 1, 1985. This conference is a regional and specialized conference sponsored by the International Association on Water Pollution Research and Control (IAWPRC) and organized by the Canadian National Committee of IAWPRC, with the assistance and cooperation of a number of other interested organizations.The topics for discussion will include the sources and transport of pollutants in arctic regions, the processes of pollutant interaction and movement in hydrochemical or biological systems near or below the freezing point, and questions of prevention, detection, and management of pollution in arctic conditions. Terrestrial, coastal, and marine environments will be considered.
February streamflow
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Flows of most of the nation's streams were average to well above average for February, while well below average flows persisted in parts of the Northeast and the far Northwest, according to a regular end of the month check on water resources conditions by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Department of the Interior.USGS hydrologists said that 82% of the key index stream‐gaging stations reporting for February recorded flows that were average to well above average. Of the 174 stations, 34% (60 stations) reported well above average flows, 48% (83 stations) reported average flows, and only 18% (31 stations) reported flows that were well below average for February.
Chairman's corner
Authors: Anderson Orson L. 
Published: October 2011

The response of the geophysical community to the establishment of the AGU's Committee on Mineral Physics has been most gratifying. The Executive Committee and the Council of the AGU have been generous in support of the several activities launched by the committee, and without that support, our committee's activities would be severely curtailed.The committee is a working organization; it is not content to hold perfunctory gatherings. The committee's organizational structure was explained in the last‐issue of the Mineral Physics News: essentially, it consists of panels, each of which has an assigned mission in support of the future well‐being of the mineral physics community. The Membership and Publicity Panel, for example, primarily discharges its mission by publishing this report semiannually in Eos. The chairman of this panel is also the editor of the Mineral Physics News.
Recent Ph.D.'s
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Eos periodically lists information on recendy accepted doctoral dissertations in the disciplines of geophysics. Faculty members are invited to submit the following information, on institution letterhead, above the signature of the faculty advisor or department chairman: (1) the dissertation tide, (2) author's name, (3) name of the degree‐granting department and institution, (4) faculty, advisor, (5) month and year degree was awarded.If possible, include the current address and telephone number of the degree recipient (this information will not be published).
Upcoming hearings in Congress
Authors: Richman Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

The following hearings and markups have been tentatively scheduled for the coming weeks by the Senate and House of Representatives. Dates and times should be verified with the committee or subcommittee holding the hearing or markup; all offices on Capitol Hill may be reached by telephoning 202‐224‐3121. For guidelines on contacting a member of Congress, see AGU's Guide to Legislative Information and Contacts (Eos, August 28, 1984, p. 669).June 27: Hearing on legislation to impose user fees for some of the services provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by the Coast Guard Subcommit‐tee of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. Room 1334, Longworth Building, 9:30 A.M.
John Adam Fleming Medal
Authors: Johnson Francis S. , Hanson William B. 
Published: October 2011

William B. Hanson has made numerous important contributions to the field of ionospheric and space physics, not only for the planet earth, but also for Mars and Venus.Dr. Hanson was born in Warroad, Minn., on December 30, 1923. He attended the University of Minnesota, where he earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and a master's degree in physics. He received his Ph.D. degree from George Washington University in Washington, D. C. His earliest scientific work was in the field of low‐temperature physics at the National Bureau of Standards, but he abandoned that field of research in 1956 and entered into the field of ionospheric and space research at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. In 1962 he went to the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies in Dallas, which in 1969 became the University of Texas at Dallas. There he is the Director of the Center for Space Sciences and Professor of Physics.
Mineral find highlights cruise
Authors: Katzoff Judith A. 
Published: October 2011

Heavy minerals with potential commercial value were discovered last month by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in seafloor deposits off the coasts of Virginia and Georgia. The USGS sent the research vessel J. W. Powell on a 25‐day cruise along the East Coast to assess the concentrations of commercially important minerals in that segment of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).Assistant Secretary of the Interior Robert Broadbent called the findings of the Powell “promising” and said they served as a “reminder of just how little we do know about the seafloor resources just a few miles offshore.”
AGU Awardees and Medalists
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The recipients of the 1985 Bowie and Hess Medals have been announced by the AGU. These distinctive honors recognize AGU members who have made significant contributions to geophysics.Presentation of these awards will be made at the 1985 Fall Meeting, December 9–13, in San Francisco, Calif. All Fall Meeting participants are invited to attend the ceremony and the reception that follows on Wednesday evening, December 11.
Strong Alaskan earthquake sequence
Authors: Estabrook C. , Davis J. , Gedney L. , Estes S. 
Published: October 2011

Large earthquakes associated with Pacific‐North American plate interaction are common in southern Alaska. As the seismicity caused by this plate interaction diffuses into interior Alaska, earthquakes tend to become shallower, smaller, and less frequent.A recent sequence of large earthquakes in a remote area north of the Yukon River marks the farthest north that events of this magnitude have ever been recorded in the state. The epicentral region was centered about 10 km east of the trans‐Alaska oil pipeline and about 180 km northwest of Fairbanks (Figures 1 and 2). Parameters for the largest events recorded through March 16, 1985, are given in Table 1.,
Mineral Physics: New choices and directions
Authors: Anderson Orson L. 
Published: October 2011

The Mineral Physics Committee convened a workshop October 16–18, 1985, at Lake Arrowhead, Calif., to examine the new directions in mineral physics for the next 5 years. The proceedings of this workshop will provide an explanation to the geophysical and geochemical community of the great new opportunities available to mineral physicists to bear on some of the outstanding problems of the earth. These proceedings will be published within a few months.The Mineral Physics Committee is at a critical turning point. It became evident at the workshop that a number of new advances will soon provide dramatic advances in our understanding of the earth. Two of them will be mentioned here.
Isherwood joins Senate staff
Authors: Katzoff Judith A. 
Published: October 2011

Dana J. Isherwood, the 1985–1986 AGU Congressional Science Fellow, has joined the staff of Sen. Albert Gore, Jr. (D‐Tenn.), as a legislative assistant on energy issues. After 6 weeks as a Fellow, Isherwood called her role “exciting, demanding, and challenging.”In Gore's office, Isherwood concentrates on nuclear waste issues and groundwater pollution. As legislative assistant, she must present the opposing viewpoints on an issue, she explained. “It's essentially a fact‐gathering procedure, to get the information together so that the senator can make up his mind.” Isherwood has met with program managers of nuclear waste projects sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and with Tennessee state officials.
Scripps expedition recovers equipment
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A team of marine scientists and technicians recently located and retrieved more than $0.5 million in oceanographic instruments that had been considered lost on the sea floor. The retrievals from depths up to 4.8 km were made with the help of newly developed grappling hooks designed to hold on to the wires of instrument moorings (Figure 1).The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, part of the University of California, San Diego, announced that six separate moorings of oceanographic instruments were recovered in a month‐long operation last summer on the Scripps research vessel Melville. The operation took place in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, southeast of Hawaii.
Voyager 2 at Uranus
Authors: Katzoff Judith A. , Richman Barbara T. 
Published: October 2011

The Voyager 2 spacecraft, hurtling toward its January 24, 1986, closest approach to Uranus, is sending several surprises back to earth. One is the discovery of another moon; the other is the absence of expected radio noise at a distance less than 800 times the planet's radius.As Eos went to press, a sixth moon had been discovered orbiting the planet. The moon, roughly 56 km in diameter, orbits Uranus every 18 hours, 17 minutes, 9 seconds. The new moon is closer to the planet (86,000 km) than the five previously known moons: Miranda (130,000 km), Ariel (192,000 km), Umbriel (267,000 km), Titania (438,000 km), and Oberon (568,000 km).
Telescope delay advances EOM
Authors: Katzoff Judith A. 
Published: October 2011

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has switched the launch date for the Hubble Space Telescope with that of the first Earth Observation Mission (EOM). Under the current plan, the Space Telescope will be launched October 27, 1986, and EOM will lift off August 18, 1986.Although the Space Telescope is still expected to be delivered to Kennedy Space Center on schedule, it has taken longer than expected to integrate the instruments with the spacecraft, according to a spokesman with the NASA Office of Space Flight. As a precaution, NASA managers decided to switch the dates for the Space Telescope and EOM, according to a NASA press release.
Geomagnetic Workshop, Canberra
Authors: Barton C. E. , Lilley F. E. M. , Milligan P. R. 
Published: October 2011

On May 14–15, 1985, 63 discerning geomagnetists flocked to Canberra to attend the Geomagnetic Workshop coorganized by the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR) and the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University (ANU). With an aurorally glowing cast that included an International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) president, former president, and division chairman, the Oriental Magneto‐Banquet (which was the center of the meeting), was assured of success. As a cunning ploy to mask the true nature of this gastronomic extravagance from the probings of income tax departments, a presentation of scientific papers on Australian geomagnetism in its global setting was arranged.The Australian region, including New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and a large sector of the Antarctic, covers one eighth of the Earth's surface and historically has played an important role in the study of geomagnetism. The region contains both the south magnetic and geomagnetic poles, and two Australian Antarctic stations (Casey and Davis) are situated in the region of the south polar cusp (see Figure 1).
GALE program observes snowstorms
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Residents of the northeast coast of the United States often receive little warning when a heavy snowstorm is headed their way. In an effort to improve prediction of the winter storms that develop rapidly just off the Carolina coasts, about 200 scientists, engineers, and technicians from 25 U.S. research groups are collaborating on a $10 million, 2‐month research project called the Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment (GALE).The project, which began January 15, 1985, will concentrate high‐technology observing systems in a relatively small area. Researchers hope that having a more detailed description of air flow, mass, and moisture fields in East Coast winter storms will improve the short‐range forecasting of coastal storms and foster the development of more refined computer models to predict the storms. GALE will allow them to look at how the Appalachian Mountains, the coastal landscape, and the Atlantic Ocean (specifically, the Gulf Stream) contribute to the formation of winter storms, according to an announcement by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo.