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Computers and geophysics: Requirements outlined
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The use of computers to process enormous volumes of data is likely to improve our abilities to predict earthquakes and issue tsunami warnings, geophysicist J. Freeman Gilbert recently told a House of Representatives task force on science policy. Gilbert, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, testified before the task force on September 11, in one of a series of hearings intended to explore the “impact of the information age on science.” Scientists and administrators from universities and private industry served as witnesses during the 3 days of hearings.Rep. George E. Brown, J r . , (D‐Calif.) asked Gilbert to compare the amount of damage done by tsunamis in the United States to the cost of improved detection and warning systems. “I think it's worth the effort,” Gilbert responded, adding that as in the case of hurricane warnings, tsunami warnings would affect only a small proportion of the nation's population but could be crucial to protect their lives and property. Such a system, Gilbert said, “represents technology that is easy to implement.”
Baker nominated to Science Board
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

President Ronald Reagan has announced his intention to nominate Warren J. Baker to the National Science Board (NSB), according to an announcement by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Baker is the president of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. A civil engineer by training, his research specialty is soil dynamics.The 24‐member NSB is the policy‐making body of the NSF. Provided that the Senate confirms his appointment, Baker will serve on the board until May 1988.
[Comment on “There is no magnestophere nor is there a plasmasphere!”] There is no magnetosphere
Authors: Mook Conrad P. 
Published: October 2011

A. C. Fraser‐Smith writes in Eos (June 18, 1985, p. 498) a satirical note complaining about the use of the term “magnetosphere” to describe a nonspherical phenomenon. It is as though all other English words had logical origins.What is really fun about our language is the tracing of words back to their original roots. Future generations will find excitement in learning that at the time “magnetosphere” was coined, the phenomenon thereby described was believed to be quasi‐spherical.
Shallow Refraction Seismics
Authors: Mooney Walter D. 
Published: October 2011

This book is a welcome addition to the literature on shallow engineering seismic refraction surveying (“refraction seismics” in the European parlance). The theoretical approach given is general, while the practical applications discussed mainly concern surveys over shallow alluvial basins covering crystalline rocks.The book is divided into five major subtopics. First, the basic principles of refraction and diffraction are covered in 20 well‐written pages. Second, depth formulae are developed for multilayer media in a 22‐page chapter, and the concepts of parallelism and reciprocity of traveltime curves are introduced. Third, by far the longest chapter (173 pages) is devoted to interpretation methods. A very lucid and complete treatment is given for the author's preferred method, the ABEM method of interpretation (named for a Swedish company with these initials). The relationship between this method and other more familiar ones (such as delay times, plus‐minus, Hales' method, and the wavefront method) is clearly explained. It should be noted, however, that interpretation is limited to the analysis of first arrivals, and amplitudes are not considered. Fourth, instrumentation, field work and interpretation procedures are covered in 18 pages. The author wisely avoids a lengthy chapter of general advice, since each investigator generally will be using different equipment to solve a unique field problem. Fifth, a pleasant bonus is the 79‐page chapter on applications of refraction seismics to a variety of situations. These brief case histories involve 200‐m‐long profiles with interpretation to a depth of 20–40 km. Almost all of the examples are taken from Norway and Sweden.
“Planet Earth”is ours
Authors: Hartung Jack 
Published: October 2011

“Planet Earth” belongs to us. In this case, I'm not referring to the planet, earth, on which we live and which we consider our home in space. Instead, I'm saying that the upcoming television series, “Planet Earth,” belongs to us, the earth and space science community.Several years ago the AGU Council voted to provide $10,000 as “seed money” to initiate what was to become “Planet Earth.” To be sure, the series would not have happened without support from the Annenberg Foundation ($3,000,000) and the IBM Corporation ($1,000,000), but we were there, up front, where a little bit meant a lot.
Landsberg Memorial Symposium
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

In memory of the late Helmut E. Landsberg, an all‐day symposium will be held at the Adult Education Center of the University of Maryland, College Park, on February 10, 1986. The symposium had originally been planned to honor what would have been the climatologist's 80th birthday. Landsberg, a past president of AGU, died December 6, 1985, while attending a meeting of the International Commission on Climatology at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.The symposium's speakers will discuss aspects of Landsberg's influence on climatology. At 5:00 P.M., several of Landsberg's close friends and colleagues will give eulogies in a commemorative ceremony. A reception will be held after this ceremony. (The banquet that had originally been planned for the symposium has been cancelled.)
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).March 5: Hearing on FY 1987 appropriations for the National Science Foundation, by the HUD‐Independent Agencies Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Room SD‐124, Dirksen Building, 10:00 A.M.
Task force continues hearings
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A congressional task force that was established in 1984 to examine the goals of federal science policy has announced a schedule of hearings (see Table 1, below) on the remaining topics on its agenda. After these hearings are completed, the Task Force on Science Policy will circulate a draft of its final report, according to Rep. Don Fuqua (D‐Fla.), chairman of the task force and of the House Committee on Science and Technology.During additional hearings to be conducted during the summer, “We plan to seek comments on this draft from leaders in American science policy, past and present,” Fuqua said. When that process ends, the task force plans to propose its final conclusions and recommendations on the future direction of the federal government's role in setting science policy and in supporting research. The study is the first such comprehensive review by the House in more than 20 years.
AAAS seeks suggestions for initiatives
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation's Division of International Programs has requested the American Association for Advancement of Science and its Consortium of Affiliates for International Programs (CAIP) to assist in the development of a list of potential topics for consideration as new global initiatives of the Foundation. AGU is a consortium member. As a result of a meeting of a steering group, which included consortium representatives, a solicitation of potential topics is being made to a wide variety of groups within the mainstream scientific and engineering community. Topics should meet three criteria:

The topic should be an important global problem;
it should have high potential scientific, technological, or intellectual content; and
it should involve the broadest possible range of disciplines.
Positioning With GPS: 1985
Authors: Remondi Benjamin W. , Hothem Larry D. 
Published: October 2011

The First International Symposium on Precise Positioning With the Global Positioning System (GPS) was held in Rockville, Maryland from April 15 to April 19, 1985; 600 participants from 31 countries attended. Sponsors included the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, the International Association of Geodesy, the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in cooperation with the American Society of Civil Engineers. GPS uses the NAVSTAR (an acronym for Navigation and Satellite Timing and Ranging) satellite system developed by the Department of Defense (DOD).Although this symposium was limited to precise positioning with GPS, the scope of precise positioning was left open. Without a doubt, precise relative positioning with L band carrier phase measurements was the most important topic. Also included were certain high‐accuracy applications of pseudorange measurements, such as orbit determination, time transfer, and navigation. Administration, policy, hardware, software, processing, and applications in these areas were also covered. Intentionally left out were areas in which high positional accuracy was not important (e.g., commercial aviation). Attendees presented 89 papers, which were organized into 15 sessions covering nine subject areas: overview, status, and policy; GPS time and orbits; user equipment; user equipment testing; modeling and processing; applications; survey positioning results; practical aspects of geodesy; and dynamic positioning.
Research opportunity in solar physics program
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released an announcement of opportunity for U.S. scientists to participate in the High Energy Solar Physics (HESP) program, sponsored by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan. ISAS plans to launch the HESP mission into low‐earth orbit on a Japanese spacecraft in the early 1990s.The HESP mission will aim to advance the understanding of high‐energy phenomena on the sun through X ray and gamma ray observations, according to NASA. HESP will continue the systematic study of high‐energy solar processes started by the NASA Solar Maximum Mission and the ISAS Hinotori mission, both of which orbited in the early 1980s, during the last period of maximal solar activity.
JGR special issue honors H.W. Menard
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The editor and associate editors of the Journal of Geophysical Research—Solid Earth and Planets invite the submission of manuscripts for a special memorial issue to honor H. W. Menard. The topic of the issue will be “Geodynamics and Tectonophysics.” Special color rates will apply, provided that there are a sufficient number of color pages.Manuscripts should be submitted to Gerald Schubert Department of Earth and Space Sciences University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90024
Harrison chairs annual meetings
Authors: Katzoff Judith A. 
Published: October 2011

Fostering the development of interdisciplinary ideas at AGU meetings is the primary goal of AGU's new Meetings Chairman, Christopher G. A. Harrison. “The strength of AGU is the broadness of disciplines represented [within it],” Harrison explained.Harrison is a professor of geophysics at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. The upcoming 1986 Spring Meeting is the first for which Harrison is serving as chairman, and his term will end after the 1988 Fall Meeting. He succeeds H. Frank Eden, who had been Meetings Chairman since late 1982.
NSF FY 1987 budget dealt blow in Congress
Authors: Katzoff Judith A. 
Published: October 2011

Although it passed through the congressional authorization process unscathed, the budget request for the National Science Foundation (NSF) for fiscal year (FY) 1987 was dealt a serious blow on July 23, 1986, when a House appropriations subcommittee recommended that nearly $146 million be cut from the agency's request for “research and related activities” (R&RA). The full House Appropriations Committee went on to endorse this recommendation on July 31.The committee report accompanying the House appropriation bill leaves the distribution of cuts within R&RA up to the discretion of the NSF director. The report does, however, protect the budget request for the ocean drilling program from a cut.
International Space data analysis announced
Authors: Manka Robert H. 
Published: October 2011

The plans for the International Coordinated Data Analysis Workshop (CDAW) 8 series of workshops have been announced. This analysis effort will concentrate on problems associated with the dynamics of the magnetospheric tail and their relationship to substorms. Specifically, the program committee has chosen to address three problems of outstanding importance:

the near‐earth neutral line model and plasmoid formation (initial workshop topic),
the more recently introduced plasma sheet boundary layer model, and
the loading‐unloading and directly driven models of magnetospheric energy flow.
Bossler to head new mapping center
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A Center for Mapping will soon be established at Ohio State University (OSU). Rear Admiral John D. Bossler, currently director of charting and geodetic services for the National Ocean Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)and president of the AGU Geodesy Section, will head the center.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will provide a 5‐year, $5 million grant for real‐time mapping programs at the new center, and the grant is “heavily leveraged” with funds from industry, OSU, and the state of Ohio, according to an announcement from OSU. The Center for Mapping will also pursue projects in land and resource information science, digital mapping, and geodynamics.
COCORP solicits site proposals
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP) is encouraging members of the earth science community to submit proposals for sites to be surveyed by COCORP. New proposals (as well as those previously received for sites yet to be profiled) are evaluated annually by the COCORP Site Selection Advisory Committee, and the crew schedule is updated accordingly.The committee wishes to design future sites to contribute toward building a transcontinental traverse to be presented during the 1989 International Geological Congress in Washington, D.C. Figure 1 shows the sites that have either been surveyed by COCORP or are tentatively scheduled to be surveyed in the future. The COCORP committee has recommended that COCORP continue its primary strategy of reconnaissance surveying and has emphasized the continued need for long lines guided by specific geologic problems. For information on how to submit COCORP site proposals, contact S. Kaufman, Executive Director, COCORP, Snee Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; telephone 607‐255‐7165.
September and 1986 streamflow
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Streamflows across the nation for the 1986 water year were generally normal to above normal. The exception was the extreme dry conditions that persisted over the Southeast for most of the year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).USGS hydrologists said that of the 174 key index streamflow‐gaging stations across the nation, 64 stations (37%) had flows in the above‐normal range, 76 stations (44%) had flows in the normal range, and 34 stations (20%) had flows in the below‐normal range for the water year, which ended September 30, 1986. The water year that is used by hydrologists runs from October 1 to September 30 of the following calendar year. It is designed to begin and end during a period of generally low streamflow and to roughly follow the growing season.
Woods Hole Summer Fellowships
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is offering approximately 20 summer student fellowships for 1987. The fellowships are awarded to college juniors and seniors and to beginning graduate students with an interest in oceanography who are studying any field of science or engineering.The program's purpose is to provide unusually talented students with a unique introduction to oceanography or oceanographic engineering. Each fellow works closely with a WHOI staff member on a project dealing with ocean science or engineering. The fellows also attend a series of seminars designed to impart a broad perspective on ocean science.
[Comment on “The Oceanography Report”] Composition of the Oceanography Report
Authors: Sackett William N. 
Published: October 2011

In looking over the subject matter of The Oceanography Report (TOR), beginning with the September 1, 1981, edition of Eos, I am struck by the predominance of physical oceanography lead articles. In fact, out of 63 articles, 23 are “pure” physical oceanography, 25 are multidisciplinary, general, or news and announcement articles, and the remainder are about equally divided between biological, chemical, and geological oceanography (see Table 1). Although TOR Editor David Brooks is a physical oceanographer, he is emphatic about rarely soliciting articles in physical oceanography, but on the other hand, he has made some effort to get articles in the other disciplines.Surely the physical oceanographers are not the only group in oceanography that have new and existing discoveries, new programs, workshop findings, and other newsworthy items to report on a timely basis in the Eos medium. Let the past predominance of physical oceanography‐type articles be a challenge to the other disciplines to submit articles for TOR to its editor David Brooks.
“Planet Earth” to encore January 19
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Emmy award‐winning seven‐part television series “Planet Earth” will be rebroadcast on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) beginning on Monday, January 19, 1987. First broadcast in early 1986, the series explores the strides made in the earth sciences since the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1957–1958.“Planet Earth” features elaborate visual effects and includes location filming on all seven continents, at the bottom of the sea, and in space. In September 1986, the series won an Emmy award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in the category of Outstanding Informational Series.
Institutions sign telescope agreement
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Carnegie Institution of Washington, the University of Arizona (Tucson), and the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.) recently signed an agreement to join in a project to build and operate an 8‐m telescope at Las Campanas, Chile. Plans call for the telescope to make observations in the optical, infrared, submillimeter, and millimeter wavelengths. The cost of constructing the telescope is expected to be between $25 and $30 million in 1985 dollars by the time of its planned completion in the early 1990s.Carnegie Institution already operates two telescopes at Las Campanas. The location offers a dark nighttime sky, a stable and dry atmosphere, and an excellent latitude for observations from the Southern Hemisphere, according to an announcement from the Carnegie Institution.
NAVD Symposium '85
Authors: Zilkoski David B. , Young Gary M. 
Published: October 2011

The Third International Symposium on the North American Vertical Datum (NAVD Symposium '85 ), hosted by the National Geodetic Survey (NGS), was held at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rockville, Md., April 21–26, 1985. The first symposium on this subject was held in the Canal Zone in January 1979, while the second was held in Canada in May 1980.NAVD Symposium '85 was sponsored by the International Association of Geodesy and the U.S. Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In addition, the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Canada; Pan American Institute of Geography and History; American Geophysical Union; and American Congress on Surveying and Mapping provided support.
1986 James B. Macelwane Awards
Authors: Wyllie Peter J. , Stolper Edward M. 
Published: October 2011

I can think of few things more pleasurable than introducing a young scientist whose research has enhanced his visibility to such an extent that his or her image is clearly distinguishable from among the large number of young scientists publishing excellent research these days.Normally, the recipient of a young scientist award is in a state approaching shock, with mixed feelings of pride and humility and appreciation for all those who guided him or her on the way. For Ed Stolper, however, the situation is different, and he is sitting here quite calmly. Although he is only 33 years old, his image shines brightly enough that it has received attention previously—He was awarded the Clarke Medal of the Geochemical Society in 1985, and he shared the Newcomb Cleveland Prize in 1985 with Sally Rigden and Tom Ahrens for the best 1984 paper in Science. Today it is the Macelwane Award of the American Geophysical Union, and there are still several tomorrows before his age disqualifies him as a young scientist, making it necessary for him to start getting down to serious, mature research.
What is SPAN?
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

SPAN is the Space Physics Analysis Network. This important research tool of the NASA scientific community links space researchers from over 50 institutions throughout the United States. The SPAN system is growing within the United States, and it also is expanding to connect NASA scientists with European and Japanese space research institutions.The SPAN system serves many functions. Its paramount purpose is to provide scientists with a tool that improves their productivity. SPAN has traditionally been used to exchange mail messages, to send data back and forth for scientific papers and analysis workshops, and to share scientific software. SPAN has played a crucial role by disseminating spacecraft data in near‐real time during several recent NASA and ESA program successes, such as the International Cometary Explorer (ICE) spacecraft encounter with Comet Giacobini‐Zinner (see “Behind the Scenes During a Comet Encounter” by J.L. Green and J.H. King, Eos, March 4, 1986, p. 105), the Voyager 2 encounter with Uranus, and the Giotto spacecraft encounter with Comet Halley (see “Networking Ground‐Based Images of Comet Halley during the Giotto Encounter” by D. Rees et al., Eos, December 16, 1986, p. 1385). Of course, SPAN has served a variety of broader purposes. It has provided (and will continue to provide) an excellent testing ground for trying new technologies and for evaluating ideas about processing, storing, and transferring various kinds of information. Until the recent availability of computers sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the SPAN network provided one of the few opportunities for NASA researchers to have ready access to the supercomputers needed for large‐scale numerical simulation of magnetospheric and ionospheric plasma systems. SPAN has also increased its usefulness substantially by the addition of the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) as a data node on the system. The network, which was originally based on a starshaped configuration, has been redesigned over the last year to take advantage of NASA's new Program Support Communications Network (PSCN).