bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
New NAS members
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Academy of Sciences elected 60 new members and 14 foreign associates April 25.Five new members are geophysists and geologists: William A. Berggren, senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts; Stephen J. Gould, professor of geology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Warren B. Hamilton, research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colo.; Peter Meyer, professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies and chairman of the Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Illinois; and John G. Sclater, Shell Distinguished Professor of Geophysics and associate director of the Institute of Geophysics, University of Texas, Austin.
Geologic applications of surface science
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

We are soliciting contributions to a semi‐annual newsletter covering the general field of surface science studies of geologic materials. Any contributions concerning techniques (AES, XPS, SIMS, ELS, Laser Raman, FTIR, Rutherford Backscattering, solution geochemistry, etc.), processes such as adsorption, and catalysis, and new applications will be welcome.In the first edition we hope to identify workers currently engaged in surface science studies, cite their recent contributions, and review their ongoing research activities. Subsequent editions can be used as an open forum to discuss topical issues, offer practical advice on analytical techniques, or to rapidly communicate new discoveries. This newsletter will be summarized twice a year in the VGP News. For the first newsletter please send a list of your recent contributions to surface science, a short note on your current research activities, and any suggestions for a name and acronym for this informal group before June 30, 1989. Contributions may be sent to David Mogk, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717.
Ride to direct Gal Space
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The California Space Institute at the University of California, San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography has appointed former astronaut Sally K. Ride as director. James Arnold, founding director of the California Space Institute (Cal Space) is stepping down to teach and d o research full time.In her new position, Ride will oversee a $3.3 million research institute headquartered at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography that involves all eight University of California general campuses. Since 1987 when Ride left NASA, she has been a fellow of the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University.
Oil reservoir simulation package
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Department of Energy has announced another computer software package available free to oil field operators. The program enables a user to predict possible oil production based on length and location of the wellbore and can simulate expected performance of multiple horizontal or slanted wells in any geometric combination.The new package is for small independent producers with little computer programming capability. The intent is to help them evaluate potential for boosting production by drilling horizontal or slanted wells instead of the more conventional vertical well.
NASA study grants
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

To expand human exploration of the Solar System, the Office of Exploration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded 20 contracts for ideas, concepts, devices, systems, and trajectory, operation and implementation plans. Winning proposals came from five industry‐related firms, two organizations in the space‐support business, and thirteen universities; they were chosen from 115 entries.Geophysical studies to be supported include site characterization of the Oregon moonbase (Oregon L‐5 Society, Inc., Oregon City), evolution of design alternatives for exploration of Mars by balloon (Titan Systems, Inc., San Diego, Calif.), design considerations of a lunar production plant (Boston University, Chestnut Hill, Mass.), planetary materials and resource utilization (Michigan Technological University, Houghton), Mars tethered sample return study (University of Colorado, Boulder), Teleprospector, a teleoperated robotic field geologist (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque), and the International Lunar Polar Orbiter (International Space University, Boston, Mass.).
AWG Scholarships
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Association for Women Geoscientists will give two Chrysalis Scholarships in 1990. The awards are for women who returned to school after an interruption in education of at least a year and who are finishing a thesis for a Masters or Ph.D. degree in geoscience.1989 was the first year for the Chrysalis. The recipient, Diane Bellis, was a doctoral candidate in geochemistry at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro and the mother of four. She received her Ph.D. in May and is currently an AAAS Fellow in the Department of State in Washington, D.C., working on U.S. science policy in Africa and Latin America.
Grants
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Engineering Foundation has announced a major expansion of its grant program and has extended the deadline for 1990 applications to December 15, 1989. With a grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research the foundation has added the new Air Force Engineering Research Initiation Grants program to parallel its ongoing Engineering Research Initiation Grants Program. For information contact the Engineering Foundation, 345 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017; tel. 212‐705‐7835.The Office of Technology Asssessment of the U.S. Congress will select as many as six fellows for 1990–1991. The program is open to individuals working in physical and biological sciences, engineering,, law, economics, environmental and social sciences, and public policy. The annual salary ranges from $28,000 to $55,000. OTA provides congressional committees with analyses of issues involving science and technology, such as energy, agriculture, international security, environment, and education. For information contact Congressional Fellowships, Personnel Office, Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States, Washington, DC 20510‐8025. Application deadline is January 31, 1990.
AGU Ocean Science Award
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Ocean Science Executive Committee has announced that nominations are needed for its Award given for outstanding service to the marine science community. Service may include leadership, management, sharing of data, analysis techniques or models, as well as facility or instrumentation development. In every case, the service must go well beyond the normal requirements of an individual's job specifications. The individual must be nationally recognized for such service.The executive committee will review nominations and designate awardee(s). Nominations should consist of a paragraph describing the individual's qualifications with respect to the award as well as a list of potential referees. While nominations can be considered at any time, it is customary for an annual assessment of potential awardee(s) to occur in early fall. The award is not given on any specific schedule, annual or otherwise. When the award is made, the awardee may select the meeting where he/she wishes to receive the award.
Minority scholarships
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The American Geological Institute sponsors undergraduate and graduate geoscience scholarships for members of ethnic minority groups. U.S. citizens who are majoring in geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, planetary geology, or Earth science education, and who are Black, Hispanic or Native American are eligible.Undergraduate awards can be as large as $10,000 a year; graduate awards, $4000 a year. Application deadline is February 1, 1990. Contact AGI Minority Participation Program Scholarships, American Geological Institute, 4220 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22302‐1507; tel. 703‐379‐2480.
Phillips funds AWG lectures
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Association for Women Geoscientists Foundation has received a $9000 grant from Phillips Petroleum Company to fund the Phillips‐AWG Distinguished Lectures. The money will pay travel expenses for the women geoscientists listed with the AWG Speakers Bureau.More than 100 women geoscientists are available through the AWG Speakers Bureau. Their topics cover all the Earth sciences including geology, geophysics, geochemistry, paleobotany, planetary geology and mineral exploration. Their areas of study range from the U.S., Europe and South America to Mars. They come from academia, government and industry in 33 states and the District of Columbia.
Iridium and hot‐spot volcanos
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Condensed gases from a volcano produced by the same hot spot that spilled the Indian Deccan flood basalts at the boundary of the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods contain iridium, according to a new study.Jean‐Paul Toutain of the Observatoire Volcanologiques and Georges Meyer of the Institut de Physique du Globe, both in Paris, made measurements on sublimates and incrustations around active vents of arc, intracontinental, continental rift, and hot‐spot volcanic environments. In a paper published in the December 1989 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, the researchers claimed that the composition of the deposits represents that of gases emitted by the volcanos. Toutain and Meyer found that only sublimates from the hot‐spot volcano Piton de la Fournaise on Reunion Island in the southwest Indian Ocean contained measurable amounts of of the platinum‐group element iridium; they measured up to 7.5 ppb of the element in sublimates deposited at 250–450°C.
Marine aggregate dynamics
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The direction and scope of the Office of Naval Research's Marine Aggregate Dynamics Accelerated Research Initiative will be the topic of an open‐house style meeting February 14, 7:30–10:00 P.M. in Ballroom D of the Hyatt Regency New Orleans at the Louisiana Superdome. This meeting is scheduled during the AGU/American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Ocean Sciences Meeting February 12–16 in New Orleans.The critical focus of the ARI is the measurement and modeling of the dynamics of the biological, physical, chemical and molecular processes that drive aggregation and produce aggregates. This new ARI will provide funding in Fiscal Years 1991–1995 to identify and quantify mechanisms that determine the distribution, abundance and size spectrum of aggregated particulate matter in the ocean.
NSF 1990 Plan
Authors: Jones R. 
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation has released its Fiscal Year 1990 Current Plan, making expected cuts in some of the activities it supports. These cuts come on the heels of the reduction of grant and cooperative agreement increments by 2% from their originally committed amounts.NSF started with the budget request for FY 1990, subtracted the amounts cut by Congress, Gramm‐Rudman‐Hollings sequestration, and the across‐the‐board reductions for the war on drugs, and then calculated an overall funding increase of 8% over FY 1989. Funding for research and related activities was “particularly hard hit,” NSF said, and will increase by only 5%. The increase is 6% when the amount for academic research facilities is included. (That amount would have been lower had not money been reallocated into academic research facilities that was to have been used to build 10–12 new science and technology centers.)
Poker Flat Radar data archived
Authors: Gage Kenneth S. 
Published: October 2011

An archive of Poker Flat Mesosphere, Stratosphere and Troposphere (MST) radar observations has recently been completed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Aeronomy Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. The Poker Flat MST radar was one of the first wind‐profiling Doppler radars. Construction began in 1978 near Fairbanks, Alaska, with the support of the National Science Foundation, and the radar was in routine operation from early 1979–1985.The archive includes observations of vertical and horizontal velocities, Doppler spectral width of horizontal and vertical motions, and signal strength. The observations are essentially continuous in time and cover an altitude range of about 5–30 km and 55–95 km, depending on season and time of day. In preparing the archive, data were carefully checked for consistency, and a special effort was made to optimize the retrieval of data from altitudes with low signal‐to‐noise ratio.
TRW Contributes $10,000
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Solar‐Planetary Relationships Section proposed in fall 1988 that a fund be established to honor Fred Scarf, who died July 17, 1988, while in the Soviet Union for launch of the missions to Phobos (see “Frederick L. Scarf, 1930–1988,” Eos, 69, 1601, 1988). TRW of Redondo Beach, Calif., Fred's employer, agreed to match the money contributed when the amount reached $10,000.The fund has now grown to just over $8000 and TRW, in good faith that the fund will reach $10,000, has sent AGU a check for $10,000. TRW and AGU both believe that this fund is an especially fitting way for Fred to be remembered.
Lakes to be paired
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Lake Baikal in the U.S.S.R. and Lake Superior in the U.S. will be paired for studying global freshwater problems, by terms of an agreement signed in January by U.S. and Soviet ecological organizations. They will establish twin facilities to be internationally managed at the two lakes, exchange scientists and information, and translate and publish information on global freshwater issues.The Lake Superior Center, Duluth, Minn., signed protocols with four Soviet ecological organizations and added four Soviet citizens to its board of directors. The center also has arranged for 10 Soviet scientists to attend an international freshwater conference in fall 1990 in Duluth. The conference will address scientific issues relating to large lakes.
New shuttle?
Authors: Jones R. 
Published: October 2011

A good demonstration of voting power was provided at a March 13 markup hearing of the House Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications. After somewhat heated debate, the subcommittee voted generally along party lines to construct a new unmanned shuttle.Although the House and Senate have not agreed on final Fiscal Year 1990 NASA authorizing legislation, which both chambers passed last year, the subcommittee put its final touches on a new 3‐year NASA authorization bill. H.R. 4196 provides a 23% increase in budget authority, authorizing $3.4 billion in FY 1991, $11.2 billion in FY 1992, and $16.2 billion in FY 1993. Space interests have long sought a multiyear authorization, claiming it would ensure budget stability.
Regional and mesoscale modeling of ice covered oceans
Authors: Johannessen Johnny A. , Haugan Peter M. , Owens W. Brechner 
Published: October 2011

Members of the ice‐ocean modeling community discussed and compared modeling approaches, capabilities, limitations and future goals at the Regional and Mesoscale Modeling of Ice Covered Oceans workshop, held near Bergen, Norway, October 23–27, 1989. The goal was to determine how well geophysical processes present in ice‐covered oceans are understood and modeled, and to identify data from upcoming field investigations, including satellite remote sensing, that can be used to determine processes that crucially control climatic changes on seasonal or longer time scales. Sponsored by the International Association for Physical Sciences of the Ocean, the Office of Naval Research, and Rieber Shipping Ltd., the workshop attracted more than 60 attendees from the U.S., Canada, U.S.S.R., Japan, New Zealand, France, F.R.G., U.K., Italy, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway.Forty‐two papers were presented in five separate sessions that addressed formation of eddies, jets and vortex pairs; marginal Ice Zone and interior ice dynamics; data blending and assimilation techniques in regionaloperational modeling of the Greenland and Barents seas; coupling of sea ice to atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers; and sea ice‐ocean coupling in large‐scale circulation models. The discussions that followed formal presentations in each session are summarized in this report.
[Comment on “NASA big winner in budget” by M. Mulhall] Planetary research loses
Authors: Chapman Clark R. 
Published: October 2011

The news story “NASA Big Winner in Budget” (Eos, March 6, 1990, p. 315) is misleading, especially since it is printed in a publication that chiefly addresses scientists. One can imagine that the 24% increase in the budget of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration benefits someone, but that certainly does not include working planetary research scientists.The article says that the budget “contains healthy increases for most activities.” Seeing the apparent increase in the Research and Analysis (R&A) line‐item for Planetary Exploration (from $70.6 to $89.5 million between Fiscal Year 1990 and FY 1991), one might think that planetary research will suddenly benefit after a decade of erosion and decline. But that is not true.
Edward A. Flinn, III, 1931”1989
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Edward A. Flinn, III, 57, died of prostate cancer on August 13, 1989, after a long debilitating illness. He will be well remembered for his contributions to science as well as his human qualities.Ted Flinn was an internationally renowned Earth scientist, expert particularly in the fields of seismology and space geodesy. Ted's most recent and probably greatest impact on the scientific community was in geodesy. As Chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Geodynamics Program, he directed a global research effort using laser‐ranging to satellites and to the Moon, together with radiation from quasars, to detect the motion and deformation of the Earth's crust. Under his leadership, the program expanded to include five other federal agencies and about 24 foreign countries. This spectacularly successful international cooperation is exemplary of Ted Flinn's broad vision and scope.
WHPA Code available
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Wellhead Protection Area (WHPA) code is now available for distribution by the International Ground Water Modeling Center in Indianapolis, Ind. The WHPA code is a modular, semi‐analytical, groundwater flow model developed for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Ground Water Protection. It is designed to assist state and local technical staff with the task of WHPA delineation.The model consists of four independent, semi‐analytical modules that may be used to identify the areal extent of groundwater contribution to one or multiple pumping wells. One module is a general particle tracking program that may be used as a post‐processor for two‐dimensional, numerical models of groundwater flow. One module incorporates a Monte Carlo approach to investigate the effects of uncertain input parameters on capture zones. Multiple pumping and injection wells may be present and barrier or stream boundary conditions may be investigated.
Methods for estimating constituent loads in rivers
Authors: Cohn Timothy A. 
Published: October 2011

The purpose of this session, held at the 1989 Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco, was to discuss recent advances in methods for estimating the loads of dissolved and sediment‐bound constituents transported by streams and rivers. The issue is important because many local, state and regional water authorities require accurate estimates to guide their water‐quality management practices.The session dealt with two major topics: analysis of existing data sets, and design of efficient sampling procedures for future data collection. The papers were about techniques for small streams as well as large rivers, employing both high and low frequency sampling. Several presentations dealt with case studies and problems that have been encountered in practice. Abstracts of the eleven contributed and invited papers were published in Eos (70, 1105–1106, 1989). About 60 people attended the session, chaired by Timothy A. Cohn of the U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va. The session was sponsored by the AGU Hydrology Section.
USGS maps Lake Michigan “forest”
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Sonar mapping and seismic monitoring equipment will be used to map an underwater “forest” of prehistoric tree stumps recently discovered in Lake Michigan off Chicago. The U.S. Geological Survey, Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, and the state geological surveys of Illinois and Indiana began mapping the area May 14. The primary mapping area will be about 2 square miles and is about 15 miles from the Chicago shoreline.Scientists from the Illinois State Geological Survey and Northeastern Illinois University found that the stumps found so far are oak trees that grew about 8000 years ago; this finding could change previous assumptions about the geologic history of the lake.
1990 AGU Walter Sullivan Award: Does anybody really know what time it is?
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

“It is no easy task to take a subject as obscure and technical as the determination of time and present it to the general public in a style which is at once humorous and rigorously correct” stated Alice Babcock of the U.S. Naval Observatory in nominating Joel Achenbach's article “Second Thoughts” for this year's Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Scientific Journalism. “Achenbach's article is the most engaging, in‐depth, and accurate account that I have either read or heard on this subject,” Babcock said.Achenbach, a staff writer on The Miami Herald, received the Sullivan Award on May 31 at AGU's Spring meeting in Baltimore, Md. The award is given for a single article or radio/television report on geophysics, the study of Earth, or its environment in space. The judging panel included Walter Sullivan, New York Times; Athelstan Spilhaus, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, (retired); Janet Luhmann, University of California, Los Angeles; Carl Sagan, Cornell University; Marilyn Suiter, American Geological Institute; and Carl Kisslinger, University of Colorado.
Groundwater report released
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The internationally staffed Task Committee on Artificial Recharge of Ground Water, associated with the Irrigation and Drainage Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers, has completed their first report. Published by ASCE, the 644‐page “Artificial Recharge of Ground Water,” edited by A. I. Johnson and Donald J. Finlayson, presents 63 papers by specialists from eleven countries and nine U.S. states.The authors report that artificial recharge of groundwater has recently become one of the thrusts for government and local funding in arid parts of the United States as well as in many arid countries. This has been due to problems created by increasing development of irrigation and public water supply from groundwater and consequent lowering of water tables to uneconomically low levels. The use of surplus surface flood waters and treated waste water to recharge the water tables is shown to have been done in many locations for many years and is likely to increase on an exponential scale as industrialized nations grow and developing countries modernize and require more water per capita.