bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
New tornado detector deployed by NOAA
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

National Weather Service facilities at 20 sites along America's ‘tornado alley’ will test a new and significantly improved electronic tornado detector developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.The compact instrument (approximately the size of a typewriter) and its 4‐antenna array constitute the latest model of a device that has been evolving since 1971 in the Wave Propagation Laboratory, one of NOAA's Environmental Research Laboratories in Boulder, Colorado. Cost of the new units is about $2000 each (about $1000 in parts).
Applications of Storm Water Management Models–Short course
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is sponsoring a short course consisting of lectures and workshops on the development and use of computer‐assisted models for the prediction and control of urban storm water quantity and quality. The course will be held August 19–23, 1974, at the university.Special emphasis will be given to the Environmental Protection Agency's Storm Water Management model. Introductory topics will include rainfall runoff relationships, flow routing, storm water quality, and the development, description, and use of storm water models. Case studies illustrating solutions to combined sewer overflow and storm water discharge problems will be presented.
United Nations survey indicates use of desalination plants spreading
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Large‐scale use of desalination plants to produce drinkable water in the world's arid regions has increased rapidly in recent years. However, there has been no dramatic breakthrough in costs, according to a new United Nations study.Results of a survey of desalination plants, the second undertaken by the UN, indicates that treatment of sea water and brackish water is now an established procedure in the Mediterranean region, the Caribbean, Australia, Japan, North and South America, and the Middle East, where fuel costs are low. For example, at Juddah, on the Arabian coast of the Red Sea, a single desalination plant produces 5,000,000 gallons of water per day—enough for 100,000 persons.
Promise her anything!
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Arpege, a computer‐based game created at Carnegie‐Mellon University, is designed to train students and employees of government agencies and industry not merely to enhance the ambient atmosphere but to head off pollution disasters.The Air Pollution Episode Game was completed in August 1973 and is already in service at 15 U.S. and Canadian universities as well as in several pollution control agencies and private firms. Playing instructions have been forwarded by request to Colombia and Mexico. Representatives of a Spanish scientific center are expected to visit CMU soon to examine the game, and the university is getting a steady flow of requests for information about it.
The President's Page: Increasing minority participation in the geophysical sciences [Guest Editorial]
Authors: Whitfield Kennard O. 
Published: October 2011

Perhaps the most ignored yet among the most vital resources in the community are the indigenous talents of members of the ethnic minority groups (black Americans, Spanish surname Americans, Indian Americans) and women. Today only a very limited number of persons from these groups have the professional training and experience to assume professional leadership in the geophysical sciences and related fields.This fact presents community leaders, educational institutions, and professional societies with a crucial problem‐how to develop and utilize the skills of a larger corps of minority specialists in the geophysical professions. Hence the critical question that faces the AGU Committee on Minorities is How can the American Geophysical Union use its resources, most of which are intellectual, with the greatest leverage to increase minority participation in the geophysical sciences both in the short term and over the next generation?
Snow mechanics
Authors: Colbeck Samuel C. , Perla R. I. 
Published: October 2011

The International Symposium on Snow Mechanics was held April 1–5, 1974, in Grindelwald, Switzerland, under the sponsorship of the International Association of Hydrological Science.The conference, organized by the International Commission on Snow and Ice, attracted participants from a number of countries to discuss the physical and mechanical fundamentals of snow. Four review papers provided the basis to which authors added new material for the consideration of the small, select group of snow mechanicians.
“Simulation in perspective” Computer conference theme
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

‘Simulation in Perspective’ is the theme of the Summer Computer Simulation Conference to be held July 9–11, 1974, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston.The conference is sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Meteorological Society, Instrumentation Society of America, Society for Computer Simulation, Society to Help Avoid Redundant Effort (SHARE, an IBM users group), Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE), and AGU.
IHD Council Meeting; End‐of‐decade conference; Tercentenary Symposiums
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The end of the International Hydrological Decade (IHD), which actually comes with the end of 1974, is being marked by three meetings in Paris from August 29 through September 14, 1974. The three meetings are the ninth and last session of the IHD Coordinating Council on August 29–30; the End‐of‐Decade Conference (ENDEC), which extends from September 2 to 14;; and the Tercentenary of Scientific Hydrology, which takes place September 9–12, during ENDEC. All meetings will be held in Unesco House in Paris.The following schedule of events is based on information available to the U.S. National Committee.
The President's Page: Earthquake prediction and public reaction [Guest Editorial]
Authors: Hamilton Robert M. 
Published: October 2011

Within the last year, two earthquakes in the United States—one in New York and the other in California—have been successfully predicted on the basis of variations in seismic wave travel time. Recent studies revealed that two shocks in central California could have been predicted by similar methods. In addition, tiltmeters operating in central California since May 1973 have shown premonitory tilting for at least 10 earthquakes that occurred near an instrument.Although these seismic wave travel time and tilt precursors were observed for small and moderate earthquakes, magnitude 5 or less, earlier results of a similar nature are on record from the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States for larger earthquakes, including the shock near San Fernando, California, in 1971. The dilatancy‐fluid diffusion theory has been developed to account for the observations. An earthquake prediction capability is apparently not far away.
Short course on sulfide mineralogy
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The Mineralogical Society of America will sponsor a short course on sulfide mineralogy from November 15 to 17, 1974, immediately preceding the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Miami.The course will consist of a fundamental review of the crystal chemistry, phase equilibriums, bonding, and physical and chemical properties of sulfide materials. Topics to be included are basic and derivative structures, polymorphism, polytypism, nonstoichiometry, and exsolution; phase equilibriums of mineralogically important systems, experimental techniques, kinetics, and thermochemistry; and crystal field, molecular orbital, and band theory as applied to sulfides.
New product
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A dew point hygrometer that adapts the primary measurement capability of the optical, chilled‐mirror hygrometer to industrial requirements has been introduced by the Environmental Equipment Division of EG&G.The new Model 440 hygrometer is a compact, portable unit providing continuous direct reading of dew point, with automatic self‐standardization and National Bureau of Standards traceability. It features a broad operating range, rapid response and linear output. The instrument uses the same high‐precision optical technique employed in EG&G laboratory hygrometers, which are often used as standards and calibrators.
Energy: Natural limits and abundances
Authors: von Arx William S. 
Published: October 2011

With the decline of ancient civilization—the successive incinerations of the great Library of Alexandria in the fourth century and the Moslem conquest of Egypt in the seventh—it remained for Persian and Arabian scholars to assemble, record, and continue to enlarge knowledge. The western world became aware of this heritage during the Crusades of the twelfth century when translations of Arabic records became available in Latin and various other tongues. These events provided the intellectual fuel for the Renaissance and eventually for the industrial revolution, which, according to so me, has about run its course.Today the Arabs are again influencing history. They are making us realize that industrialized society is critically dependent upon the natural abundance of fuels. Indeed, by their petroleum export policies, they have forced us to reexamine our patterns of living and our demands upon the resources of the earth.
Earthquake mechanism and displacement fields close to fault zones: Report on the Sixth GEOP Research Conference
Authors: Allen C. R. , Berger Jon , Mueller Ivan I. , Savage J. C. , Weertman J. 
Published: October 2011

The Sixth Geodesy/Solid Earth and Ocean Physics (GEOP) Research Conwas held on February 4–5, 1974, at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California. It was attended by about 100 persons.James N. Brune, program chairman, opened the conference and delivered the introductory address, a somewhat extended version of which is printed elsewhere in this issue. Brune's paper and the following summaries of the sessions constitute a report of the conference.
NASA invites participation in Lunar Research Program
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is continuing to encourage and support research on all aspects of lunar science, according to Noel W. Hinners, director of the Lunar Programs office.Scientists who are not now involved in lunar science programs but who have special research capabilities, new ideas, or new techniques are encouraged to participate in NASA's broadly based programs, which include (1) experimental and theoretical research on lunar materials, (2) lunar data analysis and synthesis, in which published and other generally available data are used, and (3) support of research and technology designed to facilitate achievements in other lunar programs, e.g., theoretical studies, laboratory simulations, meteorite research, and advanced experiment concepts.
Meteorological observations and instrumentation subject of meeting
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Dates have been announced by the American Meteorological Society for its Third Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation, which will have as its theme ‘Observations and Instruments for Mesoscale Phenomena.’ The meeting will be held February 10–13, 1975, at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.AGU is among the scientific societies cooperating in sponsorship of the symposium.
New products
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Four different bases are available for the new H/I Micromanipulator M so that, depending on application, a stationary, traversing, revolving, or magnetic type of platform can now be selected.This precision micromanipulator provides for vertical, horizontal, and tilting adjustments. Coarse adjustments are by rack and pinion; fine motions are controlled by micrometer spindle.
Forecasting water use in a constrained environment
Authors: Weiss Arden O. 
Published: October 2011

Traditional water use forecasting methodologies have been based primarily upon extrapolation of historical trends into the future, using either single or multidimensional regression analysis. However mathematically eloquent, these techniques are in many cases today totally inadequate for providing planners and decision makers with meaningful guidance on expected future water use.The primary reason for this lies with the pure and simple fact that in more and more cases within the United States, the ‘limits to growth’ concepts are beginning to be felt in both the heavy water using portions of the economy and the portions not related to water. The direct and indirect effects of this on future water use are impossible to predict with any confidence by using forecasting techniques based on the analysis and extrapolation of historical trends. To correct this, the following basic concepts should guide the development and utilization of future water use forecasting procedures.
IFYGL Office moves, now part of GLERL
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The U.S. IFYGL Project Office has moved from Rockville, Maryland, to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where it is the principal component of the newly formed Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).GLERL includes the IFYGL Project Office and scientists from the NOAA/National Ocean Survey's Lake Survey Center in Detroit (and will utilize some of the LSC's facilities, such as the 65‐foot R.V. Shenehon). The laboratory is the newest of the chain of 18 NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratories (whose headquarters is in Boulder, Colorado).
New values of fundamental physical constants published
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A review of the measurements bearing on the fundamental physical constants appears in a publication recently issued under the sponsorship of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Physics, and the National Bureau of Standards.The review appears in the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, volume 2, number 4. It was prepared by E. Richard Cohen and Barry N. Taylor and is titled The 1973 Least‐Squares Adjustment of the Fundamental Constants.
The First Annual Midwestern AGU Meeting
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The First Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Region of the American Geophysical Union will be held September 25–27, 1975, at Madison, Wisconsin, on the University of Wisconsin campus.The Midwestern region includes the 12 states Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Iowa, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas and the province of Ontario. About 10% of the AGU membership resides in these states.
AGI Minority Participation Program first scholarship award made
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The American Geological Institute (AGI) has awarded the first scholarship under its Minority Participation Program to Fernando Blackgoat, a Navajo geology student at Northern Arizona University of Flagstaff. The $2000 for the scholarship was provided by AGU.AGI is now accepting nominations for scholarships for minority geoscience majors and expects to award five or more scholarships averaging $2000 each by the end of this year. Funds for the scholarships are provided by AGI member societies, corporate members and associates, other corporations, and individuals. Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of academic excellence, need, and probable future success in the geoscience family of professions.
President's Commission for White House Fellows invites applications
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The President's Commission for White House Fellows is accepting applications for the 20 fellowships to be granted for the year 1975–1976. This nonpartisan program seeks to draw America's brightest and most promising young people to Washingt on for a closer look at their government and the opportunities it offers for public service careers.Since the program's inception in 1964, 169 women and men from a variety of professions, cultures, and backgounds have been selected to participate as fellows.
Symposium on Thermal Waters: Papers solicited
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A call for papers has been issued for the International Symposium on Thermal and Chemical Problems of Thermal Waters, to be held during the Sixteenth General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) on the campus of the University of Grenoble, France, August 29–September 1, 1975. Sponsors of the symposium are the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and the International Association of Volcano logy and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI).The program will consist of invited and offered papers on thermal water distribution patterns, geothermal zones of the earth's crust, geochemistry of thermal waters in various regions, utilization of the heat components of thermal waters, and thermal pollution.
Conference on Conversion of Refuse to Energy Issues, call for papers
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A call for papers has been issued by the First International Conference on Conversion of Refuse to Energy to be held in Montreux, Switzerland, November 3–5, 1975. The conference will concentrate on the technical, economic, operational, and socio‐environmental aspects of solutions to the dual problems of refuse disposal and energy supply.Sponsors of the meeting are the World Environment and Resources Council, Swiss Society for Protection of the Environment (SGU), Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the U.S. Environment and Resources Council, which includes the American Meteorological Society, American Phytopathological Society, IEEE, Institute of Environmental Sciences, and Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
RANN guidelines for preparing unsolicited proposals
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Science Foundation has issued new Guidelines for Preparation of Unsolicited Proposals to the Program of Research Applied to National Needs (RANN). Copies can be obtained by ordering NSF 73‐37 from the foundation.Tentative plans have been developed for issuance of several proposal solcitations during the current fiscal year in specific elements of the RANN program. Institutions or individuals who wish to receive copies of the RANN solicitations or the guidelines publication should write to the Office of Programs and Resources, Research Applications, NSF, 1800G Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20550.
Laser Doppler measurement methods subject of 1975 Symposium
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

A symposium to be held August 25–28, 1975, at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen wiU have as its theme ‘The Accuracy of Flow Measurement by Laser Doppler Methods.’ The meeting is sponsored by the university's Department of Fluid Mechanics and by Disa Elektronik A/S, Denmark.The purposes of the symposium are (1) to establish the value of Doppler anemometry by quantifying the sources of error associated with the possible components of a laser Doppler anemometer and the possible percision of measurements of velocity correlations and spectra in different flow configurations and (2) to facilitate communication between those who develop, use, or may in the future use laser Doppler anemometry.
Review of Symposium on Deep‐Seated Rocks and Geothermometry
Authors: Boettcher A. L. 
Published: October 2011

This Special Session was organized and chaired by Orson L. Anderson for the Fifty‐Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held in April 1974. Five invited papers were presented, four dealing with the mantle of the earth and the fifth with samples of the core.The first paper, 'The Mantle Sample From the Kimberlites and an Estimated Geotherm,' was by F.R. Boyd, Jr., of the Geophysical Laboratory. Some of the results have been published previously [Boyd, 1973a, b]. Basically, Boyd compared the compositions of pyroxenes in ultramafic nodules in kimberlites with compositions of pyroxenes synthesized under known pressures and temperatures to establish what he interprets as a fossil (Cretaceous) geotherm beneath Lesotho (Africa) and elsewhere, for example, beneath Montana [Hearn and Boyd, 1973] (see Figure 1). In these instances, the high‐pressure (deep) leg of the geotherm is inflected to higher temperatures. The rocks that plot on the lowtemperature, shallower segment of the geotherm have a ‘normal’ granular texture, but those on the deep (high‐temperature) segment are sheared. Boyd suggests that movement of the Cretaceous lithospheric plates sheared the underlying deepseated mantle rocks, concomitantly heating them above their predrift temperatures. Eruption of the kimberlites at about this time quenched in the high‐temperature, high‐pressure compositions of the pyroxenes, thus preserving a record of the perturbed geotherm.
Some data from GATE to be available soon
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Energy from the tropical sun is stored in ocean water and is carried into the atmosphere as the water evaporates. As the water vapor condenses into clouds and liquid droplets freeze, the energy explodes in the form of weather—a solitary cumulus cloud over the sea or an extensive low‐pressure system sweeping up the eastern seaboard of the United States.On September 23, 1974, GATE—the Atlantic Tropical Experiment of the United Nations' Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP)—completed three months of the most intensive meteorological research ever undertaken. The project, sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization and the International Council of Scientific Unions, involved an area of tropical land and sea covering 20 million square miles and extending from the eastern Pacific Ocean, across Latin America, the Atlantic, and Africa, to the Western Indian Ocean. Seventy nations participated in the research aimed at better understanding the equatorial exchanges of energy and matter that ultimately control much of the world's weather.
Research opportunities for 1975
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

The National Research Council has announced its Postdoctoral Research Associateship programs for 1975. These programs provide scientists and engineers with opportunities for postdoctoral research on problems in the fields of atmospheric and earth sciences, chemistry, engineering, environmental sciences, life sciences, mathematics, physics, and space sciences.NRC administers these programs on behalf of and in cooperation with certain federal research organizations with laboratories at more than 80 geographic locations in the United States. Appointments are awarded on a competitive basis and are open to recent recipients of the doctorate and in some cases to senior investigators. Some are open to citizens of other countries than the United States.
Statistics on energy published by Bureau of Mines
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2011

Facts on where America's energy came from in 1972, how much was consumed, and which sectors of the economy used it, are charted state by state and region by region in a new statistical report from the Interior Department's Bureau of Mines.In the report, total 1972 energy consumption in the United States is compared with consumption in 1971 and with preliminary figures for 1973. For each state and region the number of mines producing coal and uranium and wells producing oil and gas is given, along with the count of nuclear power stations, hydropower installations, and generating plants running on oil, gas, and coal. Total gross and net energy ‘input’ and consumption are listed regionally and by state. Per capita and total energy consumption are also listed by state, the bureau said, although such figures necessarily include energy contained in that part of the electric power output that is consumed outside the producing state.