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Standards for groundwater monitoring
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2006

The American Society of Testing and Materials Subcommittee D‐18.21 on Groundwater Monitoring is charged with developing standards for methods and materials used in the conduct of groundwater and vadose zone monitoring investigations. The subcommittee, which is part of ASTM Committee D‐18 on Soil and Rock, is chaired by David M. Nielsen of Westerville, Ohio; vice‐chairman is Ivan Johnson of Arvada, Colo., and secretary is Joseph D. Ritchey of Keck Consulting Services, Inc.Sections within the subcommittee have been formed to address a variety of narrower subject areas, including

surface and borehole geophysics, Wayne Saunders, chairman
vadose zone monitoring, Lome Everett, chairman
monitoring‐well drilling and soil sampling practices, Robert Pentergast, chairman
determination of hydrogeologic parameters, Doug Bedinger, chairman
monitoring‐well design and construction, Martin Sara, chairman
monitoring‐well maintenance, rehabilitation, and abandonment, Steven Nacht, chairman
groundwater sample collection, handling, and field analysis, Beth Martin, chairman
design and analysis of hydrogeologic data systems, Roger Henning, chairman
special problems of monitoring in karst terrains, James Quinlan, chairman
groundwater modeling, J . D. Ritchey, chairman
ASLO Hutchinson Medal to Piatt
Authors: Penhale Polly 
Published: October 2006

The winner of the 1988 Hutchinson Medal of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanogrphy is Trevor Piatt, Chief of the Biological Oceanography Division at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO), Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The award was presented by outgoing president Richard Barber at the ASLO 51st Annual Meeting in Boulder, Colo.After Trevor Piatt received his M.A. in physics from the University of Toronto , he was hired in 1965 by what was then the Fisheries Research Board of Canada to work on optical oceanography at the Bedford Institute. His previous research on focusing and steering electron beams for a linear accelerator notwithstanding, he soon put his knowledge of the measurement of radioactivity and of optics to work as the leader of a project on phytoplankton photosynthesis in a group which later became known as the Marine Ecology Laboratory. Out of this experience and the influence of Lloyd Dickie came an awareness of the need to determine the representativeness of individual field samples, and there followed a Ph.D. thesis (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia) on the scales of variability in phytoplankton biomass and productivity. The themes of variability and optics have continued through his present research on the spatial field of chlorophyll to make estimates of primary production over large space scales.
Sonar data classification
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2006

AGU's special committee, established to examine classification of geophysical information by the U.S. Department of Defense, received a letter from NOAA alerting them to proposed restrictions on side‐looking high‐resolution sonar data. NOAA chief scientist, Melvin Peterson, stressed in his letter to committee chairman John Bossier that “the strength of our science programs in the ocean and our ability to attract good students in the future will b e affected.”At the committee meeting to discuss the issue a NOAA representative briefly outlined the plans of the National Academy of Sciences to have the Naval Studies Board rereview the issue. AGU's committee decided it would be more appropriate to coordinate efforts with NAS rather than act independently. President Don Anderson wrote to Frank Press of NAS to suggest a cooperative effort and proposed the inclusion of two AGU members on the Naval Studies Board. He described both members as experts in their fields that could contribute to the assessment of the problem.
Geochemical self‐organization
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2006

Wind ripples on sand, alternate bars and river meandering, calcareous concretions and oil seals, banded skarns, banded structure in intrusive bodies, oscillatory zoning of crystals… do these have anything in common? The participants at the Geochemical Self‐Organization Workshop held at the University of California, Santa Barbara (June 27–July 1), presented theoretical, experimental, and observational results and debated models and theories to answer this question and beyond.The conference was superbly organized by Peter Ortoleva of Indiana University at Bloomington and was attended by 50 scientists from both academia and industry. More than 40 papers on a wide range of topics were presented by mathematicians, chemists, physicists, chemical engineers, and biologists, as well as geologists. The topics included bifurcation theory and the mathematical basis for nonlinear reaction‐transport modeling; natural convection, kilometer‐scale patterning in sedimentary basins and diagenetic reaction‐transport systems; geomorphic patterns; patterns in magmas; metamorphic differentiation and mechano‐chemical systems; reaction front patterning; and oscillatory crystal zoning.
NASA supports climate research
Authors: Wainger Lisa A. 
Published: October 2006

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is soliciting research proposals for interdisciplinary studies in three areas of climate research: the role of the hydrologic cycle in atmosphere‐surface interactions, trace gas fluxes from ecosystems and their fate in the troposphere, and detection of changes and identification of forcings due to the greenhouse effect in the climate system.Educational, industrial, and nonprofit organizations, and NASA centers and other governmental agencies may participate. The proposal deadline is December 16. Proposals will be evaluated by peer and technical reviews in January and February 1989.
Instrumentation money from DOE
Authors: Bush Susan M. 
Published: October 2006

Six geoscience and environmental departments have received awards through the Department of Energy's University Research Instrumentation Program. A total of $4.8 million has been given to 22 universities in 19 states. The money will go for scientific instruments for energy‐related research, helping alleviate a shortage of new equipment and upgrade outdated instruments.Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts received $217,450 for a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer. Jean K. Whelan said she and coworkers at WHOI are interested in oil and gas generation and will use this more sensitive and accurate spectrometer to measure changes in the time and temperature history of sediments where oil forms. They will be able to look at structures in organic compounds and to identify biomarkers.
Galveston Symposium: Physical Oceanography of the Louisiana/Texas Continental Shelf
Authors: Mitchell Thomas M. , Brown Murray 
Published: October 2006

The Minerals Management Service (MMS), Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region sponsored a symposium on the Physical Oceanography of the Louisiana/Texas (LA/TX) Shelf in Galveston, Texas, on May 24–26, 1988. The symposium brought together a number of physical oceanographers, meteorologists, and ecologists to discuss the state of knowledge and to begin the planning process for a long‐term study of shelf circulation covering the region from the mouth of the Mississippi River to approximately 24° latitude along the Mexican coast and from the shore out to a depth of approximately 500 m. The proposed study, to be a component of the ongoing MMS Environmental Studies Program, is expected to take place during the period 1989–1991. It is anticipated that the work will be done principally through contracts after a competitive procurement process. Specific charges to the participants were as follows:

to assess the current state of knowledge concerning the circulation on the LA/TX shelf
to identify significant gaps in that knowledge
to recommend a field measurement program to address these gaps
to recommend a circulation modeling program for the LA/TX shelf that will improve MMS' oil spill risk assessments
to identify and initiate coordination mechanisms and data‐sharing arrangements with other proposed research efforts
“Headwaters Hydrology” and “Indian Water Rights” Symposia
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2006

The American Water Resources Association's 1989 Spring Symposia, “Headwaters Hydrology,” concurrently with “ Indian Water Rights and Water Resources Management,” will be held in Missoula, Mont., on June 27–30, 1989.“Headwaters Hydrology” will present a timely collection of interrelated topics representing the breadth of water resource management problems and controversies encountered in headwaters regions, including the broad subject themes of wildland hydrology degradation and rehabilitation, and water policy and management.
Symposium on Paleohydrogeology
Authors: Konikow Leonard F. , Siegel Donald I. 
Published: October 2006

A full‐day special session was held at the 1988 AGU Spring Annual meeting in Baltimore on “Paleohydrology: Evolution of Groundwater Flow Systems.” The symposium was cosponsored by the Groundwater Committee of the Hydrology Section of AGU and by the U.S. Committee of the International Association of Hydrogeologists. The symposium focused on how and why long‐term changes in groundwater flow systems can influence the modern distributions of hydraulic head, temperature, and solutes in regional aquifers.Most groundwater investigations today are on problems associated with recent human impacts on present‐day hydrogeologic conditions. For example, groundwater flow and transport models are commonly calibrated using historical data collected during a few years or decades. When models are calibrated, it generally is assumed that the aquifer system is in a natural steady state condition prior to human influence. Papers presented during this symposium demonstrate the fallacy of this assumption in many situations.
13th EGS Assembly
Authors: Barton P. J. 
Published: October 2006

About 1000 scientists from all over the world met in March in Bologna at the European Geophysical Society's 13th General Assembly. Among them were 57 students whose travel to the meeting was subsidized by a travel grant program run by EGS.The meeting sessions were divided among the three sections of EGS, Solid Earth and Planets, Hydrospheres and Atmospheres, and Upper Atmospheres, Ionospheres, Magnetospheres, and External Geophysics. Upcoming issues of Eos will carry reports from the meeting, section by section. Below are reports from two joint sessions.
Best Student Papers for 1988 Spring Meeting
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2006

As a means of encouraging student participation, AGU sections may select Best Student Papers at AGU meetings. Three AGU sections chose to award Best Student Papers at the 1988 AGU Spring Meeting in Baltimore.The Best Student Paper Award for the Geodesy Section was given to Spiros D. Pagiatakis for his paper entitled “Displacements Due to Ocean Tide Loading: An Improved Model Incorporating Anisotrophy, Rotation and Viscoelasticity.” Pagiatakis received his B.Sc.E. from the National Technical University of Athens in 1979 and his M.Sc.E. from the University of New Brunswick in 1983. Since the Spring Meeting, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of New Brunswick, where the title of his thesis was “Ocean Tide Loading on a Self‐Gravitating, Compressible, Layered, Anisotropic, Viscoelastic and Rotating Earth With Solid Inner Core and Fluid Outer Core.” Pagiatakis is currently a Research Fellow with the Geophysics Division of Energy, Mines and Resources in Ottawa.
Hurricane Gilbert
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2006

Hurricane Gilbert, one of the most powerful (category 5) storms on record, devastated the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, on September 14, 1988. Two days earlier, it destroyed an estimated 100,000 of Jamaica's 500,000 houses. Two day slater, it again madel and fall, striking north eastern Mexico, causing more than 200 people to perish.The damage potential scale categories of the Saffir‐Simpson Scale of hurricanes ranges from category 1, a minimal‐sized hurricane with central pressure equal to or greater than 980 mbar, up to category 5, a catastrophicstorm with centralpres sure lower than 920 mbar. Two other category 5 hurricanes affected the Gulf of Mexico region in this century: one in September 1935, which devastated Key West, Fla., and hurricane Camille of August 1969, which caused extensive damage along the Mississippi and Louisiana coastlines.
Bacon‐Bercey Award to Pruett
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2006

Renee A. Pruett, a graduate student at the University of Oklahom; Norman, has been selected as the recipient o the 1988 June Bacon‐ Bercey Scholarship for Women in Atmospheric Sciences. The scholarship, which is administered by AGU, is provided through a gift from noted meteorologist June Bacon‐Bercey.Pruett received her B.S. in mathematics and meteorology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is currently enrolled as a graduate student in the University of Oklahoma's School of Meteorology. Her graduate research involves a numerical investigation of convective‐scale and mesoscale predictability and concentrates on using the three‐dimensional Klemp‐Wilhelmson cloud model as a predictive tool. Eventually, her study will incorporate Doppler radar data to initialize and periodically update the numerical model.
U.S. verification method disputed
Authors: Maggs William Ward 
Published: October 2006

Milo Nordyke, senior scientist at Lawrence Liver more National Laboratory in Liver more, Calif., testified October 6 at a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Soviet test ban noncompliance and the recently concluded Joint Verification Experiment. He said that the the government's method for on‐site test monitoring is intrusive, expensive, and could limit some U.S. weapon design programs. In addition, Gregory Van der Vink of the congressional Office of Technology Assessment presented new evidence that White House charges that the Soviet Union has not complied with the current 150 kiloton test limit are probably without basis.Also testifying were Paul Robinson, U.S. negotiator for the Nuclear Testing Talks; Peter Sharfman, program manager for International Security and Commerce at OTA; and physicist David Hafemeister of California Polytechnical State University, San Luis Obispo.
IAHS Third Scientific Assembly Progress
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2006

Nearly 400 oral and poster papers have been selected and programs are fully developed for all eight symposia of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences Third Scientific Assembly. The proceeding volumes are being typed in preparation for printing prior to the Assembly. A wide variety of organizational details are being handled by AGU staff, serving as the adminstrative group for the Assembly.The Second Circular was printed in its entirety in the July 19 issue of Eos and thus distributed to all AGU members. In addition, separate copies of Circular 2 were printed and distributed widely. Anyone not having this Circular (containing registration and hotel reservation forms) or the Eos article (also with forms) may request copies from the office of the Meetings manager, at AGU headquarters; tel. 202‐462‐6900.
USGS National Water Summary Available
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2006

The fourth in a series of the National Water Summary was released recently by the U.S. Geological Survey. The National Water Summary series describes the status of the nation's water resources and addresses selected water issues of concern to decision makers at all levels of government and the private sector.The focus of the current report is groundwater quality, and it contains an illustrated summary of the principal aquifers in each state, their overall water quality, and information on the sources and distribution of natural and human‐induced groundwater contamination. The report also contains case studies of point and nonpoint sources of groundwater contamination and discussions of groundwater management policy from state and federal perspectives.
Groundwater monitoring standards
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2006

The Water Watch section in the September 20 issue of Eos described activities and accomplishments of standards Subcommittee D18.21 on Ground‐Water Monitoring, part of the American Society for Testing and Materials Committee D18 on Soil and Rock. A typographical error provided the wrong publication number for the proceedings resulting from the symposium held in 1986 in Cocoa Beach, Fla. The publication should be listed as ASTM STP‐963 “Ground‐Water Contamination Field Methods.”The ASTM Ground‐Water Monitoring Subcommittee will meet, as will all its Sections and Task Groups, in Orlando, Fla., January 23–25, 1989, at the Walt Disney World Hilton Hotel. A number of draft standards will be discussed by the sections and Task groups in preparation for Subcommittee ballot. The meetings are open to anyone and there is no registration fee. Detailed schedules and hotel reservation information may be obtained by contacting Robert Morgan, ASTM, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103; tel. 215‐299‐ 5505.
Vadose zone monitoring
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2006

American Society for Testing and Materials Section D18.21.02 is developing a vadose zone soil gas monitoring performance guide (Eos, Oct. 25, p. 978). This performance guide, an ASTM standard, will pertain to the existing methods of soil gas collection, sample handling, sample analysis, QA‐QC, data reporting, and compositional data analysis.Lome Everett, Section Chairman, and William Ullom, Task Chairman, are seeking participation in this effort by users and suppliers of vadose zone soil gas monitoring methods. As a starting point, a performance guide draft outline development questionnaire has been submitted to ASTM for distribution to practitioners of vadose zone soil gas monitoring. The subcommittee invites comments and participation. For a copy of the questionnaire, Bob Morgan may be reached at ASTM, 1916 Race St., Philadelphia, PA 19103; tel. 215‐299‐5400. Deadline for returning completed questionnaires is December 31, 1988.
Quakes to have better locations
Authors: Kennett Brian 
Published: October 2006

New travel time tables to locate earthquakes are being developed under the Subcommission on Earthquake Algorithms of the International Association of Seismology and the Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI).The standard travel time tables used by seismological agencies such as the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., and the International Seismological Centre (ISC) in Newbury, U.K., are the Jeffreys and Bullen tables published in 1940. These tables were developed 1930–1939 based on available observations, when station time keeping was frequently not reliable. Although the limitations of these tables have been recognized, no other tables provide such a complete representation of P, S and core phases.
Why scientists should do history
Authors: Glen William 
Published: October 2006

Scientists often say that only a practicing scientist can understand certain things vital to the workings of science, things that often escape historians. Scientists, more often than not, believe that the sense required to understand how science is done can be gained only by doing it. They suggest that history written by historians, especially internal history, which is based on critical examination of the scientific ideas themselves, will be wanting.The historian, on the other hand, through the methods and techniques of history, social studies and philosophy— tools not often possessed by scientists—can show scientists how their discipline has come to be, how it is bedded in society, and how it derives its esteem and support for being.
U.S.‐U.S.S.R. Space Cooperation
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2006

A renewed spirit of cooperation in space exploration is spurring enthusiasm for U.S.‐U.S.S.R. scientific exchanges, but NASA officials want to make sure that space science personnel and information flow in both directions.At a meeting of a U.S.‐Soviet Joint Working Group (JWG) on Solar System exploration in November, scientists from both countries discussed plans for participation in each other's missions to Mars and the shared use of all data the spacecraft collect. However, an onslaught of proposals for travel to the Soviet Union and the possibility that U.S. instruments may fly on future Soviet missions has led to questions about reciprocity and technology transfer.
Second meeting on IGBP
Authors: Colenbrander H. 
Published: October 2006

The second meeting of the International Council of Scientific Unions Special Committee for the International Geosphere‐Biosphere Program took place in Cambridge, Mass., February 8–11, 1988. The meeting confirmed the four underlying themes of IGBP already identified:

documenting and predicting global change
observing a n d improving our understanding of dominant forcing functions
improving our understanding of transient phenomena
assessing the effects of global change that would cause large‐scale and important modifications affecting the availabilty of renewable and nonrenewable resources
It also considered preliminary reports from the Coordinating Panels set up to oversee the different research projects being developed:

Terrestrial Biosphere‐Atmospheric Chemistry Interactions (Chairman P. J. Crutzen)
Marine Biosphere‐Atmosphere Interactions (Chairman T. Nemoto)
Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle (Chairman S. Dyck)
Effects of Climate Change on Terrestrial Ecosystems (Chairman B. H. Walker) and from the working groups established to assess the current state of knowledge and future prospects on
Global Geosphere‐Biosphere Modelling (Chairman B. Bolin)
Data and Information Systems (Chairman S. I. Rasool)
Techniques for Extracting Environmental Data of the Past (Chairman H. Oeschger)
Geo‐Biosphere Observatories (Chairman R. Herrera)
Pacific current may signal El Niño's end
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2006

The eastward flow of a major equatorial current in the Pacific Ocean was interrupted and reversed for about a month late last year and may have signaled the end of the 1986–1987 El Niño, according to oceanographers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.The findings, based on moored current meter measurements, showed that during September and October 1987, the Equatorial Undercurrent in the western Pacific flowed west at about 0.2–0.4 m/s. Normally the 400‐km‐wide current flows east at about 0.5 m/s across the equatorial Pacific 50–250 m below the ocean surface. The discovery may be important for understanding climate disturbances associated with El Niño since the global climate system is particularly sensitive to variations in the upper ocean heat balance of the western tropical Pacific.
New wetlands plan
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: October 2006

“Protecting America's Wetlands: An Action Agenda,” a report by the National Wetlands Policy Forum, was released November 15 by New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean, chair of the Forum. The group has outlined recommendations to halt and hopefully to reverse the deterioration of our wetlands resources. The report is a start toward solving the nation's wetland problems.Other members of the Forum included co‐chairman Governor Carroll Campbell (S.Dak.), Governor Booth Gardner (Wash.), Conservation Foundation president William K. Reilly, National Wildlife Federation president Jay D. Hair, and ARCO senior vice president Willard T. Chamberlain. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee M. Thomas requested the year‐long study by the Forum.