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The NSF and the geosciences community: Rotating program officers |
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union,
Volume 69,
Issue 34,
1988,
Page 801-811
Rodey Batiza,
David K. Rea,
Douglas Rumble,
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a federal agency charged with the care and feeding of basic scientific research in U.S. colleges and universities. NSF is a major contributor toward the support of research in Earth, ocean, and atmospheric sciences, disciplines of great importance to AGU members.NSF makes a regular practice of employing scientists from universities, nonprofit research organizations, industry, and state or local governments as temporary program officers (“rotators”) with terms of service from 1 to 2 years. There are several reasons for the use of rotators:It brings to NSF people who have firsthand, recent knowledge of "what it is really like" beyond the Washington, D.C. beltway. Knowledge of new ideas, recent graduates, and a fresh look at the system are worth considerably more than the problems that arise owing to inexperienced program officers.It sheds some sunshine on internal NSF procedures when the rotator returns with his tales to his home institution.It provides NSF management with considerable flexibility in coping with changing staff requireme
ISSN:0002-8606
DOI:10.1029/88EO01070
年代:1988
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Water research grants |
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union,
Volume 69,
Issue 34,
1988,
Page 802-802
Anonymous,
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Applications are invited for water research projects under the Water Resources Research Grant Program (section 105 of Public Law 98‐242). Application forms are expected to be available on or about August 15, 1988, and may be obtained by writing to the U.S. Geological Survey, Attention: Melissa Calloway, MS 205C, Office of Procurement and Contracts, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 22092, and requesting a copy of Announcement 7442. Applications are tentatively due on or before October 14, 1988. The announcement will state the actual due date for receipt of the applications. Applications may be submitted by water resources research institutes and other qualified educational institutions, private foundations, private firms, individuals, and agencies of state or local governments. The purpose of this program is to provide matching grants for research related to the following general areas of national interest: aspects of the hydrologic cycle; supply and demand for water; demineralization of saline and other impaired waters; conservation and best use of available supplies of water and methods of increasng such supplies; water reuse; depletion and degradation of groundwater supplies; improvement in the productivity of water when used for agricultural, municipal, or commerical purposes; and the economic, legal, engineering, social, recreational, biological, geographical, ecological, and other aspects of water problem
ISSN:0002-8606
DOI:10.1029/EO069i034p00802-02
年代:1988
数据来源: WILEY
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Along the waterfront |
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union,
Volume 69,
Issue 34,
1988,
Page 803-803
Anonymous,
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The Gulf Coast province provides an array of scientific dilemmas ranging from the origin of the gulf itself to the causes and effects of long‐lasting circulation of hot, deep waters throughout the thick sedimentary section. The nature of the underlying crust and superjacent sediments and their contained waters; the precise timing of rifting; depositional history and diagenesis of the sedimentary sequence; fluid dynamics; geochemistry; hydrocarbon generation and migration; thermal history, including unusually high thermal gradient; and the fluid pressure regime in the deep sedimentary section are too poorly understood to permit quantitative analysis of processes that are of enormous scientific and practical importance. The area centered on DeWitt and Victoria counties, Texas, on the southeastern extension of the San Marcos arch, is probably the best location for a deep borehole to investigate these important phenomena and problems. The arch extends southeastward from exposed Grenville‐age basement rocks of the Llano uplift and separates the deep South Texas and Houston embayment salt basins. Seaward of the Llano uplift, highly deformed and slightly metamorphosed rocks of the Ouachita‐Marathon orogen have been intersected beneath Cretaceous sediments. The inferred edge of continental crust underlies an extensive Lower Cretaceous reef trend southeast of known Ouachita orogen rocks. Rapid thickening of Tertiary and possibly of Cretaceous sediments southeast of the shelf edge, together with geophysical indications of a relatively shallow Moho, suggests that “transitional continental crust” underlies sediments basinward of the inferred edge of continental crust. This transitional crust, the ultimate objective for a proposed deep well, could be rifted Grenville basement, buried rocks of the Ouachita trend, an island arc related to the Ouachita trend, or exotic continental basement related to a proto‐South American continent. To achieve optimum results to guarantee adequate basement penetration, a borehole should be designed to penetrate a relatively thin succession of lower Mesozoic synrift, graben‐fill sediments seaward of the shelf edge. Because of expected high temperatures and pressures, new technologies will need to be developed to successfully drill and
ISSN:0002-8606
DOI:10.1029/EO069i034p00803-01
年代:1988
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College teachers can upgrade skills |
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union,
Volume 69,
Issue 34,
1988,
Page 804-804
Anonymous,
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The National Science Foundation has announced the second year of its Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Program grants for undergraduate faculty seminars and conferences. NSF provides leadership and financial assistance so colleges and universities can systematically help undergraduate faculty learn new ideas and techniques in their fields and better their teaching skills.Faculty who teach undergraduates have specific needs to stay abreast of recent developments in their disciplines, according to NSF. They need to know of new experimental techniques and how to incorporate them into the classroom, to work with new instruments, to learn about recent theoretical developments in their fields, to synthesize knowledge across their own and other disciplines, and to interact with experts and colleagues. The program requires participants to work actively in their fields and to interact with scientists, engineers, and mathematicians skilled in the topic area, and emphasizes communication with fellow participants.
ISSN:0002-8606
DOI:10.1029/EO069i034p00804-02
年代:1988
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U.S. ocean scientists and engineers: A 1986–1987 profile |
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union,
Volume 69,
Issue 34,
1988,
Page 809-809
Anonymous,
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AGU has recently completed what is probably the most comprehensive human resources survey of U.S. ocean scientists and engineers ever conducted. For this survey, a questionnaire was developed and sent to all those listed in the National Academy of Science'sU.S. Directory of Marine Scientists 1982, AGU members with a primary or secondary Ocean Sciences Section affiliation, individual subscribers to the American Meteorological Society (AMS)Journal of Physical Oceanography, and members of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), the Marine Technology Society (MTS), and the Coastal Society. Lists of faculty and graduate students from major institutions were also obtained to use as mailing lists, as were selected lists from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Acoustical Society of America.More than 17,000 questionnaires were mailed in 1986, followed by a reminder; 5757 questionnaires (about one third of the original total) were returned. In 1987, a follow‐up questionnaire was sent to all who responded to the first questionnaire, and 2100 people responded by the cutoff dat
ISSN:0002-8606
DOI:10.1029/88EO01077
年代:1988
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AGU sponsors U.S. visit for Latin American geophysicist |
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union,
Volume 69,
Issue 34,
1988,
Page 810-810
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Alberto Benavidez, an Uruguayan geophysicist, has been selected to receive travel support under AGU's Latin American Visiting Geophysicist Program. He will attend the 1988 Fall Meeting in San Francisco and visit several U.S. universities and research institutions. He is a member of the Geodesy Section.
ISSN:0002-8606
DOI:10.1029/EO069i034p00810
年代:1988
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