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In fulfilling its mission as a scientific society, the AGU serves scientists, engineers, and individuals with a multitude of occupations oriented toward geophysics. A broad diversity of interests is expressed in the membership, reflecting the many scientific programs encompassed by the AGU.AGU membership has grown to over 10,000, and it becomes increasingly important to guard against an unwieldy or unmanageable structure that might tend to dilute the high intellectual structural standards of the society. Members who are scientists in the many areas of geophysics and who are actively conducting research contribute in a major way to the purpose of the AGU, and therefore their needs should be served. It is also acknowledged that the interests of geophysical science are furthered if scholarly participation can be encouraged by people whose work and occupations are only marginally associated with geophysics.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO051i011p00710

年代:1970

数据来源: WILEY

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The American Geophysical Union began fifty‐one years ago as basically the United States National Committee for the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, a function which is now served by the Council of the Union, and which through the years has been of major importance to the growth and vitality of the Union. Yet during those first years the small group who served as the U.S. National Committee— the first‐year membership of 50 persons expanded to only 95 in the first ten years—hardly presaged the 10,000‐member society that the Union has become.Important too is the broad range of disciplines involved in geophysics, which attests to the wide sweep of the Union's interests. This range is evidenced by the many Sections and varied publications of AGU and the vigorous and healthy interplay among the disciplines shown at our assemblies by the numerous sessions that are jointly sponsored by two or more Sections or by the Union and other societies. The Union has a substantial and varied clientele to serve, and over the years the officers and Council have shaped the Union's structure and developed its policies to best serve the many interests of its membership. That the Union's leadership has been reasonably successful is indicated by the vitality, activity, and strength of

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO051i011p00711

年代:1970

数据来源: WILEY

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Some programs developed during the Upper Mantle Project, e.g., the studies of continental margins and island arcs, world rift system, and Andean geophysical program, were long‐term efforts that would certainly extend beyond the termination of the UMP. This was explicitly stated by J.M. Harrison, then President of ICSU, in his 1966 announcement of the designation of 1968–1970 as the terminal phase of the UMP.In 1968 various countries recognized the need to begin planning of a long‐range effort to follow the UMP and to capitalize on the important developments that were being called a ‘revolution in earth sciences.’ A recommendation to this effect was made in April 1968 by AGU and the Geophysics Research Board (See June 1968Transactions, pp.448 and 502). Later in 1968, with the approval of ICSU, IUGG and IUGS formed an ad hoc committee to consider plans for a long‐range program of solid‐earth studies. On the basis of the recommendations of the ad hoc committee (See February 1970 EOS), ICSU established the Inter‐Union Commission on Geodynamics to plan and coordinate the Geodynamics Project. The Geodynamics Commission held its first meeting in Flagstaff, Arizona, in June 1970. The commission prepared the following statement of objectives of the Geodynamics Project which was approved by the ICSU General Assembly,

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO051i011p00712

年代:1970

数据来源: WILEY

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One of the most remote coastal regions in Antarctica is now being mapped and its geology described by a team of U.S. Geological Survey engineers and scientists.The first season's exploration of a planned 3‐year project was conducted during the 3‐month period from November 1969 to February 1970 along the Lassiter Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula—that narrow finger of land jutting northward toward South America. The area explored included the Latady, Scaife, Wilkins, and Hauberg mountains, the Rare range, and parts of Wetmore glacier, an area that totals more than 6000 square miles. Aerial photographs taken of this region in 1967 were used to compile a sketch map that served as a guide to the expl

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO051i011p00714-01

年代:1970

数据来源: WILEY

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The Ocean‐Atmosphere Research Institute, on recommendation of the United States‐Japan Committee on Scientific Cooperation has received a grant from the National Science Foundation in partial support of a study of large‐scale sea‐ice, sea temperature, and weather interrelations, and their significance for long‐range foreshadowing.A team of Japanese oceanographers and meteorologists headed by Kantaro Watanabe, Chief, Oceanographic Section, Kobe Marine Observatory, will cooperate with an American group headed by Irving I. Schell, Senior Scientist, Ocean‐Atmosphere Research Institute, Cambridge, Ma

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO051i011p00715

年代:1970

数据来源: WILEY

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The City University of New York's first oceanographic research ship, theAtlantic Twin, was commissioned in July. The 90‐foot twin engine catamaran, which has a range of 4000 miles and a speed of 10 knots, is designed to operate as a laboratory at sea for 200 graduate and undergraduate students and the 25‐member faculty of CUNY's oceanography program. The Atlantic Twin has a capacity for carrying two container laboratories and a multi‐winch system for depth operations.The vessel will enable students and faculty to explore more fully the problems relating to pollution of New York City's harbor and estuaries. Most of the research projects currently underway or planned for the future begin with the identification of pollutants and proceed to attempts to find a profitable means for re‐cycling the contaminated matter, or eliminating it entirely. Biology, geology, biochemistry, and physics are all involved in this action‐ and solution‐oriented approach to ecological research. TheAtlantic Twinis more than a laboratory and work place for oceanographic studies, it represents the university's expanded commitment to serving as a prime ecological resource f

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO051i011p00716-01

年代:1970

数据来源: WILEY

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A number of reports have been published in recent years indicating that sea surface temperatures over rather limited areas, such as the Gulf Stream, can be obtained from satellite infrared measurements. The use of available infrared satellite data for the determination of accurate sea surface temperatures, taking into consideration the various attenuating factors, especially that of cloud cover, has awaited the development and testing of an objective method that lends itself to analysis by computer techniques. Such a simple and reliable statistical histogram model has been perfected to meet this need by W.L. Smith, P.K. Rao, R. Koffler and W.R. Curtis of the National Environmental Satellite Center (ESSA) as reported inMonthly Weather Review, Vol. 98, No. 8, August 1970. The method involves inferring the distribution of surface radiances for the clear atmosphere case from observed histograms of generally cloud‐contaminated radiance

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO051i011p00717

年代:1970

数据来源: WILEY

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A symposium on Mathematical Models in Hydrology will be held in Warsaw, Poland, July 19–24, 1971. It is sponsored by the International Association of Scientific Hydrology (IASH) and supported by Unesco, within the framework of the International Hydrological Decade. Host organizations are the Polish National Committee for the International Hydrological Decade and the Polish National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics. General topics for the symposium include stochastic hydrology, parametric hydrology, and water resources system

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO051i011p00718-02

年代:1970

数据来源: WILEY

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The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) on the University of Colorado campus is intended to promote research and teaching in solid‐earth geophysics, oceanography , radio propagation, the physics of the upper and lower atmospheres, and solar terrestrial relationships, and to serve as a center for multidisciplinary collaboration of research workers from Boulder and the entire world.The permanent Fellows of CIRES are J.C. Harrison, G.C. Reid, J.R. Wait, and J.W. Warwic

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO051i011p00719-01

年代:1970

数据来源: WILEY

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The International Council of Scientific Unions Abstracting Board (ICSU AB) at its annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio in July agreed to proceed with a plan for the first stage of a world system for abstracting and indexing services for science and technology. The member services of the ICSU Abstracting Board are Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts, Bibliographie des Sciences de la Terre, Bibliography and Index of Geology, Biosciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts, Bulletin Signalétique, Chemical Abstracts Service, Chemischer Informationsdienst, Science Abstracts, Physikalische Berichte, Referativnyi Zhurnal, and Zentralblatt fur Mathematik.The first‐stage plan defines guidelines for cooperation among the member services of the Abstracting Board in the acquisition, selection, and exchange of documents for coverage by the services. It is aimed primarily at eliminating much of the duplication in journal acquisition that exists among the world's principal abstracting and indexing servic

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO051i011p00720-01

年代:1970

数据来源: WILEY