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Space physics mission gives hands‐on experience to students |
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union,
Volume 77,
Issue 39,
1996,
Page 377-381
Supriya Chakrabarti,
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In February 1995, two small satellite missions designed by college students were selected for flight. The missions selected were two of 66 proposed for a program called STudent Explorer Demonstration Initiative (STEDI), which was developed in response to a challenge from NASA to demonstrate that first‐rate science and technology missions could be conducted in academic environments according to budget and schedule and with a smaller fiscal base than that of other missions.The teams selected to fly their missions are based at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Center for Space Physics at Boston University (BU). Their missions will be conducted under a strict budget of $4.31 million over 3 years with a nominal 1‐year period of science operations. The Boston University project, which this article will focus on, is called the Tomographic Experiment using Radiative Recombinative EUV and Radio Sources (TERRIERS). (Readers are encouraged to browse the WWW server http://net.bu.edu/terriers.ht
ISSN:0002-8606
DOI:10.1029/96EO00256
年代:1996
数据来源: WILEY
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Minority Fellowships |
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union,
Volume 77,
Issue 39,
1996,
Page 378-378
Michael Carlowicz,
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In an effort to increase the number of ethnic minorities on the faculties of American colleges and universities, the Ford Foundation is offering fellowships to members of six groups who have been severely underrepresented in academia.In a program administered by the National Research Council (NRC), the Ford Foundation is offering 50 three‐year predoctoral fellowships ($14,000 per year, plus a $6000 annual institutional grant) and 25 one‐year dissertation fellowships ($18,000 for one year) to Native American Indians, Alaskan natives (Eskimos, Aleuts), Black/African Americans, Mexican Americans/Chicanos, Native Pacific Islanders (Polynesians and Micronesians), and Puerto Ricans. Fellowships will be awarded in the behavioral and social sciences, humanities, engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, life sciences, or interdisciplinary programs composed of two or more of those disciplines. The predoctoral fellowships are intended for beginning graduate students; the dissertation fellowships are designed to provide support for students in their final y
ISSN:0002-8606
DOI:10.1029/EO077i039p00378-02
年代:1996
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Macintosh Program performs time‐series analysis |
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union,
Volume 77,
Issue 39,
1996,
Page 379-379
Didier Paillard,
Laurent Labeyrie,
Pascal Yiou,
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A Macintosh computer program that can perform many time‐series analysis procedures is now available on the Internet free of charge. Although AnalySeries was originally designed for paleoclimatic time series, it can be useful for most fields of Earth sciences. The program's graphical user interface allows easy access even for people unfamiliar with computer calculations. Previous versions of the program are already used by hundreds of scientists worldwid
ISSN:0002-8606
DOI:10.1029/96EO00259
年代:1996
数据来源: WILEY
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Comment on “Rain dance” |
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union,
Volume 77,
Issue 39,
1996,
Page 380-380
Harold D. Orville,
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A recent news brief about cloud seeding work being conducted in Cohuila, Mexico, (“Rain Dance,”Eos, July 23, 1996) contained unfounded, off‐hand remarks that are a disservice to many scientists and professionals in the cloud physics and weather modification community. The news brief stated that “most previous attempts to catalyze rainfall by cloud seeding have produced inconclusive results, and almost none of the experiments have had a sound scientific basis.” The inconclusive results are primarily statistical; many outstanding scientific results have developed from the 50‐year history of research into weather modification.Also, most of the work that I know about has proceeded on the scientific basis that was developed over the years by the scientific and operational communities, and it is improving with time. It is grossly inaccurate to say that almost none of the experiments have had a sound scientific basis. Improvements in technology are strengthening that scientific basis, and current physical and numerical studies being conducted in many places are improving understanding. (See reviews of the status of weather modification from theAmerican Meteorological Society[1992] and theWorld Meteorological Organiza
ISSN:0002-8606
DOI:10.1029/96EO00262
年代:1996
数据来源: WILEY
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