摘要:

With the increasing mobility of our population, climate is becoming more of a factor in deciding where to look for a new job or a good place for retirement. If a new location turns out to be no improvement, the young can try another one. The elderly must be more careful. The place they liked best during vacations may not be so good during the rest of the year.By noticing news media reports of temperatures and precipitation, one can gain some idea of the weather at various locations in the United States. To take into account the many other elements that affect individual preferences, trial residence for a whole year would seem to be necessary (difficult to arrange for most of us). Even this might not be enough, for there are both good years and bad years everywhere.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO062i028p00577-01

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Better monitoring techniques are needed to assess the quality of rivers and streams, according to a recent report to Congress by the General Accounting Office (GAO). Water samples are taken too infrequently, GAO says, and stations are placed too far apart ‘to deal with the complex nature of water quality.’‘Accurate, reliable data on the actual condition of the nation's rivers and streams are necessary for sound environmental planning and management,’ writes Milton J. Socolar, acting comptroller general of the United States, in the cover letter that accompanies the report. ‘Existing national water‐quality monitoring networks operated by the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] and the U.S. Geological Survey [USGS]… do not provide the type or quality of

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO062i028p00578-01

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Walter Bucher was a true student of the earth. He began as a zoologist, turned to paleontology in graduate school, and became interested in structural geology through studies of deformed fossils in the Alps. His book,Deformation of the Earth's Crust, first published in the 1930s, was a heroic attempt to find order in the structure of the globe. He has a long association with the American Geophysical Union and was its president from 1950–1953.Jack Oliver was a student of Walter Bucher at Columbia, and perhaps some of Walter's versatility rubbed off on him. Jack began his geophysical career in the atmosphere, tried the oceans but found them too unstable, and tested the Arctic ice before settling on the solid earth. Although he is claimed by the seismologists as one of their own, he has always maintained a strong interest in the crustal rocks and their structure in addition to his interest in their elastic propertie

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO062i028p00579

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY