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Developments over the past few years have focused national attention on the need for a greatly expanded program of research in the broad area encompassed by geophysics. This, in turn, has very properly directed attention to the associated problems of manpower and education in geophysics. With the current healthy emphasis on coherent long‐range planning of research programs, the matter of attracting adequate lumbers of young people into geophysics and providing imaginatively conceived, soundly organized, and challenging programs of instruction that will insure skilled technicians, competent professionals, and creative scientists is rapidly taking on increasing importance and urgency. This is not a problem which is solely the concern of the colleges and universities, although their interest and their role are the vital elements. It is a problem which will require concerted action on the part of the colleges and universities, the scientific community generally and Earth scientists particularly, the federal and state governments—and certainly the American Geophysical Union. This may be one of the most important problems facing the Union during the next trienn

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DOI:10.1029/TR042i003p00287

年代:1961

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The growing interest in ‘inner space’—or in more conventional terms, oceanography—is readily indicated by the rapid development of the International Indian Ocean Expedition program. The program was conceived in 1957; in late 1959 it was agreed that SCOR (the Special Committee on Oceanic Research of the International Council of Scientific Unions) would sponsor the enterprise. In the ensuing two years it has taken form.Over the next three years a fleet of ships from many nations—ships carrying highly specialized equipment and scientists—will be sailing in the Indian Ocean on new voyages of discovery. One of the last unknown areas of the globe will be under intensive exploration as the International Indian Ocean Expedition gets under way. Eight vessels from five different nations have already completed a dozen cruises. More than twenty countries, contributing more than forty vessels staffed with scientific parties will carry out more than sixty cruises varying in length from one to twelve months. Australia, East Africa, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, Portugal, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA, and USSR will provide from one to ten ships each. In addition, each country bordering the Indian Ocean will provide shore stations and personnel for local observations, particularly on tidal changes and meteorology. Denmark, Israel, Nationalist China and possibly some others will send scienti

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DOI:10.1029/TR042i003p00289

年代:1961

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As a portion of the joint national meeting of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society in Washington, D. C, April 17–21, 1961, a round table discussion was held on the subject of natural continental hazes. The participants were W. D. Crozier, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico; C. E. Junge, Air Force Cambridge Research Center, Bedford, Massachusetts; J. P. Lodge, Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; R. A. McCormick, Weather Bureau Research Station, Cincinnati, Ohio; V. J. Schaefer, Atmospheric Science Research Center, State University of New York, Schenectady, New York; Sean Twomey, U. S. Weather Bureau, Washington; Helmut Weickmann, U. S. Army Signal Engineering Laboratory, Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey; F. W. Went, Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis; and F. E. Volz, Blue Hill Observatory, Harvard University. Dr. Lodge acted as chairman, and also presented some findings by Alexander Goetz of the California Institute of Technology, who was unable to be presen

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR042i003p00295

年代:1961

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In August 1955, it was announced that as a part of the International Geophysical Year program, the Soviet Union would send a complex scientific expedition to the Antarctic. I was asked to write a brochure on the Antarctic and the problems connected with its study. Therefore, I had to do a fast job of generalizing the data on this question. It turned out that though 260 expeditions had visited the area of the South Pole since the discovery of Antarctica, very sparse information has been gathered on this part of the globe. Scientists knew less about the internal areas of the ice continent than about the visible side of the Moon.

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DOI:10.1029/TR042i003p00297

年代:1961

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A magnetic facility has been established adjacent to Weston Observatory, at Weston, Massachusetts, about 12 miles west of Boston. This new facility is under the sponsorship of the Ionospheric Physics Laboratory, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (AFCRL), and is being operated jointly with the Department of Geophysics, Boston College. The coordinates of the station are: geographic latitude—42°23′06.71″ north; geographic longitude—71°19′15.08″ west; geomagnetic latitude—53°54′; geomagnetic longitude—357°05′; elevation above sea level, 57.7 meters.Construction of this new magnetic observatory was undertaken initially to fulfill the special requirements of AFCRL for a calibration and test operation site in connection with an aeromagnetic survey program. It is now being operated as a test station for a rocket and satellite magne

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR042i003p00300

年代:1961

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Fritsch, V.,Elektrische Messungen an raumlich ausgedehnten, Leitern(Electrical Measurements of Volume Conductors), Verlag G. Braun, Karlsruhe, Germany, xii&372 pp., 1960, DM45 (a treatise with special reference to applied geo‐electricity).The author of this text has had years of practical experience dealing with electrical probing of geological materials. It is very fortunate that he also has a keen insight into the physical principles involved. This book is a comprehensive treatment of the whole subject of geo‐electricity. Since no comparable text has been available the present book fills a definite n

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DOI:10.1029/TR042i003p00302

年代:1961

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Atken, M. J.,Physics and Archaeology, Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York, 181 pp., 1961.Anderson, Charles E. (Ed.),Cumulus Dynamics, Pergamon, New York, 220 pp., 1960, $12.00. (Proceedings of the first conference on cumulus convection, May 1959.)

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DOI:10.1029/TR042i003p00308

年代:1961

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J. J. Levallois has called attention to an error in the account of the Helsinki session on Geoid as reported inTransactionsfor December 1960 (volume 41, no. 4), page 566. The editor regrets that a line in the original copy inadvertently became omitted in proof. The following correction should be made: line 34, column 1, and following should read ‘…same geoid waves. Vogel determined the depth of the Earth's core by travel time of seismic waves, and found a strong correlation.…’On page 170 of June 1961Transactions, (inThe State of the Earth Sciences in South America) it was stated that ‘A German meteorologist, Albert Müller, is acting as technical advisor’. The reference is in error; the technical adviser is Dr. Albert Miller of the United States Weather Bureau, who was sent to assist Chile in the development of meteorological services, and the program mentioned was established under

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DOI:10.1029/TR042i003p00320

年代:1961

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The first meeting of the new Council was called to order at 09h 00m in the Board Room of the National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington 25, D. C., by President Lloyd V. Berkner. Council members present: L. R. Alldredge, L. V. Berkner, Edward B. Espenshade, Jr., Willis B. Foster, James Gilluly (for Thomas B. Nolan), Harry H. Hess, Woodrow Jacobs, J. W. Joyce, Walter B. Langbein, Thomas F. Malone, Leonard M. Murphy, A. O. C. Nier, Donald Pritchard, F. W. Reichelderfer, A. Nelson Sayre, Andre C. Simonpietri (for H. P. Robertson), L. B. Slichter, Waldo E. Smith, and C. A. Whitten. Also present were Philip H. Abelson, Iris Y. P. Borg, Linn Hoover, Helmut E. Landsberg, Gordon J. F. MacDonald, Arthur E. Maxwell, J. Hugh Nelson, Morris Neiburger, James A. Peoples, Jr., Louis O. Quam, Ethel G. Sanders, Alan H. Snap ley, Ralph N. Wilson, David R. Wones, George P. Woollard, and Hattan S. Yoder, Jr.

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DOI:10.1029/TR042i003p00328

年代:1961

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At the meeting of the Executive Committee October 22, 1960, the Committee adopted the report of a Special Committee on Dues and Subscription Rates (see page 85, March 1961Transactions), increasing the dues from $10.00 a year to $13.00 a year. This modest increase is necessary in order to continue the many activities of the American Geophysical Union, and, in particular, theJournal of Geophysical Research. This publication (which is frequently acclaimed as the world's leading journal in geophysics and of which we may be justly proud) became the responsibility of the American Geophysical Union in 1959 and has been published with the aid of a substantial grant from the National Science Foundation. This grant will soon be exhausted, and while its residue, plus page charges, advertising, and increased membership all help to make theJournalself‐supporting, additional aid through this increase in dues will be required to keep AGU in the black, and to cover increasing costs and the maintenance of our reserve against an annual budget of a third of a million dollar

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR042i003p00357

年代:1961

数据来源: WILEY