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The objective of this letter is to describe to the membership of the Section of Geodesy/AGU a modified election procedure to be followed by the section. The modifications are designed to give the membership at large greater participation in the selection of officers. It is hoped that this can be accomplished by (1) providing for direct membership input to the nominations, and (2) by giving the membership a true choice at the time of voting.First, it is appropriate to describe the nominating procedure as it has worked in the past. The section has three officers‐a president, a president‐elect, and a secretary. The officers serve a two‐year term, and to assure continuity, the presidentelect automatically becomes the section president for the succeeding two years. Thus we are charged once every two years with nominating a president‐elect and a secretary for the section. In the past the nominating committee consisted of three members, appointed by the president of the section. This nominating committee then nominated one individual for presidentelect and one for se

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO056i005p00274-01

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY

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Earthquakes are among mankind's most feared scourges. In a sense they represent the small price earthlings must pay to enjoy their beneficent environment, for it is the same internal heat energy that has provided us with atmosphere, oceans, and mineral wealth that is the source of the stresses that periodically fracture the crust.Earthquake prediction is a subject as old as soothsaying and astrology; men who could pretend to foretell catastrophes exercised considerable sway in their time. In recent years, research in earthquake prediction has become scientifically respectable. Hundreds of geophysicists and geologists principally in the United States, the USSR, Japan, and the People's Republic of China are engaged in research with earthquake prediction as the direct goal. Most of these investigators believe that the goal is attainable. The Chinese claim that they have saved lives by predicting ten earthquakes in the past four years. News dispatches from China indicate that the destructive earthquake (M = 7.2) of February 4, 1975, in northeast China was predicted by Chinese scientists.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO056i005p00275

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY

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For several years, earth oriented experimental and operational satellites have been broadcasting visible and infrared terrestrial radiation data as they are collected by the satellite sensors. Some of these data broadcasts are receivable by APT (automatic picture transmission) stations located within the line of sight of the transmitting satellite. The advantage of this type of data transmission is that APT stations located anywhere in the world have immediate access to a satellite's radiation data are collected and broadcast over their local areas.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO056i005p00276

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY

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A large aluminum dome near a long, horizontal half‐cylinder of corrugated steel rises from a flat, white, featureless snow plain that extends for hundreds of miles in every direction—all north. It is the new Amundsen‐Scott South Pole station, constructed in four years under often exceedingly difficult circumstances as a part of the U.S. Antarctic Research Program. The new station was funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO056i005p00283-01

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY

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The U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering — 1975 will be held June 18 to 20, 1975, at the Rackham Lecture Hall on the central campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.The purposes of the conference are to stimulate national cooperation among engineers, scientists, and other public servants in minimizing the disruptive effect of earthquakes on citizens and to focus attention on the earth quake — resistant design of utilities, transportation systems, and building systems. Basic background as well as the technical (research, design, and construction), social, and political aspects of earthquake problems will be discussed in sixty papers and a panel presentat

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO056i005p00284-01

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY

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The 1975 Gordon Research Conferences will be held at various locations in New Hampshire and California from June 9 to August 29.Established to stimulate research in universities, industrial laboratories, and research foundations, the annual series utilizes and informal type of meeting consisting of scheduled speakers and group discussions, with ample time made available to stimulate voluntary intercommunication among participants. This meeting format has proved to be singularly effective as a means not only of disseminating ideas and information but of enabling scientists in related fields to become better acquainted and to form associations that often result in cooperative research efforts.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO056i005p00285

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY