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“It is no easy task to take a subject as obscure and technical as the determination of time and present it to the general public in a style which is at once humorous and rigorously correct” stated Alice Babcock of the U.S. Naval Observatory in nominating Joel Achenbach's article “Second Thoughts” for this year's Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Scientific Journalism. “Achenbach's article is the most engaging, in‐depth, and accurate account that I have either read or heard on this subject,” Babcock said.Achenbach, a staff writer on The Miami Herald, received the Sullivan Award on May 31 at AGU's Spring meeting in Baltimore, Md. The award is given for a single article or radio/television report on geophysics, the study of Earth, or its environment in space. The judging panel included Walter Sullivan, New York Times; Athelstan Spilhaus, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, (retired); Janet Luhmann, University of California, Los Angeles; Carl Sagan, Cornell University; Marilyn Suiter, American Geological Institute; and Carl Kisslinger, Universit

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO071i025p00757-02

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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The internationally staffed Task Committee on Artificial Recharge of Ground Water, associated with the Irrigation and Drainage Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers, has completed their first report. Published by ASCE, the 644‐page “Artificial Recharge of Ground Water,” edited by A. I. Johnson and Donald J. Finlayson, presents 63 papers by specialists from eleven countries and nine U.S. states.The authors report that artificial recharge of groundwater has recently become one of the thrusts for government and local funding in arid parts of the United States as well as in many arid countries. This has been due to problems created by increasing development of irrigation and public water supply from groundwater and consequent lowering of water tables to uneconomically low levels. The use of surplus surface flood waters and treated waste water to recharge the water tables is shown to have been done in many locations for many years and is likely to increase on an exponential scale as industrialized nations grow and developing countries modernize and require more water per c

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO071i025p00758-01

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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Several House and Senate subcommittees are working on science‐related appropriations bills providing funding for federal departments and agencies for the 1991 fiscal year, which starts October 1. Although final work on these bills will probably not be completed until September, the appropriations made to various science agencies in the next few weeks are likely to be close to the final numbers. These weeks will be critical for science.Funding for the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Environmental Protection Agency is included in the Fiscal 1991 VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill. Although the Administration's request for these agencies is up significantly, both House and Senate Committee members have repeatedly commented on the difficulty they will have in providing funding for science programs as well as veterans and housing needs. The Senate has started “marking‐up” (drafting) this legislation, although the House must vote on its own bil

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO071i025p00759-01

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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Research proposals related to geohydrological and geochemical factors that control microbial abundance and diversity at depth, the microbial ecology of subsurface systems, and improved understanding of microbial‐environmental relationships are being accepted for the Department of Energy's Deep Microbiology Program.Proposals received by November 1, 1990, will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary panel that will be convened in early 1991. Successful applicants will work as members of multiinstitutional, interdisciplinary research teams. DOE will help successful applicants integrate their research with currently funded research projects and will provide uncompromised subsurface sediment and groundwater samples for geochemical and microbiological analyse

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO071i025p00760-02

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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The recent letter from Clark Chapman in the April 3, 1990, issue ofEos(p. 376), concerning planetary research supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration struck a resonance that warrants airing in view of the analogous situation that prevails in Space Physics research. The situation for Research and Analysis (R&A) and Data Analysis programs in Space Physics has a more complicated history in view of the fact that only recently has the Space Physics discipline been given its own division within NASA (with thanks to the particular efforts of Lennard Fisk and Stanley Shawhan). For many years, Space Physics research was spread among several divisions at NASA headquarters. Now, magnetospheric, cosmic ray and heliospheric, upper atmospheric and ionospheric, and solar physics have been gathered together under the umbrella of the Space Physics division. It was hoped that this highly desired and much heralded merger would give these related scientific subdisciplines greater coherence and greater visibility, and hence make them better able to compete for needed resources. However, even in the years before theChallengerdisaster, it became clear that the issue is no longer simply one of competition between the research divisions within NASA. Across all disciplines, the struggle for survival by research groups outside of NASA centers has become crippling.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/90EO00218

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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At the 1987 General Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences in Vancouver, Canada, the International Committee on Remote Sensing and Data Transmission (ICRSDT) established a Working Group on GEWEX and Global Change. (GEWEX is the Global Energy and Water Experiment.)

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO071i025p00767

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY