摘要:

The President of the Union has been kind enough to invite the Section Presidents to use this page of EOS to present his ideas on how the Union can continue to serve the membership effectively‐particularly from each Section's viewpoint. As President of the Section of Oceanography, I am pleased to respond to the invitation. Oceanography, perhaps more so than other sections has some ideas that I feel need discussion in a forum such as this in order to provide feedback from the broad membership of AGU. Some of the ideas I will discuss have been around for some time, others are more recent and result from changes taking place in the world around u

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO053i001p00003

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Two years have passed since my responsibilities for editing the space physics section of theJournal of Geophysical Researchwere handed on to an able successor. During this period, my feeling that the membership of the American Geophysical Union wishes to know more regarding the editing of their journals has been reinforced. The various journals of the American Geophysical Union, along with the meetings it sponsors, provide the chief justification for the AGU's existence as a scientific organization. Because its journals are central to many aspects of the scientific endeavors of the AGU and its individual members, interest in the functions and responsibilities of the editors is wide and natural. It was therefore surprising to me to find that these functions and responsibilities are, to a large extent, poorly understood, perhaps, only for the simple reason that editors write little about the details of their editorial philosophy and their job.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO053i001p00004

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

An area in Arizona, extending from the Mexican border to Prescott, and from the New Mexico State line westward to the Yuma County line, has been selected as a special target for ecological studies based on remote sensor data from high‐altitude aircraft and earth‐orbiting satellites. Designated as ARETS (Arizona Regional Ecological Test Site), the project will be directed by University of Arizona, Office of Arid Land Studies, under contract to the U.S. Geological Survey, and in cooperation with NASA. Participation includes other federal, state, and local agencies having environmental interests in the region. Highlight targets for study will be the Phoenix‐Tucson metropolitan

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO053i001p00014-01

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Purdue University, the California Institute of Technology, McGill University, the University of Nevada, Oregon State University, and Utah State University have been elected to membership in the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, bringing the total number of UCAR members to 37.McGill University of Montreal, Canada, is the second university to be elected to international membership in UCAR International members are elected after an invitation to join has been extended by UCAR, and they must meet the same criteria for membership as U.S. members.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO053i001p00015-01

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has been chosen as the site of the first UNOLS (University‐National Oceanographic Laboratory System) office. Developed as a planning and coordinating mechanism for oceanographic research facilities, the organization has as its chairman, Arthur E. Maxwell, Provost of the Oceanographic Institution, and Jay M. Savage of the University of Southern California as its Vice Chairman. R.P. Dinsmore, former Chief of the Marine Sciences Division of the U.S. Coast Guard, has been designated Executive Secretary and will direct the UNOLS office at the Oceanographic Institutio

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO053i001p00016-01

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Eleven additional research projects for the fiscal year 1972 water resources research program authorized under Title II of the Water Resources Research Act of 1964 have been selected.Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton stated that the projects selected for support are a part of the Interior Department's aim to bring research efforts to bear on significant water resources planning problems, urban water resource problems, and the difficult social, economic, and legal aspects of water resource developments.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO053i001p00017-01

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

President Nixon has announced his intention to nominate H. Guyford Stever as the Director of the National Science Foundation. He will succeed William D. McElroy whose resignation was accepted by the President in July of this year to be effective February 1, 1972.Stever is President of Carnegie‐Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He became President of the university, which was at that time the Carnegie Institute of Technology in February 19655, after more than twenty years on the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technolog

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO053i001p00018-01

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Though ecologically man has been the dominant organism for millenia, his environmental impact has increased tremendously since the industrial revolution With the post‐World War II proliferation of national development plans, this impact has spread throughout the globe A major example is the construction of large‐scale dams that result in the creation of distinctive man‐made lake ecosystems, which contain not just the lake with its terrestrial margin, but also the human population of the lake

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO053i001p00025

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

In a sense, all models used in the analysis or synthesis of hydrology data are mathematical models. These models occupy the vast area between physical models that explain phenomena fully and strictly empirical explanations. Between these two extremes, in a the mathematical models dominate, which explains the wide scope of the papers in this symposium.

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO053i001p00026

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

During the past summer, the International Association for Statistics in Physical Sciences (IASPS), an autonomous section of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), organized Satellite Symposia in the United States concerning applications of probability and statistics. These symposia were a spin‐off of the biennial meetings of ISI In Washington, D.C., and covered the areas of geology, hydrology, metallurgy, point processes, turbulence, and pollution. The meetings were designed to promote Interchange of ideas between statisticians and specialists in these area

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/EO053i001p00028

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY