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James J. O'Brien James F. O'Connor Yoshimitsu Ogura Vincent J. Oliver Katsuyuki Ooyama Svenn Orvig Harold D. Orville Richard E. Orville Frederick P. Ostby, Jr. Donald H. Pack Julia E. Paegle Erik H. Palmen Hans A. Panofsky Allen D. Pearson Joseph Pedlosky Gerald A. Petersen Syerre Petterssen* Owen M. Phillips Willard J. Pierson George W. Platzman Thomas D. Potter Hans R. Pruppacher Colin S. Ramage R. Robert Rapp Richard J. Reed Francis W. Reichelderfer Robert O. Reid

Elmar R. Reiter Herbert Riehl Andre J. Robert Walter Orr Roberts G. D. Robinson Stanley L. Rosenthal Barry Saltzman Frederick Sanders Douglas H. Sargeant Yoshikazu Sasaki Walter J. Saucier J. S. Sawyer** Harlan K. Saylor Vincent J. Schaefer Richard M. Schotland Werner Schwerdtfeger Zdenek Sekera* William D. Sellers Richard G. Semonin Ralph Shapiro Percival A. Sheppard* Frederick G. Shuman Bernard A. Silverman Silvio G. Simplicio Joanne Simpson Robert H. Simpson

Norman Sissenwine Joseph Smagorinsky Theodore B. Smith William L. Smith Leonard W. Snellman Jerome Spar Kenneth C. Spengler Athelstan F. Spilhaus Patrick Squires R. C. Srivastava John D. Stackpole Victor P. Starr* Jesse J. Stephens Robert W. Stewart Henry M. Stommel Robert G. Stone Verner E. Suomi Sir Graham Sutton* Anthony E. Tancreto James W. Telford Morris Tepper Sidney Teweles Herbert C. S. Thorn Morley K. Thomas Philip D. Thompson** David K. Todd

Chankey N. Touart John W. Townsend, Jr. Dennis W. Trettel Joseph Vederman William S. von Arx Thomas H. Vonder Haar Bernard Vonnegut John E. Wallace John M. Wallace David Q. Wark Warren M. Washington Helmut Weickmann Fred D. White Robert M. White Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen Hurd C. Willett Philip Williams, Jr. Jay S. Winston Paul M. Wolff Alfred H. Woodcock Warren S. Wooster Oliver R. Wulf Morton G. Wurtele John C. Wyngaard Donald N. Yates Edward J. Zipser •

* Deceased. ••Not active.

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AGI Minority Participation Program Scholarships

The American Geological Institute will again offer scholar-ships for geoscience majors who are United States citizens and members of the following ethnic minority groups: Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans (American Indian, Eskimo, Hawaiian, Samoan, or other qualified Native minority). Approximately 70 such awards (ranging from $500 to $1500) were granted in 1982-83. About the same number (and amounts) will be awarded for 1983-84.

The term "geoscience" is used broadly to include major study in the fields of geology, geochemistry, geophysics, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, and space and planetary sciences.

Monies for the support and funding of this program are administered by the AGI Minority Participation Program Advisory Committee and have come from six member societies; more than 16 mining, petroleum, geological supply, and geophysical companies; and many individuals.

Notice of registration deadlines for meetings, workshops, and seminars, deadlines for submittal of abstracts or papers to be presented at meetings, and deadlines for grants, proposals, awards, nominations, and fellowships must be received at least three months before deadline dates.— News Ed.

Requests for application materials or nominations for scholarshops should be addressed to: Don Diego Gonzalez, Sandia Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Organization 4731, Albuquerque, N.M. 87115 tel: (505) 844-8849.

Northeastern Environmental Science

A new journal has recently been established to addess the natural resource and environmental health concerns of the northeastern United States and Canada. Northeastern Envi-ronmental Science is a quarterly journal aimed at research and management professionals in the environmental sciences.

Issue One deals with water-borne toxic wastes, with special emphasis on the Hudson River. Issue Two deals with energy development in the northeast. For information or subscrip-tions, write to Northeastern Environmental Science, P.O. Box 746, Troy, N.Y. 12181. Rates for 1982 are $24 for companies and $19 for individuals and non-profit institutions.

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VIRGINIA Hampton Roads Founded: 1957 Last election: May 1981

President: Cdr. Frederick K. Martin, CINCLANT (J37A), Norfolk, Va. 23511 Vice-President: Boyd Quate, P.O. Box 7065-Holland Station, Suffolk, Va. 23437 Secretary: Ens. Mark Gunzelman, NAVEASTOCEANCEN, NAS, Norfolk, Va. 23511 Treasurer: Cdr. Thomas Fraim, NAVEASTOCEANCEN, NAS, Norfolk, Va. 23511

Old Dominion University (Student) Founded: 1978 Last election: April 1982

President: Joe Painter Vice-President: Greg Walker Secretary: Harry Burcher Treasurer: Tom Freisz Address all correspondence to: Old Dominion University Student Chapter, Dept. of

Geophysical Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va. 23508

WASHINGTON Puget Sound Founded: 1935 Last election: April 1982

President: Eric Hansen, Ertec Northwest, Inc., 4526 11th Ave., NE, Seattle, Wash. 98105

Vice-President: William D. Burton, NESFO Seattle, Bin C15700, 78600 Sand Point Way, NE, Seattle, Wash. 98115

Secretary-Treasurer: Nadine Maykut, R.W. Beck and Associates, 200 Tower Bldg., 7th and Olive Way, Seattle, Wash. 98101

WISCONSIN Greater Milwaukee Founded: 1973 Last election: May 1981

President: Karl A. Curda, 3277 So. 91st St., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis. 53227

Vice-President: Elroy Jagler, National Weather Service, Mitchell Field, 5300 S. Howell Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. 53207

Secretary: Thomas B. Williams, 615 Lathrop Ave., Racine, Wis. 53405 Treasurer: Mark Shilobrit, 6319 W. Center St., Milwaukee, Wis. 53210

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Major geoscience cooperative program between U.S. and China

In what is described as one of the potentially largest cooperative geoscience programs ever initiated by the United States, eight major agencies from the People's Republic of China are entering into agreements with the United States for projects ranging from earthquake prediction and studies of mineral resources to the analysis of floods.

The cooperative program with China was described recently by Dallas Peck, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), at the opening session in Washington, D.C., of the annual meeting of the international Circum-Pacific Map Pro-ject, which is a cooperative international effort to assemble new geological and geophysical maps of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding continental areas. The maps will show the rela-tionship of known hydrocarbon and mineral resources to the geology, tectonics, and crustal dynamics of the Pacific region.

A more detailed description of the cooperative program with China is provided in a 13-page report prepared by USGS. The report describes the three general agreements, or protocols, which involve both the USGS and the National Science Foun-dation (NSF) for the United States. The protocols are designed to cover 31 different projects and will involve an exchange of more than 100 scientists over the next several years. On 8 March 1982, the USGS signed and forwarded to China for con-currence an annex to the earth sciences protocol which will implement agreements on seven new individual projects. Since January 1980, seven other projects have been active under the separate earthquake studies protocol.

According to Peck, "This cooperative program generally provides for an exchange of information and on-site studies by scientists from both countries as well as some technology transfer.

"One of the most important aspects of this agreement is the tremendous amount of earth science information that will be available to the United States from the People's Republic of China. The PRC has been gathering and analyzing earth science data for thousands of years longer than the United States. This long period of record can provide very valuable data in many areas, particularly in the field of earthquake studies where our records only go back about 400 years, which is geologically a very short period of time," Peck said.

"On the other hand, the United States is recognized as being in the forefront of earth-science technology and this pro-gram will afford the Chinese the opportunity to better study some of that technology," he said.

The cooperative program consists of three major protocols involving earthquake studies, the earth sciences, and surface-water hydrology.

All seven of the projects included in the earthquake studies protocol are now active. They cover such areas as earthquake premonitory phenomena and techniques for earthquake pre-diction (work in which the PRC has had some success); intra-plate active faults and earthquakes; earthquake engineering and hazards mitigation; and an exchange of data and films of



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The Howard H. Hanks, Jr., Scholarship in Meteorology

1 9 7 3 Robert M. Thompson, Jr., Florida State University.

1 9 7 4 Daniel Keyser, Pennsylvania State University.

1 9 7 5 David L. Harper, University of Texas at Austin.

1 9 7 6 David D. Adamec, Florida State University.

1 9 7 7 Rae Ann Eversole, Cook College of Rutgers University.

1 9 7 8 Richard C. Deininger, State University of New York at Albany.

1 9 7 9 Dorothea G. Nase, Millersville State College.

1 9 8 0 Robert T. Merrill, Texas A&M University.

1981 Kenneth D. Walker, Midshipman, U.S. Naval Academy.

1 9 8 2 Kathy A. Perbeck, Lyndon State College.

The Max A. Eaton Prize

1977 Albert G. Boulanger, University of Florida, and Michael W. Maier, Florida State Uni-versity, "On the Frequency of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning from Tropical Cumulonim-bus Clouds."

Clifford A. Mass, University of Washington, "The Dynamics and Origin of African Easterly Waves."

1 9 7 9 Peter R. Bannon, National Center for Atmospheric Research, "Extratropical Forcing of the East African Jet."

1981 Edwin Nunez, Colorado State University, "Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change."

1 9 8 2 Mark DeMaria, Colorado State University, "Application of the Spectral Method to Tropical Cyclone Modeling."

Greg J. Holland, Colorado State University, "A Precursor to Tropical Cyclone Intensity Variations." •


seismograms and other instrument recordings of earthquakes and their size.

The earth science protocol includes 20 projects. The United States has signed an agreement that implements seven of these projects, covering such topics as the application of remote-sensing techniques to petroleum exploration, uranium deposits and tectonic frameworks, and the effects of natural and geochemical environments on public health. Agreed upon studies that have yet to be scheduled cover such topics as techniques of assessing regional mineral resources; the application of remote-sensing techniques to mineral exploration; mineral properties and relationships; ground water hydrology in arid regions; and geological and hydrological aspects of hydrothermal systems.

Under the protocol for surface water hydrology, four projects are being negotiated. They probably will cover the exchange of hydrologic data; analysis of extreme hydrologic

events, primarily floods; techniques for basic data collection; and the transportation of sediment in high-load and high-concentration streams.

The USGS and the NSF began to evolve cooperative geo-science exchange programs with the PRC when the directors of both agencies visited Beijing in June 1978 as members of a U.S. delegation of senior science administrators. These efforts were furthered by the normalization of relations between the United States and the PRC on 1 January 1979, and shortly thereafter by the signing of the US/PRC Science and Tech-nological Cooperation Agreement on 31 January 1979.

During January 1980, the first meeting of the US/PRC Joint Commission on Cooperation in Science and Technology was held in Beijing. On 24 January, a protocol for cooperation in



policy statements and statements ot concern of the AMS

The purpose of these Statements will be to give guidance to the public on what can (and cannot) be provided by the meteorological profession at the present state of advance of the science, to urge appropriate action in pending matters of public policy that are of concern to atmospheric science, or to address the meteorological profession on matters that require urgent attention.

Currently Approved Statements

Statement on Weather Forecasting (September 27 , 1979) , BULLETIN, December 1 9 7 9 ,

p. 1453 .

Statement on Tornado Detection, Tracking, and Warning (January 2 7 , 1980) , BULLETIN,

April 1980, p. 381.

Statement on Mobile Homes and Severe Windstorms (January 27, 1980), BULLETIN, April 1980, p. 383.

Statement on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification (October 3, 1980), BULLETIN, January 1981, p. 87.

Statement on Weather Radar (January 18, 1981), BULLETIN, May 1981, p. 678.

An official Statement of the American Meteorological Society is one that has received Council approval, or, in a situation that the Executive Committee defines as an emer-gency, approval by the Committee on Public Policy (COMPUP). Guidance in the preparation of such Statements has recently been provided by the Council (see BULLETIN,

May 1974, p. 439, and also an earlier policy statement in BULLETIN, July 1963, p. 446). An official Statement on a technical subject (such as weather forecasting, weather

modification, etc.) will automatically be withdrawn and no longer listed in the BULLETIN

three years from its date of publication in the BULLETIN, unless the cognizant committee recommends to the Council that its life be extended for another three years in either its present or amended form, and the Council so approves. An official Statement on a special topic, contained, for example, in a letter from the AMS President or in testimony before Congress of an official of the AMS on a matter of government or public policy, is usually directed at a specific matter of current concern and therefore may not be noteworthy for more than a year. Such topical Statements will be reviewed annually by the Executive Committee and withdrawn or extended by it as deemed appropriate. •


earthquake studies, including seven individual project annexes, was signed between the PRC State Seismological Bureau and the USGS and NSF. At the same time, a protocol for cooperation in the earth sciences was signed between the USGS and the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences of the PRC Ministry of Geology.

In October 1981, the second meeting of the US/PRC Joint Commission on Cooperation in Science and Technology was held in Washington, D.C. On 16 October, the PRC geoscience commissioner Zou Jiayu, vice-minister of the Ministry of Geology, visited the USGS National Center in Reston, Va., and the U.S. geoscience commissioner, Dallas Peck, director

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of the USGS. Cooperative work between the two countries was reviewed at that time and, on 17 October, a protocol for cooperation in surface-water hydrology was signed between the USGS and the Bureau of Hydrology of the PRC Ministry of Water Conservancy.

The US/PRC working group for the earth sciences protocol also met in October 1981, in Reston, Va., to complete negotia-tions on the annexes to the earth sciences protocol. On 28 October 1981, three annexes were approved which identified


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218 Kenneth T. Koch** March 1981 219 John J. Malan March 1981 220 Jack M. Mercer March 1981 221 Glenn E. Schwartz March 1981 222 Stanley J. Stachak March 1981 223 Joseph A. Dandrea April 1981 224 Thomas L. Magnuson April 1981 225 Joseph C. Conway June 1981 226 Brian S. Norcross June 1981 227 Roberta A. Marshment June 1981 228 Harvey Leonard August 1981 229 James L. Madaus August 1981 230 Larry J. Mulholland August 1981 231 James H. Reif August 1981 232 John R. Willing August 1981 233 William H. Annen September 1981 234 John D. Flanders September 1981 235 James B. Flowers September 1981 236 Kevin M. O'Connell September 1981 237 Ronald W. Jackson October 1981 238 Albert L. Roker November 1981 239 James W. Bosley December 1981

240 Wayne P. Chandler December 1981 241 Daniel G. Dobrowolski December 1981 242 Robert E. Gregory December 1981 243 Tomas J. Loffman December 1981 244 Nancy A. Russo December 1981 245 Timothy A. Chuey March 1982 246 Dennis G. Frary March 1982 247 Neil E. Kastor March 1982 248 Donald T. McNeely March 1982 249 Michael P. Nelson March 1982 250 Donald O. Novak March 1982 251 Eugene M. Rubin March 1982 252 Jocelyn K. White March 1982 253 Carey L. Kinsey, Jr. May 1982 254 David K. Towne June 1982 255 Richard A. Addis June 1982 256 Lawrence D. Hill June 1982 257 James Duncan June 1982 258 Vincent D. Condella, Jr. June 1982 259 Glenn N. Burns June 1982 260 Louis K. McNally III June 1982 261 Douglas Kruhoeffer June 1982

** Inactive.


the title and scope of 20 cooperative research projects and specified scheduling and staffing of the first seven projects to be implemented.

The reciprocal programs are funded by having the sending side pay the international travel expenses and the receiving side pay all in-country expenses, and specifying all other expenses in the individual detailed plans for project imple-mentation to be formulated by consultation between the project co-chiefs.

Single copies of the USGS report, "The China Geoscience Connection," by Maurice Terman, a geologist at the USGS National Center, Reston, Va.; are available without charge from the Office of International Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, MS 917, National Center, Reston, Va. 22092. Of par-ticular interest in the report are the seven tables that provide the most detailed organizational listing of the Chinese geo-science community yet available in the United States.

Professional Women and Minorities

The third edition of Professional Women and Minorities, A Manpower Data Resource Service, a comprehensive reference book of manpower data presented in approximately 400 tables and charts, with breakdowns by sex and/or minority status compiled from more than 200 sources, is now available. Data on enrollments, degrees, and general academic and federal work force participation by field and subfield are supple-mented with textual highlights; annotated recruitment resources for women and minority professionals, by field; a comprehensive cross index; and an extensive bibiliography.

This book is designed to provide current and historical statistics about the professional segment of the U.S. popula-tion and particularly the participation and availability of women and minorities in professional areas which generally

require formal education to at least the baccalaureate level. Because more information is available in some fields than in others, the comprehensiveness of coverage varies.

This edition is in a somewhat different format from the previous editions, dropping the loose-leaf notebook and divider tabs used for previous editions and their annual sup-plements. It is now an annual, bound edition with a cumulative index beginning with 1982. Data will not be reprinted until tables can be updated, but the index to every edition will provide page numbers for data in previous edi-tions.

For more information, contact the Scientific Manpower Commission, 1776 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, D. C. 20036.

New Edition of Guide to Marine Science Acronyms

The literature of the marine sciences is filled with acronyms of organizations, programs, projects, expeditions, instru-ments, and institutions: ICES, GEOSECS, POLYMODE, OCSEAP, CTD, WHOI, BNDO. To help researchers, students, technical writers, information specialists, and others cope with this inevitable side-effect of big science, the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) has published a third edition of Annotated Acronyms and Abbreviations of Marine Science Related Activities.

This reference work, first published in 1969, has been com-pletely revised and expanded. At 349 pages, it is three times as long as the second edition. Originally covering only acronyms and abbreviations of international organizations and activ-ities, it now includes acronyms and abbreviations of both U.S.



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retirements

Vincent J. Oliver, considered one of the world's authorities on the use and in-terpretation of satellite data, retired from full-time government work in March 1982 after 47 years of govern-ment service. He is now working as a consultant with Environmental Satellite Data Inc. He majored in meteorology under Carl-Gustaf Rossby at The University of Chicago, receiving the B.S. in meteorology and Phi Beta

Kappa in 1942. He taught meteorology at The University of Chicago from 1941 to 1945; he did graduate work in meteorology there in 1943-44. He was a consultant at the War Department from 1944 to 1946 in Europe, Africa, and North Pacific regions. At the close of the war he served as Meteorologist-in-Charge of the Fairbanks, Alaska, forecast office. While there, he organized and was first president of the "Farthest North" chapter of the Society. In 1948 he returned to Washington, D.C., as Supervisor of the Extended Forecast Section, U.S. Weather Bureau. In 1952 he became Supervising Forecaster at the National Meteorological Center for five years, then Chief Applications Officer for the Weather Bureau Forecast Division for five years. In 1962 he joined the National Environmental Satellite Service as Chief of the Applications Group. He attended Catholic University of America for one year of graduate study in mathematics and fluid dynamics in 1963. He has published numerous articles in meteorological journals on the use of new types of data for weather forecasting. He wrote the first papers on the systematic use of upper air soundings for weather forecasting and developed and published a comprehensive study on single station analysis of clouds and soundings for weather detection, which was applied on a worldwide basis during World War II. He has had 40 years of professional experience in meteorology, including weather forecasting in Alaska, long range weather prediction, National Meteorological Center analysis and prediction, Chief of research and training of USWB forecasters on new methods of forecasting, and Chief of Satellite Applications in NESS. He has been invited to organize and conduct international seminars for the World Meteorological Organization held in Tokyo, Melbourne, Moscow, Mexico City, and numerous places in the United States and Canada. Due to his experience in the many differing fields of weather forecasting and analysis, he serves as expert instructor at universities in

developing and teaching the use of satellite data to these other fields of meteorology.

Oliver has specialized in the use of satellite data for the detection and prediction of severe storms, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, heavy rainstorms, severe local winds, and large scale ocean storms.

A Fellow of AMS, he served the Society as Councilor during 1964-66. He is also a member of the Washington Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the Department of Commerce Meritorious Service Award in 1958 and the Department of Commerce Silver Medal in 1965.

Lawrence A. Schaal retired as State Climatologist for Indiana on 30 June. A native of Barnard, Kans., he was graduated from Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa, in 1938 with the B.S. in physics and education. In 1942, while in the Navy, he took a wartime course in meteorology at New York University. Schaal was assistant state climatologist in Michigan from 1947-54, and Assistant Director of the Records Processing Center, Kansas City, in 1955. He began his career as Climatologist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., on 1 January 1956.

about our corporation members

Ford Aerospace et) Communications Corporation has been awarded a $690 000 Phase I study contract for second source production of the U.S. Navy's High-Velocity Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM). The Naval Air Systems Command made the announcement in Washington, D.C.

Under terms of the Study Phase contract, Ford Aerospace will comprehensively review the authenticated HARM data package, recommend changes for improved producibility and cost, design an efficient set of production tooling and test equipment, and generate plans for production initiation and logistic support.

The five-month study will be carried out by Ford Aerospace's Aeronutronic Division, Newport Beach, Calif. Following conclusion of the Phase I contract, Ford Aerospace will bid on a second phase that will call for building a number of HARM test missiles.

Ford Aerospace is teamed with M/A-COM (formerly Micro-wave Associates) on the program. •


and foreign organizations and activities. The U.S. section covers the Federal government, state agencies and organiza-tions, and regional and private organizations; the foreign sec-tion is a survey by country.

The organization and format of this publication make it more than a list of acronym titles. Acronyms and abbrevia-tions are described in context by entries that are grouped to show pertinent relationships. Two alphabetical indexes—one listing acronyms and abbreviations and the other listing full titles—provide keys to the text entries.

Annotated Acronyms is available for a three-dollar handling charge from NODC (a component of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Environmental Data and Infor-mation Service) Washington, D.C. 20235 tel: (202) 634-7500.

Eight billion dollars lost yearly from geologic and hydrologic hazards

Geologic and hydrologic hazards such as earthquakes, floods, ground failures, and volcanic eruptions now cause an esti-mated $8 billion in losses annually in the United States, but these losses can be greatly reduced, according to a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The USGS report, "Facing Geologic and Hydrologic Hazards—Earth Science Considerations,'' describes in general terms the physical characteristics of geologic and hydrologic

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Mass also established that sea-breeze and mountain-valley regimes affect the amount of precipitation measured in Puget Sound. The mountain-valley effect leads to strong conver-gence in the central sound around 3 am, which enhances the precipitation during the early morning hours. By noon, divergence is nearing its peak over the Sound, causing a definite precipitation minimum in downtown Seattle. By late afternoon there is some convergence in the southern Sound, caused by conflicting sea breezes flowing in from the ocean around the Olympic Mountains, leading to the enhancement of precipitation again into the early evening. The February meeting was held at the offices of Northwest Hydraulic Con-sultants. Ron Peterson of the Wind Engineering/Air Quality Division presented slides of selected sites and discussed the methods and applications used by them for physical modeling of environmental flows. Following the slide presentation, we were treated to a tour of their facility and given a demonstra-tion of their large wind tunnel. This tunnel is 86 ft long, with inside usable dimensions of 56 by 12 ft, and a variable height of 6 to 9 ft.

Their engineers were studying the placement of air intake ducts on a building being designed in California, to prevent the ducts from taking in dangerous fumes emitted from a nearby source. A scale model of the building and surrounding topography had been constructed in the wind tunnel. Upon activation of the fan, which consists of a variable pitch pro-pellor driven by a two-speed motor, titanium tetrachloride was released to demonstrate visually how different wind

speeds affect the dispersion of the plume. The engineers also release hydrocarbon and gas tracers, and have a network of intake tubes built into their scale model to collect and sample the emissions. — William D. Burton, Secy.-Treas.

Southeastern Michigan

The 19 November 1981 meeting, held at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Ann Arbor, was called to order at 7:30 pm by Jim Ruff in. The need for judges for the March science and engineering fair was presented. Volunteers were asked for, but after some discussion it was decided to wait for more information. The matter was then set aside until the next meeting. The business meeting was adjourned at 7:45. A presentation was then given by Gary Charson, a hydrologist from the Ann Arbor office, on the many floods the previous spring and summer.— Randall R. Schilling, Secy.

Wright Memorial

The chapter held its January 1982 meeting at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. The members in attendance were given a presentation by Thomas Seliga from the Ohio State University on "Investigations Using Dual Polarization Weather Radiation.'' —Dan H. Vial, Jr., Secy. •

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hazards; identifies the locations in the United States where these hazards tend to happen; specifies their impact on the nation's people, buildings, structures, and economy; and discusses actions that can reduce losses in lives and property. The well-illustrated 110-page report presents its information in a regional and national perspective and is not intended for site-specific application.

' 'The report is designed to provide basic earth science infor-mation, including suggestions for the collection of additional information, that can be used by planners and decision-makers in taking actions to reduce losses from geologic and hydrologic hazards," said Walter Hays, editor of the report and a geophysicist at the USGS National Center, Reston, Va.

"The United States presently averages about $8 billion annually in losses from geologic and hydrologic hazards. Sud-den losses up to about $100 billion, however, could result if unlikely events occur together in the near future, such as a repeat of the devastating New Madrid, Mo., earthquake series of 1811-1812, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, exten-sive ground failures, volcanic eruptions, or the flooding that resulted from Hurricane Agnes in 1972," Hays said.

The USGS report suggests a variety of actions designed to reduce losses from geologic and hydrologic hazards, including:

Avoiding the hazard by selecting other appropriate areas in which to live or reducing the hazard by building where the probability of its occurrence is lowest;

Zoning or planning within an area characterized by a rela-tively high severity or probability of occurrence of the hazard to reduce building density, or prohibit certain types of struc-tures susceptible to a particular type of hazard;

Allowing all types of structures within a potentially hazard-ous area, but requiring site-specific engineering design and

construction to increase the capability of the site or structure to withstand the hazard; and

Distributing the potential losses through insurance and other financial methods.

The report says that both average annual losses and the potential for sudden great losses have increased and will con-tinue to do so fairly rapidly for several reasons, including:

More and more people are living in flood-prone areas, areas of high seismic risk, exposed coastal locations, landslide prone areas, and near potentially active volcanoes; and

Urban centers are growing annually through construction of homes, schools, hospitals, high-rise buildings, factories, util-ity systems, dams, oil refineries, airports, and other facilities. This growth causes additional high-value property to be exposed to geologic and hydrologic hazards every year.

The report points out that making decisions and taking actions designed to reduce losses are especially difficult because of the technical nature of the earth-science informa-tion that must be considered and understood and because of the uncertain times and places where these hazards may occur and the great variation in the magnitude and probability of occurence.

Some highlights from the report include: A repeat of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which took

700 lives and destroyed buildings costing, in 1978 dollars, about $170 million, probably would cause $24 billion in damages now and, depending on the time of day, take about 5000 lives and cause 700 000 injuries.

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candidates for CCM announcements («continued from page 951)

The candidates named below have met the qualifications required by the Board of Certified Consulting Meteorologists and the Commis-sion on Professional Affairs of the American Meteorological Society.

Alexander W. Bealer Dames & Moore 222 E. Anapamu St. Santa Barbara, Calif. 93101

Phillip L. Youngblood 313 Wren Dr. Ponca City, Okla. 74601

Board procedures require publication of the names of candidates in the BULLETIN, and if no objection to the action of the Board and Commission on Professional Affairs is submitted within 60 days of publication, the approval is final. •

corrigenda

In A. H. Woodcock's a r t ic le tha t appeared in the February 1982 Bulletin (63, 161-166), the i l lustrations appearing on pp. 164 and 165 should be interchanged. The illustration on p. 164 corresponds to the caption for Fig. and the illustration on p . 165 corresponds to the caption for Fig. 3.

In C. A. Knight's ar t ic le that appeared in the April 1982 Bulletin (63, 386-398), there was an omission f rom Table 1, which lists the field part icipants and their funding agencies. The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology's (associated person: P. Smith) armored T-28 a i r c r a f t (H-8) should have been listed, with NSF and NCAR listed as funding agencies. In the same taole, the entry for the National Aeronautical Establishment <3c National Research Council of Canada should be changed t o read: "Atmospheric Environment Service <5c National Research Council of Canada, R. Schemenauer and J . I. MacPherson," and the funding agency listed should be AES/NAE.

There was an error in the May 1982 Bulletin booklist, p. 523, in the "Solar Radiation and Energy" section. An Introduction to Meteorological Measurements and Data Handling for Solar Energy Applications was edited by M. R. Riches, not T. K. Won and E. J . Truhlar.

If a similar, large-magnitude earthquake occurred in the Los Angeles area along the Newport-Inglewood fault, it would probably cause losses of about $45 billion and as many as 23 000 deaths;

A repeat of the New Madrid, Mo., earthquakes of 1811-1812, estimated by many to have been the most violent series of earthquakes in the United States, could cause losses in the Midwest comparable with the "worst case" estimates for San Francisco or Los Angeles;

The annual loss from floods in the United States, excluding deaths and injuries, has increased from $100 000 (in current dollars) at the beginning of the century to more than $3 billion today. More than 20 800 communities have flood problems, and of those, about 6100 have populations greater than 2500;

Direct and indirect damage from landslides in the United States totals more than $1 billion per year. An average of 25 lives are lost from landslides each year;

Expansive soils (soil and soft rock which tend to swell or shrink due to changes in moisture content) cause, by some estimates, from $2 to $7 billion in damage annually. Of the more than 250 000 new homes built annually on expansive soils in the United States, 10% undergo significant damage during their useful lives (some beyond repair) and 60% undergo minor damage; and

Volcanic eruptions occur relatively infrequently, but they cannot be ignored. Eruptions have a significant short-term impact, as the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruptions have shown. The total cost of these eruptions is expected to reach $2-3 billion.

The report contains a listing of references for each of the hazards discussed and more than 20 maps showing volcanic hazards, potential levels of earthquake ground acceleration, notable historic earthquakes, and areas subject to landslides, caverns, karst terrane, expansive soils, earthquake damage, and surface faulting.

The new report is the second in a series of special earth-science reports being prepared by the USGS to provide the public with timely and useful information on earth-science considerations relative to critical land, energy, mineral, and water resource issues. The first report in the series was titled "Synthetic Fuels Development—Earth Science Considera-tions" and is identified as USGS Professional Paper 1240-A.

Copies of USGS Professional Paper 1240-B, "Facing Geo-logic and Hydrologic Hazards—Earth Science Con-siderations," illustrated with over 100 maps and color photo-graphs, may be obtained for $7.50 each from the Branch of Distribution, U.S. Geological Survey, 1200 South Eads St., Arlington, Va. 22202. Orders must specify the professional paper number and include check or money order payable to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Cornish, Charles R. Healy, Garret L. Mitchum, Gary T. Shepphird, Fred H. Crecelius, Jeffrey P. Hentschel, Bruce R. Mossl, Barbara I. Smith, David J. Cruncleton, John P. Hinners, Gregory S. Nemeth, Stephen E. Solomon, Mark S. Davidson, Paul K. Hitpas, James L. Pesik, Gary F. Soulje, Gregory S. DeRosa, Ralph M. Howell, Thomas L. Pichler, Wayne K. Stewart, Michael R. Dixon, Keith W. Jackson, Mark E. Powers, Carol M. Stryker, William H. Ecker, Timothy K. Jeray, John F. Reed, Iain M. Tanahashi, Syuichi Fennessy, James D. Junemann, Carolyn E. Reeder, Michael J. Theimer, James P. Gilsey, Gardner S. Kleckner, David L. Robertson, Barbara L. Thorberg, Ronald L. Golus, Robert E. Kloesel, Kevin A. Rogers, David P. Ventola, David B. Gross, Margaret A. Larson, Edmund M. Rokke, Laurie A. Watso, Dorothy M. Gunning, Michael W. Lee, Yung-An Rokosz, Steve D. Werner, Matthew D. Guyaz, Henry N. Lott, Jack N. Rothfusz, Lans P. Westerlage, Keith C. Hampton, Cynthia L. Mach, Michael A. Saul, Thomas B. Wilkinson, Terry L. Hauschildt, Peggy Magnatta, John E. Schmit, John A. Williams, Bruce C. Hays, Jack R., Jr. McAllister, Marc R. Schneider, Thomas J.


National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China

The Committee on Scholarly Communication with the Peo-ple's Republic of China (CSCPRC) has announced oppor-tunities under the National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, and humanities for 1983-84. This Program makes possible long-term study (10-12 months) or research (3-12 months) in affiliation with Chinese universities and research institutes. Application is open to citizens of the United States regardless of national origin, sex, or religious affiliation. Grants, the number of which depends on available funding, include transportation to and from China, stipend, living and travel allowances while in China, and a limited research and educa-tional materials allowance. The Program does not provide dependent travel or support. The Program has two com-ponents; application should be made either to the Graduate Program or to the Research Program. Inquiries should be ad-dressed to the CSCPRC, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave., Washington, D.C. 20418. The mailing deadline for applications is 5 November 1982.

meeting of interest

18-21 October 1982: ISA/82, sponsored by the Instrument Society of America, will meet 18-21 October in Philadelphia, Pa. ISA/82 will feature over 70 two-hour technical sessions consisting of paper presentations, clinics, tutorials, and workshops. There will be 25 short courses during ISA/82 to cover subjects including: Introduction to Instrumention and Process Control; Measurement; Final Control; Automatic Control; Safety Systems; Digital Techniques; Sales, Marketing, and Management; and Boiler Control.

Over 165 000 square feet of exhibit space has been reserved

to provide exhibitors and those attending the meeting with a direct connection with this vast northeastern instrumentation market. The Instrument Society of America is a nonprofit membership organization whose purpose is educational. Its individual members have a direct interest in instrumention and industrial control. Through a wide variety of publications, meetings, and instructional activity, the Society fosters the advancement of the theory, design, manufacture, and use of instruments, computers, and systems for measurement and control. For more information, contact the Instrument Society of America, 67 Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, N.C. 27709 tel: (919) 549-8411.

Deadlines Calendar

Fellowships, grants, etc. 15 June 1983 Macelwane Annual Award

(this issue, p. 934) 15 June 1983 Hanks and Orville Scholarships

(this issue, p. 934)

5 November 1982 National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China

(thisissue, p. 955)

Call for papers 15 November 1982 1983 Summer Computer Simulation

Conference (March 1982 BULLETIN , p. 272)

26 November 1982 Second International Meeting on Statistical Climatology

(February 1982 BULLETIN , p. 160)

Call for nominations 31 December 1982 Alan T. Waterman Award

(July 1981 BULLETIN , p. 1068) «


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