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College Station, Texas
Thursday, August 3,1901
THE BATTALION
A&M Scientists To Reveal
Complex Ocean Secrets
Texas A&M scientists will soon
be using automation to electron
ically tabulate and reveal some of
the ocean’s most complex secrets.
Starting in September, investi
gators in the school’s Department
of Oceanography and Meteorology
will begin a project known as “En
vironmental Studies Off Panama
City, Florida.”
That title is simple enough, but
behind it is the goal of determin
ing just what goes on in sea water
and in the air immediately above.
More specifically, the study is
an attempt to analyze the natural
influences that affect the physical
features of sea water, such as
temperature, salinity, wave action,
currents and internal waves.
Making these measurements is
nothing new. It has been going
on among oceanographers for some
time, but progress has been hin
dered by slow, tedious manual pro
cedures.
This is where automation comes
in on the Panama City project.
The entire operation, from data
gathering to data processing, will
be automated. Scientists won’t
do any of the actual measuiing
or computations. They’ll just
check the equipment now and
then to see that no electronic fibs
are being served up.
A&M’s Oceanography Depart
ment will carry out the research
under contract with the Office of
Naval Research. Data will be ga
thered on an off-shore platform
in the Panama City area.
Several hundred of these plat
forms can be found on coastal
waters of the southern states.
Nearly all the structures were
built for oil exploration or produc
tion. But two were built off Pan-
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or telephoned so as to arrive in the Office
Of Student Publications (Ground Floor
SfMCA, VI 6-6416, hours 8-12, 1-5. daily
Monday through Friday) at or before the
deadline of 1 p.m. of the day preceding
— Director of Student Publica-
publication
ticma.
Ph. D. Language Examination Examina
tions for meeting the foreign language re
quirement for the Ph. D. degree will be
given Wednesday, August
P. M. in Room 129, Aci
at 1 :30
Students wishing to take this examination
should leave the material over which they
wish to be examined with the Secretary in
ademic Building,
this examination
ne Secretary
the Department of Modern Languages not
later than 6:00 p. m. Monday, August
J. J.
21. J. J. Woolket, Head, Department of
Modern Languages. 129t3
ama City by the U. S. Navy Mine
Defense Laboratory for underwa
ter acoustics wqrk. The Navy
calls them Stage 1 and Stage 2.
The platform available for
A&M’s project is Stage 1, which
is about 11 nautical miles, off
shore in 100 feet of water.
Principal investigator is Roy
Gaul, research scientist. Dr. Dale
Leipper, head of the A&M Ocean
ography and Meteorology Depart
ment, is project supervisor.
Other personnel include Mr. and
Mrs. Dean Letzring, field scientist
and assistant, respectively; A. D.
Kirkan Jr., research scientist; and
Charles Hodges, boat captain.
Gaul says this will be the first
time that this type of study will
be completely automated. More
important, however, is the fact
that the electronic equipment yill
allow the researchers to collect
scieptific staff in the school’s new
Data Processing Center.
“To do all this without electron
ic equipment would require tre
mendous amounts of manpower,”
Gaul said.
and analyze in one year the equiv
alent of several years of data ob
tained by the usual shipborne tech
niques. Considerable advantage
is to be realized in this research
by the ability to observe the nat
ural environment for long periods
of time at a fixed position.
He said the plan is to obtain
water temperatures at five levels,
water velocity and direction at
three levels, and to measure waves.
Above, the water, measurements
will be air temperature at three
levels, wind velocity at two levels,
and barometric pressure.
All this will be recorded auto
matically on the stage. There
won’t be a soul around. The only
noises will be the gurgle of water
at the base of the platform, as the
electronic apparatus goes silently
about its business.
After the measurements are re
corded by the equipment on the
stage, the information is then
automatically radioed across the
11 miles of water to shore station.
The information is received by
radio and then recorded automat
ically on magnetic tape.
The field party, permanently
assigned at Panama City, will be
on hand at the shore station to
check the equipment once a day
and make any needed adjustment.
The tapes will be sent back to
A&M, there to be thoroughly an
alyzed under the direction of the
Scout Troop 802
HoldsParents’Nite,
Court of Honor
On the shore of the Lake at
Pleasant Acres Boy Scout Troop
802 held a Court of Honor and
Parents’ Night recently, with Sen
ior Patrol Leader David Maddox
as M.C.
Fred Maddox received his Life
Scout award and Bill Loveless at
tained First Class. Sixty-three
merit badges were awarded to Carl
Gough, David Holmgreen, David
Maddox, Jim Amyx, John Perry,
Ravid Riedel, Fred Maddox, and
Bill Loveless. Many of these
awards were earned by the boys
at Camp Strake and El Rancho
Cima in the preceding weeks.
Buzz Loveless answered ques
tions concerning the 1600 mile bi
cycle trip he and David Gay made
from Washington, D.C. to Bryan
this summer. They rode 12 to 16
hours a day covering from 50 to
100 miles many days and wore out
three tires and one bicycle chain.
They camped out most nights and
found people very helpful and in
terested in the trip all along the
way.
Scoutmaster Sid Loveless gave
a report on the activities of the
Troop at Camp Strake and Assist
ant Scoutmaster Amyx explained
the program followed by the group
of older scouts who attended El
Rancho Cima.
Camping each Monday at Pleas
ant Acres will be resumed next
August 7 and a Scout Swimming
Meet will be held in Sue Haswell
Park on August 14th.
Tom Cartwright, Carl Gough,
David Holmgreen, Tommy Hanni-
gan and John Perry received the
Director of Civil Defense Marks
manship Medals and Mark Riedel,
David Riedel, John Perry and Dav
id Holmgreen also received their
National Rifle Association Marks
manship Certificates.
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Two bedroom apartment, 908 B Welsh,
$38.00 per month. VI 6-7334. 127t3
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dining room, kitchen. The five bed-
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than pay for the rent and utilities.
Three rooms are already rented. Ex
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wiring, attic fan, panel ray heat, near
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Crockett
p. m.
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two years and up,
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Why wait until last minute to get your
Theses reports, etc. to Bi-City Secretarial
service? Electric typewriters, offset print
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