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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1963)
• : v : r K. : v;.: "" ' f FOR DATA ON IRRIGATION luilds Electrical Device An A&M agronomy professor has assembled an electrical device \vhich promises to provide more accurate information on when cot ton should be irrigated. / '. The gadget, described in a tech nical paper as ‘A Thermoelectric Method for Determining the Rate of Water Movement in Plants,” is an arrangement of wires, batteries, and screws which somehow does just that—measures the rate of sap flow in the plant stem. The thermoelectric system is the handiwork of Dr. Morris Blood- worth, professor of soil physics at A&M. He says a reading from the instrument, in measuring stem water flow, actually samples clim ate and soil water availability. ~ There are already a number of instruments in use to determine if a cotton field needs moisture. But they merely sample one aspect of a plant’s environment. There is the tensionmeter, which measures water holding force of soil particles. Another method is electrical resistance units that in dicate soil moisture indirectly by measuring electrical resistance of a porous cell buried in the soil within the root zone. A third system is the neutron moisture meter which uses radio active materials. Metal tubes sunk into the ground allow a neutron probe and counting device to meas ure soil moisture. Finally, there is the standard gravimetric, or soil sampling method which indicates the amount of water in the soil but not its availability for plant The four instruments already in use measure soil conditions only, when relative humidity, transpira tion, wind and other factors also should be considered. Bloodworth says this overall picture is the purpose of this thermoelectric instrument. The thermoelectric method con sists first of brief local application of moderate heat to the plant stem. By using a thermistor (an electri cal-type resistor which varies with temperature) in external contact with the stem % inch above the heat point, the time required for transfer of the warmed water up the stem in measured. Rate of fluid movement in the stem can then be determined from the time. Children’s Art Exhibit [owcases in the main hallway of the Memorial Student hter are being used this week to display the work of eign children. rate r prize, ft Asian country with only “two hree” architects is training with the assistance of A&M program sponsored by the vided by tk ^ States government. le achitectural program is a of the East Pakistan Uni- rties for tk Dof Engineering and Tech- !y, a new institution at Dacca. 5M Professor Richard Vroom- fent to East Pakistan in the of 1961 to inaugurate the *s in architecture. Two other itects were appointed later.. IE APPOINTMENT of the I teacher, who completes the tectural faculty, was an ted Thursday by Dr. Jack Gray ie A&M System International tarns Office. ill Assistant Professor Sam- [< Lanford and his family will for East Pakistan about Oct. '(itun rise is scheduled i« ISC Ballroom t last Monday! ;ured live mis had a large to a affair as a &■ said the commit' be able to com dances if similai i time. G &M Helps With 'akistan Program he work in architecture is part broad program uby A&M, at tequest of and with the finan- tud other support of the U. S. foment, to assist the Pakis- | Gray said. IE NEWEST member of the Ictural faculty, Lanford, is 'ashington for a short assign- and will return here for an itation period before going to afor two years. Mrs. Lanford their two children will ac- ®ny him. lessor Vrooman serves as of the architecture and plan- faculty." He taught at A&M 12 years before going to Pakis- Winner of the design com mon for the All Faith Chapel l&M, Vrooman holds degrees l 0berlin College, Western Re- 8 Diversity and A&M. distant Professor James C. ion received the Bachelor of lecture degree from A&M in and was teaching here when tepted the overseas post. HE THIRD faculty member is Dunham, who holds a Mas ter of Architecture degree from Harvard University. He completed a year of post graduate study in England and designed structures in North Africa before going to East Pakistan. Seven Pakistani students of re gional and city planning are ex pected to come to the United States this fall for studies at several universities. Three will be stu dents at A&M. Researchers Begin Another Phase Of Caribbean Study Another phase in a study of the Caribbean Sea by A&M researchers begins this weekend. Goal of the research is to map the ocean bot tom and learn more about sedi ment and natural processes affect- ■ ■ ing the bottom. Dr. Louis S. Kornicker, an as sociate professor whose specialty is geological oceanography, and Milton P. Looney, a research tech nician, are scheduled to fly south Friday. At Puerto Barrios on the Carib bean coast of Guatemala they will board the Research Vessel Spencer F. Baird of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The vessel will sail Sunday to begin a four-week cruise in the area eastward to Swan Island. Dr. Kornicker, who returned Sun day after presenting two papers at an international symposium in Naples, Italy, already has taken samples from the bottom of the Caribbean off the Honduran and Nicaraguan coasts.' A&M researchers are in the final phase of a study of the Campeche area in the Gulf of Mexico off the Mexican coast. The scientists will be sampling the bottom at depths of more than 16,000 feet. "Family Security' fauranl! mint pi mk* • s. Savings Bonds form a good background for family j^rity. 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