Graduate Student
Vastano
Tsunami
Studies
Stages
By GUS GARZA
Battalion Special Writer
Drew Vastano, a Department
of Oceanography graduate stu
dent, has an extraordinary field
of interest. Vastano is doing
research on the tsunami (soo-
nom-ee).
Have you heard of a tsunami ?
Of course, but under a different
name. Vastano explained that
tsunamis are commonly and pop
ularly called “tidal waves.” Be
cause of the difference in origin,
however, the name “tidal wave”
is a misnomer.
According to Vastano, tsunam
is may be created by faulting or
some other sudden movement of
the ocean floor. But until some
positive evidence of what happens
at the source to generate a tsu
nami, the origin must remain
somewhat in doubt.
The tsunami can be broken into
four areas for purposes of re
search, Vastano said. The four
areas are generation, propaga
tion, modification and run-up.
Generation is the origin of the
tsunami, propagation is the
movement of the tsunami in deep
water, modification is change
that occurs when it reaches an is
land and the run-up is when it
actually runs up on the beach and
further.
Vastano said once the tsunam
is are generated, these traveling
ocean waves may be of extreme
length and period. Once in deep
water there may be many miles
from crest to crest, and just a
few feet between the trough to
the crest.
Transoceanic vessels can’t feel
the difference, but yet the wave
Consolidated Prep
Take Top Honors
In District Meet
A&M Consolidated High School
students received awards in Uni
versity Interscholastic League
district competition at Conroe
last week.
A&M Consolidated took the top
three places in typing. Billy
Randal placed first, Dicky Her-
vey took second and Linda Isbell
third.
The A&M Consolidated team
of Mary Ruth Watkins and
Marion Peters won top honors in
spelling.
Wayne Powell won third place
in science. Steve Prescott won
first in persuasive speaking for
boys and June Sanders won third
for girls.
Duke Miller took second in
poetry interpretation and Mary
Ruth Watkins won third place
in ready writing.
The three typing winners and
Prescott will compete in regional
competition at the University of
Houston April 22-23.
Profs Collaborate
Onlndustrial Book
A textbooks written by two
Texas A&M professors for high
school industrial arts classes was
released this week.
"Technical Woodworking” was
suthored by Department of In
dustrial Education head Dr. Chris
H. Groneman and another indus
trial education professor, Dr.
Everett R. Glazener.
"The book emphasizes the uses
of wood products and the tech
niques of operating modern wood
working machinery,” Groneman
Pointed out.
' The volume, illustrated with
I, 550 photographs and drawings,
covers design, safety, assembly,
finishes, hand tools, wood-prod-
Ucts industries, forests, research
and conservation.
t Groneman, author or co-author
of 14 books, is a consultant to
McGraw-Hill Book Company.
Clazener has produced five books.
2 Local Students
Enter Science Fair
Two students’ projects at the
A&M Consolidated Science Fair
will be presented at the district
fair in Houston Friday.
Wayne Powell’s project is en
titled “Effects of Agricultural
Chemicals on the Heartbeat of
Daphnia.” Daphnia are common
ly known as water fleas.
, “Nutrition of Bacteria,” Paul
Oxley’s project, will also be sent
k Houston.
The Houston Science Fair is
aponsored by the Houston Post
and the Engineers Council of
Houston.
in a
deep
of 600
“feels bottom” and
ocean may reach a speed
m.p.h. When the tsunami reachs
coastline or an island its speed
decreases and the wave height in
creases, sometimes cresting to
100 feet. An impending tsunami
is usually heralded by a gradual
recession of the coastal water,
Vastano said.
Vastano said his area of study
was the modification stage of the
tsunami. His research begins in
deep water at the upward slope
of an island and ends in shallow
water where the run-up begins.
Vastano said the objective of
tsunami modification research is
to develop a tool to measure a
known deep water wave as it
moves from deep to shallow water
in order to reveal what happens
in the run-up stage.
The bulk of Vastano’s research
is done by feeding mathematical
wave motion problems to a com
puter. Vastano said he became
interested in wave motion prob
lems while doing sonar work for
the Bell Telephone Co. near Wake
Island in the Pacific Ocean.
“Successful research of the tsu
nami can lead to protection of
lives and property,” he said. And
the math and physical problems
presented are quite interesting.”
Vastano hails from Winston-
Salem, N.C., but calls College
Station home, moving here in
1962.
Vastano holds a bachelor’s de
gree in nuclear engineering from
North Carolina State and a mas
ter’s degree in physics from the
University of North Carolina. His
research is sponsored by the
Coastal Engineering Research
Center affiliated with the Corps
of Engineers, U. S. Army, which
is vitally interested in all phases
of coastal protection.
THE
Thursday, March 31, 1966
BATTALION
College Station, Texas
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Teaching, Learning
Seminars On Tap
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OUTSTANDING AGRICULTURE PROF, STUDENTS
Jim F. Mills, right, of the Department of outstanding agriculture student awards to
Soil and Crop Sciences, has been named the James R. Supak, Allen Matthys and Roland
College of Agriculture’s outstanding profes- Smith,
sor. At left, Dean R. E. Patterson presents
30 Students, Staffers
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Thirty Texas A&M students
and staff members will visit
Houston Sunday and Monday on
the Student Leadership Program
trip.
The students will tour the ship
channel and port of Houston, the
Manned Spacecraft Center and
the Museum of Fine Arts. Per
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and by the Houston Symphony
Orchestra are also on their sched
ule.
Deans of the A&M colleges
nominated students and the com
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to attend the program.
J. Wayne Stark, director of the
MSC, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Shafer will accompany the stu
dents on the trip.
Students attending are Jerry
Lummus, Jose Adame, Cornelius
E. Hill, Martin Hefley, David
Gay, Tom Neal, Leslie Bugai,
Michael Holloman.
Dennis Hohman, Wallace John
ston, Donald Envick, Louis Moe-
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Reese, Jerry Stevens, Tom Tyree,
Mark Berry.
Pedro Garza, John Rodgers,
Steve Gummer, Steve Kovich,
Ronnie Coleman, Larry Hearn,
Wesley Leftwich, James Allen,
Michael Holman and Lani Press-
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Profs go to class here Satur
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Seminars on Improvement of
Teaching and Learning for A&M
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Ninety applications were re
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offices representing all A&M
schools and colleges, announced
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“These seminars are recogni
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teaching function of the universi
ty,” remarked Dr. Frank W. R.
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tremendous response is evidence
the faculty is keenly interested in
the learning theory and improve
ment of instruction.”
A&M professors will be in
structed in techniques of teach
ing and learning, student and
faculty-student services and edu
cational media on Tuesday and
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tee for Improvement of College
Teaching. Funds have been
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used in construction teaching ma
terials.
Non-credit lectures, demonstra
tions and workshops will provide
faculty members opportunity to
construct teaching aids for use
in their own classrooms as well
as improve their capacities as
teachers, Hensarling noted.
Professors have been assigned
to sessions on theory of learn
ing, test design, educational psy
chology and human behavior and
learning, in the teaching and
learning division of the program.
They will also study problems
of university students and facul
ty and student services available
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and operating and maintaining
audio-visual equipment.
Instructing educational media
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coordinator for the entire pro
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S. Auston Kerley and Drs.
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Hope, Albert Casey, Donald G.
Barker, William J. Robinson and
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A&M Given Grant
By Schlumberger
The Schlumberger Foundation of
Houston has awarded Texas A&M
renewal grants totaling $5,000
for 1966-67.
A $4,000 grant will provide
fellowships for high school teach
ers who will attend A&M this
summer.
The remaining $1,000 will be
equally divided between a junior
or senior student majoring in
electrical, mechanical or petro
leum engineering, physics or
geology, and his major depart
ment.
Announcement of the scholar
ship winner will be made about
May 15 by the Faculty Scholar
ship Committee.
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