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THE BATTALION
Thursday, October 12, 1967
College Station, Texas
Page 3
Oceanographers To Aid Apollo A&M Enrichment Program
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Remote sensing devices for
measuring ocean temperatures,
salinity and sedimentation under
testing by Texas A&M’s oceano
graphy from space project will
also require sensitivity to discern
crop and forest differences and
for other applications.
A pool of hardware suggested
by oceanographers, meteorolo
gists, geologists, hydrologists and
agriculturalists will be used to
instrument NASA’s first Apollo
applications flight, sometime in
1969.
Procedures for measuring
ground and ocean factors from
aircraft at 1,500. 60,000 or 100,000
feet—or a spacecraft outside the
atmosphere—were described, for
Oceanography Club members by
It. Cmdr. Don Walsh, project co
ordinator.
Walsh is co-holder of the deep
est ocean dive, and as a doctoral
student in oceanography assists
Dr. Hale Leipper in the NASA-
supported oceanography from
space project.
“We’re not studying the Miss
issippi River delta itself,” he
pointed out. “The river’s discharge
into the Gulf of Mexico provides
a large differential for testing
remote sensing instruments. If
our equipment can’t discern tem
perature, salinity, color and sedi
ment differences of the river and
gulf waters, we may as well pack
it up.”
The delicacy of measuring the
gradient between the Mississippi’s
fresh water and salt water from
the gulf is being solved. The pro
ject has made three flights over
the delta, corelated data from
black and white and color pic
tures and scans with infrared and
ultraviolet imagers against
“ground truth” data taken at the
surface.
Walsh said another flight over
the study area is planned for Feb
ruary, when A&M’s oceanographic
research ship Alaminos will be in
the Mississippi discharge area.
Aerial data have been collected
with NASA’s Convair 240 and a
T-38 jet trainer. He indicated the
project hopes to send up larger
instrument payloads for longer
and higher flights by use of a
Lockheed Electra, and eventually,
a Martin RB-57 reconnaissance
medium bomber being acquired
by NASA for scientific research
purposes.
Walsh drew graphis pictures of
the benefits o f refined, more
sophisticated versions of the
equipment orbiting earth in satel
lite.
“Such instruments would be ab
le to see a small smoldering fire
long before it became a large for
est fire,” he noted. “Holding the
earth at arm’s length and study
ing its surface will provide bene-
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fits in many areas.”
“Large freighters will be plot
ted an optimum route around
rough seas. The economic impact
for freight movers would be tre
mendous. Instead of having a mil
lion dollars in capital tied up in
transit seven days, optimum rout
ing might cut shipping time to
five days, putting produce on the
market faster.”
Development of instrumentation
for manned orbiting laboratories
will require specially trained sci
entists of all disciplines.
Miller Named
To New Post
At Ag Station
Dr. Jarvis E. Miller, a leader
in university foreign program as
signments, has been named as
sistant director of the Texas Ag
ricultural Experiment Station.
Appointment of Dr. Miller to
the post was announced at a Sat
urday meeting of the Texas A&M
University System Board of Di
rectors.
In other action, the board
named Dr. Robert D. Lewis direc
tor emeritus of the Texas Agri
cultural Experiment Station. Dr.
Lewis retired from the director’s
position in 1962 after 16 years
service in that capacity.
The board also confirmed eight
Texas A&M faculty-staff promo
tions.
Promotions and new titles in
clude :
Victor H. Treat, assistant pro
fessor of history and government;
Hayes E. Ross, assistant research
engineer, Texas Engineering Ex
periment Station; and Ira E^
Scott, chief instructor, Police
Training Division, Texas Engin
eering Extension Service.
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station promotions include Wil
liam L. Hoover, assistant pro
fessor and head of Agricultural
Analytical Services; Rurel R. Bell,
professor acting head, veterinary
parasitology; and William L.
Schwartz, assistant professor,
veterinary pathology.
S. F. Austin High School boasts
a 5 - foot - 6 automatic Spanish
translator for its classrooms.
She is brown haired, brown
eyed and at the age of 21 has
five years teaching experience.
Maria Guerrini of La Plata, Ar
gentina, also has talents in other
directions.
She works for Dr. Earl Jones,
director of Texas A&M’s public
schools curriculum enrichment
Programa de Education Interam-
ericana, assists in other Bryan
schools instructional areas and is
helping teach Pan American
Roundtable, a n adult education
group.
MISS GUERRINI is one of Ar
gentina’s Volunteer Teachers to
America, a pilot project estab
lished at the suggestion of Presi
dent Johnson under the Fulbright-
Hays Act of 1961.
“It’s a sort of exchange Peace
Corps,” explained Mrs. Frances
Dean, Programa assistant direc
tor.
Through VTA, 100 Argentine
teachers are visiting in the U. S.,
Near East, Asia and Africa to
improve their teaching capabili
ties. Selected on the basis of for
eign language, social studies and
social work training and commun
ications development, the teachers
agree to instruct two years in
the South American country for
each year abroad.
Some of Miss Guerrini’s con
temporaries will visit abroad two
years. She will be in Bryan and
College Station a year. Other
members of the group that re
ceived special English instruction
at UCLA for the project are in
Austin and San Antonio.
MISS GUERRINI has assisted
Mrs. Mary Ellen Vincent with
Bryan High Spanish classes, giv
ing first hand information in
Spanish on a class unit dealing
with Argentine gauchos.
“Miss Guerrini is our lab in the
classroom,” Mrs. Vincent remar
ked. “We have tapes prepared by
native speakers, but when a part
is to be read orally, she gives it
life. She also assists greatly with
pronunciation.”
Maria was the youngest teacher
in her hometown, when at 16 she
completed Argentina’s 12 year
primary and secondary education
system. It is equivalent to the
U. S. public school system, plus
junior college.
THE SERIOUS-MINDED miss
is interested in social service and
will work with Bryan schools vis
iting teachers. She has completed
three years of a four-year pro
gram in social work at a La Plata
university.
At Programa, Miss Guerrini is
a special consultant and works
on Latin American teaching un
its. The materials were collected
last summer by 35 Texas teachers
in Programa who toured Argen
tina and other South and Central
American countries.
Maria’s English is a bit uncer
tain. But she’s not uncertain about
her intentions to improve it.
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