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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, October 13, 1967
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ScientistsPlanning
Gulf Science Year
Scientists are now planning the
most intensive study of the Gulf
of Mexico ever attempted—a Gulf
Science Year which will include
among varied projects, research
on those actions of sea and air
which cause such disasters as
Hurricane Beulah.
A fleet of ships, underwater
craft, instrumented buoys and
platforms, and possibly even sat
ellites, may be used to probe the
weather, marine life, circulations,
geological structures, effects of
man and other processes in the
Gulf. Target date is 1970.
Led by Dr. Richard A. Geyer,
head of the Oceanography De
partment at Texas A&M Univer
sity, the planning effort is spon
sored by a research combined of
16 universities and institutes, the
Gulf Universities Research Cor
poration (GURC).
The total program of planning,
observing, analyzing and report
ing results may span a four-year
period. One specific intention of
the program is to provide scien
tific data which would increase
man’s effective use of the Gulf.
Dr. John C. Calhoun, vice presi
dent for programs at Texas A&M
University and president of GU
RC, explains that “the Gulf pro
vides a natural laboratory which
is large and complex enough to
provide a basis for generalization
to other areas, yet small enough
to be a pilot region for testing
integrated environmental re
search.”
“Of all the continental shelf
areas, there is more invested in
the Gulf than in any other area,”
he added. “As better economical
use of continental shelf areas is
investigated, there is no more
suitable area than the Gulf where
a major investment has already
been made.”
Already, a steering committee
has been formed and panel chair
men selected for seven areas of
scientific interest:
Dr. Luis R. A. Capurro of
Texas A&M, General Circulation
in the Gulf; Dr. Anton Hales,
Southwest Center for Advanced
Studies, Dallas, with Dr. Charles
Helsey of SCAS as depilfy, Panel
on Tectonics (geologidteJi struc
tures); and Dr. M. A. Estoque,
University of Miami, Air-Sea In
teraction.
Biological Processes and Bio
geography panel is headed by Dr.
Walter Abbott, Gulf Coast Re
search Laboratory. Dr. Ernest
Gloyna, University of Texas, di
rects research concerned with
Man’s Effect on the Gulf. Dr. Wil
liam B. Heroy Jr., Geotechnical
Corporation, Dallas, heads inves
tigations on Man’s Use of the
Gulf. And Dr. William Walton,
Pan-American Petroleum Corpor
ation, and Dr. Arnold Bouma,
Texas A&M University’s Depart
ment of Oceanography, serve as
co-chairmen for the panel on
Sedimentary Processes.
The steering committee for the
planning of the Gulf Science Year
is composed of Dr. Geyer; Dr.
Carl Oppenheimer of Florida
State University; Dr. Clarence
Durham of Louisiana State Uni
versity; Dr. Lymon Reese of the
University of Texas; Dr. John
Clothworthy of the University of
Miami; Dr. Harris Stewart of the
Environmental Science Services
Administration; and Dr. Claude
Hocott of Esso Production Re
search.
“It’s about time we had a com
prehensive research effort in the
Gulf,” said Dr. Geyer, who is vice
chairman of the Commission on
Marine Science, Engineering and
Resources. “It will be comparable
to the Indian Ocean Expedition.
Of course, A&M has been active
in the Gulf since 1949, but here
we’re talking about synoptic re
search—covering the whole area
at the same time.”
“It may be international in
scope. Our friends in Mexico
should have a research ship by
next year operating out of Vera
Cruz,” he continued.
Dr. Geyer said it is hoped that
at least five or six oceanographic
vessels would be available for
the GSY.
“We hope by then (1970) to
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get some satellite coverage,” he
noted. “We have a project going
at A&M with NASA and Naval
Oceanographic Office on use of
remote sensors to study the mouth
of the Mississippi.”
If studies show use of ultra
violet, infared, photographic and
other devices can provide valuable
data on oceanography, then per
haps an experiment package
could be put aboard a weather or
scientific satellite by 1970, Geyer
said. One value here, he explained,
would be to provide “ground
truth” readings against which
to check satellite data.
One major emphasis, he related,
will be on those Gulf processes
which change with time—time
dependent variables. One ship in
vestigating an ocean current, for
instance, may take weeks to com
plete the study, while the current
may have changed in the mean
time. But a number of ships or
other devices can provide simul
taneous studies, Geyer pointed
out.
Texas A&M To Participate
In Atlantic Ocean Research
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The planning group already has
identified five products of the
GSY: (1) An intensive study and
coordinated investigation effort
on a pilot ocean and continental
shelf area to be used as a basis
for doing broader global efforts.
(2) An analysis of the Gulf
system as a unit — its hydro
sphere, geosphere and atmo
sphere, including their boundaries,
their processes and their living
systems.
(3) A scientific basis for un
derstanding natural changes in
the Gulf and actions related to
multiple use of ocean resources,
stimulation of resource develop
ment, recreational uses of the
Gulf, formulation of regulations
and other needs requiring scien
tific and environmental data.
PLANNING GULF SCIENCE YEAR
Dr. John C. Calhoun, left, and Dr. Richard A. Geyer look over a map of the Gulf of Mexico
as they discuss plans for the biggest scientific investigation of the Gulf ever made. The
two Texas A&M University officials are leading the effort sponsored by the Gulf Uni
versities Research Corporation, a research combined of 16 universities and institutes.
A cooperative oceanographic re
search project between the United
States and Argentina will be con
tinued in the Southwest Atlantic
during 1967-68 under National
Science Foundation support.
Dr. Luis R. A. Capurro of
Texas A&M’s Oceanography De
partment will direct studies car
ried out in cooperation with sci
entists and government agencies
of Argentina. NSF has granted
$36,300 through the A&M Re
search Foundation for the re
search.
Under study is a well-defined
front between the warm Brazil
current and the polar Falkland
current in the Southwest Atlantic.
“Little was known of the front
al system until the reseearch pro
gram began last year,” Capurro
said. Three cruises were com
pleted in 1966-67, for infrared
thermometer measurements, cur
rent profiles and synoptical ocean
coverage.
Captain Capurro, a former
Argentine Navy officer, said
seven days will be spent at each
of 150 stations this year. Three
ships scheduled for 140 days on
the research are supplied by
Argentina’s Hydrographic Office
and National Institute of Ocean
ography.
An aircraft will be used for
obtaining sea surface tempera
tures and frontal photography. A
former Woods Hole Institution
research ship, Atlantis I will be
employed. The specially designed
research vessel has been in out
fitting drydock at Boston.
Capurro commanded several
oceanographic ships, an ice
breaker and was Argentine Navy
hydrographer four years. He is
a native of Buenos Aires.
Minister Tq Speak
To Unitarians
“Man as a Machine” is the topic
on which Richard A. Stadelman
will speak to the Unitarian Fel
lowship Sunday at 8 p.m. at the
Unitarian Fellowship Building,
306 Old Highway 6 South, in Col
lege Station.
Mr. Stadelman arrived this
September to join the staff of the
Department of Philosophy at
Texas A&M. He has previously
taught Philosophy at Tulane Uni-
verstiy and Louisiana State Uni-
verstiy in New Orleans. He re-
ceivedjris A.B. degree with honors
from Earlham College in 1954,
and in 1958 received his Bachelor
of Divinity degree form Yale.
such a large scale that no single
institution could manage such a
program effectively. GSY will
involve the coordination of the
efforts of a large number of
organizations in a significant re-
gionel program of research for
the Gulf of Mexico.”
It is possible, noted GURC
President Lalhoun, who is chair
man of the National Academy of
Science Committee on Oceanog
raphy, that total research efforts
might be more than $10 million.
For planning such a venture,
funds are being sought from gov
ernment and private agencies
which support science.
(4) An inventory of the exist
ing spectrum of Gulf research
activities and their trends.
(5) A short-term impulse of
investigations that will direct
future research into the most
fruitful channels.
“The GSY is a significant ven
ture for GURC and the Gulf re
gion,” Dr. Geyer said. “The scope
of the investigations will be on
Members of the non-profit GU
RC are Florida State University,
Gulf South Research Institute,
Louisiana State University, Rice
University, Southern Methodist
University, Southwest Center for
Advanced Studies, Southwest Re
search Institute, Texas A&M Uni
versity, Texas Christian Univer
sity, Texas Technological Col
lege, Tulane University, Univer
sity of Alabama, University of
Florida, University of Houston,
University of Miami and Univer
sity of Texas.
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