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THE BATTALION . Wednesday, August 9, 1972 . • ;• • . College Station, Texas Page 5 Scientists receive data on rangelands from satellite wffl first Eartk fUBSOyrc^R I €K Satellite (CRTS) for a stady o< CeMlral U. 8. The spacecraft collect ent •pee, Calif It' will artenttflfc dpte and te earth atatiens for a year, and lancer, .'the Natkmal Aeronautics end Space Adndaietratfcm reported. TAlfU’s stady will use the specocraft’s remote eeneon te study the stages of rangeland growth—from dormant through full bloom to the. winter dormant stage. Tea test shea inrolring 26 scientists from Wealaeo te Man- dan, N. are eeoperating in the stady. The test sitea are at Wealaeo, Collage Station, Sonora end Throckmorton (aU TAMU range research facilities) end range experiment stations at Chiekasha and Woodward, Okla.; Hays, Kan.; Sand Hills, Neb.; Cottonwood, 8. D., and Maedae, N. D. Dr. John W. Room Jr., direc tor of TAMU’s Remote Sensing Cantor, is principal Investigator on the stady. Dr. Robert H. Hess of the Range Science Department here the "grett were,” or advance ment north of new vegetation each Ha pointed out the green wave advances as the sun moves ap proximately 17 miles e day to the north each spring bringing growth temperatures to the vege tation. KRT8 date will be need with climate end geographic informa tion te build a model of Central U. S. rangeland under a variety of natural weather conditions. • The 1,966-pound, 10-foot long butterfly-shaped spacecraft la in a 517-mile high near-polar orbit to circle the earth every 103 minutes. Dr. Haas said a series of photographs on the Central Greet Plains will be made every 18 days for scientific interpre tation. Dr. Hens said the TAMU study goals are: —ERT8 is e new information source to agri-business. Much agriculture is tied directly to how well the vegetation is growing in the greet plains. For example, ranchers ship large numbers of cattle each summer to northern pastures. 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FIAV-R-RAC ORANGE JUICE 6™ $ r° turn CARROT AKES $ AHAVMtl TO ceooit i JOHN'S PIZZAS is ox. i BAKERY MAOM AIMVTMMS ASSOtm 90X19 COOKIES 4 ^r° 8‘ LAYER iargi SIZE DECORATIVE CAKES WITH THAT PRESONAL TOUCH • WEDDING CAKES •BIRTHDAY CAKES ALL OCCASIONS ,&■ EACH UNIVERSITY DR. H at f COLLEGE AVE. 48* AJAX DETERGENT IT 58 ( —A computer model can be built using natural vegetation to interpret such things aa drouth and map vegetation conditions ovgr a large geographical area. Dr. Haas expects the first series of photos by mid-August. The U. S. and 31 other couh- tries are participating in the NASA-guided project. ERTS-l’s eyes, the remote sen sors, include three Return Beam Vidkoo (RBV) cameras and a Multispectral Scanner (MSS). Also aboard is a Data Collective System (DCS) for environmental data. The three sensors will monitor earth’s natural resources more throughly and completely than ever before. Dr. Haas added. New hall counselors assigned _ Assignment of new residence hell counselors, the resident direc tor for the new Krueger and Dunn Halls and reassignment of other counseling personnel for AAM’s 1972-73 school year have been announced by Associate Dean of Students Howard Perry. Joining the group that pro vides counseling services for 20 hells, university-operated apart ments end day students are Wil bur Q. Ferris, Warren Faulkner and U. W. (Rick) Crow Jr. They join Kirby D. (Rusty) Blevins, R. L. Chapman, Larry Pollock, Jerry Mainord and Pa tricia Self, women’s counselor who works through the office of Dean of Women Toby Schreiber. Faulkner, 23, will have coun seling responsibility for Law, Puryear and Hart Halls,' A 1971 TAMU graduate, he completed the master’s in educational psy chology last spring and is from Bryan. Crow, 24, will serve Davis- Gary, Moore, Crocker and Mc- Innis Halls, which have been the top dorms academically in the residence hall program competi tion fer tM last fcKir ysaYk™ Son of Ulrleh Wf’Crotr of •WW'TCoun- seling and Testing CetiterVlie is an AAM Consolidated High School graduate, completed the B. S. in education last spring and is working on the master’s degree. Ferris will have overall respon sibility for the new halls opening this fall. Each will have a gradu ate student advisor. Formerly of Oklahoma, Ferris comes to AAM from Tulane where he received the master’s in education and was member of Kappa Delta Phi. Ferris has daughters at the Uni versity of Florida and Baylor, a high school-age son and junior high-age daughter. He served in the Navy and attained the rank of commander. TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED Kiddie Korner Day Care Nursery * 80S Mary Lake Now Open Accepting applications now. Ages 2-12. After school care and drop-ins. 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