BATTALION
Wednesday, August 8, 1973
College Station, Texas
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Bottles To Determine Gulf Currents
Beachcombers on Texas’ Gulf
hores may not find a treasure
Inap in the bottles they will be
>icking up in the near future, but
he yellow information card in-
ide will be mighty important to
esearchers at A&M.
A multidisciplinary research
earn, assembled by the Texas
engineering Experiment Station,
dll use the postage-free reply
ards to chart Gulf of Mexico
:urrents which run close to shore.
Dr. Wesley P. James, assistant
rofessor of civil engineering, is
eading up the research team.
Te said little information is avail-
ible on currents that run near
he coastline, and he feels the
results of the study will make a
aluable contribution to informa-
ion on the Gulf.
“Most studies,” he noted, “have
>een done out in deep water. We
know quite a lot about currents
and temperatures past the 30-
ile mark or so, but we know
ery little about the currents that
re close to shore. By using the
nformation furnished by those
ho find the bottles, we can map
shoreline currents with rea-
Commerce Honors Miloy
Mrs. Leatha Miloy, director of
[information and special services
A&M’s Center for Marine
Resources, has been cited by the
S. Department of Commerce
for service to the National Sea
[Grant Program.
A&M President Jack K. Wil-
lliams presented the Commerce
sonable accuracy.”
The research team releases 60
float bottles each week from a
boat located as far as 20 miles
offshore. The bottles, about eight
inches high and two inches in
diameter, float on the water’s
surface. Each bottle contains a
business reply card with spaces
for the finder’s name, location,
and the time and date the bottle
was found.
What’s in it for the finder?
Dr. James said a letter of appre
ciation and a brochure on ocean
ography studies and programs at
A&M is sent by return mail to
those who complete the cards and
send them in.
The researchers expect replies
from as far away as Mexico, and
have already received one card
from Louisiana. Dr. James said
he had no idea where the bottles
will come to rest. The finders who
send the cards in, he said, will be
helping the team define the coast
al currents.
More than 300 bottles will be
released during the project. The
researchers are utilizing the R/V
Mariner, an A&M-operated ocean
ographic research vessel, for re
leasing the bottles. Other craft
are used when the Mariner is
down for maintenance, according
to Dr. James.
“We are hoping for a 40 per
cent return of the cards,” Dr.
James said. “All we want back
is the card, the finder can keep
the bottle as a souvenir. We feel
the program will be successful,
due to the small amount of effort
required of the finder to par
ticipate in this scientific experi
ment.”
Members of the research team
were assembled from A&M’s De
partments of Biology, Oceanog
raphy and Civil Engineering, ac
cording to Dr. James. Five of the
20 team members are on the Gulf
at all times, releasing the bottles
and charting release points.
The bottles do not contain
treasure maps, but the finder will
be given a chance to participate
in a scientific experiment that
will tell the research team more
about the world we live in, accord
ing to Dr. James.
Department’s certificate of ap
preciation to Mrs. Miloy on behalf
of Robert A. Abel, National Sea
Grant Program director.
Abel said the certificate was
awarded in recognition of Mrs.
Miloy’s work in designing a sce
nario for a Sea Grant Program
slide presentation for a Congres
sional committee meeting and
other subsequent uses.
He noted the award is the first
of its type to be presented by
the Sea Grant Program, part of
the Commerce Department's Na
tional Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
SEA GRANT HONORS MILOY — Mrs. Leatha Miloy of Texas A&M University’s
Center for Marine Resources receives a U. S. Department of Commerce certificate of ap
preciation presented by TAMU President Jack K. Williams on behalf of the National Sea
[Grant Program. Looking on is Dr. John C. Calhoun, Jr., TAMU’s vice president for aca
demic affairs.
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NO TREASURE MAP, BUT ... — Dr. Wesley James,
TAMU civil engineering professor, places a reply card in a
float bottle which will be released in Gulf Coast waters near
shore.
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