Lubbock pollen
gives ancient data
Texas A&M University graduate
students and researchers are helping
pinpoint what the environment
around Lubbock was like as many
as 12,500 years ago.
Dr. Vaughn Bryant Jr., recently
led a sample-gathering expedition to
the Lubbock Lake Project site. The
lake site is one of the most important
sites of early man in Texas and was
discovered in the 1030s during dredg
ing of a reservoir channel created for
the fire department.
From material gathered at the site,'
predominately pollen samples, re
searchers will analyze and try to re
construct the surroundings and cli
mate.
Texas A&M’s people were asked to
step in by the Lubbock Lake Site De
velopment Corp., a nonprofit organi
zation created to further research
and development of interpretive facil
ities there.
Several aspects of the site make it
not only regionally significant, notes
Bryant, but nationally outstanding
as well. Few sites in North America
have as complete a cultural sequence
from the Clovis area (12,000 years
ago) to the relatively recent historic
past of Spanish explorers on the
Llano Estacado, or Staked Plain.
Analyses of the pollen samples
may help reconstruct a picture of
climate and vegetation in the area
for the several different eras.
Need shown for
maritime officers
Texas Maritime Academy cadets
headed out to sea Sunday with the
cry of a critical need for highly
trained officers ringing in their ears.
“Today’s maritime industry is rap
idly moving into areas of automation
that have become commonplace in
other industries,” Robert J. Black-
well. assistant secretary of commerce
for marine affairs, said at the tradi
tional breakfast before the “Texas
Clipper” sails on its summer training
cruise. “As our merchant marine
moves in this direction, the need for
highly trained officers becomes crit
ical.”
Blackwell called the merchant fleet
“more productive than it’s ever been”
and declared "all signs point to con
tinued improvements in its competi
tive position.”
New generations of fast, efficient
liner vessels are reinforcing our lead
ership in intermodel shipping on our
foreign trade routes, he pointed out.
"There has also been a re-entry of
Atnerican-flag service in our foreign
bulk trades,” Blackwell continued.
“New liner and tank vessels have been
introduced into our domestic ocean
“Whereas more than half of the
nation’s foreign tonnage in 1947 was
transported in American-flag ships,
by 1969 our fleet was carrying a
miniscule 4.5 percent,” Blackwell
noted.
To halt the downward trend and
ter put new life into a “moribund in
dustry,” Congress and the Admini
stration, in an unprecedented bipar
tisan effort, formulated progressive
maritime policies embodied in the
Merchant Marine Act of 1970, Black-
well reviewed.
The “Clipper” departed after 4
p.m. with 200 students aboard on a
two-month, island-hopping cruise
around the Gulf and the Caribbean.
Half of those aboard are TMA ca
dets with other participants enrolled
in Texas A&M University’s "Sum
mer School at Sea.”
Upperdass students who operate
the ship on the cruise are supervised
by licensed merchant marine officers
and maritime academy staff members.
Participants in the “Summer
School at Sea” earn up to six hours
credit in English, history, geography
and mathematics.
This is the stinger of a female honey bee shown in a picture taken with an electron microscope by Dr. Nick
Norton at the Texas A&M University Electron Microscopy Center. Because of its barb-like structure, the
stinger will remain within the skin of the victim resulting in the death of the honey bee. The two spherical
objects are pollen grains attached to the bee’s abdominal hairs.
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