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The space shuttle and the loads it
can carry into space are going to
open up a new frontier for scientists
of the world.
TAMU scientists from the Re
mote Sensing Center are develop
ing the types of systems that will
provide high resolution radar ob
servations of the land, sea and at
mosphere.
The center, a division of the Texas
Engineering Experiment Station,
has been funded to an additional
$19,000 by the Jet Propulsion
Laboratories to specify the needs of
the shuttle radar.
The shuttle will deliver into space
a sophisticated radar system capable
of providing photo-like images of
the earth’s surface, even when the
earth is covered with clouds.
“We are picking out the major
applications for the radar and are
defining the experiments,” said
team spokesman Richard Newton.
“Microwave sensors provide excel
lent images of the surface regardless
of the weather or lighting condi
tions. Therefore, they offer the only
means of collecting information
about areas having frequent cloud
cover, such as the Northeast U.S.
“For instance, the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture wants to
monitor watersheds,” Newton con
tinued. “The observations can be
used for planning dams and reser
voirs. With these readings, run-off
information that would take years to
accumulate by conventional means
could be done in a short time by
satellite. This would allow flood
forecasting to become a reality.”
Another area of application/is for
Great Lakes ice navigation. The
satellite radar can note the size and
shape of ice flows and ice thickness
while measuring the roughness and
the ability of ships to penetrate the
ice. This method could also be used
to map the polar ice cap.
Mineral exploration is an area of
research where radar can penetrate
vegetation and the earth’s surface to
note composition of rocks and aid in
petroleum exploration.
The equipment can monitor the
progress and extent of floods, hur
ricanes, blizzards, destructive
winds, fires, tidal waves, earth
quakes, and volcanic eruptions.
This can be done in any weather
during either the day or night.
The satellite radar could also be
sensitive to vegetation types and
conditions while recording land use
patterns and changes.
Finally, there could be observa
tions of ship activities in support of
international agreements, espe
cially in the economic coastal zone.
“This is only part of a two-year,
NASA-funded study by the JPL and
TAMU to identify applications of
the radar data that will establish a
demand for a shuttle radar and pro
vide guidelines for the sensor de
sign,” Newton added.
The radar system can be put into
orbit and picked up by the large
capacity shuttle. The shuttle can be
used as a versatile platform for col
lecting radar data or as a launcher of
unmanned satellites equipped with
radar systems.
“The space shuttle will be a reus
able truck for payload deliver), re
trieval, service and operation,
Newton said.
Engineers say red tape
causing sewer backups
“At the top of a lot of federal agen
cies are mostly lawyers and
economists who don’t give a damn
about professional engineers,” an
Environmental Protection Agency
(EDA) official contended here last
Thursday.
Harold P. Cahill, Jr., director of
the municipal construction division
of the EPA, spoke before the 39th
Annual Meeting and Engineering
Exhibition of the Texas Society of
Professional Engineers at TAMU.
Cahill was speaking of the EPA’s
efforts to cut red tape and begin
building under the government’s
$18 billion federal waste water
treatment program. Consulting en
gineers claim they are hamstrung by
regulations and restrictions. Gain'll
High school sports
may help universities
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More research is needed, thinks a
TAMU sociologist, to pinpoint the
role high school sports have in in
fluencing athletes to go on to col
lege.
High school sports don’t seem to
hurt grades or college aspirations of
Oil exploration
hazards, study
for researcher
Oil and life in the oceans of the
world have become more and more
entwined as the search for pet
roleum creeps over the Continental
Shelf and on the ocean bottoms.
The American Petroleum Insti
tute has funded Texas A&M Uni
versity biologist Dr. Jack Anderson
with $95,000 this month to sound
out possible ecological dangers to
marine life as the search for energy
accelerates.
He has established a laboratory
base on a Shell Oil Company
Offshore production platform in the
Gulf of Mexico.
Anderson plans to study the
growth and reproduction of marine
life over a long period by shuttling
researchers from TAMU back and
forth. This will introduce chronic
petroleum types of pollution for ex
tended periods.
Biological studies on organisms
from the Gulf are significant since
this body of water receives more
than two-thirds of the total dissol
ved chemical load discharge into the
oceans from the Continental U.S.
Also the Gulf supports large
fisheries for shrimp, blue crabs, oys
ters, and several species of fish.
Along with the studies of the ef
fects of petroleum hydrocarbons,
members of the research team will
introduce experimentally heavy
metals like mercury, cadmium and
lead into various tanks to determine
their effect on marine life.
athletes, said Dr. J. Steven Picou.
In fact, his evidence suggests athle
tic participation may actually en
hance development of educational
plans.
However, more in-depth studies
are necessary, he said, to bring the
theory into clearer focus.
Picou and Ohio State University
researcher Dr. Evans Curry ex
amined replies from 3,200
Louisiana high school seniors.
Findings suggest that participa
tion in high school sports has an en
couraging effect on the student-
athlete to attend college.
This is especially true if the ath
lete is from a rural area and was not
particularly inclined toward college
before competing.
However, problems may arise for
some athletes who experience an
“inflated aspiration from the visi
bility and laurels that accompany
success in high school sports. More
research is needed in this area, said
Picou.
“It appears that our data provides
relatively modest support for the
athletic participation-educational
aspiration hypothesis. Participation
in high school sports does not con
strain or hinder development of
high-level aspirations for educa
tional achievements,” he said.
“However, because previous in
vestigations failed to isolate the in
dependent effects of athletic par
ticipation on aspiration level, the
magnitude of the relationship may
be somewhat exaggerated.
“Further clarification of the role
of high school athletics for social
mobility could emerge from the
studies.
“Additionally, high school athle
tic competition and achievements
may be more important for minority
youths’ mobility orientations and
achievements,” Picou said.
At present, Picou is completing a
study on the role that athletic suc
cess plays in the development of
educational achievement values
among high school youth.
said by working together with (lie
EPA many problems can be over
come.
“Engineers have to stop com-
plaining and start lobbying,” he said
in an earlier press conference.
"Tlie goals of the program are by
1977-78 to achieve secondary
treatment for municipal wastewat
ers and by 1983 to achieve swimma-
ble and fish sustaining national wat
ers,” he said.
"But it’s not going to get done
without the help of the states,
Cahill continued. “ The EPA's
budget has tripled since 1973 hut
the start hasn’t. So if these water
projects are to get done a lot of the
work has to be done on the local and
state level.
"These projects have to moveand
show progress, ” he pointed out. "If
they start running into trouble,con
sulting engineers will be forced into
competitive bidding and we cer
tainly don't want that.
“It would be like having doctors
bid on your operation,’ Cahill said.
“Professional engineering associa
tions must see that this doesn’t hap
pen. Many feel this would socialize
the industry and most professionals
would walk away from that kind of
arrangement, leaving it tothedregs-
of the profession.
"The major task for Texas will be
to obligate its $240 million portion
of funds for waste water treatment
facilities,” he said. "ButTexashas
done a magnificent job to date, so
there is confidence in yourabilityto
do so. As you will recall, based on
the 1974 needs survey, it will take
$2 billion in Texas to raise treatment
up to secondary or higher where re-
quired by water quality.”
Cahill also said that despite the
state of the economy the EPA would
not sacrifice environmental goals to
provide jobs and stimulate the
economy. He said that deadlinesfor
environmental improvement might
be extended.but not discarded.
Cahill further said that a move in
underway to rid the EPA of dead-
wcxid and to keep it functional.
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