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r-ciye o Near Hawaiian islands I MC O/A I I rAU-IWIN WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1975 Scientists study mining impact A group ofTAMU scientists are scheduled to help conduct a marine environmental impact study near the Hawaiian islands. The federally funded “Deep- Ocean Mining Environmental Study (DOMES)” is being done to identify potential problems from the mining of manganese nodules. Dr. Sayed Z. El-Sayed and Dr. T. Ichiye, of the Department of Oceanography, and Dr. G. A. Fran- ceschini, of the Department of Meteorology, last week attended a meeting in Seattle Wash, to discuss cruise plans with other principal in vestigators from the University of Washington, University of Hawaii and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. 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Scheduled to leave Seattle Au gust 21 aboard the NOAA research vessel “Oceanographer”, the team will conduct physical, chemical and biological oceanographic studies south and east of Hawaii. “Probably much of the mining will have to be done with a vacuum dredge, which means a huge plume of bottom material will be dumped into the water column to settle out,” El-Sayed said. ‘The main goal of the project is to identify these environ mental problems early enough to produce a timely response to the requirements of the National En vironmental Policy Act. “Now it is illegal for any country to do anything to the ocean or ocean floor without an environmental im pact study,” he said. “After the samples are taken, we will study them and set up baseline levels of marine life and contamina tion,” he said. “Then next year, March through December, we will return to determine the effect of discharge on the marine popula tions at the mining sites. “The funding for the first three months for us is $75,000 with an understanding that the additional work will have substantially higher funding, ” El-Sayed said. The project will look at zoop lankton, upper-water-column chemical oceanography, and upper-water-column physical oceanography in order to evaluate the magnitude that deep-ocean mining might have on the marine environment. “After the mining operation is started we will place more than half the observation stations downstream (due to the currents) from the work site,” El-Sayed said. “This would characterize the influ ences of the deep-sea mining on the phytoplankton. This material com pared with the pre-mining studies will show what damage, if any, that has occurred as a result. r AMERICAS EAVOR/Tf PIZZA Fish go into space for inner ear experiment gWoOoOOOoOOOOOOOOQQOq BRING THIS COUPON With this coupon, buy any giant, large or ^ medium pizza at ‘ regular price and receive one pizza of the next smaller size with equal number of ingredients FREE! One coupon per visit, please. VALID THROUGH I TUESDAY, AUGUST 5 Small Me4***n Lars* Mat Jelepewa . Sreen Oftva SlaeS OtMe . . Green Pepper . 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Astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton spent part of their time filming and recording how the fish adapted to the weightless state. Kuchnow said that on earth the fish had two basic cues for orienting themselves — sight and gravity. With gravity no longer a factor, the fish had to adapt themselves visual ly- The five containers held fish raised with a normal background since hatching, a second group with no sight, one raised with horizontal bars as a background, the fourth with a vertical-bar background and the last with a black background. No quarantine was expected for the containers after splashdown. NASA officials were expected to take them from the capsule within seven hours of splashdown and have PV researcher pinpoints safe cadmium level PRAIRIE VIEW — A PVAMU researcher has determined how much cadmium can be contained in sandy soil before harmful amounts are transmitted through plants to humans. Dr. Gene Brams of PVAMU said that two years’ soil study in the Houston area has revealed that a concentration of one part-per- million (PPM) of cadmium in sandy soil is the highest safe level. One PPM, he said, is about equal to two pounds of the metal concen trated in an acre of soil plowed eight inches deep. “This level of one PPM causes the level of cadmium taken in by plant life to rise to a point that might be harmful to humans consuming the plant food, ” he said. Chicken fried steak like you wouldn’t believe. The 3-C Corral serves a chicken fried steak like you wouldn’t believe. We start with !4 pound of round steak — without a speck of “extender.” We double dip each steak in our own batter, fry it to a golden brown and deliver it to your table hot and ready to eat. The chicken fried plate also includes a generous serving of french fries, fresh green salad and a roll. And the price is about the same you’ve been paying for a pre-breaded steak: $ 2 35 If you like chicken fried steak (and nearly every Aggie does) you’ll find a home at the 3-C Corral. 3-C Corral 29th Street to Barak Lane Across from Bryan High School 693-2721 them in Houston’s Johnson Space Center within 48 hours of the land ing. Analyses of the astronauts’ films and observations, as well as viewing of the inner ears of the fish, were scheduled to be done at TAMU. Researchers from the University of Kentucky were involved in another Apollo fish experiment de aling with effects of space on varying stages of embryo growth. Battalion Classified Call 845-2611