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Where: Koldus Room 144
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Fri. April 19
The Texas A&M Bahai Club will have a con
ference about The Unity of World Religions-A
Bahai Perspective at 7:30 p.m. in Koldus 110.
For more information contact Amelia
Villagomez at 847-1697.
Delta Xi Nu Multicultural Sorority will have its
5th Annual Unity Dinner with guest speaker
Kevin Powell of MTV “Real World: New York” in
the Rec Center Archery Room. For more infor
mation call Shaila Hague at 694-7639.
Mon. April 22
The Texas A&M Bahai Club will have a Meditation
Room in All Faiths Chapel at 8 p.m. The evening
will be about Devotions. For more information con
tact Amelia Villagomez at 847-1697.
Thurs. April 25
The Program on Conflict and Dispute
Resolution and the George Bush School of
Government is hosting a lecture: “Afghanistan
- A Study in Neglect" by Hank Brown, former
U.S. Senator and Chair of Middle East
Subcommittee on Foreign Relations. It will be
held in the Presidential Conference Center at
7 p.m. Call Rebecca Royer at 862-1079 for
more information.
Mon. April 29
Project Sunshine will be having an executive
meeting at 8:30 p.m. in Koldus.
Wed. May 1
Project Sunshine will have a closing meeting at
8:30!p.m. in MSC 226.
Drilling
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Earth,” Fox said. “These
insights will help us be better
stewards to our planet.”
A&M subcontracts the
drilling ship from the owners.
Overseas Drilling Limited, Fox
said. The ship, named Joint
Oceanographic In Deep Earth
Sampling (JOIDES) Resolution,
is 471 feet long and 70 feet
wide. Fox said.
“The ship is outfitted to
design key physical, chemical
and paleontologic properties by
drilling,” Fox said.
Twenty-five people on board
from A&M make up the tech
nological staff. The crew also
consists of 25 scientists, drawn
from a pool of applicants, and
61 maritime and rig floor crew.
JOIDES spends 55 days at
sea in water depths of 19,680
feet, penetrating depths of up
to 6,294 feet. " JOIDES has
traveled globally, covering
22,936 miles since the project
began in 1984. The ship’s
crew has dug 658,000 feet of
sediment in 18 years.
Along with being responsi
ble for supplying the ship,
A&M shares science and
engineering support with the
project and then publishes the
cruise results.
The ship is currently off the
coast of Chile drilling sediment
to provide insight to climate
starting back in the Crotaceous
Era, 65 million years ago. Many
things have been found in the
sediment, such as methane bub
bles, which could be the driving
force behind the oceanic climate
change. Fox said.
Shocked quartz was found,
along with high levels of iridi
um, which are not found on
Earth, providing information
that something extraterrestrial
crashed into Earth.
Scientists have also found
pollen from plants and silicate
materials shed from the conti
nents in the sediment. They
predicted the climates that
these materials were generated
in, therefore determining the
climate at all levels of the sedi
ment, Fox said.
Fox said ocean drilling needs
more than JOIDES can provide.
A successor program will begin
in Fall 2003, the Integrated
Ocean Drilling Program, which
plans to decipher the ocean
records with the help of special
ized platforms and a ship that
will dig deeper. Fox said.
Fox said he looks forward to
the competition A&M will be
involved in to earn the 2003
Ocean Drilling Project.
“Our intent at Texas A&M
is not only to compete to be
involved but to be successful,”
he said.
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