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The influence of river variability on the circulation, chemistry, and microbiology of the Delaware Estuary
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F. General
or national) and free fishery (not defined by right or license) and covers catches from high seas, offshore, inshore, inland surface, and marine aquaculture. Fishery education in Japan is also briefly reviewed. Dept. of Fish. Sci., Hokkaido Univ., Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. (lit)
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i.e., that the earthquakes were accompanied by subsidence of the bank. The observations of Darwin and Moresby on earthquakes and tectonics on 'aseismic' ridges 150 years ago are in accord with modern interpretations of 'intraplate tectonics' of the Indian Ocean and the recognition of atolls and drowned banks as sensitive recorders of intraplate tectonics. Dept. of Geol. Sci., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA.
F280. Policy, law, treaties 87:5281 Green, H.P., 1986. Commentary. The role of courts in environmental decision-making. J. Wash. Acad. Sci., 76(4):219-225.
Often scientists are frustrated by the seeming irrationality of judicial proceedings that involve scientific issues. That judges might hold the opposite view could be revealing; Judge Jenkins in deciding Allen v. United States: 'The court must bring to dispute resolution the critical eye and the element of objectivity so often absent from competing scientific viewpoints.' The chief job of the courts is to resolve disputes in the absence of perfect knowledge; again, in the words of Judge Jenkins, 'perfect knowledge does not require judgment.' This essay explores the difference between law and science, and outlines the role of the courts, which cannot be expected to make decisions which are 'scientifically acceptable, let alone scientifically correct,' but which nevertheless attempt to assure that the assignment and allocation of risk and benefit remain a public process. Natl. Law Center, George Washington Univ., Washington, DC 20052, USA. (fcs)
F330. History of science (especially oceanography) 87:5282 Schlanger, S.O. and S.A. Stein, 1987. Charles Darwin and Captain Moresby on the drowning of Great Chagos Bank. 19th century discovery of 'aseismic' ridge seismicity in the Indian Ocean. Eos, 68(10):137,140-141.
Charles Darwin's reading of Lyell's Principles of Geology and his own observations off South America and the Andean Cordillera led him to develop his subsidence theory of atoll formation before he ever saw an atoll. However, it was not until he became familiar with the hydrographic surveys of Captain Moresby and the latter's accounts of frequent earthquakes on the Great Chagos Bank that Darwin became convinced that the drowned reefs at Chagos 'had been carried down by one uniform movement,'
F340. Biographies, obituaries, etc. 87:5283 van Andel, T.H. and E.R. Oxburgh, 1987. Allan V. Cox (1926-1987). Nature, Lond., 326(6109): p.134.
Allan Cox, 'principal architect of the magnetic polarity reversal timescale' (one of the 'pillars' on which the theory of plate tectonics was built) died in an accident January, 1987. At the time, he was Dean of Earth Sciences at Stanford University in California. His life and work are briefly described. Clare Hall, Cambridge CB3 9AL, UK. (fcs)
F370. Multidisciplinary scientific studies (general interest) 87:5284 Schemel, L.E. (ed.), 1986. River input as a cause of estuarine variability. [Papers from the Eighth Biennial International Estuarine Research Conference, University of New Hampshire, July 28-August 2. 1985.] Special issue. Est~uaries, 9(4A):235-308; 7 papers.
Six systems are explored in terms of estuarine variability: the Susquehanna River/Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River, Delaware Estuary, Sacramento River/San Francisco Bay, Corpus Christi Bay, and the Atchafalaya River/Bay. The impacts of variability in discharge, riverine input, and forcing (climatic and tidal) on biological and chemical parameters within the estuaries are examined. (gsb) 87:5285
Sharp, J.H., L.A. Cifuentes, R.B. Coffin, J.R. Pennock and K.-C. Wong, 1986. The influence of river variability on the circulation, chemistry, and microbiology of the Delaware Estuary. Estuaries, 9(4A):261-269. Coll. of Mar. Studies, Univ. of Delaware, Lewes, DE 19958, USA.
F. General
or national) and free fishery (not defined by right or license) and covers catches from high seas, offshore, inshore, inland surface, and marine aquaculture. Fishery education in Japan is also briefly reviewed. Dept. of Fish. Sci., Hokkaido Univ., Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. (lit)
O L R (1987) 34 (9)
i.e., that the earthquakes were accompanied by subsidence of the bank. The observations of Darwin and Moresby on earthquakes and tectonics on 'aseismic' ridges 150 years ago are in accord with modern interpretations of 'intraplate tectonics' of the Indian Ocean and the recognition of atolls and drowned banks as sensitive recorders of intraplate tectonics. Dept. of Geol. Sci., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA.
F280. Policy, law, treaties 87:5281 Green, H.P., 1986. Commentary. The role of courts in environmental decision-making. J. Wash. Acad. Sci., 76(4):219-225.
Often scientists are frustrated by the seeming irrationality of judicial proceedings that involve scientific issues. That judges might hold the opposite view could be revealing; Judge Jenkins in deciding Allen v. United States: 'The court must bring to dispute resolution the critical eye and the element of objectivity so often absent from competing scientific viewpoints.' The chief job of the courts is to resolve disputes in the absence of perfect knowledge; again, in the words of Judge Jenkins, 'perfect knowledge does not require judgment.' This essay explores the difference between law and science, and outlines the role of the courts, which cannot be expected to make decisions which are 'scientifically acceptable, let alone scientifically correct,' but which nevertheless attempt to assure that the assignment and allocation of risk and benefit remain a public process. Natl. Law Center, George Washington Univ., Washington, DC 20052, USA. (fcs)
F330. History of science (especially oceanography) 87:5282 Schlanger, S.O. and S.A. Stein, 1987. Charles Darwin and Captain Moresby on the drowning of Great Chagos Bank. 19th century discovery of 'aseismic' ridge seismicity in the Indian Ocean. Eos, 68(10):137,140-141.
Charles Darwin's reading of Lyell's Principles of Geology and his own observations off South America and the Andean Cordillera led him to develop his subsidence theory of atoll formation before he ever saw an atoll. However, it was not until he became familiar with the hydrographic surveys of Captain Moresby and the latter's accounts of frequent earthquakes on the Great Chagos Bank that Darwin became convinced that the drowned reefs at Chagos 'had been carried down by one uniform movement,'
F340. Biographies, obituaries, etc. 87:5283 van Andel, T.H. and E.R. Oxburgh, 1987. Allan V. Cox (1926-1987). Nature, Lond., 326(6109): p.134.
Allan Cox, 'principal architect of the magnetic polarity reversal timescale' (one of the 'pillars' on which the theory of plate tectonics was built) died in an accident January, 1987. At the time, he was Dean of Earth Sciences at Stanford University in California. His life and work are briefly described. Clare Hall, Cambridge CB3 9AL, UK. (fcs)
F370. Multidisciplinary scientific studies (general interest) 87:5284 Schemel, L.E. (ed.), 1986. River input as a cause of estuarine variability. [Papers from the Eighth Biennial International Estuarine Research Conference, University of New Hampshire, July 28-August 2. 1985.] Special issue. Est~uaries, 9(4A):235-308; 7 papers.
Six systems are explored in terms of estuarine variability: the Susquehanna River/Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River, Delaware Estuary, Sacramento River/San Francisco Bay, Corpus Christi Bay, and the Atchafalaya River/Bay. The impacts of variability in discharge, riverine input, and forcing (climatic and tidal) on biological and chemical parameters within the estuaries are examined. (gsb) 87:5285
Sharp, J.H., L.A. Cifuentes, R.B. Coffin, J.R. Pennock and K.-C. Wong, 1986. The influence of river variability on the circulation, chemistry, and microbiology of the Delaware Estuary. Estuaries, 9(4A):261-269. Coll. of Mar. Studies, Univ. of Delaware, Lewes, DE 19958, USA.