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Gas Hydrates CODATA Meeting
CODATA is a Paris-based international organization, formed more than 30 years ago to promote the collection, management, manipulation, access to, and understanding of data sets in science and technology. Its 21 international committees are dedicated to the principle that science and technology contain common features which can and must be shared by everyone, and they work to improve the quality and reliability of those data sets. Kathleen Cass is the Executive Director of CODATA. The Gas Hydrate Task Group is chaired by Fedor Kuznetsov (Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia). Representatives from Canada (John Ripmeester, National Research Council, Ottawa), China, France, India, Russia, and the United States (Dendy Sloan, Colorado School of Mines, and Yuri Makogon, Texas A&M University) attended the gas-hydrate planning session. The regional Canadian-U.S. CODATA meeting will be held May 13 during the national American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) convention in Salt Lake City. Bill also presented an invited talk about gas hydrates at the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (USTL). Potential future collaborations were discussed with Viviane Bout-Roumazeilles and Alain Trentesaux (USTL) and Laurent Labeyrie (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette), principals on a joint French Polar Institute-USGS giant piston-coring cruise conducted during July 2002 . Tom Lorenson (USGS, Menlo Park, CA) and Charlie Paull (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) were also principal investigators on that U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-funded cruise to study the potential distribution of gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico.
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in this issue:
cover story: Ecologically Sensitive Islands in the Bering Sea Track Florida's Manatees Via Web Site New Map Poster for Falmouth, MA Science Teachers Visit Woods Hole USGS Landsat Images Appear in Textbook Scientists Give "Telelecture" to Louisiana Students USGS Landsat Image Featured at Museum Manheim Lectures in Ireland and Sweden Saltwater Intrusion and Coastal Aquifers Gas Hydrates CODATA Natural Science and Better Health New Chief Scientist for Western Coastal and Marine Team Mendenhall Fellows Lecture in Reston, VA Mendenhall Fellow Joins Coral Reef Project Netherlands Scientist Visits Woods Hole USGS Employees Find Avocation in Blacksmithing |