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Frank Manheim Gives Lectures in Ireland and Sweden, Gathers Information on New European Offshore Geological Programs
Frank was accompanied by his wife, USGS geologist Lucy McCartan (Reston, VA). The visit was partly supported by a grant from NUI to Chaosheng Zhang, of NUI's Department of Geography, and Frank Manheim. Dr. Zhang visited USGS headquarters in Reston, VA, in the summer of 2002. Frank and Lucy learned that the Geological Survey of Ireland had received a grant of 32 million euro (equivalent to about US$ 36 million at press time) to administer a 7-year cooperative survey of Ireland's seabed. Reaching more than 600 mi out into the Atlantic Ocean, Ireland's territorial seabed encompasses about 10 times the land area of the Republic of Ireland. Both the geological surveys of Ireland and Sweden are involved with a European Union project to create a metadata base for offshore sediment. A visit to the Swedish Geological Survey (SGU) headquarters in Uppsala revealed that, after retrenchment in earlier years, the SGU has increased its staff to serve new land and marine programs. New land programs include expanding medical-geology studies and taking control of large caverns earlier dug in bedrock to contain nuclear waste (but never used). SGU's marine program, headed by Ingemar Cato, is conducting systematic sidescan-sonar, subbottom-profiling, and swath-bathymetric studies of Swedish national waters under the sponsorship of the Swedish Navy. New maps of bathymetry and sediment texture in the Baltic Sea have been released. A difference in policy between U.S. and northern European geological surveys (Britain, Sweden, Finland) is that the latter are required to sell rather than freely distribute the results of gridded geochemical surveys and other systematic mapping data.
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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 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 |