Show — Page 8 1 4 1 H7i Student Life Monday May 24 1976 NASA funds Education Department offers nature workshop globe-girdlin- g workshop focusing techniques for helping groups work together effectively and on environmental education will at Utah State develop skills and techniques for be held June helping groups work together University ineffectively and develop lesson The course is designed to plans for a process oriented volve persons in environmental environmental investigation or investigations including collectactiity ing recording and interpreting data about various aspects of the Workshop consultants will inenvironment It is being sponsored by the clude Bob Christopher of the US Department of Elememtary Ed- Forest Service Carl Johnson ucation at the university Inter- USU forestry and outdoor reested persons should register creation specialist and Vern through the Conference and Insti- Fridley Intermountain Region US Forest Service tute Division on campus The class may bea taken for According to the workshop hours of university credit three director Donna Siemro particiand Registration deadline is May 24 pants will demonstrate skills A balloon flights USU by JR other factors that influence the Allred an orbiting satellite and a network of monitoring stations will bring Utah State University scientists the first around-the-worl- d long-terdata on what’s happening in the earth’s stratosphere USU has received a $124000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space administration (NASA) to begin the balloon flights arid instrument checkouts this fall The initial study is intended as a precursor to a exmuch larger longer-teramination of the stratosphere according to Dr Kay D Baker director of the Space Science Laboratory at USU and principal investigator for the program There is much concern for what is happening to the earth’s orone layer as it is influenced by the buildup of fluorocarbons nitric oxides and other contaminants being introduced through man’s technology But much of the concern is built on speculation because only small bits of data have been collected by rockets passing quickly through the layballoon flights or er short-terremote sensing mechanisms In order for scientists and policy makers to know what is really happening they need information gathered over longer periods of time and in wider reaches of the world With such information they will be able to consider what should or shouldn’t be done in the future with respect to high airplane flights production and use of fluorocarbons and Huge balloons m m m ozone layer NASA and USU scientists believe this can best be gathered by the months-lon- g globe-girdlin- g balloon flights Instruments carried directly into the ozone layer some 33 kilometers (100000 feet) above the earth can take continual readings of the ozone fluxes and conductivity of the atmosphere They can detect changes as they circle the earth carried by high altitude winds x-r- week-lon- g 1 checked out while still over land and if anything goes wrong the instrument package can be cut loose and parachuted to the ground for recovery before it gets out of reach balloons 22 Three helium-fille- d meters (about 70 feet) in diameter will be used USU has data gathered stratospheric earlier utilizing thin polyethylene balloons that don’t last most than a few days Those to be used in the coming tests are of stronger material are reinforced and will last much longer Last jazz concert The inBaker and his Alan Shaw LR vestigators 'The Utah State University Jazz The instrument package susMegill and Roger Williamson of be will will present its last Ensemble from balloon the the USU Aeronomy Center ex- pended be of can concert season at 8 pm the and pect the experimental balloons to powered by solar cells 25 the on at command by paraMay Lyric Theatre remain aloft for anywhere from a let down is Admission isfnee month to a year They will drift chute This feature however “We wanted to present one around the earth about once only for recovery if something launch concert this year in a small place every two weeks over regions goes wTong soon to that would allow a more intimate between 20 and 30 degrees south The researchersMexpect latitude Finally they will likely recover the instruments after contact with the audience” they have drifted for months and comments Larry Smith ensemmigrate to the south polar reradioed their data to the satellite ble director “We just want to gions Data collected will be stored Although useful data are ex- have a fumtime with the n for short times on board As pected the current NASA’s Nimbus satellite passes program is exploratory It is will balloon the mainly to see how long the by periodically transmit the data to Nimbus The balloons will stay up how well satellite in turn will relay it to the system works how well it returns data and sensitivity ground stations in NASA’s worldwide network ranges for the instruments The USU research team will After the three early trials launch balloons from Australia more sophisticated instruments and orbit them through the and techniques will be developed for stratosphere exploration Southern Hemisphere One reason for launching from Australia That program will continue for is political It avoids offending years Baker believes A test flight of the instrument Northern Hemisphere neighbors who might object to American package with an old style balloon overflights Another reason is is planned this fall The constant geographical The country is big pressure balloon flights are enough that the flight can be scheduled in about a year program will include Bass Folk Song and New Blues plus audience favorites from past corfcerts such as What Have They Done to My Song and Crosswind three-balloo- r 1!'! 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