Recounts the issues raised and the viewpoints aired at a symposium on repository licensing. This book summarizes the problems surrounding the setting of an Environmental Protection Agency standard for the…

Alluvial fans are gently sloping, fan-shaped landforms common at the base of mountain ranges. Floods on alluvial fans can travel at extremely high velocities. This book presents criteria for determining…

Many nations conduct research and engage in other scientific activities on Antarctica. Each year the US National Committee for the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research compiles a book that includes…

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) employs many fishery scientists with diverse skills. The agency finds that the supply of fishery biologists is adequate to meet most of its demand…

Providing a review of geomagnetism, this book describes the scope of the science and its interdisciplinary importance. It explores a range of synergistic linkages in geophysical research and associated applications…

We in the United States have almost come to accept natural disasters as part of our nation’s social fabric. News of property damage, economic and social disruption, and injuries follow…

Losses of life and property from natural disasters in the United States-and throughout the world-have been enormous and the potential for substantially greater future losses looms. It is clearly in…

Contains essays that cover issues in the water resources field, including intergenerational fairness and water resources, the relationship between policy and science for American rivers, changing perceptions in the hydrologic…