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  October 2, 1998: Highlights

In the Eye of the Storm

Hurricane Researcher Uses "Doppler on Wheels" to Stare Hurricane Georges in the Eye
When a hurricane's spinning mass of rain, lightning and wind reaches shore, the last thing you want to do is drive a truck directly into its path. Unless you are atmospheric scientist Joshua Wurman, that is, and you have mounted a large Doppler radar unit on the back of your truck. For the second time this summer, Wurman and a research team from the University of Oklahoma planned to drive two such "Doppler on Wheels" units into the face of a hurricane reaching landfall--Hurricane Georges. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Wurman studies patterns in hurricane winds that may help in forecasting the evolution of these storms once they hit land.    More...

Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence

NSF Awards Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence Grants
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding a series of 40 new grants worth more than $51.5 million in cross-cutting research through its agency-wide Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence (KDI) initiative. Nearly 50 institutions will be part of this very broad scientific enterprise that could lead to rapid and radical interdisciplinary advances. "NSF's cultivation of this highly multidisciplinary research arena," said NSF Director Rita Colwell, "will change the way scientists collaborate and the way they prepare to examine the world as they seek new frontiers for discovery." More...

Computer rendering of a magnetar

Cosmic Flasher Reveals All
Astronomers have found evidence of the most powerful magnetic field ever seen in the universe. They found it by observing a long-sought, short-lived "afterglow" of subatomic particles ejected from a magnetar -- a neutron star with a magnetic field billions of times stronger than any on Earth and 100 times stronger than any other previously known in the Universe. The afterglow is believed to be the aftermath of a massive starquake on the neutron star's surface. "Where there's smoke, there's fire, and we've seen the 'smoke' that tells us there's a magnetar out there," says Dale Frail, who used the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to make the discovery.    More...

E-Bulletin: Program Dates and Deadlines

NSF Launches E-Bulletin
The National Science Foundation has launched E-Bulletin, a website publication that provides up-to-date information on deadlines and target dates for NSF programs. The E-Bulletin replaces the NSF Bulletin, a printed publication. The web publication, available beginning in September 1998, provides information about key dates on which grant proposals are due at NSF for the current four-month period. Users can take advantage of the search feature to request lists of deadlines covering different periods of time. In making the transition from print to a web publication, the E-Bulletin demonstrates NSF's commitment to using the web to better serve its customer communities. For people who do not have access to the web, a print-on-demand monthly version can be requested by sending an email to "paperbulletin@nsf.gov" or by calling the NSF Information Center (703/306-1234); persons with hearing impairments can call NSF's Telephonic Device for the Deaf (TDD): 703/306-0090). The web address for the E-Bulletin is http://www.nsf.gov/home/ebulletin/. A monthly version is available for downloading at http://www.nsf.gov/home/ebulletin/past.htm. More...


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