Deputy Administrator Research Articles

Return to the Moon: Viable?

The question of when the United States would again place man on the moon was the emphasis of three special sessions at the Fourteenth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, last month. There was a hint of credibility to these discussions after an opening address by Hans Mark, Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Mark noted that the technology exists to build a space station on the moon and to operate it for a reasonable cost. He noted the scientific advantages, some of which involved obtaining more ‘ground truth’ on the moon to form a basis for studies of the solar system. He also touched upon interest in the earth‐moon system.

EPA thrashes out publication clearance policy

The Environmental Protection Agency leaks like a sieve. Last August a draft document concerning a peer review and clearance process for scientific papers and other agency publications squeezed through the sieve and set off howls of protest from affected scientists. That draft, since reworked, was placed before the executive committee of EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB) by deputy administrator John W. Hernandez a few weeks ago. The board approved a modification, which may quell the qualms of affected scientists. Hernandez worked on this document even before he was officially ensconced at EPA. He told the board he adapted the review process of the U.S. Geological Survey EPA needs. He laughingly notes that USGS is the slowest publish, but what it does publish is of high quality. His intent and that of the document is to improve the scientific output of he says. Without a uniform review policy within EPA, ...

NASA, NOAA administrators nominated

President Ronald Reagan recently said he intended to nominate James Montgomery Beggs as NASA Administrator and John V. Byrne as NOAA Administrator. These two positions are key scientific posts that have been vacant since the start of the Reagan administration on January 20. The President also said he intends to nominate Hans Mark as NASA Deputy Administrator. At press time, Reagan had not designated his nominee for the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

NASA delegation returns from China

An aeronautics delegation, headed by Alan Lovelace, NASA deputy administrator has returned to the U.S. after 2 week in China, where it visited Chinese aeronautical research and development facilities. Invited to make the trip by the Chinese aeronautical establishment, the group met with Chinese colleagues and lectured on NASA aeronautical research and development activities.NASA has invited the Chinese establishment to send a delegation to the United States for a similar visit in September 1980. The Chinese delegation is to visit NASA headquarters, NASA research center's specializing in aeronautics, and other aeronautical research and development facilities in the United States.

Severe flooding likely in Northwest

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that there is a risk of severe flooding from four rivers in the Northwest that are clogged by mudflow from the Mount St. Helens eruption.In testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee, James P. Walsh, deputy administrator of NOAA, said that the volcanic activity also impaired the National Weather Service's (NWS) ability to forecast flood conditions. He said that a system of automatic stream gages that the NWS uses to measure river and rainfall activity were lost after the eruption. The NWS, Walsh said, is now giving top priority to replacing the system. He also noted that the new system will allow the NWS to double the warning time it can give to heavily populated areas of flooding that is due to lava flow or rainfall.

The international organizations—United Nations

I am very pleased to join with you today and to have an opportunity to discuss the role of United Nations organizations in the field of prosthetics and orthotics and, more generally, of the rehabilitation of disabled persons. As a former Deputy Administrator of the United States Veterans Administration I have had some direct working responsibility for the welfare of disabled persons. I know just a little of your marvellous work and I have seen too much of the desperate plight of handicapped people in the developing countries not to believe that we in the United Nations development system must intensify our efforts in all possible ways to help those hundreds of millions of people. In the widest and longer-term context, our efforts of course must be preventive-the very process of integrated and co-ordinated development is one that seeks to eradicate the C U U S ~ J of many forms of disability. Thus, for example, the United Nations Development Programme is working with the World Health Organization and the World Bank, and many bilateral donors, in seven African countries both to eradicate the tiny blackfly that produces onchocerciasis river blindness-and to build up an integrated development programme for the entire area as it becomes safe for human settlement. In the same way, UNDP and WHO have launched a major new attack on the six great tropical diseases that kill, debilitate and disable millions of people. Our work in the drive to increase production of nutritious food in the developing countries, including applied research in plant genetics to breed into grain crops for a higher nutritional value, will also serve to cut back nutrition*] causes of disablement. A new concentration on problems of providing safe water for every village in the world by 1990, one of the goals set by the recent United Nations Water Conference, will yet again progressively reducc causes of the effects which you who are specialists in rehabilitation must cope with. But I am fully aware that all these massive longer-term development efforts do not reach to the hundreds of millions who are already disabled, or day by day are being born with handicaps, or are becoming afflicted as children and adults. Let me therefore shorten the perspective, and try to give you a brief overview of United Nations work more directly in rehabilitation. Under the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination, which is chaired by the United Nations Secretary General, I believe that we are moving towards a more concerted inter-agency effort among the agencies concerned with the disabled. These, as you know, are the United Nations Social Development Division; the World Health Organization; the International Labour Office especially in respect of Vocational Rehabilitation; UNESCO which deals with special education for the handicapped; UNICEF which works in the maternal, infant, and childhood areas; and the High Commission for Refugees which must care for handicapped refugees. At a special meeting of these agencies in 1975, a “New Concept” was agreed, incorporating a set of objectives, aims and basic principles. I believe these are important as the foundation for a strategy and, not least, for an approach t o the disabled in developing countries that can at least begin to overcome the terrible difficulty of scarce financial resources and the paramount importance of finding cost-beneficial arguments for development planners. Let me quote to you some of the key points in this New Concept: ‘‘ (a) the main objective of the programme should be to reduce the problems arising from disability for the disabled person himself, for his immediate surroundings, and for the community, utilizing all possible preventive and curative measures, or measures that might wholly or partly reverse an already present disability, or delay its progress. The action taken should not only be directed towards the individual but also towards factors in his surroundings or in the society at large;. (b) the programme should be directed towards vulnerable groups in the developing world with a high risk of disability and persons whose disability could be expected to be preventable or with whom a rehabilitative intervention was likely to be successful;

Letters

"Letters." Journal of Architectural Education, 30(2), p. ii Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert H McNultyRobert H McNulty is the Assistant Director of the Architecture & Environmental Arts program at NEA. Before that and recently he has been the Environmental Advisor to the Deputy Administrator of the GSA and the Assistant to the Director of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology. He was a guest Fellow at Pierson College, Yale last year and a Loeb Fellow the year before that. Bob received his BS and Law degrees at Berkeley, chucking it all shortly thereafter to play archeologist at Colonial Williamsburg—an activity that spawned some of his earlier and less well-known works such as Common Beverage Bottles: Their Production, Use and Forms in 17th Century and 18th Century Netherlands and the ever-popular Dental Problems in Dental Care in Dynastic Egypt. More recently, and certainly less obscurely, Bob has been the co-editor of the Neighborhood Conservation Guide Book put out by the Whitney Library. He is also, and I am in a position to say, a pleasure to work with.

A Policy of Options

As many of you know, I previously served as Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency at a time when the problem of air pollution control was reaching a peak of public awareness. The work of the Air Pollution Control Association in investigating facts and accelerating the development of solutions earned my high respect then and my continued admiration now.

Auto vs. clean air the debate goes on

The basic issue seems to come down to this: Do we want a clean environment or do we want cars that get good fuel economy at the expense of air quality? It's likely that there isn't any simple answer to this dilemma, however, judging from a sampling of the thinking evidenced recently at the American Association for the Advancement of Science 141st Annual Meeting in New York City. In a two-day symposium on the future of cars, scientists, engineers, auto industry representatives, and legal and economic thinkers as well as government policymakers huddled to kick around the question of what direction vehicular transportation may, or may not, take in the near future. Addressing the seemingly inherent conflict between air quality and economics, Environmental Protection Agency deputy administrator Eric O. Stork scored Detroit, saying that left to its own devices, as it was for so many years, the auto industry would not—indeed, in the competitive market ...

NASA's University Research Programs: Dilemmas & Problems on the Government-Academic Interface

T hough and technology have been a concern of the federal government since the founding of the Republic, 1 the Manhattan Project in World War II was the case which proved a massive federal involvement in science could produce and apply the technology to fulfill a vital need of society. The first Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, drew the analogy: The exploration of space may be interpreted as a modern social need which provides the environment to accelerate the growth of science and technology in many cases, not only to develop space capability but also to participate in that complex, dynamic interaction among science, technology, and the social need essential to all.2

Environmental Science Services Administration

Studies of the geophysical aspects of man's environment will be greatly enhanced by the newly created Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), a bureau of the Department of Commerce. This new bureau, the result of an intensive two‐year study, brings together the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Weather Bureau. These organizations have major responsibility in the fields of seismology, oceanography, meteorology, hydrology, geodesy, and geomagnetism. Aeronomy and solar physics will complete the organizational structure of ESSA when the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory of the National Bureau of Standards is added. ESSA will be directed by Robert M. White, formerly chief of the Weather Bureau. The deputy administrator is H. Arnold Karo, former Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. The Weather Bureau is now headed by George P. Cressman and the Coast and Geodetic Survey by James C. Tison, Jr.

Impact of the "GI Bills" on the Educational Level of the Male Population

Impact of the "GI Bills" on the Educational Level of the Male Population

Goddard Trophy

Hugh L. Dryden, deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was given the 1964 Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy during ceremonies in Washington, D.C., on March 20. The trophy is endowed by Dr. Goddard's widow, and is awarded annually to the person judged to have made the greatest contribution to the status of American astronautics. The presentation was made by the National Space Club.

Safe and Efficient Flight Path Management of the Next Generation of Air Transports

NAVIGATIONVolume 10, Issue 1 p. 9-13 Safe and Efficient Flight Path Management of the Next Generation of Air Transports Mr. ROBERT J. SHANK, Mr. ROBERT J. SHANK Mr. Shank is Deputy Administrator for Development, Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, D.C. This was the opening Keynote Address of the Supersonic Transport Seminar.Search for more papers by this author Mr. ROBERT J. SHANK, Mr. ROBERT J. SHANK Mr. Shank is Deputy Administrator for Development, Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, D.C. This was the opening Keynote Address of the Supersonic Transport Seminar.Search for more papers by this author First published: Spring 1963 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-4296.1963.tb02021.xCitations: 1 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume10, Issue1Spring 1963Pages 9-13 RelatedInformation

The NASA Space Edition

The NASA Space Edition Get access Hugh L. Dryden Hugh L. Dryden Deputy Administrator NASA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar AIBS Bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 5, October 1962, Page 23, https://doi.org/10.1093/aibsbulletin/12.5.23 Published: 01 October 1962

LOW‐RENT HOUSING BUILDS ON SOUND MONEY*

Annals of Public and Cooperative EconomicsVolume 17, Issue 2 p. 262-271 LOW-RENT HOUSING BUILDS ON SOUND MONEY* LEON H. KEYSERLING, LEON H. KEYSERLING Deputy Administrator and Acting General Counsel. United States Housing AuthoritySearch for more papers by this author LEON H. KEYSERLING, LEON H. KEYSERLING Deputy Administrator and Acting General Counsel. United States Housing AuthoritySearch for more papers by this author First published: May 1941 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8292.1941.tb01142.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume17, Issue2May 1941Pages 262-271 RelatedInformation