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More than just a person may leave UNL
if Chancellor James Zumberge is selected
by the Board of Trustees of Southern
Methodist University as the new president
of that Texas school.
An ice project also may be traveling
south.
Zumberge, a former dean of Arizona
University's College of Earth Sciences, was
a recipient of a $1 million research grant of
the U.S. National Science Foundation as
part of the US. Antarctic Research
Program.- The grant is to be used for
research of the Ross Ice Shelf, according to
More than 1,000 offered
Art prints on sale today
More than 1,000 different unframed art
, prints-including works by Dali, Van Gogh,
Picasso, Klee, Wyeth and many more-will
b on sale in the Union Main Lounge from
9 ajn.-5 p.m. dairy this week.
"We arranged for them to come this
time of year because we assume many
students will be decorating their new
residence hall rooms and apartments,"
Suzanne Brown, assistant program director,
said.
The Nebraska Union Visual Arts
Committee will receive $300 for
sponsoring the sale conducted by
Waskewich Galleries, Ltd., according to
Brown. The New York firm has had similar
sales on campus for the past three or four
years, Brown said.
Prices for the prints usually range from
$2.50 to $10, she said.
The Union Program Council's Visual
Arts Committee arranges for displays in the
Main Lounge throughout the year and
sponsors occasional campus residencies
with artists whose works are exhibited. The
committee is open to all interested
students.
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John Splettstoesser, administrative director
of the project.
Since the grant, was awarded to
Zumberge rather than a specific university
the project likely would follow the
chancellor through his career, as it did
when he came to UNL in 1972. But, in a
telephone interview, Zumberge said he is
undecided on moving the project to SMU
at this time.
Zumberge said he wanted to talk with
the project's administrators sometime this
week before making a decision.
"If the environment in Nebraska is such
that they (the project administrators) want
to continue working here, they can," he
said. "I don't want to see the project left
high and dry."
Move not difficult
Splettstoesser said he has no idea if the
project will be relocated, but said there
would be no major difficulties in moving
the project.
"We are a fairly small operation, both in
terms of space and staff," Splettstoesser
said. He said the Ross Ice Shelf Project
(RISP) management office now located at
UNL has little bulky equipment, a minimal
file system, and a total of six staff
members.
The Ross Ice Shelf is a floating mass of
ice attached to Antarctica. Its size is equal
to that of Spain, Splettstoesser said.
He said RISP evolved' from the interest
of scientists who believe that several
scientific problems could be solved if holes
were drilled through the Ross Ice Shelf to
sample the ice and the bottom sediments.
Four month experiments
Scientists from 12 countries spend from
early October until the end of January at
Antarctica doing experiments in which
holes are drilled in the ice, Splettstoesser
said.
He said 60 scientists including three
UNL students participated in field work at
Antarctica last fall. October 1975 will
mark the third year scientists have traveled
to Antarctica for field projects,
Splettstoesser said. After the project's field
work is done, information collected will be
fed into computers at UNL for data
statistics, he said.
Because of the heavy involvement of ice
core drilling in these polar projects, the
RISP management office has become a
center for the development and
construction of ice-core drilling equipment
and its use, he said,
Greenland program
Splettstoesser said the RISP
management office also has similar
responsibilities of data computation for the
Greenland Ice Sheet Program, a
multinational interdisciplinary program
designed to investigate the near surface and
inner nature of large ice masses by core
drilling, core studies, and geophysical and
airborne remote sensing techniques. .
Splettstoesser said the management
office is staffed by an administrative
director, a scientific director, two field
operation managers, a drilling research
associate and a secretary. He. said the staff
cooperates closely with research
investigators and personnel from the
National Science Foundation's Office of
Polar Programs to plan and conduct the
details of research programs being managed
by the RISP management office.
The first step in the examination of the
Ross Ice Shelf involved a geophysical and
glaciological program that began in the
1973-74 field season and will continue for -several
years, Splettstoesser said. The
project is designed to measure ice and
water thicknesses, snow accumulation,
surface movement and response of the
shelf to tides. Drilling through the ice shelf
began in 1975.
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