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Coming ice age
For 20 years Edward Zeller, professor of geology, has been studying Antarctica about the possibility of the earth entering another ice age. Zeller has just returned from a four-year trip to Antarctica.
Sunspots could trace chance of new ice age
month expedition in the Antarctic experimenting with the theory that sunspots might be a factor in predicting the next ice age.
Bv ROB HAGAN
Snapshots could be bringing the earth into another ice age, according to a University of Florida study.
Staff Writer
"The normal condition of the earth is to have ice on Europe and North America," Edward Zeller, professor of physics and astronomy at the abnormal astrophysics is what we are in now."
Zeller has just returned from a four-
month expedition to Antarctica. While there
he conducted several experiments,
including sunspot research.
"Sunspots are like hurricanes on the face of the sun," Zeller said. "They are cooler areas than the rest of the sun's surface. One sunspot could be as big as the earth."
To determine the history of the sunspots, Zeller said, the researchers measure nitrate, a chemical formed in the upper atmosphere of the earth, which comes down
WHEN NITRATE is examined, Zeller said, it can cause the person became ill due to a malfunction of actuator part.
we can look back in history from 1945 to 1715," Zeller said. "Those years were the coldest that the European continent ever experienced."
It also was a time of little sunspot activity, basal
548. "What we're after," he said, "is to
The experiments are funded by the National Science Foundation. Zeller and Gisela Dresschoff, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, spend about four months a year in Antarctica and receive $100,000 a year to spend on their research.
discover how sunspots affect the earth's climate."
This money is used for salaries and equipment, Zeller said, but the most expensive items are transportation and living expenses, which cost about $250,000 a year. That brings the seven-year project total to more than $3 million.
"ITS LIKE being on the surface of Mars," Zeller said. "Antarctica is a desolate place and everything has to be flown in by air. There are no animals or wildlife on the continent except for some seals and a small group of penguins."
The sunspot research occupies most of Zeller's time. The information they get could indicate when the next ice age will come, Zeller said. They usually come every 10 years, and the earth has already completed its 12,000th year since the last ice age.
If there were a lot of sunspots, the total amount of energy the sun released would drop and temperatures also would drop. If this continued, Zeller said, ice covering Europe and North America would form within a hundred years.
Because Antarctica is having the coldest winter on record and the past few winters in the United States have been extremely cold the ice age could already be starting.
The dramatic effects on human life, however, would take decades only, Zeller said.
their message in clay on a tag:
"INDIVIDUALS CAN'T do very much about it if it comes." "Zeller said. 'People would just have to get used to being cold.'
Other experiments that the researchers are involved in include trying to find uranium in Antarctica and detecting radioactive fallout from nuclear tests.
The difficulty of finding uranium on the continent, Zeller said, is determining who has been the source of it.
"Right now Antarctica is international territory," he said. "The Russians have the second largest outfit next to the United States there.
"However, since Australia, France, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Japan, West Germany and England that is in existence now would have to be revised to give everyone a fair chance."
Another experiment that Dreschloh has been working on is designed to find radioactive particles from nuclear testing in the snow.
"Most people believe that Antarctica is still untouched by radioactive fallout," Dreschhof said, "But it is not. From using these radioactive particles we can determine how much energy or for how much heat we are atomic testing only goes back to 1982 so we are very limited."
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Enrollment . . .
Dyck said, it still would be necessary for some enrollment procedures to be completed.
"Ultimately, we almost have to get everyone to line up and tell us where they're living and how we can get hold of them," he said.
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Dyck also said that he saw very few problems in enrollment procedures in
A new computer that is used to process student records received its first test at KU in spring. Dykk said the addition of the computer was the reason for a 2-1-day enrollment period.
Enrollment in spring began on a Wednes-
day and ended on a Friday. Classes be-
come available on Monday through Frida-
HOWEVER, DYCK will enroll enrollment next spring is scheduled for a Monday and Tuesday session.
Dyck said that 2½ days were needed for enrollment in spring because of the heavy snowfall.
This summer . . .
Although instructors will not receive class rosters for the first class period next year, Dyck said that should not create problems.
"We had no assurance that we wouldn't any trouble," he said. "We stuck our neck."
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