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Summer Session Kansan
KU prof watches for tornadoes
A dark television screen tuned to Channel 2 during a thunderstorm might give the first sign that a tornado is within 20 miles, a KU expert weather expert said yesterday.
“If there is a tornado nearby, the whole screen should be a glowing white,” Joe Eagleton, professor of geography and meteorology, said. He has been studying tornado structure, formation and detection for the past 14 years.
A television screen can be darkened by turning the brightness knob to dark. Channel 2 receives an electromagnetic wavelength similar to that of a tornado-producing thunderstorm enabling it to record the storm's energy.
Eagleman frequently creates tornadoes for study in a room next to his office in Lindley Hall. He thought these were the best laboratory models of tornadoes in the country because they are the only ones modeled after thunderstorm winds, he said.
STUDYING THE structure of tomatones
provide information on how to break
them up.
"If we know the details of how to make a machine completely, we are a step closer to destroying it."
In another area, Eagleman has verified his theories of tomoside structure and formation using Doppler Radar, a method used in the past to predict a 30-minute prediction on a tornado's descent.
The Doppler Radar measures the velocity and direction of clouds and raindrops in thunderstorms. This radar can be used to measure the amount of rotating mass of air inside a thunderstorm.
Hook Echo radar is now used for tornado detection. Hook Echo radar can detect only the presence of raindrops in a thundercloud—not their direction or speed.
DOPLPER RADAR can measure both. The Hook ERAH method has detected about 30 percent of the tornadoes reported and the rest have been sighted by spotters.
Information about the way air flows at ground level and how tornadoes tear apart buildings also is very important, Eagleman said.
"We might be able to better design buildings and choose building sites that will resonate."
Eaglenail said the least destruction occurred in the north or northeast portions of homes. Tornadoes and thunderstorms usually originate in the southwest.
The southwest corners of buildings and of basements previously thought to be the safest, are actually the most dangerous ones to be in during a thunderstorm, he said.
Conditions in the midwestern and eastern regions of the United States seem to be favorable for the formation of thunderstorms and tornadoes, Eaglemann said. Thunderstorms and tornadoes occur annually in the United States, more than anywhere else in the world.
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The Deli specializes in old fashioned sandwiches, salads, soup, chill, and hot Garman potato salad for lunch. We also serve the south end of the level 3 dining area and have a sandwich prepared before you from your selection of meats, breads, and cheeses. A variety of beverages, including beer, is available. Our menu is 11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Monday-Friday; 8:00 a.m.-a.m. 14:30 p.m. Saturday.
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2:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
On the upper level of the Hawk's Nest, the Prairie Room provides a pleasant atmosphere for lunch. Grilled items cooked to order, specialty sandwiches, daily features, a salad bar, and hearty soups are served. The kitchen allows you to table by waiters and waitresses. 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
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Spencer offers diverse exhibits on photography
Helen Foreman Spencer Museum of Art contains a "major collection of photographs in the Midwest," but it little-nobified by KU students, according to home-bound curator of photography and professor of the history of photography.
The earliest surviving daguerreotype portrait probably is the most important piece in the collection. The 130-year-old photograph was discovered and restored by James Enyear, KU's curator of photography until 1977.
KU's collection contains a variety of photographic styles, including portraits of Kurt Meyer, Henry Nelson and Eugene O'Neill, works by Cecil War photographer Matthew Brady and important early photographs of Lawrence Gardner, one of Brady's assistants.
Important Kansas photographers such as Orval Hixon are represented in the KU collection. Hixon, known as one of the most fashionable portrait photographers of the 1920s, took more than 200 portraits of vaudeville stars.
Hixon's ability to capture the stage personality of contemporary vaudeville entertainers brought him tremendous success, and as performers who visited Kansas City, Mo.
HIXON MOVED TO LAWRENCE in the 1890s and established several studies in medicine.
"We could fill our whole museum with our print and photograph collection," said M. Cohen.
The daguerreotype portrait in KU's collection was first exhibited in the Crystal Palace, a London art gallery-famous in the 19th century.
In 1893, the portrait was exhibited in the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
width of a Cubistal Exposition in Chicago.
The dageretrotype process was invented by the French painter, and it enabled him to produce the first detailed photograph in 1873.
In 1933, the portrait, which was later restored by Envyart, was taken to London for improvement of the image, but the efforts obliterated the image entirely.
THE BLANK PLATE was sent to Robert
Taft, a chemistry professor at the University, but Taft died in 1955 without a name.
Enyeart learned of the portrait wmre. Taft's papers were donated to the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka. He discovered the blank plate in a box of old photographs and restored the image in 1971.
Enyear donated the daguerreotype portrait to KU's collection.
When Ennyart left the University a year and a half ago, Thomas Southall became curator of photography. He is responsible for expanding the 20th century section.
"The print room is helpful because it enables you to look at a photograph up close. You can hold it in your hands and inspect it more carefully," he said.
Between exhibits, many of the photographs are stored in the printroom, a unique aspect of Spencer art museum, Southall said.
Not many museums allow students to handle the art works, but KU students can make appointments to visit the print room Tuesday through Friday mornings.
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