Panel on Water and Climate, Geophysics Study Committee, Geophysics Research Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council

Climate, Climatic Change, and Water Supply (Studies in Geophysics)

Business & Money

Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications

National, Research Council

Geophysics Study Committee

Geophysics Research Board

Panel on Water and Climate

Economics

National Academies Press

Continental Tectonics (Studies in Geophysics)

Continental Tectonics (Study of Nuclear and Alternative Energy Systems: Supporting)

Science & Math

Assembly of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Earth Sciences

Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 1980's, Volume 1: Report of the Astronomy Survey Committee

Astronomy Survey Committee

Astronomy & Space Science

Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 1980's, Volume 2: Reports of the Panels

Social and Economic Aspects of Radioactive Waste Disposal: Considerations for Institutional Management

To complement the growing body of knowledge on the physical aspects of radioactive waste disposal, this new report identifies the ;ITsocioeconomic and institutional;IT policy issues that must be addressed in implementing the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Site location, transportation modes, disposal schedules, regulatory systems, and the effects of these systems on the people living near the sites and along the transportation routes are addressed. Table of Contents <ul>
<li>Front Matter</li>
<li>1. Summary</li>
<li>2. Public Concerns</li>
<li>3. The Waste Management Network: The Role of Transportation and Repository Location</li>
<li>4. The Waste Repository Site: Characteristics and Socioeconomic Considerations</li>
<li>5. Institutional Means</li>
<li>Appendix A: Spent-Fuel Transportation Analysis for the National Academy of Sciences</li>
<li>Appendix B: Supplementary Comments on Chapter 5</li>
</ul>

Board on Radioactive Waste Management

Panel on Social and Economic Aspects of Radioactive Waste Management

Oil in the Sea: Inputs, Fates, and Effects

This comprehensive volume follows up and expands on an earlier National Academy of Sciences book. It is the result of an intensive multidisciplinary effort to assess the problems relating to petroleum-derived hydrocarbons in the marine environment. Specifically, it examines the inputs, analytical methods, fates, and effects of petroleum in the marine environment. The section on effects has been expanded significantly, reflecting the extensive scientific effort put forth in determining the effects of petroleum on marine organisms. Other topics discussed include petroleum contamination in specific geographical areas, the potential hazards of this contamination to human health, the impact of oil-related activities in the northern Gulf of Mexico, and the potential impact of petroleum on fisheries.

Steering Committee for the Petroleum in the Marine Environment Update

In a giant step toward managing today's pollution problems more effectively, this report lays out a framework to coordinate an interdisciplinary and international investigation of the chemical composition and cycles of the troposphere. The approach includes geographical surveys, field measurements, the development of appropriate models, and improved instrumentation.

Global Tropospheric Chemistry: A Plan for Action

Mathematics and Resources

Commission on Physical Sciences

Global Tropospheric Chemistry Panel

Can decision makers meaningfully compare land versus sea options for waste disposal? Using available scientific data on waste behavior and new studies from East and West Coast dump sites, this book shows how to use a matrix approach to rank the ecological and health consequences of any combination of waste, site, and disposal system design.

Disposal of Industrial and Domestic Wastes: Land and Sea Alternatives

Most of the earth's population would survive the immediate horrors of a nuclear holocaust, but what long-term climatological changes would affect their ability to secure food and shelter? This sobering book considers the effects of fine dust from ground-level detonations, of smoke from widespread fires, and of chemicals released into the atmosphere. The authors use mathematical models of atmospheric processes and data from natural situations--e.g., volcanic eruptions and arctic haze--to draw their conclusions. This is the most detailed and comprehensive probe of the scientific evidence published to date. Table of Contents <ul>
<li>Front Matter</li>
<li>1 Summary and Conclusions</li>
<li>2 Recommendations for Research</li>
<li>3 The Baseline Nuclear Exchange</li>
<li>4 Dust</li>
<li>5 Fires</li>
<li>6 Chemistry</li>
<li>7 Atmospheric Effects and Interactions</li>
<li>8 Use of Climactic Effects of Volcanic Eruptions and Extraterrestrial Impacts on the Earth as Analogs</li>
<li>Appendix: Evolution of Knowledge About Long-Term Nuclear Effects</li>
<li>Index</li>
</ul>

The Effects on the Atmosphere of a Major Nuclear Exchange

Committee on the Atmospheric Effects of Nuclear Explosions

The principal goals of the study were to articulate the scientific rationale and objectives of the field and then to take a long-term strategic view of U.S. nuclear science in the global context for setting future directions for the field. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter provides a long-term assessment of an outlook for nuclear physics. The first phase of the report articulates the scientific rationale and objectives of the field, while the second phase provides a global context for the field and its long-term priorities and proposes a framework for progress through 2020 and beyond.  In the second phase of the study, also developing a framework for progress through 2020 and beyond, the committee carefully considered the balance between universities and government facilities in terms of research and workforce development and the role of international collaborations in leveraging future investments. Nuclear physics today is a diverse field, encompassing research that spans dimensions from a tiny fraction of the volume of the individual particles (neutrons and protons) in the atomic nucleus to the enormous scales of astrophysical objects in the cosmos. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter explains the research objectives, which include the desire not only to better understand the nature of matter interacting at the nuclear level, but also to describe the state of the universe that existed at the big bang. This report explains how the universe can now be studied in the most advanced colliding-beam accelerators, where strong forces are the dominant interactions, as well as the nature of neutrinos.

Nuclear Physics (America's Aging)

Board on Physics and Astronomy

Physics Survey Committee

Nuclear Physics Panel

Physics

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