GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30215, 21 August 1963, Page 10

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

New Equipment To Be Installed New geophysical equipment is to be installed on Campbell and Macquarie islands this year for use in a University of California project connected with the International Year of the Quiet Sun in 1964. The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research is co-operat-ing with the university in the project. Mr W. G. Cousins, a member of the department in Christchurch, returned during the week-end from a fiveweek visit to the United States. He spent two weeks at the University of California making himself familiar with the geophysical equipment and later went to Kotzebue, in Alaska, where the university has one of two geophysical stations The other is at Fairwell. These two stations would complement the research at Macquarie and Campbell islands. In September. Mr Cousins will leave Dunedin aboard the U.S.S. Hissem with geophysical equipment for Campbell Island. He and the men stationed there will instal the equipment. Mr Cousins said he expected that equipment would be installed at all tour research stations before the end of the year in readiness for next year’s international scientific activity. Data collected from the two southerly islands would be sent to the University of California for evaluation.