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Administrative Budget Needs 1967-69, Utah Water Research Laboratory

Reports

No abstract provided.

Proceedings Of A Symposium: Pollution Control Of Industrial Wastewaters, Calvin K. Sudweeks, Lynn M. Thatcher, Elmo Morgan, Franklin J. Agardy, R. E. Pailthorp, John C. Merrell Jr.

Reports

No abstract provided.

Groundwater Development In Arid Basins, Dean F. Peterson Jr., Harold E. Thomas, J H. Feth, P. H. Mcgauhey, James H. Milligan, Wayne D. Criddle, Judge Lewis Jones, Dallin W. Jensen, Calvin G. Clyde, Bartell C. Jensen, C. E. Jacob, Jay R. Bingham, E. O. Larson

Reports

Summary: Groundwater development frequently provides a means whereby tremendous new economic opportunities are opened up. If supplies are overdrawn (mined) the ensuing regional economy may be able to affort replacements from more costly sources. In the United States the Salt River Valley of Arizona and the valleys of California provide examples. Two cases are treated in this paper, Israel and West Pakistan. In Israel, besides furnishing more than half of the basic source of water suppply, groundwater development provides opportunity for both quantity and quality management, which makes possible use of surface supplies and reclaimed sewage as firm rather than …

Frequency And Magnitudes Of Monthly And Annual Flow Rates (As Determined By (A) A Normal Distribution (B) By Ranking (C) A Gamma Distribution And (D) By A Log Normal Distribution), Roland W. Jeppson

Reports

Background of Program: In developing a water resources atlas for the State of Utah it was necessary to determine the characterisitcs of stream flows within the State. The variations of stream flow for any given month from year to year as well as the variations from month to month throughout the year are important characterisitcs which are determined by analyzing the streamflow records to determine their probability distributions. The program which is descirbed in the following pages was written to determine the monthly as well as annual runoff amounts which might be expected for any number of specified levels of …

Frequency Analyses And Probable Storage Requirements By Frequency Mass Curve Methods, Roland W. Jeppson

Reports

Background of Program: In devloping a water resources atlas for the State of Utah, numerous stream flow records were analyzed to determine their flow characteristics. The objective was to present the results in a format which is well adapted for use by water resources planners in preliminary designs to obtain optimum benefits from the water resources. The program described in this booklet was written to determine the probable amounds of storage required in order to meet specified levels of sustained demand for water. The method used not only gives information concerning amounts of storage but also information concerning the probably …

Finite Difference Solutions To Free-Surface Flow Through Nonhomogeneous Porous Media, Roland W. Jeppson

Reports

No abstract provided.

Feasibility Study Of A Capacitance-Type Electronic Sediment-Sensing Device, C. Earl Israelsen, Duane G. Chadwick

Reports

Difficulties caused by sediment carried in natural streams have existed since earliest times. Although instruments and techniques for measuring stream discharge have existed for many years, only recently have attempts been made to measure sediment carried by the streams. The earliest observations of sediment discharge in the United States were made by Captain Talcott in the Mississippi River in 1838 (1). More or less continuous samples of sediment from the Rio Grande have been collected by the United States Geological Survey since 1879, and from the Colorado River Basin since 1925. Studies of sediment transport are seriously hampered by the …

Reliability Of Can-Type Precipitation Gage Measurements, C Earl Israelsen

Reports

A comprehensive review of literature was made of studies conducted since 1952 pertaining to the accuracy of can-type precipitation gage measurements. Brief discussions are given of the results of some of them, and conclusions are drawn. Topics discussed include raingage comparisons, accuracy of precipitation measurements, precipitation gage errors, and precipitation measurements in mountains. A bibliography is included

Consecutive Streamflow Averages For 90 Utah Stations, A. Leon Huber

Reports

No abstract provided.

Mathematical Simulation Of Small Watershed Hydrologic Phenomena, V. V. Dhruva Narayana, Jay M. Bagley

Reports

In many hydrologic investigations concerning small watersheds, data and observations are totally inadequate to provide a basis for outflow hydrographs. Consequently, a variety of empirical approaches have been developed which have limited rational validity. Hydrograph synthesis offers a reasonable approach to predicting the outflow hydrograph characteristics. In order to synthesize a hydrograph, it is necessary to mathematically describe the physical behavior of the dynamic processes involved in the hydrologic phenomena. Hydrograph synthesis may be considered to comprise (a) hydrographs (actual or simulated) of precipitation, (b) hydrographs of abstractions such as interception, infiltration, and depressional storage, (c) routing or translating the …

Using Remote Infrared Sensors To Detect Changes In Moisture Conditions On Natural Watersheds, Ralph D. Briscoe, Frank W. Haws

Reports

Foreword: This report summarizes the results of laboratory measurements of the infrared reflectance of selected living plants typical of the natural watersheds in northern Utah. Data indicate that the IR reflectance decreases as the moisture content of the soil decreases and the moisture tension in the soil increases. Additional data will be collected in the field to confirm the results and to further tests the feasibility of using IR reflectance of vegetation as an indicator of soil moisture conditions on the watershed. Mr. Briscoe, Research Physicist, has been responsible for the gathering of laboratory data and has written the manuscript …

General Catalog 1967, Utah State University

University Catalogs

General Catalog of 1967

Contains course descriptions, University college calendar, and college administration.

The Classification Of The Diphaglossinae And North American Species Of The Genus Caupolicana (Hymenoptera, Colletidae), Charles D. Michener

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Utah Science Vol. 27 No. 4, December 1966

Utah Science

The Station serves us all - editorial, Director K. W. Hill 119

Food is a science at USU, Lois Cox 120

New tanning helps golfers 123

How to develop and use water - Utah's life blood, Alvin Bishop 124

Climate - the pulse of life, Gaylen l. Ashcroft, George W. Reynolds, and E. Arlo Richardson 129

Ornamentally yours, Bernard G. Wesenberg 132

Droppings, saliva spread leukosis 134

The mysteries of nutrition, Ethelwyn B. Wilcox 135

Where and why does Mrs. Murphy buy? Roice H. Anderson 136

New yearbook of agriculture now printed 137

Plant science and space exploration, Frank B. …

Utah Science Vol. 27 No. 3, September 1966

Utah Science

Station receives new director 87

Range weed can cause deformities 87

What is the Agricultural Experiment Station - editorial, by Director K. W. Hill 88

Farm ponds and plastic liners, by C. W. Lauritzen 90

Destructive animals in Utah fruit orchards, by David R. Walker, J. LaMar Anderson, and Anson B. Call, Jr. 93

Inexpensive methods for measuring soil moisture, by S. A. Taylor 98

New head appointed for Plant Science Department 103

Nitrogen - carbon dioxide kill insects 103

Maintaining quality in processed fruits, by D. K. Salunkhe, C. Y. Lee, and F. S. Nury 105

Best fruit varieties …

Mineralized Springs In Utah And Their Effect On Manageable Water Supplies, James H. Milligan, Ray E. Marsell, Jay M. Bagley

Reports

Need and Importance of Study

Water demands in Utah are continuously increasing. It is essential that these demands be me to insure the continued enhancement of the social and economic well-being of all sectors of our society. Since water needs must be met from a relatively fixed water supply it is imperative that supplies be managed for complete utilization in such a way that all legitimate requirement scan be satisfied.

As our available water supplies are used more completely by making a given supply satisfy more than one use, water quality problems become more pronounced. The multiplicity of uses to …

Utah Science Vol. 27 No. 2, June 1966

Utah Science

Use alfalfa-intermediate wheatgrass where water is limited up-grading irrigated pastures, by Keith R. Allred 47

New canal sealer clings to concrete 51

Insecticides in animals - their storage and interactions, by Joseph C. Street 52

USDA developing leaf harvester to strip alfalfa 54

Pruning bearing trees and rejuvenating old trees, by David R. Walker, J . LaMar Anderson, and Anson B. Call, Jr. 55

Bees fed pathogens 58

Native browse and broadleaf herb seed production - on cultivated land, by Gordon A. Van Epps 59

Maintaining quality in fresh product, by D. K. Salunkhe, L. E. Olson, B. N. Wankier, …

Graduate Recital, Carl L. Ashby

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The writer, in preparing for the recital , was concerned mainly with the following objectives:

1. To improve his own ability to perform well with the vocal instrument.

2. To find new avenues of approach to the problem of teaching correct vocal methods in the classroom.

It is the belief of the writer that if one does not continue to study and learn of the many problems that arise in teaching the vocal art , he will not perform well as a teacher of that, or any, art. The writer is sure that if he had not continued his studies …

Use Of Uric Acid Analysis To Evaluate Chalcid Infestation In Alfalfa Seed, Gary M. Booth

Biology

The production of alfalfa seed is a major agricultural industry in various parts of the world, including the United States. One of the most serious pests of alfalfa seed is the alfalfa seed chalcid, Bruchophagus roddi Gussakovsii. The female chalcid destroys the seed by ovipositing in young alfalfa seed that is about nine days old. The egg hatches into a white larva in about four days. During the course of larval development, it devours virtually everything in the seed. When the chalcid completes its last or fourth larval instar, the insect may follow one of two alternatives of development: (1) …

Bioassay Evaluation Of Heptachlor, Telodrin And Diazinon Using Cache Valley Populations Of The Alfalfa Weevil, Lan Lin Wu

Biology

The alfalfa weevil, Hypera postica (Gyllenhal), is an insect of European origin which by some unknown means was introduced into Utah (Titus 1910). It is the most destructive pest of alfalfa in the United States although locally others may be more serious. The female inserts her eggs into the alfalfa stems during the spring months. The larvae feed on the developing leaf buds and the leaves, often completely stripping the plants. The weevil destroys from seven to eight percent of the alfalfa in Utah each year. It costs alfalfa growers in the United States several millions of dollars in annual …

Topography Of The Cephalic Musculature And Nervous System Of The Honey Bee Apis Mellifera Linnaeus, Nabil N. Youssef

Biology

Fixed heads of workers, drones and queens of Apis mellifera Linnaeus were dissected under distilled water for the study of two tissues: the musculature and the nerve mass. Musculature: The movable and fixed points of muscle attachment were utilized in establishing a nomenclature for muscles to replace those in current usage which depend on various combination of topography, function, and numerical sequence. The present system proved to be consistent and useful for demonstrating the criteria of homology among muscles. Names were devised in classical Greek and Latin for international usage. For establishing muscle homology, every cephalic muscle of the …

The Biology Of Euphytomima Nomiivora James (Diptera:Sarcophagidae), A Parasite Of The Alkali Bee, Nomia Melanderi Ckll., Mohammad Javad Moradeshaghi

Biology

Euphytomima nomiivora James is a sarcophagid fly belonging to the sub-family Miltogramminae . It was first found as a parasite of the alkali bee in Logan, Utah in 1947 by Dr. George E. Bohart who sent several specimens to Dr. Maurice James of Washington State University for determination. Dr. James (1955) described it as a new genus and species but noted that it had previously been collected from other localities such as Imperial County, California and Globe, Arizona. In Logan it was found at an alkali bee nesting site near the Cache-Logan Airport. Later it was introduced to an artificial …

Behavioral And Physiological Changes In House Mice Associated With Sound Deprivation, Clifford A. Meyers

Biology

The development of sensory organs for the reception of external stimuli has clearly been of importance in the evolution of animal life. In part, through natural selection, these organs have increased in complexity and efficiency to the present level seen in mammals and birds. Differences in the physical nature of the sensory stimuli facilitated the development of specifically different organs, each mode of stimulation being of some importance to the animal; yet the relative importance of these modalities depended and depends on the animal-habitat unit.

Comparison Of Temperature Influenced Mutants In Drosophila Melanogaster, Sandra H. Ely

Biology

Developmental similarities between two eye abnormalities of Drosophila melanogaster, which had been detected in different laboratories, were indicated when the written description of each were compared. For experimental comparison, an exchange was made between the stock carrying the temperature-sensitive eye mutant "scarp", discovered by Hansen and Gardner (1962) at Utah State University, and the mutant “witty”, discovered by Whitten (1964) at the University of Tasmania. Scarp is expressed as a horizontal depression and a reduction in the ventral one-third of the compound eye when flies carrying the gene (scrp) in homozygous condition are reared at temperatures above …

Preliminary Studies Of Germination Requirements Of Shadscale Atriplex Confertifolia Torr. And Ferm. Wats, Ijaz Hussain

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Shadscale (Atriplex confertilolia (Torr. and Frem.) Wats.) is an important component of the salt-desert-shrub vegetation type in the intermountain region. This species dominates a large portion of the 41 million acres occupied by this vegetation type. Shapscale reaches greatest importance at lower elevations of Utah and Nevada, where despite the low productivity due to its harsh habitat, this vigorous shrub furnishes considerable winter grazing for sheep and cattle. Gates et al. (1966) have observed that poor drainage conditions, coupled with low precipitation, results in the concentration of salts, a chief habitat factor determining the growth and distribution of this species. …

Implications Of Tort Liability In Utah For Accidents In Physical Education And Related Areas, S. Willard Jessop

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The purpose of this study is to review the literature of the past twenty years as it relates to tort liability of school districts, boards of education, and teachers, with special emphasis on the field of physical education and related activities such as intramurals and inter-scholastic competition.

Recent legislation passed by the Utah legislature is cited. In certain instances this will be contrasted with older laws and practices which still prevail in a good number of states.

History Of Snow College 1932-1951, Lee R. Thompson

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Knowing the past provides many of the ingredients that help to make conditions as they are today and as they might become tomorrow, the author became interested in these ingredients which helped to develop the educational institution known as Snow College. This search for knowledge led the writer to believe there was also a need to preserve some basic factual information about this school and present it as a history. This project, therefore, becomes an effort in the development of such a historical document.

Man And His Water Resource, Dean F. Peterson

Faculty Honor Lectures

Several preceding honor lectures have dealt with water. The title of a recent one, "Water and Man," by Dr. Sterling Taylor closely resembles the one for this paper. Dr. Taylor's paper dealt primarily with the physical science of water. This one will consider the nature of the use of water by man and the technological and institutional structure related to that use. Thus there should be no serious overlap. My friends in the social sciences may be surprised, too, to find that somehow this lecture has spilled over into their territory. But engineering is the implementation of science and technology. …

Molt Patterns In The Great Basin-Pocket Mouse, Perognathus Parvus, R. Lynn Speth

Biology

Studies of the patterns and sequences of molts in rodents are too few to permit generalizations concerning the taxonomic or ecologic significance of these phenomena. Noteworthy studies of the molts of Thomomys umbrinus (Morejohn and Howard, 1956), Peromyscus boylii (Brown, 1963), Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis (Gottschang, 1956), Microtus californicus (Ecke and Kinney, 1956), and Dicrostonyx (Hansen, 1959) have utilized live-trapped captive animals. However, most reports in the literature have been based upon the examination of prepared study skins, and these data have been summarized by Ecke and Kinney (1956) and Morejohn and Howard (1956). To date the molts and pelages of …

Chromatographic And Spectrophotometric Studies Of Sodium Yeast Metabolism, Walter M. Neville

Biology

The general problem of discovering the role of potassium (K) and sodium (Na) ions in cell metabolism and physiology has been investigated in many ways. The development by Conway and Moore (1954) of a yeast that had a reversed intracellular Na and K ion concentration opened a new approach to the investigation of Na and K effects on intermediary metabolism. This yeast with a Na and K ion reversal (i.e., a high Na and low K intracellular concentration) is called a sodium-rich yeast (Na-yeast).