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The Field Stations 



Numerous investigations in the general program of the Geo- 

 physical Institute require field locations because of the need 

 for isolation, triangulation or space. Five such stations are in 

 use. One is on the main grounds of the Geophysical Institute 

 and houses the new recorder for vertical incidence studies. 

 Ballaines Lake field station was established earlier by the Army 

 as a location for the study of radio signal intensities. It is merely 

 a wooden shelter on University property about a mile from 

 the main building. The searchlight experiment is located at 

 two sites, the transmitter being on the Campus and the receiver 

 11.6 kilometers away on the Steese Highway. The fifth station 

 is maintained as the second observation point for auroral height 

 studies. 



Personnel 



The Public Law provides for the existence of a basic adminis- 

 trative staff for the Geophysical Institute. This is to include the 

 director, appointed by the Board of Regents on recommenda- 

 tion of the President of the University subject to the approval 

 by the President of the National Academy of Sciences, a secre- 

 tary, a librarian and custodian. It was the intent of the founders 

 that the Geophysical Institute maintain a staff under this admin- 

 istration to pursue a program of research in basic geophysics and 

 offer graduate study through appropriate departments in the ac- 

 ademic division of the University. At present such an independ- 

 ent staff does not exist in reality, as the contracts for research in 

 geophysics are written to the University of Alaska and assigned 

 to the Geophysical Institute for completion. However, those em- 

 ployed in the Institute are recognized as a working group under 

 the director. This group has been organized in four divisions: 

 the administrative staff, the scientific staff, the technical staff and 

 the custodial staff. The administrative staff includes the director, 

 honorary directors and committees, the secretary, the librarian, 

 the business manager and their assistants and secretaries; the sci- 

 entific staff— those engaged in actual research and graduate 



