August 



Expedition: National Museum of Natural History senior oceanographer Daniel J. 

 Stanley, heading a multinational research team, conducted field work in Egypt that 

 confirmed that the Nile Delta is undergoing substantial sinking—as much as one-fifth 

 inch per year in the Port Said region near the Suez Canal. This sinkage is causing serious 

 coastal erosion and invasion of salt water and is severely limiting agriculture. 



August 



Research: At the Conservation Analytical Laboratory, a partial paint layer was recovered 

 from the codex lifted in the excavations at Joya de Ceren, El Salvador. The site, buried 

 under six meters of ash deposited during a volcanic eruption, provides an unprecedented 

 glimpse of village life around 600 A.D. 



August 



Exhibition: The newly acquired portrait of former President Ronald Reagan by Henry 

 Casselli was installed in the Hall of Presidents at the National Portrait Gallery. 



August 



Recording Release: The Music of Stephen C. Foster launched the Smithsonian Library of 

 American Music series, and Chadwick: Yankee Composer inaugurated the Smithsonian 

 Studies of American Musicians series. 



August 



Cooperative Program: The Si/Man and the Biosphere Program was represented at the 

 Ecology Congress held in Yokohama, Japan, and, as part of a team of experts on tropical 

 forests, visited several tropical forest research sites in Southeast Asia to discuss a tropical 

 forest cooperative international program. 



August 1-5 



Cultural Diversity: A full-page paid advertisement was published by the Office of Public 

 Affairs in the brochure for the 15th annual National Association of Black Journalists 

 conference, which was attended by approximately 1,500 media representatives. Two 

 Smithsonian staff members participated in the conference. 



August 26-31 



Conference: Fifty -two experts from 10 countries attended the conference "Non-Imperial 

 Polities in the Lands Visited by Christopher Columbus during His Four Voyages to the 

 New World," held at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). STRI 



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