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Museum and University Data, Program and Information Exchange 
NSF FUNDING OF COMPUTER-ORIENTED PROJECTS 
The National Science Foundation has recently awarded several 
grants for projects of interest to MUDPIE readers, including: 
$50,000 to Carnegie Institution of Washington, for development of 
an electronic library of rock analyses, to be made publicly 
available. 
$3,600 to Cornell University for the development of an ecological 
data base for ornithological research. 
$102,100 to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for 
development of a world data center for oceanography. 
$27,550 to Queens College (CCNY), for publication of the journal 
Computers and the Humanities. 
$75,700 to Scripps Institution for Oceanography, for preparation 
of a species catalog of polycystine Radiolaria. 
$420,000 to the American Geological Institute, to fund the opera¬ 
tional testing of the Geological Reference File (GeoRef), a 
computer-based bibliographic data bank. 
$74,500 to the International Association for Plant Taxonomy to 
permit the continued conversion of the Index Nominum Generi- 
carum (ING) data into machine readable form. 
$46,200 to the University of Notre Dame to conclude preparation of 
the automated data file for the Greene Herbarium Botanical 
collection. 
NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYMPOSIUM 
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
has announced a symposium under the above title to be held in 
Cincinnati, Ohio, September 24-27, 1972, at the National 
Environmental Research Center of EPA in Cincinnati. The purpose 
of the symposium is "to provide a forum for producers and hand¬ 
lers of environmental data to identify and explain resources and 
methods in order to help users better meet their in formation 
needs; to bring together citizens' organizations, universities, 
libraries, professional and trade associations and governmental 
