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  THIS WEEK AT UCAR -- 23 January 1997
  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
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  National Center for Atmospheric Research
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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    DIRECTORY CHANGES
    TOM NIXON, 1928-1997
    NEW BOOKS FOR THE UPCOMING WEEK

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DIRECTORY CHANGES

Linda Mearns, ext. 8124, FL3 room 2029.
Larry McDaniel, ext. 8128, FL3 room 2071.

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TOM NIXON, 1928-1997

Tom Nixon, the architect who designed the Foothills Lab building for
NBI and then revamped it for UCAR, was killed in a plane crash near
Helena, Montana, on 6 January.

Nixon worked closely with staff from 1990 to 1992 during the FL
redesign.  For more about Tom and his interactions with us, check
the World Wide Web at

    http://www.ucar.edu/stfnotes/9701/nixon.html

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NEW BOOKS FOR THE UPCOMING WEEK

This is a sampling of the new books available at the NCAR library.
These books and others will be on display at the Foothills library for
the upcoming week. For a complete list of new titles at both the
Foothills and Mesa locations please check the Information Desk on the
library's on-line catalog (NOLA).

CRC standard mathematical tables and formulae / W. H. Beyer
QA47 .M315 1996 / location:  ML-REF

Teach yourself Visual J++ in 21 days / P. Winters
QA76.73 .J38 T43 1996 / location:  ML

Using JavaScript / M. C. Reynolds
QA76.73 .J39 R49 1996 / location:  ML

Running Linux / M. Welsh
QA76.76 .O63 W465 1996 / location:  ML

The EM algorithm and extensions / G. J. McLachlan
QA276.8 .M394 1997 / location:  ML

Accuracy and stability of numerical algorithms /
N. J. Higham
QA297 .H53 1996 / location:  ML

The statisticaltheory of shape / C. G. Small
QA649 .S57 1996 / location:  ML

Navier-Stokes equations and nonlinear functional
analysis / R. Temam
QA911 .T39 1995 / location:  FL

Introduction to astronomical photometry / E. Budding
QB135 .B78 1993 / location:  FL

Solar drivers of interplanetary and terrestrial 
disturbances / K. S. Balasubramaniam
QB539 .T4 N38 1995 / location:  FL

Astrophysical applications of stellar pulsation / R. S. Stobie
QB838 .I2 1995 / location:  FL

The role of water and the hydrological cycle in global
change / H. R. Oliver
QC981.8 .C5 R68 1995 / location:  ML

Valuing climatge change / S. Fankhauser
QC981.8 .G56 F35 1995 / location:  ML

Thunder in the heartland / T. W. Schmidlin
QC984 .O3 S36 1996 / location:  FL

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