========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 12:30:42 +0100 Reply-To: Radiocarbon Mailing List Sender: Radiocarbon Mailing List From: Pete Falloon Subject: Soil radiocarbon and long-term experiments Is anyone interested in soil c14 measurements and soil carbon dynamics? I wondered whether anyone knew of any long-term experiments with soil c14 measurements - I'm looking for collaborators, as part of work to develop the Rothamsted Carbon Model. Pete Falloon - ------------------------------------------- Pete Falloon Soil Science Department IACR Rothamsted Harpenden Herts, UK AL5 2BG Tel: (+44) 01582 763133 x2110 Fax: (+44) 01582 760981 Email: Pete.Falloon@bbsrc.ac.uk - -------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 14:42:40 -0700 Reply-To: Radiocarbon Mailing List Sender: Radiocarbon Mailing List From: Noga Weinstein Subject: Belize Library Rescue MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am writing to let you know about an emergency situation that I believe will be of interest and concern to the members of this list. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this letter. My name is Noga Weinstein, and I have studied and worked at the Central American Institute of Prehistoric and Traditional Cultures at Belize for over a year. The Institute is a non-profit research and educational institution, established in 1991 and granted full recognition by the Minister of Education, Government of Belize (Education Act of 1991, Section 38). The Institute's mission is to preserve indigenous cultures through the preservation of traditional knowledge, and my time at the Institute has given me the opportunity to become involved first-hand with the important research that the Institute has been conducting in anthropology, ethnobotany, and traditional healing techniques. (For more information about the Institute, please, take a look at our website: http://world.std.com/~chacmol/ .) The Institute has the largest research and educational library in Belize, consisting of rare and out-of-print books, field notes, medicinal plant specimens, artifacts, slides and photographs of indigenous groups that have already disappeared -- an invaluable and irreplaceable resource. The recent series of rain storms and hurricanes have damaged the facility that houses the library and archives, and moisture and worms have penetrated the building. The collection is facing imminent destruction, and we are urgently trying to raise the funds to rescue it. If you would like to help with this emergency situation, please, read the letter from the Director of the Institute, below, and you will find more information about the library rescue operation. If you have any further questions, e-mail me at Arctos@worldnet.att.net, or call (818) 344-8516. I would be glad to send you more information about the Institute and the library emergency situation, and answer any questions you may have. Thank you in advance for any help you can offer. Sincerely, Noga Weinstein --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, The Central American Institute of Prehistoric and Traditional Cultures at Belize urgently needs your assistance. The Institute has the largest research and educational library in Belize, consisting of irreplaceable books, photographs, artifacts, field notes, and other archival materials. The recent rain storms and hurricanes have damaged the library and archival storage. Algae, microflora, worms, and the dense tropical moisture have penetrated our building and are rapidly destroying the collection. This is a loss that the people of Belize cannot afford. Several of our staff members have returned to the United States to appeal for help in rescuing this irreplaceable resource. We have initiated a Library Rescue Operation to raise emergency funds, and urgently need your support. The Central American Institute was established under a registry charter in 1991, and granted full recognition by the Ministry of Education of the Government of Belize, in accordance with the Education Act of 1991, Section 38. The Institute is a non-profit research and educational institution, established for the purposes of promoting the preservation of ancient and traditional worldviews and materials, and to act as a center for the dissemination of knowledge and interest in the study of such cultures. The Institute aims at preserving indigenous cultures through the preservation of traditional knowledge. Now, this traditional knowledge is about to be destroyed. The Institute's library and archives contain documentation of indigenous groups that have already disappeared. If these field notes, slides, photographs, and artifacts are destroyed, there will be no way to replace them. The collection also consists of plant specimens and ethnobotanical fieldwork, documenting and exploring the medicinal value of rain forest flora. The destruction of this collection would be a great loss to all who value our planet's biodiversity, and seek new medical solutions to today's health problems. Further, the Institute's collection consists of rare and out-of-print books, providing an extremely valuable resource to ethnologists, botanists, scientists, and students alike. The Institute's collection contains priceless research and documentation about the Maya, Creole, and Garifuna populations of Belize and the neighboring regions. The collection, however, is not limited to Central America, but contains information from around the world: from South America, to the Middle East, to Siberia. Once this material is lost, this cultural and educational resource will be gone forever. The rescue will be carried out in three phases, as follows: Phase I: Salvage: Remove and Store. The collection needs to be dried, repacked, and shipped to a safe, temporary storage facility until we can rehabilitate a facility for the collection. This will require movers, customs fees, transport fees, and storage fees, totaling $60,000. Phase II: Restoration and Conservation. Professional restoration and preservation of the collection: books, field notes, plant specimens, photographs, slides, audio and video recordings, computer disk repairs. Total: $25,000 (contingent on rescue time). Phase III: Provide a safe facility for the collection. Construct safe housing for the library and archives, so that it can be brought back into circulation. Total: $55,000. Emergency Fund Goal: US $140,000. Time is of the essence. We need $60,000 now to halt the destruction, $25,000 to restore the collection, and $55,000 to bring it out of storage and back into circulation. We are appealing to foundations, corporations, research societies, institutes, individuals, and television and radio announcements to raise these funds. We need your help to disseminate this appeal to other parties within your own, as well as other related organizations and memberships, in the hopes of consolidating our efforts to rescue the Institute's research and cultural resources. We can provide documentation of our non-profit and educational status, and a detailed break-down of the allocation of funds. Further information about the Institute can be obtained on our Website at http://world.std.com/~chacmol/ . The Institute is also listed in Issue 4 of the People and Plants Handbook, published by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), UNESCO, and Royal Botanic Gardens-Kew. In these times of modernization, Westernization, and technology, traditional life is being displaced and destroyed irrevocably. It is imperative that we preserve cultural and natural resources, traditional epistemologies, and biodiversity. We appeal to you to support the Central American Institute in its drive to preserve these resources for the benefit of the developing country of Belize, as well as the global community. We all thank you for your support. Sincerely, Dr. Michael Naxon Director ************************************************************* Emergency Fund Central American Institute at Belize 8033 Sunset Blvd. Suite 2040 Los Angeles, CA 90046 818-344-8516 (Emergency Fund line) Arctos@worldnet.att.net http://world.std.com/~chacmol/ Checks can be made payable to: Central American Institute. Your contribution will be formally recognized by the Institute, as well as on our homepage. ************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 02:02:13 -0400 Reply-To: Radiocarbon Mailing List Sender: Radiocarbon Mailing List From: Richard Doyle Subject: Hydropressure and radiocarbon dating I believe that the emence pressure of water can effect the radio carbon dating process. Because the effects that pressure from the moon and other planets and the pressure of hugh amounts of hydropressure it seems logical to explore the possiability of a connection. I it is true that hydropressure can have an effect on the current methods of dating than this would have to be factored into the process of dating. It is my theroy that research done on materials found at or near the bottom of hugh dam where hydro pressure has a profound effect than it could be determined if this could hold true in other areas where oceans once were. It is speculated that at one time or another the entire surface of t he earth has been under water at some time. I would be grateful for any input Thank you Richard Doyle ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 10:54:03 -0700 Reply-To: dsew@packrat.aml.arizona.edu Sender: Radiocarbon Mailing List From: David Sewell Subject: Call for radiocarbon updates; Groningen photos Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii We're about to go to press with RADIOCARBON Volume 39, No. 1. If anybody has a brief informational item for our "Radiocarbon Updates" section (new labs, lab closures, retirements, relocations, conference announcements, etc.), please let me know by return email (to me, not the whole list). Also, if anyone took photos at the Groningen conference that they would be willing to share, could you send us copies? (Or, if you're high-tech, email .GIF or .JPG versions?) As time allows, we would like to scan and enter on the RADIOCARBON WWW server a batch of photos/souvenirs from the conference. David Sewell -- David Sewell, Acting Managing Editor RADIOCARBON: An International Journal of Cosmogenic Isotope Research Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona 4717 E. Ft. Lowell Rd., Tucson, Arizona 85712 USA Telephone: +1 520 881 0857 Fax: +1 520 881 0554 WWW server: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 10:53:38 -0700 Reply-To: dsew@packrat.aml.arizona.edu Sender: Radiocarbon Mailing List From: David Sewell Subject: Groningen 14C photos; Date list from Louvain Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 1. Photos from 16th International Radiocarbon Conference, Groningen We've scanned a few photos of people and places from the conference and put them up at . Contributions of additional photos are welcome. 2. Ivan Jadin informs us that the 14C laboratory at Louvain, headed by Etienne Gilot, closed last September. M. Gilot has just issued a general index of Lv- dates spanning the lab's 40 years of operation. The announcement follows; please respond to the addresses given. INDEX GÉNÉRAL DES DATES LV (LABORATOIRE DU CARBONE 14 DE LOUVAIN/LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE) In his introduction, Étienne GILOT writes: After 40 years of activity, the 14C Dating Laboratory of the Catholic University of Louvain is closing its doors. And as always in such a case, access to the archived information will soon become difficult, then altogether impractical. Most of the dates have indeed been published. The first, up to 1973, were primarily published in the journal RADIOCARBON. Afterwards the others were presented mostly in articles, often interdisciplinary, devoted specifically to studied sites. Still others remain unpublished. How can Ariadne's thread be found amidst this dispersion? To alleviate this difficulty, we have gathered in one index volume all the 14C dates obtained at the Louvain/Louvain-la-Neuve (Lv) laboratory. The framework of such a work of course precludes detail; it imposes simplifications that are sometimes treacherous. The intention is to provide researchers with minimal information enough to permit them to pursue their investigations. [Trans. DS] [Order form with contact information follows as attached text file] --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Lv Order Form Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="lv-order.tmp" ORDER FORM I am ordering . . . . . copy(s) of Etienne GILOT INDEX GÉNÉRAL DES DATES Lv- (LABORATOIRE DU CARBONE 14 DE LOUVAIN/LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE) coll. Studia Praehistorica Belgica, 7, Liège - Leuven, 224 p. Volume price o 500 BEF Postal costs o for Belgium + 100 BEF for Europe, zone A +140 BEF for USA + 270 BEF Payment by VISA o plus 4 % Total: . . . . . . . BEF Payment by: o money order to banking account No. 068-2200486-68 (please, specify bank charges to debtor) o Eurocheck in BEF enclosed o VISA card No. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Expiration date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Name Address Country Signature To be sent to: Ivan Jadin, Secretary FNRS Contact Group "Prehistory", Vautierstreet 29 B-1000 Brussels (Belgium). Tel: int.32.2.627.43.86. Fax: int.32.2.646.44.33. Email: Ivan.Jadin@kbinirsnb.be --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--