A.G. Davis Philip, research professor of physics, has been elected a foreign member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. He was appointed co-editor of Baltic Astronomy, published quarterly in Vilnius, Lithuania, with papers from
the Baltic States, Europe and the U.S. Also, Philip was co-editor (with Peter Boyce) of “Electronic Publishing: Now and in the Future,” the proceedings of an
International Astronomical Union meeting in Kyoto, Japan, in August 1997. The publication
is to be placed on the Web pages of the American
Astronomical Society, the first IAU proceedings to be published this way.
Ilene M. Kaplan, associate professor of sociology and visiting
researcher at the Marine Policy Center of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
participated in a public hearing on marine policy and scarcity of fish resources with the
U.S. Secretary of Commerce and the Ad Hoc Fishermen's Committee of New Bedford, Mass.
She was asked to write a paper on the problems that confront fishermen while they are
trying to balance socioeconomic pressures with environmental concerns. Fishermen have been
particularly troubled with loss of tradition, loss of family income and morale problems as
fishing activities have been increasingly regulated through marine policies designed to
protect diminishing fish resources.