Southwest Pacific

In the late summer of 1944, W.A. Noyes, Jr. in Washington invited NDRC workers in Bushnell and on San Jose Island, Panama, to volunteer to go to New Guinea to join a chemical warfare station there. Robert Brinton and Bill Shand were the only volunteers. They traveled to New Guinea with a group of army officers, and they moved from station to station, presenting 

OFFICERS PARTY with young boa constrictor. I am on the right. 

My Sergeant and I with three groupers and one barracuda. Gulf of Mexico. 

Late in the war, a group tested the dispersion of DDT as an aerosol in the meadows and especially in the forest. We made day and night micro-meteorological measurements for them. 

In the spring of 1945, Captain Jake Nolen told me that a group from Bushnell was to carry out some special studies on a beach in south Florida. He suggested, and I agreed that I go to carry out basic meteorological measurements. Arthur Pardee was to work on a special project, members of NDRC Division 9 were to make measurements of mustard, and some army officers and enlisted men would be there to handle munitions and other matters. 

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Davenport, W. (1965). Sexual patterns and their regulation in a society of the southwest pacific. In Sex and Behaviour (Ed. Beach, F. A.), pp. 164-207. New York John Wiley Sons. 

Grant KM, Dickens GR (2002) Coupled productivity and carbon isotope records in the southwest Pacific Ocean during the late Miocene-early Pliocene biogenic bloom. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography 187 61-82... 

This mode of formation dominates in red clay sediments and produces rather smooth, spherical nodules with lower Mn/Fe ratios than those produced via the diagenetic mode. These nodules tend to be enriched in Fe, Co, and Pb. Their accretion rates are slow—on the order of millimeters per million years and even less in the southwest Pacific. 

McKerrow, W.S. 1998. The Cambrian-Silurian tectonic evolution of the northern Appalachians and British Caledonides history of a complex, west and southwest Pacific-type segment of lapetus. In Blundell, D.J. and Scott, A. C. (eds) Lyell The Past is the Key to the Present. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143, 199-242. 

Exon, N.F. Cronan, D.S. (1983) Hydrothermal iron deposits and assodated sediments from submarine volcanoes off Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific. Marine Geol. 52 M43-M52... 

Richer de Forges, B. Koslow, J.A. Poore, G.C.B. (2000) Diversity and endemism of the benthic seamount fauna in the southwest Pacific. Nature, 405, 944-7. 

The FDA district offices operate under the auspices of the agency s Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA). The ORA field organization is divided into five regional offices (northeast, central, southeast, southwest, Pacific). Each region includes district offices, of which there are 20 nationwide. Most district offices have three or four branches, including either a compliance branch or an enforcement branch. The branch offices are the primary regulatory contacts within the districts and act as the eyes and ears for FDA headquarters. 

This small family is native to the southwest Pacific including Queensland in Australia. It has no economic uses. 

In tropical America, the southwest Pacific, and the island of St. Helena. Often included in Cyatheaccae. Dicksonia baromeiz, D. squarrosa. 

Burgath, K. P. Vonstackelberg, U. (1995). Sulfide-impregnated volcanics and ferromanganese incrustations from the southern Lau basin (Southwest Pacific). Marine Georesources and Geotechnology, 13, 263-308. 

Garcia, N., Raimbault, P., and Sandroni, V. (2007). Seasonal nitrogen fixation and primary production in Southwest Pacific (New Caledonia) Some evidence for nanoplanktonic diazotrophy and rapid transfer of newly fixed nitrogen to picoplankton organisms. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 343, 25-33. 

Biegala, I. C., and Raimbault, P. (2008). High abundance of diazotrophic picocyanobacteria (< 3 pm) in a Southwest Pacific coral lagoon. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 51, 45-53. 

After about four weeks, we all received a letter from Professor W.A. Noyes Jr., the head of NDRC Division 10, our division. The letter stated that the tests of non-persistent gases in Bushnell would terminate by the end of December, and such work would be transferred to a new station in Panama. The semi-tropical forests of Florida were not a satisfactory substitute for the jungles of southwest Pacific islands, but there were real tropical jungles in Panama. In 1944, work in Bushnell would be on persistent gases, and a new group, NDRC Division 9, would come to Florida to carry out this line of work. 

Early in 1944, U.S. and British forces knew that the quick killer cyanogen chloride readily penetrated German and Japanese gas masks, and Allied gas masks successfully stopped this gas. This advantage might have tempted Allied forces to use cyanogen chloride, for example, against Japanese soldiers occupying islands in the southwest Pacific. 

Sikes E. L., Samson C. R., Guilderson T. P., and Howard W. R. (2000) Old radiocarbon ages in the southwest Pacific Ocean during the Last Glacial period and deglaciation. Nature 405, 555-559. 

Stoffer P., Glasby G. P., and Frenzel G. (1984) Comparison of the characteristics of manganese micronodules from the equatorial and southwest Pacific. Tschermaks Mineral Petrogr. Mitt. 33, 1-23. 

Collerson, K.D., Hapugoda, S., Kamber, B.S., and Williams, Q., 2000. Rocks from the mantle transition zone majorite-bearing xenoliths from Malaita, southwest Pacific. Science, 288, 1215-23. 

Greenwood SR, Mills NJ. The biological control of Mikania micrantha for southwest Pacific countries. Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control Reports 28, 1989. 

Graham, I.J., Carter, R.M., Ditchburn, R.G and Zondervan, A., 2004. Chronostratigraphy of ODP 181, Site 1121 sediment core (Southwest Pacific Ocean), using Be/ Be dating of trapped ferromanganese nodules. Marine Geology, 205 227-247. 

Johnston, J.H. and Glasby, GR, 1982. A Mossbauer spectroscopic and X-ray diffraction study of the iron mineralogy of some sediments from the Southwest Pacific Basin. Marine Chemistry, 11 437-448. 

Lonsdale, P., 1981. Drifts and ponds of reworked pelagic sediment in part of the Southwest Pacific. Marine Geology, 43 153-193. 

Usui, A., Nishimura, A. and Mita, N., 1993. Composition and growth history of surficial and buried manganese nodules in the Penrhyn Basin, Southwest Pacific. MarineGeology, 114 133-153. 

Fig. 13.3 Seismic profile showing the top of a high-level magma chamber at a depth of 3.5 km below the seafloor at a spreading center in the southwest Pacific (after Collier and Sinha 1992 provided by M.C. Sinha).

Skagerrak 181,194,197,218,246,253,260/ 265,283 Skan Bay (Alaska) 283 Slope off Chile 246,253,260/ 283 South African Continental Margin 32 Southern Ocean (Atlantic sector) 391-392 Southwest Pacific Basin 381/ ... 

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