An introduction to the new field of wind engineering is presented. (BB)

The Experimental Ecological Reserves Project has begun a comprehensive attempt to inventory the Nation's environmental research sites in preparation for establishing a network. This network will provide opportunities for long-term, manipulative, ecological research and establish an ecological data base. (BT)

Hunting and gathering at sea may fast be approaching their productive limits. Aquaculture - farming at sea - linked to conservation represents the sea's promise. If the system works, it might prove to be the key to supplying large amounts of food and fresh water at no cost in nonrenewable energy resources. (BT)

Knowledge of where and how lightning forms is emerging from the first concerted research effort on thunderstorms in thirty years. (Author/BB)

The ways in which the world produces, distributes, and consumes its food are as varied as the small societies with which the world's growing billions most closely identify. Making food choices for the world means first understanding the myriad ways in which the world's microcultures make choices for themselves. (BT)

An introduction to the field of paleoanthropology is presented. Contributions from a score of disciplines are replacing guesswork in the description of the environments that accompanied the stages of humankind. (BB)

Research is now being done on the behavior of spiders and their role in ecological systems. (BB)