Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences articles from October 2005

Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences archives from October 2005

Urgently needed: greatly expanded roles for both science and scientists in the 21st century.
October 1, 2005... Introduction and welcome from Dr. Sarah Lea McGuire: Welcome to the 75th Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences. Our lecturer this year is Dr. Bruce Alberts, President of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. He...

A descriptive survey of meteorological observing systems in Mississippi (1).
October 1, 2005... An extensive survey is given of the wide range of weather data collected by various agencies and private interests within the state of Mississippi. Routine surface weather observations are collected in Mississippi by the National Weather...

The effect of natural sunlight on ciprofloxacin ophthalmic solution (1).
October 1, 2005... Ciprofloxacin (0.3% preparation) is available on the market for topical ophthalmic use. The marketed eye drop samples, as well as reference ciprofloxacin in aqueous solution were found to degrade to an ethylenediamine derivative of...

Species of adult Odonata from three natural areas in Mississippi.
October 1, 2005... Mississippi was quoted recently as one of the most under-surveyed states for Odonata (Donnelly, 2002). Published updates of species distribution or even point-location data are necessary for official documentation of biodiversity and to provide...

New species records for Mississippi: an expected dragonfly and an unexpected damselfly.
October 1, 2005... The list of Odonata for Mississippi expanded from the first published account of 50 species in 1950 (Bick, 1950) to 83 species over thirty years later (Stanford and Lago, 1981). It continued to grow considerably, from 114 species at the start...

President's column.(Column)
October 1, 2005... It is an honor to serve as President of your Mississippi Academy of Sciences during this year. There are many opportunities and challenges that are before us. Hurricane Katrina has forever changed the landscape of our state and the Academy....