Changing Perspectives on the Facility Siting Process

Building regionally necessary but locally noxious facilities such as power plants, landfills, waste incinerators and prisons has become increasingly difficult. David Laws and Lawrence Susskind discuss some of the traditional steps involved, including needs assessment, choice of technology, site selection, assessing and mitigating impacts, and management. They provide an alternative approach to facility siting that includes, among other things, seeking consensus, working to develop trust, setting realistic timetables, getting agreement that the status quo is unacceptable, choosing a design that best addresses the problem, and fully compensating for negative aspects of the facility

Fleet Numerical Weather Facility (FNWF) Chronology 1959 – 1974

A list of references to activities at NPS and Point Pinos sites prior to moving to the current Monterey location found online and in public printed documents from 1959 - 1974. References collected by: David Laws, Semiconductor Curator, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA

Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOS)

A presentation with illustrations on the history and activities of Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOS) in the Monterey Bay Area, beginning with its origins at the Naval Postgraduate School in 1959

Progress toward phidianidine analogues containing a 1,2,3-triazole ring

Phidianidines are a class of compound that has been extracted from the sea mollusk Phidianis militaris. These compounds have been shown to exhibit a variety of useful properties such as antihistamine effects, anti-cancer activity, agonism of the µ-opioid receptor and neuroprotection. The biological activities are thought to be caused by the 1,2,4- oxadiazole ring found within the molecule. The goal of this project is to synthesize analogues of phidianidine that contain a 1,2,3-triazole instead of the 1,2,4 oxadiazole ring using a method that will allow for other regions of the molecule to be changed. This will help to elucidate the role of the 1,2,4-oxadiazole ring in biological activity as well as probe if the 1,2,3-triazole analogue can provide significant improvement to any activities