36 / GENERAL INFORMATION turning engineering, soil mechanics, transportation re- search, coastal and oceanographic engineering, mi- croelectronics, optical communication systems, air and water pollution control, nuclear pumped lasers, systems analysis, fluid dynamics and hydrology, tech- nology for enhanced oil recovery, lightning research, and computer-aided engineering. The Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering Labo- ratory, a unit of EIES, administered through the De- partment of Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering, conducts research on problems of the shoreline and of coastal and inland waters and renders advisory service to public agencies and industry. In- terdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and graduate instruction are closely coordinated and re- lated to applications of the coastal zone. Many gradu- ate students are supported by research programs of the COE Laboratory which include air-sea interaction and the generation of surface waves, modeling of in- lets and shore structures, transportation of sediment by waves and currents, prediction of hurricane storm surges, and coastal flooding and erosion models. The laboratory is one of the finest of its kind with a variety of experimental tanks and flumes, field equip- ment and computer facilities. INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CENTERS ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CENTER The Center, established in 1976 as an integral part of the School of Accounting, is supported by the Uni- versity of Florida and research grants. Principal fields of research include utilization of accounting informa- tion in decision making, the association of accounting information and security prices, human information processing in accounting contexts, accounting policy and rule making, and the public policy consequences of accounting methods, rules and systems. The ARC serves as a forum for interdisciplinary research in the School. Research results are published in professional accounting journals and in journals in other dis- ciplines and are also contained in a working paper series. The Center holds frequent research seminars and organizes a biennial national symposium on a current topic. For information, contact Director, Ac- counting Research Center, 255 Business Building. INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY OF THE COMMUNICATION PROCESSES The Institute for Advanced Study of the Com- munication Processes (IASCP) provides opportunities for University faculty and advanced students to carry out research in the communication processes. The In- stitute is interdisciplinary, with membership drawn from the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Engi- neering, Medicine, Dentistry and Fine Arts. The Uni- versity of Florida in Gainesville is its headquarters, but it is structured to serve the entire State University Sys- tem. Currently there are active participants from Flor- ida State University, the University of South Florida, and Florida International University. The IASCP facul- ty also includes members located at other universities and research laboratories both within the continental United States and abroad. The overall objective of IASCP is the maintenance of a scientific center of excellence focused on human communicative behavior. The Institute's program in- cludes (but is not confined to) three broad areas: 1) the communicator(s), i.e.; the physiological/physi- cal/psychological processes by which individuals generate and transmit communicative signals (speech), 2) the respondentss, and how receptive (hearing) and neural mechanisms function to process signals within a variety of environments, and 3) the message, i.e., the codes and signs (language) that con- stitute the sum total of these communicative messages. The IASCP faculty includes students and scientists with a variety of interests and training. Ex- pertise is represented by the phonetic sciences, speech pathology and audiology, psychology, psy- cholinguistics, linguistics, psychoacoustics, auditory neurophysiology, electrical engineering, computer sciences, physics, communication studies, biocom- munication, dentistry, and medicine. As stated, IASCP's overall research effort is basically an interdisciplinary one, but the focus of each investigator's interests is the advancement of knowl- edge about human communication. For information, write the Director, Institute for Advanced Study of the Communication Processes, 63 Arts and Sciences Building. CENTER FOR AERONOMY AND OTHER ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES The Center (ICAAS) is a community of scholars drawn from many disciplines represented at the Uni- versity of Florida. Each scholar has an established pro- fessional knowledge and research capability in the at- mospheric sciences or in physical, biological, or socie- tal disciplines that relate closely to our atmospheric environment. As an interdisciplinary center, ICAAS promotes pure and applied research in the at- mospheric sciences and provides machinery for trans- lating research into forms relevant to societal needs. The aeronomical research of the Center deals with physical, chemical, and electrical processes in the up- per atmosphere, e.g., the stratospheric, ionospheric, and thermospheric regions of the earth. Other ac- tivities include a diverse range of tropospheric and micrometeorological research as well as biological, ecological, and technological research related to the quality of the air we breathe. These activities are dis- persed widely in the Colleges of Engineering, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Agriculture, Medicine, Law, and Business Administration. Interdisciplinary projects of ICAAS encompass 1) studies of sources, atmospheric transformation and transport of acidic substances for a Florida acid rain assessment, initially coordinated through an in- terdisciplinary Acid Deposition Science Workshop, Causes and Effects, and leading to a monograph on the workshop proceedings; 2) studies of ultraviolet ra- diation levels reaching the ground and the possible influences of perturbations of the stratospheric ozone layer from supersonic transport effluents and chlorofluorocarbons; 3) correlation of ground level, ultraviolet and total ozone measurements with Na- tional Aeronautics and Space Administration NIM- BUS 4 and 7 satellites measurements; 4) evaluation of environmental impact for locating Florida electric generating plants, including development of in- terpolated analytic wind roses and pollutant concen- tration contours for Florida; 5) interplay of energy production needs relative to air quality standards in-