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6600 Sub 5 - - ELF/RV Correlation Study
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave. . Menlo Park, CA 94025 . (415) 326-6200 . TWX: 910-373-1246 . TELEX: 334463 . Facsimile: (415) 326-5512
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15.
End-of-Year Sponsor Evaluation
16.
Recommendation for Follow-On Project
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Sponsor :
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Contractor:
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Attachment #1
With regard to RV Jamming/Ambient ELF, SRI International will provide the
appropriate equipment,
facilities and personnel to accomplish the following
tasks:
(1) Search and summarize the literature that indicates that geomagnetic
storm activity and other factors that produce fluctuations in the
ambient ELF bands (<300 Hz) can degrade psychoenergetic
performance.
(2) Construct an ELF detector that can monitor ambient ELF fluctuations
in the local RV chamber.
(3) Examine the statistical correlation between RV performance (on an
appropriate series of trials carried out in the RV chamber) and
the ambient ELF fluctuations to determine whether measurement of
ambient ELF can be used as an indicator of expected performance,
and whether optimum performance windows can be identified.
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STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
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Statement of Problem
The ELF/RV Correlation Study task is directed toward determining whether
correlations exist between high-quality RV and the occurrence of certain
geophysical conditions, such as EM storm activity, solar flare activity,
lightning stroke activity, etc.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Bibliography
A. Dubrov, "The Geomagnetic Field and Life, " Plenum Press, New York (1978)
W. R. Adey, "Tissue Interactions with Nonionizing EM Fields, Physiological
Reviews, v. 61, No. 2 (April 1981)
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PLANNED EXPERIMENTS
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Planned Experiments
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GENERAL
The objective of this effort is to investigate
the
possible .effects
of
ambient
geophysical/low-frequency
electromagntic (ELF ) factors on RV performance.
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MAJOR GOALS
a.
Phase I:
Search
and summarize
the
literature on geophysical/ELF effects
on
biological organisms,
especially as they relate to the degradation of Human performance
skills at a behavioral level.
b.
Phase II:
Examine
the
statistical
correlation between RV performance in the historical SRI RV data base
and the ambient geophysical/ELF factors.
c .
Phase III :
Explore the
statistical
correlation between RV performance and ambient ELF
fluctuations -- specifically on the basis of real-time ELF monitoring.
d.
Phase IV :
Provide an evaluation report as
to whether measurement of ambient geophysical/ELF factors can be used
as an indicator of expected RV performance, and whether optimum
performance windows can be identified.
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SPECIFIC TASKS
2.1
SRI International will conduct
a
literature
search to collect and summarize up-to-date knowledge in the field of
bioelectronics.
The literature search will be carried out in
the
following categories :
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Bioactive frequencies for ELF/VLF at the gross
anatomical and behavioral levels.
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Effects of ELF/VLF frequencies at the biochemical
(hormonal, ionic, molecular ) level.
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Effects of ELF/VLF at the neuronal membrane level.
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Natural sources of ELF/VLF.
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Man-made sources of ELF/VLF.
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Artificial generation of ELF/VLF.
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Propagation characteristics of ELF/VLF.
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Detection and measurement of ELF/VLF.
This will be accomplished by means of both references to literature on
hand, and by computerized keyword searches.
Additionally, the
SRI-International consultant will contact Dr. William D. Schul, Olive
W. Garvey Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning, Wichita,
Kansas.
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2.2
SRI International will perform an analysis to
determine whether correlations
exist between RV performance in
historical data (data from previous experiments ) and factors in the
ambient geophysical environment.
Data from previous studies conducted
under controlled conditions will be analyzed by means of epoch,
bivariate, and multivariate analysis (when possible) against the
following geophysical variables :
Weather (temperature, relative humidity, barometric
pressure, and so forth).
Geomagnetic indices
(Ap, Afr, Aa).
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Solar electromagnetic emissions.
Sunspot number
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Ionospheric conditions.
Solar magnetic field.
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Lunar cycles.
Further, because it is hypothesized that the mechanism
by which
geophysical factors could play a role in RV performance is that of
changing the ambient ELF environment, SRI-International will examine
this hypothesis as well. An ELF data base spanning a year and a half
(from May 1982 to present) was monitored by a field station in Los
Altos, California. Data were taken twice daily.
The same analysis
techniques used for the geophysical analysis will be applied to the
ELF data. Positive results from these tasks could yield a rough index
of expected RV performance, given prevailing geophysical factors.
2.3
SRI-International will implement a program of
real-time
ELF monitoring.
Little information is available on
the
variation of the ELF environment from location to location, although
it is known that ELF frequencies generated by geophysical means tend
to very simultaneously over the globe.
Therefore, local variations
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may exist that are caused by both man-made sources, and by the
geological structure of the area. For this a reason, two ELF stations
will be set up:
one at the SRI premises in the RV laboratory, the
other at a field station 17-km distant.
Data from the SRI station
will be compared with the field station data to determine the"
variability attributable to location and distance.
This comparison
by
may also help determine whether RV performance is influenced
global, local, or both sources of ELF disturbances.
Particular
attention will be paid to bioactive frequencies found as a result of
the literature search in Task I. Statistical correlations will be
sought between the RV performance (on an appropriate series of trials
carried out in the RV chamber) and the ambient ELF fluctuations, in
order to determine whether measurement of ambient ELF can be used as
an indicator of expected performance, and whether optimum performance
windows can be identified.
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MONTHLY PROGRESS
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Funding mas received for this task on 15 November.
Discussions were held with R. Leonard with regard to individuals within
the Radio Physics Laboratory and among SRI consultants who will
cooperate in carrying out this task. The first efforts on this task are
to begin 6 December with a meeting with the primary consultant, Marsha
Adams.
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Project Director Puthoff and Subcontractor M. Adams of Time Research
Institute worked out the details of an overall plan and a work statement
to carry out the ELF task (see attached subcontract). COTR
representative Atmater mas briefed on 19 January during a site visit to
the Menlo Park facility as to the progress on this task.
Several task subelements have been activated,
such as arranging for SRI
Burroughs computer programs to be reformatted for the IBM XT to be used
on project, ordering of equipment,
literature search,
initial ELF
measurements at the Los Altos subcontractor facility, etc.
Meanwhile,
all RV data gathered on the various tasks are keyed as to date and time
of day for later correlation against geophysical variable measurement.
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