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Emerging Adults Perceptions Of Their Education And Life Experience, Alison M. Lafollette, Amber Ottaway, Noor Rosli, Christine Schulz, Linn Visscher, Rebecca Bardwell

Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology Research Exchange Conference

What is meant by a successful education or a well performing school? Most studies assessing the effectiveness of k-12 education look at variables such as graduation rates, standardized test scores and college matriculation. Few studies could be found that looked at post education life outcomes. Yet it is often stated that a public education system is to provide for a well informed electorate or an effective work force. We know that a strong academic foundation leads to better life outcomes, but precisely what is it in that education that contributes to a successful life? Emerging adults between the ages of …

Seeking Safety Group Proposal For Posttraumatic Stress Disorder And Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorder, Caryn P. Brakenridge

Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology Research Exchange Conference

Reports on rates of PTSD among women receiving treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs) ranges from 20% to as much as 59%. Research however has shown that fewer than half of women with SUDs will receive treatment that addresses their PTSD symptoms. Research over the past three decades has shown an increased interest in individuals diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using group psychotherapy. However, group psychotherapy approaches for co-occurring PTSD and substance use disorders are not as well developed. This proposal suggests the creation of a psychotherapy group for women suffering from SUDs with co-occurring PTSD symptoms. The group …

Vulnerability Of College Students As Research Participants, Maria M. Olearczyk, Rebecca Bardwell

Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology Research Exchange Conference

In response to several horror stories where students and other research participants were poorly treated and even died as a result of research practices of questionable ethics, a study was undertaken to learn what students understand about their vulnerability to research abuse. A survey was developed using examples from research practice. The instrument was administered to 109 college students. Factor analysis revealed 2 factors – (1) comfort being assertive, (2) motivation to participate. The follow-up MANOVA found a main effect for experience such that participants who had more experience being in research projects were more comfortable being assertive with the …

Librarianship In The 21st Century: Lessons In Leadership, Rob Morrison, Jack Fritts

Faculty Publications

Many of the challenges librarians face in the 21st century have existed for years and reflect the nature of higher education and society in the United States. One issue the presenters have observed is that librarians, like many educators, react to rapidly changing systems, pressures, economics, and technologies by “balancing” workloads and budgets and not by deeply reflecting on how to change strategies in order to integrate themselves more fully into academic curricula, prove the library’s value to administrators, and develop meaningful services and resources.

In order to thrive and survive, librarians must be proactive at their institutions in areas …

Making The Most Of Your Descriptive Metadata: Planning, Transforming, And Re-Using, Nancy J. Fallgren, Marisa Ramirez

Library Scholarship

Metadata is essential for organizing, searching, and managing information resources, particularly as libraries expand their efforts in making their collections available on the web. Libraries are populating institutional repositories with a myriad of resources, including digitized special collections materials, finding aids, electronic theses, peer-reviewed faculty work and other research, scholarship and creative outputs. But what are libraries doing about the descriptive metadata that allows users to search, find, and select these resources in their repositories? What redundancies are created when libraries engage in collecting, enhancing, or redistributing metadata in siloed systems? Can redundant metadata generation efforts be streamlined? We will …

Sharepoint In Libraries, Ben Durrant, John Heintz

Library Technology Conference

Sharepoint is Microsoft's collaboration and document management software often used for organizations' internal knowledge management--your organization's IT shop may already have this available for use. Learn about one university library system's adoption of Sharepoint to consolidate paper-based processes and multiple systems into more of a one-stop shop for project/committee/process management. One example we'll demonstrate is an application built in Sharepoint that tracks reference and instruction statistics and builds a searchable knowledge base of reference questions and answers.

E-Book Management – It Sounds Serial!, Carolyn J. Deluca, Dani L. Roach

Library Technology Conference

Beyond the issues of how e-books are viewed or used by patrons, challenges exist for the library staff managing them. From acquisition to delivery, this hybrid may behave more like an e-journal or a database than a book. E-books make us stretch existing management tools to accommodate them.

Is an e-book more like an e-journal or printed book, or a different creature altogether? Is it possible to manage e-books within existing e-resources infrastructure? Our presentation will review the main issues surrounding purchasing, delivering and managing e-books. We will share the strategies and decisions that have worked for us.

Wikipedia: The Educator's Friend (!), Nathan A. Rinne

Library Technology Conference

Wikipedia can be an excellent springboard for learning some profound lessons. We’ll look at practical ways to use it with students to: a) develop solid research skills, b) think critically about the nature of authority and evidence, and c) produce persuasive written and oral arguments.

Using Google Apps To Meet Standards, Dawn Nelson

Library Technology Conference

Google Apps offers many tools for staff and students alike, including documents, websites, calendar, gmail, and much more. Staff members can use them for collaboration across time, not depending on location. They enable one to use features in one location, then save and access them in another without requiring flash drives or other forms of memory. They are also available on all platforms, further facilitating collaboration. This session will focus mainly on the experience in a K-12 school system but will address higher education and other library uses as well. We will first describe the experience of rolling out Google …

Libguides Interface Customization, Jenny Brandon, Christine Tobias, Kelly Sattler

Library Technology Conference

LibGuides is a hosted content management system that enables libraries to post subject guides, course guides, information portals, etc. to the web. The basic LibGuides interface allows for a custom top banner, and provides a limited set of choices for colors and borders. This presentation will provide instructions on how to further customize the LibGuides interface by adding custom header/footer code, and using CSS to create a unique look for your LibGuides site.

Michigan Evergreen: One Consortium's Experience With An Open-Source Shared Ils, Ruth Dukelow

Library Technology Conference

Michigan Evergreen's shared catalog using the open-source Evergreen ILS software went live in August 2008 and today has ten participating libraries, with plans to migrate more. In addition to training & support for our shared catalog libraries, Michigan Evergreen staff also provide Evergreen training for staff at libraries with standalone installations of Evergreen on local servers. In this lecture, the presenter will explain the Michigan Evergreen model for a self-funded Evergreen shared system and how others can adapt this shared-cost model for their own consortia. Discussion will include policy development and governance, partnerships needed, and the successes and pitfalls encountered …

Showcasing Student, Faculty, And Campus Publications In A Small Liberal Arts College Institutional Repository, Janet Sietmann

Library Technology Conference

Institutional Repositories (IRs) offer a place to showcase student, faculty and staff scholarship. In addition, they provide an opportunity to have campus-wide discussions about many topics related to scholarly publishing.

In this presentation I will share Macalester’s experience in planning the IR, beginning with the need to provide open access for student honors projects, and I will highlight the expansion of our collections to include student award winning papers, PowerPoint presentations, and transcripts of college oral histories. I will tell how our efforts to populate our IR led to new opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty. And I will share …

Creating Online Tutorials Using Wink: The Carli Experience, Lorna Engels, Paige Weston

Library Technology Conference

The Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) supports an Instruction Team made up of representatives from member libraries. One of the duties of the team is to create and present workshops and forums on topics of interest to instruction/reference librarians throughout the consortium. The Instruction Team has presented four well-received Online Tutorial Creation Workshops using “Wink” software. The workshops include sessions on best practices of tutorial creation, analysis of both good and bad tutorials available online, time for scriptwriting and storyboarding, a presentation of the Wink software used for creating tutorials, and practice screencasting using Wink. While …

Digital Textbooks: Reading The Landscape, Frederic W. Murray

Library Technology Conference

The migration of books to electronic screens has been accelerating with the introduction of mobile reading on Kindles, i Phones and Sony Readers and the growing power of Google's Book Search engine. The advent of digital textbooks is already upon us. The workshop will survey the current landscape; examine the potential benefits, and confront existing barriers surrounding the technology of digital textbooks. We will examine how other institutions of Higher Education have incorporated this technology into their existing framework and what steps your University or School might take to benefit from the advances being made in the digitization of textbooks.

An Algorithm For Wavelet–Based Elemental Spectrum Analysis, Bruce Kessler

Mathematics Faculty Publications

At the previous Approximation Theory XII meeting, I discussed some preliminary work with the Applied Physics Institute at Western Kentucky University in using multiwavelets to provide an objective analysis of gamma-ray spectrum generated from fast neutron bombardment of objects, for the purpose of identifying the elemental composition of the object. The method discussed at the time worked moderately well with the limited amount of data provided, but subsequent use with data sets of different compounds and with different detectors brought to light serious flaws with its implementation.

This talk will illustrate those issues and will address how they have been …

Diversity: Bridging The Gap Of Interests, David B. Ross

Faculty Presentations

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Geomorphic Evolution Of The Clark Fork River In Response To The Removal Of Milltown Dam, Douglas John Brinkerhoff, Andrew C. Wilcox

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

The 2008 breaching of Milltown Dam resulted in base-level lowering of 9 m at the dam site and introduced a pulse of fine reservoir sediment into the gravel and cobble-bedded Clark Fork River. Studies of the geomorphic effects of the dam removal have evaluated the volume of material eroded from the Blackfoot and Clark Fork arms of Milltown reservoir, downstream transport and deposition of that sediment, and resulting changes in channel morphology. These efforts have incorporated bedload and bed-material sampling, surveys of topographic change, and aerial photograph analysis. In the first two years following dam breaching, successive peak flows with …

Stream Restoration In Montana--Focus On The Clark Fork, Charles Dalby

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

Stream restoration is currently a multi-billion dollar, nationwide enterprise enjoying the focus of numerous professional organizations, universities, policy, and citizen groups. The challenge of restoring damaged riverine ecosystems has driven interdisciplinary river science and policy as no other contemporary catalyst—but it hasn’t always been that way. The earliest years of restoration, or more appropriately named “fish habitat manipulation” in Montana (and nationwide) evolved from “make-work” programs during the 1930’s depression. Subsequent efforts in the 1960’s and 1970’s drew from that experience and traditional civil engineering, river mechanics. The Rosgen-based enterprise, initiated in the 1980’s, spawned a new geomorphic approach to …

Pre & Post Reclamation Trends In Benthic Invertebrate Communities In A Metals Laden Stream, Silver Bow Creek, Mt, Sean Patrick Sullivan

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

The Upper Clark Fork River is the site of one of the most well known and complex remediation & restoration efforts in the world. Over 100 years of mining & smelting in the upper watershed resulted in over 100 miles of river designated as a USEPA superfund site, mandating remediation of hazard and reclamation of lost resources. Silver Bow Creek, the focus of this paper, suffered from sediment loading that contained elevated levels of heavy metals toxic to aquatic life and humans. Toxic sediments settled in the streambed and deposited in the floodplain during overbank events. The contamination was so …

Copper Exposure-Response Relationships And Their Use In Risk Management Of The Clark Fork River, Mt, Daniel Cain, James Carter, Samuel Luoma

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

Remediation of river systems contaminated with mine waste, such as the Clark Fork, is concerned with reducing metal inputs from sources, thereby mitigating exposures to resident species and permitting ecological recovery. This process implies the presence of an exposure and biological response relationship. Identification this relationship within the context of multiple stressors could have utility in critically evaluating risk management plans. We analyzed the response of the benthic macroinvertebrate assemblage to Cu by merging data collected by monitoring programs within the Clark Fork Basin. A correlation matrix identified environmental gradients within the entire dataset (space and time) and these were …

How Stream Biomonitors Reveal Past, Present And Future Metal Trends In The Cf River, Mt, Michelle Hornberger, Marie-Noele Croteau, Daniel Cain, Samuel Luoma

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

Bioaccumulation studies of a resident aquatic organism can provide a direct indicator of bioavailable metal in mine-impacted rivers. This approach is supported by concurrently evaluating bed sediment metal concentrations and water quality data. We examine the effectiveness of mine waste remediation in the Clark Fork River using a resident biomonitor (Hydropsyche spp., O: Trichoptera) and streambed sediment. Over a 19-year period, Cu concentrations declined in both indicators at the two most upstream stations, a pattern coincident with remediation events. Sediment Cu declined at most stations along the 200 km study reach. However, Cu concentrations in Hydropsyche in the …

Watershed Restoration On The Lolo National Forest, Benefits For The Clark Fork Watershed, Taylor Greenup, Jennifer Mickelson

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

The Lolo National Forest spans about 2 million acres in western Montana, all within the Clark Fork watershed. As a multi-use land management agency, protecting and restoring watershed functions are high priorities for the Forest. Through various planning and implementation processes, the Lolo National Forest is able to prioritize projects that benefit water quality and cold-water fisheries habitat. Watershed restoration and rehabilitation activities are planned at both large, Forest-wide , and small, project-level scales. Two major drivers for planning watershed restoration are the State of Montana’s Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) planning process and the listing of bull trout as …

Incidental Recharge And Exempt Wells In The Bitterroot Valley, Southwest Montana, John Lafave

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

Incidental recharge occurs when normal irrigation operations result in infiltration of water to an underlying aquifer. The effect (groundwater recharge) is generally unintended but has profound impact. In the Bitterroot Valley there are more than 500 miles of canals and laterals that divert about 374,000 ac-ft/yr of surface water to irrigate about 85,000 acres. Most of the diverted water, as much as 267,000 ac-ft/yr, either evaporates, runs off to the river, or infiltrates (as conveyance losses and irrigation returns). The component that infiltrates becomes incidental groundwater recharge.

Surface-water diversions, and the associated groundwater recharge, have been taking place for more …

Geochemistry Of Nutrients In Upper Silver Bow Creek, Christopher Gammons

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

Since the recent removal of contaminated sediment, upper Silver Bow Creek has shown a decrease in concentrations and loads of toxic metals. However, nutrient concentrations in the stream are extremely high, which leads to uncontrolled growth of algae and rooted macrophytes each summer. The Butte waste-water treatment plant (WWTP) discharges > 10 kg/h NH4-N and > 1 kg/h PO₄-P. The WWTP outfall can be as much as 50% of the total flow in Silver Bow Creek during drought periods. Microbial oxidation of ammonium causes a 2-3 km long “dead zone” marked by a drop in dissolved oxygen concentrations to hypoxic …

Environmental Conditions And Trends In Georgetown Lake, Montana, Craig Stafford, Ardyce Taylor

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

Current environmental conditions in Georgetown Lake are being quantified to examine long term trends and to provide a baseline for future reference. Preliminary findings on nutrients, dissolved oxygen, macrophyte coverage, phytoplankton composition and abundance, and water clarity will be presented. Analysis of historic dissolved oxygen data collected by Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks indicates that late winter oxygen concentrations reach low levels and are decreasing through time.

Redefining Dilution – An Alternative To Traditional Wastewater Treatment, Heath Nicolas Carey

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

Wastewater treatment plants rank second to agricultural runoff in the top ten major pollution sources to U.S. surface waters. Such nutrient-rich inputs can degrade aquatic ecosystems by catalyzing eutrophication events, especially in summer months when surface water flows are low. Alternative treatment practices, modeled after natural ecosystem processes, could reduce nutrient inputs to surface waters while accumulating biomass and sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide. We designed and implemented an alternative treatment strategy, using effluent to fertilize trees at the Missoula Wastewater Treatment Facility. The objectives of this work were to assess: 1) environmental impacts of effluent application; 2) tree survivorship; and …

Status And Distribution Of The Northern River Otter (Lontra Canadensis) In The Upper Clark Fork River Basin, Darin Edward Newton, Kerry R. Foresman

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

The State of Montana assessed injuries to natural resources resulting from the actions of ARCO and its predecessors in the 1980s and 1990s. In the final report summarizing injuries, the Northern river otter (Lontra canadensis) was identified as one species greatly impacted by habitat degradation. Recent research by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and MFWP trapping records demonstrate that otters have begun to return to the UCFRB, but this population appears markedly less robust than those in other drainages in north - and southwestern Montana. Working cooperatively with MFWP, we are conducting a detailed study documenting the status …

Factors Influencing The Distribution Of Native Trout In North Fork Flathead Tributaries In Glacier National Park, Vincent Stephen D'Angelo, Vicki J. Watson, C. C. Muhlfeld

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

The reported decline of native bull trout Salvelinus confluentus and westslope cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi populations west of the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park (GNP) prompted research to identify critical habitats and assess the abiotic and biotic factors influencing distribution and abundance. We evaluated the association of habitat metrics (stream width, elevation, gradient and woody debris density, mean August stream temperature) and biotic factors (the presence of non-native lake trout Salvelinus namaycush) with the distribution and abundance of bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout in 78 stream reaches in five sub-drainages of the North Fork Flathead River …

Restoring Native Plant Diversity In The Upper Clark Fork Basin, Richard Douglass, Kristin S. Douglass, Krystal Weilage

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

We are developing novel ways to restore native plant species diversity in the uplands of the Upper Clark Fork Basin (UCFRB) in areas damaged by releases of hazardous substances by mining companies over more than 100 years. The desired future condition of upland plant communities in the UCFRB is to have sustainable plant communities that are diverse in native plant species and provide ecosystem functions such as nutrient cycling, wildlife habitat, soil conservation and weed resistance. We are in the sedond year of a three year demonstration project with objectives of increasing plant species diversity and developing plant communities resistant …

Municipal Water Systems And Water Rights In The Clark Fork River Basin, Jacob Daniel Petersen-Perlman

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

In the arid Inland Northwest, water is undoubtedly the most important natural resource. Western Montana’s Clark Fork River basin is no exception. As the population of western Montana continues to grow, the Clark Fork River basin remains in de facto closure to establishing new water rights. Also, since there is no “growing communities doctrine” in Montana, communities cannot expand their rights to accommodate potential growth. It is therefore essential for communities to know the legal entitlements each have to water amounts. This assessment of municipal water rights and systems in the Clark Fork River basin was conducted by ascertaining the …