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Low Genetic Diversity In An Endangered Species: Recent Or Historic Pattern?, Marjorie D. Matocq, Francis X. Villablanca Mar 2001

Low Genetic Diversity In An Endangered Species: Recent Or Historic Pattern?, Marjorie D. Matocq, Francis X. Villablanca

Biological Sciences

Examining patterns of genetic diversity has become an integral component of many management plans concerning endangered species, yet interpreting the processes underlying such patterns remains challenging. We demonstrate low genetic diversity in a critically endangered small mammal population. A common interpretation of this pattern would be that it is the result of a known, recent decline in this population. We test this interpretation and find it to be incorrect. Instead, by using museum voucher specimens, we show that the pattern of low genetic diversity is historical. This study demonstrates the importance of choosing appropriate reference groups by which to interpret …


A Mechanistic Model For Internal Bone Remodeling Exhibits Different Dynamic Responses In Disuse And Overload, Scott J. Hazelwood, R. Bruce Martin, Mark M. Rashid, Juan J. Rodrigo Mar 2001

A Mechanistic Model For Internal Bone Remodeling Exhibits Different Dynamic Responses In Disuse And Overload, Scott J. Hazelwood, R. Bruce Martin, Mark M. Rashid, Juan J. Rodrigo

Biomedical Engineering

Bone is a dynamic tissue which, through the process of bone remodeling in the mature skeleton, renews itself during normal function and adapts to mechanical loads. It is, therefore, important to understand the effect of remodeling on the mechanical function of bone, as well as the effect of the inherent time lag in the remodeling process. In this study, we develop a constitutive model for bone remodeling which includes a number of relevant mechanical and biological processes and use this model to address differences in the remodeling behavior as a volume element of bone is placed in disuse or overload. …


February 28, 2001 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office Feb 2001

February 28, 2001 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.


Mustang Daily, February 22, 2001 Feb 2001

Mustang Daily, February 22, 2001

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.


As-556-01 Resolution On Strategic Plan For Service Learning And Policies And Procedures, Curriculum Committee And Ad Hoc Service Learning Committee Feb 2001

As-556-01 Resolution On Strategic Plan For Service Learning And Policies And Procedures, Curriculum Committee And Ad Hoc Service Learning Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

Adopts the Strategic Plan for Service Learning and Policies and Procedures.


Mustang Daily, February 14, 2001 Feb 2001

Mustang Daily, February 14, 2001

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.


Mustang Daily, February 13, 2001 Feb 2001

Mustang Daily, February 13, 2001

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.


Mustang Daily, February 12, 2001 Feb 2001

Mustang Daily, February 12, 2001

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.


Mustang Daily, February 7, 2001 Feb 2001

Mustang Daily, February 7, 2001

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.


Mustang Daily, February 6, 2001 Feb 2001

Mustang Daily, February 6, 2001

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.


January 31, 2001 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office Jan 2001

January 31, 2001 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.


Semi-Artificial Monarch Butterfly Larval Diet, Kingston L. H. Leong Jan 2001

Semi-Artificial Monarch Butterfly Larval Diet, Kingston L. H. Leong

Biological Sciences

A semi-artificial diet of monarch butterfly larva and a process for making such a diet are provided. The diet consists of a substantial amount of dried milkweed powder and small but effective amounts of mold inhibitor and antibiotic.


Mustang Daily, January 30, 2001 Jan 2001

Mustang Daily, January 30, 2001

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.


January 24, 2001 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office Jan 2001

January 24, 2001 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.


Mustang Daily, January 19, 2001 Jan 2001

Mustang Daily, January 19, 2001

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.


Mustang Daily, January 12, 2001 Jan 2001

Mustang Daily, January 12, 2001

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.


January 10, 2001 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office Jan 2001

January 10, 2001 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.


Course And Curricular Updates To The California Polytechnic State University 2001-2003 Catalog, Academic Affairs, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo Jan 2001

Course And Curricular Updates To The California Polytechnic State University 2001-2003 Catalog, Academic Affairs, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.


California Polytechnic State University 2001-2003 Catalog, Academic Affairs, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo Jan 2001

California Polytechnic State University 2001-2003 Catalog, Academic Affairs, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.


Annual Summary Of Grant And Contract Activity Fiscal Year 2001, Grants Development Office Jan 2001

Annual Summary Of Grant And Contract Activity Fiscal Year 2001, Grants Development Office

Grants Development Office Reports

No abstract provided.


Proposals Submitted In Fiscal Year 2001, Grants Development Office Jan 2001

Proposals Submitted In Fiscal Year 2001, Grants Development Office

Grants Development Office Reports

No abstract provided.


Update On Conjugated Linoleic Acids (Cla), D. E. Bauman, D. G. Peterson, L. H. Baumgard, J. W. Perfield Ii Jan 2001

Update On Conjugated Linoleic Acids (Cla), D. E. Bauman, D. G. Peterson, L. H. Baumgard, J. W. Perfield Ii

Animal Science

No abstract provided.


Grants And Contracts Awarded In Fiscal Year 2001, Grants Development Office Jan 2001

Grants And Contracts Awarded In Fiscal Year 2001, Grants Development Office

Grants Development Office Reports

19 pages.


Master Plan Task Force Reports, Facilities Planning And Capital Projects, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo Jan 2001

Master Plan Task Force Reports, Facilities Planning And Capital Projects, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Publications

No abstract provided.


A Fossil Blue Marlin (Makaira Nigricans Lacépède) From The Middle Facies Of The Trinidad Formation (Upper Miocene To Upper Pliocene), San José Del Cabo Basin, Baja California Sur, México, Harry L. Fierstine, Shelton P. Applegate, Gerardo González-Barba, Tobias Schwennicke, Luis Espinosa-Arrubarrena Jan 2001

A Fossil Blue Marlin (Makaira Nigricans Lacépède) From The Middle Facies Of The Trinidad Formation (Upper Miocene To Upper Pliocene), San José Del Cabo Basin, Baja California Sur, México, Harry L. Fierstine, Shelton P. Applegate, Gerardo González-Barba, Tobias Schwennicke, Luis Espinosa-Arrubarrena

Biological Sciences

A large fossil skull and several rostra of Makaira nigricans Lacépède, 1802 (Perciformes: Istiophoridae), as well as some less diagnostic istiophorid remains, have been recovered from the middle facies of the Trinidad Formation near Rancho Algodones, San José del Cabo Basin, Baja California Sur, México. These are the only bill fish specimens known from fossiliferous deposits located between southern California and Panama. Based on published accounts of the presence of nannofossils and planktonic foraminifera, and additional field work, we conclude that the age of the study area is late Miocene to late Pliocene. Based on the habitat preferences of recent …


Adaptive Sampling In The Coastal Ocean At The Long Ecosystem Observatory, Mark A. Moline, W. Paul Bissett, Scott Glenn, Dale Haidvogel, Oscar Schofield Jan 2001

Adaptive Sampling In The Coastal Ocean At The Long Ecosystem Observatory, Mark A. Moline, W. Paul Bissett, Scott Glenn, Dale Haidvogel, Oscar Schofield

Biological Sciences

A multi-platform inter-disciplinary observation network has been operating at the Rutgers University Long-term Ecosystem Observatory (LEO) since 1996, with real-time capabilities beginning in July 1999. The network integrates numerous remote (satellites and shore- based), stationary (surface and subsurface), moveable (ships and AUVs) observation systems. The observation network provides spatially extensive updates of the physics, optics, chemistry and biology on time scales of an hour or less which are communicated in real-time to shipboard scientists and AUV operators. This rapid environmental assessment capability is already changing current paradigms for ocean adaptive sampling strategies. For example, in the well-sampled ocean, where forecast …


Modeling Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions And Primary Productivity, Joe Grzymski, Mark A. Moline, Jay T. Cullen Jan 2001

Modeling Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions And Primary Productivity, Joe Grzymski, Mark A. Moline, Jay T. Cullen

Biological Sciences

The heat budget, and hence the climate of the Earth, is sensitive to changes in the atmospheric greenhouse gas composition. Next to water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most important atmospheric greenhouse gas affecting the Earth's radiative balance. Greenhouse gases raise the mean temperature of the Earth by absorbing and trapping long-wave radiation from the planet surface that would otherwise be lost to space.


Changes In Phytoplankton Assemblages Along The Antarctic Peninsula And Potential Implications For The Antarctic Food Web, Mark A. Moline, Herve Claustre, Thomas K. Frazer, Joe Grzymski, Maria Vernet Jan 2001

Changes In Phytoplankton Assemblages Along The Antarctic Peninsula And Potential Implications For The Antarctic Food Web, Mark A. Moline, Herve Claustre, Thomas K. Frazer, Joe Grzymski, Maria Vernet

Biological Sciences

The majority of the yearly organic carbon production int he coastal regions of the Southern ocean occurs during summer blooms. Changes in the quantity and quality of the phytoplankton standing crop during this period will likely impact organisms that occupy higher trophic levels within the ecosystem. Here we report a recurrent shift in the dominant phytoplankton taxa during the austral summer in a coastal region along the Antarctic Peninsula. The pattern was observed each year between 1991 and 1996 despite radically different biomass concentrations and meteorological and hydrographic conditions. We show that a repeated dominance of cryptophytes (Cryptophyceae) during the …


Enhanced Biodegradation Of Hydrocarbon Contaminants Using Photocatalytic Pretreatment, Chad E. Green, Anita Stansberry, Jeff Sczechowski, Yarrow Nelson Jan 2001

Enhanced Biodegradation Of Hydrocarbon Contaminants Using Photocatalytic Pretreatment, Chad E. Green, Anita Stansberry, Jeff Sczechowski, Yarrow Nelson

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Photocatalysis was investigated as a pretreatment for hydrocarbon groundwater contamination at an abandoned oil field in Guadalupe, CA. A laboratory photoreactor, with a UV fluorescent lamp submerged in a suspension of TiO2 catalyst particles, was used to determine oxidation rates and the increase in biodegradability of the hydrocarbon mixture. Chemical oxidation demand (COD) and 5-day biological oxygen demand (BOD5) were measured as a function of exposure time using standard methods. During eight-hour photoreactor runs in a nitrogen atmosphere, the COD of diluent solutions in de-ionized water and diluent solutions in simulated groundwater both decreased by approximately 50%, …


Optical Remote Sensing Techniques In Biological Oceanography, W. Paul Bissett, Oscar Schofield, Curtis D. Mobley, Michael F. Crowley, Mark A. Moline Jan 2001

Optical Remote Sensing Techniques In Biological Oceanography, W. Paul Bissett, Oscar Schofield, Curtis D. Mobley, Michael F. Crowley, Mark A. Moline

Biological Sciences

No abstract provided.