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The Potential Role Of Comics In Teaching Qualitative Research Methods, Helen Kara Facss, Jenni Brooks

The Qualitative Report

This article argues that comics have a potentially positive role to play in supporting the teaching of qualitative research methods in higher education. It tells the story of the creation and use of a short pedagogical comic. We begin with a brief review of the literature around the use of comics in teaching. Then we offer two first-person accounts. Independent researcher Helen Kara narrates her creation of Conversation with a Purpose, designed as a resource to support the teaching of qualitative interviewing. It contains the story of a student’s first real-world interview, with some deliberately ambiguous aspects, and some …

Summer 2020 Academic Calendar, Registrar Office

Academic Calendars of the NSU Registrar

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Nsu Abraham S. Fischler College Of Education And School Of Criminal Justice (Fce&Scj) Graduate Catalog And Student Handbook 2020–2021, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

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Shallow-Water Coral Communities Support The Separation Of Marine Ecoregions On The West-Central Florida Gulf Coast, Brian K. Walker, Shelby Eagan, Cory Ames, Sandra Brooke, Sean Keenan, Rene Baumstark

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Florida’s west coast is a 170,000 km² bedrock shelf (west Florida shelf, WFS) comprised of north-south discontinuous carbonate outcroppings extending more than 200 km from the intertidal zone to a depth of 200 m. These outcrops support diverse benthic communities, which contribute to a multi-billion dollar recreational and commercial fishing industry, yet only about 5% of their extent has been studied in detail. Benthic communities shift over a 6.5° geographic range, but the locations of these shifts are not well-defined. Previous studies have suggested a break in biogeographic regions at Tampa Bay, south at Cape Romano, and north at …

Mothers Of Children With Dyslexia Share The Protection, “In-Betweenness,” And The Battle Of Living With A Reading Disability: A Feminist Autoethnography, Christine Woodcock

The Qualitative Report

In order to shed personalized light upon some of the confusions surrounding dyslexia, this study draws upon critical disability studies to share the stories of mothers of children with dyslexia. This feminist autoethnography shares the voice of the researcher alongside interviews with 5 participants, all mothers of children with dyslexia, who were in their 40s, and ethnically and socioeconomically diverse. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis, results illustrated that the children inhabited an “in-betweenness” in their disability, in the ways dyslexia was less visual and therefore misunderstood. Likewise, the children presented a great deal of resistance in their learning, which was later …

Pink And Blue Lenses: Duoethnographic Reflections On Biological Sex In Conservative Christian Education, Phillip A. Olt, Linly Stowe

The Qualitative Report

In this duoethnography, we explored how experiences in conservative Christian high schools were viewed through the different lenses of our binary-constructed, biological sexes. Our perceptions varied along the axes of gendered roles, gendered responsibilities, and romance and sexuality. Through reflecting on our own experiences, we critiqued what we were taught and the lasting repercussions those teachings left on our lives. The approach of indoctrination proved counterproductive in our schools, as graduates left unprepared to enter meaningful romantic relationships or to encounter a world outside their previously sheltered environs.

Effectiveness Of Topical Antibiotics In Treating Corals Affected By Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease, Karen L. Neely, Kevin A. Macaulay, Emily K. Hower, Michelle A. Dobler

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Since 2014, Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) has led to mass mortality of the majority of hard coral species on the Florida Reef Tract. Following the successful treatment of SCTLD lesions on laboratory corals using water dosed with antibiotics, two topical pastes were developed as vehicles to directly apply antibiotic treatments to wild corals. These pastes were tested as placebos and with additions of amoxicillin on active SCTLD lesions on multiple coral species. The effectiveness of the pastes without antibiotics (placebo treatments) was 4% and 9%, no different from untreated controls. Adding amoxicillin to both pastes significantly increased effectiveness …

Trip Bs01 - Perc Pll Trip Bs01 - Jun-July 2020 Set Data, David Kerstetter, Sean T. Wilms, Brittany N. Savercool, Ellyn Willse

PERC Pelagic Longline Field Datasheets

Field datasheets from pelagic longline sets in the western North Atlantic from 2020-2022.

Trip Dk01 - Perc Pll Trip Dk01 - Jun-July 2020 Set 1, David Kerstetter, Sean T. Wilms, Brittany N. Savercool, Ellyn Willse

PERC Pelagic Longline Field Datasheets

Field datasheets from pelagic longline sets in the western North Atlantic from 2020-2022.

Trip Dk01 - Perc Pll Trip Dk01 - Jun-July 2020 Set 3, David Kerstetter, Sean T. Wilms, Brittany N. Savercool, Ellyn Willse

PERC Pelagic Longline Field Datasheets

Field datasheets from pelagic longline sets in the western North Atlantic from 2020-2022.

Trip Dk01 - Perc Pll Trip Dk01 - Jun-July 2020 Set 4, David Kerstetter, Sean T. Wilms, Brittany N. Savercool, Ellyn Willse

PERC Pelagic Longline Field Datasheets

Field datasheets from pelagic longline sets in the western North Atlantic from 2020-2022.

Trip Bs01 - Perc Pll Trip Bs01 - Jun-July 2020 Set 1, David Kerstetter, Sean T. Wilms, Brittany N. Savercool, Ellyn Willse

PERC Pelagic Longline Field Datasheets

Field datasheets from pelagic longline sets in the western North Atlantic from 2020-2022.

Trip Dk01 - Perc Pll Trip Dk01 - Jun-July 2020 Set 7, David Kerstetter, Sean T. Wilms, Brittany N. Savercool, Ellyn Willse

PERC Pelagic Longline Field Datasheets

Field datasheets from pelagic longline sets in the western North Atlantic from 2020-2022.

Trip Dk01 - Perc Pll Trip Dk01 - Jun-July 2020 Set 5, David Kerstetter, Sean T. Wilms, Brittany N. Savercool, Ellyn Willse

PERC Pelagic Longline Field Datasheets

Field datasheets from pelagic longline sets in the western North Atlantic from 2020-2022.

Trip Dk01 - Perc Pll Trip Dk01 - Jun-July 2020 Set 9, David Kerstetter, Sean T. Wilms, Brittany N. Savercool, Ellyn Willse

PERC Pelagic Longline Field Datasheets

Field datasheets from pelagic longline sets in the western North Atlantic from 2020-2022.

Trip Dk01 - Perc Pll Trip Dk01 - Jun-July 2020 Set 10, David Kerstetter, Sean T. Wilms, Brittany N. Savercool, Ellyn Willse

PERC Pelagic Longline Field Datasheets

Field datasheets from pelagic longline sets in the western North Atlantic from 2020-2022.

Trip Dk01 - Perc Pll Trip Dk01 - Jun-July 2020 Set 12, David Kerstetter, Sean T. Wilms, Brittany N. Savercool, Ellyn Willse

PERC Pelagic Longline Field Datasheets

Field datasheets from pelagic longline sets in the western North Atlantic from 2020-2022.

Trip Dk01 - Perc Pll Trip Dk01 - Jun-July 2020 Set 8, David Kerstetter, Sean T. Wilms, Brittany N. Savercool, Ellyn Willse

PERC Pelagic Longline Field Datasheets

Field datasheets from pelagic longline sets in the western North Atlantic from 2020-2022.

Trip Dk01 - Perc Pll Trip Dk01 - Jun-July 2020 Set 2, David Kerstetter, Sean T. Wilms, Brittany N. Savercool, Ellyn Willse

PERC Pelagic Longline Field Datasheets

Field datasheets from pelagic longline sets in the western North Atlantic from 2020-2022.

Trip Dk01 - Perc Pll Trip Dk01 - Jun-July 2020 Trip Data, David Kerstetter, Sean T. Wilms, Brittany N. Savercool, Ellyn Willse

PERC Pelagic Longline Field Datasheets

Field datasheets from pelagic longline sets in the western North Atlantic from 2020-2022.

Minion-In-Arms: Nanopore Sequencing To Expedite Barcoding Of Specimen-Rich Macrofaunal Samples From Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures, Jia Jin Marc Chang, Yin Cheong Aden Ip, Andrew G. Bauman, Danwei Huang

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (ARMS) are standardized devices for sampling biodiversity in complex marine benthic habitats such as coral reefs. When coupled with DNA sequencing, these devices greatly expand our ability to document marine biodiversity. Unfortunately, the existing workflow for processing macrofaunal samples (>2-mm) in the ARMS pipeline—which involves Sanger sequencing—is expensive, laborious, and thus prohibitive for ARMS researchers. Here, we propose a faster, more cost-effective alternative by demonstrating a successful application of the MinION-based barcoding approach on the >2 mm-size fraction of ARMS samples. All data were available within 3.5–4 h, and sequencing costs relatively low at approximately …

Detecting Personal Microbiota Signatures At Artificial Crime Scenes, Jarrad T. Hampton-Marcell, Peter Larsen, Tifani Anton, Lauren Cralle, Naseer Sangwan, Simon Lax, Neil Gottel, Mariana Salas-Garcia, Candace Young, George Duncan, Jose Lopez, Jack A. Gilbert

Biology Faculty Articles

When mapped to the environments we interact with on a daily basis, the 36 million microbial cells per hour that humans emit leave a trail of evidence that can be leveraged for forensic analysis. We employed 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to map unique microbial sequence variants between human skin and building surfaces in three experimental conditions: over time during controlled and uncontrolled incidental interactions with a door handle, and during multiple mock burglaries in ten real residences. We demonstrate that humans (n = 30) leave behind microbial signatures that can be used to track interaction with various surfaces within a …

Recovering From Doing Research As A Survivor-Researcher, Dee E. Michell Dr

The Qualitative Report

In this paper I explore the research process I undertook to recover from research. For three years from 2013 I was involved in a research project exploring the history of foster care in Australia. At the end I was exhausted and suffering trauma symptoms I initially attributed to the difficulties of juggling a major research project while teaching and undertaking key administrative tasks. Reluctance to write up the research findings, however, made me reconsider this attribution and at the end of 2016 I set out to make sense of what had happened to make me feel so bad while undertaking …

Uncovering The Role Of Symbiodiniaceae Assemblage Composition And Abundance In Coral Bleaching Response By Minimizing Sampling And Evolutionary Biases, Timothy D. Swain, Simon Lax, Vadim Backman, Luisa A. Marcelino

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Background

Biodiversity and productivity of coral-reef ecosystems depend upon reef-building corals and their associations with endosymbiotic Symbiodiniaceae, which offer diverse functional capabilities to their hosts. The number of unique symbiotic partners (richness) and relative abundances (evenness) have been hypothesized to affect host response to climate change induced thermal stress. Symbiodiniaceae assemblages with many unique phylotypes may provide greater physiological flexibility or form less stable symbioses; assemblages with low abundance phylotypes may allow corals to retain thermotolerant symbionts or represent associations with less-suitable symbionts.

Results

Here we demonstrate that true richness of Symbiodiniaceae phylotype assemblages is generally not discoverable from …

Porewater Carbonate Chemistry Dynamics In A Temperate And A Subtropical Seagrass System, Theodor Kindeberg, Nicholas R. Bates, Travis A. Courtney, Tyler Cyronak, Alyssa Griffin, Fred T. Mackenzie, May-Linn Paulsen, Andreas J. Andersson

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Seagrass systems are integral components of both local and global carbon cycles and can substantially modify seawater biogeochemistry, which has ecological ramifications. However, the influence of seagrass on porewater biogeochemistry has not been fully described, and the exact role of this marine macrophyte and associated microbial communities in the modification of porewater chemistry remains equivocal. In the present study, carbonate chemistry in the water column and porewater was investigated over diel timescales in contrasting, tidally influenced seagrass systems in Southern California and Bermuda, including vegetated (Zostera marina) and unvegetated biomes (0–16 cm) in Mission Bay, San Diego, USA …

Expanding Qualitative Research Interviewing Strategies: Zoom Video Communications, Lisa M. Gray, Gina Wong-Wylie, Gwen R. Rempel, Karen Cook

The Qualitative Report

The proliferation of new video conferencing tools offers unique data generation opportunities for qualitative researchers. While in-person interviews were the mainstay of data generation in qualitative studies, video conferencing programs, such as Zoom Video Communications Inc. (Zoom), provide researchers with a cost-effective and convenient alternative to in-person interviews. The uses and advantages of face-to-face interviewing are well documented; however, utilizing video conferencing as a method of data generation has not been well examined. The purpose of this paper is to examine the specific attributes of Zoom that contribute to high quality and in-depth qualitative interviews when in person interviewing is …

Erratum: Charles G. Messing (2020) A Revision Of The Unusual Feather Star Genus Atopocrinus With A Description Of A New Species (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Zootaxa, 4731: 471–491., Charles G. Messing

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Erratum.

Comparative Study Of Spectral Sensitivity, Irradiance Sensitivity, Spatial Resolution And Temporal Resolution In The Visual Systems Of Aratus Pisonii And Ocypode Quadrata, Ruchao Qian

All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations

Autrum’s studies (1950, 1958) on terrestrial arthropods first revealed that the visual systems of arthropods reflected their lifestyles and habitats, demonstrating that rapidly moving predatory diurnal species tend to have better temporal resolution than slower moving nocturnal species. In order to test Autrum’s hypothesis that visual adaptions are driven by predator/prey interactions, the visual physiology of a nocturnal fast-moving predatory crab, the Atlantic ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata), and a diurnal herbivorous crab, the mangrove tree crab (Aratus pisonii), was examined and compared. Spectral sensitivity, irradiance sensitivity, and temporal resolution of the crabs were quantified using the …

Fine-Scale Coral Connectivity Pathways In The Florida Reef Tract: Implications For Conservation And Restoration, Charles Frys, Antoine Saint-Amand, Matthieu Le Henaff, Joana Figueiredo, Alyson Kuba, Brian K. Walker, Jonathan Lambrechts, Valentin Vallaeys, David Vincent, Emmanuel Hanert

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Connectivity between coral reefs is critical to ensure their resilience and persistence against disturbances. It is driven by ocean currents, which often have very complex patterns within reef systems. Only biophysical models that simulate both the fine-scale details of ocean currents and the life-history traits of larvae transported by these currents can help to estimate connectivity in large reef systems. Here we use the unstructured-mesh coastal ocean model SLIM that locally achieves a spatial resolution of ~100 m, 10 times finer than existing models, over the entire Florida Reef Tract (FRT). It allows us to simulate larval dispersal between the …

Survivorship And Growth In Staghorn Coral (Acropora Cervicornis) Outplanting Projects In The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Matt Ware, Eliza N. Garfield, Ken Nedimyer, Jessica Levy, Les Kaufman, William F. Precht, R. Scott Winters, Steven Miller

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Significant population declines in Acropora cervicornis and A. palmata began in the 1970s and now exceed over 90%. The losses were caused by a combination of coral disease and bleaching, with possible contributions from other stressors, including pollution and predation. Reproduction in the wild by fragment regeneration and sexual recruitment is inadequate to offset population declines. Starting in 2007, the Coral Restoration Foundation™ evaluated the feasibility of outplanting A. cervicornis colonies to reefs in the Florida Keys to restore populations at sites where the species was previously abundant. Reported here are the results of 20 coral outplanting projects …