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Scale Interactions And Implications For Water Resources, Hydrology, And Climate, Shama Perveen Apr 2012

Scale Interactions And Implications For Water Resources, Hydrology, And Climate, Shama Perveen

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

No abstract provided.


Scale Issues In The Development Of Future Precipitation Scenarios, Justin T. Schoof Apr 2012

Scale Issues In The Development Of Future Precipitation Scenarios, Justin T. Schoof

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Many of the processes that govern precipitation occurrence and intensity occur at spatial and temporal scales that remain unresolved by the current generation of climate models. The resulting mismatch between the information reliably provided by such models and the needs of researchers assessing impacts associated with changes in precipitation has led to the development of downscaling techniques. In this paper, the need for downscaling is demonstrated by describing (1) the difference between real-world precipitation-governing processes and their representation in climate models and (2) the differences between theoretical expectations of precipitation changes at large and small scales in a warmer world. …


A Holistic Approach To Guide Development Of Future Climate Scenarios For Water Resource Applications, Michael J. Puma Apr 2012

A Holistic Approach To Guide Development Of Future Climate Scenarios For Water Resource Applications, Michael J. Puma

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Changes in climate are expected to have a substantial impact on water resources. Consequently, numerous hydrologists have studied the widely recognized challenge of using climate-change projections to address questions related to management of future water resources. Significant effort has been invested in formulating methods to overcome the difference in spatial scales between available future climate scenarios and water management needs. While numerous downscaling options exist, resource evaluation for the various approaches is rarely discussed; most assessments are focused on evaluating the skill of different methodologies. In this study, a framework is described that water managers can use 1) to identify …


Intranational Cooperation And Conflict Over Freshwater: Examples From The Western United States, Nathan T. Eidem, Kristel J. Fesler, Aaron T. Wolf Apr 2012

Intranational Cooperation And Conflict Over Freshwater: Examples From The Western United States, Nathan T. Eidem, Kristel J. Fesler, Aaron T. Wolf

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

From the Klamath basin in the Pacific Northwest to the Jordan basin in the Middle East, water conflicts can be disruptive, and affect a wide range of stakeholders, often with varying interests. As competition between water users and water use sectors increases, the potential for conflict increases, especially when governing institutions differ ( Jarvis et al. 2005 ). However, research has shown that cooperation is more prevalent than conflict in international river basins ( Wolf 1998 ; Wolf et al. 2003 ). As the demand for water approaches or meets available supply, intranational conflicts may increase ( Postel and Wolf …


Fracking And The Neoliberalization Of The Hydro-Social Cycle In Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale, Michael H. Finewood, Laura J. Stroup Apr 2012

Fracking And The Neoliberalization Of The Hydro-Social Cycle In Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale, Michael H. Finewood, Laura J. Stroup

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Oil and gas firms are utilizing a controversial drilling technique, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to access unconventional natural gas reserves in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale. The potential impacts of fracking are creating sharp tensions between stakeholders over the costs and benefits of drilling within their communities. In particular, much contention has emerged over water resources as the process both uses and degrades billions of gallons of water. This paper takes a critical look at the way multi-scale neoliberal discourses obfuscate comprehensive understandings of fracking's effect on water resources. We turn to the neoliberal environments literature as a way to situate the …


Suggestions And Strategies For A More Inclusive Asha, Tanya C. Ingram Apr 2012

Suggestions And Strategies For A More Inclusive Asha, Tanya C. Ingram

Research Papers

No abstract provided.


Me, You And Everybody We Know: A Hypernarrative On Digital Identity, Ana Paula V. Maia Apr 2012

Me, You And Everybody We Know: A Hypernarrative On Digital Identity, Ana Paula V. Maia

Research Papers

No abstract provided.


Vol. 7, No. 3, Spring 2012, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Apr 2012

Vol. 7, No. 3, Spring 2012, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Cornerstone

No abstract provided.


Redistricting In Illinois: A Comparative View On State Redistricting, Joe Cervantes, Logan Fentress Apr 2012

Redistricting In Illinois: A Comparative View On State Redistricting, Joe Cervantes, Logan Fentress

The Simon Review (Occasional Papers of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute)

No abstract provided.


Parasites From Human Coprolites From Mexico Zoonotic And Human Parasites Of Inhabitants Of Cueva De Los Muertos Chiquitos, Rio Zape Valley, Durango, Mexico., F Agustín Jiménez, Scott L Gardner, Adauto Araújo, Martín Fugassa, Richard H Brooks, Elizabeth Racz, Karl Reinhard Apr 2012

Parasites From Human Coprolites From Mexico Zoonotic And Human Parasites Of Inhabitants Of Cueva De Los Muertos Chiquitos, Rio Zape Valley, Durango, Mexico., F Agustín Jiménez, Scott L Gardner, Adauto Araújo, Martín Fugassa, Richard H Brooks, Elizabeth Racz, Karl Reinhard

Publications

We present the first reconstruction of the parasitoses among the people of the Loma San Gabriel culture, as represented by 36 coprolites excavated from the Cueva de los Muertos Chiquitos in Durango, Mexico. The coprolites date to approximately 1,400-yr-ago. Species identified based on eggs recovered include the trematode Echinostoma sp., the tapeworms Hymenolepis sp. and Dipylidium caninum, and the nematodes Ancylostoma duodenale, Enterobius vermicularis, and Trichuris trichiura. After rehydration and screening, 2 methods were used to recover eggs from these samples including spontaneous sedimentation and flotation. Samples were analyzed by 3 different laboratories for independent verification …


The Daily Egyptian, March 28, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff Mar 2012

The Daily Egyptian, March 28, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff

March 2012

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The Daily Egyptian, March 27, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff Mar 2012

The Daily Egyptian, March 27, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff

March 2012

No abstract provided.


The Daily Egyptian, March 23, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff Mar 2012

The Daily Egyptian, March 23, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff

March 2012

No abstract provided.


When Bigger Is Not Always Better: Making “Cents” Of Illinois School District Reform Proposals, Craig Griffin Mar 2012

When Bigger Is Not Always Better: Making “Cents” Of Illinois School District Reform Proposals, Craig Griffin

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

School district consolidation is a perennial topic in Illinois.  This Comment provides an overview of the school district reform proposals that surfaced during the 97th General Assembly and discusses the merits of each.  In particular, it notes that both the financial savings and academic gains touted by proponents of consolidation as potential benefits are, in fact, claims that are unsupported by evidence and which are likely to be nonexistent in practice.  Instead, the Comment argues that school districts as they are currently formed continue to offer benefits to local residents that oftentimes are not given serious consideration by the state's …


The Daily Egyptian, February 20, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff Feb 2012

The Daily Egyptian, February 20, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff

February 2012

No abstract provided.


The Daily Egyptian, January 30, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff Jan 2012

The Daily Egyptian, January 30, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff

January 2012

No abstract provided.


Cinematic Images Of A Neoliberal Hong Kong, Mark Walters Jan 2012

Cinematic Images Of A Neoliberal Hong Kong, Mark Walters

Neoliberalism and Media

No abstract provided.


A Community Resilience Model For Understanding And Assessing The Sustainability Of Forest-Dependent Communities, Kofi Akamani Jan 2012

A Community Resilience Model For Understanding And Assessing The Sustainability Of Forest-Dependent Communities, Kofi Akamani

Forestry Articles

Recent decades have seen an evolution in thinking on the sustainability of forest-dependent communities from community stability to community resilience, which seeks to enhance communities’ ability to respond to drivers of change in ways that sustain the multiple dimensions of well-being. However, the process of community response to drivers of change is not well understood and methods for assessing community resilience are not fully developed. This paper proposes a theoretical model to understand the structures and processes influencing the adaptation of communities and households to drivers of change and which can serve as a guide to the development of indicators …


Challenges To Integrating Human And Natural Systems: An Assessment Of The Cache River Watershed, Kristen Bouska, Kimberly Erndt‐Pitcher, Alicia Lloyd, Amanda Nelson, Timothy Stoebner Jan 2012

Challenges To Integrating Human And Natural Systems: An Assessment Of The Cache River Watershed, Kristen Bouska, Kimberly Erndt‐Pitcher, Alicia Lloyd, Amanda Nelson, Timothy Stoebner

Reports

No abstract provided.


2012-2013 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Graduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale Jan 2012

2012-2013 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Graduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

No abstract provided.


2012-2013 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Undergraduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale Jan 2012

2012-2013 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Undergraduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

No abstract provided.


Revolving Green Loan Funds And Implementation At Siuc, Carly Freiwald Jan 2012

Revolving Green Loan Funds And Implementation At Siuc, Carly Freiwald

Honors Theses

Over the past few years revolving green loan funds have been implemented at about fifty schools all across the country to help fund sustainability projects on their campus. These green revolving funds are used to invest in sustainability projects that lower operating expenses, for example, energy bills. The savings that these projects produce then get sent back to the fund and are reinvested in additional projects. These loan funds have been incredibly helpful in furthering the sustainability goals of colleges, while also helping to save the universities money. My research included looking into how other universities are implementing these revolving …


Jockin' Jay-Z: A Praxis-Oriented Autoethnography Towards Possiblizing Change In Black Male Performativity, Bryant A. Payne Jan 2012

Jockin' Jay-Z: A Praxis-Oriented Autoethnography Towards Possiblizing Change In Black Male Performativity, Bryant A. Payne

Research Papers

This paper strives to understand how my own conceptions (reflexivity) and embodiment (engagement) of a particular rapper, Jay-Z, contributes towards my subjectivity and art. My research answers, “What does my own experience and embodiment of Jay-Z tell me about my own black masculinity and art in the hip-hop generation?” To answer this question, I use what Toyosaki calls “praxis-oriented autoethnography.” I show what my relationship with Jay-Z tells me about my black masculinity, culture, and becoming within the hip-hop generation.


Movable Objects: Blurring Binaries Through An Analysis Of The Solo Performance To Lay Brick, Margarethe Mapes Jan 2012

Movable Objects: Blurring Binaries Through An Analysis Of The Solo Performance To Lay Brick, Margarethe Mapes

Research Papers

No abstract provided.


Other Ways Of Being, Eric R. Robinson Mr. Jan 2012

Other Ways Of Being, Eric R. Robinson Mr.

Research Papers

No abstract provided.


“The Wilds, The Irish, And Hermaphrodites In Spenser's The Faerie Queen”, James O'Donoghue Jan 2012

“The Wilds, The Irish, And Hermaphrodites In Spenser's The Faerie Queen”, James O'Donoghue

Research Papers

No abstract provided.


Web Mapping And Application Towards A Cloud: Enabling A Webgis Prototype In An Open Source Environment, Ravi Dhungel Jan 2012

Web Mapping And Application Towards A Cloud: Enabling A Webgis Prototype In An Open Source Environment, Ravi Dhungel

Research Papers

No abstract provided.


Renewable Wind Energy And Southern Illinois University, Paul Zaspal Jan 2012

Renewable Wind Energy And Southern Illinois University, Paul Zaspal

Research Papers

No abstract provided.


Illinois Local Food Systems: A Geospatial Analysis, Abu S. Khan Jan 2012

Illinois Local Food Systems: A Geospatial Analysis, Abu S. Khan

Research Papers

Recently, more attention has been paid to studies of local food systems that are specific to a particular place as a potential solution for providing healthy food, reducing carbon emissions, and promotion of local agriculture sustainability. In the United States, the demands of locally produced foods have increased substantially in recent years. There are several reasons for this increase, including long-distance food transportation’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, the community food-security movement, and the increase of negative environmental problems related to large scale agriculture, etc., have contributed to the shift of attention from global food systems to local ones. Moreover, …


Ground Layer Response To Disturbance In The Pine-Dominated Eastern Foothill Region Of West-Central Alberta, Canada, Rebecca Elizabeth Mooneyhan Mcclelland Dec 2011

Ground Layer Response To Disturbance In The Pine-Dominated Eastern Foothill Region Of West-Central Alberta, Canada, Rebecca Elizabeth Mooneyhan Mcclelland

Dissertations

The canopy cover of the Pinus contorta forests of west-central Alberta, dictates colonization of the forest floor ground layer. This dynamic ground layer is a mosaic of feather mosses and reindeer lichens in a system driven by disturbance. In this project, anthropogenic was used to control canopy cover change and study its effects on the ground layer. Timber companies selectively mechanically thinned sections producing three experimental areas with uncut controls. Data were collected from 182, 6.5 m2 plots located in the four thinning areas. Six general areas of inquiry were posed around determining ground layer responses to canopy opening: 1) …