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Observations Of The Eastern Maine Coastal Current And Its Offshore Extensions In 1994, Neal Pettigrew, David Townsend, Huijie Xue, J. P. Wallinga, P. J. Brickley, R. D. Hetland Dec 1998

Observations Of The Eastern Maine Coastal Current And Its Offshore Extensions In 1994, Neal Pettigrew, David Townsend, Huijie Xue, J. P. Wallinga, P. J. Brickley, R. D. Hetland

Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Cold surface temperatures, reflecting Scotian Shelf origins and local tidal mixing, serve as a tracer of the Eastern Maine Coastal Current and its offshore extensions, which appear episodically as cold plumes erupting from the eastern Maine shelf. A cold water plume emanating from the Eastern Maine Coastal Current in May 1994 was investigated using advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) imagery, shipboard surveys of physical and biochemical properties, and satellite-tracked drifters. Evidence is presented that suggests that some of the plume waters were entrained within the cyclonic circulation over Jordan Basin, while the major portion participated in an anticyclonic eddy …

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Maine Perspective, V 10, I 8, Department Of Public Affairs, University Of Maine Dec 1998

Maine Perspective, V 10, I 8, Department Of Public Affairs, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

The Maine Perspective, a publication for the University of Maine, was a campus newsletter produced by the Department of Public Affairs which eventually transformed into the Division of Marketing and Communication. Regular columns included the UM Calendar, Ongoing Events, People in Perspective, Look Who's on Campus, In Focus, and Along the Mall. The weekly newsletter also included position openings on campus as well as classified ads. Coverage includes the retirement of Cindy Blodgett's basketball uniform; Peter Hoff's perspective on progress involving BearWorks 2.0; a study by researchers with the College of Education and Human Development providing perspectives on challenging student …

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Maine Campus December 09 1998, Maine Campus Staff Dec 1998

Maine Campus December 09 1998, Maine Campus Staff

Maine Campus Archives

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Maine Campus December 07 1998, Maine Campus Staff Dec 1998

Maine Campus December 07 1998, Maine Campus Staff

Maine Campus Archives

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Frank Speck’S Office, Edmund S. Carpenter Dec 1998

Frank Speck’S Office, Edmund S. Carpenter

Maine History

Edmund S. Carpenter studied anthropology under Frank Speck at the University of Pennsylvania and taught at the University of Toronto, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the New School for Social Research, and other institutions. An internationally recognized expert on tribal art, his numerous publications include Oh, What A Blow That Phantom Gave Me!, Eskimo Realities, They Became What They Beheld, and the 12-volume Materials For The Study Of Social Symbolism In Ancient And Tribal Art. He remembers Frank Siebert at Penn with the regulars in Frank Speck ’5 office.

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A Penobscot Assessment Of Frank Siebert, Eunice Baumann-Nelson Dec 1998

A Penobscot Assessment Of Frank Siebert, Eunice Baumann-Nelson

Maine History

Dr. Eunice Baumann-Nelson is the author of The Wabanaki: An Annotated Bibliography. She was bom on Indian Island, and she became the first Penobscot to get a B.A., and later got an M.A. in Child Psychology and a Ph.D. in Human Relations at N. Y. U. Later still she received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Maine. She served in the Peace Corps in Peru and Bolivia, was the head of the Vassar art library and head librarian at The Museum of the American Indian in New York City. She has long been a student …

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Frank Siebert -- Then, And More Than "Forty Years On”, Richard B. Singer M.D. Dec 1998

Frank Siebert -- Then, And More Than "Forty Years On”, Richard B. Singer M.D.

Maine History

Richard B. Singer; M.D., is a consultant in medical risk appraisal and lives in Falmouth, Maine. He and Frank Siebert went to school together in the late 1920s. At a class reunion in 1980, they rediscovered each other and have corresponded since. In what follows, Singer describes their encounters over the past seven decades.

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Some Memories Of Frank Siebert, Dean F. Snow Dec 1998

Some Memories Of Frank Siebert, Dean F. Snow

Maine History

Dean R. Snow, a professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University and author of numerous books and articles on the archaeology and ethnohistory of Native Northeastern America, was once on the faculty of the University of Maine at Orono and was a frequent visitor at Indian Island. He has known Frank Siebert for almost thirty years and has this to say about Frank as colleague and as field worker.

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Journal Cover, Toc, And Preface, Maine Historical Society, Willard Walker, Harald E. L. Prins Dec 1998

Journal Cover, Toc, And Preface, Maine Historical Society, Willard Walker, Harald E. L. Prins

Maine History

Cover, Editors and Editorial Board and Table of Contents with authors names. Also Preface.

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Encounters With Frank Siebert, Ives Goddard Dec 1998

Encounters With Frank Siebert, Ives Goddard

Maine History

Ives Goddard, Curator of the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, is the author of “Eastern Algonquian Languages," in The Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 15. He co-authored, with Kathleen f. Bragdon, Native Writings n Massachusetts and more recently edited The Handbook Of North American Indians, Vol. 17, Languages.

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Siebert As Algonquianist, Karl Van Duyn Teeter Dec 1998

Siebert As Algonquianist, Karl Van Duyn Teeter

Maine History

Karl V. (van Duyn) Teeter learned Japanese as a U.S. Army draftee during the Korean War. Upon his discharge from the military in 1954 he went to Berkeley, majoring in Oriental Languages. He entered Berkeley ’s linguistics program and did fieldwork with the last speaker of Wiyot, a language indigenous to northern California that has since been demonstrated to be genetically related to all the Algonquian languages. After coming to Harvard in 1959 he studied Maliseet-Passamaquoddy and, for several years, chaired Harvard’s linguistics department. He is now Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus at Harvard. What follows is his assessment of Frank …

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My Relationship With Frank Siebert, Richard Garrett Dec 1998

My Relationship With Frank Siebert, Richard Garrett

Maine History

The next essay was written by Richard Garrett, who created the Penobscot Primer Project, a continuing exhibit at the Hudson Museum, University of Maine. Garrett lives in Wellington, Maine and, since 1995, has been the Principal Investigator and Project Director of the Siebert Project, funded by the National Science Foundation.

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Siebert And His Correspondence, Paul Proulx Dec 1998

Siebert And His Correspondence, Paul Proulx

Maine History

Paul Proulx is certainly one of the most insightful and prolific of the many scholars who share Frank Siebert's fascination with the Algonquian languages, their histories, and their implications for the reconstruction of the social and cultural histories and prehistories of the Algonquian peoples and their precursors. His description of some encounters with Frank Siebert follows.

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Chronicles Of Dr. Frank T. Siebert Jr ., Martha Young Dec 1998

Chronicles Of Dr. Frank T. Siebert Jr ., Martha Young

Maine History

Martha Young, who has written twenty-two grant applications in the last ten years for educational, research, and community projects, lives in Wellington, Maine, with her husband, Richard Garrett, and, since 1995, has been Frank Siebert’s research assistant. She wrote the following account of Frank and her relationship with him. This is followed by a Siebert bibliography that she and Frank compiled together.

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Bibliography Of Frank T. Siebert, Frank Siebert, Martha Young Dec 1998

Bibliography Of Frank T. Siebert, Frank Siebert, Martha Young

Maine History

Bibliography of Frank T. Siebert as appended to Chronicles of Dr. Frank T. Siebert

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Airplay, Vol. 20, No. 3, Maine Public Broadcasting Network Dec 1998

Airplay, Vol. 20, No. 3, Maine Public Broadcasting Network

Airplay: MPBN Radio Program Guide

Airplay is published to provide the most thorough information possible about MPBN Radio and its programs, hopefully in a visually appealing way. Each month of Airplay features works by Maine artists and photographers on its cover. Maine Public Broadcasting Network Radio is a member of National Public Radio (NPR) and the Eastern Public Radio Network (EPRN). Maine Public Broadcasting was founded by the University of Maine System and Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Colleges.

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Book Review Of "Of Flies, Mice, And Men: On The Revolution In Molecular Biology, By One Of The Scientists Who Helped Make It" By François Jacob, Nancy Curtis Dec 1998

Book Review Of "Of Flies, Mice, And Men: On The Revolution In Molecular Biology, By One Of The Scientists Who Helped Make It" By François Jacob, Nancy Curtis

Library Staff Publications

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Tb170: The Flora And Plant Communities Of Maine Peatlands, Dennis S. Anderson, Ronald B. Davis Dec 1998

Tb170: The Flora And Plant Communities Of Maine Peatlands, Dennis S. Anderson, Ronald B. Davis

Technical Bulletins

The objectives of this study are (1) to classify and describe the plant communities of Maine peatlands, (2 ) to demonstrate the relationships between the communities, (3) to characterize the communities in terms of physical and chemical variables, (4) to show the geographic distribution of the communities, (5) to investigate the relationships between plant communities and peatland geomorphic/hydrologic types, (6) to report the areal cover of vegetation cover-types (aggregated communities ) for individual peatlands, and (7) to document the flora of Maine's peatlands, including vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens.

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Importance Of Suspended Particulates In Riverine Delivery Of Bioavailable Nitrogen To Coastal Zones, Lawrence M. Mayer, R. G. Keil, S. A. Macko, S. B. Joye, K. C. Ruttenberg, R. C. Aller Dec 1998

Importance Of Suspended Particulates In Riverine Delivery Of Bioavailable Nitrogen To Coastal Zones, Lawrence M. Mayer, R. G. Keil, S. A. Macko, S. B. Joye, K. C. Ruttenberg, R. C. Aller

Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Total nitrogen (TN) loadings in riverine sediments and their coastal depocenters were compared for Il river systems worldwide to assess the potential impact of riverine particulates on coastal nitrogen budgets. Strong relationships between sediment specific surface area and TN allow these impacts to be estimated without the intense sampling normally required to achieve such budgets. About half of the systems showed higher nitrogen loadings in the riverine sediments than those from the coastal depocenter. In spite of uncertainties, these comparisons indicate that large, turbid rivers, such as the Amazon, Huanghe, and the Mississippi, deliver sediments that in turn release significant …

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Racial Prejudice And Support By Whites For Police Use Of Force : A Research Note, Steven E. Barkan, Steven F. Cohn Dec 1998

Racial Prejudice And Support By Whites For Police Use Of Force : A Research Note, Steven E. Barkan, Steven F. Cohn

Sociology School Faculty Scholarship

The use of force by police in a democratic society continues to be controversial. Despite the theoretical and practical importance of police use of force, little is known about the sources of public attitudes toward it. Recent research suggests that whites' approval of police use of force may derive partly from racial prejudice against African Americans. In this paper we test this possibility with data from the 1990 General Social Survey and find that negative stereotypes of African Americans contribute to whites' support for police use of excessive force. We also address the theoretical and pragmatic significance of our findings.

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Etymology Of Tuscarora, Blair A. Rudes Dec 1998

Etymology Of Tuscarora, Blair A. Rudes

Maine History

Dr. Blair A. Rudes has conducted linguistic and ethnographic work with members of the Tuscarora Nation of Indians in New York State since the early 1970s. In 1987 he published with Dorothy Crouse, a Tuscarora and historian, a two-volume collection of texts in Tuscarora and English entitled The Tuscarora Legacy of J.N.B. Hewitt: Materials for the Study of the Tuscarora Language and Culture. He is presently completing a dictionary of the Tuscarora language. Dr. Rudes received his doctorate in linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976.

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Topological Equivalence And Similarity In Multi-Representation Geographic Databases, Joao Argemiro De Carvalho Paiva Dec 1998

Topological Equivalence And Similarity In Multi-Representation Geographic Databases, Joao Argemiro De Carvalho Paiva

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Geographic databases contain collections of spatial data representing the variety of views for the real world at a specific time. Depending on the resolution or scale of the spatial data, spatial objects may have different spatial dimensions, and they may be represented by point, linear, or polygonal features, or combination of them. The diversity of data that are collected over the same area, often from different sources, imposes a question of how to integrate and to keep them consistent in order to provide correct answers for spatial queries. This thesis is concerned with the development of a tool to check …

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Maine Perspective, V 10, I 7, Department Of Public Affairs, University Of Maine Nov 1998

Maine Perspective, V 10, I 7, Department Of Public Affairs, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

The Maine Perspective, a publication for the University of Maine, was a campus newsletter produced by the Department of Public Affairs which eventually transformed into the Division of Marketing and Communication. Regular columns included the UM Calendar, Ongoing Events, People in Perspective, Look Who's on Campus, In Focus, and Along the Mall. The weekly newsletter also included position openings on campus as well as classified ads. Included in this issue is coverage of a report from the UMaine Diversity Task Force which set forth seven campus goals; a personal profile piece about Ted Wells; and a graduate student's research looking …

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Deglacial Radiocarbon Chronology Of The Western Ross Sea From Relative Sea-Level Curves, George H. Denton, Brenda Hall Nov 1998

Deglacial Radiocarbon Chronology Of The Western Ross Sea From Relative Sea-Level Curves, George H. Denton, Brenda Hall

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

This award provides support for one year of funding to perform carbon-14 analyses on samples (seal skin and Adamussium colbecki shells) collected in firm stratigraphic position within numerous raised beaches along the Scott Coast of the western Ross Sea, Antarctica. These measurements will enable the development of a radiocarbon chronology and will result in detailed relative sea- level curves for five separate localities along the Scott Coast. These relative sea-level curves will help to constrain the timing of deglaciation in the western Ross Sea. During the last glaciation, West Antarctic ice expanded into the Ross Sea, merged with East Antarctic …

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Maine Campus November 23 1998, Maine Campus Staff Nov 1998

Maine Campus November 23 1998, Maine Campus Staff

Maine Campus Archives

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Soluble Species In Aerosol And Snow And Their Relationship At Glacier 1, Tien Shan, China, Junying Sun, Dahe Qin, Paul Andrew Mayewski, Jack E. Dibb, Sallie Whitlow, Zhongqin Li, Qinzhao Yang Nov 1998

Soluble Species In Aerosol And Snow And Their Relationship At Glacier 1, Tien Shan, China, Junying Sun, Dahe Qin, Paul Andrew Mayewski, Jack E. Dibb, Sallie Whitlow, Zhongqin Li, Qinzhao Yang

Earth Science Faculty Scholarship

Simultaneous sampling of aerosol (n = 20) and snow (n = 114) was made at Glacier 1, Tien Shan, between May 19 and June 29, 1996. Similar temporal patterns of some major ion (calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, chloride, and sulfate) concentrations between snow and aerosol show that snow chemistry basically reflects changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere. This gives us confidence in the reconstruction of past atmospheric change using some snow data. There are no significant correlations between aerosol and snow samples for ammonium and nitrate. This suggests that postdepositional and/or postcollection processes may alter ammonium and …

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Maine Campus November 20 1998, Maine Campus Staff Nov 1998

Maine Campus November 20 1998, Maine Campus Staff

Maine Campus Archives

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Maine Campus November 16 1998, Maine Campus Staff Nov 1998

Maine Campus November 16 1998, Maine Campus Staff

Maine Campus Archives

No abstract provided.

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Maine Campus November 13 1998, Maine Campus Staff Nov 1998

Maine Campus November 13 1998, Maine Campus Staff

Maine Campus Archives

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Maine Perspective, V 10, I 6, Department Of Public Affairs, University Of Maine Nov 1998

Maine Perspective, V 10, I 6, Department Of Public Affairs, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

The Maine Perspective, a publication for the University of Maine, was a campus newsletter produced by the Department of Public Affairs which eventually transformed into the Division of Marketing and Communication. Regular columns included the UM Calendar, Ongoing Events, People in Perspective, Look Who's on Campus, In Focus, and Along the Mall. The weekly newsletter also included position openings on campus as well as classified ads. Articles include "Healthcare Project Focuses on Rural Maine Elderly;" "Psychologists Study Effect of Stress on Cancer Survival;" "Graduate Student Center a Community Focal Point;" and "UMaine Scientist Part of Chinese Antarctic Research Voyage."

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