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Association Of State Wetland Managers Annual Report 2011, Association Of State Wetland Managers

Documents from Environmental Organizations

No abstract provided.

The Olive Tree, Vol. 5 Number 1, 1997

The Olive Tree

The Winter 1997 issue of The Olive Tree features articles about library projects, collections, technological innovations, and events at Fogler Library, University of Maine.

The Olive Tree, Vol. 6 Number 1, 1998

The Olive Tree

The Spring 1998 issue of The Olive Tree features articles about library projects, collections, technological innovations, and events at Fogler Library, University of Maine.

The Olive Tree, Vol. 7 Number 1, 1999

The Olive Tree

The Summer 1999 issue of The Olive Tree features articles about library projects, collections, technological innovations, and events at Fogler Library, University of Maine.

Utilization Of Waste From A Marine Recirculating Fish Culture System As A Feed Source For The Polychaete Worm, Nereis Virens, Nicholas Brown, Stefanie Plaud, Stephen Eddy

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Maine Campus December 8 2011, Maine Campus Staff

Maine Campus Archives

No abstract provided.

The Olive Tree, Vol. 12 Number 1, 2004

The Olive Tree

The Summer 2004 issue of The Olive Tree features articles about library projects, collections, technological innovations, and events at Fogler Library, University of Maine.

The Olive Tree, Vol. 13 Number 2, 2005

The Olive Tree

The Fall 2005 issue of The Olive Tree features articles about library projects, collections, technological innovations, and events at Fogler Library, University of Maine.

The Olive Tree, Vol. 13 Number 1, 2005

The Olive Tree

The Spring 2005 issue of The Olive Tree features articles about library projects, collections, technological innovations, and events at Fogler Library, University of Maine.

The Olive Tree, Vol. 14 Number 1, 2006

The Olive Tree

The Spring 2006 issue of The Olive Tree features articles about library projects, collections, technological innovations, and events at Fogler Library, University of Maine.

Inferring Phytoplankton Carbon And Eco-Physiological Rates From Diel Cycles Of Spectral Particulate Beam-Attenuation Coefficient, G. Dall'olmo, E. Boss, M. J. Behrenfeld, T. K. Westberry, C. Courties, L. Prieur, M. Pujo-Pay, N. Hardman-Mountford, T. Moutin

Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship

The diurnal fluctuations in solar irradiance impose a fundamental frequency on ocean biogeochemistry. Observations of the ocean carbon cycle at these frequencies are rare, but could be considerably expanded by measuring and interpreting the inherent optical properties. A method is presented to analyze diel cycles in particulate beam-attenuation coefficient (cp) measured at multiple wavelengths. The method is based on fitting observations with a size-structured population model coupled to an optical model to infer the particle size distribution and physiologically relevant parameters of the cells responsible for the measured diel cycle in cp. Results show that the information related to size …

Publishing Scholarly Writing From The Editor's Point Of View, University Of Maine

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

This program brings three distinguished editors of leading journals to campus to discuss the scholarly publishing process: Robert Wilson of Phi Beta Kappa's The American Scholar, Stephen Depoe of Environmental Communication, and R. Brooks Hanson of Science. Each will give a public lecture and Q&A session in the Stodder Hall Graduate Commons on the scholarly publishing process in (respectively) humanities, social science, and science. Although intended primarily for graduate students and faculty, these events will be free, open to the public, and widely advertised. CETA will assist in organizing and advertising. The events will take place at 4 pm on …

Girls Engineer Maine Seminar, College Of Engineering

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The under-representation of women in engineering continues to be a cause of grave concern, particularly as international competitiveness focus attention on the need to increase native participation in the U.S. science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Engineering as a career is being promoted to girls through a new College of Engineering initiative called Girls Engineer Maine (GEM). GEM is an educational outreach program designed to increase the number of women studying engineering in Maine.

Emergent Behavior In A Coupled Economic And Coastline Model For Beach Nourishment, Eli D. Lazarus, D E. Mcnamara, M D. Smith, S Gopalakrishnan, A B. Murray

Publications

Developed coastal areas often exhibit a strong systemic coupling between shoreline dynamics and economic dynamics. "Beach nourishment", a common erosion-control practice, involves mechanically depositing sediment from outside the local littoral system onto an actively eroding shoreline to alter shoreline morphology. Natural sediment-transport processes quickly rework the newly engineered beach, causing further changes to the shoreline that in turn affect subsequent beach-nourishment decisions. To the limited extent that this landscape/economic coupling has been considered, evidence suggests that towns tend to employ spatially myopic economic strategies under which individual towns make isolated decisions that do not account for their neighbors. What happens …

Minerva 2011, The Honors College

Minerva

This issue of Minerva includes an article on four newly-hired Honors preceptors, Rob Glover, Sarah Harlan-Haughey, Jordan LaBouff, and Justin Martin; a feature on Honors award, scholarship, and fellowship winners; and an article on the Honors College collaboration with the IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Infrastructure (INBRE) National Genomics Research Initiative.

Maine Campus December 1 2011, Maine Campus Staff

Maine Campus Archives

No abstract provided.

Legal Needs Assessment Of Older Adults In Maine: 2011 Survey Findings From Key Populations Of Older Adults, Lenard Kaye, Jennifer Crittenden

Maine Center on Aging Research and Evaluation

The purpose of this report was to provide guidance to Legal Services for the elderly in developing outreach and services for older adults. Participants in the survey included 96 older adults who had recently experienced a benefits denial with assistance from the Maine Office of Elder Services, 125 homebound individuals, and 125 adults 70 years or older. Respondents were generally females over the age of 70 who were living with a disability and have lower incomes. The key legal issues in evaluation for future efforts include scams, obtaining or keeping government benefits, home repair problems, debt collection, and getting medical …

Synthesis And Characterization Of Catalysts For The Selective Transformation Of Biomass-Derived Materials, Isaac Tyrone Ghampson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The experimental work in this thesis focuses on generating catalysts for two intermediate processes related to the thermal conversion of lignocellulosic biomass: the synthesis and characterization of mesoporous silica supported cobalt catalysts for the Fischer-Tropsch reaction, and an exploration of the reactivity of bulk and supported molybdenum-based nitride catalysts for the hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of guaiacol, a lignin model compound. The first section of the work details the synthesis of a series of silicasupported cobalt Fischer-Tropsch catalysts with pore diameters ranging from 2-23 nm. Detailed X-ray diffraction measurements were used to determine the composition and particle diameters of the metal fraction, …

Financial Aid Annual Report Fy2011, University Of Maine System

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine System annual financial aid report

Development Of A Scale Model Wind Turbine For Testing Of Offshore Floating Wind Turbine Systems, Heather Rae Martin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis presents the development of a 1/50th scale 5 MW wind turbine intended for wind and wave basin model testing of commercially viable floating wind turbine structures. The design is based on a popular 5 MW wind turbine designed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) commonly utilized in numerical modeling efforts. The model wind turbine is to accompany generic floating model platforms for basin model testing. The ultimate goal of the model development testing program is to collect data for validating various floating wind turbine simulation codes such as those developed by NREL. This thesis will present an …

Adsorption And Diffusion Of Light Hydrocarbons In Ddr Zeolite, Adam Vidoni

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis reports the results of an experimental study aimed at characterizing the transport properties of DDR crystals (a pure silica zeolite analog) by the “zero length column” technique. This material is potentially useful as a size selective molecular sieve adsorbent for separation of CH₄ – CO₂ in the upgrading of low grade natural gas (or biogas) as well as for the separation of C₃H₆ - C₃H₈ for production of polypropylene. In both these applications pure silica zeolites (such as DDR) have important practical advantages over the traditional cationic zeolites since they …

Characterization Of Mesoporous Materials Via Fluorescent Spectroscopic Methods, Raymond Russell Kennard

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

There are three components that need to be understood to create new porous membranes for industrial applications. 1.) To understand appropriate synthesis conditions to create a successful membrane system. 2.) To understand how the microstructures generated in synthesis affect the transport properties of that system. 3) To be able to characterize the heterogeneity of the fabricated membrane’s transport and physical structure.

Presented within this manuscript are new characterization methods to increase the understanding in membrane technology. It will be demonstrated that the novel application of standard fluorescent methods and the development of new fluorescent methods techniques allows for the measurement …

The Olive Tree, Vol. 15 Number 2, 2007

The Olive Tree

The fall 1007 issue of The Olive Tree features articles about library projects, collections, technological innovations, and events at Fogler Library, University of Maine.

The Olive Tree, Vol. 15 Number 1, 2007

The Olive Tree

The spring 2007 issue of The Olive Tree features articles about library projects, collections, technological innovations, and events at Fogler Library, University of Maine.

Spatial Population Models In Spatiotemporally Structured Environments, David Hiebeler

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

Spatial effects, such as habitat fragmentation and the location and size of disturbance events, play a key role in the dynamics of populations. This is true in natural populations (such as herbs living under a forest canopy) as well as human-dominated systems (for example, crop pests in agricultural landscapes). Focusing on the development of spatial population models, the project seeks to better understand how and why spatially autocorrelated disturbances affect the dynamics of populations with mixtures of short- and long-distance dispersal. A variety of disturbances are considered, including (1) static disturbance, representing habitat heterogeneity across a landscape; (2) short-term disturbance …

The Olive Tree, Vol. 16 Number 1, 2008

The Olive Tree

The Spring 2008 issue of The Olive Tree features articles about library projects, collections, technological innovations, and events at Fogler Library, University of Maine.

The Olive Tree, Vol. 16 Number 2, 2008

The Olive Tree

The Fall 2008 issue of The Olive Tree features articles about library projects, collections, technological innovations, and events at Fogler Library, University of Maine.

Maine Campus November 17 2011, Maine Campus Staff

Maine Campus Archives

No abstract provided.

The Olive Tree, Vol.17 Number 1, 2009

The Olive Tree

The Spring 2009 issue of The Olive Tree features articles about library projects, collections, technological innovations, and events at Fogler Library, University of Maine.

The Olive Tree, Vol.17 Number 2, 2009

The Olive Tree

The Fall 2009 issue of The Olive Tree features articles about library projects, collections, technological innovations, and events at Fogler Library, University of Maine.