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Association Of State Wetland Managers 2013 Annual Report, Association Of State Wetland Managers

Documents from Environmental Organizations

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Retrieving Marine Inherent Optical Properties From Satellites Using Temperature And Salinitydependent Backscattering By Seawater, P. Jeremy Werdell, Bryan A. Franz, Jason T. Lefler, Wayne D. Robinson, Emmanuel Boss

Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Time-series of marine inherent optical properties (IOPs) from ocean color satellite instruments provide valuable data records for studying long-term time changes in ocean ecosystems. Semi-Analytical algorithms (SAAs) provide a common method for estimating IOPs from radiometric measurements of the marine light field. Most SAAs assign constant spectral values for seawater absorption and backscattering, assume spectral shape functions of the remaining constituent absorption and scattering components (e.g., phytoplankton, non-Algal particles, and colored dissolved organic matter), and retrieve the magnitudes of each remaining constituent required to match the spectral distribution of measured radiances. Here, we explore the use of temperature- and salinity-dependent …

Ideas: Inquiry-Based Dynamic Earth Applications Of Supercomputing, Seeing The Big Picture With Information Technology, Bruce E. Segee, Yifeng Zhu, Peter O. Koons

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

The goals of the project were to increase the level and volume of information technologies in the classroom and to promote inquiry-based learning. The project was tightly integrated with the Maine Learning Technology Initiative that puts a laptop computer into the hands of every 7th and 8th grade student and teacher. It was also tightly integrated with the University of Maine Supercomputer. Through the use of technology, students were able to ask “what if questions and find and visualize the answers to their questions. The focus of the inquiry was dynamic Earth modelling. This included geological evolution of the earth …

Ideas: Inquiry-Based Dynamic Earth Applications Of Supercomputing, Seeing The Big Picture With Information Technology, Bruce E. Segee, Yifeng Zhu, Peter O. Koons

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

This project will connect researchers at the University of Maine with students and middle school teachers, both at the University (during a summer workshop) and at participating schools (during the academic year) to utilize computer modeling and visualization of geological processes in the classroom. The proposed project will have 60 participating teachers each with 120 contact hours at the University of Maine, as well as 180 students, each with 20 contact hours at the University of Maine. The focus of this project is to integrate computational modeling with the existing science curriculum at the middle school level. This will be …

Resistance To Oxidative Stress Is Not Associated With The Exceptional Longevity Of The Freshwater Pearl Mussel, Margaritifera Margaritifera Nor Three Unionid Species, T. J. Bowden, Iain Ridgeway, A. Roman-Gonzalez

Journal Articles

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Bath Road Master Plan, Wiscasset, Maine, T. Y. Lin International, Mlrd Landscape Architecture + Urbanism, Kevin Hooper Associates, Planning Decisions Inc.

Maine Town Documents

The Wiscasset Bath Road Master Plan seeks to maximize development opportunities along Bath Road through the strategic coordination of traffic infrastructure improvements, land use policies and design standards while maintaining or improving the mobility and safety of U.S. Route 1. By planning for growth, Bath Road will increase safety, reduce congestion and enhance the visual character. Ultimately, this Master Plan is intended to help Wiscasset (the Town) shape a future for Bath Road and surrounding areas that reflects the needs and values of the community and preserves the Midcoast Region’s most important arterial highway. The Plan covers the areas adjacent …

Betty Jane Meggers (December 5, 1921 - July 2, 2012), Monica Barnes

Andean Past

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Betty Meggers: Her Later Years, William I. Woods

Andean Past

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Reminiscences Of A Stalwart Adversary, Robert L. Carneiro

Andean Past

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Bibliography Of Works By And About Betty Jane Meggers

Andean Past

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Daniel Edward Shea (November 5, 1941-June 19, 2012), Mario A. Rivera

Andean Past

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Alberto Rex Gonzalez (November 16, 1918 - March 28, 2012), Luis Alberto Borrero

Andean Past

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The Waywaka Gold: New Chronometric Evidence, Joel W. Grossman

Andean Past

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Addresses Of Authors (Articles And Obituaries) Andean Past 11

Andean Past

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Duccio Bonavia Berber (March 27, 1935-August 4, 2012), Ramiro Matos Mendieta

Andean Past

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Reserch Reports On Andean Archaeology Andean Past 11, Joel W. Grossman, Monica Barnes, Javier J. Patane

Andean Past

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Dating The Wari Remains At Espiritu Pampa (Vilcabamba, Cusco), Javier Fonseca Santa Cruz, Brian S. Bauer

Andean Past

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Environmental Catastrophe And The Archaeological Record: Complexities Of Volcanism, Floods, And Farming In South Coastal Peru, A.D. 1200-1700, Gregory Zaro, Kenneth C. Nystrom, David K. Keefer

Andean Past

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Exchange And Ritual Funerary Consumption: Late Marine Hunter-Gatherers Of The Taltal Coast (Atacama Desert, Northern Chile), Nicole Fuenzalida B., Francisco Gallardo I.

Andean Past

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Social Differentiation As Indicated By Archaeological Data From Late Moche Households At Galindo, Moche Valley, Peru, Gregory D. Lockard

Andean Past

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The Domestic Occupation Of Campanayuq Rumi: Implications For Understanding The Initial Period And Early Horizon Of The South-Central Andes Of Peru, Yuichi Matsumoto, Yuri Cavero Palomino, Roy Gutierrez Silva

Andean Past

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Regionalism In Nasca Style History, Patrick Carmichael

Andean Past

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Faculty Forum : Signature And Emerging Programs, University Of Maine Office Of Academic Affairs

General University of Maine Publications

On December 3, 2013, University of Maine Provost Jeffrey E. Hecker held the first of three Academic Affairs Faculty Forums. The forums are designed as an opportunity for faculty to discuss and provide input on various Academic Affairs initiatives arising from the Blue Sky Project. The December 3rd forum focused on "Signature and Emerging Programs".

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Maine Campus December 09 2013, Maine Campus Staff

Maine Campus Archives

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Synthesizing Population, Health, And Place, Martin Raubal, Geoffrey Jacquez, John Wilson, Werner Kuhn

Journal of Spatial Information Science

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An Interactive Bibliography On Temporal Gis, Willington Siabato, Christophe Claramunt, Miguel Ángel Bernabé-Poveda

Journal of Spatial Information Science

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Formalizing Spatiotemporal Knowledge In Remote Sensing Applications To Improve Image Interpretation, Christelle Pierkot, Samuel Andrés, Jean François Faure, Frédérique Seyler

Journal of Spatial Information Science

Technological tools allow the generation of large volumes of data. For example satellite images aid in the study of spatiotemporal phenomena in a range of disciplines such as urban planning environmental sciences and health care. Thus remote-sensing experts must handle various and complex image sets for their interpretations. The GIS community has undertaken significant work in describing spatiotemporal features and standard specifications nowadays provide design foundations for GIS software and spatial databases. We argue that this spatiotemporal knowledge and expertise would provide invaluable support for the field of image interpretation. As a result we propose a high level conceptual framework …

Multi-Scale Window Specification Over Streaming Trajectories, Kostas Patroumpas

Journal of Spatial Information Science

Enormous amounts of positional information are collected by monitoring applications in domains such as fleet management cargo transport wildlife protection etc. With the advent of modern location-based services processing such data mostly focuses on providing real-time response to a variety of user requests in continuous and scalable fashion. An important class of such queries concerns evolving trajectories that continuously trace the streaming locations of moving objects like GPS-equipped vehicles commodities with RFID's people with smartphones etc. In this work we propose an advanced windowing operator that enables online incremental examination of recent motion paths at multiple resolutions for numerous point …

The Semantic Similarity Ensemble, Andrea Ballatore, Michela Bertolotto, David C. Wilson

Journal of Spatial Information Science

Computational measures of semantic similarity between geographic terms provide valuable support across geographic information retrieval data mining and information integration. To date a wide variety of approaches to geo-semantic similarity have been devised. A judgment of similarity is not intrinsically right or wrong but obtains a certain degree of cognitive plausibility depending on how closely it mimics human behavior. Thus selecting the most appropriate measure for a specific task is a significant challenge. To address this issue we make an analogy between computational similarity measures and soliciting domain expert opinions which incorporate a subjective set of beliefs perceptions hypotheses and …

Semantic And Conceptual Issues In Geographic Information Systems, Eliseo Clementini, Esteban Zimanyi

Journal of Spatial Information Science

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