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Undergraduate Schedule Of Classes For 2008, Fall [Full Fall Semester Session] | Academic Calendar | Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar, Stony Brook University

Calendars

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Plumage Ornamentation As An Indicator Of Female Age And An Influence In Male Mate Choice In Protonotaria Citrea, The Prothonotary Warbler In Virginia., Terry Smith

Theses and Dissertations

Flamboyant plumage and ornamentation is common and well-known in male birds; it serves as a sexual display to attract potential mates. While flamboyant plumage is less common and usually more subtle in female birds, it does occur in some species such as Dark-Eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis) and Prothonotary Warblers (Protonotaria citrea). Prothonotary Warblers display relatively subtle sexual dimorphism. This study examines variations in tail spot patterns in Prothonotary Warblers and relates those variations to age in females. Females with fewer than six spots tend to be two years old or younger; females with six spots or more tend to be …

Interview With Patrick Schmidt, Professor Political Science, Patrick Schmidt

Political Science Department Oral Histories

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2008 Commencement Program, Richard Pimentel

Commencement Archives 2000-09

The program for the PSU Commencement ceremony on June 14, 2008.

Richard Pimentel, author, trainer, speaker, and disability rights advocate, delivered the commencement address and was awarded an honorary doctorate by PSU Interim President Michael Reardon. Tamam W. Waritu, Class of 2008, delivered the student address.

Washington University Record, June 12, 2008

Washington University Record

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Two Cal Poly Faculty Members To Receive The University’S Annual Distinguished Scholarship Award, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

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The Track Record On Takings Legislation: Lessons From Democracy's Laboratories, John D. Echeverria, Thekla Hansen-Young

Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute Papers & Reports

This report by the Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute, entitled "The Track Record on Takings Legislation: Lessons from Democracy's Laboratories," examines the experiences of Florida, Oregon, and several other states with legislation implementing the property rights agenda. The report is the first comprehensive effort to systematically identify and evaluate the on-the-ground consequences of so-called takings "compensation" laws. The major findings of the report are that the takings agenda has undermined community protections by forcing a roll back of existing legal rules and/or by exerting a chilling effect on new legislative activity, special interests such as developers and timber companies …

Agenda: Shifting Baselines And New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, And The Transformation Of The American West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)

The Center’s 29th annual conference will focus on the changes in the West resulting from rapid population growth, development, disrupted historical weather patterns and the effects of those changes on land, water, and energy resources. Speakers and panelists will address the adaptability of the legal and political institutions and how the transformation of the West may foreshadow fundamental changes to these institutions.

The agenda includes panel discussions that will address:

• Water for the 21^st Century —the big questions in Western water and rethinking Western water law.
• The Future of Energy —practical and sophisticated solutions to overcome the energy …

Loss Of ‘Bio-Guards’ Endangering Humans Says Professor, Rachel Hatch

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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Central Washington University Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 2008-2009, Central Washington University

Course Catalogs

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Climate Change Education And The Ecological Footprint, Eugene C. Cordero, Anne Marie Todd, Diana Abellera

Faculty Publications, Meteorology and Climate Science

Global warming has become one of the most important scientific, political, and social issues of our era. In designing an effective mitigation strategy, it is clear that public education must play an important role. This study looks at various components of climate change literacy within a cohort of university students and investigates the impact of action-oriented learning on student understanding. Results from questionnaires given to primarily nonscience students enrolled in weather and climate courses are used to examine student knowledge of climate change. In agreement with prior research, this study finds that signif icant student misconceptions exist regarding the causes …

Climate Change Education And The Ecological Footprint, E. Cordero, Anne Marie Todd, D. Abellerra

Faculty Publications

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An Overview Of Outdoor Experiential Education In Canadian K-12 Schools, Mary Breunig & Tim O'Connell

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look at the mountains and the stars up above. Let them look at the beauty of the waters and the trees and flowers on earth. They will then begin to think, and to think is the beginning of a real education. - David Polis

In January, the authors of this paper spent an afternoon at the Norval Outdoor School in Norval, Ontario. It was a cold day. The ground was blanketed with a layer of new fallen snow and a group of 5th grade students were engaged in a form …

Uwlaw, Spring 2008, Vol. 57

Alumni Magazines

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The Endangered Species Act: A New Avenue For Climate Change Litigation, Sarah Jane Morath

Public Land & Resources Law Review

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Special Offer! - Civilization And Assimilation (Houses Not Included), Summer Nelson

Public Land & Resources Law Review

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Analysis Of Spatial Distribution Of Hazardous Wastes In Semcog Region, Michigan, Junfang Chen

Masters Theses

This research is devoted to an increasingly recognized issue: environmental injustice, that is, the distribution of environmental risks and/ hazards are disproportionably distributed in the space in terms of the effects on the victims. Specifically, this thesis focuses on an analysis of the spatial distribution of hazardous materials from fixed incidents and the characteristics of neighborhoods living near the incident sites, so as to test the hypothesized relationships that poor people and minority people live near the incident sites. SEMCOG region, Michigan is chosen as the study area due to its frequent occurrence of incidents involving environmental hazards. It is …

Unlv Sustainability Task Force Report, David M. Hassenzahl

Reports (USI)

The UNLV Sustainability Task Force has completed its mission to provide you with recommendations as to how UNLV can best pursue sustainability ideals. The attached report contains our conclusions and recommendations, along with appendices containing supporting materials and details.

Furman Magazine. Volume 51, Issue 1 - Full Issue, Furman University

Furman Magazine

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Hope For India's Future: Renewable Energy For Rural Areas, Kartikeya Singh '07

Furman Magazine

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Helping The World Think Green, Furman University

Furman Magazine

Two young alumni pursue yearlong projects designed to promote environmental responsibility.

Harnessing The Power Of Science In Environmental Law: Why We Should, Why We Don't, And How We Can, Mary Jane Angelo

UF Law Faculty Publications

To illustrate how legal scholars, lawmakers, environmental agencies, and practicing lawyers have attempted to incorporate new scientific developments into environmental law, particularly in the administrative context, this Article traces the journeys of three distinct scientific developments -- risk assessment, adaptive management, and emergy synthesis -- from scientific academia to environmental administrative law. The Article concludes by making observations about what types of scientific developments are most likely to be incorporated into the law and suggesting ways for improving the likelihood that new beneficial developments will be adopted to inform the law.

An Assessment Of The Biases Of Satellite Rainfall Estimates Over The Tibetan Plateau And Correction Methods Based On Topographic Analysis, Zhi-Yong Yin, Xueqin Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Mike Colella, Xiaoling Chen

Environmental and Ocean Sciences: Faculty Scholarship

The hydrological processes over the Tibetan Plateau have significant implications on regional macroscale atmospheric circulation patterns and the Asian monsoon system. Because of its remote setting and lack of ground observations, it is difficult to study the spatial and temporal patterns of precipitation over the plateau, and satellite remote sensing technology can be used to fill in the gaps where station data are not available. In this study the authors examine monthly 1° × 1° rainfall estimates obtained from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) [National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) algorithm] and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) …

Gordie News, June/July 2008, West Chester University Of Pennsylvania

Gordon Natural Area History & Strategic Plan Documents

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Creating Web-Based Environmental Education Resources Through Community And University Partnerships, Renata Phelps, Carrie Maddison, Keith Skamp, Richard Braithwaite

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Community groups often seek to engage with schools in promoting environmental education goals. A collaborative initiative is described in which university pre-service teacher education students were encouraged to create Web-based teaching and learning resources, related to rainforests and world heritage areas, for use at primary and secondary levels. The partnership between Southern Cross University and the Advisory Committees of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area took the form of a voluntary competition, which was integrated with students’ university assessment requirements. The factors that influenced students’ decisions to get involved were identified through telephone interviews. Insight was also gained …

What Is Education For?: A Review Essay, Delmar Vander Zee

Pro Rege

Reviewed Titles: Orr, David W. Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect (Island Press, 1994; 2004); Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World (SUNY, 1992); and The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention (Oxford University Press, 2002).

Blanco V. Burton: What Did We Learn From Louisiana's Recent Ocs Challenge?, Ryan M. Seidmann, James G. Wilkins

Pace Environmental Law Review

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Limnological Assistance For The Lake Mead National Recreation Area In Meeting The Challenge Of The Water 2025 Initiative: Annual Report, Period Ending May 31, 2008, Margaret N. Rees

Limnological Studies

Hiring: Limnologist Dr. Wai Hing (David) Wong was hired and officially reported to work on 5/15/2008.

Project 1 and Project 2: Dr. Wong has commenced work on Projects 1 and 2.

Project 3: Dr. Wong has commenced work on Project 3. A comprehensive zebra/quagga mussel bibliography has been completed and published to the 100th Meridian Web site. Six interagency, multi-disciplinary quagga mussel meetings have been held. A quagga mussel substrate project has been initiated and, through the coordination efforts of this project, two other studies have been selected and refined to help determine the ecological impacts of quagga mussel infestation …

2008 Colloquium Program, Taylor University

Colloquium Programs

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2008 Printed Program, Taylor University

Colloquium Schedules

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