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Four Decades Of Andean Timberline Migration And Implications For Biodiversity Loss With Climate Change, David A. Lutz, Rebecca L. Powell, Miles R. Silman

Dartmouth Scholarship

Rapid 21st-century climate change may lead to large population decreases and extinction in tropical montane cloud forest species in the Andes. While prior research has focused on species migrations per se, ecotones may respond to different environmental factors than species. Even if species can migrate in response to climate change, if ecotones do not they can function as hard barriers to species migrations, making ecotone migrations central to understanding species persistence under scenarios of climate change. We examined a 42-year span of aerial photographs and high resolution satellite imagery to calculate migration rates of timberline–the grassland-forest ecotone–inside and outside of …

Legal Education For All (Or More Than Just Lawyers), Carol A. Parker

Faculty Scholarship

While the need to acquire a working understanding of our laws and regulations seems only to grow, access to legal information is still largely kept at a premium by legal educators, who provide it almost exclusively through the juris doctor degree.

Only a small percentage of American law schools offer master's-level legal-studies degrees, which are typically equivalent to taking two semesters' worth of law-school courses. These non-J.D. graduate degrees are aimed at students seeking knowledge about law, but combining such programs with subject matter drawn from other disciplines to create discrete programs remains rare.

Legal Education For All (Or More Than Just Lawyers), Carol A. Parker

Faculty Scholarship

Virtually every sector of today's economy would benefit from employing workers with more than superficial knowledge of the law. Fields potentially ripe for the concept include health-care policy, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, public affairs, banking, and environmental sciences, to name just a few. An interdisciplinary approach would provide graduates of these new programs with greater access to the job markets of interdisciplinary partners—something that traditional joint degrees based on combining the J.D. program with master's degrees from other disciplines rarely do.

2013 Proceedings Of The 20th Annual Summer Research Symposium, College Of The Holy Cross

Summer Research Program

The 2013 Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium, now in its 20th year, is a college-wide event that brings together faculty and students from all disciplines at Holy Cross and provides an opportunity to celebrate their accomplishments over the summer of 2013. This program lists participating students, the faculty with whom they worked and the abstracts of their projects.

The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 4 Issue 1, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program

The Fierce Green Fire

No abstract provided.

Uno Stem Strategic Plan, Uno Stem Leadership Team

Student Learning

The following document is a strategic plan for STEMeducation at UNO as of September 5, 2013. Thedocument represents nearly six months of strategicplanning discussions, meetings, and conversationsbetween those of us on the writing team and many ofyou, our colleagues and friends that share our passionfor excellence in STEM education at UNO. It is alsothe result of a review of our local STEM statistics, theprofessional literature on STEM learning, and a sampleof what other universities are doing to enhance STEMlearning on their campuses. The document is intended tobe a very dynamic one that will be revisited yearly as wecontinue to move …

Volume 111, Number 1 - Wednesday, September 4, 2013, Saint Mary's College Of California

The Collegian

No abstract provided.

Course Catalog 2013-14, Wellesley College

The Wellesley College Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Raziskovalna Produktivnost In Ustvarjanje Znanja V Slovenskih Ekonomsko-Poslovnih Šolah, Simon Čadež, Vlado Dimovski, Katja Okorn

Economic and Business Review

The article analyses research productivity and knowledge creation at three leading Slovenian business schools in the period from 2000 to 2011. Research productivity, content and quality of new knowledge created are measured using the bibliometric method, and research productivity is also compared between schools and between individual researchers. The main findings of the study are: (1) research productivity over the period studied tends to increase, (2) much of the knowledge created is not in the field of economics and business, (3) the quality of new knowledge created is relatively low, and the creation of cutting-edge knowledge is low, (4) research …

Restraurant Regions : An Ecological Community Based Model Of Restaurant Chain Distribution In The United States, Stephen Griego

Geography ETDs

The scope of this paper is an exercise in regional identification within the geography of the United States. This paper applied a hierarchical clustering methodology to analyze the distribution of restaurants in the landscape. The clustering model utilized in this study is commonly used in analysis of ecological communities. Each restaurant chain was treated as an individual biological species, and the clustering software analyzed it as such. The individual restaurant chain locations were treated as individual samples in the environment. Wards (1963) algorithm was used to group the individual restaurant chain locations into related clusters using simple correlation as the …

Assessing Uncertainty In Volunteered Geographic Information For Emergency Response, Michael Camponovo

Geography ETDs

This research project examines data produced by volunteers through the Ushahidi web platform in response to the earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010. Volunteers translated messages submitted by victims in Haiti, categorized each message based on its content, and georeferenced each message on a dynamic web based map. When categorizing the data, volunteers were able to assign up to 8 main and 42 subcategories to each message. Initial inspection of the attribute data produced by the volunteers indicated a strong discrepancy between the contents of the messages submitted by the victims and the corresponding attributes assigned to those messages …

Faculty Senate Committee Book (September 2013), Csusb Faculty Senate

CSUSB Faculty Senate records

No abstract provided.

Integral Review Vol 9. No 3, September 2013 Full Issue, Bahman Shirazi

Founders Symposium

The articles included in this special issue of Integral Review represent a wide range of integral scholarship at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), founded in 1968 in San Francisco by Dr. Haridas and Bina Chaudhuri. Haridas Chaudhuri arrived in the United States in 1951 upon an invitation by professor Frederick Spiegelberg of Stanford University who was charged with directing a newly founded independent graduate school (American Academy of Asian Studies) devoted to introducing Asian studies to American higher education. Spiegelberg had traveled to India in the late 1940s to research the contemporary practices of the ancientspiritual traditions of …

Men's Golf Media Guide 2013-2014, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Cross Country And Track Media Guide 2013-2014, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Men's Soccer Media Guide 2013, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Football Media Guide 2013, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Men's Soccer Media Guide 2013, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Volleyball Media Guide 2013, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Women's Golf Media Guide 2013-2014, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Daily Announcements September 2013, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Communications Office Daily Announcements

No abstract provided.

Integration Of Sustainability In Higher Education: Three Case Studies Of Curricular Implementation, David Gosselin, Rod Parnell, Nicholas J. Smith-Sebasto, Shirley Vincent

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The integration of sustainability into higher education academic programs is occurring at an accelerated pace in response to international and national imperatives to rethink the way it serves the needs of society. Three case studies from the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, Northern Arizona University, and Kean University (NJ) outlines the academic structure, program, resources, the motivation and mechanisms for curricular change, key sustainability-learning outcomes and program goals, curricular changes, and assessment strategies these institutions used to integrate sustainability into their undergraduate curriculum. These three case studies exhibit several commonalities. They emphasize systems thinking and explicitly link human behavior and ecological …

The Faculty Notebook, September 2013, Provost's Office

Faculty Notebook

The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest. Faculty are encouraged to submit materials for consideration for publication to the Associate Provost for Faculty Development. Copies of this publication are available at the Office of the Provost.

Early Cenozoic Evolution Of Topography, Climate, And Stable Isotopes In Precipitation In The North American Cordillera, Ran Feng, Christopher J. Poulsen, Martin Werner, C. Page Chamberlain, Hari T. Mix, Andreas Mulch

Environmental Studies and Sciences

Paleoelevation reconstructions of the North American Cordillera inferred from the oxygen (δ¹⁸O) and hydrogen (δD) isotope ratios of terrestrial paleoclimate proxy materials (soils, ashes, lake sediments) suggest rapid north-to-south migration of topography in the early Cenozoic (pre-49 Ma to 28 Ma). The validation of this reconstruction relies on an accurate understanding of the δ¹⁸Op and the associated regional climate change in response to the uplift of the western North America. Here we study this response using a global climate model (GCM) with explicit δ¹⁸Op diagnostics (ECHAM5-wiso) focusing on the isotopic effects of different types of precipitation, vapor mixing, recycling and …

College Of Arts And Sciences E-News Issue 5: September 2013, College Of Arts And Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

No abstract provided.

Ice Research News, Vol. 3, No. 1 - September 2013, Clemson University

ICE Research News (Biannual Newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Linfield University Catalog, 2013-2014, Linfield Archives

Student Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

The Optical Properties And Chemical Composition Of Po Valley Fog Water, Lydia Jahl

Interface Compendium of Student Work

This poster, entitled "The Optical Properties and Chemical Composition of Po Valley Fog Water," was used for the summer research poster session at Harvey Mudd College in September, 2013. It details the work completed through the HMC chemistry department at a research facility in Bologna, Italy.

Inserting Migrants Into The Global Social Protection Floor, Marie-Hélène Ratel, Gabriel Williams, Keegan Williams

International Migration Research Centre

• The social protection floor (SPF) is a global initiative led by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to provide social security to vulnerable groups.
• The SPF neglects the rapidly growing population of international migrants and focusses principally on citizens from lower-income countries.
• The SPF requires a method to evaluate the social protection gap that exists between citizens and non-citizens in countries that receive migrants in order to improve protections for all.
• The SPF Advisory Group must collaborate more closely with transit and receiving countries, middle- and high-income countries, and regional organizations to reduce the gaps in social protection between citizens and …

Ensc 360.01: Applied Ecology, Vicki J. Watson

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.