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The New Hampshire, Vol. 103 [104], No. 30 (Feb. 18, 2014), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 103, but it is the 104th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Great Book February 17, 2014, Ncsa

NCSA Materials

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Faculty Senate Bill Fsb-2014-02-17-02-Gac: Graduate Affairs Committee, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Bills, Motions & Resolutions (Archived)

Faculty Senate Bill FSB-2014-02-17-02-GAC: Graduate Affairs Committee

February 17, 2014 Aasu Faculty Senate Agenda, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Armstrong Faculty Senate Agenda (Archived)

February 17, 2014 AASU Faculty Senate Agenda

February 4, 2014 Aasu Graduate Affairs Committee Minutes, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong Office of the Registrar: Graduate Affairs Committee Minutes (Archived)

February 4, 2014 AASU Graduate Affairs Committee Minutes

Analyzing Geological Materials Under Martian Conditions Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy : Plasma Fundamentals, Sample Classification, And Trace Element Quanitification, Ann Ollila

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is an emission spectroscopy analysis technique that continues to be developed for the study of solids, liquids and gases. Geological applications for LIBS are a particularly exciting area of research, in part due to the capabilities of the technique to quickly and simultaneously detect nearly all major, minor and trace elements on unprepared samples either in a laboratory setting or in situ. A significant advancement in LIBS research is the recent deployment of ChemCam to the surface of Mars at Gale crater onboard the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, Curiosity. ChemCam consists of a LIBS instrument …

The Colby Echo (2014-02-13), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.

The Use Of Opal Phytolith Analysis In A Comprehensive Environmental Study: An Example From 19th-Century Lowell, Massachusetts, William F. Fisher, Gerald K. Kelso

Northeast Historical Archaeology

The value of opal phytolith analysis is demonstrated in a comprehensive environmental study of a historical site, the Kirk Street Agents' House, Lowell, Massachusett. A method to measure phytolith degradation percentages is tested and shown to yield similar results to pollen corrosion indices; further research on this new method is suggested, however. Fluctuations in two classes of grass phytoliths indicate changing environmental conditions that support and expand upon changes noted in the pollen spectra. The results of the phytolith analysis are integrated with information derived from documentary research, artifactual analysis, stratigraphic interpretation, and other ethnobotanical methods to arrive at conclusions …

2014-February-11-Etsu To Host North Carolina Poet Thomas Rain Crowe, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium 2014: 12th Annual (Abstracts), Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium Of Portland/Vancouver

Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium of Portland/Vancouver

The UERC is a consortium of people from various universities and colleges, state and federal agencies, local governments, non-profit organizations and independent professionals interested in supporting urban ecosystem research and creating an information-sharing network of people that collect and use ecological data in the Portland/Vancouver area.

UERC Mission Statement:

To advance the state of the science of urban ecosystems and improve our understanding of them, with a focus on the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan region, by fostering communication and collaboration among researchers, managers and citizens at academic institutions, public agencies, local governments, non-profit organizations, and other interested groups.

The principal organizers span …

Volume Cxxxi, Number 13, February 7, 2014, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 103 [104], No. 27 (Feb. 7, 2014), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 103, but it is the 104th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Chimes: February 7, 2014, Calvin College

Chimes

Board of trustees approves strategic plan for the next five years by Lauren DeHaan

Low numbers reported for faculty participation in diversity events by Ben Rietema

New online faculty evaluation form available to students by Alden Hartopo & Connor Sterchi

Calvin students develop new Android application for student news by Joe Mohan

Hackers hit big targets around the world by Jonathan Hielkema

DAAC to reopen doors following sudden closure by Nathan Slauer

Calvin softball's new culture by Brian Exner

The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 4 Issue 13, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program

The Fierce Green Fire

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V. 81, Issue 11, February 5, 2014

Archway (1946-2020)

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Minutes, Arts & Sciences Academic Affairs Committee Meeting, Tuesday, February 4, 2014, Arts & Sciences Academic Affairs Committee

Academic Affairs Committee Minutes

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 103 [104], No. 26 (Feb. 4, 2014), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 103, but it is the 104th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Harm To Species - Species, Ethics, And Climate Change: The Case Of The Polar Bear, Clare Palmer

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Examining Historical And Current Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes In Ponderosa Pine And Mixed-Conifer Forests Of Western North America, Dennis C. Odion, Chad T. Hanson, Andre Arsenault, William L. Baker, Dominick A. Dellasala, Richard L. Hutto, Walt Klenner, Max A. Moritz, Rosemary L. Sherriff, Thomas T. Veblen, Mark A. Williams

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

There is widespread concern that fire exclusion has led to an unprecedented threat of uncharacteristically severe fires in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex. Laws) and mixed-conifer forests of western North America. These extensive montane forests are considered to be adapted to a low/moderate-severity fire regime that maintained stands of relatively old trees. However, there is increasing recognition from landscape-scale assessments that, prior to any significant effects of fire exclusion, fires and forest structure were more variable in these forests. Biota in these forests are also dependent on the resources made available by higher-severity fire. A better understanding of …

The Free Press Vol 45 Issue 14, 02-03-2014, Kirsten Sylvain

Free Press, The

Tar sands oil debate hits Portland campus--Direction Package Board nears next phase--Officials discuss active shooter policies--Students to urge Board to go green

Academic Affairs Happenings, Volume 2, Issue 2, Office Of Academic Affairs, Roger Williams University

Academic Affairs Newsletter

The Newsletter is an ongoing publication that highlights the wide range of work in which RWU faculty and students are engaged.

Environmental Dispute Resolution Program: Year 2 Accomplishments: February 2013 – January 2014, Michele Straube

Environmental Dispute Resolution Program

The Stegner Center’s EDR Program encompasses four general categories of activity designed to support and expand the use of EDR in Utah and the Mountain West: academic instruction, capacity-building, public education, and facilitation/mediation services. One primary focus of this first year’s efforts was on meeting with a cross-section of stakeholder interests working on environmental and natural resource issues to introduce the new program and to get their insights on how the program can be most helpful in promoting constructive dialogue on these issues. An equally important focus was to start establishing a track record of accomplishments in each of the …

Baseball Media Guide 2014, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

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Administration And Finance Division Newsletter, Feb./Mar. 2014, San Jose State University, Administration And Finance Division

Administration and Finance Division Newsletter

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Counting Carbon: The Politics Of Carbon Footprints And Climate Governance From The Individual To The Global, James Morton Turner

Faculty Research and Scholarship

This article considers carbon footprints as a form of climate governance. Drawing on science studies to consider the contingent nature of calculative devices and governmentality studies to examine the intrinsic relationship between how problems are framed and remedied, this article advances two arguments. First, it argues that efforts to define and deploy carbon footprints contributed to a conceptual shift in emissions accounting, from a narrower metric focused on emissions from fossil fuel and electricity use—Carbon Footprint 1.0—to a more expansive metric that includes emissions embodied in consumption and trade—Carbon Footprint 2.0. Second, this article argues that these approaches to carbon …

Bard Free Press, Vol. 15, No. 5 (February 2014), Bard College

Bard Free Press - All Issues (2000-2018)

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Celebration Of Faculty Scholarship 2013, Olin Library

Celebration of Faculty Scholarship

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Discovery, February 2014, Office Of Vice President For Research

Research and Discovery News

• Discovery Experts Database Launches Mid-February

• Sampi Lands Two National Science Foundation Grants Totaling $529,000

• 2014 Tech Development Fund Winners Announced; Interim Director Named: Dr. Clark Bennett

• NEA Awards $10,000 to University Press

• Research And Creative Poster Day April 11

• Discover Discovery Workshops

• Research Universities Partner to Increase Faculty Diversity

• Facilities & Administrative Costrates (F&A) Important to the University

Teach Your Children Well, Penny A. James; Karla A. Henderson; Aram Attarian

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

The nature of outdoor play has changed. Today children increasingly spend their free time in adult-led activities and indoor play (Hofferth & Sandberg, 2001). Concerns regarding this societal shift gained mainstream attention with the publication of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Louv, 2005). A back-to-nature movement ensued at national, state, and local levels with parks and recreation organizations creating programs designed to get children back into wild environments (e.g., Children in Nature Programs offered by the National Park Service). We proposed that the conversation surrounding the back-to-nature movement missed the mark on two critical …

Now That I Know The Effects..., Mary Breunig

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

What ought and can be done about environmental degradation is contested and relates to opinions regarding fundamental cause(s). One of the solutions commonly suggested is education. One particular educational initiative in Ontario is the integrated Environmental Studies Programs (ESPs), wherein environmental topics are integrated into a holistic and interdisciplinary curriculum model taught at the secondary school level to students who register for a “package” of courses and spend the full semester with one to two teachers and a single student cohort (Russell & Burton, 2000; Sharpe & Breunig, 2009). The full-day cohort structure of ESPs provides for environmentally related experiential …