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Volume 113, Number 14 – Wednesday, January 20, 2016, Saint Mary's College Of California

The Collegian

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Heterogeneity In The Preferences And Pro-Environmental Behavior Of College Students: The Effects Of Years On Campus, Demographics, And External Factors, Andrew G. Meyer

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

Models from several social science fields have identified factors that lead to pro-environmental behavior. This research builds on those models by analyzing a survey completed by over 500 undergraduates at a US liberal arts university to examine the characteristics of students that are associated with more environmentally friendly behavior and quantify the desirability of different environmental initiatives. There is evidence that the probability of pro-environmental behavior substantially increases with each additional year that a student spends on campus. The magnitude of the effect is between 4 and 10 percentage points per year, depending on the specific behavior and empirical model. …

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Academic Affairs Committee Meeting, Tuesday, January 19, 2016, Arts & Sciences Academic Affairs Committee

Academic Affairs Committee Minutes

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Sigma Gamma Epsilon Student Research Poster Session, Geological Society Of America Meeting 2015, Baltimore, Maryland, Usa, Paula Even

The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

The 2015 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Undergraduate Research (Poster Session) took place during the 2015 Geological Society of America annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland on Tuesday, 3 November 2015. One hundred-one (101) posters were presented at the SGE poster session. The National Council of Sigma Gamma Epsilon awarded the Austin A. Sartin Best Poster Award to Kayleigh M. Harvey and Carrie A. Menold, students at Albion College. Kate C. Grisi and Michael Cl Rygel, students at State University of New York, College at Potsdam, were awarded the National Council’s Best Poster Award.

Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 34, January 18, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Law And Ecological Conflicts: The Case Of The Sacred Cow In India, Aurélien Bouayad

Socio-Legal Review

The status of the cow in India has not only been the object of academic debates, but also of fierce and impassionate legislative and judicial battles. These disputes have notably crystalized over the admissibility of ritual sacrifice of cows by Muslim practitioners for the holiday of Bakr-Id, with the issue reaching the courts on several occasions. This paper explores the terms of this legal debate, and the solutions that have been progressively adopted by the legislative and judicial institutions after the independence. Particular attention will be paid to the processes involved in the apprehension of the religious justification of this …

Media

Colby Magazine

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How Soon We Forget: The Luxury Of Disaster Amnesia, Lauren Pongan

Colby Magazine

This is only a portion of a full essay that is about the super Typhoon Haiyan that hit the Philippines and how disaster amnesia functions in the international community.

Full Issue

Colby Magazine

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The Current Volume 26 : Issue 15, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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Where The Yak Became One With The Soil: Reflections On Life And Research In A Himalayan Village, Geoff Childs, Alyssa A. Kaelin

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

This article explores the role that Briddim, a small village in northern Rasuwa District, Nepal, played in the intellectual development of two students who visited nearly three decades apart. After a brief historical survey focusing on the village’s position on a trans-Himalayan trade route connecting Kathmandu with Kyirong, the authors use a personal and reflective lens to explore Briddim’s changing fortunes in relation to international exchange networks and geopolitical forces. In many ways Briddim encapsulates the socioeconomic and cultural changes sweeping contemporary highland Nepal as a result of rising educational opportunities, tourism, and migration. By comparing notes from 1984 and …

Local Parasite Lineage Sharing In Temperate Grassland Birds Provides Clues About Potential Origins Of Galapagos Avian Plasmodium, Iris I. Levin, Rachel E. Colborn, Daniel Kim, Noah G. Perlut, Rosalind B. Renfrew, Patricia G. Parker

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

Oceanic archipelagos are vulnerable to natural introduction of parasites via migratory birds. Our aim was to characterize the geographic origins of two Plasmodium parasite lineages detected in the Galapagos Islands and in North American breeding bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) that regularly stop in Galapagos during migration to their South American overwintering sites. We used samples from a grassland breeding bird assemblage in Nebraska, United States, and parasite DNA sequences from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, to compare to global data in a DNA sequence registry. Homologous DNA sequences from parasites detected in bobolinks and more sedentary birds (e.g., brown-headed cowbirds …

Local Parasite Lineage Sharing In Temperate Grassland Birds Provides Clues About Potential Origins Of Galapagos Avian Plasmodium, Patricia Parker, Iris Levin, Rachel Colborn, Daniel Kim, Noah Perlut, Rosalind Renfrew

Biology Department Faculty Works

Oceanic archipelagos are vulnerable to natural introduction of parasites via migratory birds. Our aim was to characterize the geographic origins of two Plasmodium parasite lineages detected in the Galapagos Islands and in North American breeding bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) that regularly stop in Galapagos during migration to their South American overwintering sites. We used samples from a grassland breeding bird assemblage in Nebraska, United States, and parasite DNA sequences from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, to compare to global data in a DNA sequence registry. Homologous DNA sequences from parasites detected in bobolinks and more sedentary birds (e.g., brown‐headed cowbirds Molothrus ater, …

How The Federal Government Went From Realtor To Landlord In The American West, Randall K. Wilson

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

Disputes over public land rights have a long history in the United States. But the past 18 months have seen a growing number of confrontations over Western federal lands, culminating in the current standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. [excerpt]

The Twisted Roots Of U.S. Land Policy In The West, John Freemuth

Public Policy and Administration Faculty Publications and Presentations

The seizure of a Malheur National Wildlife Refuge building in southeastern Oregon by armed and self-styled “constitutionalists” was disturbing. To many it is viewed as a dangerous escalation in a long, admittedly heated and passionate but rarely violent, discussion of federal or public land management in the western United States.

Decision Support System For Optimally Managing Water Resources To Meet Multiple Objectives In The Savannah River Basin, Edwin A. Roehl, Jr., Paul A. Conrads

Journal of South Carolina Water Resources

Managers of large river basins face conflicting demands for water resources such as wildlife habitat, water supply, wastewater assimilative capacity, flood control, hydroelectricity, and recreation. The Savannah River Basin, for example, has experienced three major droughts since 2000 that resulted in record low water levels in its reservoirs, impacting dependent economies for years. The Savannah River estuary contains two municipal water intakes and the ecologically sensitive freshwater tidal marshes of the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge. The Port of Savannah is the fourth busiest in the United States, and modifications to the harbor to expand ship traffic since the 1970s have …

Documenting Spatial And Temporal Information For Heritage Preservation: A Case Study Of Sri Lanka, Chiranthi Wijesundara, Shigeo Sugimoto, Bhuva Narayan

Proceedings from the Document Academy

Cultural Heritage Properties (CHPs) around the world have been altered or destroyed due to various unforeseen factors, both natural and human-made. Consequently, as a preparedness approach around such disasters, documenting the CHPs are crucial to any efforts to repair, rebuild or relocate them. With advancements in digital technologies, integrating them into our documentation to improve heritage preservation has become a common approach. Here the main concern is on Spatial and Temporal (ST) information and the paper proposes that with recent developments in the field of Geospatial technologies, heritage preservation can be enhanced and improved by documenting ST information parallel to …

Journal Of South Carolina Water Resources Volume 2, Issue 1

Journal of South Carolina Water Resources

In our day-to-day work, ‘managing messes’ seems like an apt description of how we react to what needs to be done. I started this note last July when South Carolina was in the midst of a mild yet potentially deepening drought. The early October storm turned things upside down, disrupting the state, leading to the deaths of a dozen people, and producing damage estimated to be in the billions of dollars. As of November 10, Charleston has recorded 71 inches of rain and should surpass the record yearly rainfall of 73 inches, set in 1964.

As we work on recovery …

Water Budget Of A Shallow Aquifer In The Lower Coastal Plain: Ace Basin, Sc, Rachael L.A. Kassabian, Timothy J. Callahan, Saundra Upchurch

Journal of South Carolina Water Resources

The expansive tidal salt marshes of South Carolina support a unique and sensitive ecosystem providing environmental and economic value to the coastal community. These tidal ecosystems are often altered by sea level rise through various processes, including the lesser-known stress of saltwater intrusion in groundwater systems. The goal of this research was to measure the baseline groundwater dynamics of an undeveloped tidal saltmarsh. Groundwater wells were installed along transects from the upland into the marsh and a culminating water budget of the watershed was developed. Analysis of water table dynamics showed that in the upland zone, evapotranspiration and precipitation were …

The Skunkwork Of Ecological Engagement, John Ackerman, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Bridie Mcgreavy, Leah Sprain

New Hampshire EPSCoR

Ecological engagement is about attending to the possibilities of dwelling in a place; skunkwork is a way of orienting this dwelling. Skunkwork refers to creative, self-coordinated, collective work in informal spaces of learning and reminds us that ecologically attuned work in the world can promote unexpected, yet collectively desired, change. In this essay, we describe how we used skunkwork to orient our ecological engagement in two workshops on ‘community resilience.’ In both workshops, Boulder Creek became our commonplace, with its history of flooding and abatements as well as one city’s planning and management of crisis and sustainability. We draw from …

Growth Rate Of Copepods In The San Francisco Bay, Brooke Bemowski, Wim Kimmerer, Toni Ignoffo

STAR Program Research Presentations

The San Francisco Estuary is a complex ecosystem. A key part of the foodweb are zooplankton crustaceans, specifically copepods. Many fish, especially the endangered delta smelt, rely on copepods as a food source. Measuring the growth of copepods assists in predictions if enough food is available for delta smelt. Traditionally growth rate is measured through lengthy and involved processes. The objective of this research project is to develop an imaging process to analyze biomass of copepods more efficiently. For this research, field samples of copepods were collected and grown over three days. Subsamples were taken and preserved at three predetermined …

Central Washington University 2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog, Central Washington University

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

24. Case Study: The Mathematics & Statistics Workshop At Bates College, Grace Coulombe

QMaSC: A Handbook for Directors of Quantitative and Mathematics Support Centers

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Patterns Of Mesophotic Benthic Community Structure On Banks Off Vs Inside The Continental Shelf Edge, Gulf Of Mexico, Paul W. Sammarco, Marissa F. Nuttall, Daniel Beltz, Emma L. Hickerson, G.P. Schmahl

Gulf of Mexico Science

Information on the biodiversity and geographic patterns of mesophotic, sessile, epibenthic communities on banks around and at the edge of the continental shelf, northern Gulf of Mexico, has been limited. These communities vary in their environments and are prone to disturbance from Outer Continental Shelf oil- and gas-related activities and fishing (trawling and long-lining). We surveyed these communities on the flanks of 13 banks to determine species richness, species composition, similarities between benthic communities, and geographic patterns in community structure. We sampled to ≤ 181 m in depth via a remotely operated vehicle using a vertically mounted digital camera bearing …

Sean Cavanaugh: Under The Elder’S Gaze, Jill Deupi

Lowe Art Museum Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Umsl Bulletin 2016-2017, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Bulletins

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Atlas Of Maine: Potential Catastrophic Sea Level Rise In Acadia National Park, Henry Dodge

Atlas of Maine

According to the US Geological Survey, worldwide sea levels would rise by 14.61 meters if the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets were to melt due to global climate change. The red area demonstrates the land that would be under water near and around Acadia National Park if this catastrophic scenario were to occur.

Stargazing In Maine: Best Places For Colby Students To See The Stars, Zac R. Mondschein

Atlas of Maine

Using a GIS and information about variables that influence night sky visibility, I created a suitability model for stargazing in Maine. Additionally, using information about terrain and land cover, I created least cost paths from Waterville to three designated viewing areas. The model corroborates the overall high quality of stargazing throughout Maine.

Using Viewshed Analysis To Determine The Impact Of The Proposed Sound Transit Transportation Plan On The Cross Kirkland Corridor, Gavin C. Blake

Atlas of Maine

In this project, I used Viewshed analysis in ArcGIS to determine where Sound Transit’s proposed rapid transit would be visible assuming that rapid transit apparatus, like overhead wires, would reach a height of 20 feet. I used a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and Land Cover and Roads Data to make the model more accurate. While the model could be perfected, it clearly shows that the rapid transit would affect the views of many homes in the Greater Kirkland Area, and as a result, cause the property values of those homes to fall. I concluded that this fall in property value …

Atlas Of Maine: Deer Wintering Areas In Maine, Tommaso Montagni

Atlas of Maine

This is a map of the Deer Wintering Areas in Maine that shows deerwintering areas, lakes, cities, parks and railroads. The data was projected in NAD 1983 and UTM ZONE 19N. The Maine Office of GIS provided the deer wintering areas data.