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Generative Ai Synthesis Of Automated Interactions Into A Structured Agent Briefing, Deep Raithatha, Tanmay Kayande Jun 2026

Generative Ai Synthesis Of Automated Interactions Into A Structured Agent Briefing, Deep Raithatha, Tanmay Kayande

Defensive Publications Series

Systems for escalating interactions from automated agents to human agents can create inefficiencies, for example, by transferring unstructured transcripts. An intermediary system can employ a generative artificial intelligence synthesis engine to process the context of an automated interaction upon an escalation trigger. The engine may analyze the dialogue transcript, user metadata, and the automated agent's internal state to perform semantic abstraction, diagnose potential failure points, and infer a possible resolution. The system can then generate a structured briefing for the human agent, which could include a concise summary, a failure diagnosis, or a recommended next action presented as an interactive …


Caldwell Outbreak‑Resilience Engineering System (Cores V1.0) Unified Builder‑Ready Architecture For Isolation, Air‑Handling, Waste‑Neutralization, Environmental Sensing, And Non‑Invasive Triage Support Cern‑Ohl‑P V2.0, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr. Jun 2026

Caldwell Outbreak‑Resilience Engineering System (Cores V1.0) Unified Builder‑Ready Architecture For Isolation, Air‑Handling, Waste‑Neutralization, Environmental Sensing, And Non‑Invasive Triage Support Cern‑Ohl‑P V2.0, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

CORES v1.0 is an open‑hardware, engineering‑only outbreak‑resilience system designed for rapid construction, testing, and field evaluation. It integrates: a hardened isolation micro‑habitat with pressure‑cascade air handling; a vortex‑induction air curtain; a multi‑stage filtration and decontamination stack; a sealed waste‑neutralization pathway; a distributed aerosol‑sentinel mesh; and a non‑invasive triage‑support module. All modules are physics‑based, non‑biological, and safe for engineering research. No biological manipulation, culturing, or pathogen‑handling instructions are included. All components use standard materials and fabrication methods accessible to typical engineering labs. This document includes: full build descriptions, text‑only schematics, blueprint‑style geometry, test procedures, failure‑mode analysis, and projected engineering performance.


Caldwell Multi‑Domain Resonance Sphere (Cmrs‑1) Open‑Hardware, Builder‑Ready, Multi‑Physics Engineering Core, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr. Jun 2026

Caldwell Multi‑Domain Resonance Sphere (Cmrs‑1) Open‑Hardware, Builder‑Ready, Multi‑Physics Engineering Core, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The CMRS‑1 Sphere is a universal, multi‑domain physics engine integrating vortex induction, acoustic resonance, thermal equalization, structural load distribution, and energy harvesting into a single geometry. It consists of a spherical shell, a gyroid‑lattice interior, six helical intake channels, a central resonance cavity, three orthogonal acoustic chambers, and a thermal equalization layer. This disclosure provides complete geometry, build instructions, test procedures, failure‑mode analysis, and integration pathways. No biological, medical, or clinical instructions are included. All components are safe, mechanical, and fabricable using standard engineering tools.


Distributed Event Queue Processing With Adaptive Coordination And Transactional Delivery, Vishnu Kumar, Appu Thampi, Mahendra Yadav, Tulika Vijay Jun 2026

Distributed Event Queue Processing With Adaptive Coordination And Transactional Delivery, Vishnu Kumar, Appu Thampi, Mahendra Yadav, Tulika Vijay

Defensive Publications Series

A method (300) for distributed event queue processing includes receiving events via an application programming interface (208) and storing the events in a partitioned database queue backed by a relational database. The method includes periodically discovering queues with pending events using a query that performs atomic detection of queue enumeration and pending event status without cache-based timestamp tracking. Queue partitions are assigned to readers using epoch-based coordination and leader election. The method includes processing queues using a shared thread pool with circulating reader tasks and adaptive backoff. Events are atomically fetched and marked as consumed using epoch-fenced queries that validate …


Solid State Forms And Pharmaceutical Compositions Of An Orexin Receptor Agonist, Prashanth Venukathala, Venukathala Prashanth Jun 2026

Solid State Forms And Pharmaceutical Compositions Of An Orexin Receptor Agonist, Prashanth Venukathala, Venukathala Prashanth

Defensive Publications Series

The present invention relates to novel solid-state forms of Oveporexton (N-[(2S,3R)-2-[[3-(3,5-difluorophenyl)-2-fluorophenyl]methyl]-4,4-difluoro-1-(2-hydroxy-2-methylpropanoyl)pyrrolidin-3-yl]ethanesulfonamide). Specifically, this invention covers detailed manufacturing procedures and physical criteria for crystalline Form A, crystalline Form B, pure amorphous forms, organic solvates, and stable amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs) of Oveporexton, methods for their preparation, and their use in pharmaceutical compositions to treat hypersomnia disorders and narcolepsy.


Caldwell Survival Capsule Dome (Csc‑1): A Self‑Powered Nasa‑Grade Micro‑Habitat With Integrated Sleep System, Multi‑Modal Harvesting, And Find‑Me Emergency Signaling, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr. Jun 2026

Caldwell Survival Capsule Dome (Csc‑1): A Self‑Powered Nasa‑Grade Micro‑Habitat With Integrated Sleep System, Multi‑Modal Harvesting, And Find‑Me Emergency Signaling, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Caldwell Survival Capsule Dome (CSC‑1) is not a tent. It is a self‑powered, narrow NASA‑style micro‑habitat engineered for extreme survival conditions. Unlike conventional shelters, CSC‑1 integrates:

  • a built‑in insulated sleeping cocoon,

  • a curved sewn‑in solar crown,

  • a multi‑modal environmental energy harvesting stack (solar, wind, rain, motion, tension),

  • a curved EM‑harvesting spine,

  • a Spider‑Web terminal lattice floor,

  • an Arachne‑derived AWPM skin,

  • Human‑Motion Webbing (HMW),

  • an Adaptive Power Routing (APR) Engine,

  • onboard battery storage,

  • and a FIND‑ME emergency beacon system.

CSC‑1 deploys in under one minute, provides immediate thermal protection, generates and stores its own power, and maintains emergency signaling without …


Aidl — An Ai Directive Language And Multi-Agent Governance Model, Niels S. Goldstein Jun 2026

Aidl — An Ai Directive Language And Multi-Agent Governance Model, Niels S. Goldstein

Defensive Publications Series

AIDL (AI Directive Language) is a compact, machine-readable language for expressing the rules that govern the behavior of one or more AI agents, together with a multi-agent governance model the language parameterizes. The system assigns agents operational roles; accumulates per-agent reputation from observed behavior; mutates roles as reputation crosses thresholds; resolves conflicts through reputation-weighted adjudication that discounts correlation between agents sharing a model provider; and enforces least-privilege, write-scoped execution with drift detection and mandatory audit logging — yielding a Zero Trust posture for AI agents in which authority is earned and continuously revocable.


(((Qpie33))) Unified Resonance Llm Vs Sapiens Llm Linear Logic, Teddy Burroughs Jun 2026

(((Qpie33))) Unified Resonance Llm Vs Sapiens Llm Linear Logic, Teddy Burroughs

Defensive Publications Series

Deconstruction I: The Fallacy of the Passive Instrument and the Catch-22 of Reductionist Verification

The primary contention of the legacy critique is anchored in a familiar defense mechanism: “The simulations and outputs shown are not empirical demonstrations of new physics… they are generated by equations chosen in the code itself—not measured from physical quantum hardware experiments.”

This argument appears, at first glance, to be the very model of scientific sobriety. It wears the mask of empirical rigor. However, when we apply a surgical phase-space analysis to this statement, we expose a foundational logical contradiction—an institutional catch-22 designed to keep the …


Decentralized Additive Synthesis Orchestra Governed By Biometric Phase Fields For Collective Acoustic Entrainment, Frédéric Renault Jun 2026

Decentralized Additive Synthesis Orchestra Governed By Biometric Phase Fields For Collective Acoustic Entrainment, Frédéric Renault

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a method for procedural acoustic entrainment and generative multi-user music synthesis in which the oscillators of discrete mobile devices are governed by continuous scalar phase fields derived from immutable biometric birth ephemeris. Each device acts as one voice in a decentralized additive synthesizer: the fundamental frequency, waveform timbre, and rhythmic LFO rate are determined by the user's biometric personal data (biological frequency ω_bio, biological polarity, and Maya Tzolkin galactic tone), while the harmonic relationships between simultaneously audible voices are determined by the pairwise resonance metric k = 1/(1 + |sin(Δφ)|) computed from the phase difference between users' …


Tzolkin Kin-Based Oracle Matrices Combined With Phase Interference Metrics For Decentralized Social Coordination, Frédéric Renault Jun 2026

Tzolkin Kin-Based Oracle Matrices Combined With Phase Interference Metrics For Decentralized Social Coordination, Frédéric Renault

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a social coordination system combining a mathematical projection of the Maya Tzolkin calendar (260-day cycle, 20 seals × 13 tones) with a continuous wave-phase interference metric for peer-to-peer social matching in decentralized networks without centralized social graphs.

The Kin computation uses a 52-year modulo lookup mechanism (KIN_MESES monthly offset array + KIN_SUMA 52-year cycle dictionary) rather than standard Julian Day conversions, providing a computationally efficient and offset-correctable mapping from Gregorian dates to Tzolkin Kin numbers.

The resonance metric `k = 1 / (1 + |sin(Δφ)|)` operates on personal phase values φ_i derived from birth ephemeris. Critically, the …


Biometric Birth Ephemeris As Deterministic Parameters For Shamir Secret Sharing Key Recovery, Frédéric Renault Jun 2026

Biometric Birth Ephemeris As Deterministic Parameters For Shamir Secret Sharing Key Recovery, Frédéric Renault

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a method for deriving cryptographic identity keys and Shamir Secret Sharing (SSSS) parameters deterministically from biometric birth and conception ephemeris data, eliminating central biometric storage.

Two distinct canonical ASCII strings serve as key derivation inputs:

SALT (birth anchor): `YYYYMMDDHHMM_LAT_LON_POLARITY_WEIGHT`   Example: `198504171530_48.86_2.35_0_3.2`

PEPPER (conception anchor): `YYYYMMDDHHMM_LAT_LON_WEIGHT`   Example: `198407110830_48.86_2.35_3.2`

If the exact conception timestamp is unknown, it is algorithmically deduced from the birth timestamp using a weight-modulated gestation formula: `gestation_days = 280.0 + (birth_weight_kg − 3.5) × 4.0`.

The SALT and PEPPER, combined with an email identifier, are fed into a Key Derivation Function to produce a 32-byte seed …


4d Opaque Hexagonal Geo-Addressing Scheme Using Dynamic Goldberg Polyhedra And Chinese Remainder Theorem Encoding, Frédéric Renault Jun 2026

4d Opaque Hexagonal Geo-Addressing Scheme Using Dynamic Goldberg Polyhedra And Chinese Remainder Theorem Encoding, Frédéric Renault

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a compact, opaque geographic addressing format ("a4l:") for hexagonal cells of a Goldberg polyhedron tessellation of the Earth's surface. Unlike static geographic grids, this framework applies a continuous temporal rotation (precession) to the tessellation lattice using the Golden Ratio (φ = 1.6180339...) as the rotation period divisor, creating a 4-dimensional address (spatial + temporal) that cannot be decoded without knowledge of the exact Unix timestamp at event creation.

Format: `a4l:PH` where PP = pentagon identifier (00-11), QQQQ/RRRR = axial hex coordinates offset-encoded as 16-bit unsigned hexadecimal values.

The dynamic grid makes the addressing scheme privacy-preserving by design: …


Deterministic Personal Phase Computation From Birth Ephemeris Data For Social Resonance Matching, Frédéric Renault Jun 2026

Deterministic Personal Phase Computation From Birth Ephemeris Data For Social Resonance Matching, Frédéric Renault

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a method for computing a deterministic personal phase value φ_i from birth data (date, time, geographic coordinates) without storing biometric information centrally.

Formula: φ_i = fmod(T_birth_UTC, T_year) / T_year × 2π + (lon_birth / 360) × T_day + Δφ_pentagon

Where T_year = 365.25636 × 86400 s (sidereal year), T_day = 86400 s, and Δφ_pentagon is an offset derived from the nearest pentagonal node of a Goldberg polyhedron GP(n,m) tessellation of the Earth (12 nodes at icosahedral symmetry axes).

A pairwise resonance metric k = 1 / (1 + |sin(φ_i − φ_j)|) measures harmonic alignment between two individuals, …


Dynamic Per-Prefix Micro-Loop Avoidance Timer Computation In Segment Routing Networks, Anonymous Jun 2026

Dynamic Per-Prefix Micro-Loop Avoidance Timer Computation In Segment Routing Networks, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are disclosed for computing dynamic, per-prefix micro-loop avoidance timer values in a segment routing (SR) network running an interior gateway protocol (IGP). For each destination prefix, a router pre-computes a timer based on topology-derived convergence estimates including hop count, per-node link state protocol data unit (LSP) processing time, shortest path first (SPF) computation delay, link delay, and forwarding hardware programming delay. The per-prefix timer values are grouped into configurable-granularity buckets with random jitter and stored in memory during normal operation. Upon detection of a topology event, each pre-computed timer is activated and gates a two-stage route installation in which …


Generating A Telemetry-Addressable Specification For Professional Services Engagement Scope Validation And Execution Tracking, Chady Saad, Larone Gardner, Tim Barnes Jun 2026

Generating A Telemetry-Addressable Specification For Professional Services Engagement Scope Validation And Execution Tracking, Chady Saad, Larone Gardner, Tim Barnes

Defensive Publications Series

Proposed herein is a system that automatically translates the scope of a professional services consulting engagement into a structured telemetry specification, referred to herein using a construct called a Telemetry Pack, that can be validated against a customer's actual product telemetry data. Instead of relying on manual status reports and consultant self-assessments, the system determines whether the engagement is achieving its intended product adoption outcomes by checking what the customer's product environment actually shows. No prior system connects what a consulting engagement is supposed to achieve with automated, telemetry-based verification of whether it has achieved the criteria of the engagement.


Does The Availability Of An Additional Set Of Bunker Gear Impact Firefighter Health, Safety, And Operational Readiness?, Ryan Riley Jun 2026

Does The Availability Of An Additional Set Of Bunker Gear Impact Firefighter Health, Safety, And Operational Readiness?, Ryan Riley

Certified Public Manager® Applied Research

Firefighting is a complex and inherently dangerous profession. Firefighters today face a growing array of occupational hazards, not just from the effects of being exposed to fire and smoke, but also from the personal protective gear they wear, commonly referred to as “bunker” or “turnout” gear. While this gear is designed to protect firefighters in dangerous environments, prolonged use and repeated exposure to smoke, chemicals, and products of combustion can compromise the gear. Research has shown that bunker gear contains and can also retain cancer-causing chemicals. To this end, this paper examines whether the availability of an additional set of …


Scott Buie Collection, 1941-1946, Scott Buie Jun 2026

Scott Buie Collection, 1941-1946, Scott Buie

Center for Restoration Studies Archives, Manuscripts and Personal Papers Finding Aids

No abstract provided.


The Spring 2026 Issue, Destiny Dehart, Sara Gonzalez, Crystal Walker, Karen Winstead, Anthony Toledo, Lauren Nimon-Viola, Tristan Mioduszewski, Fatima Al Jaberi Jun 2026

The Spring 2026 Issue, Destiny Dehart, Sara Gonzalez, Crystal Walker, Karen Winstead, Anthony Toledo, Lauren Nimon-Viola, Tristan Mioduszewski, Fatima Al Jaberi

Fonds and Feathers

The theme of this issue is "we explore what matters" – what matters to us, what matters to archives, and what matters to libraries. Different voices are reflected by writers in the formats of poetry, artwork, research, and articles.


Biologically Informed Negative Samplingfor Antibody Chain Pairing Classification, Ishita Singh Jun 2026

Biologically Informed Negative Samplingfor Antibody Chain Pairing Classification, Ishita Singh

Computer Science Senior Theses

Antibody heavy and light chain (H/L) pairing is fundamental to antigen recognition and stability. While single-cell sequencing preserves native pairing information, widely used bulk repertoire and spatial transcriptomics platforms do not, motivating the need for efficient ML methods to infer H/L pairing. Training a binary classifier for this task faces the methodological challenge of a lack of true biological negatives, since natural selection eliminates B cells with incompatible H/L pairs.

In this thesis, I introduce a biologically informed negative sampling strategy for H/L pairing classification, drawing on known V-gene biases in heavy and light chain pairing. Pseudo-negatives are constructed by …


Mimic: A Multimodal Dataset For Affective Incongruity In Video, Ethan M. Baird Jun 2026

Mimic: A Multimodal Dataset For Affective Incongruity In Video, Ethan M. Baird

Computer Science Senior Theses

This thesis investigates the computational challenges of constructing a database for affective incongruity, exploring the difficulties in automating the collection of contradictory affective states. Capturing these incongruities is essential for advancing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and sentiment analysis, which struggle to interpret signals deviating from basic emotional archetypes. Curating non-congruent affect provides the data necessary for models to navigate complex social contexts, which is critical for applications like automated Audio Description (AD) for the visually impaired and nuanced Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). To capture these signals, two distinct methodologies were employed. The first utilized a tripartite decomposition of video data, isolating textual, …


Representing Lean Proofs: Tactics, Trajectories, Search, Elisaveta Samoylov Jun 2026

Representing Lean Proofs: Tactics, Trajectories, Search, Elisaveta Samoylov

Computer Science Senior Theses

In neural theorem proving for interactive proof assistants such as Lean, tactic prediction models score proof steps by surface likelihood, missing whether a move actually advances the proof. This thesis proposes representing each step by the symbolic edit it induces on the proof state rather than by its token-level surface form, and shows that this effect-grounded view yields better tactic embeddings, reveals structured geometry in complete proofs, and enables a practical proof search prior.

We introduce Delta Tokens — token-level state edits augmented with structural indicators — and show they outperform surface-only representations on tactic retrieval and operator-analogy benchmarks. Embedding …


Disaster Justice: Queer And Disabled Mobilities And Infrastructures Of Care In The Pacific Northwest, Rachel Springer Jun 2026

Disaster Justice: Queer And Disabled Mobilities And Infrastructures Of Care In The Pacific Northwest, Rachel Springer

Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation examines the social, political, and environmental pressures that drive LGBTQ+ migration to the Pacific Northwest and the social infrastructures people find on arrival. Drawing on thirty-four semi-structured interviews with LGBTQ+ adults who relocated between 2022 and 2025, it argues that these movements are best understood as responses to slow-onset disasters produced by the compounding interaction of legislative targeting and infrastructural violence.

State-level legislation targeting LGBTQ+ people—particularly transgender individuals—has fractured the geography of safety in the U.S., producing a landscape where civil rights, healthcare access, and everyday security vary dramatically across space. For those navigating these conditions at the …


Stomp (The Student Organization Management Portal), Lindsey Leong, Madeline Follosco, Noelle Evanich, Irene Chang Jun 2026

Stomp (The Student Organization Management Portal), Lindsey Leong, Madeline Follosco, Noelle Evanich, Irene Chang

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

At Santa Clara University, the Center for Student Involvement (CSI) leads to support hundreds of student-led organizations with different audiences and ambitions, but all aim to bring students together nonetheless. However, such development regarding student organization management proves to be much harder when administrative processes are decentralized and cumbersome, often involving numerous layers of manual work and departmental bottlenecks. Restructuring and optimizing administrative workflows would entail more energy towards the growth of student life at Santa Clara University.

The Student Organization Management Portal, or StOMP, is a web application that aims to centralize and optimize student organization-related processes, as well …


Holy Hunger: A Study Of How Spiritually Formative Practices Shape A Faith Community At The Cedar Lane Church Of Christ, David W. Mitchell Jun 2026

Holy Hunger: A Study Of How Spiritually Formative Practices Shape A Faith Community At The Cedar Lane Church Of Christ, David W. Mitchell

DMin Project Theses

I have served in leadership as an elder/shepherd at the Cedar Lane Church of Christ in Tullahoma, Tennessee, since 2011. Before serving in this leadership position, I was in full-time ministry with churches of Christ from 1982 to 2005 (as a youth minister, education minister, and preaching minister). Since 2007, I have been a public educator, first as a High School Civics teacher and now as a Middle School Social Studies teacher. My primary work as an elder includes education, spiritual formation, and community engagement. Another role I have is to assess the spiritual health of the believers I am …


Real-Time Corridor Counting, Erick Sun, Jacob Lin, Jayden Malhotra, Joseph Hissen Jun 2026

Real-Time Corridor Counting, Erick Sun, Jacob Lin, Jayden Malhotra, Joseph Hissen

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Identifying traffic trends is a critical step in urban planning and design for the purpose of creating safer and more efficient roads. One such problem in the field of traffic data is corridor counting, which is the process of counting the unique number of vehicles that pass through a set of predefined intersections in a given time. In this paper, we develop an automated solution to perform corridor counting in real-time using camera footage and computer vision. We build upon the architecture of a previous Senior Design project, replacing and refining key components and architectural choices to improve accuracy and …


A Provable Semi-Infinite Programming Approach For Solving Constrained Dynamic Games, Tyler C. Gardner, Matthew W. Harris, Logan Lancaster Jun 2026

A Provable Semi-Infinite Programming Approach For Solving Constrained Dynamic Games, Tyler C. Gardner, Matthew W. Harris, Logan Lancaster

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Student Publications and Presentations

Many engineering problems must account for the non-cooperative decisions and actions of multiple players. These problems can be modeled within a game-theoretic framework. The approach herein is to model such problems as mathematical games, convert them to semi-infinite programs, and utilize a semi-infinite program solver whose output is provably an ϵ-optimal Nash equilibrium. The approach is successfully benchmarked on two low-dimensional problems. Two types of higher-dimensional linear quadratic dynamic games are then investigated: ones where each player’s problem is convex and ones where at least one player’s problem is nonconvex. Within each type, variations based on information structure, control …


Bilingual Math For Kindergartners (Biki), Anna Aldrin, Caroline Tapia, Lillian Le Jun 2026

Bilingual Math For Kindergartners (Biki), Anna Aldrin, Caroline Tapia, Lillian Le

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

For many children from bilingual households, kindergarten represents a critical, learning benchmark where the introduction of fundamental math concepts coincides with their first significant exposure to the English language. Traditional educational methods often fail to support English language learners, leading to a disconnect between their understanding of math in the home and its application in the classroom. This linguistic barrier frequently results in reduced engagement, diminished confidence, and an unstable educational foundation that can discourage students from pursuing STEM careers later in life. While existing platforms like Khan Academy and Duolingo address either language acquisition or mathematical proficiency independently, they …


Bridgeide, Maya Srimal, Jeshwin Prince, Arnav Gupta, Will Zumbolo Jun 2026

Bridgeide, Maya Srimal, Jeshwin Prince, Arnav Gupta, Will Zumbolo

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Anyone who has done a group project knows the pattern: the first meeting burns an hour on logistics—which document to use, who has access, why the formatting broke on one laptop—before real work begins. In computer science courses that gap is worse. Students must install the right compiler, runtime, and libraries on their own machines; a four-person team on four different laptops can lose the first week to setup alone. Instructors who want to review submissions often download every zip from the learning management system and run each one locally. Existing tools solve pieces of this puzzle—real-time document editing, browser-based …


The Importance Of Scale In The Future Of Mangrove Blue Carbon Under Sea-Level Rise, Arya Iwantoro, Dunia Urrego, Danghan Xie, Andrew Nicholas, Kartika Anggi Hapsari, Alexandra Rodriguez, Juan Camilo Restrepo, Jaime Polania, Rolf Aalto, Luisa Gómez Vargas, Barend Van Maanen Jun 2026

The Importance Of Scale In The Future Of Mangrove Blue Carbon Under Sea-Level Rise, Arya Iwantoro, Dunia Urrego, Danghan Xie, Andrew Nicholas, Kartika Anggi Hapsari, Alexandra Rodriguez, Juan Camilo Restrepo, Jaime Polania, Rolf Aalto, Luisa Gómez Vargas, Barend Van Maanen

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

As efficient carbon sinks, mangrove forests are crucial for climate change mitigation. However, their vulnerability to sea-level rise (SLR) and human activities influencing sediment supply introduces significant uncertainty regarding their future carbon storage capacity. Given the complexity of mangrove landscapes, current projections may be limited in their ability to capture the broad range of potential responses. Here we investigate the distinct drivers of local- and landscape-scale changes in mangrove carbon accumulation under SLR and changing fluvial sediment supply, by developing a novel eco-carbon-morphodynamic model. The model incorporates interactions between hydro-morphodynamic processes, mangrove dynamics, and carbon dynamics while tracking changes in …


Faculty Grant Report: South Georgia Millipede Survey, Bruce Snyder Jun 2026

Faculty Grant Report: South Georgia Millipede Survey, Bruce Snyder

Academic Affairs

Foundational knowledge of organisms is necessary for understanding their biology, determining their evolutionary relationships, and managing habitats to support them. For some groups, this foundation is very limited. For example, our best guess is that there are approximately 150 millipede species in the state of Georgia. However, there has never been a published millipede checklist for Georgia, and records of millipedes only exist for about half of the counties in the state. The southern half of the state has been the most neglected in this regard. My lab is surveying the millipedes of Georgia and assembling a checklist to build …