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What Is The Taste Of Co2? The Sustainability Of Icelandic Food Systems In The Face Of Climate Change, Molly Peek Oct 2016

What Is The Taste Of Co2? The Sustainability Of Icelandic Food Systems In The Face Of Climate Change, Molly Peek

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Food security in the arctic and subarctic is an area of growing research and concern as climate change continues to alter the availability of traditional foods eaten in remote areas, especially as shipping food has questionable sustainability and contributes to rising CO2 levels. Previous research has noted changes in the Icelandic diet making it more reliant on foreign imports, although there is still strong localized agriculture. Because of its geothermal activity, Iceland has a unique advantage over other highlatitude countries in growing food with a minimal carbon footprint, although that potential is unequal throughout the country. This study utilized available …


Investigating Effects Of Climate Change On Glaciers And Proglacial Landscapes In Southeast Iceland: Fluvioglacial Behavior Of Sólheimajökull And Seljavallajökull, Roberta B.C. Miller Oct 2016

Investigating Effects Of Climate Change On Glaciers And Proglacial Landscapes In Southeast Iceland: Fluvioglacial Behavior Of Sólheimajökull And Seljavallajökull, Roberta B.C. Miller

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The Seljavallajökull glacier, part of the Eyjafjallajökull glacier system, and Sólheimajökull, part of the Mýrdalsjökull glacier system, are two glaciers that extend into valleys in the southeast part of Iceland. Due to climate warming, both of these glaciers are part of a melting ice cap. They are located nearby to one another, and Sólheimajökull has been extensively studied for its outwash plain sedimentology, retreat history, pro-glacial geomorphology and has been steadily monitored by the Glaciological Society of Iceland. Seljavallajökull has also been monitored by this group, but it has not been studied for sediment profiles and landscape chronology as Sólheimajökull …


Proxy Dating In Iceland Testing The Validity Of Silene Acaulis As A Phytometric Proxy, Madelyn Grant Oct 2016

Proxy Dating In Iceland Testing The Validity Of Silene Acaulis As A Phytometric Proxy, Madelyn Grant

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Climate change is causing drastic changes in the cryosphere, particularly in the Arctic region where average warming is 1.9 times greater than in the rest of the world due to Arctic amplification. Understanding the response of essential climate variables such as glaciers and ice caps to rapid Arctic warming is essential to predicting future changes in the Arctic region and around the world. Proxy dating methods can help construct a record of warming-induced glacial retreat in areas where long-term monitoring systems are not in place. In Arctic regions, the cushion plant Silene acaulis represents one of the only feasible proxies …


Variability Of Lacustrine Sediment Proxy Responses To Late Holocene Climate Change As Modified By Lake Specific Processes: A Review Of Ecological And Geophysical Processes Across Northern And Eastern Iceland, Mallory Mintz Oct 2016

Variability Of Lacustrine Sediment Proxy Responses To Late Holocene Climate Change As Modified By Lake Specific Processes: A Review Of Ecological And Geophysical Processes Across Northern And Eastern Iceland, Mallory Mintz

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Consistenly-deposited lake sediments provide some of the highest resolution records of local and global climates in the past, offering the potential to better understand modern climate change in the context of past climate variability. In relating proxies to their respective climate regimes, the environmental cues that the specific proxies reacted to must be isolated from the general noise of possible local influences. In this investigation, biogenic silica (BSi), total organic carbon (TOC), δ13C values, and carbon: nitrogen ratios were analyzed between lakes through northern Iceland, to review possible complicating factors specific to the use of lacustrine proxies in the interpretation …


Meeting My Grandmother For The First Time, Part Ii, Diane Pincus Ober Sep 2016

Meeting My Grandmother For The First Time, Part Ii, Diane Pincus Ober

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Her Strong Faith Brought Her To America, Eva Johansson Sep 2016

Her Strong Faith Brought Her To America, Eva Johansson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Handwriting Example 48 Sep 2016

Handwriting Example 48

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Full Issue Vol. 36 No. 3 Sep 2016

Full Issue Vol. 36 No. 3

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Concerning The Treatment Of Diabetes Before Insulin, Elisabeth Thorsell Sep 2016

Concerning The Treatment Of Diabetes Before Insulin, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Swenson News: Swedish-American Newspapers Sep 2016

Swenson News: Swedish-American Newspapers

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Some Helpful Swedish Books, Elisabeth Thorsell Sep 2016

Some Helpful Swedish Books, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Swedish Born In The 1850-1920 U.S. Census Sep 2016

Swedish Born In The 1850-1920 U.S. Census

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Bits & Pieces Sep 2016

Bits & Pieces

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


My Own Allt För Sverige, Suzanne Erickson Wallace Sep 2016

My Own Allt För Sverige, Suzanne Erickson Wallace

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Some Remarks On Philadelphia Architectural History, Dennis L. Johnson Sep 2016

Some Remarks On Philadelphia Architectural History, Dennis L. Johnson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Handwriting Solution 48 Sep 2016

Handwriting Solution 48

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


A New Database From Arkivdigital, Elisabeth Thorsell Sep 2016

A New Database From Arkivdigital, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


In Memoriam: Dennis L. Johnson, Elisabeth Thorsell Sep 2016

In Memoriam: Dennis L. Johnson, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Interesting Web Sites Sep 2016

Interesting Web Sites

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


The Last Page Sep 2016

The Last Page

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Genealogical Queries Sep 2016

Genealogical Queries

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Sep 2016

Book Reviews

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


The Extent Of Indigenous-Norse Contact And Trade Prior To Columbus, Donald E. Warden Aug 2016

The Extent Of Indigenous-Norse Contact And Trade Prior To Columbus, Donald E. Warden

Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research

Norse exploration during the medieval period was widespread and diverse in location. Of the many places visited by the Norse, North America has continued to be surrounded by mystery. The full extent of Norse exploration in North America is a growing field and the extent of their contact and trade with Indigenous Americans is becoming increasingly known. A thorough compilation of the evidence allows for significant, new conclusions to be made about Norse presence in the Americas.


'Those Who Cling In Queer Corners To The Forgotten Tongues And Memories Of An Elder Day': J.R.R. Tolkien, Finns And Elves, Andrew Scott Higgins Jul 2016

'Those Who Cling In Queer Corners To The Forgotten Tongues And Memories Of An Elder Day': J.R.R. Tolkien, Finns And Elves, Andrew Scott Higgins

Journal of Tolkien Research

Abstract

Those Who Cling in Queer Corners To The Forgotten Tongues and Memories of an Elder Day' J.R.R. Tolkien, Finns and Elves

Dr. Andrew Higgins

In this paper I will explore how several historic, literary and mythic associations of the Finnish people with elements of magic, the supernatural and the 'other' influenced J.R.R. Tolkien in imbuing the character and language of his own Elves with a similar quality of magic and 'arresting strangeness'.I will explore several characterisations of the Finns, the People of Kalevala, Tolkien would have encountered in his early study of the Kalevala, several Old Norse and …


What Can State Talk Tell Us About Punitiveness? A Comparison Of Responses To Political Mass Shootings In The United States And Norway, Kimberlee G. Waggoner Jul 2016

What Can State Talk Tell Us About Punitiveness? A Comparison Of Responses To Political Mass Shootings In The United States And Norway, Kimberlee G. Waggoner

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

Highlighting the culturally contingent nature of state reactions to crime, the present work focuses on state talk issued by the U.S. and Norwegian governments in the aftermath of politically motivated mass shootings. The research is guided by the question: how does state talk—conditioned by economic, political, and cultural forces—facilitate or constrain punitive responses to political mass shootings? Here, the focus is on the January 8th 2011 shooting of U.S. representative Gabrielle Giffords and her constituents and the July 22nd 2011 bombing of a government building and shooting of a youth political camp in Norway. These two cases illustrate how state …


Theatres Of Reality, Fiction, And Temporality: Vegard Vinge And Ida Müller’S Ibsen-Saga (2006 - 2015), Andrew L. Friedman Jun 2016

Theatres Of Reality, Fiction, And Temporality: Vegard Vinge And Ida Müller’S Ibsen-Saga (2006 - 2015), Andrew L. Friedman

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation examines the influence of modernist aesthetics and ideologies on contemporary, European and U.S. experimental theatre. I argue that modernist and contemporary experimental theatres offer competing notions of reality, fiction, and temporality, which I interrogate through Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s Ibsen-Saga. I illuminate this tension by reading current modes of performance against the Saga’s productions and work practices, as well as their aesthetic and ideological foundation in three modernist sources: the artificiality of Ibsen’s realism, the utopianism and totality of Richard Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk, and the temporal provocations of the historical avant-gardes. I contend that the …


Oliver W. Holmes -- New Information, Susan Dalhed Jun 2016

Oliver W. Holmes -- New Information, Susan Dalhed

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


The Lindblom Letters, Part 2, Carol Fejfar, Royal F. Peterson Jun 2016

The Lindblom Letters, Part 2, Carol Fejfar, Royal F. Peterson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


A Place To Visit In Sweden: The Trelleborg, Elisabeth Thorsell Jun 2016

A Place To Visit In Sweden: The Trelleborg, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Collection Feature: John Ericsson Republican League Of Illinois Records, Lisa Huntsha Jun 2016

Collection Feature: John Ericsson Republican League Of Illinois Records, Lisa Huntsha

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.