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Full-Text Articles in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Dust–Gas Scaling Relations And Oh Abundance In The Galactic Ism, Hiep Nguyen, J. R. Dawson, M. -A. Miville-Deschênes, Ningyu Tang, Di Li, Carl Heiles, Claire E. Murray, Snežana Stanimirović, Steven J. Gibson, N. M. Mcclure-Griffiths, Thomas Troland, L. Bronfman, R. Finger
Dust–Gas Scaling Relations And Oh Abundance In The Galactic Ism, Hiep Nguyen, J. R. Dawson, M. -A. Miville-Deschênes, Ningyu Tang, Di Li, Carl Heiles, Claire E. Murray, Snežana Stanimirović, Steven J. Gibson, N. M. Mcclure-Griffiths, Thomas Troland, L. Bronfman, R. Finger
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications
Observations of interstellar dust are often used as a proxy for total gas column density NH. By comparing Planck thermal dust data (Release 1.2) and new dust reddening maps from Pan-STARRS 1 and 2MASS, with accurate (opacity-corrected) H I column densities and newly published OH data from the Arecibo Millennium survey and 21-SPONGE, we confirm linear correlations between dust optical depth τ353, reddening E(B − V), and the total proton column density NH in the range (1–30) × 1020 cm−2, along sightlines with no molecular gas detections in emission. …
Devonian Stromatoporoid Interactions At The Falls Of The Ohio State Park, Clarksville, Indiana, Morgan Sierra Hall
Devonian Stromatoporoid Interactions At The Falls Of The Ohio State Park, Clarksville, Indiana, Morgan Sierra Hall
Undergraduate Theses
Stromatoporoids are calcitic sponges that occurred in the fossil record from the Early Ordovician to Late Devonian period. These sponges interacted with other organisms, especially rugose and tabulate corals. Some corals appear to benefit from the rigidity of stromatoporoids in response to turbulent waters. Stromatoporoids and many corals went extinct during the Frasnian-Famennian crisis when paleoenvironmental parameters were shifting. Studying the relationships between these taxa may provide insight to their vulnerability during the extinction.
This research was performed at the Falls of the Ohio in Clarksville, Indiana. Organisms in the Coral Zone were studied using transect sampling. Each fossil along …
Conflicting Theories: Impact And Volcanism, Dimitrik Johnson
Conflicting Theories: Impact And Volcanism, Dimitrik Johnson
Student Writing
The K-Pg extinction (or K-T extinction), more commonly referred to as the extinction of the dinosaurs, is the most recent mass extinction event in Earth’s history. The causes of the event have been widely debated, with the two main theories being a large asteroid impact or volcanism. While some scientists disagree, the most popular and agreed upon theory is that a large asteroid impacted Earth 65 million years ago, creating a toxic dust cloud that filled the atmosphere, and resulted in the eventual extinction of most of the dinosaurs. This theory was first brought to life by Luis Alvarez, his …
Can Genomic Variation Explain The Extinction Of The Passenger Pigeon?, Chih-Ming Hung, R. M. Zink, Shou-Hsien Li
Can Genomic Variation Explain The Extinction Of The Passenger Pigeon?, Chih-Ming Hung, R. M. Zink, Shou-Hsien Li
School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications
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Review Of The Ends Of The World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, And Our Quest To Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions, By Peter Brannen, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Review Of The Ends Of The World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, And Our Quest To Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions, By Peter Brannen, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications
In his new best-selling book, Peter Brannen, award-winning science writer, takes you on a fascinating trip through the run-up to the end of the Cretaceous extinction event and the K-Pg (Cretaceous/Paleogene) boundary, formerly called the K-T (Cretaceous/Tertiary) boundary.
Brannen interviewed many scientists who studied these events and went on field trips with them to major Cretaceous sites and to those where earlier and later extinction events happened. He presents clear explanations of what is known and not known about all of these events in a largely error-free book. Brannen details the other four big extinction events in geologic history: the …
A Primer On Noise-Induced Transitions In Applied Dynamical Systems, Eric Forgoston, Richard O. Moore
A Primer On Noise-Induced Transitions In Applied Dynamical Systems, Eric Forgoston, Richard O. Moore
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Noise plays a fundamental role in a wide variety of physical and biological dynamical systems. It can arise from an external forcing or due to random dynamics internal to the system. It is well established that even weak noise can result in large behavioral changes such as transitions between or escapes from quasi-stable states. These transitions can correspond to critical events such as failures or extinctions that make them essential phenomena to understand and quantify, despite the fact that their occurrence is rare. This article will provide an overview of the theory underlying the dynamics of rare events for stochastic …
Herschel Observations Of Edge-On Spirals (Heroes) Iv. Dust Energy Balance Problem, Aleksandr V. Mosenkov, Flor Allaert, Maarten Baes, Simone Bianchi, Peter Camps, Christopher J.R. Clark, Marjorie Decleir, Gert De Geyter, Ilse De Looze, Jacopo Fritz, Gianfranco Gentile, Benne W. Holwerda, Thomas M. Hughes, Fraser Lewis, Matthew W.L. Smith, Joris Verstappen, Sam Verstocken, Sébastien Viaene
Herschel Observations Of Edge-On Spirals (Heroes) Iv. Dust Energy Balance Problem, Aleksandr V. Mosenkov, Flor Allaert, Maarten Baes, Simone Bianchi, Peter Camps, Christopher J.R. Clark, Marjorie Decleir, Gert De Geyter, Ilse De Looze, Jacopo Fritz, Gianfranco Gentile, Benne W. Holwerda, Thomas M. Hughes, Fraser Lewis, Matthew W.L. Smith, Joris Verstappen, Sam Verstocken, Sébastien Viaene
Faculty Scholarship
We present results of the detailed dust energy balance study for the seven large edge-on galaxies in the HEROES sample using three-dimensional (3D) radiative transfer (RT) modelling. Based on available optical and near-infrared (NIR) observations of the HEROES galaxies, we derive the 3D distribution of stars and dust in these galaxies. For the sake of uniformity, we apply the same technique to retrieve galaxy properties for the entire sample: we use a stellar model consisting of a Sérsic bulge and three double-exponential discs (a superthin disc for a young stellar population and thin and thick discs for old populations). For …
Seasonal Forcing In Stochastic Epidemiology Models, Lora Billings, Eric Forgoston
Seasonal Forcing In Stochastic Epidemiology Models, Lora Billings, Eric Forgoston
Lora Billings
Seasonal Forcing In Stochastic Epidemiology Models, Lora Billings, Eric Forgoston
Seasonal Forcing In Stochastic Epidemiology Models, Lora Billings, Eric Forgoston
Eric Forgoston
On The Time Variation Of Dust Extinction And Gas Absorption For Type Ia Supernovae Observed Through A Nonuniform Interstellar Medium, Xiaosheng Huang, G Aldering, M. Biederman, B. Herger
On The Time Variation Of Dust Extinction And Gas Absorption For Type Ia Supernovae Observed Through A Nonuniform Interstellar Medium, Xiaosheng Huang, G Aldering, M. Biederman, B. Herger
Physics and Astronomy
For Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observed through a nonuniform interstellar medium (ISM) in its host galaxy, we investigate whether the nonuniformity can cause observable time variations in dust extinction and in gas absorption due to the expansion of the SN photosphere with time. We show that, owing to the steep spectral index of the ISM density power spectrum, sizable density fluctuation amplitudes at the length scale of typical ISM structures () will translate to much smaller fluctuations on the scales of an SN photosphere. Therefore, the typical amplitude of time variation due to a nonuniform ISM, of absorption equivalent …
A Direct Comparison Of Lyman-Alpha And Neutral Hydrogen Morphologies, Kathleen Fitzgibbon, John M. Cannon
A Direct Comparison Of Lyman-Alpha And Neutral Hydrogen Morphologies, Kathleen Fitzgibbon, John M. Cannon
Macalester Journal of Physics and Astronomy
The Lyman-Alpha Reference Sample (LARS) and its extension (eLARS) represent an exhaustive campaign to reverse-engineer galaxies. The main goal is to understand how \lya radiation is transported within galaxies: what fraction of it escapes, and what physical properties affect the \lya morphology and radiative transport (e.g., dust and gas content, metallicity, kinematics, properties of the producing and underlying stellar populations). Two galaxies from the sample, LARS02 and LARS09, were observed using the B and C configurations of the Very Large Array to examine the neutral hydrogen emission, which can be used to determine a galaxy's neutral hydrogen (HI) structure and …
Climate Change, Managed Relocation, And The Risk Of Intra-Continental Plant Invasions: A Theoretical And Empirical Exploration Relative To The Flora Of New England, Jesse Bellemare, Bryan Connolly, Dov F. Sax
Climate Change, Managed Relocation, And The Risk Of Intra-Continental Plant Invasions: A Theoretical And Empirical Exploration Relative To The Flora Of New England, Jesse Bellemare, Bryan Connolly, Dov F. Sax
Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications
The high rate of anthropogenic climate change projected for coming decades and evidence of low migration ability for many species have led researchers to warn of a looming extinction crisis. This threat is expected to be most acute for small-ranged endemic species, which could see novel climatic conditions develop rapidly across the entirety of their limited geographic ranges. To avoid extinctions, some conservationists have proposed that climateimperiled species might be candidates for "assisted colonization" or "managed relocation" to new regions, outside their historical ranges. One major concern related to managed relocation is the possibility that some relocated species could later …
Early Science With The Large Millimeter Telescope: Detection Of Dust Emission In Multiple Images Of A Normal Galaxy At Z > 4 Lensed By A Frontier Fields Cluster, Alexandra Pope, Alfredo Montaña, Andrew Battisti, Marceau Limousin, Danilo Marchesini, Grant W. Wilson, Stacy Alberts, Itziar Aretxaga, Vladimir Avila-Reese, José Ramón Bermejo-Climent, Gabriel Brammer, Hector Bravo-Alfaro, Daniela Calzetti, Ranga-Ram Chary, Ryan Cybulski, Mauro Giavalisco, David Hughes, Erin Kado-Fong, Erica Keller, Allison Kirkpatrick, Ivo Labbe, Daniel Lange-Vagle, James Lowenthal, Eric Murphy, Pascal Oesch, Daniel Rosa Gonzalez, David Sánchez-Argüelles, Heath Shipley, Mauro Stefanon, Olga Vega, Katherine Whitaker, Christina C. Williams, Min Yun, Jorge A. Zavala, Milagros Zeballos
Early Science With The Large Millimeter Telescope: Detection Of Dust Emission In Multiple Images Of A Normal Galaxy At Z > 4 Lensed By A Frontier Fields Cluster, Alexandra Pope, Alfredo Montaña, Andrew Battisti, Marceau Limousin, Danilo Marchesini, Grant W. Wilson, Stacy Alberts, Itziar Aretxaga, Vladimir Avila-Reese, José Ramón Bermejo-Climent, Gabriel Brammer, Hector Bravo-Alfaro, Daniela Calzetti, Ranga-Ram Chary, Ryan Cybulski, Mauro Giavalisco, David Hughes, Erin Kado-Fong, Erica Keller, Allison Kirkpatrick, Ivo Labbe, Daniel Lange-Vagle, James Lowenthal, Eric Murphy, Pascal Oesch, Daniel Rosa Gonzalez, David Sánchez-Argüelles, Heath Shipley, Mauro Stefanon, Olga Vega, Katherine Whitaker, Christina C. Williams, Min Yun, Jorge A. Zavala, Milagros Zeballos
Astronomy: Faculty Publications
We directly detect dust emission in an optically detected, multiply imaged galaxy lensed by the Frontier Fields cluster MACSJ0717.5+3745. We detect two images of the same galaxy at 1.1 mm with the AzTEC camera on the Large Millimeter Telescope leaving no ambiguity in the counterpart identification. This galaxy, MACS0717_Az9, is at z > 4 and the strong lensing model (μ=7.5) allows us to calculate an intrinsic IR luminosity of 9.7 × 1010 Le and an obscured star formation rate of 14.6 ± 4.5 Me yr−1. The unobscured star formation rate from the UV is only 4.1 ± 0.3 Me yr−1, which …
An Extended Dust Disk In A Spiral Galaxy : An Occulting Galaxy Pair In The Acs Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury., Benne W. Holwerda, W. C. Keel, B. Williams, J. J. Dalcanton, R. S. De Jong
An Extended Dust Disk In A Spiral Galaxy : An Occulting Galaxy Pair In The Acs Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury., Benne W. Holwerda, W. C. Keel, B. Williams, J. J. Dalcanton, R. S. De Jong
Benne Holwerda
We present an analysis of an occulting galaxy pair, serendipitously discovered in the ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury observations of NGC 253 taken with the Hubble Space Telescope’s (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys in F475W, F606W, and F814W (SDSS − g, broad V, and I). The foreground disk system (at z 0.06) shows a dusty disk much more extended than the starlight, with spiral lanes seen in extinction out to 1.5 R25, approximately 6 half-light radii. This pair is the first where extinction can be mapped reliably out to this distance from the center. The spiral arms of the extended …
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons With Aliphatic Sidegroups: Intensity Scaling For The C-H Stretching Modes And Astrophysical Implications, Xuejuan Yang, Aigen Li, Rainer Glaser, Jianxin Zhong
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons With Aliphatic Sidegroups: Intensity Scaling For The C-H Stretching Modes And Astrophysical Implications, Xuejuan Yang, Aigen Li, Rainer Glaser, Jianxin Zhong
Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works
The so-called unidentified infrared emission (UIE) features at 3.3, 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, and 11.3 μm ubiquitously seen in a wide variety of astrophysical regions are generally attributed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules. Astronomical PAHs may have an aliphatic component, as revealed by the detection in many UIE sources of the aliphatic C-H stretching feature at 3.4 mm. The ratio of the observed intensity of the 3.4 mm feature to that of the 3.3 μm aromatic C-H feature allows one to estimate the aliphatic fraction of the UIE carriers. This requires knowledge of the intrinsic oscillator strengths of the 3.3 …
The Extinction Properties Of And Distance To The Highly Reddened Type Ia Supernova Sn 2012cu, Xiaosheng Huang, Z. Raha, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, K. Barbary, D. Baugh, K. Boone, S. Bongard, C. Buton, J. Chen, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, P. Fagrelius, H. K. Fakhouri, U. Feindt, D. Fouchez, E. Gangler, B. Hayden, W. Hillebrandt, A. G. Kim, M. Kowalski, P. F. Leget, S. Lombardo, J. Nordin, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, D. Rubin, K. Runge, C. Saunders, G. Smadja, C. Sofiatti, A. Stocker, N. Suzuki, S. Taubenberger, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas
The Extinction Properties Of And Distance To The Highly Reddened Type Ia Supernova Sn 2012cu, Xiaosheng Huang, Z. Raha, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, K. Barbary, D. Baugh, K. Boone, S. Bongard, C. Buton, J. Chen, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, P. Fagrelius, H. K. Fakhouri, U. Feindt, D. Fouchez, E. Gangler, B. Hayden, W. Hillebrandt, A. G. Kim, M. Kowalski, P. F. Leget, S. Lombardo, J. Nordin, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, D. Rubin, K. Runge, C. Saunders, G. Smadja, C. Sofiatti, A. Stocker, N. Suzuki, S. Taubenberger, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas
Physics and Astronomy
Correcting Type Ia Supernova brightnesses for extinction by dust has proven to be a vexing problem. Here we study the dust foreground to the highly reddened SN 2012cu, which is projected onto a dust lane in the galaxy NGC 4772. The analysis is based on multi-epoch, spectrophotometric observations spanning from 3300–9200 Å, obtained by the Nearby Supernova Factory. Phase-matched comparison of the spectroscopically twinned SN 2012cu and SN 2011fe across 10 epochs results in the best-fit color excess of (, RMS) = (1.00, 0.03) and total-to-selective extinction ratio of (R V , RMS) = (2.95, 0.08) toward SN 2012cu …
Sn Ia Host Galaxy Properties And The Dust Extinction Distribution., Benne W. Holwerda, A. Reynolds, M. Smith, R. C. Kraan-Korteweg
Sn Ia Host Galaxy Properties And The Dust Extinction Distribution., Benne W. Holwerda, A. Reynolds, M. Smith, R. C. Kraan-Korteweg
Benne Holwerda
Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) display a complex relation with their host galaxies. An important prior to the fit of the supernovae's light curve is the distribution of host galaxy extinction values that can be encountered. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey SuperNova survey project has published light-curve fits using both mlcs2k2 and salt2. We use the former fits extinction parameter (AV) to map this distribution of extinction values. We explore the dependence of this distribution on four observables; the inclination of the host galaxy disc, radial position of the supernova, redshift of the supernova and host, and the level of star …
Origin Of The Diffuse, Far Ultraviolet Emission In The Interarm Regions Of M101., Alison F. Crocker, Rupali Chandar, Daniela Calzetti, Benne W. Holwerda, Claus Leitherer, Cristina C. Popescu, R. J. Tuffs
Origin Of The Diffuse, Far Ultraviolet Emission In The Interarm Regions Of M101., Alison F. Crocker, Rupali Chandar, Daniela Calzetti, Benne W. Holwerda, Claus Leitherer, Cristina C. Popescu, R. J. Tuffs
Benne Holwerda
We present images from the Solar Blind Channel on the Hubble Space Telescope that resolve hundreds of farultraviolet (FUV) emitting stars in two ∼1 kpc2 interarm regions of the grand-design spiral M101. The luminosity functions of these stars are compared with predicted distributions from simple star formation histories, and are best reproduced when the star formation rate has recently declined (past 10–50 Myr). This pattern is consistent with stars forming within spiral arms and then streaming into the interarm regions. We measure the diffuse FUV surface brightness after subtracting all of the detected stars, clusters, and background galaxies. A residual …
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (Gama) Blended Spectra Catalogue : Strong Galaxy–Galaxy Lens And Occulting Galaxy Pair Candidates., Benne W. Holwerda, I. K. Baldry, M. Alpaslan, A. E. Bauer, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. Brough, M. J. I. Brown, M. E. Cluver, C. J. Conselice, S. P. Driver, A. M. Hopkins, D. H. Jones, Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez, J. Loveday, M. J. Meyer, A. Moffett
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (Gama) Blended Spectra Catalogue : Strong Galaxy–Galaxy Lens And Occulting Galaxy Pair Candidates., Benne W. Holwerda, I. K. Baldry, M. Alpaslan, A. E. Bauer, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. Brough, M. J. I. Brown, M. E. Cluver, C. J. Conselice, S. P. Driver, A. M. Hopkins, D. H. Jones, Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez, J. Loveday, M. J. Meyer, A. Moffett
Benne Holwerda
We present the catalogue of blended galaxy spectra from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. These are cases where light from two galaxies are significantly detected in a single GAMA fibre. Galaxy pairs identified from their blended spectrum fall into two principal classes: they are either strong lenses, a passive galaxy lensing an emission-line galaxy; or occulting galaxies, serendipitous overlaps of two galaxies, of any type. Blended spectra can thus be used to reliably identify strong lenses for follow-up observations (high-resolution imaging) and occulting pairs, especially those that are a late-type partly obscuring an early-type galaxy which are of …
The Dependence Of The Av Prior For Sn Ia On Host Mass And Disc Inclination., Benne W. Holwerda, W. C. Keel, M. A. Kenworthy, K. J. Mack
The Dependence Of The Av Prior For Sn Ia On Host Mass And Disc Inclination., Benne W. Holwerda, W. C. Keel, M. A. Kenworthy, K. J. Mack
Benne Holwerda
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are used as ‘standard candles’ for cosmological distance scales. To fit their light-curve shape–absolute luminosity relation, one needs to assume an intrinsic colour and a likelihood of host galaxy extinction or a convolution of these, a colour distribution prior. The host galaxy extinction prior is typically assumed to be an exponential drop-off for the current supernova programmes ( P(AV)∝e−AV/τ0" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: normal; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-table; word-spacing: normal; word-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: …
Multispectral Observations And Analysis Of The Rosette Nebula, Jeremy Huber
Multispectral Observations And Analysis Of The Rosette Nebula, Jeremy Huber
Theses and Dissertations--Physics and Astronomy
The Rosette nebula is a large, ring-shaped emission nebula with a distinctive central cavity excavated by its central cluster of OB stars. Toward understanding the three dimensional structure and fundamental physical processes of this object, we have acquired flux-calibrated, 4-degree field, deep exposures of the Rosette region through 3 nm bandwidth H-alpha (656.3 nm) as well as H-beta (486.1nm), [OIII] (500.7 nm) and [SII] (671.6 nm) filters with 4.5 nm bandwidth. The 4 arcsec/pixel images are supplemented with 4 degree field slit spectra and combined with archival data from the Galactic Evolution Explorer satellite (GALEX), Akari, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite …
Lilliput Effect Dynamics Across The Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction: Approaches, Prevalence, And Mechanisms, Matthew Brett Jarrett
Lilliput Effect Dynamics Across The Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction: Approaches, Prevalence, And Mechanisms, Matthew Brett Jarrett
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
An organism's body size entails both physiological and ecological costs. Furthermore, as a parameter in analyzing organisms, it represents a fundamental and essential morphometric character. Reductions in size following mass extinction is a commonly observed phenomenon in the fossil record. This study examines the evolutionary significance of this phenomenon termed the: 'Lilliput Effect' by proposing that it represents a rapid evolutionary response to altered selection pressures during a mass extinction. This primary hypothesis is evaluated against two additional hypotheses of size reduction: 1) stunted growth as a response to stressed ecosystems, and/or 2) mass extinctions are size selective.
These hypotheses …
Structure And Physical Conditions In The Huygens Region Of The Orion Nebula, C. R. O'Dell, Gary J. Ferland, M. Peimbert
Structure And Physical Conditions In The Huygens Region Of The Orion Nebula, C. R. O'Dell, Gary J. Ferland, M. Peimbert
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications
Hubble Space Telescope images, MUSE maps of emission lines, and an atlas of high velocity resolution emission-line spectra have been used to establish for the first time correlations of the electron temperature, electron density, radial velocity, turbulence, and orientation within the main ionization front of the nebula. From the study of the combined properties of multiple features, it is established that variations in the radial velocity are primarily caused by the photoevaporating ionization front being viewed at different angles. There is a progressive increase of the electron temperature and density with decreasing distance from the dominant ionizing star θ1 …
Extinction Intensity, Selectivity And Their Combined Macroevolutionary Influence In The Fossil Record, Jonathan L. Payne, Andrew M. Bush, Ellen T. Chang, Noel A. Heim, Matthew L. Knope, Sara B. Pruss
Extinction Intensity, Selectivity And Their Combined Macroevolutionary Influence In The Fossil Record, Jonathan L. Payne, Andrew M. Bush, Ellen T. Chang, Noel A. Heim, Matthew L. Knope, Sara B. Pruss
Geosciences: Faculty Publications
The macroevolutionary effects of extinction derive from both intensity of taxonomic losses and selectivity of losses with respect to ecology, physiology and/or higher taxonomy. Increasingly, palaeontologists are using logistic regression to quantify extinction selectivity because the selectivity metric is independent of extinction intensity and multiple predictor variables can be assessed simultaneously. We illustrate the use of logistic regression with an analysis of physiological buffering capacity and extinction risk in the Phanerozoic marine fossil record. We propose the geometric mean of extinction intensity and selectivity as a metric for the influence of extinction events. The end-Permian mass extinction had the largest …
The C-H Stretching Features At 3.2-3.5 Μm Of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons With Aliphatic Sidegroups, Xuejuan Yang, Aigen Li, Rainer Glaser, Jianxin Zhong
The C-H Stretching Features At 3.2-3.5 Μm Of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons With Aliphatic Sidegroups, Xuejuan Yang, Aigen Li, Rainer Glaser, Jianxin Zhong
Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works
The so-called "unidentified" infrared emission (UIE) features at 3.3, 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, and 11.3 μm are ubiquitously seen in a wide variety of astrophysical regions. The UIE features are characteristic of the stretching and bending vibrations of aromatic hydrocarbon materials, e.g., polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules. The 3.3 μm aromatic C-H stretching feature is often accompanied by a weaker feature at 3.4 μm. The latter is generally thought to result from the C-H stretch of aliphatic groups attached to the aromatic systems. The ratio of the observed intensity of the 3.3 μm aromatic C-H feature to that of the 3.4 …
Metapopulation Viability Of An Endangered Shorebird Depends On Dispersal And Human-Created Habitats: Piping Plovers (Charadrius Melodus) And Prairie Rivers, Sara L. Zeigler, Daniel H. Catlin, Mary Bomberger Brown, Lauren R. Dinan, James D. Fraser, Kelsi L. Hunt, Joel G. Jorgensen
Metapopulation Viability Of An Endangered Shorebird Depends On Dispersal And Human-Created Habitats: Piping Plovers (Charadrius Melodus) And Prairie Rivers, Sara L. Zeigler, Daniel H. Catlin, Mary Bomberger Brown, Lauren R. Dinan, James D. Fraser, Kelsi L. Hunt, Joel G. Jorgensen
School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications
Background: Many species are distributed as metapopulations in dynamic landscapes, where habitats change through space and time. Individuals locate habitat through dispersal, and the relationship between a species and landscape characteristics can have profound effects on population persistence. Despite the importance of connectivity in dynamic environments, few empirical studies have examined temporal variability in dispersal or its effect on metapopulation dynamics. In response to this knowledge gap, we studied the dispersal, demography, and viability of a metapopulation of an endangered, disturbance-dependent shorebird. We examined three subpopulations of piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) on the lower Platte and Missouri rivers …
Management Applications Of Discontinuity Theory, David G. Angeler, Craig R. Allen, Chris Barichievy, Tarsha Eason, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Nicholas A.J. Graham, Dean Granholm, Lance H. Gunderson, Melinda Knutson, Kristy L. Nash, R. John Nelson, Magnus Nystrom, Trisha L. Spanbauer, Craig A. Stow, Shana M. Sundstrom
Management Applications Of Discontinuity Theory, David G. Angeler, Craig R. Allen, Chris Barichievy, Tarsha Eason, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Nicholas A.J. Graham, Dean Granholm, Lance H. Gunderson, Melinda Knutson, Kristy L. Nash, R. John Nelson, Magnus Nystrom, Trisha L. Spanbauer, Craig A. Stow, Shana M. Sundstrom
Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications
1. Human impacts on the environment are multifaceted and can occur across distinct spatiotemporal scales. Ecological responses to environmental change are therefore difficult to predict, and entail large degrees of uncertainty. Such uncertainty requires robust tools for management to sustain ecosystem goods and services and maintain resilient ecosystems.
2. We propose an approach based on discontinuity theory that accounts for patterns and processes at distinct spatial and temporal scales, an inherent property of ecological systems. Discontinuity theory has not been applied in natural resource management and could therefore improve ecosystem management because it explicitly accounts for ecological complexity.
3. Synthesis …
Climate. A Period Of Consequence: Environmental Literature Of 2006 (2006), Shaun O’Connell
Climate. A Period Of Consequence: Environmental Literature Of 2006 (2006), Shaun O’Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
The author talks about the consequences of not respecting the climate and understanding global warming will cause ecocide and our own extinction.
Reprinted from New England Journal of Public Policy 21, no. 2 (2007), article 5.
Herschel Dust Emission As A Probe Of Starless Cores Mass: Mcld 123.5+24.9 Of The Polaris Flare, Gururaj Anil Wagle, Thomas H. Troland, Gary J. Ferland, Nicholas P. Abel
Herschel Dust Emission As A Probe Of Starless Cores Mass: Mcld 123.5+24.9 Of The Polaris Flare, Gururaj Anil Wagle, Thomas H. Troland, Gary J. Ferland, Nicholas P. Abel
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications
We present newly processed archival Herschel images of molecular cloud MCLD 123.5+24.9 in the Polaris Flare. This cloud contains five starless cores. Using the spectral synthesis code Cloudy, we explore uncertainties in the derivation of column densities, and hence masses of molecular cores from Herschel data. We first consider several detailed grain models that predict far-infrared grain opacities. Opacities predicted by the models differ by more than a factor of two, leading to uncertainties in derived column densities by the same factor. Then we consider uncertainties associated with the modified blackbody fitting process used by observers to estimate column densities. …
The Dependence Of The Av Prior For Sn Ia On Host Mass And Disc Inclination., Benne W. Holwerda, W. C. Keel, M. A. Kenworthy, K. J. Mack
The Dependence Of The Av Prior For Sn Ia On Host Mass And Disc Inclination., Benne W. Holwerda, W. C. Keel, M. A. Kenworthy, K. J. Mack
Faculty Scholarship
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are used as ‘standard candles’ for cosmological distance scales. To fit their light-curve shape–absolute luminosity relation, one needs to assume an intrinsic colour and a likelihood of host galaxy extinction or a convolution of these, a colour distribution prior. The host galaxy extinction prior is typically assumed to be an exponential drop-off for the current supernova programmes ( P(AV)∝e−AV/τ0" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: normal; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-table; word-spacing: normal; word-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: …