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Waves of Arrivance
Get PDFIn this essay, we conduct an ancestral genealogy of the term “arrivant” through Kumina ceremony. A spiritual and ceremonial practice based in Jamaica, Kumina is, as Kamau Brathwaite describes, a living fragmentation of an African religion which arrived in the Caribbean through the Middle Passage. On arrival, Kumina retained its ancestral remembrance and its Central African Indigeneity. The tidal intimacies of Kumina have a relation to Imogene “Queenie” Kennedy, known by Kamau Brathwaite, in the title-inspired epigraph to The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy (1973), as Kumina Queen. Originally based in St. Thomas and later Kingston, Jamaica, Kennedy’s role in her community as a Kumina Queen exemplifies the intimacies and relationalities among African and Taíno Indigeneities. Through her life and her Word, this paper will consider how “arrivant” continues to be an honorific for CentralAfrican ancestors who arrived in Jamaica as liminally enslaved and indentured
Zinc, Isotopes and Ocean Sediment: What’s the Link to Earth’s Future Climate?
Get PDFDuring the Earth’s history, similar periods of rapid climate change have taken place and are recorded in ocean sediments that archive these analogous time periods. In a circular way, the oceans can provide a means for us to resolve the uncertainties surrounding the Earth’s future
Acidic Oceans: How Will Copepods Cope?
Get PDFEarly OA research quickly established the serious threat that more acidic oceans directly impose on calcifying organisms such as corals and bivalves because their calcium carbonate structures dissolve more easily and are more difficult to build as seawater pH decreases. Research continued to establish baseline effects of OA on individual organisms, before looking at multiple species responses and effects of double stressors (e.g., low pH + high temperature). Current OA research is leaning into community-level responses to two or three environmental drivers simultaneously, with the ultimate goal of understanding effects of OA within the context of multiple stressors and entire ecosystems
A Design Method For Determining the Optimal Distance between Artificial Reefs
Get PDFIn 1971, the term “marine ranching” first appeared at a conference organised by the Japanese Department of Aquaculture, suggesting a concept for a system of sustainable food production from marine biological resources. In recent years, with the continual development of science andtechnology, marine ranching has received considerable attention as a new form of modern marine fishery production, and has so far achieved good results where it has been carried out.Alluding to the grazing of cattle and sheep on grassland, on a basic level marine ranching can be interpreted as grazing animals such as fish, shrimp and shellfish in the sea. Reef fishing offers a salient example. While reefs readily attract fish, in recent years natural reefs have declined as a result of marine engineering practices and destructive fishing methods. In response, artificial reefs are springing up. In terms of marine ranching, the formation of artificial reefs is a fundamental ecological project
