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Leveraging Land Easements for Grassland Bird Habitat Conservation
Get PDFIn addressing the decline of North American grassland bird populations, it is important to consider the various interdisciplinary approaches that can be employed in their conservation. OECMs, or “other effective area-based conservation measures” encompass a wide array of strategies which can be leveraged to conserve natural landscapes and species. Land easements implemented by the Land Conservancy of Adams County (LCAC) are an example of one such strategy. The LCAC seeks primarily to preserve the rural character of Adams County but has more recently turned their focus toward environmental conservation. In partnering with the Land Conservancy, this case study aimed to identify land easements within Freedom Township, PA that should be prioritized for grassland bird conservation, while also supporting the LCAC in applying for a Land Trust Grant through the Cornell Ornithology Lab. To fulfill these goals, the Eastern Meadowlark was chosen as a focal species. Surveys were then distributed to landowners engaged in LCAC land easements within Freedom Township to gauge their current agricultural practices and willingness to participate in grassland bird conservation. After preparing Eastern Meadowlark occurrence data and selected environmental variables in ArcGIS Pro, the software MaxEnt was used to produce models expressing the predicted probability of Eastern Meadowlark presence in Adams County, Pennsylvania. The first model used land cover data to identify where the birds were likely located, and the second model used crop cover data to relate presence to certain crops. By integrating these models with survey responses, we identified parcels (1) containing suitable habitat for the Eastern Meadowlark, and (2) owned by landowners interested in bird conservation as priority conservation parcels. The results of this study indicated that the Eastern Meadowlark was negatively correlated with tree cover and crops unfavorable for nesting, including soy and corn. A stronger presence was predicted on easements that self-reported growing crops conducive to nesting, such as grasses, wheat, or hay. Based on these findings, we make several recommendations for the focus of future grassland bird conservation efforts within Freedom Township
The Body Is a Tool for Remembrance : Healing, Transformation, and the Instrumentality of the Body in a North American Sufi Order
No full textThis article is a preliminary analysis of the role of the body in core rituals of a North American branch of the Shadhilyya Sufi order. It draws upon fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2020 to consider how spiritual healing practices involve the human body sensorily and in experiential, imaginative realms, as conveyed through practitioners’ verbal descriptions of what they feel in the body and how they understand their bodies and the bodies of others. I demonstrate how, in these healing practices, the body is instrumentalized in three key modes – as barometer, controller, and ground of energy – that change the way it is experienced. I argue that the ‘ordinary’ – or, non-extraordinary – body is instrumentalized through these healing modalities to become the site of transformation from spirit to material and material to spirit, and that through this the body emerges as central to everyday, lived Sufi practice. The healings discussed incorporate traditional Muslim devotional practices and long-standing Islamic and Sufi rituals such as dhikr (remembrance, recollection of the divine), recitation of the 99 names of the divine, Qur’anic recitation, cupping, and less traditionally Islamic practices such as acupuncture
3D Flow Field Measurements Outside Nanopores
Get PDFWe demonstrate a non-stereoscopic, video-based particle tracking system with optical tweezers to study fluid flow in 3D in the vicinity of glass nanopores. In particular, we used the quadrant interpolation algorithm to extend our video-based particle tracking to displacements out of the trapping plane of the tweezers. This permitted the study of flow from nanopores oriented at an angle to the trapping plane, enabling the mounting of nanopores on a micromanipulator with which it was then possible to automate the mapping procedure. Mapping of the voltage driven flow in 3D volumes outside nanopores revealed polarity dependent flow fields. This is in agreement with the model of voltage driven flow in conical nanopores depending on the interaction of distinct flows within the nanopore and along the outer walls
Pollo Fritto e Disperazione
No full textAutori e autrici dell\u27America contemporanea, accomunati dall\u27appartenenza al mondo delle scuole di scrittura creativa di fiction e nonfiction e dalla pubblicazione su prestigiose riviste letterarie. Un taglio minimalista e antiretorico per vivisezionare frammenti e situazioni - infanzia, adolescenza, età adulta e vecchiaia. Temi che spaziano dall\u27identità culturale e di genere alle nevrosi, dal dolore della perdita all\u27inafferrabile trascorrere del tempo. Un diffuso senso di solitudine, in cui la comunicazione con l\u27altro è complicata se non rotta; dove il dolore, a vari livelli, è un\u27ombra scura che si allunga su un presente fragile e contraddittorio.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1184/thumbnail.jp
Faculty Meeting Minutes – November 17, 2022
No full textMinutes of the Gettysburg College Faculty Business Meeting, November 17, 2022
Culture and COVID-19: Impact of Cross-Cultural Dimensions on Behavioral Responses
Get PDFThe global pandemic of COVID-19 has impacted every sphere of human life across all nations of the world. Countries adapted and responded to the crisis in different ways with varied outcomes and different degrees of success in mitigation efforts. Studies have examined institutional and policy-based responses to the pandemic. However, to gain a holistic understanding of the pandemic response strategy and its effectiveness, it is also important to understand the cultural foundations of a society driving its response behavior. Towards that end, this entry focuses on a few key cultural dimensions of difference across countries and proposes that national culture is related to the protective behavior adopted by societies during COVID-19. The cultural dimensions examined in relation to COVID-19 include the dimensions of individualism vs. collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity and femininity, and future orientation. Inferences are drawn from academic research, published data, and discernible indicators of social behavior. The entry provides pointers for each dimension of culture and proposes that cultural awareness be made an important element of policy making while responding to crises such as COVID-19
Faculty Meeting Minutes – December 1, 2022
No full textMinutes of the Gettysburg College Faculty Business Meeting, December 1, 2022
Philosophers of Catastrophe: Early 20th Century Jewish Proponents and Opponents of Objectivity in Science
Get PDFThe Second World War ended with the exposure of the Nazi death camps and the threat of global nuclear annihilation. The former disclosed the depths of human depravity and the latter warned us about the severity of the consequences that could await us as a result. The grimness of each, much less both, had the effect of shielding from our collective consciousness the equally dire warnings from the First World War that had occurred only a couple of decades earlier. [excerpt
Decolonial Possibilities in an Introductory Environmental Humanities Classroom
No full textThe chapter discusses various teaching strategies employed in an introductory Environmental Humanities class to engage students to the problematic entanglements of EuroAmerican environmentalisms with Indigenous lives
Social Movements, Political Linkages, and the Challenge to Democracy in Mexico
No full textMexico\u27s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) brought together a coalition of social and political groupings that, despite a diversity of political views, opposed the implementation of neoliberal economic policies. The Obradorist sociopolitical movement contributed to the construction of participatory democracy by promoting mass participation at different levels. In doing so, it pushed hard to democratize Mexico\u27s faltering liberal democracy, a closed political system with entrenched authoritarianism. The mobilizations that AMLO led and the social movement struggles that he supported paved the way for the creation of the Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (National Regeneration Movement—MORENA) in 2011 and his contentious exit from the Partido de la Revolución Democrática—PRD, which he considered a spent force. The social movement struggles in the few years prior to 2018 contributed to his triumph by discrediting the existing system and questioning its legitimacy. Until then, the MORENA had had a close connection with social movements and popular mobilization, but once in power it abandoned the strategy of accompaniment and turned itself into an electoral machine. [excerpt