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The role of mass-movement in shore platform development along the Gisborne coastline, New Zealand
No full textTidal shore platforms form a conspicuous part of the coastal scenery north of Gisborne, New Zealand. Some of these platforms are being extended landward under present-day conditions. Present widening results primarily from cliff-retreat by mass-movement. The coincidence in distribution of areas of wave convergence, mass-movement and shore platforms suggests a genetic connection between these marine and subaerial process and response elements. Various types of mass-movement are involved in cliff-retreat, notably slumps, flows, debris slides and soil and rock falls. While the products of such mass-movement forms are removed by wave action, extensive boulder fields on some shore platforms indicate that removal is not always complete. Not all of the shore platforms on this coast are being widened at present. Widening has ceased where active mass-movement is not occurring
Bioerosion on shore platforms developed in the Waitemata Formation, Auckland
No full textBioerosion - the removal of lithic substrate by the erosive activities of living organisms- has not previously been discussed for New Zealand shore platforms. This paper aims at drawing attention to bioerosion as a process active in shore platform development. Detailed reference is made to bioerosion occurring on the alternating sandstones and siltstones of the Waitemata Formation found outcropping on the coastline around Auckland. In this area several facets of shore platform morphology may be attributed to the direct effects of boring and browsing marine organisms. A classification of animals causing bioerosion, based on mechanism of erosion, is presented, and the geomorphic significance of the various groups discussed
Marshall Shore interview, tape 2
No full textMarshall Shore was born in Farmington, Washington in 1916 and graduated from Lincoln High School in Seattle 1934. He was enrolled at the University of Washington when he was drafted into the Army in 1940, serving as a B-17 navigator in Europe during World War II. After World War II, Shore continued to serve in the Air Force performing work with intercontinental ballistic missile installations and other bases both in the United States and abroad. Shore retired in 1972. In retirement, Shore managed farms in the Columbia Basin and worked on histories of Farmington, as well his personal and family histories.
This is tape Two of two, which may also be found in this collection of oral histories
Managing large-scale science and technology projects at the edge of knowledge: The Manhattan Project as a learning organisation
No full textFew projects have had such a profound and lasting effect on the
world as the Manhattan Project. Today, after it was approved 70 years ago by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, its legacy is felt in nuclear medicine, military
defense, terrorist threats, and the production of energy. What was remarkable
about this project was that to succeed it had to push through the frontiers of
knowledge in ways that are impressive even by today’s standards. This paper
includes a short history of the project and the challenges that had to be
overcome. But the paper is primarily about a very large organisation that was
forced to learn quickly, compress each stage in the project in a race against
time, and pass knowledge, which was often incomplete, from one phase to the
next. As such, it makes a theoretical contribution to the literature on the
management of large-scale science projects and provides insight into the
problems that these projects face today
Interview with Marci Shore--April 10, 2015
No full textInterview Themes: How Shore came to be interested in history, people who influenced her, and the “susceptibility to being transported” (1:48); How Shore came to be aware that she was living history in Eastern Europe in the 1990s and the “un-grounded” and “up-in-the-air” feel of that time (8:08); What did people like Shore, who came of age intellectually in the 1990s, see or miss when compared with those who came before or those who came after? (11:58); How Shore approaches writing: principles and idols (on “keeping the language fresh” and “setting the scene” as opposed to “telling the reader what to think”) (16:58); On empathizing with the subjects of one’s work (25:20); On what holds Shore’s body of work together: dynamics of generation, friendship (32:40); Going to Eastern Europe to seek meaning: how does one arrive at the fundamental questions? (39:15); Is there an identifiable “Naimark school” of those who studied under Norman Naimark (45:35); What is at stake in considering oneself of an intellectual historian who focuses on a particular region? (51:05); Is Eastern Europe becoming “real” again through events in Ukraine and on the Maidan? On the “return of metaphysics” and knowing that—for better or worse—“anything is possible.” (57:25); Shore on the “miraculous transformation of subjectivity” in Ukraine (1:05:28); How should we be training the next generation of scholars in the field? (1:09:00)Interview with Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History at Yale University. The interview was conducted in Ithaca, NY on April 10, 2015. Marci Shore specializes in European—and especially East-Central European—cultural and intellectual history is the author of 2 books, including Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’sLife and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 (Yale, 2006) and The Taste ofAshes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe (2013). She has also translated Michał Głowiński’s Holocaust memoir, The Black Seasons, from the Polish (that book was published in 2005). In addition, she has written a number of articles for both academic and more general readership audiences, including Kritika, Contemporary European History, and Modern European Intellectual History. She is currently at work on two book manuscripts, one is entitled “Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe,” and the other is an intellectual history of the recent revolution in Ukraine.1_xm4v17j
Zachary Shore - Blunder [interview]
No full textZachary Shore is Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He previously served on the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State. He is the author of What Hitler Knew: The Battle for Information in Nazi Foreign Policy, and Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe. His most recent book is Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions. In this interview with D.J. Grothe, Zachary Shore talks about decision making, both at the personal and international level, and shares reasons even smart people make bad decisions. He describes what the field of history uniquely reveals about the tools needed to avoid decision-making blunders. He details the many ways that people fall into "cognition traps," including "exposure anxiety," "causefusion," "flatview," and "static cling," drawing from examples from individuals, international politics and statecraft, and corporate America. He identifies the various rigid mindsets that cause the cognition traps. And he suggests solutions to avoid blunders in thinking, including increasing one's empathy, imagination, and flexibility
Sediment characterization in the vicinity of Tavira inlet to study the longshore and cross-shore variability of a berm-bar system within the frame of the SHORE project
No full textSHORE (2015). Shoreface Morphodynamics: An Integrated Approac
Periodically driven circulation near the shore of a lake
No full textSolutions are found for a linear model of the circulation near the shore of a lake that is subject to two diurnal forcing mechanisms. The first is the day/night heating/cooling induced horizontal pressure gradient. The second is an unsteady surface stress modelling a sea breeze/gully wind pattern. The two forcing mechanisms can oppose or reinforce each other depending on their relative phase. The interplay of different dynamic balances at different times and locations in the domain lead to complex circulation patterns especially during the period of flow reversal
Richard B "Chips" Shore
No full textRichard B. "Chips" Shore, head of the Manatee County Blood Bank, speaks up at a Bradenton City Council meeting. A few years later he began his term as Clerk of the Circuit Court of Manatee County. By 1976 he was clerk and treasurer of the City of Bradenton and by 1979 he was Clerk of the Circuit Court of Manatee County. He held that position through 2015 when he passed
What is to be done?
No full textAt the end of the conference B[e]-Stars 2016, this wrap-up talk suggests some lines for future observational and theoretical investigations of the B[e] phenomenon. The importance of broad spectrum spectroscopic and spectrophotometric is highlighted, with particular attention to those wavelength domains that will soon be unavailable
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