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Ep. #184 - Natalie Loveless
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Dominic and Cymene celebrate the one thing the USA ever did right—Mr. Rogers. And we wonder whether there is such a thing as Canadian BBQ. Then (13:02) the delightful Natalie Loveless (http://loveless.ca/about) joins the pod. She is the author of a forthcoming book with Duke University Press, How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation, and that’s where we begin the conversation with a discussion of the relatively new domain of “research-creation” in Canadian higher education and its potential to help expand who belongs in universities and their modes of legitimate practice. We turn from there to the dilemmas of teaching climate catastrophe to students and her new book project, Sensing the Anthropocene: Aesthetic Attunement in an age of Urgency, which connects research-creation to climate justice. We talk about relation as artistic form and why she thinks it is so crucial that Anthropocene art pursue ecological forms that rupture the systems that brought us to our present circumstances. Finally, we discuss why it’s important not to be captured by the tools and temporalities of university audit culture, her thoughts on the Anthropocene concept as lure and barnacle, and how we might build a feminist university of creativity, experiment and with an eros that is cathected, committed and sustaining
Natalie Daise reads De Nyew Testament, Luke 2:1-4
No full textVisual and performing artist Natalie Daise reads a passage from the Gullah Sea Island Creole Translation of the New Testament. She then reads the parallel passage in the King James Version. Natalie and her husband, Ron, worked on the translation of the Bible into Gullah. Keywords: Gullah Language, Bible, GUL
First person – Natalie Farrawell
No full textABSTRACT
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Natalie Farrawell is the first author on ‘SOD1A4V aggregation alters ubiquitin homeostasis in a cell model of ALS’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Natalie is a Senior Research Assistant in the lab of Justin Yerbury at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Australia, investigating the molecular processes underpinning amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with a particular emphasis on protein misfolding, protein aggregation and inclusion formation.</jats:p
Reply to the comment on “Long-term decline of sugar maple following forest harvest, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire."
Get PDFSugar maple decline in eastern North America is caused by a complex combination of factors with soil nutrition being one of several important determinants. Given the complexity of sugar maple population dynamics and the geographic extent of the species, we support Bailey et al.'s (2018) argument to interpret results from Cleavitt et al. (2018) with due caution. The experiment at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest represents an atypical application of contemporary forest practice in the White Mountain National Forest. However, some comments in Bailey et al. (2018) missed the point; others inaccurately characterized our paper. Cleavitt et al.'s (2018) 30-year record of vegetation recovery following whole-tree harvest documented a worrisome inability of a sugar maple population that successfully established post-harvest to maintain its position in the understory. This lack of persistence on base-poor soils like those in the mid and upper elevations of Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest suggests that the successful recruitment of sugar maple is not guaranteed.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author
Using Maple to calculate 2D Fourier transforms in polar coordinates
No full text<p>This project contains a toolbox to compute 2D Fourier transforms in polar coordinates using Maple. The files contained are (i) the Maple Source code (SCAToolbox V2.mw) (ii) instructions on how to install the toolbox and (iii)an MASc thesis that details the devleopment and evaluation of the toolbox and (iv) Maple Code (Testing_SCAToolbox.mw) demonstrating use of the toolbox.</p
Management proposal for a private landowner to improve an existing sugar maple stand
Get PDFThe presence of sugar maple, Acer saccharum Marshall, in Northwestern Ontario
is bound by the existence of unique ecological microsites and natural gap dynamic
processes. Its’ management, though rare and challenging, has been embraced by Jay
Stewart and his family with the personal production of maple syrup. A silviculture
prescription focused on the improvement of the overall health condition of the stand, the
release of sugar maple trees from competition, the nurturing of regeneration and seedbed
conditions, as well as the maintenance of additionally important forest values has been
developed and proposed in order to meet the landowners objectives
Maple Code Demonstrating use of the SCAToolbox
No full text<p>This is a Maple worksheet that demonstrates how the SCAToolbox can be loaded and used.</p
Sugar maple seedling regeneration of a natural cohort across a latitudinal gradient in New Hampshire
Get PDFAbstract. Sugar maple, an economically and ecologically important tree in the northern hardwood forest has experienced regeneration failure that in the Northeast portion of the range has been variously attributed to soil acidification and resultant changes in soil chemistry, impacts of climate change and effects of species composition. In a five year study spanning a latitudinal gradient in the state of New Hampshire, we examined evidence for these three hypotheses to explain sugar maple regeneration patterns. Overall, sugar maple seedling survival was highest in the two sites with lower sugar maple abundance. Alternatively, the two other sites with greater than 50% sugar maple relative dominance shared the following outcomes: higher seed production per area, greater foliar pest damage, lower seedling survival, lower sapling density and higher canopy maple mortality, while the sites with lower dominance of maple had opposite outcomes. Based on field data and a common garden experiment, conspecific impacts on seedling survival were related to foliar pests and fungal pathogens rather than through soil feedbacks. These results lend support to other studies encouraging promotion of stand tree diversity and avoidance of monocultures.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
Impact of beaver dams on the Maple River West Branch.
Get PDFBeavers alter ecosystems through building dams. To determine if and how beaver dams affect stream ecosystems, we surveyed seven beaver dams in the West Branch of the Maple River (Emmet Co., MI), a cold water trout stream. We measured dissolved oxygen and water temperature at all dams and sampled macroinvertebrates above and below six active beaver dams. We found no statistical difference in temperature, dissolved oxygen, species diversity, and functional feeding groups of macroinvertebrates above and below dams. However, we found different macroinvertebrate communities above and below dams, and greater species richness and abundance downstream. Thus, beaver dams are producing an effect on the West Branch Maple River, and further samples should be taken to determine the extent of this effect and to sufficiently answer management questions in regards to trout populations.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/95703/1/Imirzian_Natalie_2012.pd
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