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Sandia Mountains, New Mexico
No full textIn "The West" series. Sandia Mountains visible in the distance with a road running diagonally in the foreground through a desert landscape
View of Sandias from Coronado Monument, New Mexico
No full textIn "The West" series. The Sandia Mountains in the distance, photographed from the Coronado Historic Site (Kuaua Pueblo) with an old wooden fence running diagonally in the foreground. Signed on back
Book Review: Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening
No full textAuthor: Stephen Kuusisto
Reviewer: Steven E. Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton, 2006
Cloth, ISBN: 0-393-05892-1, 244 pages
Cost: $23.95 US
Faces and Places in Fashion: Steven Stipelman
No full textPart presentation, part Q&A, FIT's "Faces & Places in Fashion" lecture series is an opportunity to connect students and the public alike to the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting.Our first remote class featured Steven Stipelman, professor of Fashion design/art at FIT since 1993. Professionally, his career goes back more than 40 years. His first job was staff illustrator at Henri Bendel, one of the most fashion forward stores of the period. He drew all the newspaper and promotional ads. His next job, and perhaps the one he is most associated with was an illustrator for Women's wear Daily and "W" for more than 25 years. He illustrated major American and European collections - designer to couture. He worked with these designers often sketching the garments before they were ever made. He learned a great deal of how the collections were created as well as construction and fabrication.Steven's work has been printed internationally and some of his clients included Lord & Taylor, Marshall Field, Estee Lauder, Orlane, Yves St Laurent cosmetics, Bill Blass, Pierre Cardin, Christian Dior, Valentino, Tuleh, Blassport, Basile and Ralph Rucci. His work has appeared in many shows and exhibitions throughout the country. In 2007, he had a one-person exhibition, "Ethereal Elegance," at the Museum at FIT. He is the author of a textbook, "Illustrating Fashion - Concept to Creation." He would describe his work as giving an impression of movement through a spontaneity of brush strokes and washes of acrylic or watercolor. He wants his figures to always have an ethereal or swan-like look, as if they were floating across the page. The drawing should project an emotion that would make you want to feel that way rather than look that way
MODIS Global Terrestrial Evapotranspiration (ET) Product (NASA MOD16A2/A3) Collection 5. NASA Headquarters
No full textIn the original EOS proposal competition in 1989, Dr. Steve Running proposed and was selected as MODIS Science team member responsible for Leaf area index, evapotranspiration and photosynthesis/net primary production, then designated as MOD 15, 16 and 17. At the ATBD review for at-launch products in 1995, NASA decided to give MOD 15 LA I/FPAR to Dr. Ranga Myneni to provide a more theoretically based algorithm, and Dr. Running was directed to focus on MOD 17 PSN/NPP for the Terra atlaunch data product. MOD 16 ET was not dropped, but was deprioritized. At the EOS recompete in 2003 NASA selected another investigator to build a MOD 16 ET product but this investigation was not renewed in 2007. In the interim Dr. Running and the NTSG group had changed from an energy balance - surface resistance concept to a Penman-Monteith concept, and had greater success building a globally applicable algorithm. Since much of the processing paralleled our MOD 17 product, NTSG tested, then generated initial global ET datasets. In the 2010 renewal competition for the MODIS Science Team, Dr. Running reproposed MOD 16, based on the new algorithm and global ET datasets now developed, and published in refereed journals. Now, with selection of our 2010 renewal proposal complete, we offer the ATBD. This document represents our formal ATBD for establishing this algorithm and dataset as the official MOD 16 Evapotranspiration product
Estimating Terrestrial Primary Productivity by Combining Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Simulation
No full textBeginning in 1972 with the launch of Landsat 1, estimation of terrestrial plant production has been one of the most important applications attempted of satellite remote sensing. Initial interest focused on the prediction of regional crop yields, such as wheat (Erickson, 1984). However, changing goals, hardware capabilities, and theory have produced a steady evolution in the approaches taken to calculate net primary production (NPP) of large areas. Interest has also expanded to calculating primary production of natural vegetation. The much wider array of topography, climate, canopy geometry, and life-cycle dynamics exhibited by natural vegetation make computation of primary production much more challenging than the rather controlled, organized field conditions of a crop
Ecosystem Disturbance, Carbon, and Climate
No full textModels of climate change effects should incorporate land-use changes and episodic disturbances such as fires and insect epidemics
Relating Plant Capacitance to the Water Relations of Pinus Contorta
No full textInternal water storage of Pinus contorta Dougl. ex. Laud. (lodgepole pine) was estimated by both calculation and measurement. Readily available water from internal storage was calculated to be capable of providing 0.6 h of maximum transpiration. This estimate was substantiated by direct measurement. Needle water content contributed only 4% of total storage, but had an important role in stomatal response through the control of leaf conductance by leaf water potential. Leaf water potential was highly correlated with needle water content when measurements were taken under low transpiration conditions which minimized the flow-related component of water potential. When trees were cut and allowed to dry upright, the needles retained water and a stable leaf water potential for up to 33 days as the stem sapwood was depleted. Sapwood water content of intact trees remained fairly constant at 60–70% of saturation throughout the summer
Environmental control of leaf water conductance in conifers
No full textDiurnal measurements of leaf conductance, xylem water potential, temperature, humidity, and radiation were taken on six sites throughout Oregon. Xylem water potential was hypothesized to influence leaf conductance in two ways. First, predawn xylem water potential controlled the early-morning maximum leaf conductance of Pseudotsugamenziesii (Mirb.) Franco. Second, irrespective of predawn water potential, a threshold diurnal water potential was found. Whenever water potential of Pseudotsugamenziesii dropped below −20 bars (−20 × 105 Pa) during the day, a significant decrease in leaf conductance resulted. If the water potential threshold was not reached during the day, leaf conductance stayed at the morning maximum or decreased slightly in response to decreasing humidity
A regional look at HANPP: human consumption is increasing, NPP is not
No full textAbdi et al (2014 Environ. Res. Lett. 9 094003), have adapted the concept of comparing supply and demand of annual plant production known as human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) to a region of the Sahel with rapid population growth. They found that HANPP more than doubled over the study period of 2000–2010, from 19% to 41%, suggesting increasing vulnerability of these populations to food insecurity
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