145 research outputs found
Park County inventory of critical biological resources: final report
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.April 2001.Prepared by Susan Spackman, Denise Culver, and John Sanderson; prepared for: Park County
Obituary for Dr. William Spackman (1919-2014)
No full textWilliam Spackman, known internationally for his work in the characterization of peat and coal deposits, and the utilization of coals of all types died on March 13, 2014, in Wilmington, North Carolina. Dr. Spackman, Professor Emeritus at The Pennsylvania State University, began his post-secondary education at North Park College in Chicago, where he received the Associate of Arts degree in 1940. He graduated with a Bachelor\u27s degree in botany from the University of Illinois in 1942. During World War II he served at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard applying biological research to marine wood preservation. In 1949 he earned his PhD in biology with a major in paleobotany from Harvard University, where he worked under the guidance of Dr. E.S. Barghoorn, investigating the peculiar characteristics of the Brandon Lignite; Vermont certainly is not known for its coal deposits, but the Brandon ended up being most significant from a paleobotanical point of view. Dr. Spackman spent his entire, and very illustrious career at Penn State, where he developed the Coal Research Section of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences into an internationally acclaimed research facility. According to a history of the Coal Research Section, written in the Penn State Geosciences newsletter by Dr. Spackman, summer 2003, the academic program took root from 1949–1951. Following establishment of classes in paleobotany, palynology, and coal petrology, there came a call from U.S. Steel Corporation in 1951 to assist in the analysis of metallurgical coke production; coke is used in iron ore reduction, and is produced entirely from suitable grades and compositions of bituminous coal. Thus began a decade-long and productive association between US Steel and the coal research group at Penn State. In 1955, the Coal Research Section became a reality, and proceeded to develop ties with Bethlehem Steel, Jones & Laughlin, Inland Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube and a variety of other corporations and agencies. These U.S. steel companies embraced Dr. Spackman\u27s maceral concept that sought to organize coal by rank and composition and employed the knowledge to improve coke and iron making operations. Industrial support, and more than 25 years of funding from the National Science Foundation led to a wide spectrum of research efforts, ranging from defining the petrographic characteristics of coking coals, to understanding the association of uranium minerals with lignites, to appreciating the historical development of peat deposits within the Okefenokee Swamp and the Everglades. Among his many accomplishments Dr. Spackman helped to establish the Catalog of Fossil Spores and Pollen, a research aid that included 44 volumes of illustrations and detailed descriptions of the known fossil taxa of spores and pollen; the Catalog was published at Penn State from 1957 to 1985. He also served as Chair of the Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America; Chair of the Coal Geology Division of the Geological Society of America; and was a member of the International Commission of Coal Petrology, serving from 1964 to 1975 as President of its Nomenclature Committee. Most notably, in 1980 he became the founding editor of the first research journal devoted to coal geology, the International Journal of Coal Geology. Dr. Spackman was probably best known to most coal technologists as a petrographer and organic geochemist. His publications in periodicals such as Fuel, Energy Sources, and the International Journal of Coal Geology reflect his long association with studies of coal characteristics and utilization. To many others, he is most associated with his work in the Florida Everglades. He was long a proponent of using those wetlands as a modern analog to environments of coal accumulation. In 1964, for example, he was senior author on “Environments of Coal Formation in Southern Florida”, a pre-meeting field guide published in association with the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (Spackman and Thompson, 1964). Later, a widely referenced publication appeared in a GSA Special Paper. That contribution, entitled “Geological and Biological Interactions in the Swamp–Marsh Complex of Southern Florida” (Spackman et al., 1969) helped to establish the ‘glades as a model wetland for understanding peat accumulation. This effort was expanded in 1974 when, once again in affiliation with GSA, and with the considerable assistance of Dr. Spackman\u27s former student, Dr. Arthur Cohen, and colleagues Drs. P.H. Given and D.J. Casagrande, a field guide was written and entitled “A Field Guidebook to Aid in the Comparative Study of the Okefenokee Swamp and the Everglades-Mangrove Swamp–Marsh Complex of Southern Florida”. Dr. Spackman\u27s love of the Everglades never abated, and for many of us the image of him standing at the helm of the Mariscus as it sped across Florida Bay toward the Everglades is most enduring
Colorado Natural Heritage Program 1995 (with material added in 1997)
No full textFrom cover: "Colorado Natural Heritage Program 1995 (with material added in 1997)."15 January 1996.Prepared for: U.S. Forest Service, Leadville Ranger District; by Susan Spackman, Mark Duff, Sandra Floyd
Inventory and status report of American ground nut (Apios americana Medicus) in Colorado
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Prepared by: David G. Anderson and Susan C. Spackman; prepared for: City of Boulder Open Space
Cirsium perplexans (Rydb.) Petrak (Rocky Mountain thistle): a technical conservation assessment
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.August 31, 2004.Prepared for: the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region, Species Conservation Project; [by] Susan Spackman Panjabi and David G. Anderson
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No full textSarah Ann Rawlings Spackman was born March 3, 1856 in Burbage, Wiltshire, England and died November 7, 1937 in Lewiston, Utah. Spouse: Henry Spackman
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No full textSarah Ann Rawlings Spackman was born March 3, 1856 in Burbage, Wiltshire, England and died November 7, 1937 in Lewiston, Utah. Spouse: Henry Spackman
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A Polyphonic Archipelago along the Faulted California Coast
No full textWhite Point projects off a peninsula that was once part of the Channel Island Archipelago. Descending from hill to sea within the San Andreas Rift, its 140 acres hold seemingly irreconcilable landscapes and uses. Traces of the Native Kizh people, Japanese farmers and fishermen, Spanish Rancheros, the US Military, and our world’s rarest butterfly species overlap in layered entanglements. These multiple legacies are all but indistinguishable, however, in the site’s current condition where fenced-off military infrastructure fragments nature preserve. This dominant, reductive reading of White Point is a product of our tendency to rely upon linear narratives to explain place. Such narratives invariably prioritize “culminations,” therefore burying manifold spatial histories.
My thesis asks how architects might engage and reveal the complex interdependence of cultural, agricultural, ecological, and geological histories often culled from contemporary spatial narratives.
By replacing linear history with polyphonic tableau, this project at White Point delivers the physical means by which the public may hold multiple timescales, voices, and truths in concert through a public landscape. A matrix of pathways ties together the archipelago of architectural interventions, offering explicit entanglements across several registers–from small scale tactility to overall site choreography.
Existing built histories are harmonized with another spatial voice. In one instance a Cold War era artillery shed transforms into a band stand where habitat for the Palos Verdes Blue butterfly encircles the dance floor. In another, one gazes across coastal landslides while simultaneously watching a high school baseball game. In short, separate, incomplete histories overlap to form a constantly evolving, tentative “whole” for communal history
Alien Registration- Kemp, Sarah E. (Portland, Cumberland County)
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Situating Lives: Autobiography and Social Critique in Contemporary France and Italy
No full text“Situating Lives” bridges the study of autobiography and social theory to demonstrate how, since at least the mid-twentieth century, hybrid forms of narration have used personal experiences to advance critical arguments. In contrast to the scholarly tradition that tends to cast self-analysis as a form of narcissistic confession, this dissertation examines autobiographical texts that foreground social groups and generations across six decades of French and Italian literature. Through historical contextualization and careful analysis of works by Jean-Paul Sartre, Luisa Passerini, Annie Ernaux, and Edoardo Albinati, I argue that the emphasis contemporary life-writing places on social relations attests to a revised understanding of critique, whereby discursive modes of social introspection offer new alternatives to universalist paradigms. The autobiographers-critics discussed herein address social phenomena in their personal narratives based on the internal knowledge they gained as individuals situated within a community. This shift from detachment to immanence in experimental life-writing challenges hierarchical models of political commitment, illustrating how critique is a democratic activity that results from self-understanding.Key to the personal narratives investigated in this study is the way in which these writers represent and interpret social bonds. Each of the four chapters addresses the relationship between collective autobiography and social critique by focusing on the creative modes in which these authors imagine society and intervene in its dynamics. Taking his bourgeois childhood as an example, Sartre casts light on the social grammar that, embodied in everyday practices, intimates to individuals how to relate to one another. In her generational self-portrait, Passerini interrogates the ideological and linguistic mediations that shape both personal experiences and their narration. As she recounts her parents’ life and her own, Ernaux grapples with questions of visibility and agency in low-income milieus, in search of ways to de-singularize the “I” and foster social belonging. In turn, Albinati meditates upon the widespread practices of masculine domination at play in his Catholic education. Such an introspective exercise prompts the author to assess available forms of accountability and social unity within a community fractured by gender violence. Taken together, these chapters point to the richness of critical practices that emerge from situated thinking, as well as to the ambivalences that can arise in interpreting and attempting to reimagine one’s place in society. While accounting for the inseparable ties between individuals and communities, these autobiographers suggest that writing about one’s life means not only engaging with its contexts, but also unfolding its critical implications
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