Final Doctoral Recital

violin, Toru Takemitsu, Franz Schubert, Kaija Saariaho, Sergei Prokofie

Final Doctoral Recital

Viola, York Bowen, Atar Arad, Georg Philipp Telemann, Astor Piazzolla. Please see Additional Documents for Recital Program

South Shore of Long Island Reef GIS Data

High-resolution backscatter and bathymetric maps created by multibeam sonar surveys were used to identify different seafloor bottom types within existing, potentially expanded, and newly proposed reef areas in New York waters. Existing sites included Smithtown in Long Island Sound (LIS), and Rockaway, Atlantic Beach, Hempstead, Yellowbar, Kismet, Fire Island, Twelve Mile along the South Shore. Potential expansions are proposed on the South Shore for McAllister, Moriches, and Shinnecock reefs in addition to a new site called Sixteen Fathom. In Long Island Sound, new sites are proposed for Huntington/Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson/Mount Sinai, and Mattituck. Grab samples were collected within these areas to characterize sediment properties and macrofauna. Multivariate analysis was used to identify important factors explaining variations in community structure. Sites within Long Island Sound had 3 to 10 bottom types (i.e., acoustic provinces), but sediments and benthic community structure was characterized by greater among site variation compared to within site variability. Sites along the South Shore had 4 to 12 bottom types (acoustic provinces), and although sediments were mostly sandy, there was substantial within site variation in benthic community structure. This research dataset contains only the South Shore of Long Island, NY GIS files. A second research dataset for the Long Island Sound GIS was also deposited to Academic Commons

Final Doctoral Recital

Villa-Lobos, Violin, Leopoldo Miguez, Camargo Guarnieri Violin Sonata, Villa-Lobos Sonata-Fantasia, Brazilian Violi

Final Doctoral Recital

Piano, Matthew Barnson, François Couperin, Claude Debussy, Jean-Philippe Rameau. Please see additional documents for recital program

Climatologies of Convection Across the United States

Tropospheric convection is one of the most important contributors to the Earth’s climate system through its transport of heat, moisture, and momentum. The hazards associated with convection (i.e., tornadoes, hail, lightning, flooding, damaging wind, etc.) are one of the largest threats to life and property. Despite the importance and wide-reaching impacts of convection, many processes both internal and external to storms are not well understood. One way to elucidate convective processes in a bulk sense is through the use of large climatologies. Radar data provide both microphysical and kinematic information about these convective storms and their hazards on fine spatiotemporal scales. The work herein is the large radar-based climatologies of shallow, modest, and vigorous deep convection with data from NEXRAD, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) 16, and the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh model, to assess differences in the characteristics and environments of various scales of air-mass thunderstorms whose initiation is primarily driven by the inland propagation of the sea-breeze front. Also developed is a radar-based climatology of supercell thunderstorms, the most intense thunderstorms on Earth, with the goal to examine the intensity and transience of low-level and midlevel mesocyclones leading up to tornadogenesis or tornadogenesis failure. Radar-derived azimuthal shear is used to assess differences in the rotational intensity and transience of the low-level and midlevel mesocyclones in strongly tornadic, weakly tornadic, and non-tornadic supercells. Near storm environment characteristics from the Rapid Refresh model are used to investigate any relationships between the storm environment and the rotational intensity and transience of mesocyclones

Final Doctoral Recital

Clarinet, Ida Gotkovsky, Doina Rotaru, Valerie Coleman, Amanda Harber

Final Doctoral Recital

Piano, Heejin Shin, Frederic Chopin, Robert Schuman

Final Doctoral Recital

Clarinet, Ida Gotkovsky, Doina Rotaru, Valerie Coleman, Amanda Harber

Creatività diasporiche Dialoghi transnazionali tra teoria e arti

Creatività diasporiche è un volume bilingue costituito da tredici conversazioni tra studiosi/studiose di materie umanistiche e artisti/artiste il cui lavoro si concentra sul tema della migrazione e dell’identità. I contributi nella raccolta abbracciano forme di produzione che vanno dalla letteratura alle arti visive, dal cinema alla performance teatrale, dai podcast alla musica rap, mentre tra le tematiche ricorrenti emergono dibattiti su identità, lingua, migrazione, memoria e cittadinanza. Questo volume è anche un invito a ripensare il lavoro creativo e quello accademico, in area umanistica, come intrinsecamente legati al dialogo e alla collaborazione. Ciascuna conversazione si concentra sull’Italia intesa come un catalizzatore di significati e di pratiche artistiche che si sviluppano in direzioni diverse e spesso inaspettate, piuttosto che come luogo geograficamente e culturalmente specifico, omogeneo e delimitato. Allo stesso modo, la nozione di cultura italiana che emerge da queste conversazioni è aperta, dinamica e intrinsecamente legata alla convinzione che ricerca e creatività abbiano un ruolo centrale nell’immaginare e costruire società più giuste e inclusive