Posters-at-the-Capitol 2017 Program Booklet

Posters-at-the-Capitol 2017 Program Booklet Contents: Welcoming Remarks Posters-at-the-Capitol Organizing Committee Welcome Letter from Mr. Robert King Schedule of Activities Mezzanine Map Participant Listings Eastern Kentucky University Kentucky State University Kentucky Community & Technical College System Morehead State University Murray State University Northern Kentucky University University of Louisville University of Kentucky Western Kentucky University Programs of Distinction Student Abstract

Abstracts and Program for the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science, 2017

The annual meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science took place March 24–25, 2017, at Young Harris College in Young Harris, Georgia. The keynote speaker was Dr. Bill Newsome, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. His presentation was entitled “Understanding the Brain: the Path Forward.” Additional presentations were provided by members of the Academy who represented the following sections: I. Biological Sciences, II. Chemistry, III. Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, IV. Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering & Technology, V. Biomedical Sciences, VI. Philosophy & History of Science, VII. Science Education, and VIII. Anthropology

Aerospace medicine and biology: A cumulative index to a continuing bibliography (supplement 384)

This publication is a cumulative index to the abstracts contained in Supplements 372 through 383 of Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A Continuing Bibliography. It includes seven indexes: subject, personal author, corporate source, foreign technology, contract number, report number, and accession number

Robotics and Automated Systems for Environmental Sustainability: Monitoring Terrestrial Biodiversity

It is critical to protect Earth’s biodiversity, not just for its own intrinsic value, but also for the ecosystem services it underpins. Yet biodiversity is in crisis, with up to 1 million animal and plant species at risk of extinction, many within decades. This dire projection has captured world attention and triggered major mitigation efforts, but we are faced with problems in assessing global trends in biodiversity – which species, taxa, habitats and ecosystems are suffering the greatest declines? Are current mitigation measures having any positive impact? To answer key questions such as these, ecologists are seeking the help of robotics and automated systems (RAS) experts in the monumental task of attempting to monitor the state of biodiversity.In this White Paper, we have surveyed recent literature and consulted more than 120 international expert ecologists and engineers working in the fields of biodiversity and robotics. We have done this to evaluate the potential for developing robotic and autonomous systems that could massively extend the scope of terrestrial biodiversity monitoring across habitats globally. The complexities of biodiversity itself, and the many barriers and challenges that must be overcome in monitoring it, are formidable. We assess each of these barriers in turn, highlighting currently available RAS solutions, as well as nascent technologies that may be relevant to future RAS for biodiversity (RAS-BD) monitoring. Using this information, we have drawn up a roadmap of actions needed to address the barriers that should be easiest to overcome. Encouragingly, we find that a variety of existing RAS capabilities may be transferable to a biodiversity monitoring context. Beyond these are the harder barriers, where promising novel ideas being researched at UK universities and research institutes may, in time, become integral parts of future RAS-BD monitoring technology. We believe that RAS-BD technology has great potential to complement and considerably extend the field survey work undertaken by expert human observers. In the UK, we are fortunate in having particular strengths in both biodiversity and robotics research; as a nation we are in an ideal position to integrate them and become a leading force in the development and application of RAS-BD monitoring. To this end, we propose these recommendations that we hope will guide future government strategy in an area that is vital to the future of humanity:● The creation and funding of an integrated multidisciplinary task force, including academics and industry specialists with expertise in RAS and biodiversity, to support technological research and development.● Future UK funding and focus should be prioritised to utilise existing RAS capabilities to develop first generation RAS-BD technology for monitoring biodiversity.● Relevant nascent technologies being researched by numerous UK academic teams need increased and accelerated research and development funding to turn pioneering concepts into enhanced RAS-BD technology suited to overcoming the hardest monitoring barriers that ecologists encounter.● Education strategies should be developed to foster links between aspiring engineers, biologists andcomputer technologists, both in the curriculum of schools, and at later stages in universities and research facilities

Aerospace medicine and biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 376)

This bibliography lists 265 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information System during Jun. 1993. Subject coverage includes: aerospace medicine and physiology, life support systems and man/system technology, protective clothing, exobiology and extraterrestrial life, planetary biology, and flight crew behavior and performance

Aerospace medicine and biology: A cumulative index to a continuing bibliography (supplement 371)

This publication is a cumulative index to the abstracts contained in Supplements 359 through 370 of Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A Continuing Bibliography. It includes seven indexes: subject, personal author, corporate source, foreign technology, contract number, report number, and accession number

The assessment and development of methods in (spatial) sound ecology

As vital ecosystems across the globe enter unchartered pressure from climate change industrial land use, understanding the processes driving ecosystem viability has never been more critical. Nuanced ecosystem understanding comes from well-collected field data and a wealth of associated interpretations. In recent years the most popular methods of ecosystem monitoring have revolutionised from often damaging and labour-intensive manual data collection to automated methods of data collection and analysis. Sound ecology describes the school of research that uses information transmitted through sound to infer properties about an area's species, biodiversity, and health. In this thesis, we explore and develop state-of-the-art automated monitoring with sound, specifically relating to data storage practice and spatial acoustic recording and data analysis. In the first chapter, we explore the necessity and methods of ecosystem monitoring, focusing on acoustic monitoring, later exploring how and why sound is recorded and the current state-of-the-art in acoustic monitoring. Chapter one concludes with us setting out the aims and overall content of the following chapters. We begin the second chapter by exploring methods used to mitigate data storage expense, a widespread issue as automated methods quickly amass vast amounts of data which can be expensive and impractical to manage. Importantly I explain how these data management practices are often used without known consequence, something I then address. Specifically, I present evidence that the most used data reduction methods (namely compression and temporal subsetting) have a surprisingly small impact on the information content of recorded sound compared to the method of analysis. This work also adds to the increasing evidence that deep learning-based methods of environmental sound quantification are more powerful and robust to experimental variation than more traditional acoustic indices. In the latter chapters, I focus on using multichannel acoustic recording for sound-source localisation. Knowing where a sound originated has a range of ecological uses, including counting individuals, locating threats, and monitoring habitat use. While an exciting application of acoustic technology, spatial acoustics has had minimal uptake owing to the expense, impracticality and inaccessibility of equipment. In my third chapter, I introduce MAARU (Multichannel Acoustic Autonomous Recording Unit), a low-cost, easy-to-use and accessible solution to this problem. I explain the software and hardware necessary for spatial recording and show how MAARU can be used to localise the direction of a sound to within ±10˚ accurately. In the fourth chapter, I explore how MAARU devices deployed in the field can be used for enhanced ecosystem monitoring by spatially clustering individuals by calling directions for more accurate abundance approximations and crude species-specific habitat usage monitoring. Most literature on spatial acoustics cites the need for many accurately synced recording devices over an area. This chapter provides the first evidence of advances made with just one recorder. Finally, I conclude this thesis by restating my aims and discussing my success in achieving them. Specifically, in the thesis’ conclusion, I reiterate the contributions made to the field as a direct result of this work and outline some possible development avenues.Open Acces

Abstracts of Papers, 86th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science

Abstracts for the 86th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 20-23, 2008, Hampton University, Hampton, VA

Spinoff, 1984

A pictorial resume that underlines the challenging nature of NASA programs and their extraordinary demands for technological input, is presented. Also, NASA's current mainline programs, which require development of new technology, are given. A representative sampling of spinoff products and processes resulting from technology utiliization, or secondary application, and the mechanisms NASA employs to stimulate technology utilization are provided. Contact sources for further information are presented

Spinoff, 1986

The major programs that generate new technology and therefore expand the bank of knowledge available for future transfer are outlined. The focal point of this volume contains a representative sampling of spinoff products and processes that resulted from technology utilization, or secondary application. The various mechanisms NASA employs to stimulate technology utilization are described and in an appendix, are listed contact sources for further information