The Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project: The Unfolding Story

The Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project is an unprecedented alliance for Southern California that currently includes sixteen state and federal agencies, local government, business leaders, and the environmental community working with an illustrious panel of scientific advisors and active task forces in each of the five coastal Southern California counties. It seeks to acquire, restore and expand wetlands in these counties. What follows describes the lessons, the tensions, the initial achievements, and the as yet unresolved issues in the unfolding story of the Recovery Project. Part I describes the unprecedented growth experienced in coastal Southern California and the effect this has had on the region\u27s wetlands. Part I also identifies the outstanding values inhering in the remaining, remnant and recoverable wetlands. Part II traces the origins of the Recovery Project back to earlier efforts to identify and carry out wetland mitigation projects to offset the impact of port expansion on aquatic resources. Part III explores the forces giving rise to what was initially called the Clearinghouse and what is now the Wetlands Recovery Project. Part IV describes what has been accomplished by the Recovery Project. Part V sets out a few of the major challenges ahead for the Recovery Project\u27s leaders and supporters

The Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project: The Unfolding Story

The Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project is an unprecedented alliance for Southern California that currently includes sixteen state and federal agencies, local government, business leaders, and the environmental community working with an illustrious panel of scientific advisors and active task forces in each of the five coastal Southern California counties. It seeks to acquire, restore and expand wetlands in these counties. What follows describes the lessons, the tensions, the initial achievements, and the as yet unresolved issues in the unfolding story of the Recovery Project. Part I describes the unprecedented growth experienced in coastal Southern California and the effect this has had on the region\u27s wetlands. Part I also identifies the outstanding values inhering in the remaining, remnant and recoverable wetlands. Part II traces the origins of the Recovery Project back to earlier efforts to identify and carry out wetland mitigation projects to offset the impact of port expansion on aquatic resources. Part III explores the forces giving rise to what was initially called the Clearinghouse and what is now the Wetlands Recovery Project. Part IV describes what has been accomplished by the Recovery Project. Part V sets out a few of the major challenges ahead for the Recovery Project\u27s leaders and supporters

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body of literature dealing with Research Schools and the emerging scholarship surrounding the development, dispersion, and evolution of pedagogy in the training of twentieth century physicists. The second, and perhaps more significant and novel objective, is to develop a means to quantitatively assess the mentoring workmanship of scientific craftsmen who preside over the final stages of preparation when apprentices are transformed into professional scientists. The project builds upon a 2006 Master's Thesis that examined John Archibald Wheeler’s work as a mentor of theoretical physicists at Princeton University in the years 1938 - 1976. It includes Wheeler's work as a mentor at the University of Texas and is qualitatively and quantitatively enhanced by virtue of the author having access to five separate collections with archival holdings of John Wheeler's papers and correspondence, as well as having access to thirty one tape recorded interviews that feature John Wheeler as either the interviewee or a prominent subject of discussion. The project also benefited from the opportunity to meet with and gather background information from a number of John Wheeler's former colleagues and students. Included in the dissertation is a content analysis of the acknowledgments in 949 Ph.D. dissertations, 122 Master's Theses, and 670 Senior Theses that were submitted during Wheeler's career as an active mentor. By establishing a census of the students of the most active mentors at Princeton and Texas, it is possible to tabulate the publication record of these apprentice groups and obtain objective measures of mentoring efficacy. The dissertation concludes by discussing the wider applicability of the quantitative methodology and the qualitative analysis for the history of science and science studies

Event-related EEG correlations between physically isolated participants

This thesis is an attempt to evaluate findings previously reported in the research literature which have suggested the presence of event-related correlations in electrical brain activity between physically isolated participants. These studies are summarised in a literature review, where a number of methodological procedures are identified and evaluated, and the evidence presented by each study is assessed. One problem identified in this review is a lack of conceptual and methodological continuity across previous studies investigating this effect. In order to address this concern, a series of three experiments has been designed and conducted in an attempt to investigate this topic using a procedure and analytical methodology which remains largely constant across the three studies, so that their results can be comparable and cumulative. Each of these three experiments involved the randomly-timed photic stimulation of one participant, in order to test the hypothesis whether synchronous event-related changes in the EEG activity of another, physically isolated (and non-stimulated) participant could be identified. An additional question investigated is whether certain variables (such as the interpersonal relationship between participant pairs) may be related to any such EEG correlations found between participants, as has been suggested in previous studiesIn each of the first two studies, three groups of participants were recruited; participant pairs who knew each other well, randomly matched pairs of strangers, and single participants not matched with a photically stimulated partner. In both these studies significant differences have been found in measures of evoked-alpha global field power from non-stimulated subjects in related pairs, between periods of photic stimulation of their partners and randomly sampled con¬ trol periods of no stimulation. Similar effects have not been found in randomly matched pairs, or in unmatched control subjects. Although these findings appeared to suggest the presence of correlations in brain activity between related participant pairs, certain temporal characteristics of the changes in EEG activity observed in non-stimulated subjects are not directly compatible with such an interpretation. In the final study, only related pairs of participants were recruited and a variation of the experimental paradigm was adopted in order to increase the overall sample size; no evidence of a similar effect has been found in this study however.An overview of the results of the three studies is finally presented, and possible analytical and theoretical interpretations of the findings are discussed. Although the results of the first two studies were strongly suggestive of a genuine effect, the lack of replication of this effect in the final study necessitates the consideration of the overall findings as inconclusive. A critical review of the design and analytical methodology adopted in these experiments is presented and potential improvements are suggested; a review of more recent studies using similar experimental paradigms is also presented in the final chapter, and potential avenues for future research are proposed

Landings, vol. 29, no. 8

Landings content emphasizes science, history, resource sustainability, economic development, and human interest stories related to Maine’s lobster industry. The newsletter emphasizes lobstering as a traditional, majority-European American lifeway with an economic and social heritage unique to the coast of Maine. The publication focuses how ongoing research to engage in sustainable, non-harmful, and non-wasteful commercial fishing practices benefit both the fishery and Maine\u27s coastal legacy. Maine Lobstermen’s Community Alliance (MLCA) started publication of Landings, a 24-page newsletter in January 2013 as the successor of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association (MLA) Newsletter. As of 2022, the MLCA published over 6,500 copies of the monthly newsletter for distribution by mail to all of Maine’s commercial lobstermen, Maine state government agency staff, Maine Legislators, members of Maine\u27s U.S. Congressional delegation, subscribers, and marine businesses. For more information, please visit the Maine Lobstermen’s Community Alliance (MLCA) website. Headlines in this issue include: Help Wanted: Labor Shortage Affects Marine Businesses Lobster Prices Strong as Shedder Season Ramps Up New state budget strengthens DMR staff, programs State Selects Offshore Site for First Commercial Floating Wind Farm Government Mills Signs Wind Legislation Banning Development in State Waters New Research Facility Expands Island Center’s Reach Maine Lobstermen’s Association Update Offshore Wind Updates – Research Array Whale Updates MLA Continues to Raise Concerns Over Offshore Wind Stonington Benches Honor Longtime Lobster Leader Overdose leading cause of preventable death among fishermen DMR Aquaculture Lease Application Status for August (as of 7/21/21) Keeping an Ear Out for Sharks Speeding Toward Extinction New Glider to Listen for Right Whales Jonesport Aquaculture Project Gets Final Permit Lobsters May Hear Through Their Hair Maine’s Lobster Boat Races Have Long Legac

Focus, 1993-1994

Focus magazine from Morehead State University for 1993-1994

Youth Involvement in Organizational Decision Making: The Connection to Youth Initiative and Organizational Functioning

Studying positive adolescent development requires an examination of the mutually beneficial associations between youth and their environment. These youthcontext relations include both the contributions that youth make to others and society and the youth-context interactions that might predict positive youth outcomes. Community and youth-serving organizations, where youth may be involved in decision-making roles such as service delivery, advocacy, or on boards of directors, can provide one important context for youth contributions and for positive adolescent development. Research on the outcomes of youth involvement in organizational decision-making, however, is limited, and largely consists of exploratory qualitative studies. This dissertation is formatted as an integrated article dissertation. It begins with a review of the literature on contexts of structured youth activities and positive youth development. This review is intended to describe theory on development-context relations, in which development is considered an interactive process that occurs between individuals and their contexts, as it pertains the positive development of youth who are involved in various structured activities (e.g., volunteering). This description follows with a review of current research, and conclusions and rationale for the current studies. Following this theoretical and research background, the dissertation includes reports of two studies that were designed to address gaps in the research on youth involvement in organizational decision-making. The first was a qualitative research synthesis to elucidate and summarize the extant qualitative research on the outcomes of youth involvement in organizational decision making on adults and organizations. Results of this study suggested a number of outcomes for service provision, staff, and broader organizational functioning, including both benefits to organizations as well as some costs. The second study was a quantitative analysis of the associations among youth involvement, organizations' learning culture, and youth initiative, and relied on survey data gathered from adults and youth in community-based organizations with youth involvement. As expected, greater youth involvement in organizational decision making was associated with higher learning culture within the organization. Two dimensions of youth involvement, greater program engagement and relationships with adults, were related to greater youth initiative. A third dimension, sense of ownership, was not- .-.- associated with youth's level of initiative. Moreover, the association between relationships with adults and youth initiative was only significant in organizations with relatively low learning culture. Despite some limitations, these studies contribute to the research literature by providing some indication of the potential benefits and costs of youth involvement and by making an important contribution toward the early stages of context-level analyses of youth development. Findings have important implications for practitioners, funders, future research, and lifespan development theory

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v. 26, no. 3 (1983