Developing a translational ecology workforce

We define a translational ecologist as a professional ecologist with diverse disciplinary expertise and skill sets, as well as a suitable personal disposition, who engages across social, professional, and disciplinary boundaries to partner with decision makers to achieve practical environmental solutions. Becoming a translational ecologist requires specific attention to obtaining critical non-scientific disciplinary breadth and skills that are not typically gained through graduate-level education. Here, we outline a need for individuals with broad training in interdisciplinary skills, use our personal experiences as a basis for assessing the types of interdisciplinary skills that would benefit potential translational ecologists, and present steps that interested ecologists may take toward becoming translational. Skills relevant to translational ecologists may be garnered through personal experiences, informal training, short courses, fellowships, and graduate programs, among others. We argue that a translational ecology workforce is needed to bridge the gap between science and natural resource decisions. Furthermore, we argue that this task is a cooperative responsibility of individuals interested in pursuing these careers, educational institutions interested in training scientists for professional roles outside of academia, and employers seeking to hire skilled workers who can foster stakeholder-engaged decision making

Pinning of a solid--liquid--vapour interface by stripes of obstacles

We use a macroscopic Hamiltonian approach to study the pinning of a solid--liquid--vapour contact line on an array of equidistant stripes of obstacles perpendicular to the liquid. We propose an estimate of the density of pinning stripes for which collective pinning of the contact line happens. This estimate is shown to be in good agreement with Langevin equation simulation of the macroscopic Hamiltonian. Finally we introduce a 2--dimensional mean field theory which for small strength of the pinning stripes and for small capillary length gives an excellent description of the averaged height of the contact line.Comment: Plain tex, 12 pages, 3 figures available upon reques

From Esthetics to Empowerment: The Getty Trust

Hispanic Outlook magazine, featuring an article on the Getty Trust. The Getty Center has seven realms under their belt, museums, five institutions and a grant program, their mission is to reach out to groups, typically groups that are underrepresented in the art world. The Getty shows that students who take art courses consistently score higher in both math and verbal parts of the SATs, as such the Getty Education Institute for the Arts has teamed with the Annenberg Foundation and the National Arts Education Consortium to select and fund thirty-six Arts Partner Schools

Paleoseismology and hystorical seismicity for seismic hazard assessment in Italy: examples from the Fucino and Pollino tectonic structures.

Marshall, California, U.S.A., U.S.G.S

Evolução das características sensoriais de espumantes moscatéis durante o armazenamento.

A Região de Farroupilha tem mostrado uma grande aptidão para a produção de uvas e espumantes moscatéis, principalmente devido às características de aroma e frescor que tais uvas proporcionam ao espumante. O espumante moscatel é elaborado a partir das variedades Vitis vinifera com sabor e aromas moscatéis. Entre as principais variedades estão a Moscato Branco, Moscato Giallo, Moscato R2 e Malvasias. As características sensoriais dos moscatéis são fatores determinantes da sua qualidade e sucesso frente ao mercado. Este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar a evolução sensorial de espumantes moscatéis ao longo do armazenamento por seis anos. Foram avaliados espumantes da região de Farroupilha (safras 2010 a 2015) de uma mesma vinícola, utilizando uma ficha de análise sensorial descritiva, desenvolvida ao longo do trabalho para um melhor entendimento, caracterização e avaliação dos espumantes moscatéis. Os resultados mostram que, durante o armazenamento em garrafas, os espumantes moscatéis sofrem importantes modificações nas características sensoriais, principalmente diminuição na qualidade dos aromas e aumento na intensidade de cor. A ficha de degustação descritiva desenvolvida e adotada neste trabalho é eficiente e adequada para a análise sensorial dos espumantes moscatéis. Palavras-chave: espumante moscatel, análise sensorial, armazenamento, ficha de degustação.Made available in DSpace on 2019-05-01T00:45:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ABVE2018p86931.pdf: 7130280 bytes, checksum: ec10ed7d889ebe48760753ee29cd657a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018bitstream/item/196623/1/ABVE-2018-p86-93-1.pd