The Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of Belize, Central America

The Culicoides fauna of Belize is poorly known, and until 197 4 only 3 species were recorded. Nineteen species of Culicoides from Belize were identified from six collection sites: C. barbosai Wirth & Blanton, C. crepuscularis Malloch, C. debilipalpis Lutz, C. diabolic us Hoffman, C. foxi Ortiz, C. furens (Poey), C. gabaldoni Ortiz, C. heliconiae Fox & Hoffman, C. hoffmani Fox, C. imitator Ortiz, C. insignis Lutz, C. jamaicensis Edwards, C. leopoldoi Ortiz, C. limai Barretto, C. paraensis (Goeldi), C. pifanoi Ortiz, C. pusilloides Wirth & Blanton, C. pusillus Lutz, and a new species, C. mckeeveri Brickle & Hagan is described and illustrated

Youth Empowerment for Environmental Justice

Woodsmoke pollution is an environmental justice issue for youth living in certain Pacific Northwest cities. Little is understood about how youth may be empowered to address woodsmoke issues in their communities. In this study, I examined youth empowerment in a citizen science study on woodsmoke, using Photovoice methodology. Ten diverse youth collected and analyzed indoor air samples and photos, then presented their findings to the community and policy makers. Entrance and exit surveys revealed an increased sense of empowerment to take action on woodsmoke pollution. Youth also expressed increased optimism and a resolve to become scientists and to combat environmental injustices

Aural Design and Coherence in the Prologue of First John

Brickle, Jeffrey E., “Aural Design and Coherence in the Prologue of First John.” Ph.D. diss., Concordia Seminary, 2010. 236 pp. The dissertation focuses on the aural features of the Prologue of 1 John. These features reflect an underlying design which facilitated the communication of its rhetorically powerful message within the dynamic oral culture of the late first century. The complexity of the passage’s grammar and syntax has long puzzled modern biblical scholars—who typically read in silence and evaluate ancient documents from a print-based viewpoint—and hampered attempts to discern a coherent structure. The dissertation surveys these scholarly attempts to resolve the Prologue’s complexity. Drawing on findings made by the study of orality and contemporary approaches to aural analysis, we propose that attention to the Prologue’s aural characteristics offers an important key to understanding its form and function. The dissertation first explores the Prologue’s visually-evident aural profile. This is carried out by attending to the role of the passage’s grand organizing scheme before undertaking a more detailed, linear analysis. Here we explore, for example, the central function of its two featured digressions, the highlighting of three central themes, and the placement of three recurring sound patterns which instill stability and movement into the overarching structure. As a means to uncover aural features of the Prologue not readily apparent through a visual investigation of the text, we next introduce and apply the approaches to Greek pronunciation and aural analysis advocated by Chrys Caragounis in his book, The Development of Greek and the New Testament. The dissertation employs Caragounis’ “Historical Greek Pronunciation” (HGP) as a test case to determine the impact on the Prologue’s aural landscape. This is followed by an analysis bringing to bear on the Prologue the principles for beautiful and effective composition elucidated by the ancient teacher of rhetoric, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in his treatise, On Literary Composition. A final chapter draws together the results and implications of the study. Here we note (1) the key role played by sound patterns in the passage’s development and foregrounding, (2) the effects of the HGP on its soundscape as well as the results of “hearing” the Prologue through Dionysius’ keen ears, (3) the connotations our study has on our assessment of the author’s literary skills, and (4) the theological outcomes supported by the passage’s aural contours. In addition, the final chapter offers suggestions for further ways to apply research in ancient media culture to the Prologue through the aspects of aurality, performance, and memory

Crecida de las aguas, vidas desplazadas

Aunque Pakistán y Colombia tuvieran un relativo avance en sus marcos de gestión de desastres, carecían de planes de preparación y del equipamiento necesario para asistir y proteger a las personas desplazadas por las últimas inundaciones

Links between marine fauna and oceanic fronts on the Patagonian Shelf and Slope

One of the main oceanographic features in the Southwest Atlantic is the transport of cold waters of Sub-Antarctic origin along the Patagonian slope to temperate latitudes (40-42ºS) by the Falkland Current. Originating from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the Drake Passage, the Current splits into two main northward streams skirting the Falkland Islands from west and east. The strongest eastern branch meanders onto the shelf to the south of Beauchêne Island and north-east of the Falkland Islands and creates four fronts with strong upwellings of the Sub-Antarctic Surface Water Mass (SASW). Extension of SASW to the shelf break and its mixture with shelf waters creates quasi-stationary areas of high productivity. Sub-Antarctic fishes (e.g., southern blue whiting) utilise these areas as their feeding and spawning grounds. Deepwater toothfish and squid (Onykia ingens) use them as pathways to migrate from the shelf to deepwater habitats. Temperate fish (e.g., hoki and rock cod) and squid (Illex argentinus) feed mainly at the frontal zones with mixture of SASW and Patagonian Shelf waters. The presence of four quasi-stationary meso-scale fronts between the deepwater Falkland Current and shelf waters plays an important role in distribution, migrations and spawning of marine fauna that use them in accordance to their Sub-Antarctic and temperate origins

An annotated checklist of the birds of the Tanimbar Islands

Wallacea, after years of seeming ornithological neglect, has recently come to the fore (see White & Bruce 1986, Coates & Bishop 1997). Since about 1981 there has been an increasing number of bird watchers and expeditions to the region resulting in the rediscovery of a number of 'feared extinct' and little known species. Most of the islands or island groups have by now received at least a cursory visit during the last 17 years. As a result many species previously known only from collections have been rediscovered, and others thought to be threatened have, thankfully, been shown not to be (see Coates & Bishop 1997). One of, the few exceptions to this coverage is the Tanimbar Islands

The fungal ecology of seabird nesting sites in the Falkland Islands indicates a niche for mycoparasites

Our work is supported by the BBSRC (BB/M010996/1, BB/N005058/1, BB/P020224/1) (JH, PvW), NERC (NE/P007570/1) (PvW), The South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI) (JH) and the University of Aberdeen (PvW). We would like to thank the Pole-Evans family for giving us permission to sample on their land.Peer reviewedPostprin

Proposing New Barrens National Natural Landmarks

The National Natural Landmarks (NNL) Program, administered and maintained through the National Park Service, was established in 1962 with the goal of highlighting sites that best demonstrate the outstanding geologic and biologic features of the United States. In a unique partnership between public and private landowners, the National Park Service accepts sites into the program that best illustrate the diversity of our country’s natural heritage regardless of ownership. The NNL program seeks solely to recognize these sites for their geologic and biologic significance and to strengthen the public’s appreciation for and conservation of America’s natural heritage. Potential NNLs are evaluated based on the following criteria: (1) outstanding condition, (2) illustrative value, (3) rarity, (4) diversity, and (5) value to science and education. Sites are designated by the secretary of the interior and, as of today, 586 landmarks have received the NNL designation