UAS Literary & Arts Journal

Proof copy provided by Tidal Echoes.Tidal Echoes is an annual showcase of writers and artists with one thing in common: a life surrounded by the rainforests and waterways of Southeast Alaska.Davy Josh’s Note -- A Note from Chalise -- A Note from Emily Wall -- Brain Bucket -- Cephalic index -- A Gift of Fat for the Fire -- Our heroes have always been... -- Colorful Clouds -- Role Model -- Anchors -- Out My Window -- Adaptation -- Bookshelves -- In the Flow -- It’s a Small World Parade Float -- Sexy -- Death by Algebra -- Friend -- mirabile visu -- Exchange II -- F A D E -- Borne Alone -- Continuum -- The Week Before St. Valentine’s -- Bottled Up -- Untitled -- Early Morning Conspiracy Theory -- Westport -- Boulder Creek -- Jumping Off Rooftops -- Staying in the Room With Ernestine Hayes -- Blueberry -- After Neruda By Way of Bly (Tenure) -- Magic of Water -- Old Tom Steals the Light -- Old Tom Finds a Whale -- Research Project -- Guppy (boat) -- Arizona Spyder -- From Anthropomorphism to Zoomorphism -- Bus Stop -- December 1, 1955 -- Between Tides at Twilight -- Dementia -- Winter Ferry -- Coming into Auke Bay -- The Search for Jane Rogers -- Inlaid Tea Cups -- The Big Melt -- Kingsmill Reef -- Despite Man’s Best Efforts to Ruin It -- Roberts from Flume -- India Scarf -- Painted and Petrified -- Medicine Bag -- Merrill Field -- Deadly Kites -- Brazilian Ghetto -- Seattle Riff -- The Gospel Truth of My Gay Bird -- Signing the Divorce Papers -- Red Shades -- Holey Cow -- Untitled -- Series of Cedar Baskets -- A Conversation With Ranunculus -- Deconstruction -- Sandy Beach -- Threshold -- Oil and Honesty: An Interview with Artist and Professor David Woodie -- Mitkof #3 -- Still Life -- First Day of Fall -- Falling in the Garden -- After Finishing an Activities Report for the Dean -- Homage to Po Chü-I -- Nunc Dimittis -- Do Wise Men Have Bad Days? -- To the Plain Land -- Flood of ‘69 -- How a woman makes her own wine -- Untitled (translation from Russian) -- Existential Sestina -- It’s the knowing -- Blood and Guts -- Sometime Walking on the Beach -- Untitled -- Connecting the Pieces -- Hemlock -- Klawock Island -- Driven By the Tides -- Lunch -- The People -- Howling Dog -- Winter Cabin Lullaby -- Chain Gang -- A Review of Social Groups in Female Homo Sapiens as Exemplified by Mammary Restraint -- Apparatuses -- Douglas Island Bridge -- Going Home -- Author and Artist Biographie

Thermal Emergence Data File

File contains data for the 303 larvae measured at the time of emergence and corresponds to the same individual ID numbers, incubation treatments, and family codes as the hatch data file. Data includes individual ID codes, thermal incubation treatment the individual incubated in from egg to hatch, family code (each code represents a cross between 1 female and 1 male; families were unrelated), measurements for the three phenotypic traits quantified at the time of emergence: time to emergence (days), emergence body length (mm), and total growth from hatch to emergence (mm), and estimates for the mean temperature (MeanT) and Degree Days each individual experienced in the rearing chambers within the raceways from hatch until the timing of emergence. Note: Thermal incubation treatments were coded as A=Warm, B=Variable, C=Ambient, and D=Cold prior to analysis of the data

Data from: Increases in the mean and variability of thermal regimes result in differential phenotypic responses among genotypes during early ontogenetic stages of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)

Climate change is affecting thermal conditions worldwide. Understanding organismal responses associated with predicted changes are essential for predicting population persistence. Few studies have examined the effects of both increased mean and variance in temperature on organismal traits, particularly during early life stages. Using lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) from Black Lake, MI, we tested whether phenotypic variation differed among families reared in two constant (10 and 18°C) and two fluctuating temperature treatments (10-19°C) representing temperatures experienced in the river and a simulated anthropogenic disturbance. Body length, body area, and yolk-sac area were quantified at hatch. Family-by-treatment interactions explained up to 50% of the variance observed among families in offspring hatch traits. Families incubated in 18°C and the fluctuating anthropogenic treatment had 6-10 times higher variance in traits than those incubated at 10°C. Hatched larvae were placed in raceways with ambient river water. Emergence body length, emergence timing, and growth were quantified upon emergence. Families differed in time to emergence and growth with the greatest range observed in the 18°C treatment. Results demonstrate that differential responses among genotypes to changes in the mean and variability of thermal incubation regimes can affect traits at hatch as well as a subsequent ontogenetic stage

Thermal Hatch Data File

File contains data for the 1200 larvae measured at hatch. Data includes individual ID codes, thermal incubation treatment the individual incubated in from egg to hatch, family code (each code represents a cross between 1 female and 1 male; families were half-sibling groups with one female crossed with two males therefore the half-sib groups include A and B, C and D, E and F, G and H, and I and J), and measurements for the three phenotypic traits quantified at hatch: body length (mm), body area (mm), and yolk-sac area (mm^2). Note: Thermal incubation treatments were coded as A=Warm, B=Variable, C=Ambient, and D=Cold prior to analysis of the data