A Collaborative Approach at Building Professional Development Around Inclusive Science Classrooms

Lappen, E. (2020). A collaborative approach at building professional development around inclusive science classrooms. This project examines the best practices to utilize secondary science teachers, special education teachers, and paraprofessionals in a secondary level science classroom. It was developed as a four-hour professional development with supplementary materials, designed to be implemented during August teacher workshop week. This project was created to address the intimidating environment the science class can be for educators and to start a dialogue collaboration that will continue throughout the school year. The professional development is intended for the science department and special education teachers and paraprofessionals that will be in the science classroom for co-teaching or support for students with individual educational plans. The four hours will include: reflective practices, reviewing the models of co-taught classrooms, practical, evidence-based tools to be successful in collaborative classrooms are shared, and a framework to continue weekly collaborative meetings to plan the science course throughout the term. In this project and capstone, collaboration, along with targeted interventions, is at the heart of creating science classrooms that work best for all students. (167 words

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Complying with the NSF’s New Public Access Policy and Depositing a Manuscript in NSF-PAR

In 2016 the National Science Foundation (NSF) rolled out its new online public access repository, NSF-PAR for investigators funded by the NSF to deposit their manuscripts to comply with its new Public Access Policy. The NSF’s policy and its new publications repository differ in several key ways from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) public access policy and PMC, particularly in terms of requirements for compliance and procedures for deposit. While NIH grants may make up the majority of biomedical institutions’ research funds, the NSF is also an important source of biomedical funding, especially for career awards, research training grants, and translational research. In this webinar we will walk participants through the requirements for compliance and the process for deposit and share insights provided by the NSF Policy Office

Assessment of the extent of the contamination of measurements taken on Porto Santo during ASTEX

February 1994.Also issued as Cara-lyn Lappen's thesis (M.S.) -- Colorado State University, 1994.Includes bibliographical references.The object of the Atlantic Stratocumulus Experiments(ASTEX) was to measure and examine properties of the marine atmosphere. Since instruments were placed on the island of Porto Santo, however, some degree of contamination of pure marine conditions was experienced due to the local effects of island topography. In order to assess the expected differences between a pure marine environment and measurements taken on the island of Porto Santo, a numerical model- the Regional Atmospheric Modelling System (RAMS) was used in direct comparison with observational data for the case of June 10, 1992. Specifically, this study focuses on the mean wind fields simulated by RAMS and compares them to the winds measured by the United Kingdom's C130 Meteorological Research Flight, a 400Mhz wind profiler, and rawinsondes. The model's inability to resolve a 100m cliff on the windward side of the island was found to cause a phase shift between the model-produced and the actual wind fields. This was determined to be a l-2km upward phase shift and a 300m to 500m windward phase shift for the RAMS data. After applying this correction, and comparing these four sources of data, the extent of the island's effects in the horizontal as well as the vertical was determined. In the horizontal, the effects decrease with distance from the island until approximately 2km upwind or downwind where the effect was minimal. In the vertical, the effect of the island was detectable up to 3.5km, but not felt continuously. The maximum effect was found at the ground and at approximately 1.2km. Wind data taken at Porto Santo must be filtered at the ground, and near the 1.2km and 3.5km levels. In between these levels, wind measurements taken on the island would appear to provide an accurate representation of the pure marine environment.Sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NAG-1-1146; the Office of Naval Research N00014-91-J-1422, P00004; and the Department of Energy DE-FG02-90ER60970

The Research Data Management Interview

This presentation was given as part of the RDAP Summit, 2019 Train-the-Trainer: Developing a Research Data Management Workshop to Support Graduate Student NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ProposalsPresenters: Andrew Creamer (Brown University), Hope Lappen (New York University), Sam Simas (Bryant University)Workshop Objectives: Participants will be able to:1. Teach graduate student researchers to navigate Research.gov and FastLane and provide overview of solicitation, supplementary document requirements, and public access compliance requirements, including depositing in NSF-PAR 2. Point out common pitfalls for graduate students navigating and complying with solicitation and PAPPG 3. Conduct an evaluation of students previously funded DDRIGs regarding their projects’ data collection and documentation needs and lessons learned to incorporate into the workshops Pull together a resource list of experts and offices to support data storage, data security, intellectual property, and ethics to support their research goals 4. Consult on directorate-specific Data Management Plans for their proposed DDRI projects that integrate library research data management resources among others, and help students locate and integrate data documentation standards utilized by the repositories and journals in their field 5. Consult on the development of students’ Broader Impacts plan for their DDRI project

The Role of Blowing Snow in the Activation of Bromine Over First-year Antarctic Sea Ice

It is well known that during polar springtime halide sea salt ions, in particular Br-, are photochemically activated into reactive halogen species (e.g., Br and BrO), where they break down tropospheric ozone. This research investigated the role of blowing snow in transporting salts from the sea ice/snow surface into reactive bromine species in the air. At two different locations over first-year ice in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, collection baskets captured blowing snow at different heights. In addition, sea ice cores and surface snow samples were collected throughout the month-long campaign. Over this time, sea ice and surface snow Br- / Cl- mass ratios remained constant and equivalent to seawater, and only in lofted snow did bromide become depleted relative to chloride. This suggests that replenishment of bromide in the snowpack occurs faster than bromine activation in mid-strength wind conditions (approximately 10 m s−1) or that blowing snow represents only a small portion of the surface snowpack. Additionally, lofted snow was found to be depleted in sulfate and enriched in nitrate relative to surface snow

Der Einfluss von Ellenbogenpositionierung und Gelenkinsufflation auf die Lage der Nn. medianus und radialis - eine dreidimensionale bildgestützte Analyse

In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wurden die Lageverhältnisse des N. medianus und N. radialis zu den ossären Strukturen des Ellenbogens bestimmt. Außerdem wurde der Einfluss der Ellenbogen- und Unterarmpositionierung sowie der Gelenkinsufflation untersucht. Die Lagekenntnis der beiden Nerven sind insbesondere bei der Durchführung einer anterioren Kapsulektomie von Bedeutung. Der N. medianus wurde vor dem medialen Viertel der Trochlea humeri gesehen, kann jedoch auch in einigen Fällen medial der Trochleagrenze liegen. Bei der Kapsulektomie des medialen Teils der anterioren Gelenkkapsel muss dies beachtet werden. Der N. radialis medialisiert durch 90° Flexion des Ellenbogens von seiner Lage vor der medialen Grenze des Capitulum humeri in Extension zum medialen Rand des Capitulums. Dieses Wissen kann genutzt werden, um durch eine Extension des Ellenbogens bei der Kapsulektomie vor dem lateralen Rand der Trochlea humeri und eine Flexion während der Kapsulektomie des lateralen Teils der Gelenkkapsel das Verletzungsrisiko des N. radialis zu verringern. Zusätzlich wurde eine Verdopplung der Abstände des N. medianus und des N. radialis zur anterioren Begrenzung der knöchernen Strukturen von Extension auf 90° Ellenbogenflexion sowie eine Verdreifachung nach zusätzlicher Gelenkinsufflation mit 20 ml Flüssigkeit beobachtet. Dies lässt auf ein erhöhtes Risiko iatrogener Nervenverletzungen bei der arthroskopischen Ellenbogenarthrolyse von Patienten mit Arthrofibrose schließen, da bei diesen Patienten die Möglichkeit der Gelenkinsufflation des Ellenbogens reduziert sein kann

Adapting the Library Repository to Accommodate Research Data, Publications, and Partnering with Researchers

Brown University Library originally created the Brown Digital Repository (BDR) in 2011 to serve the digital content storage and dissemination needs of its Special Collections and Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS). Since then, the BDR has evolved to serve a broader group of stakeholders, including the science librarians, who deposit researchers’ data along with the supplementary materials underlying their publications, collections of data to comply with a grant-funder’s requirements for data sharing, and faculty publications. Some university library systems have created separate repositories for data, such as the Universities of Michigan and Minnesota. However, for libraries at smaller institutions, having a separate system for images, publications, and data may not be the most-feasible or affordable short-term solution. Over the last year, Brown’s science librarians and developers have been planning to make enhancements and changes to the BDR to improve its ingest, dissemination, and overall capabilities for preserving the long-term access of research data as well as make the necessary adaptations to the way that the BDR collects faculty publications, with the aim of it being a resource to help researchers with retaining their final approved manuscripts and complying with their funders’ public access policies. These shifts, from a focus on ingesting and displaying images to a focus on data and publications have exposed many issues and challenges that librarians considering adapting their existing repositories to accommodate data and public access mandates should hear. At the same time, the Library has been working with the Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics to integrate its science librarians and repository infrastructure into grant-funded projects, such as an NLM Administrative Supplement for Informationist Services. In the second half of the session, Dr. Neil Sarkar, the Director of the Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics, and Principal Investigator on the NLM Administrative Supplement, will provide a keynote address, which will cover: (1) faculty perspectives academic libraries should have in mind while adapting their repositories for tracking and making available their faculty’s scholarly output; (2) ways libraries can develop infrastructure to partner with their faculty on research projects and grant-funded initiatives, such as clinical and translational science; (3) ways that libraries could integrate their repositories into existing systems for recording scholarly output, such as My NCBI’s My Bibliography as well as systems for displaying researcher and scholarship ontologies such as VIVO; and (4) ways that libraries can adapt their repositories to provide meaningful analytics and metrics for measuring the impact of their researcher communities

CSU FIRE 2 cirrus field experiment: Description of field deployment phase

The Colorado State University (CSU) surface observing systems are described. These systems were deployed at the Parsons, Kansas site during the FIRE 2 Cirrus Special Observing Period (SOP) from 13 Nov. - 7 Dec. 1991. The geographical coordinates of the site containing most of the CSU instrumentation are 37 deg. 18 min N. latitude and 96 deg. 30 min. W. longitude; site elevation was 269 meters. In addition, one surface meteorological and broadband flux observing site was maintained at the Tri City Airport which is approximately 18 miles due west of Parsons (37 deg. 20 min. N. latitude, 95 deg. 30 min. 30 sec. W. longitude). A map of the locations of the CSU deployment sites is presented. At the main Parsons site, the instrumentation was located directly adjacent to and north of a lake. Under most cirrus observing conditions, when the wing had a significant southernly component, the lake was upwind of the observing site. The measurements and observations collected during the experiment are listed. These measurements may be grouped into five categories: surface meteorology; infrared spectral and broadband measurements; solar spectral and broadband measurements; upper air measurements; and cloud measurements. A summary of observations collected at the Parsons site during the SOP are presented. The wind profiler, laser ceilometer, surface meteorology and surface broadband radiation instrumentation were operated on a continuous basis. All other systems were operated on an 'on demand' basis when cloud conditions merited the collection of data