SLIDES: Indigenous Water Justice Symposium

Presenter: Jason Robison, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Wyoming 11 slide

Indigenizing Grand Canyon

The magical place commonly called the “Grand Canyon” is Native space. Eleven tribes hold traditional connections to the canyon according to the National Park Service. This Article is about relationships between these tribes and the agency—past, present, and future. Grand Canyon National Park’s 2019 centennial afforded a valuable opportunity to reflect on these relationships and to envision what they might become. A reconception of the relationships has begun in recent decades that evidences a shift across the National Park System as a whole. This reconception should continue. Drawing on the tribal vision for Bears Ears National Monument, this Article advocates for Grand Canyon tribes and the Park Service to consider forming a Grand Canyon Commission for cooperative management of Grand Canyon National Park. Establishing this Commission would mark the vanguard of the relational reconception, and, in this precise sense, the Commission would lay a foundation for “indigenizing” Grand Canyon

SLIDES: Synthesis Session: Indigenous Water Symposium

Presenter: Jason Robison, University of Wyoming 15 slide

Evolution of Water Institutions in the Indus River Basin: Reflections from the Law of the Colorado River

Transboundary water institutions in the Indus River Basin can be fairly characterized as broken in key respects. International relations between India and Pakistan over the Indus Waters Treaty, as well as interprovincial relations within Pakistan over the 1991 Water Accord, speak to this sentiment. Stemming from research undertaken by the authors for the Harvard Water Federalism Project and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), this Article seeks to spur the evolution of the Indus River Basin’s water institutions by offering a comparative perspective from North America’s most “institutionally encompassed” basin, the Colorado River Basin. Mindful of the importance of context for comparative water law and policy scholarship, the Article begins with overviews of the Colorado and Indus basins. In turn, the Article considers in greater detail major water-related challenges facing the latter basin, including climate change and overallocation. Against this backdrop, the Article ultimately turns to analysis and prescription. Examining a host of topics involving transboundary water allocation, conservation, and governance, the Article considers key institutions associated with these topics in the Colorado River Basin and reflects on how, if at all, they may serve as reference points for institutional evolution in the Indus Basin. Many of the proposals in the Article are expensive. But compared to military operations, they are quite modest in terms of expense and minimize the risk of loss of life and destruction of property. Still, the Article prioritizes solutions that maximize individual and local freedom to the greatest extent possible. This means relying upon voluntary market-based transfers that protect the vulnerable, favoring incentives rather than regulations, and creating a reward structure that includes benefits other than water

Autonomous Planetary Rover Team Final Project Report

This design team was tasked to develop autonomous movement, sensing, and navigation capabilities on a rover platform developed by a summer research team working under Dr. Kevin Nickels. The rover is comprised of four subsystems that strive to meet the requirements by establishing movement capabilities through power delivery and control, odometry feedback of the wheels, obstacle detection, and navigation. This report evaluated each design against the requirement they were intended to meet. The following report describes the final design of each of these subsystems, explains the testing performed on each subsystem, and evaluates the results of these tests against the design requirements. The design constraints of rover size and budget are maintained by our final design by delivering a final design that fits through a standard CSI doorframe, and not exceeding the total budget of $2400. The final deliverable satisfies the requirements of battery specifications, incline traversal, display of map and estimated position, and obstacle detection. The final design failed to demonstrate an ability to traverse over an obstacle of 2 inches. The team was unable to demonstrate completion of the remaining requirements because of significant failures of the motors described later in the report. In the process of delivering the project requirements, extensive modifications and redesigns to the provided platform were necessary. The frame received from the project sponsor was in a nonfunctional state. The team performed significant modifications to the rover frame to allow for proper movement of the rover. Also, the provided motor drivers failed in preliminary testing, requiring the team to experimentally evaluate the operational requirements of the motors and select and integrate new motor drivers into the final design. Overall, the team delivered a functioning prototype that met many of the project requirements, and all the design constraints. The rover was able to move, detect obstacles, and plan navigation through an environment. Unfortunately, the motors suffered a thermally induced failure during testing, precluding the completion of the remaining tests

Transmission of the chewing louse, Damalinia (Cervicola) sp., from Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) to Rocky Mountain mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) and its role in deer hair-loss syndrome.

The potential for Rocky Mountain mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) to host exotic chewing lice (Damalinia (Cervicola) sp.) believed to cause deer hair loss syndrome in Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), was investigated in captive deer held in pens at E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area, Corvallis, Oregon from March 2004 to May 2005. It is believed that the exotic chewing louse causes a hypersensitivity reaction which results in pruritis, excessive grooming and removal of pelage. The potential transmission of D. (Cervicola) sp. from affected black-tailed deer to Rocky Mountain mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) was unknown. To answer this question, unaffected mule deer were both experimentally infested (inoculated) with D. (Cervicola) sp., and held in direct contact with (D. (Cervicola) sp.) infested black-tailed deer. Grooming behavior, louse abundance, and clinical signs were monitored and recorded monthly for 14 months. The exotic louse D. (Cervicola) sp. was identified on six mule deer following treatment, and evidence of louse reproduction (eggs, and nymphs) was present. A strong seasonal pattern in louse abundance was observed in all groups and within subspecies, and was correlated with date, with higher louse abundances occurring from April-June 2004, and March- May 2005; lower numbers occurred from August 2004 through February 2005. Eggs, nymphs and adult lice were found on all body regions, and abundances varied by month. Mule deer held in direct contact with infested black-tailed deer showed slight increases in frequency of grooming behavior from January to April 2005 in conjunction with increasing louse abundance and grooming bout duration. Six mule deer developed small localized patches of hair-loss following treatment; two had hair loss throughout much of their sides and rump. Eight black-tailed deer showed signs of recovery at the end of the study. It was concluded that transmission of the exotic louse D. (Cervicola) sp. from infested black-tailed deer to non-infested mule deer is possible when the two species are held in direct contact. In addition, there is a link between the irritations caused by the infestation of D. (Cervicola) sp.; grooming response; and loss of hair in both black-tailed deer and mule deer

Fostering Awareness of the Community by Engaging Students (FACES)

poster abstractFostering Awareness of the Community by Engaging Students (FACES) is a program created by students and faculty of the IU School of Medicine and Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI to provide medical and public health students structured volunteer opportunities to engage with adults experiencing homelessness, allowing for an increased understanding of vulnerable populations and community exposure. Despite poor health outcomes and a need for primary healthcare services, adults experiencing homelessness often do not seek or receive the medical care they need1, 2. In response to this issue, FACES seeks to provide safe group settings (art, educational, and focus groups), in which students can discuss barriers to quality healthcare and public health services with a small group of homeless individuals and better recognize methods to improve service delivery. Through the support of the IUPUI solution center, data has been collected to inform the development of FACES and to promote program sustainability. An evaluation of the student volunteer training module was performed to assess the quality of information provided within the training. Two in-person pilot training sessions were conducted for this evaluation, using a mixed methods approach. Each pilot session consisted of a pre- and post-assessment of self-perceived knowledge to obtain quantitative data regarding the impact of the training on knowledge levels, as well as an information recall test to provide quantitative data on the ability of the participants to become engaged in the training. Qualitative data for the evaluation was collected through focus groups conducted at the completion of both training sessions. To further advise program development, FACES’s developers conducted focus groups with small groups of homeless individuals to collect input from the participating community and obtain qualitative data concerning the details of program organization, future topics of discussion, and willingness to participate

Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis of an Idiopathic Intellectual Disability Syndrome

We present a new idiopathic intellectual disability syndrome accompanied with distinctive facial dysmorphology. X-chromosome inactivation assays reveal skewing in the mother, suggesting the possibility of an X-linked disorder. High-density genotyping arrays were performed on both children revealing no known causal or pathogenic SNVs and no known CNVs that might contribute to the phenotype. Whole genome sequencing was performed with Complete Genomics and subsequent sequence analysis led to the identification of severa

Law of the River Apportionment Scheme: Short Summary of Laws

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