Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities for Hydrologic Modeling to Support Decision Making

Ecosystem characteristics and processes provide significant value to human health and well- being, and there is growing interest in quantifying those values. Of particular interest are water-related eco- system services and the incorporation of their value into local and regional decision making. This presents multiple challenges and opportunities to the hydrologic-modeling community. To motivate advances in water-resources research, we first present three common decision contexts that draw upon an ecosystem- service framework: scenario analysis, payments for watershed services, and spatial planning. Within these contexts, we highlight the particular challenges to hydrologic modeling, and then present a set of opportu- nities that arise from ecosystem-service decisions. The paper concludes with a set of recommendations regarding how we can prioritize our work to support decisions based on ecosystem-service valuation

Building SAWE Capability as an ANSI Accredited Standards Developer

This paper presents a 2014 status of the Society of Allied Weight Engineers' process towards becoming an Accredited Standards Developer (ASD) under certification by the United States American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Included is material from the committee's 2013 International presentation, current status, and additional general background material. The document strives to serve as a reference point to assist SAWE Recommended Practice and Standards developers in negotiating United States Standards Strategy, international standards strategy, and the association of SAWE standards and recommended practices to those efforts. Required procedures for SAWE to develop and maintain Recommended Practices and ANSI/SAWE Standards are reviewed

Engaging history and negotiating national identity with Miki's Concerto Requiem (1981) at the 18th Biennial Festival of Arts in Adelaide, South Australia

Minoru Miki's Concerto Requiem, performed in the Festival in Adelaide in 1994, was part of the Artistic Director's new vision for Australia to ‘meld East and West in a new Australian-ness’. It also coincided with fiftieth-anniversary events to mark the end of the Pacific War. Miki, who was composer-in-residence at the Festival, was acutely aware of public perceptions of the Japanese as bitter enemies. He specifically requested that Concerto Requiem be performed in remembrance of all Australians and Japanese who had died in the war, but it is only the analysis presented here that has revealed the depth and subtlety of Miki's compositional strategy to convey musically his message for coexistence. This study explores the way Concerto Requiem demonstrated Hunt's broad vision and was a tool for reconciliation between Australia and Japan. It argues that the performance was an episode in the story of cultural relations between Australia and Japan that reveals the way music and music-making occur in the nexus between geopolitical imperatives and historical resonances that continue to have an impact on the negotiation of identity at transcultural festivals in Australia today.Kimi Coaldrak