Couch-Sa-Chra-Ga Association, Inc. Records, 1964-1991

The records of Couch-Sa-Chra-Ga Association, Inc. measure 2.75 cubic feet and date from 1964-1991. The collection includes correspondence, finances, audio-visual materials, and other records of the Association relating to its production of films about the Adirondacks. The Couch-Sa-Chra-Ga Association, Inc. evolved in 1974 from the Adirondack Hudson River Association, the group that led the state-wide battle to ban the Gooley Dam from being built on the upper Hudson River. Realizing the need to inform the public as to the value of New York State\u27s wild lands, forests, and waters, the Association was incorporated in 1976 to produce educational materials about the Adirondacks with Paul Schaefer as its Executive Director. Schaefer had successfully used visual images to help educate people about the natural environment and issues endangering the Adirondacks in earlier conservation campaigns. The Association was a small, non-profit organization of volunteers. It produced 16mm motion picture films which were later transferred to various broadcast and home-video formats. After the success of their film, The Adirondack: The Land Nobody Knows, the Association began to set-up slide presentations and other forms of outreach. Senior members of the Couch-Sa-Chra- Ga Association, Inc. included Walter O. Haas, Thomas L. Cobb, Richard E. Weber, Jr., Ann Wait, Noel Reidinger-Johnson, Edwin J. Niedhammer, Jr., M. Lee Hunt, and Kay Steven. The organization was dissolved on May 14, 1991.https://digitalworks.union.edu/arl_findingaids/1034/thumbnail.jp

Harold A. Jerry, Jr. Papers, 1952-1995

The Harold A. Jerry, Jr. papers consist of 11.09 cubic feet and date from 1952-1995. The collection contains correspondence, articles, press releases, environmental studies and field reports, legislation, meeting minutes, summaries, agendas, clippings, writings, report drafts and miscellaneous publications on the Adirondacks created and compiled during service with various New York State agencies, commissions, and environmental organizations. Jerry\u27s involvement with the Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks led to the development of the Adirondack Park Agency. He later played a prominent role in the Commission on the Adirondacks in the Twenty-First Century.https://digitalworks.union.edu/arl_findingaids/1038/thumbnail.jp

Historiography of Marginalized Populations in the Adirondacks

This article explores gaps in popular Adirondack histories that systematically ignore American Indians and African Americans in favor of whites. This oversight by authors is due to a mix of historic record-keeping practices, reliance on out-of-date sources, and a persisting need to sell the idea of the Adirondacks to a predominately white, middle-class tourist base. This article outlines the respective groups’ history in the context of the Adirondacks and discusses the relevant literature, or lack thereof

Noel Riedinger-Johnson Papers, 1912-2013

The collection consists of the personal papers and research files of Noel Riedinger-Johnson, primarily relating to her writings on Jeanne Robert Foster. The papers include writings, notes, and photographs used in compiling poems and prose of Jeanne Robert Foster for Adirondack portraits: a piece of time, published by Syracuse University Press in 1986. Research materials include newspaper clippings, catalogs, and biographical materials on family, friends and associates of Foster. Additional materials contain Friends of the Forest Preserve, Inc. records, correspondence, writings and memorials for Paul Schaefer.https://digitalworks.union.edu/arl_findingaids/1039/thumbnail.jp

Exchanging Experimental Kinetic Data via SabioML

The simulation of quantitative biochemical models not only requires qualitative information about the stoichiometry of the described networks, but also kinetic data describing their dynamics. Such kinetic data have to be experimentally measured, collected, systematically structured and stored to finally make them accessible. However, the dataflow from the experiment to the model is still a bottleneck, calling for systems that capture the data directly from the instrument, process and normalize it to agreed standards and finally transfer the data to publicly available databases.

SABIO-RK (http://sabio.h-its.org) is a curated database system which we have developed for bundling data referring to biochemical reactions and their kinetics. It offers data for metabolic pathways and as a novelty also for signalling reactions. Until recently, the database solely has been compiled through manual data mining of published papers and merging the kinetic data excerpt with information collected from other databases. We have designed the novel XML-based schema SabioML for exchanging experimentally derived kinetic data and corresponding metadata between programs or databases. The schema is tailored to SABIO-RK, however also could serve for transferring data between other resources. It comprises the description of kinetic laws with their parameters and relevant metadata in a structured and standardised format applying controlled vocabulary, as well as the possibility to assign annotations complying with the MIRIAM standard (Minimum Information Required In the Annotation of Models). Based on this data description format we have developed a submission interface that allows transfer of reaction kinetics data directly from the experimental instrument to the SABIO-RK database. The data can be accessed by the submitting researcher and, after release by the submitter and curation to ensure completeness of the data, also by the public, either manually via a web-based user interface or automated via web-services, both supporting the export of the data together with its annotations in SBML (Systems Biology Mark-up Language).

The system introduced here considerably facilitates the exchange of kinetic data between experimentalists and modelers. We are convinced that in systems biology it will become quite useful for the integration of the results of high throughput assays into biochemical computer models for simulation.

References:

Swainston N, Golebiewski M, et al., FEBS Journal 277(18): 3769-3779 (September 2010)

Rojas I, Golebiewski M, et al., In Silico Biology 7(2 Suppl): S37-44 (2007)
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Almy D. Coggeshall Papers, 1962-2009

The Almy D. Coggeshall papers measure 2.52 cubic feet and were created during the years 1962-2009. The collection consists of writings, correspondence, photographs, and subject files relating to Coggeshall\u27s environmental advocacy in the Adirondacks. His work was especially focused on promoting cross-country skiing and a strong opposition to snowmobile use.https://digitalworks.union.edu/arl_findingaids/1033/thumbnail.jp

Edith Pilcher Papers, 1790-2007

The Edith Pilcher Papers measure 5.13 cubic feet and date from 1790-2007, with the bulk of the collection falling between 1980-2004. The papers reflect her work as a freelance writer outside duties as collection development chair of the Adirondack Research Library. The collection consists of research materials, correspondence, notes, photographs, and drafts of each of her four books on Adirondack History.https://digitalworks.union.edu/arl_findingaids/1027/thumbnail.jp

Per O. Moberg Papers

Materials related to the work of Per Moberg while employed with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, as a member of the Sierra Club and in other advisory committees spanning the years 1892 to 2009. Per O. Moberg (1920-2011) was a conservationist, licensed guide and officer of the Adirondack Mountain Club and Sierra Club. The collection contains unit management plans and drafts, photographs, transcripts, lectures, publications, maps, meeting agendas, reports, minutes, printed materials, position papers and official correspondence dealing with environmental issues in New York\u27s Forest Preserve. Navigability law and public navigation rights on the Moose River center on a lawsuit between the Sierra Club and the Adirondack League Club. Other projects involved abandoned railways, collecting background information on specific wilderness areas and general administration of the Park. Land acquisition documents show various easements, purchases and transfers of private land to the Forest Preserve including the Tahawus tract and Champion Lands. Correspondence is mostly of a professional nature and includes letters and emails regarding land acquisition, advisory committee work and amendments to unit management plans.https://digitalworks.union.edu/arl_findingaids/1041/thumbnail.jp