How One California Aquarium is Developing an Ocean Conservation Strategy with Global Impact

This article discusses the ways in which the Monterey Bay Aquarium is pursuing its mission “to inspire conservation of the ocean”—including and beyond its visitor programs and education initiatives. The Aquarium is reshaping the global seafood supply chain by integrating its scientific research with the Aquarium’s growing influence in ocean policy. With the world’s life-sustaining aquatic ecosystems in decline, there is no time to lose

Shush: A Creative (Re)Construction

Shush: A Creative (Re)Construction stems from work conducted during a sabbatical in fall 2017. The audio piece, Shush Me Awake, is a composition that explores the shush as a performative act. The accompanying framing essay uses an autoethnographic approach to provide a contextualized look at the composition process for this piece, while simultaneously situating it within existing scholarship in library and information studies on the image of the librarian and stereotypes. The composer notes provide additional technical details about the audio piece itself

Quantum Primitives

“Copyright 2009 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.”We explore possible characterisations of entanglement classes which may be interpreted as gates acting on globally distributed systems. The cyclic nature of a selection of entanglement gates, primitives, is explored commencing with gates for generating Bell, GHZ and W states

Mapping the information-coping trajectory of young people coping with long term illness: An evidence based approach

Purpose - Purpose: We explore the relationship between information and coping information from the experiences of young people coping with long term illness. Design/methodology/approach - Methodology: Situational Analysis was used as a methodological approach. It has roots in the Chicago Symbolic Interactionism School. Cartographic approaches enabled the analysis, mapping the complexities emerging from the data. Findings - Findings: As the young people became more informed about their health conditions, and gained knowledge and understanding both about their illnesses, their own bodies and boundaries, their confidence and capacity to cope increased. Gaining confidence, the young people often wanted to share their knowledge becoming information providers themselves. From the data we identified five positions on an information-coping trajectory (1) Information deficiency (2) Feeling ill-informed (3) Needing an injection of information (4) Having information health and (5) Becoming an information donor. Research limitations/implications - Research limitations/implications: The research was limited to an analysis of thirty narratives. The research contributes to information theory by mapping clearly the relationship between information and coping. Originality/value - Originality/value: The information theories in this study have originality and multi-disciplinary value in the management of health and illness, and information studies

Transcript Conventions and Examples for Audio and Video Stories

This document was developed to guide members of the research team as they prepared transcripts of audio and video stories that were collected as part of the Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City project. The document includes information on general formatting conventions, stylistic issues, and examples for reference