Management requirements for tourist landing sites in the maritime Antarctic and a model plan for Deception Island, South Shetland Islands

Increasing tourist visits to the Maritime Antarctic potentially threaten to damage scientific research, and the environment of landing sites. The current obligatory and hortatory requirements have been developed to control activities of tourists, and not to manage the land they use. This protection is insufficient to mitigate such latent problems. This thesis investigates the Antarctic Treaty System (A TS), in particular the Madrid Protocol of 1991 (Protocol), to elucidate the requirements desirable to manage individual landing sites. The Area Protection and Management System of Annex V of the Protocol provides for two designations, Antarctic Specially Managed Area (ASMA) and Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA), which could be a method to achieve this. The ASMA was identified as the more appropriate method. Annex V requires a management plan for an ASMA. Plans from six other wilderness areas are evaluated to determine common criteria that are essential for management. The requirements for an ASMA contain all of these criteria, except those pertaining to enforcement by a sovereign authority. Without provisions for enforcement, an ASMA could not be considered as effective as plans elsewhere in the world. However, when sufficient information is provided to a tour operator the enforcement provided by self-regulation at tourist-landing sites has generally proven to be effective. A management plan is developed in compliance with the regulatory and hortatory requirements and by implementing the criteria determined essential in this study. Three areas of Deception Island are used as a case study to demonstrate that an effective management plan for tourist landing sites can be drafted. Furthermore, the format developed in this study should be considered as a model for future ASMA management plans.Digitisation of this thesis was sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin

Bill Davis Interview

Transcript of oral history interview with Bill Davis by Mike Downs on his experiences during the Vietnam War on January 26, 1984

Forbes school of business think tanks exploring teaching, learning & relationship building in a virtual learning community

This paper describes ongoing research based on a university faculty Think Tank as a means of establishing and sustaining developmental networks among faculty at a large online university.  Specifically, the paper explores the Think Tank as a virtual learning community wherein faculty have shared knowledge and enjoyed personalized learning opportunities for a period of over two years.  Approximately 100 faculty members are typically invited to participate in the virtual learning community which meets formally every two weeks (with some summer months off).  Between meetings, faculty have developed relationships including multi-directional mentoring and   The paper will consider if and how participation in the Think Tank has served faculty and/or why other faculty members who are invited do not choose to participate in the Think Tank. First, the paper describes the Think Tank as a virtual learning community.  Specifically, it sets the ground rules that have enabled the community to thrive in a virtual and egalitarian climate.  Then, multi-directional mentoring as a means of knowledge sharing in the think tank is explored.  Bandura’s social learning theory and Kolb’s experiential learning model provide the conceptual framework for relationship building in this collegial environment.  Next, the research questions that have been posed are shared.  Data collection for this study is currently in process; therefore findings are not yet available.  Finally, study limitations are briefly discussed and future directions for research are explored

An Appeal to the Delegates to the National Convention of the YCL

Typed letter in support of the Young Peoples Scoialist League. Additional signees: Milton Zaslow, Abe Weber, Max Mont, Bernard Lieberman, Irving Feigin, Helen Gourin, Maritian Malraux Student Publications: The Campus Newspaper Collectio

Homelands & resource agencies since the Blanchard Report: A review of the literature and an annotated bibliography

This paper reviews the literature produced since the Blanchard Report of 1987 with the aim of contributing to an understanding of the resource agencies which provide services to homelands. The majority of the literature is centred on the Northern Territory and the Kimberley region of Western Australia, reflecting the geographic distribution of homelands. Despite the fact that the Blanchard Report highlighted the importance of resource agencies for the homelands movement, there is little research which deals specifically with agencies and most of the references to them in the literature are merely tangential to works which focus specifically on homelands. The review covers issues relating to both agencies and homelands

Phoenix: Preliminary design of a high speed civil transport

The goal of the Phoenix Design Project was to develop a second generation high speed civil transport (HSCT) that will meet the needs of the traveler and airline industry beginning in the 21st century. The primary emphasis of the HSCT is to take advantage of the growing needs of the Pacific Basin and the passengers who are involved in that growth. A passenger load of 150 persons, a mission range of 5150 nautical miles, and a cruise speed of Mach 2.5 constitutes the primary design points of this HSCT. The design concept is made possible with the use of a well designed double delta wing and four mixed flow engines. Passenger comfort, compatibility with existing airport infrastructure, and cost competitive with current subsonic aircraft make the Phoenix a viable aircraft for the future

The Psychology of Euthanizing Animals – The Emotional Components

The emotional effects of euthanizing unwanted animals on professional animal control personnel are examined using written statements and oral discussions of twenty-six euthanasia technicians at a workshop during a national session of the Animal Control Academy (Tuscaloosa, AL]. Emotional conflicts arise in significant part from the dilemma that the same public responsible for the problem of unwanted animals also has a markedly negative perception of euthanasia, and by extension, of those who perform euthanasia. During discussions, the euthanasia technicians revealed various strategies for coping with feelings of isolation, alienation, and sorrow. These included intellectualization, avoidance of unnecessary contact with the animals, and belief that the animal is being spared greater suffering. The participants tended to place the burden of guilt attached to destroying healthy animals on irresponsible owners rather than themselves

Multimodal Friction Ignition Tester

The multimodal friction ignition tester (MFIT) is a testbed for experiments on the thermal and mechanical effects of friction on material specimens in pressurized, oxygen-rich atmospheres. In simplest terms, a test involves recording sensory data while rubbing two specimens against each other at a controlled normal force, with either a random stroke or a sinusoidal stroke having controlled amplitude and frequency. The term multimodal in the full name of the apparatus refers to a capability for imposing any combination of widely ranging values of the atmospheric pressure, atmospheric oxygen content, stroke length, stroke frequency, and normal force. The MFIT was designed especially for studying the tendency toward heating and combustion of nonmetallic composite materials and the fretting of metals subjected to dynamic (vibrational) friction forces in the presence of liquid oxygen or pressurized gaseous oxygen test conditions approximating conditions expected to be encountered in proposed composite material oxygen tanks aboard aircraft and spacecraft in flight. The MFIT includes a stainless-steel pressure vessel capable of retaining the required test atmosphere. Mounted atop the vessel is a pneumatic cylinder containing a piston for exerting the specified normal force between the two specimens. Through a shaft seal, the piston shaft extends downward into the vessel. One of the specimens is mounted on a block, denoted the pressure block, at the lower end of the piston shaft. This specimen is pressed down against the other specimen, which is mounted in a recess in another block, denoted the slip block, that can be moved horizontally but not vertically. The slip block is driven in reciprocating horizontal motion by an electrodynamic vibration exciter outside the pressure vessel. The armature of the electrodynamic exciter is connected to the slip block via a horizontal shaft that extends into the pressure vessel via a second shaft seal. The reciprocating horizontal motion can be chosen to be random with a flat spectrum over the frequency range of 10 Hz to 1 kHz, or to be sinusoidal at any peak-to-peak amplitude up to 0.8 in. (.2 cm) and fixed or varying frequency up to 1 kHz. The temperatures of the specimen and of the vessel are measured by thermocouples. A digital video camera mounted outside the pressure vessel is aimed into the vessel through a sapphire window, with its focus fixed on the interface between the two specimens. A position transducer monitors the displacement of the pneumatic-cylinder shaft. The pressure in the vessel is also monitored. During a test, the output of the video camera, the temperatures, and the pneumatic-shaft displacement are monitored and recorded. The test is continued for a predetermined amount of time (typically, 10 minutes) or until either (1) the output of the position transducer shows a sudden change indicative of degradation of either or both specimens, (2) ignition or another significant reaction is observed, or (3) pressure in the vessel increases beyond a pre-set level that triggers an automatic shutdown