Subaqueous Industrial Waste in Western Wisconsin Lakes : Reducing/Redirecting the Dredged Materials from Landfills.

Color poster with text, illustrations, and maps describing research conducted by W. Patrick Dryer and Jacob M. McDonald, advised by Harry M. Jol and Douglas J. Faulkner.Logging was an essential part of western Wisconsin's economy from the 1850s to the 1920s. The logging industry used Half Moon Lake (HML) in Eau Claire as a holding pond awaiting processing at sawmills along the lakeshore. During the logging era, industrial wastes such as bark, sawdust, and slabs, were dumped on top of a former natural lake bottom (fluvial gravels). The industrial waste has been hypothesized to be several meters thick throughout the lake. Volume calculations were determined from GPR profiles to create a bathymetric and thickness map of the organic waste in HML.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

Subsurface Imaging of South Brighton Spit, Christchurch, New Zealand part I: Data Collection and Processing.

Color poster with text and illustrations describing research conducted by Beth Ellison, W. Patrick Dryer, Jackie E. Ebert, and Todd Wermager, advised by Harry M. Jol and David Nobes.Ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys were conducted in collaboration with the University of Canterbury in order to provide a subsurface image of coastal sedimentary deposits below the South Brighton Spit, Christchurch, New Zealand.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

Subsurface Imaging of South Brighton Spit, Christchurch, New Zealand part II: Coastal Processes and Data Interpretation.

Color poster with text, illustrations, and maps describing research conducted by W. Patrick Dryer, Jackie Ebert, Beth Ellison, and Keith Erickson, advised by Harry M. Jol and David Nobes.Ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys were collected along the width of South Brighton Spit at its most southernly extent. The processed GPR data provides a subsurface image of the coastal sedimentary deposits that can be correlated to the layering of the spit.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

Geomorphology of Cliff-Top Parabolic Dunes within the Lower Chippewa River Valley, Upper Putnam Park, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Color poster with text, images, and maps describing research conducted by Phllip Larson, Jacob McDonald, W. Patrick Dryer, and Anna Baker, advised by Garry Running, Douglas Faulkner, and Harry Jol.This investigation is part of a broader body of research underway in the Lower Chippewa River Valley (LCRV) of west-central Wisconsin. The LCRV is dominated by sandy texture alluvial and glaciofluvial sediments. The purposes of our investigation are: determine whether these conical hills and ridges are eolian dunes, propose a possible mechanism for their genesis, and explain variations in soil morphology across these landforms.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

Semantic and Pragmatic Motivations for Constructional Preferences

A select group of transfer verbs can enter into four different constructions: the ditransitive construction (He provided John the money), the prepositional-dative construction (He provided the money to John), a construction with a prepositional theme (He provided John with the money), and a construction with a recipient realized by a for-phrase (He provided the money for John). In this article, we take a close look at three such verbs: provide, supply, and present. Corpus analysis shows that these three verbs display different structural preferences with respect to the for-, to-, and with-patterns. To explain these preferences, the study investigates pragmatic principles (following Mukherjee 2001 on provide) and the role played by semantic factors. An examination of the semantics of the verbs and the lexically motivated constructional semantics of the to, for, and with-patterns shows (i) that the three constructions are not interchangeable, and (ii) that the preferential differences between the three verbs find an explanation in the compatibility between lexical and constructional semantics. The description is mainly based on data from the British National Corpus