Arrange Them for Beauty...

At last we can throw out that straw flower basket we once thought was so lovely. We have such a virtuous feeling knowing that the flower garden is all planted, and counting our chickens before they have hatched, we go out in the evening after the dishes are washed, sit on the back porch, chin in our hands, gaze fondly on our garden - quite bare as yet - and speculate as to how we will arrange this, that and the other

In-between places

I am an emerging artist originally from Northwest Indiana. I attended a small boarding school called Verde Valley School, in Sedona, Arizona, which is where my love for pottery first started. I received my BFA in ceramics from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After college I was fortunate enough to find studio space and work at the Lillstreet Art Center, where I was a teacher, teaching assistant and glaze maker. Since then I have completed post-baccalaureate programs at The University of Colorado Boulder and Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. This book is a presentation of myself and some of the work I have made throughout my time in graduate school at The Rhode Island School of Design. After graduation I will be traveling to The Morean Center for Clay, in Florida, for a one year ceramics residency

Cinemental Journeys: An Uncommon Guide to Classic Movie Theaters: Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa

Review of: Cinemental Journeys: An Uncommon Guide to Classic Movie Theaters: Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, by Mike and Vicki Walker

Silver Screens: A Pictorial History of Milwaukee\u27s Movie Theaters

Review of: Silver Screens: A Pictorial History of Milwaukee\u27s Movie Theaters, by Larry Widen and Judi Anderson

Standing closest to the flame: Community wildfire planning and the Healthy Forest Act

Recently, national fire policy has been redirected from a primary focus on suppression towards a more integrated and comprehensive approach developed at the community level. As part of this policy shift, Congress passed the Healthy Forest Restoration Act (P.L. 108-148) in 2003 encouraging communities to develop community wildfire protection plans (CWPPs) to guide fuel reduction and wildfire mitigation efforts on both federal and nonfederal lands. This research examines U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and community collaboration in the development of CWPPs through a case study analysis of four communities in two western states. The social and decision-making processes used in the development of CWPPs are examined in each community using the policy sciences approach and decision process framework. A cross-case comparison reveals the influence of social process factors and effectiveness of each community\u27s decision process to address the wildfire problem. The primary finding of this research is the critical role played by the USFS in the success of CWPP planning efforts. Additional recommendations are provided for improving the effectiveness of community decision-making processes to address this important and pressing management issue

HIstory of Nursing Biola 1945 - 2017 Presentation

50th anniversary of the Biola School of Nursin

A Revised Key to Leptocaris (Copepoda: Harpacticoida), Including a New Species From a Shallow Estuarine Lake in Louisiana, USA

During ecological research of benthic and fouling assemblages in a shallow estuarine lake in central Louisiana receiving thermal effluent, a new species of harpacticoid copepod was discovered. Approximately 700 specimens of Leptocaris kunzi n. sp. were collected on artificial substrate plates from August, 1977 - January, 1978. This new species is herein described and illustrated. Leptocaris kunzi n. sp. differs from other members of the nominal genus in the setation of the P2 - P4 endopods and by having a female P5 not fused into a single plate. The most closely related species to L. kunzi n. sp. appear to be L. elishevae (Por) and L. canariensis Lang. A revised key to the genus is presented

Grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio predation on sediment- and stem-dwelling meiofauna: Field and laboratory experiments

Field and laboratory experiments were conducted to clarify the predatory role of Palaemonetes pugio Holthius in salt-marsh benthic communities. Field experiments (cage enclosures using P. pugio as a predator) were conducted on unvegetated mudflat and vegetated-marsh sites. Neither sediment- or stem-dwelling meiofaunal abundances were significantly impacted. Laboratory experiments measured the functional response of P. pugio feeding on suspended harpacticoid copepods, tested the efficiency of P. pugio feeding on harpacticoids in sediments, and measured the predation rate of P. pugio on stem-dwelling meiofauna. Grass shrimp feeding rate on suspended copepods followed a type II functional response, increasing with increasing prey density to a maximum of 59 copepods h-1. When a sediment refuge was available, a 40% decline in the consumption of copepods by P. pugio was noted; this decreased feeding efficiency may contribute to the lack of significant declines in meiofaunal abundances in field enclosures over unvegetated sediment. P. pugio proved to be a highly effective predator on the fauna of Spartina alterniflora stems, significantly reducing abundances of stem-associated meiofauna within 24 h and consuming an estimated 35 meiofauna h-1. The greatest impact was exhibited on the lowest (0 to 6 cm) portion of the stems. These experiments suggest that laboratory experiments are an important aid to help interpret field experiments examining predation on meiofauna, and that Spartina stems, and their epiphytic algae and meiofauna, are important, but largely overlooked, resources in salt-marsh food webs

Mummichog Fundulus heteroclitus responses to long-term, whole-ecosystem nutrient enrichment

Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2013. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Inter-Research for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Marine Ecology Progress Series 492 (2013): 211-222, doi:10.3354/meps10495.The effects of eutrophication on coastal plants and sessile animals are becoming well known, but responses of mobile species are less well studied. Here, we link variation in abundance, biomass, body size, growth rate, and resource utilization in mummichogs (Fundulus heteroclitus) > 40 mm in length to experimental nutrient enrichment in Plum Island Sound, Massachusetts, USA. To mimic cultural eutrophication, dissolved fertilizer was released into replicate saltmarsh creeks on each rising tide throughout entire growing seasons. In the summer of the 6th year of enrichment, we released coded-wire tagged mummichogs into nutrient-enriched (n = 3733 fish) and reference (n = 3894 fish) creeks and recaptured them over the next two months. We found increased abundance (by 37%), biomass (58%), body size (8%), and herbivory (115%, measured as photosynthetic gut pigment content) in nutrient-enriched creeks, although body condition was unaffected. However, individual growth rates were 43% lower in nutrient-enriched creeks. Nutrient enrichment stimulated primary production causing a bottom-up enrichment of the food web, which fostered increased biomass and body size. However, the reduction in growth rate indicates an adverse consequence of long-term nutrient enrichment. This negative effect occurred in the absence of increased hypoxia in these highly tidally (4-m amplitude) flushed study creeks. The mummichog is an important predator/grazer in salt marshes, and nutrient-induced alterations in biomass or resource utilization will directly or indirectly affect lower trophic levels, including benthic algae, thereby impacting the 63 ecosystem-wide response to eutrophication.This material is based upon the work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 0816963, 0923689 and 0423565

crisscrossing Science Episode 054: Up in Smoke

In this episode, Mike Crosser (professor physics at Linfield College) and Chad Tillberg (professor of biology at Linfield College) invite Dr. Bill Fleeger (visiting senior scholar of environmental studies at Linfield College) into the studio to discuss policies for forest fires. At one time, the policy of the U.S. Forest Service was to extinguish all fires as soon as they start. However, that policy allowed fuel to build on forest floors, which eventually led to bigger, more frequent, and more expensive-to-manage forest fires. Fleeger talks with Crosser and Tillberg about how these ideas are starting to change