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Enhancing the Value and Sustainability of Field Stations and Marine Laboratories in the 21st Century

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309305373
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Enhancing the Value and Sustainability of Field Stations and Marine Laboratories in the 21st Century written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century, field stations have been important entryways for scientists to study and make important discoveries about the natural world. They are centers of research, conservation, education, and public outreach, often embedded in natural environments that range from remote to densely populated urban locations. Because they lack traditional university departmental boundaries, researchers at field stations have the opportunity to converge their science disciplines in ways that can change careers and entire fields of inquiry. Field stations provide physical space for immersive research, hands-on learning, and new collaborations that are otherwise hard to achieve in the everyday bustle of research and teaching lives on campus. But the separation from university campuses that allows creativity to flourish also creates challenges. Sometimes, field stations are viewed as remote outposts and are overlooked because they tend to be away from population centers and their home institutions. This view is exacerbated by the lack of empirical evidence that can be used to demonstrate their value to science and society. Enhancing the Value and Sustainability of Field Stations and Marine Laboratories in the 21st Century summarizes field stations' value to science, education, and outreach and evaluates their contributions to research, innovation, and education. This report suggests strategies to meet future research, education, outreach, infrastructure, funding, and logistical needs of field stations. Today's technologies - such as streaming data, remote sensing, robot-driven monitoring, automated DNA sequencing, and nanoparticle environmental sensors - provide means for field stations to retain their special connection to nature and still interact with the rest of the world in ways that can fuel breakthroughs in the environmental, physical, natural, and social sciences. The intellectual and natural capital of today's field stations present a solid platform, but many need enhancements of infrastructure and dynamic leadership if they are to meet the challenges of the complex problems facing the world. This report focuses on the capability of field stations to address societal needs today and in the future.

Stations in the Field

Author : Raf De Bont
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022614206X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Stations in the Field written by Raf De Bont and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Modern zoological research [...] aims to study the animal in its own dwelling place.” Otto Zacharias, a German plankton specialist and former science journalist, made this claim in 1905. More than hundred years later, it might sound surprising. When we think of sites of animal research that symbolize modernity, the first places that come to mind are not--to use Zacharias’s example--the parts of inland lakes favored by freshwater plankton. The period around 1900, after all, witnessed the rise of grand urban research institutes that housed industrial-type laboratories filled with mercury pumps, new-fangled microscopes, galvanometers, electric centrifuges, gas motors, and spectrometers. Yet Zacharias belonged to a group of zoologists who were establishing a novel way of studying nature in the field. They developed what ecologists today describe as "place-based research.” It focuses on complex systems of interacting organisms, usually through studies over long periods of time in a natural field context. This was a modern approach and, as such, it needed modern infrastructure: the field station. Beginning in the 1870s, a growing number of biological field stations were founded--first in Europe and later elsewhere around the world. Thousands of zoologists received their training and performed their research at these sites. By revealing the intricate activities that enabled them to perform science in the animal’s "dwelling place,” Raf de Bont is the first to give this history of how life scientists were brought closer to living nature.

Field Life

Author : Jeremy Vetter
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981459
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Field Life written by Jeremy Vetter and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of technology, it emphasizes the material basis of scientific fieldwork, joining together the human labor that produced knowledge with the natural world in which those practices were embedded. Four distinct modes of field practice, which were shared by different field science disciplines, proliferated during this period—surveys, lay networks, quarries, and stations—and this book explores the dynamics that underpinned each of them. Using two diverse case studies to animate each mode of practice, as well as the making of the field as a place for science, Field Life combines textured analysis of specific examples of field science on the ground with wider discussion of the commonalities in the practices of a diverse array of field sciences, including the earth and physical sciences, the life and agricultural sciences, and the human sciences. By situating science in its regional environmental context, Field Life analyzes the intersection between the cosmopolitan knowledge of science and the experiential knowledge of people living in the field. Examples of field science in the Plains and Rockies range widely: geological surveys and weather observing networks, quarries to uncover dinosaur fossils and archaeological remains, and branch agricultural experiment stations and mountain biological field stations.

Biological Field Stations of the World

Author : Homer Alexander Jack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Biological Field Stations of the World written by Homer Alexander Jack and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hardship & Happiness

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022610835X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Hardship & Happiness written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays from the Stoic philosopher instructing how to find happiness in a world full of adversity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection helps restore Seneca—whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson—to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities. Hardship and Happiness collects a range of essays intended to instruct, from consolations—works that offer comfort to someone who has suffered a personal loss—to pieces on how to achieve happiness or tranquility in the face of a difficult world. Expertly translated, the essays will be read and used by undergraduate philosophy students and experienced scholars alike. Praise for Hardship and Happiness “[The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca] brings together many preeminent anglophone scholars of Seneca as editors and translators and succeeds in its aim to reach a wider audience through readable, modern English translations. . . . The overall high quality of the translations and notes make this volume (and its respective series) highly desirable for scholars and libraries alike.” —Classical Journal “A significant improvement over what has been available in English of the previous century. . . . The translations presented here admirably achieve the aim set out by the series’ editors: ‘to be faithful to the Latin while reading idiomatically in English.’ . . . Hardship and Happiness is a handsome volume, beautifully conceived and executed.” —Review of Metaphysics “We owe a debt of gratitude to Chicago for this one-volume selection of essays from long ago, which still have the power to stimulate our minds today.” —Classics for All

Landscapes and Labscapes

Author : Robert E. Kohler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226450112
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes and Labscapes written by Robert E. Kohler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to do field biology in a world that exalts experiments and laboratories? How have field biologists assimilated laboratory values and practices, and crafted an exact, quantitative science without losing their naturalist souls? In Landscapes and Labscapes, Robert E. Kohler explores the people, places, and practices of field biology in the United States from the 1890s to the 1950s. He takes readers into the fields and forests where field biologists learned to count and measure nature and to read the imperfect records of "nature's experiments." He shows how field researchers use nature's particularities to develop "practices of place" that achieve in nature what laboratory researchers can only do with simplified experiments. Using historical frontiers as models, Kohler shows how biologists created vigorous new border sciences of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Glaciological Field Stations

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Glaciological Field Stations written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Jersey Coast Guard Stations and Rumrunners

Author : Van R. Field
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738535913
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis New Jersey Coast Guard Stations and Rumrunners by : Van R. Field

Download or read book New Jersey Coast Guard Stations and Rumrunners written by Van R. Field and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its many inlets, points, and coves, the coast of New Jersey stood out as a haven for rumrunners brazenly thumbing their nose at the federal government during Prohibition. New Jersey was also recognized as the birthplace of the federal government's shore-based units of the United States Coast Guard, the organization charged at that time with stopping the flow of "demon run" into America. With its vivid images, New Jersey Coast Guard Stations and Rumrunners revives the days when New Jersey's "coasties" stood toe-to-toe with the rumrunners of the 1920s and 1930s.

American Tropics

Author : Megan Raby
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469635615
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book American Tropics written by Megan Raby and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research. From these outposts of U.S. science, a growing community of American "tropical biologists" developed both the key scientific concepts and the values embedded in the modern discourse of biodiversity. Considering U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of the Spanish-American War through the anticolonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this study combines the history of science, environmental history, and the history of U.S.–Caribbean and Latin American relations. In doing so, Raby sheds new light on the origins of contemporary scientific and environmentalist thought and brings to the forefront a surprisingly neglected history of twentieth-century U.S. science and empire.

Space Stations

Author : Ernst Messerschmid
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662039745
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Space Stations written by Ernst Messerschmid and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction has begun on the International Space Station (ISS)the largest and most complex extraterrestrial construction project ever. This book on space stations, and the ISS in particular, describes component technologies, systems integration, and the potential utilization of these stations. Co-authored by Messerschmid, one of the first German astronauts, it addresses students and engineers in space technology, but will interest astronomy and space enthusiasts as well.

Bullets and Bandages

Author : James Gindlesperger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949467420
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Bullets and Bandages written by James Gindlesperger and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the aid stations and field hospitals that served casualties following the Battle of Gettysburg.

United States Naval Aviation 1910-2010: Navy and Marine Corps Air Stations and Fields Named for Aviators

Author : Mark Llewellyn Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book United States Naval Aviation 1910-2010: Navy and Marine Corps Air Stations and Fields Named for Aviators written by Mark Llewellyn Evans and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Commercial and Government Radio Stations of the U.S.

Author : United States. Dept. of Commerce. Radio Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Commercial and Government Radio Stations of the U.S. written by United States. Dept. of Commerce. Radio Division and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Classified List of Projects Carried on by the Agricultural Experiment Stations

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Classified List of Projects Carried on by the Agricultural Experiment Stations written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries for the Calendar Year ...

Author : United States. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries for the Calendar Year ... written by United States. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Guide to Biological Field Stations

Author : Organization of Biological Field Stations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Guide to Biological Field Stations written by Organization of Biological Field Stations and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stations of the Sufi Path

Author : Abdullah Ansari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781901383355
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Stations of the Sufi Path written by Abdullah Ansari and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stations of the Sufi Path: The one Hundred Fields (Sad Maydan) of Abdullah Ansari of Herat, is a key Sufi text and the first in Persian to address the stages, or stations, of the Sufi way. Its author Abdullah Ansari (396/1006-448/1056) is considered one of the greatest and most prolific of the Persian Sufi scholars, and his works constitute an important contribution to the intellectual history of Islam. His writings address both exoteric philosophy and esoteric understanding, and range from Qur'an exegesis to devotional invocations and biographies of the Sufis, from literature and poetry to civil morality and ethics, always emphasizing the divine law as well as the divine truth as the way toward understanding. The One Hundred Fields was written by a spiritual teacher to serve as a Sufi manual for guiding novices. Its clearly defined and detailed descriptions of each 'station' make this work an esoteric masterpiece, almost one thousand years old. that still invites the reader on a spiritual journey of self-discovery. Nahid Angha provides the first complete annotated translation into English together with a full introduction. It will be of interest to the specialist in Sufism as well as to the general reader. Book jacket.