Daily abundance of Dall’s sheep peaks during late summer in a seasonal habitat of high‐management interest

Climate change may affect the foraging success of bowhead whales Balaena mysticetus by altering the diversity and abundance of zooplankton species available as food. However, assessing climate-induced impacts first requires documenting feeding conditions under current environmental conditions. We collected seasonal movement and dive-behaviour data from 25 Eastern Canada-West Greenland bowheads instrumented with time-depth telemetry tags and used state-space models to examine whale movements and dive behaviours. Zooplankton samples were also collected in Cumberland Sound (CS) to determine species composition and biomass. We found that CS was used seasonally by 14 of the 25 tagged whales. Area-restricted movement was the dominant behaviour in CS, suggesting that the tagged whales allocated considerable time to feeding. Prey sampling data suggested that bowheads were exploiting energy-rich Arctic copepods such as Calanus glacialis and C. hyperboreus during summer. Dive behaviour changed seasonally in CS. Most notably, probable feeding dives were substantially shallower during spring and summer compared to fall and winter. These seasonal changes in dive depths likely reflect changes in the vertical distribution of calanoid copepods, which are known to suspend development and overwinter at depth during fall and winter when availability of their phytoplankton prey is presumed to be lower. Overall, CS appears to be an important year-round foraging habitat for bowheads, but is particularly important during the late summer and fall. Whether CS will remain a reliable feeding area for bowhead whales under climate change is not yet known.

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Isolation of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia from Clinical Samples in Some Hospitals in Shiraz, Iran

Clinical and Experimental Investigations ◽

10.31487/j.cei.2020.03.01 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

Majid Baserisalehi ◽

Samira Zarezadeh ◽

Majid Baserisalehi ◽

Saeed Shoa

Keyword(s):

Stenotrophomonas Maltophilia ◽

Enterobacter Aerogenes ◽

Late Summer ◽

Early Spring ◽

Clinical Samples ◽

Bacillus Species ◽

Microbiological Analysis ◽

Blood Samples ◽

Healthcare Facilities ◽

Phenotypic Methods

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an emerging pathogenic non-fermentative Gram-negative Bacillus species. It has caused many nosocomial infections and can be isolated from various hospital wards and healthcare facilities. Research has shown that most of its strains are inherently resistant to many antibiotics and have multidrug resistance. This research intended to determine its occurrence frequency at some Hospitals in shiraz, Iran. The present study was conducted in six months (from early spring to late summer 2019). Clinical samples (Blood, Urine and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)) collected from 120 patients afflicted with various infections. The samples were transferred to the Laboratory and subjected to microbiological analysis. Identification of the isolates was carried out by phenotypic methods and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolates verified using molecular methods. In total, various bacteria were isolated from 84 clinical samples. The isolates were Escherichia coli, Enterobacter aerogenes, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia was isolated from 17 (20.2%) positive samples and most of them were isolated from blood samples. Our finding indicated that Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolated more from blood samples follow by CSF sample. In addition, our finding illustrated that Stenotrophomonas maltophilia can be considered as the common nosocomial agent at hospitals in Shiraz, Iran.

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MEILUŽĖ IR RAGANA: KOTRYNA TELNIČIETĖ IR „JUODASIS“ JOS MITAS / CONCUBINE AND ENCHANTRESS: KATARZYNA TELNICZANKA AND HER BLACK MYTHSUMMARY

Lietuvos istorijos metraštis ◽

10.33918/25386549-201902002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2019/2 ◽

pp. 41-64

Author(s):

S. C. ROWELL

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Late Summer ◽

Maternal Influence ◽

Her Family ◽

Royal Court ◽

High Ranking ◽

A Minor

CONCUBINE AND ENCHANTRESS: KATARZYNA TELNICZANKA AND HER BLACK MYTH Summary S.C. R O W E L L Katarzyna Hochstadt of Telnicz (ca 1480–1528), mistress of Sigismund the Old, mother of John of the Lithuanian Dukes, bishop of Vilnius (1519–36) and Poznań (1536–38) has come down in history as an enchanting beauty or a witch, or both. Her image is defined by her relationship with powerful men – her lover, her son, her husband (Andrzej Kościelecki, castellan of Wojnicz and sub–treasurer of the Crown of Poland) and alleged victims (various royal secretaries and high–ranking clerics). This article assesses what little by way of solid evidence is known of her life and how this can be related with the image of man–chasing vamp, interference in the running of the diocese of Vilnius (thereby allegedly provoking the appointment of bishop protectors to the see) and scandal in village and town (according to one seventeenth–century historian). There is evidence that while John of the Lithuanian Dukes was still a minor and enjoyed the rank of provost of Płock and Poznań and canon of Kraków the property associated with his office was overseen by his step–father and perhaps by his mother. After John became bishop of Vilnius, Her Magnificence the Bishop‘s Mother, the Lady Dowager Castellan of Wojnicz and Sub–Treasurer of the Crown of Poland resided for some time at her son‘s court in Vilnius and on at least two occasions exercised her maternal influence to facilitate access to the bishop for canons (Stanislaw Dambrowka, Martin of Dusniki and Albert Wielezinski) involved in a dispute with their brother canon and scholast Jakub Staszkowski. The detailed discussion of internal cathedral disputes in the presence of a lay person, and even worse, a woman, scandalised members of the Cathedral Chapter but there is no evidence that Lady Katarzyna sought to determine the outcome of this case. We also know that she patronised at least one noblewoman (the widowed sister–in–law of Bishop Albert Tabor) who subsequently adopted Bishop John as her son and heir and made financial endowments on both the bishop and his mother. After Katarzyna died in Vilnius in the late summer of 1528 her corpse was transported to Kraków for burial by a Vilnius canon, Erasmus Eustachii, whose family had connections with Andrzej Kościelecki and Bishop John of Vilnius. The satirical verse penned by Andrzej Krzycki concerning a mother–stepmother and father–stepfather (Katarzyna and King Sigismund) and „an old hag who stinks like a goat“ represents neo–Latin literary exercises provoked by fear of the influence at the royal court of Katarzyna and her family rather than an accurate and literal description of Katarzyna and her activities.

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Effects of late summer burning in a Mediterranean pasture

Ecologia mediterranea ◽

10.3406/ecmed.1989.1631 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 35-43

Author(s):

A. Boscagli

Keyword(s):

Late Summer ◽

Mediterranean Pasture

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Observations on the Quaternary geology around Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, eastern North Greenland

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin ◽

10.34194/ggub.v183.5205 ◽

1999 ◽

pp. 56-60

Author(s):

Ole Bennike ◽

Anker Weidick

Keyword(s):

Late Summer ◽

Open Water ◽

Quaternary Geology ◽

Mean Annual Precipitation ◽

Outlet Glacier ◽

Ice Caps ◽

North East ◽

Pack Ice ◽

Lake Deposits ◽

North Greenland

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Bennike, O., & Weidick, A. (1999). Observations on the Quaternary geology around Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, eastern North Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 183, 56-60. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v183.5205 _______________ In North and North-East Greenland, several of the outlet glaciers from the Inland Ice have long, floating tongues (Higgins 1991). Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (Fig. 1) is today occupied by a floating outlet glacier that is about 60 km long, and the fjord is surrounded by dissected plateaux with broad valleys (Thomsen et al. 1997). The offshore shelf to the east of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden is unusually broad, up to 300 km wide (Cherkis & Vogt 1994), and recently small low islands were discovered on the western part of this shelf (G. Budeus and T.I.H. Andersson, personal communications 1998). Quaternary deposits are widespread around Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden and include glacial, glaciofluvial, marine, deltaic and ice lake deposits. Ice margin features such as kame deposits and moraines are also common (Davies 1972). The glaciation limit increases from 200 m a.s.l. over the eastern coastal islands to 1000 m in the inland areas; local ice caps and valley glaciers are common in the region, although the mean annual precipitation is only about 200 mm per year. Most of the sea in the area is covered by permanent sea ice, with pack ice further east, but open water is present in late summer in some fjords north of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, and in the Nordøstvandet polynia.

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Petroleum geological activities onshore West Greenland in 1996, and drilling of a deep exploration well

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin ◽

10.34194/ggub.v176.5055 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 17-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Flemming G. Christiansen ◽

Anders Boesen ◽

Finn Dalhoff ◽

Asger K. Pedersen ◽

Gunver K. Pedersen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Late Summer ◽

Summer Season ◽

Source Rocks ◽

Press Releases ◽

West Greenland ◽

Potential Reservoir ◽

Second Year ◽

Deep Exploration ◽

Exploration Well ◽

Shed Light

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Christiansen, F. G., Boesen, A., Dalhoff, F., Pedersen, A. K., Pedersen, G. K., Riisager, P., & Zinck-Jørgensen, K. (1997). Petroleum geological activities onshore West Greenland in 1996, and drilling of a deep exploration well. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 176, 17-23. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v176.5055 _______________ The 1996 summer season saw continued petroleum geological activities in the Disko–Nuussuaq area, onshore West Greenland. These took the form of a geological field project led by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), and continued commercial exploration by grønArctic Energy Inc. (grønArctic). In the second year of their licence, grønArctic carried out an airborne geophysical programme early in 1996 and drilled a c. 3 km deep exploration well on Nuussuaq, GRO#3, in the late summer (Fig. 1). Although the detailed results from grønArctic’s exploration are confidential (apart from the information made available at conferences and in press releases), it is evident that knowledge of the Nuussuaq Basin has greatly increased in recent years and that the basin has considerable exploration potential of its own (see Christiansen et al., 1995b, 1996a). The activities by GEUS and the exploration by grønArctic will significantly improve the understanding of the petroleum system of the basin; available data from the 1996 activities have shed light on the types and distribution of oils, source rocks and potential reservoir units.

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Investigations of past climate and sea-ice variability in the fjord area by Station Nord, eastern North Greenland

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin ◽

10.34194/geusb.v35.4941 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 35 ◽

pp. 67-70 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Niels Nørgaard-Pedersen ◽

Sofia Ribeiro ◽

Naja Mikkelsen ◽

Audrey Limoges ◽

Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz

Keyword(s):

Sea Ice ◽

Outer Part ◽

Late Summer ◽

Field Work ◽

The Arctic ◽

Research Station ◽

Fjord System ◽

Sea Bottom ◽

Satellite Radar ◽

North Greenland

The marine record of the Independence–Danmark fjord system extending out to the Wandel Hav in eastern North Greenland (Fig. 1A) is little known due to the almost perennial sea-ice cover, which makes the region inaccessible for research vessels (Nørgaard-Pedersen et al. 2008), and only a few depth measurements have been conducted in the area. In 2015, the Villum Research Station, a new logistic base for scientific investigations, was opened at Station Nord. In contrast to the early exploration of the region, it is now possible to observe and track the seasonal character and changes of ice in the fjord system and the Arctic Ocean through remote sensing by satellite radar systems. Satellite data going back to the early 1980s show that the outer part of the Independence–Danmark fjord system is characterised by perennial sea ice whereas both the southern part of the fjord system and an area 20–30 km west of Station Nord are partly ice free during late summer (Fig. 1B). Hence, marine-orientated field work can be conducted from the sea ice using snow mobiles, and by drilling through the ice to reach the underlying water and sea bottom.

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Maize Growth and Yield Following Late Summer Hail

Crop Science ◽

10.2135/cropsci1994.0011183x003400050047x ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 34 (5) ◽

pp. 1400-1403 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

L. M. Dwyer ◽

D. W. Stewart ◽

L. Evenson ◽

B. L. Ma

Keyword(s):

Late Summer ◽

Growth And Yield ◽

Maize Growth

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Rhineland on the Way to its Thousandth Anniversary or Water-Administration in the Next 100–200 Years

Water Science & Technology ◽

10.2166/wst.1991.0400 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 23 (1-3) ◽

pp. 49-55

Author(s):

E. H. baron van Tuyll van Serooskerken

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Late Summer ◽

Water Shortage ◽

Land Utilization ◽

Water Control ◽

Coastal Defence ◽

The North ◽

Policies And Measures ◽

Water Provision ◽

Water Administration

An inventory is made of the effects of sea level rise and expected climatic change on the level of the district water authorities in the Netherlands and especially the “hoogheemraadschap” of Rhineland in the next 100-200 years. Special attention is paid to the effects on land utilization, coastal defence and water control. The first is hard to describe by lack of research, the second can already be determined in terms of cost; the third can be described in its effects on brackishness and water provision with indication of policies and measures to be taken. Preliminary conclusions are that larger efforts on coastal defence - even with present techniques - will be a realistic answer in terms of cost. The foreseen increase of brackishness in area and salt concentration, will give a significant extra need for fresh water. High cost and even higher risks have to be expected with regard to measures to neutralize the effects of a water surplus in winter and a growing water shortage in (late) summer, while the cost will further grow. Because of the effect a larger area must be drained off and water has to be raised higher as the Netherlands will sink in relation to the North Sea.

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