A review of algal toxin exposures on reserved federal lands and among trust species in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Zachary R. Laughrey ◽  
Victoria G. Christensen ◽  
Robert J. Dusek ◽  
Sarena Senegal ◽  
Julia S. Lankton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Lands ◽  
Algal Toxin

scholarly journals The Importance of Alaska for Climate Stabilization, Resilience, and Biodiversity Conservation

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carly Vynne ◽  
Erin Dovichin ◽  
Nancy Fresco ◽  
Natalie Dawson ◽  
Anup Joshi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystem ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
The United States ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Federal Lands

Alaska is globally significant for its large tracts of intact habitats, which support complete wildlife assemblages and many of the world’s healthiest wild fisheries, while also storing significant amounts of carbon. Alaska has 1/3 of United States federal lands, the bulk of the United States’ intact and wild lands, and over half of the country’s total terrestrial ecosystem carbon on federal lands. Managing Alaska’s public lands for climate and biodiversity conservation purposes over the next 30–50 years would provide meaningful and irreplaceable climate benefits for the United States and globe. Doing so via a co-management approach with Alaska’s 229 federally recognized tribes is likely not only to be more effective but also more socially just. This paper lays out the scientific case for managing Alaska’s public lands for climate stabilization and resilience and addresses three primary questions: Why is Alaska globally meaningful for biodiversity and climate stabilization? Why should Alaska be considered as a key element of a climate stabilization and biodiversity conservation strategy for the United States? What do we need to know to better understand the role of Alaska given future scenarios? We summarize evidence for the role Alaska’s lands play in climate stabilization, as well as what is known about the role of land management in influencing carbon storage and sequestration. Finally, we summarize priority research that is needed to improve understanding of how policy and management prescriptions are likely to influence the role Alaska plays in global climate stabilization and adaptation.

Mustangs and Prisoners: Narratives of Capture and Domestication

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-43
Author(s):  
Natalie Corinne Hansen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Species Difference ◽  
The United States ◽  
Feral Horses ◽  
Federal Lands ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Wild West ◽  
Male Inmates

This paper analyzes narratives of capture and domestication that link subgroups of men and horses: male inmates of U.S. prisons and mustangs removed from federal lands. The paper focuses on the semiotic and material analogies between law-breaking men and feral horses and considers the “gentling” and “civilizing” effect that results from negotiating species difference. These redemptive narratives appeal to revisionist approaches to the Wild West, but they also neglect critical questions about the ideologies and practices that have resulted in discardable populations of both humans and horses within the United States.

scholarly journals Federal lands greenhouse emissions and sequestration in the United States—Estimates for 2005–14

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Merrill ◽  
Benjamin M. Sleeter ◽  
Philip A. Freeman ◽  
Jinxun Liu ◽  
Peter D. Warwick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Lands ◽  
Greenhouse Emissions

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

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