From Insularity to Islandness

2019 ◽  
pp. 177-244
Author(s):  
Johannes Riquet
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Fractal Geometry ◽  
Border Region ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
Political Borders ◽  
Ecological Landscape

Chapter 3 draws on (post-)phenomenology, ecocriticism, and Benoît Mandelbrot’s fractal geometry to examine a set of diaries and memoirs from the US–Canadian border region in the Pacific Northwest that express a permeable conception of islands and the islanded self. It argues that memoirs like Helene Glidden’s The Light on the Island (1951), Muriel Wylie Blanchet’s The Curve of Time (1961), and David Conover’s Once Upon an Island (1967) imagine islands as spaces inserted within larger ecological and geological continuities. Their reimagination of islands in multiple interconnectedness disrupts arbitrarily drawn political borders, yet they also have a tendency to construct a unified ecological landscape with its own exclusions. Conversely, George Vancouver’s North Pacific journal—the foundational text for this chapter—and the geological diary of George Gibbs inadvertently offer a more radical island poetics: in these texts, the unfamiliar islandscapes aesthetically resist the cartographic drive to fix them.

scholarly journals Radiocarbon Calibration around AD 1900 from Scots Pine (Pinus Sylvestris) tree rings from Northern Norway

Radiocarbon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 1775-1784
Author(s):  
Helene Svarva ◽  
Pieter Grootes ◽  
Martin Seiler ◽  
Terje Thun ◽  
Einar Værnes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pinus Sylvestris ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Scots Pine ◽  
Tree Rings ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Northern Norway ◽  
Pine Tree ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us

ABSTRACTTo resolve an inconsistency around AD 1895 between radiocarbon (14C) measurements on oak from the British Isles and Douglas fir and Sitka spruce from the Pacific Northwest, USA, we measured the 14C content in single-year tree rings from a Scots pine tree (Pinus sylvestris L.), which grew in a remote location in Saltdal, northern Norway. The dataset covers the period AD 1864–1937 and its results are in agreement with measurements from the US Pacific coast around 1895. The most likely explanation for older ages in British oak in this period seems to be 14C depletion associated with the combustion of fossil fuels.

scholarly journals Tagging moisture sources with Lagrangian and inertial tracers: application to intense atmospheric river events

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 785-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente Pérez-Muñuzuri ◽  
Jorge Eiras-Barca ◽  
Daniel Garaboa-Paz
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Wind Flow ◽  
Atmospheric Moisture ◽  
Atmospheric Rivers ◽  
Atmospheric River ◽  
Moisture Sources ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
Northwest Region ◽  
Thermodynamic Processes

Abstract. Two Lagrangian tracer tools are evaluated for studies on atmospheric moisture sources and pathways. In these methods, a moisture volume is assigned to each particle, which is then advected by the wind flow. Usual Lagrangian methods consider this volume to remain constant and the particle to follow flow path lines exactly. In a different approach, the initial moisture volume can be considered to depend on time as it is advected by the flow due to thermodynamic processes. In this case, the tracer volume drag must be taken into account. Equations have been implemented and moisture convection was taken into account for both Lagrangian and inertial models. We apply these methods to evaluate the intense atmospheric rivers that devastated (i) the Pacific Northwest region of the US and (ii) the western Iberian Peninsula with flooding rains and intense winds in early November 2006 and 20 May 1994, respectively. We note that the usual Lagrangian method underestimates moisture availability in the continent, while active tracers achieve more realistic results.

scholarly journals Poles in Seattle 1890–2020: Continuity and Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (3 (181)) ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
Dorota Praszałowicz
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
American Experience ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
The City

The text presents the preliminary results of the ongoing research on the Polish American community in Seattle, Washington. So far overlooked by the historians of the Polish American experience, the local group differs significantly from other centers of the Polish diaspora in the US. Poles settled in the Pacific Northwest from the late nineteenth century onward, and they developed in the city and around it a strong community that is internally diversified. In Seattle they were confronted with German, Irish, and Jewish groups, as was the case in other American cities, but also with other immigrants, for example with numerous Asians, Nordic people, Croatians, and Bulgarians. Contrary to the patterns of the Polish American community building, there has never been a Polish neighborhood in the city, and the Polish Roman Catholic parish was founded in Seattle as late as 1989. In fact, the parish never gained a crucial importance in the local ethnic community, and presently, as it used to be in the past, the immigrant life is organized around the Polish Home that was launched by the pioneer immigrants in 1918/1920. Many descendants of the earlier immigrant generations participate in the events initiated in Seattle by Poles who arrived in the last decades, and several recent immigrants became involved in the Polish Home Association. Moreover, web platforms – new forms of ethnic connection that developed in the last decades, contribute to the increase of the bonding social capital within the Polish group.

Delayed Emergence, Stem Distortion, Stunting, and Foliar Symptoms Associated with Tobacco Rattle Virus and Paratrichodorus Allius in Potatoes Grown in the Pacific Northwest

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy L. Gieck ◽  
Nicholas L. David ◽  
Philip B. Hamm ◽  
James M. Crosslin ◽  
Russell E. Ingham
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Potato Crop ◽  
Tobacco Rattle Virus ◽  
First Report ◽  
Foliar Symptoms ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
Delayed Emergence ◽  
The Future

This is the first report of stunting, stem distortion, delayed emergence and foliar TRV symptoms on potato in the Pacific Northwest where approximately 50% of the US potato crop is grown. The shift in use from 1,3 dichloropropene to oxamyl may suggest these symptoms will be more frequently observed in the future. Accepted for publication 19 May 2007. Published 17 September 2007.

The Pacific Northwest

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Native American History ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Columbia Plateau ◽  
Cultural Legitimacy ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
Recent Trends

Despite decades of neglect by professional historians, the Pacific Northwest brings particular clarity to major themes in Native American history. On both sides of the Cascade Mountains and the US-Canadian border, Native communities have carried on the struggle for territorial integrity, political authority, economic viability, and cultural legitimacy that began in the late eighteenth century. Scholars, in turn, have broadened their studies temporally, culturally, and thematically to create a fuller picture of the region’s past. This chapter surveys recent trends in the ethnohistorical literature concerning the diverse indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast and Columbia Plateau. For the sake of brevity, it emphasizes three themes of particular salience in the Northwest: the porous character of cultural and political boundaries, the fluidity of racial and tribal identities, and the determination of Native nations to protect their ancestral lands and resources.

Paleobiogeography of Cretaceous and Tertiary decapod crustaceans of the North Pacific Ocean

2001 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 808-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie E. Schweitzer
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
North Pacific Ocean ◽  
Polar Component ◽  
Decapod Crustaceans ◽  
The North ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
North Polar ◽  
The North Pacific

Comprehensive analysis of the Cretaceous and Tertiary decapod crustaceans of the North Pacific Rim, focused primarily on the Brachyura, has resulted in additions to our understanding of the evolution and distribution of these animals, both in that region and globally. Hypotheses about changes in climatological and paleoceanographic conditions have not been extensively tested using decapod crustaceans, although they have been well-documented globally and for the North Pacific Ocean by sedimentological and other faunal evidence. Evidence from the occurrences of decapod crustaceans supports hypotheses obtained through these other means. Because the decapod fauna was studied independent of other faunas, it provides a means by which to compare and test patterns derived from molluscan and other faunal data. The brachyuran decapods show distinctive paleobiogeographic patterns during the Cretaceous and Tertiary, and these patterns are consistent with those documented globally in the molluscan faunas and paleoceanographic modeling. Additionally, the changes in the decapod fauna reflect patterns unique to the North Pacific Ocean. The decapod fauna is primarily comprised of a North Pacific component, a North Polar component, a component of Tethyan derivation, an amphitropical component, and a component derived from the high Southern latitudes. The Cretaceous and Tertiary decapod faunas of the North Pacific Ocean were initially dominated by taxa of North Pacific origin. Decapod diversity was highest in the Pacific Northwest of North America during the Eocene, and diversity has declined steadily since that time. Diversity in Japan was relatively low among the Decapoda until the Miocene, when diversity increased markedly due to the tropical influence of the Tethys and Indo-Pacific region. Diversity has remained high in Japan into the present time. The Cretaceous, Eocene, and Miocene were times of evolutionary bursts within the Brachyura and were separated by periods of evolutionary stasis.

Developing Winter Food Barley for the Pacific Northwest of the US

Crop Science ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 1563-1573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigid Meints ◽  
Alfonso Cuesta-Marcos ◽  
Andrew S. Ross ◽  
Scott Fisk ◽  
Teepakorn Kongraksawech ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
Winter Food

scholarly journals Ecosystem fluxes of carbonyl sulfide in an old-growth forest: temporal dynamics and responses to diffuse radiation and heat waves

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (23) ◽  
pp. 7127-7139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bharat Rastogi ◽  
Max Berkelhammer ◽  
Sonia Wharton ◽  
Mary E. Whelan ◽  
Frederick C. Meinzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Carbonyl Sulfide ◽  
Diffuse Radiation ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Old Growth Forest ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us

Abstract. Carbonyl sulfide (OCS) has recently emerged as a tracer for terrestrial carbon uptake. While physiological studies relating OCS fluxes to leaf stomatal dynamics have been established at leaf and branch scales and incorporated into global carbon cycle models, the quantity of data from ecosystem-scale field studies remains limited. In this study, we employ established theoretical relationships to infer ecosystem-scale plant OCS uptake from mixing ratio measurements. OCS fluxes showed a pronounced diurnal cycle, with maximum uptake at midday. OCS uptake was found to scale with independent measurements of CO2 fluxes over a 60 m tall old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest of the US (45∘49′13.76′′ N, 121∘57′06.88′′ W) at daily and monthly timescales under mid–high light conditions across the growing season in 2015. OCS fluxes were strongly influenced by the fraction of downwelling diffuse light. Finally, we examine the effect of sequential heat waves on fluxes of OCS, CO2, and H2O. Our results bolster previous evidence that ecosystem OCS uptake is strongly related to stomatal dynamics, and measuring this gas improves constraints on estimating photosynthetic rates at the ecosystem scale.

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