scholarly journals Range contractions of the Broad-winged Hawk in the Northeast United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Pruitt ◽  
Laurie Goodrich ◽  
Matthew Shumar ◽  
Andrew Mark Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Mixed Forest ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Forest Patches ◽  
Breeding Bird ◽  
Landscape Characteristics ◽  
Northeast United States ◽  
Presence Data ◽  
Block Level

The Broad-winged Hawk (BWHA, Buteo platypterus) is a small, secretive hawk with distinguishing broad black tail bands that breeds in northeastern North America. The hawk nests in deciduous or mixed forest, often near water, and close to clearings or forest edges. Land conversion and fragmentation alters the landscape and reduces the area of contiguous forest used by BWHA. This study seeks to determine the landscape characteristics influencing the apparent breeding range declines of the BWHA at the landscape scale. Landscape characteristics and BWHA presence data from 18,684 Breeding Bird Atlas blocks (each about 25km2) from Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York for two atlas period (1st Atlas: 1980s, 2nd Atlas: 2000s) were analyzed. Bayesian latent Gaussian models were fitted using INLA to determine best fit model for predicting the landscape characteristics associated with BWHA presence. The best models included landscape changes in land cover, including forest, water, urban, barren, farmland, and wetland and fragmentation of the landscape. Trends in loss were especially prevalent around the region's largest cities: New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC. Loss of BWHA at the block-level was associated with areas with less forest in the 2000s, a decline in size of largest forest patches, lower elevations and lower latitudes. We suggest that both habitat loss and climate change may be contributing to the range contraction of the Broad-winged Hawk in the northeast United States.

Stylistic variation among mobile speakers: Using old and new regional variables to construct complex place identity

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Nycz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Stylistic Variation ◽  
Show Evidence

AbstractThis paper examines stylistic variation in the (oh), (o), (aw), and (ay) classes among native speakers of Canadian English living in or just outside either New York City or Washington, DC. Speakers show evidence of change toward US norms for all four vowels, though only (aw) shows consistent style shifting: prevoiceless (aw) is realized with higher nuclei when speakers express ambivalence about or distance from the United States, and lower nuclei when closeness to or positive affect about the United States is being conveyed. Canadians in New York also show topic- and stance-based shift in (oh): (oh)s are higher when expressing positive affect or closeness to New York City and lower when expressing negative affect or distance. These results suggest that mobile speakers continue to exploit the socioindexical links in their native dialect while learning and using new links in their adopted dialect—but only if those links are socially salient.

American Mosque Architecture

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akel Ismail Kahera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Strict Adherence ◽  
Religious Architecture

This chapter discusses a host of aesthetic leitmotifs that characterize Muslim religious architecture in the United States. It examines the taxonomy of images that define the American mosque, including modern-day themes, nostalgic features, and diaspora aesthetics. All of these sentiments deploy powerful visual and interpretive meanings. Stylistically the problems attendant upon interpretive meanings stand between three different ideologies of style: first, hybridity: a strict adherence to an aesthetic tradition containing disparate and mixed elements; second, simulacrum: an attempt to copy or replicate a popular cultural idea from an aesthetic tradition without experimentation but with a predominance of anachronism; and finally, contextualism: a faithful attempt to understand genius loci, modernity, tradition, and urbanism. Four case studies—The Islamic Center in Washington, DC (1957); Dar al-Islam Mosque in Abiquiu, New Mexico (1981); The Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, Ohio (1983); and The Islamic Cultural Center of New York, City (1991)—all present a thought-provoking overview of how hybridity, simulacra, and contextualism can be further understood. Finally the chapter raises issues related to American mosque worship, including the question of gender and women’s space in communal worship.

Early twentieth-century mammal collecting in Africa: The Smithsonian-Roosevelt East African Expedition of 1909–1910

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-79
Author(s):  
Keir B. Sterling
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
East African ◽  
Theodore Roosevelt ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Field Naturalist

This paper deals with the scientific contributions made by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) and the three mammalogists attached to the Smithsonian–Roosevelt East African Expedition of 1909–1910. These individuals included Lieutenant-Colonel (retired) Edgar Alexander Mearns (1856–1916), an old friend of Roosevelt's and a retired Army surgeon-naturalist; Edmund Heller (1875–1947), long-time field naturalist with previous experience in Africa, and J. Alden Loring (1871–1947), a veteran field collector in the United States. They joined Roosevelt and his son Kermit (1889–1943), in the senior Roosevelt's efforts to collect large game mammal specimens for the United States National Museum, Washington, DC. The group also observed and collected more than 160 species of carnivores, ungulates, rodents, insectivores, and bats. Departing New York shortly after Roosevelt's tenure as President of the United States ended in March 1909, the party debarked at Mombasa in April, and spent most of the next year in Kenya and Uganda. They also visited Sudan before the expedition ended at Khartoum in March 1910. Other subjects discussed include the expedition's objectives and financing, the information gathered by expedition members and the publications which resulted.

Extreme snow events along the coast of the northeast United States: Potential changes due to global warming

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-46
Author(s):  
Guoxing Chen ◽  
Wei-Chyung Wang ◽  
Chao-Tzuen Cheng ◽  
Huang-Hsiung Hsu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Snow Water Equivalent ◽  
Vertical Motion ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Northeast United States ◽  
The North ◽  
Snow Water ◽  
Mean Climate

AbstractWinter extreme snowstorm events along the coast of the northeast United States incur significant impacts on social and economic activities, and their potential changes under global warming are of great concern. Here, we adopted the pseudo global warming approach to investigate the responses of 93 events identified in our previous observational analysis. The study was conducted by contrasting two sets of WRF simulations for each event: the first set driven by ERA-Interim reanalysis and the second set by ERA data superimposed with mean-climate changes simulated from HiRAM historical (1980–2004) and future (2075–2099; RCP8.5) runs. Results reveal that the warming together with increased moisture tends to decrease the snowfall along the coast but increase the rainfall throughout the region. For example, the number of events having daily snow-water-equivalent larger than 10 mm day-1 at Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. is decreased by 47, 46, 30 and 33%, respectively. The compensating changes in snowfall and rainfall lead to total precipitation increased in 3 southern cities but decreased in Boston. In addition, the southwestward shift of regional precipitation distribution is in coherence with the enhancement/reduction of upward vertical motion in the south/north and the movement of cyclone centers (westward in 58% of events and southward in 72%). Finally, perhaps more adversely, because of the northward retreat of the 0°C and the expansion of near-freezing zone, the number of events with mixed rain-snow and freezing precipitations in the north (especially the inland area) is increased.

scholarly journals Anthrax in the United States – summary of cases confirmed by CDC

2001 ◽  
Vol 5 (44) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Case Definition ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Control And Prevention

On the basis of a rigorous case definition (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5041a1.htm), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta has reported 16 confirmed cases of anthrax: two in Florida, four in New York City, five in New Jersey, and five in Washington DC. CDC is also reporting four suspect cases: three in New York City and one in New Jersey. The table below summarises the numbers of cases reported by 30 October 2001 (6pm ET).

scholarly journals The Sudanese Women’s Advocacy Mission to New York and Washington DC

1970 ◽  
pp. 72-75
Author(s):  
Marie-Christine Aquarone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The United States ◽  
Peace Movement ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Peace Negotiations ◽  
The World ◽  
Un General Assembly

In June 2000, eight women from the war-torn country of Sudan traveled to the United States to present their message to the world. They wished to say that they were tired of the 45-year-old Sudanese civil war and they wanted to announce that they had formed a peace movement and were calling for an active role in the peace negotiations, to help end the war. Their discussions with United Nationsofficials and high-ranking officers of agencies and nongovernmental organizations coincided with the Beijing +5 conference, a conference on women’s rights convened by the UN General Assembly that was attended by more than 10,000 female delegates from 180 countries.

Early twentieth-century mammal collecting in Africa: The Smithsonian-Roosevelt East African Expedition of 1909–1910

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keir B. Sterling
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
East African ◽  
Theodore Roosevelt ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Field Naturalist

This paper deals with the scientific contributions made by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) and the three mammalogists attached to the Smithsonian-Roosevelt East African Expedition of 1909–1910. These individuals included Lieutenant-Colonel (retired) Edgar Alexander Mearns (1856–1916), an old friend of Roosevelt's and a retired Army surgeon-naturalist; Edmund Heller (1875–1947), long-time field naturalist with previous experience in Africa, and J. Alden Loring (1871–1947), a veteran field collector in the United States. They joined Roosevelt and his son Kermit (1889–1943), in the senior Roosevelt's efforts to collect large game mammal specimens for the United States National Museum, Washington, DC. The group also observed and collected more than 160 species of carnivores, ungulates, rodents, insectivores, and bats. Departing New York shortly after Roosevelt's tenure as President of the United States ended in March 1909, the party debarked at Mombasa in April, and spent most of the next year in Kenya and Uganda. They also visited Sudan before the expedition ended at Khartoum in March 1910. Other subjects discussed include the expedition's objectives and fi nancing, the information gathered by expedition members and the publications which resulted.

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