scholarly journals Painting Deep Time: Encountering Landforms’ Alterity and Phusis Through Phenomenology and Oil Painting

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-107
Author(s):  
Tanya J. Behrisch
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Oil Painting ◽  
Face To Face

The practice of oil painting landforms, rocks and sea water in Jervis Inlet, British Columbia (BC) puts me in dialogue with land’s resistant alterity.  By closely attuning to landforms, and by stepping back and blurring my focus at regular intervals while practicing oil painting of landforms, I experience phusis of land and of my painting.  Through self-concealment and emergence, land alternates between revealing and enfolding its character, resisting my human comprehension but speaking to more-than-human elements in myself.  The slow accretive process of oil painting lends itself to phenomenological research, taking days and weeks for paint to dry before new layers can be applied.  This slowness produces phusis within me as an artist, as I am forced to withdraw from the painting while its layers dry and we reassume an unfamiliarity with one another as dual subjects.  Through oil painting, landforms’ alterity shifts towards familiarity.  Earth’s elements originate in deep time, pre-dating human experience.  Cycling within me is a repository of minerals, water, and salinity originating in deep time.  This draws attention to alterity within my own body.  By practicing phenomenological research through painting landforms, I encounter the phenomenological paradox of deep time and come face-to-face with the originary elemental origin I share with landforms.

scholarly journals Semester students’ perceptions about online class during COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 137-150
Author(s):  
Bhan Singh Dhami
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Delivery Mode ◽  
Master's Level ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
Online Class ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Phenomenological Research Design

Face-to-face delivery of education system had been greatly affected due to the outbreak of COVID-19. As an alternative to it, classes were run online wherever there was access to the Internet with technological devices. With this scenario, this study explored the perceptions of semester students about online class at master’s level during COVID-19 pandemic. By using the phenomenological research design of qualitative study, purposive sampling technique was used to collect the views of three students of master’s level studying at third and fourth semesters at an affiliated campus of Tribhuvan University (TU) and a constituent campus under Far Western University (FWU) of Nepal. Semi-structured online interview was conducted to collect the data. The result showed that the students were positive towards online delivery mode due to the need for getting education during COVID-19 pandemic.

ONE POINT OF VIEW: Face to Face with Tomorrow

1980 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
Shirley A. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Face To Face

History and human experience do not really sort themselves into neat ten-year packages, but somehow the turn of a decade causes us habitually to take stock. Nowhere is this more evident than in the popular media which have been busily reviewing the seventies and speculating about the eighties for months now.

Palaeoproterozoic, rift-related, 13C-rich, lacustrine carbonates, NW Russia. Part II: Global isotope signal recorded in the lacustrine dolostones

2004 ◽  
Vol 95 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 423-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Melezhik ◽  
A. E. Fallick ◽  
A. B. Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Retrograde Metamorphism ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Lacustrine Environment ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
C Cycle ◽  
Limited Variation ◽  
Isotopic Signal ◽  
Comprehensive Study

ABSTRACTA comprehensive study of the ∼2200-Ma-old Kuetsjärvi Sedimentary Formation (KSF), NW Russia, was undertaken to contribute to our understanding of palaeoenvironments associated with the global perturbation of the carbon cycle between 2330 and 2060 Ma. Closely spaced drill core samples (n=95) were obtained from a 150-m-thick unit deposited in rift-bound fluvial-deltaic and shallow-water lacustrine settings with a short-term invasion of sea water. Apart from a very few de-dolomitised samples, all other carbonate lithologies are represented by Corg-free, S-poor, quartz-rich dolostones, stromatolites and travertines which have high Sr concentrations (51–1069 ppm) and low Mn/Sr ratios (2·9 ± 2·1). The carbonate succession, excluding travertines, shows high δ13C (+7·5 ± 0·6‰, n=95) with a limited variation (+5·8 to +8·9‰). Fluctuating δ18O values (10·8–20·4‰) were overprinted during diagenesis, regional greenschist-grade and later retrograde metamorphism. Several short-term stratigraphic excursions of δ13C were apparently governed by evaporation and CO2 degassing combined with pulses of12C-rich hydrothermal waters precipitating travertines. However, the 13C-rich nature of the dolostones reflects the global isotopic signal, which was modified in a shallow water lacustrine environment by evaporation, enhanced uptake of 12C by cyanobacteria, and pene-contemporaneous oxidation and loss of organic material. The best proxies to δ13C and 87Sr/86 Sr of coeval sea water recorded in the KSF dolostones are likely to be around +5–6‰ and 0·70406, respectively. The study of the KSF has shown that circumspection is necessary when attempting to model the behaviour and evolution of the global C-cycle in Deep Time. Models which purport to explain global oceanic–atmospheric evolution without first adequately accounting for the possibility that many Precambrian carbonate deposits might be non-marine, or at least influenced by non-marine fluids, should be viewed with caution

scholarly journals Seasonal Variation of Temperature and Salinity of Surface Waters of the British Columbia Coast

1953 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Pickard ◽  
D. C. McLeod
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Deep Ocean ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
Early Summer ◽  
The West ◽  
Queen Charlotte Islands ◽  
Land Drainage ◽  
Run Off

Grand monthly means of daily observations of surface sea-water temperature and salinity from twelve light stations along the British Columbia coast during the 13 years 1935 to 1948 have been analysed. In general the temperatures reach a minimum of 45°F. ± 1° (7.2 °C. ± 0.5°) in January and February. The maximum varies from 50° to 64°F. (10° to 18 °C.) in August. The warmest waters occur in bays protected from wind action, and the coldest waters occur in regions of turbulent mixing due to wind or strong currents. The salinity along the mainland coast is a minimum in early summer, associated with the maximum run-off from melting snow. Along the west coast of Vancouver Island the minimum occurs in mid-winter, associated with maximum precipitation which is not stored as snow in this region. At the southern and northern tip of the Queen Charlotte Islands there is little or no variation of salinity because there is no land drainage of consequence in the vicinity.In passes between Georgia Strait and the sea where the waters are mixed to homogeneity by strong tidal currents the annual variation of temperature and salinity is reduced, and in some cases entirely suppressed.On the west coast of Vancouver Island it is shown that the annual cycle is affected by the dominant winds and upwelling of deep ocean waters.

scholarly journals Emplotment beyond the Human Scale: On Deep Time and Narrative Nonlinearity

Poetics Today ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-359
Author(s):  
Marco Caracciolo
Keyword(s):  
Time Scale ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Imperial Politics

Abstract In the second volume of Time and Narrative (1985, 101–12), Paul Ricoeur distinguishes between two layers of temporality in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925): he calls them “monumental” time and “mortal” time. The former is connected with authority and British imperial politics; the latter is the subjective, highly malleable time of human experience. But there is another time, also active in Woolf's novel and in her oeuvre more generally, that Ricoeur seems to overlook. It is the “deep history” (Shryock and Smail 2011) of geological and planetary phenomena that vastly surpasses the time scale of individual humans or human societies, or even of the human species. This is not to say that narrative is at ease with this deep temporality; as a practice, it seems fundamentally skewed toward the ethical and hermeneutic concerns that Ricoeur foregrounds in his work. But deep time does surface in narrative; this article is concerned with the formal challenges raised by such surfacings.

scholarly journals Coleadership Among Chief Residents: Exploration of Experiences Across Specialties

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey E. Pettit
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Chief Resident ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Phenomenological Research Design ◽  
The University

Abstract Background Many departments have multiple chief residents. How these coleaders relate to each other could affect their performance, the residency program, and the department. Objective This article reports on how co-chiefs work together during the chief year, and what may allow them to be more effective coleaders. Methods A phenomenological research design was used to investigate experiences of outgoing chief residents from 13 specialties at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics over a 2-year period from 2012 through 2013. Thematic analysis of semistructured interviews was conducted to investigate commonalities and recommendations. Results Face-to-face interviews with 19 chief residents from 13 different specialties identified experiences that helped co-chiefs work effectively with each other in orienting new co-chiefs, setting goals and expectations, making decisions, managing interpersonal conflict, leadership styles, communicating, working with program directors, and providing evaluations and feedback. Although the interviewed chief residents received guidance on how to be an effective chief resident, none had been given advice on how to effectively work with a co-chief, and 26% (5 of 19) of the respondents reported having an ineffective working relationship with their co-chief. Conclusions Chief residents often colead in carrying out their multiple functions. To successfully function in a multichief environment, chief residents may benefit from a formal co-orientation in which they discuss goals and expectations, agree on a decision-making process, understand each other's leadership style, and receive feedback on their efficacy as leaders.

scholarly journals Researching Lived Experience in Education: Misunderstood or Missed Opportunity?

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692094206
Author(s):  
Emma Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Missed Opportunity

Phenomenological research approaches have become increasingly popular in fields such as psychology, nursing, tourism, and health science but remain underrepresented in education research. This is surprising given that education, a discipline founded on attending to, and building upon, the knowledge and experiences of others, can only benefit from the insights and explication of human experience offered by phenomenological research. One reason for its disfavor may be the oft-intimidating philosophy that underpins, and is critical to the application of, phenomenological approaches to research. This article provides an overview of some of the phenomenology’s key philosophical principles. It pays particular attention to transcendental and hermeneutic phenomenology, their key proponents, and tenets and outlines some similarities and differences between these two phenomenological lineages. Efforts to translate the philosophical principles of phenomenology into an approach to research are discussed, and examples of the application of transcendental and hermeneutic phenomenological approaches to education settings are explored. Once described as more a carefully cultivated thoughtfulness than a technique, phenomenology as a methodology is examined in terms of its trustworthiness and its potential to deepen our Understanding (with a capital U) of the experiences of others. This article acts as a theoretical handrail to support researchers’ first steps into this rich philosophical and theoretical terrain with a view to encouraging increased adoption of this approach to research in education settings.

Dynasties

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Zalasiewicz
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Heat Release ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Burgess Shale ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Tectonic Plates

Developing a methodology is everything in a science. Once you have it, you can go on to extract information, facts—a narrative—from the natural world. To human scientists and non-scientists alike, the use of fossils as evidence of past events on Earth is now taken for granted, is indeed ingrained into popular culture. Dinosaurs, for instance, stalk through our TV screens and cinemas and shopping malls, as virtual animations and plastic models and soft fluffy toys and comic book covers. An Age of Dinosaurs is widely accepted as a long-vanished era, a world lost within deep time. Our extraterrestrial investigators will, at some stage in their studies, be ready to try to recreate for themselves the eras of long-vanished animal and plant dynasties on this planet, to construct a coherent history out of the scattered relics preserved in the Earth’s abundant strata. By coming to understand the Earth’s marvellously regulated heat-release engine, that drives the tectonic plates, they will appreciate the continuous creation and preservation of strata. By getting to grips with the more subtle puzzle of how sea level has risen and fallen, they will have some idea of the finer controls on the preservation of the stratal record. And, as they grapple with these problems, they would undoubtedly try to put the strata themselves into some sort of order, just as did our Victorian and pre-Victorian predecessors. These pioneering geologists, after all, could recognize a prehistory when they saw one, even as they were still far from divining the workings of the Earth machine that lay at the heart of the story they were pursuing. What kind of strata will be available for study, one hundred million years from now? Many, if not all, of the classic fossil localities that we treasure today will have gone forever, eroded into scattered grains of sedimentary detritus that will ultimately accumulate on sea floors of the future. The Solnhofen Limestone of Germany, that yielded the archaeopteryx, will likely be gone. The Burgess Shale of British Columbia, with its wonderful array of early soft-bodied organisms from the Cambrian Period, half a billion years back, is almost certain to disappear, perched as it is high up a fast-eroding mountainside.

First results of the MOSES experiment: Sea sediment conductivity and thickness determination, Bute Inlet, British Columbia, by magnetometric offshore electrical sounding

Geophysics ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. N. Edwards ◽  
L. K. Law ◽  
P. A. Wolfgram ◽  
D. C. Nobes ◽  
M. N. Bone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Crustal Rock ◽  
Crustal Material ◽  
Electrical Method ◽  
Azimuthal Component ◽  
Type Curves ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
Eigenvector Analysis

A static electrical method has been developed to determine the electrical resistivity of crustal rock beneath the sea. The transmitter is a vertical, long‐wire bipole, extending from the sea surface to the sea floor. A commutated current, generated on the ship, is fed to two large electrodes: one near the sea surface, the other at the end of a long insulated wire. The return path for the current is through the sea and the subjacent crust. The receiver is a self‐contained, remote, microprocessor‐controlled magnetometer which is deployed from the ship to the sea floor and subsequently recovered. The data are measurements of the azimuthal component of the magnetic field as a function of transmitter‐receiver horizontal separation. The acronym MOSES has been coined for the method. The choice of the name MOSES is appropriate because the system geometry is carefully arranged to remove many of the adverse effects of the relatively conductive sea water. In particular, accurate estimates of sea floor resistivity are possible because the data are proportional to the transmitted current from the source into the crustal material. A sea test of the method in a water depth of 640 m was conducted in the “V” shaped Bute Inlet, British Columbia. Transmitted power was 1.25 kW; averaging time at each transmitter location was 1 hour. Transmitter‐receiver separations ranged from 150 to 2 000 m. The resistivity and thickness of a sedimentary section beneath the sea were determined as 1.9⋅Ω m and 560 m, respectively. The interpretation was accomplished both by matching the data converted to apparent resistivity to corresponding model type curves and by generalized linear inverse theory. Errors in the final parameters were estimated at about 9.2 percent using a parameter eigenvector analysis. The interpreted resistivity is in accord with direct measurement on core samples of sediment porosity. The interpreted thickness is less than an upper limit determined by extrapolating local inlet topography beneath the sea.

A Lake in British Columbia containing Old Sea-Water

Nature ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 191 (4790) ◽  
pp. 830-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. WILLIAMS ◽  
W. H. MATHEWS ◽  
G. L. PICKARD
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Sea Water
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