scholarly journals Predictions of Tropical Forest Biomass and Biomass Growth Based on Stand Height or Canopy Area Are Improved by Landsat-Scale Phenology across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gwenzi ◽  
Eileen Helmer ◽  
Xiaolin Zhu ◽  
Michael Lefsky ◽  
Humfredo Marcano-Vega
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Forest Biomass ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Biomass Growth ◽  
Canopy Area ◽  
Stand Height ◽  
The U.S

Geology and hydrogeology of the Caribbean islands aquifer system of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Renken ◽  
W. C. Ward ◽  
I.P. Gill ◽  
Fernando Gómez-Gómez ◽  
Jesús Rodríguez-Martínez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Aquifer System ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The U.S

Trial without Jury in Guam, USA

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 811-841
Author(s):  
Katherine Unterman
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
Jury Trials ◽  
Civil Trials ◽  
Independence Movements ◽  
The U.S

This article adds to the growing literature about how the Supreme Court's decisions in the Insular Cases affected the residents of the U.S. territories. It focuses on the territory of Guam, which lacked juries in both criminal and civil trials until 1956–nearly sixty years after the island became a U.S. possession. Residents of Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Virgin Islands had limited jury trials, but Guam was left out due to its strategic military significance as well as racialized ideas about the capabilities of Chamorros, the native inhabitants of the island. This article recovers the struggle by Guamanians to gain jury trials. It argues that independence movements, like those in the Philippines and Puerto Rico, were not the only forms of resistance to American empire. Through petitions, court challenges, and other forms of activism, Guamanians pushed for jury trials as a way to assert local agency and engage in participatory democracy. For them, the Insular Cases were not just abstract rulings about whether the Constitution followed the flag; they deeply affected the administration of justice on the ground for ordinary Guamanians.

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