scholarly journals Historic photographs of glaciers and glacial landforms from the R. S. Tarr collection at Cornell University

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Elliott ◽  
Matthew E. Pritchard
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Landscape Change ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The Public ◽  
Three Dimensional Models ◽  
Glacial Landforms ◽  
First Time

Abstract. Historic photographs are useful for documenting glacier, environmental, and landscape change and we have digitized a collection of about 1949 images collected during an 1896 expedition to Greenland and trips to Alaska in 1905, 1906, 1909, and 1911, led by Ralph Stockman Tarr and his students at Cornell University. These images are openly available in the public domain through Cornell University Library (http://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/tarr). The primary research targets of these expeditions were glaciers (there are about 990 photographs of at least 58 named glaciers) but there are also photographs of people, villages, geologic features, and formerly glaciated regions, including glacial features near Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Some of the glaciers featured in the photographs have retreated significantly in the last century or even completely vanished. For many glaciers, multiple views are available, potentially allowing the use of photogrammetric techniques to generate three-dimensional models of the ice extent. While some of these photographs have been used in publications in the early 20th century, most of the images are only now widely available for the first time. The digitized collection also includes about 300 lantern slides made from the expedition photographs and other related images and used in classes and public presentations about glaciers and glaciations by several Cornell faculty over the decades. The images are of scientific interest for understanding glacier and ecological change, of public policy interest for documenting climate change, of historic and anthropological interest as local people, settlements, and gold-rush era paraphernalia are featured in the images, and of artistic and technological interest as the photographic techniques used were cutting-edge for their time.

scholarly journals Historic photographs of glaciers and glacial landforms from the Ralph Stockman Tarr collection at Cornell University

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 771-787
Author(s):  
Julie Elliott ◽  
Matthew E. Pritchard
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Volume Estimation ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Library ◽  
Glacial Landforms ◽  
First Time

Abstract. Historic photographs are useful for documenting glacier, environmental, and landscape change, and we have digitized a collection of about 1949 images collected during an 1896 expedition to Greenland and trips to Alaska in 1905, 1906, 1909, and 1911, led by Ralph Stockman Tarr and his students at Cornell University. These images are openly available in the public domain through Cornell University Library (http://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/tarr, last access: 15 March 2020; Tarr and Cornell University Library, 2014, https://doi.org/10.7298/X4M61H5R). The primary research targets of these expeditions were glaciers (there are about 990 photographs of at least 58 named glaciers), but there are also photographs of people, villages, and geomorphological features, including glacial features in the formally glaciated regions of New York state. Some of the glaciers featured in the photographs have retreated significantly in the last century or even completely vanished. The images document terminus positions and ice elevations for many of the glaciers and some glaciers have photographs from multiple viewpoints that may be suitable for ice volume estimation through photogrammetric methods. While some of these photographs have been used in publications in the early 20th century, most of the images are only now widely available for the first time. The digitized collection also includes about 300 lantern slides made from the expedition photographs and other related images and used in classes and public presentations for decades. The archive is searchable by a variety of terms including title, landform type, glacier name, location, and date. The images are of scientific interest for understanding glacier and ecological change; of public policy interest for documenting climate change; of historic and anthropological interest as local people, settlements, and gold-rush era paraphernalia are featured in the images; and of technological interest as the photographic techniques used were cutting edge for their time.

scholarly journals Integrating Digital Datasets into Public Engagement through ArcGIS StoryMaps

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-360
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Howland ◽  
Brady Liss ◽  
Thomas E. Levy ◽  
Mohammad Najjar
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
First Century ◽  
Copper Production ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Archaeological Methods ◽  
Three Dimensional Models

AbstractArchaeologists have a responsibility to use their research to engage people and provide opportunities for the public to interact with cultural heritage and interpret it on their own terms. This can be done through hypermedia and deep mapping as approaches to public archaeology. In twenty-first-century archaeology, scholars can rely on vastly improved technologies to aid them in these efforts toward public engagement, including digital photography, geographic information systems, and three-dimensional models. These technologies, even when collected for analysis or documentation, can be valuable tools for educating and involving the public with archaeological methods and how these methods help archaeologists learn about the past. Ultimately, academic storytelling can benefit from making archaeological results and methods accessible and engaging for stakeholders and the general public. ArcGIS StoryMaps is an effective tool for integrating digital datasets into an accessible framework that is suitable for interactive public engagement. This article describes the benefits of using ArcGIS StoryMaps for hypermedia and deep mapping–based public engagement using the story of copper production in Iron Age Faynan, Jordan, as a case study.

INHERITING THE WIND: A PERSONAL VIEW OF THE CURRENT CRISIS IN THEATRE HIGHER EDUCATION IN NEW YORK

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Carlson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Central Position ◽  
State University ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University

It is no secret, unhappily, that the study of theatre in the colleges and universities of this country is a discipline under siege, but the severity of the problems received strong confirmation in New York State this fall when two of the most distinguished and long-established (over a century in both cases) programs in the country were, with little warning, faced with draconian cuts or outright extinction. The fact that one, the state University of Albany, was the flagship school of the public system, and the other, Cornell University, was one of the state's most distinguished private institutions, suggests the scope and impact of these actions. At Albany, four other programs are being terminated along with theatre—Classics, Russian, Spanish, and French—while at Cornell the extent of the severe cuts imposed on the theatre program—almost a quarter of the total budget of the department (which also shelters dance and film)—are being suffered by no other program in the university. The prominence of these two schools in a state that has long claimed a central position in American theatre makes them particularly significant symbolically of a discipline in crisis, and this has impelled me to engage in serious and sometimes painful reflections on that discipline, the basis of the present essay.

Melancholia's Meerkat: A Poetic Leap

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 1719-1728
Author(s):  
Jody Greene
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Humanitarian Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Actual Change ◽  
First Time ◽  
President Bush ◽  
Math Problems ◽  
Rational Side

I think we learn to be worldly from grappling with, rather than generalizing from, the ordinary.—Donna HarawayThe question that preoccupies me in the light of recent global violence is, Who counts as human? Whose lives count as lives? And, finally, What makes for a grievable life?—Judith ButlerIn a New York Times editorial piece published in May 2007 about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Nicholas Kristof lamented, not for the first time, that people “aren't moved by genocide.” “The human conscience just isn't pricked by mass suffering,” Kristof continues, and yet, as both anecdotal evidence and scientific research have repeatedly shown, “an individual child (or puppy) in distress causes our hearts to flutter.” He recounts a series of psychological and sociological experiments that have borne out what he calls “the limits of rationality,” including the fact that people who hear narratives or see images that “prime the emotions” by focusing on the plight of an individual suffering creature—say, a baby or “a soulful dog in peril”—respond more vigorously to that suffering than those who have had their “rational side” primed by performing math problems. Perhaps, Kristof proposes in disgust, what the Darfur situation needs in order to achieve the public recognition it deserves—let alone to effect actual change—is not statistics of mass genocide but a very photogenic, if appropriately sad-eyed, poster child, “a suffering puppy with big eyes and floppy ears.” “If President Bush and the global public alike are unmoved by the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of fellow humans,” he despairingly concludes, “maybe our last, best hope is that we can be galvanized by a puppy in distress.”

Transformations (1979–1984)

Wendy Carlos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 123-150
Author(s):  
Amanda Sewell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
Professional Relationship ◽  
Symphony Orchestras ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Digital Synthesis ◽  
First Time

This chapter addresses the first few years after Carlos returned to the public eye, which included high-profile projects such as the soundtracks to the films The Shining and TRON. She also gave interviews to the New York Times and Keyboard magazine, the latter of which also installed her on its advisory board. This was a period of several changes in Carlos’s life. She and Rachel Elkind ended their personal and professional relationship, she began what would be a lifelong relationship with Annemarie Franklin, she began using digital synthesis instead of analog, and she worked with symphony orchestras for the first time.

Vertical Transport Business

1960 ◽  
Vol 64 (592) ◽  
pp. 199-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Cummings
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Vertical Transport ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Time Offset ◽  
First Time

SummaryTurbine-powered helicopters mark the most important step taken thus far in the transition from development to business for that segment of the transportation industry which utilises the capability for vertical flight.Completing more than a year ot detailed study and evaluation, New York Airways recently announced its commitment to purchase ten multi-turbine Vertol 107 aircraft designed to cruise in excess of 150 miles per hour with 25 passengers. They will be introduced into service in the spring of 1961. With these machines commercial revenues could, for the first time, offset all operating charges and produce a fair return on the capital investment—without government financial support. The availability of the Fairey Rotodyne in 1964 will place New York Airways in a position to offer the public a substantially enlarged and even more useful service operating on a business basis.

scholarly journals Active Cloaking and Illusion of Electric Potentials in Electrostatics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Helfrich-Schkabarenko ◽  
Alik Ismail-Zadeh ◽  
Aron Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Electric Potential ◽  
Superposition Principle ◽  
Current Source ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Numerical Results ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Electric Potentials ◽  
Three Dimensional Models ◽  
First Time ◽  
A Current

Abstract Cloaking and illusion has been demonstrated theoretically and experimentally in several research fields. Here we present for the first time an active exterior cloaking device in electrostatics operating in a two-horizontally-layered electroconductive domain, and use the superposition principle to cloak electric potentials. The device uses an additional current source pattern introduced on the interface between two layers to cancel the total electric potential to be measured. Also, we present an active exterior illusion device allowing for detection of a signal pattern corresponding to any arbitrarily chosen current source instead of the existing current source. The performance of the cloaking/illusion devices is demonstrated by three-dimensional models and numerical experiments using synthetic measurements of the electric potential. Sensitivities of numerical results to a noise in measured data and to a size of cloaking devices are analysed. The numerical results show quite reasonable cloaking/illusion performance, which means that a current source can be hidden electrostatically. The developed active cloaking/illusion methodology can be used in subsurface geo-exploration studies, electrical engineering, live sciences, and elsewhere.

Writing, Elementary School

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Umland
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Ice Cream ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Before And After ◽  
First Time

I was born on October 28, 1942, in Washington, B.C., where we were living because my father was in the service. I don’t know exactly what he was doing there. We lived in Washington only six months. We moved a lot, New York, Virginia, Southern California, Nebraska—six months here, six months there. I remember Father studied at Cornell to become an entomologist, so Mother did secretarial work there. Dad was the first in his family to go to college. His father died when he was a teenager. A lot of pride revolved around his Ph.D. from Cornell University both before and after he got it. He finished school when I was in the first grade. I felt his pride in me when I gained academic and leadership recognition in college. I was not expected to do well in college. It was pleasing to surprise everyone, but most of all, my father. By the time I was in eighth grade I had been in eight schools. I remember being new all the time. I made a very poor adjustment at first up in New York. But for three years we lived in a tiny town in Virginia called Holland, where I went to second, third, and fourth grade. I was very shy. I remember the teachers. On the first day there a girl brought me an ice cream bar, and across the classroom sat an Indian boy. We eyed each other a lot. I felt an identity with him because I had been mistaken for an Indian myself. I even made a close friend, Elizabeth Ann Felton—I don’t remember whether she spelled Ann with or without an “e”—I think she became a minister. I remember going to her farm and loving her family. They seemed so stable. In Virginia I wrote a sentimental story. It was the first time a teacher paid attention to me. She told me she wanted me to read it at the PTA meeting. I was very shy, but I did it. As I began reading the paper aloud I got caught up in it and read it well.

Morphology of the cephalothorax integument of Bryocamptus pygmaeus (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Canthocamptidae), based on a new research method

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-330
Author(s):  
A.A. Novikov ◽  
E.B. Fefilova
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Komi Republic ◽  
Southeastern Part ◽  
The North ◽  
Udmurt Republic ◽  
The Republic ◽  
A New Technique ◽  
Three Dimensional Models ◽  
New Research ◽  
First Time

The number and location of sensilla and pores of the cephalothorax integument of the species Bryocamptus pygmaeus (G.O. Sars, 1863) (Copepoda, Canthocamptidae) were studied for the first time on the material from several European regions: the southeastern part of the Bolshezemelskaya tundra (Ne­nets Autonomous District), the north of the Komi Republic, the Republic of Karelia, and the central part of European Russia (Udmurt Republic). In the samples examined, two groups of populations differing in the characters of cephalothorax integument were recognised. These differences were found to correlate with the variability of the endopod of fourth pair of female legs, which bears four setae in specimens of the eastern form, while a specimen examined from Karelia has five setae. Pore maps are composed for both groups of morphotypes. A statistical analysis was carried out based on a new technique using three-dimensional models of the cephalothorax. As a result of this analysis, a high similarity between individuals of the eastern form and differences of the latter from the Karelian specimen were revealed.

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