Recent Publications & Presentations
• Wilhelmina R. Clavano, Cornell
University; Emmanuel Boss, professor, oceanography; and
Lee Karp-Boss, research professor, marine sciences, "Inherent
Optical Properties of Non-Spherical Marine-Like Particles – From
Theory to Observation," Oceanography and Marine Biology in
Oceanography and Marine Biology series (2007).
• Alejandro J. Souza, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool,
U.K.; John H. Simpson, School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales
Bangor, Anglesey, U.K.; Neil R. Fisher, professor, School of
Marine Sciences, and M. John Howarth, Proudman Oceanographic
Laboratory, "Effects of Tidal Straining on the Semidiurnal Cycle of
Dissipation in the Rhine Region of Freshwater Influence: Comparison
of Model and Measurements," Journal of Geophysical
Research-Oceans (2008).
• Pushpa L. Gupta and Ramesh C. Gupta, professors,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics; S.H. Ong, University of
Malaya, Malaysia; and H.M. Srivastava, University of Victoria,
Canada, "A Class of Hurwitz-Lerch Zeta Distributions and Their
Applications in Reliability," Applied Mathematics and Computation
(2008); and Ramesh C. Gupta and S.N.U.A. Kirmani, University of
Northern Iowa, "Characterizations Based on the Convex Conditional
Mean Function," Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
(2008).
• Brenda L. Hall, professor, Earth sciences and Climate
Change Institute, "Late-Holocene Advance of the Collins Ice Cap,
King George Island, South Shetland Islands," Holocene
(December 2007).
• Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, professor, German; Jane Smith,
professor, French; and Susan Griffin, lecturer, Spanish,
Boston University, a presentation, "Best of Maine: Developing
Multiple Literacies Through L2 Writing at all Proficiency Levels";
and Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, Susan Griffin and Jennifer Peterson,
lecturer, German, University of Minnesota, "Facilitating Success:
How to Converse Meaningfully at the Elementary Level," annual
Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York,
N.Y. (March 2008).
• Roger LeB. Hooke, research professor, Earth sciences and
Climate Change Institute, and James Fastook, professor,
computer science, "Thermal Conditions at the Bed of the Laurentide
Ice Sheet in Maine During Deglaciation: Implications for Esker
Formation," Journal of Glaciology (2007).
• Minoru Kanaiwa, former postdoctoral researcher; Yong
Chen, professor, fisheries population dynamics; Carl Wilson,
chief lobster biologist, Maine Department of Marine Resources,
"Evaluating a Seasonal, Sex-Specific, Size-Structured Stock
Assessment Model for the American Lobster, Homarus Americanus,"
Marine and Freshwater Research (2008).
• Lenard W. Kaye, professor, social work and director, Center
on Aging, "Aging: Practice Interventions," The Oxford
Encyclopedia of Social Work, (Oxford University Press) (2008);
visiting lecture, "Policy Trends and Implications of the Aging of
Baby Boomers," University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work (April
1); a presentation, "University-Community Partnerships," Annual
Meeting of the Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education, New
York Academy of Medicine (Feb. 28); and a plenary session
presentation, "Providing Assistance to Men Facing Life Course
Challenges," First Annual National Conference on Social Work With
and For Men, University of Alabama (April 28).
• Kathleen March, professor, Spanish, a paper, "Galician
Laughter: A Self-Conscious Country Looks in the Mirror," and a
conference presentation, "At Whom Are We Laughing? Humor in Romance
Language Literatures," Hofstra University, Long Island (April 2008).
• UMaine Public Safety Director Noel March attended the
week-long Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar in
Connecticut, presented in March by the Boston Office of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
• Seth Schwartz, Department of Epidemiology, University of Miami
School of Medicine; Craig A. Mason, professor, education and
applied quantitative methods; and Hilda Pantin and Jose Szapocznik,
Department of Epidemiology, University of Miami School of Medicine,
"Effects of Family Functioning and Identity Confusion on Substance
Use and Sexual Behavior in Hispanic Immigrant Early Adolescents,"
Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research
(2008).
• Sarah LaRochelle, graduate research assistant, James C.
McConnon Jr., Extension business and economics specialist and
professor, economics, Todd Gabe, professor, economics, a
presentation, "Effects of Microbusinesses on U.S. Regional Growth,"
Eastern Economics Association Annual Conference, Boston (March
2008); and LaRochelle, McConnon Jr. and Gabe, "Effects of
Microbusinesses on U.S. Regional Growth," Southern Regional Science
Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. (March 2008).
• Fifteen UMaine students, former students and professors recently
attended, presented papers or assisted in leadership activities at
the 2008 annual meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, held
in Vancouver, British Columbia, in late March. Presenters included:
Daniel Sandweiss, dean and associate provost for graduate
studies and professor, anthropology and Quaternary studies, "Quebrada
Jaguay: An Early Fishing Site in Southern Peru"; David Sanger,
professor emeritus, anthropology and Quaternary studies, Benjamin
Tanner, Eastern Carolina University and former UMaine graduate
student, and Martin G. Yates, research scientist, Earth
sciences, "Lithic Analysis of Chipped Stone Artifacts Recovered from
Quebrada Jaguay, Peru"; Elizabeth Reitz, University of Georgia, and
Heather McInnis, DePaul University and former UMaine graduate
student, "Fishing in Southern Peru in the Terminal Pleistocene/Early
Holocene"; Alice Kelley, instructor, Earth sciences,
Daniel Belknap, professor, Earth sciences, marine sciences and
Quaternary studies, Kirk Maasch, professor, Earth sciences
and Quaternary studies, Kurt Rademaker, Ph.D. student,
Quaternary archaeology, and David Reid, recent graduate,
anthropology, "Paleogeography of Quebrada Jaguay (Site QJ-280)";
Richard Burger, Yale University, Rademaker, David Gibson,
professor, Earth sciences, UMaine-Farmington, Michael D. Glascock,
University of Missouri, and Laure Dussubieux, Field Museum of
Chicago, "Obsidian Procurement at Quebrada Jaguay, Peru: A Study of
Coast-Highland Contacts During the Terminal Pleistocene"; Rademaker,
Gordon Bromley, Ph.D. student, Earth sciences, and Reid, "Quebrada
Jaguay and the Terminal Pleistocene Coast-Highland Connection";
Reid, Sandweiss, Bernardino Ojeda of Peru, and Rademaker,
"Settlement Patterns of the Quebrada Jaguay Region"; and McInnis,
"Regional Variability in Land and Resource Use on the Southern Peru
Coast in the Early and Middle Holocene"; Brian Robinson,
professor, anthropology and Climate Change Institute,
"Archaeological Tradition and Explanation in New England";
Gregory Zaro professor, anthropology and Quaternary studies,
"Integrating Human and Non-Human Processes to Understand Long-Term
Socio-ecological Change Along the Peruvian South Coast"; and
Peter Leach, graduate student in Quaternary studies, chaired a
general session on "Archaeological Research in Maine and New
Brunswick" and presented "Ground-Penetrating Radar Investigation of
the Glidden Point Midden, Newcastle, Maine, USA."
