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Presentations
• Deb Eckart, UMaine Extension educator from Washington County, has received the 2009 Pinnacle Award from Extension’s Senior Companion Program. The award recognizes an individual, group or organization who “reaches above and beyond the call of duty” to further the mission of the Senior Companion Program in Maine. Eckart has been a part of the Senior Companion Program for more than 13 years.
• Janet May, coordinator of transition and adults, and Avery Olmstead, project specialist, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, co-presented with Pam Zeutenhorst, Maine Commission for Community Service, “What Can National Service/Volunteering Do For Me?” the first of a three-part workshop series offered in Bangor, Augusta and Portland, August–September 2009.
• Lucille Zeph, associate professor of education and director, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, “Universal Design and Educational Access in STEM,” 2009 Maine EPSCoR State Conference, Orono, Sept. 21, 2009.
• Alan Kurtz and Janine Collins, research associates, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, “Quality Employment Practices for Supporting Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders,” 2009 Autism National Committee Conference (AUTCOM), Nashua, N.H., Sept. 25, 2009.
• Jennifer Maeverde and Billie Taylor, research associates, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, “Positive Supports for All: Children, Families and Early Care Professionals,” Augusta, Maine, Sept. 25, 2009.
• Janet May, coordinator of transition and adults, and Avery Olmstead, project specialist, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, “Volunteering and National Service: Changing Lives,” Speaking Up for Us (SUFU) Regional Self-Advocacy Conference, Lewiston, Maine, Sept. 29, 2009.
• Kathy Son, research associate, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, co-presented with Deborah Gilmer, Maine Support Network, and Gail Fanjoy, Katahdin Friends Inc., “Work: It’s Everyone’s Business,” Maine Parent Federation Celebrating the Family Conference, South Portland, Maine, Oct. 2, 2009.
• Janet May, coordinator of transition and adults, and Bonnie Robinson and B.J. Kitchin, research associates, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, “Universal Design: Expanding Your Volunteer Pool,” Blaine House Conference on Volunteerism, Orono, Oct. 13, 2009.
• Anthony Halog of the School of Forest Resources was selected one of 10 Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) Fellows in the program, International Network of Research on CHANS (CHANS-Net, http://www.chans-net.org) ,supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation to assist outstanding junior scholars. Modeling and understanding the coupled human and natural systems is considered to be a critical transdisciplinary approach to address complex global environmental problems. He will attend a series of CHANS events being organized in conjunction with the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/index.htm) in Washington, D.C., April 14–18, 2010. The new CHANS Fellows will be formally recognized in a special gathering together with leaders of CHANS research. An award certificate will be presented to him during the CHANS Event.
Publications
• Kevin Smith, Walter Shortle, Jon Connolly, Rakesh Minocha and Jody Jellison, “Calcium fertilization increases the concentration of calcium in sapwood and calcium oxalate in foliage of red spruce,” Environmental and Experimental Botany, 67 (1): 277-283, November 2009.
• Mario Teisl, Sara Fein and Alan Levy, “Information effects on consumer attitudes toward three food technologies: Organic production, biotechnology, and irradiation,” Food Quality and Preference, 20 (8): 586-596 Sp. Iss. SI, December 2009.
• Detelin Elenkov and Ivan Manev, “Senior expatriate leadership’s effects on innovation and the role of cultural intelligence,” Journal of World Business, 44 (4): 357-369, October 2009.
• Amy Blackstone, Christopher Uggen and Heather McLaughlin, “Legal Consciousness and Responses to Sexual Harassment,” Law & Society Review, 43 (3): 631-668, September 2009.
• Teresa Swartz, Amy Blackstone, Christopher Uggen and Heather McLaughlin, “Welfare and Citizenship: The Effects of Government Assistance on Young Adults’ Civic Participation,” Sociological Quarterly, 50 (4): 633-665, Fall 2009.
• Greg Buis, John Blair, Deron Burkepile, Catherine Burns, Annikki Chamberlain, Phillip Chapman, Scott Collins, Richard Fynn, Navashni Govender, Kevin Kirkman, Melinda Smith and Alan Knapp, “Controls of Above Ground Net Primary Production in Mesic Savanna Grasslands: An Inter-Hemispheric Comparison,” Ecosystems, 12 (6): 982-995, September 2009.
• James Sucec, “An Integral Solution for Heat Transfer in Accelerating Turbulent Boundary Layers,” Journal of Heat Transfer – Transactions of the ASME, 131 (11): Art. No. 111702, November 2009.
• Guimei Liu and Fei Chai, “Seasonal and interannual variation of physical and biological processes during 1994-2001 in the Sea of Japan/East Sea: A three-dimensional physical-biogeochemical modeling study,” Journal of Marine Systems, 78 (2): 265-277 Sp. Iss. SI September 2009.
• Robert Bidigare, Fei Chai, Michael Landry, Roger Lukas, Cecelia Hannides, Stephanie Christensen, David Karl, Lei Shi and Yi Chao, “Subtropical ocean ecosystem structure changes forced by North Pacific climate variations,” Journal of Plankton Research, 31 (10): 1131-39, October 2009.
• Brenda Hall, “Holocene glacial history of Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic islands,” Quaternary Science Reviews, 28 (21-22): 2213-30 Sp. Iss. SI October 2009.
• Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Wallace Broecker, George Denton, Xinggong Kong, Yongjin Wang, Rong Zhang and Xianfeng Wang, “Ice Age Terminations,” Science, 326 (5950): 248-252, Oct. 9, 2009.
• Qianggong Zhang, Shichang, Kang, Susan Kaspari, Chaoliu Li, Dahe Qin, Paul Mayewski and Shugui Hou, ” Rare earth elements in an ice core from Mt. Everest: Seasonal variations and potential sources,” Atmospheric Research, 94 (2): 300-312, October 2009.
• Karen Merritt and Aria Amirbahman, “Mercury methylation dynamics in estuarine and coastal marine environments – A critical review,” Earth-Science Reviews, 96 (1-2): 54-66, September 2009.
• Aaron Weiskittel, John Kershaw, Philip Hofmeyer and Robert Seymour, “Species differences in total and vertical distribution of branch- and tree-level leaf area for the five primary conifer species in Maine, USA,” Forest Ecology and Management, 258 (7): 1695-1703, Sept. 15, 2009.
• Jason Johnston and Rebecca Holberton, “Forest management and temporal effects on food abundance for a ground-foraging bird (Catharus guttatus),” Forest Ecology and Management, 258 (7): 1516-27, Sept. 15, 2009.
• T.M. Sullivan, G.C. Micke, N. Perkins, G.B. Martin, C.R. Wallace, K.L. Gatford, J.A. Owens and V.E.A. Perry, “Dietary protein during gestation affects maternal insulin-like growth factor, insulin-like growth factor binding protein, leptin concentrations, and fetal growth in heifers,” Journal of Animal Science, 87 (10): 3304-16, October 2009.
• Brian Robinson, George Jacobson, Martin Yates, Arthur Spiess and Ellen Cowie, “Atlantic salmon, archaeology and climate change in New England,” Journal of Archaeological Science, 36 (10): 2184-91, October 2009.
• M.I. Bursik, S.E. Kobs, A. Burns, O.A. Braitseva, L.I. Bazanova, I.V. Melekestsev, A. Kurbatov and D.C. Pieri, “Volcanic plumes and wind: Jetstream interaction examples and implications for air traffic,” Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 186 (1-2): 60-67 Sp. Iss. SI Sept. 30, 2009.
• Timothy Cooney and Kevin Simon, “Influence of Dissolved Organic Matter and Invertebrates on the Function of Microbial Films in Groundwater,” Microbial Ecology, 58 (3): 599-610, October 2009.
• Eleanor Sayre and Michael Wittmann, “Plasticity of intermediate mechanics students’ coordinate system choice,” Physical Review Special Topics – Physics Education Research, 4 (2): Art. No. 020105, July-December 2008.
• Yohei Kurata and Max Egenhofer, “The Arrow-Semantics Interpreter,” Spatial Cognition and Computation, 8 (4): 306-332, 2008.
• Elizabeth Allan, associate professor, higher education, her second book, Re-constructing policy in higher education: Feminist poststructural perspectives, co-edited with Susan Iverson, Kent State University, and Rebecca Ropers-Huilman, University of Minnesota, Routledge, October 2009.
• Bonnie Blagojevic and Karen Thomes, “Young Photographers: Can 4-year-olds use a digital camera as a tool for learning?” Spotlight on Teaching Preschoolers, Derry Koralek, ed. National Association for the Education of Young Children, 14-20, 2009.
• Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen Gilson, professors of interdisciplinary disability studies and social work; principal investigators for the Tobacco Access Portal project, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, featured in case study, “University of Maine Tobacco Access Portal: Dismantling Literacy Barriers to Tobacco Information,” Tobacco Control in Rural America, American Legacy Foundation, 33-36, July 2009.
• Courtney Salm, Jasmine Saros, Sherilyn Fritz, Christopher Osburn and David Reineke, “Phytoplankton productivity across prairie saline lakes of the Great Plains (USA): a step toward deciphering patterns through lake classification models,” Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 66 (9): 1435-48, September 2009.
• Erin Blackman and Peter van Walsum, “Production of Renewable Bioproducts and Reduction of Phosphate Pollution Through the Lime Pretreatment and Acidogenic Digestion of Dairy Manure,” Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, 28 (1): 121-133, April 2009.
• Kate Beard, Heather Deese and Neal Pettigrew, “A framework for visualization and exploration of events,” Information Visualization, 7 (2): 133-151, Summer 2008.
• Intermedia MFA student John Bell, “Opening the Source of Art, an essay in the online journal Open Source Business Resource, October, www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/980/943.
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