Geography & Atmospheric Science: Recent submissions
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Characterization of Ice Mélange and its Implications to Terminus Stability at Helheim Glacier, Southeast Greenland
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Ice mélange, a conglomeration of icebergs and sea ice, persists in front of some marine-terminating glaciers. Depending upon local fjord geometry and other environmental conditions, an ice mélange can sometimes compact and ... -
The State and the Sacred: Memory, Theology, and Identity in Kyrgyzstan
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Since becoming independent in 1991, Kyrgyzstan has endured two revolutions, ethnic violence, and economic decay. Against this tumultuous background have been ongoing attempts to construct a viable Kyrgyz nationalism and ... -
Value, Access, and Use of Ethnobotanical Databases in Ethnopharmacology: Methods, Ethical Research, and a Case Study on the Aurukun Ethnobiology Database Project
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Traditional knowledge databases are becoming increasingly instrumental to research objectives in ethnopharmacology. Codified medicinal knowledge of Indigenous peoples is part of what constitutes these databases. Indigenous ... -
SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS IN TRIPOLI, LIBYA: ASSESSING, MONITORING, AND ANALYZING THE INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF URBAN SQUATTER AREAS IN THE PERI-URBAN FRINGE
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)As a developing country, Libya has been dominated by a high rate of urbanization since it became an independent state in 1951, with vast improvements in all aspects of life. This phenomenon brought domination of some cities, ... -
Agritourism in Kansas: Effects of Distance and Economic Outcomes
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)The agritourism industry is an uneasy mixture of agriculture and tourism. Awareness and development of the industry has only become prominent since the 1980s and ‘90s, and is most developed in the European Union. This study ... -
A Cultural Historical Geography of Schools in the Honduran Muskitia
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)In the geographically isolated Honduran Muskitia region, schools have represented a contested space through which both the Honduran government and Miskitu communities have struggled for territorial identity. Schools are ... -
An ACARS climatology of the boundary layer near the coast of southern California
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Typical late spring and early summertime conditions over California’s southern bight consist of a well-mixed coastal boundary layer (CBL) capped by warm and dry air associated with the subsiding branch of the subtropical ... -
Designing a Suite of Models to Explore Critical Zone Function
(Elsevier, 2014-08)Critical Zone; weathering; hydrology; ecology; watersheds -
Boron isotope fractionation in soils at Shale Hills CZO
(Elsevier, 2014-08)Isotope fractionation of many elements can fingerprint the biogeochemical, weathering and erosion processes that govern the evolution of the Critical Zone (CZ). This study investigates boron isotope fractionation in two ... -
Mapping Syrian Refugee Border Crossings: A critical, feminist perspective
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) calls the ongoing Syrian conflict “the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era.” Since 2011, violence has led to nearly 220,000 lives lost, 6.5 million Syrians have ... -
Research Aircraft Determination of D-Value Cross Sections
(American Meteorological Society, 2016-02)Use of an airborne platformto determine the dynamics of atmosphericmotion has been ongoing for over three decades. Much of the effort has been centered on the determination of the horizontal pressure gradient force along ... -
UNDERSTANDING THE PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS OF SOIL STRUCTURE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)This research explores the application of multistripe laser triangulation (MLT) three-dimensional scanning to better understand soil structural constraints and predict soil hydraulic properties. Study sites for this work ... -
HISTORICAL METAMORPHOSIS OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER ON THE KANSAS HIGH PLAINS
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)River metamorphosis is a well-documented global phenomenon, particularly for the historic period. The Arkansas River in western Kansas is an example of a river channel that has undergone a major historical metamorphosis: ... -
Health worker migration from South Africa: causes, consequences and policy responses
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Health worker migration from South Africa: causes, consequences and policy responses
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background This paper arises from a four-country study that sought to better understand the drivers of skilled health worker migration, its consequences, and the strategies countries have employed to mitigate negative ... -
A New Harvest: Using Solar Power to Refine Biodiesel on Native American Reservations
(University of Kansas, 2014-08-31)Sustainability is a matter of survival. The rising cost of energy and the dwindling fossil fuel resources are disproportionally affecting Indigenous communities, making them the proverbial canary in the coalmine. Native ... -
Evaluation of warm-rain microphysical parameterizations in mesoscale simulations of the cloudy marine boundary layer
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Marine boundary layer clouds cool the climate system by influencing the shortwave radiation budget, and on shorter timescales can influence marine and aircraft operations. We evaluate the ability of a regional forecast ... -
A Political Ecology of Oil Palm in the Peruvian Amazon
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Peru’s Amazon region is one of the newest fronts in a growing national and international interest in oil palm production. State legislation and market incentives have accelerated the growth of the industry by promoting ... -
A New Approach for Visualizing the Spatial Distribution of Population Over Time
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)This research explores a new method of visualizing population dynamics using a static map medium. This involves the calculation of vectors that indicate the change in mean population center in a study area over a period ...