UK Personal Watercraft Management: A user perspective

The expansion of Personal Watercraft (PWC) usage around the UK presents unique challenges to organisations responsible for managing coastal areas. This study examines the role of PWC clubs in effecting better management of the sport. Questionnaires and personal interviews with both PWC operators and local authorities were used to gain information on the current UK situation. Within the sample group 73% of participants were also PWC club members. The study suggests changing patterns of PWC usage in the UK, based on the increasing influence of PWC clubs. Coastal managers should be aware of the potential of clubs in conflict resolution.     

Conductive flux in the chromosphere derived from line linear polarization observation

Linear polarization in two chromospheric lines (Hα and SI 1437 A) was observed in the gradual phase of solar flares. The polarized electric vector is directed towards disk center. This polarization could be due to collisional excitation of hydrogen and SI by energetic electrons beamed in the vertical direction. Direct excitation by a highly energetic beam of electrons of order 10–100 keV. is doubtful. The heat flux in the region connecting the transition zone to the high chromosphere during the gradual phase of a flare could lead to an anisotropic excitation. Selecting a function which represents the velocity distribution of electrons carrying heat flux, the relationship between conductive heat flux and linear line polarization has been computed. The application of the relationship between linear polarization and heat flux to the observed degree of polarization leads to the determination of the conductive heat flux in the high chromosphere. This conductive flux is of the order of magnitude of the total radiation loss in the chromosphere and below, which is also of the order of magnitude of the conductive flux in the transition zone.     

P-T-t paths of collisional orogens

Pressure-temperature-time (P-T-t) paths summarize the changes in pressure and temperature imposed on a metamorphic rock during orogenesis. They provide a convenient framework for the interpretation of complex metamorphic histories and also offer insight into the thermal and tectonic factors controlling metamorphism in collisional orogens. P-T-t data are acquired through a combination of textural observations, thermobarometry, and thermochronometry, and assembled into a P-T-t path using geological constraints. One-dimensional P-T-t models, assuming instantaneous deformation and thermal relaxation by conduction, are flexible and useful for testing tectonic models, particularly where geochronological constraints are available. Two-dimensional models allow more sophisticated deformation geometries and allow the effects of advection to be incorporated. Analysis of collisional orogens in terms of critical wedge theory can yield P-T-t paths that reflect coupling between thickening, uplift, exhumation, erosion, and convergence. Where rates of erosion approach rates of tectonic uplift, as is currently happening in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, high-grade metamorphic rocks can be exhumed rapidly from considerable depth. Alternatively, rapid exhumation may reflect gravity-driven extension in an over-steepened or thermally weakened orogen.

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Zusammenfassung Druck-Temperatur-Zeit (P-T-t) Pfade fassen die Änderungen in Druck und Temperatur zusammen, die den metamorphen Gesteinen während der Orogenese aufgeprägt wurden. Sie liefern einen passenden Rahmen für die thermischen und tektonischen Faktoren die die Metamorphose in Kollisionsorogenen steuern. P-T-t Daten werden erworben durch eine Kombination von textureilen Beobachtungen, Thermobarometrie, Thermochronologie, und werden in einem P-T-t Pfad unter Berücksichtigung von geologischen Grenzen zusammengefaßt. 1-dimensionale P-T-t Modelle die gleichzeitige Deformation voraussetzen sind flexibel und hilfreich um tektonische Modelle zu testen, insbesondere dort, wo geochronologische Grenzen zur Verfügung stehen. 2-dimensionale Modelle gestatten raffiniertere Deformationsgeometrien, und erlauben es die Advektionsprozesse zu integrieren. Analysen von Kollisionsorogenen im Sinne der kritischen Grenzwinkeltheorie kann P-T-t Pfade liefern, die eine Kopplung zwischen Verdickung, Heraushebung, Freilegung, Erosion und Konvergenz wiederspiegeln. Wo sich die Erosionsraten den Heraushebungsraten annähern, wie es zur Zeit in den südlichen Alpen Neuseelands passiert, können hochgradig metamorphe Gesteine aus erheblichen Tiefen freigelegt werden. Andererseits kann schnelle Freilegung auch gravitationsgesteuerte Ausdehnung in einem übersteilten oder thermisch instabilen Orogen widerspiegeln.

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Résumé Les trajets pression-température-temps (P-T-t) représentent les changements de pression et de température subis par les roches métamorphiques au cours d'une orogenèse. Ils fournissent un cadre adéquat à l'interprétation d'histoires métamorphiques complexes en même temps qu'ils éclairent les facteurs thermiques et tectoniques qui régissent le métamorphisme dans les orogènes de collision. Les données (P, T, t), obtenues par combinaison des observations structurales, de la thermo-barométrie et de la thermochronométrie, sont assemblées dans un trajet P-T-t qui tient compte des contraintes géologiques. Des modèles P-T-t, à une dimension, qui supposent une déformation instantanée et une relaxation thermique par conduction, présentent une certaine souplesse et sont utiles lorsqu'il s'agit de tester des modèles tectoniques, en particulier si on dispose de contraintes géochronologiques. Les modèles à 2 dimensions autorisent des geometries déformatives plus sophistiquées et permettent d'incorporer les effets d'advection. L'analyse d'orogènes de collision avec mise en æuvre de la théorie du coin critique, peut fournir des trajets P-T-t qui reflètent les connexions existant entre l'épaississement crustal, le soulèvement, l'exhumation, l'érosion et la convergence. Lorsque la vitesse d'érosion avoisine celle du soulèvement tectonique, comme c'est couramment le cas dans les Alpes du Sud de Nouvelle Zélande, des roches de degré métamorphique élevé peuvent être exhumées rapidement à partir de profondeurs considérables. Alternativement, une exhumation rapide peut traduire une extension à contrôle gravifique dans un orogène très redressé ou thermiquement instable.

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Low latitude density variations in the earth's neutral atmosphere between 200 and 400km,from August 1969 to May 1970

The daily averages of the dawn and dusk observed exospheric temperatures (deduced from solar EUV attenuation measurements between 250 and 400 km) are presented for 280 days from day 227, 1969. They are compared with the empirical model of the US Standard Atmosphere Supplements 1966 and the Jacchia 35 H model. Although consistently lower temperatures than either model were found, a better fit to the latter rather than the former was observed. The exospheric response to solar and geomagnetic activity is investigated, and refinements to the models are suggested.     

ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL STATUS AS DETERMINANTS OF NEIGHBORHOOD IDENTITY*

Is social status or participation in neighborhood affairs a more important determinant of one's sense of identity with the local neighborhood? Log-linear analysis of survey responses from 364 residents of a Minneapolis neighborhood explores the relationship of status and activism to four measures of neighborhood identity: cognition, evaluation, attachment and activities. The results indicate that while identity is jointly dependent on both variables, activism exerts a stronger influence. High-status activists stand apart from all other residents in showing the greatest awareness of, and strongest sense of attachment to, their neighborhood.     

A year in the physical oceanography of the Chukchi Sea: Moored measurements from autumn 1990–1991

Year-long time-series of temperature, salinity and velocity from 12 locations throughout the Chukchi Sea from September 1990 to October 1991 document physical transformations and significant seasonal changes in the throughflow from the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean for one year. In most of the Chukchi, the flow field responds rapidly to the local wind, with high spatial coherence over the basin scale—effectively the ocean takes on the lengthscales of the wind forcing. Although weekly transport variability is very large (ca. -2 to ), the mean flow is northwards, opposed by the mean wind (which is southward), but presumably forced by a sea-level slope between the Pacific and the Arctic, which these data suggest may have significant variability on long (order a year) timescales. The high flow variability yields a significant range of residence times for waters in the Chukchi (i.e. one to six months for half the transit) with the larger values applicable in winter.Temperature and salinity (TS) records show a strong annual cycle of freezing, salinization, freshening and warming, with sizable interannual variability. The largest seasonal variability is seen in the east, where warm, fresh waters escape from the buoyant, coastally trapped Alaskan Coastal Current into the interior Chukchi. In the west, the seasonally present Siberian Coastal Current provides a source of cold, fresh waters and a flow field less linked to the local wind. Cold, dense polynya waters are observed near Cape Lisburne and occasional upwelling events bring lower Arctic Ocean halocline waters to the head of Barrow Canyon. For about half the year, at least at depth, the entire Chukchi is condensed into a small region of TS-space at the freezing temperature, suggesting ventilation occurs to near-bottom, driven by cooling and brine rejection in autumn/winter and by storm-mixing all year.In 1990–1991, the ca. 0.8 Sv annual mean inflow through Bering Strait exits the Chukchi in four outflows—via Long Strait, Herald Valley, the Central Channel, and Barrow Canyon—each outflow being comparable (order 0.1–0.3 Sv) and showing significant changes in volume and water properties (and hence equilibrium depth in the Arctic Ocean) throughout the year. The clearest seasonal cycle in properties and flow is in Herald Valley, where the outflow is only weakly related to the local wind. In this one year, the outflows ventilate above and below (but not in) the Arctic halocline mode of 33.1 psu. A volumetric comparison with Bering Strait indicates significant cooling during transit through the Chukchi, but remarkably little change in salinity, at least in the denser waters. This suggests that, with the exception of (in this year small) polynya events, the salinity cycle in the Chukchi can be considered as being set by the input through Bering Strait and thus, since density is dominated by salinity at these temperatures, Bering Strait salinities are a reasonable predictor of ventilation of the Arctic Ocean.     

Community volunteer assessment of recreational water quality in the Hutt River,Wellington

ABSTRACT

Water is an important component of many recreational opportunities and New Zealand invests significant resources in recreational water quality (RWQ) monitoring to assess risks to public health. However, monitoring primarily focuses on microbiological hazards and RWQ is considerably broader than this. The goal of this study was to take a comprehensive approach to evaluating RWQ while exploring the potential for greater public involvement in monitoring. A popular river swimming site was co-monitored weekly by volunteers and a council field officer. The attributes monitored–water temperature, visual clarity, benthic cyanobacteria and filamentous periphyton cover, E. coli and rubbish–were identified from a volunteer workshop. There was good concordance between volunteer and council data suggesting that volunteer measurements can be considered reliable. This highlights the potential for volunteers, with professional support, including training and quality assurance, to extend council RWQ surveillance to additional monitoring sites while improving public engagement on water management.     

Social and Geographic Contexts of Water Concerns in Utah

Public concerns about water issues are key considerations in responding to changing hydrologic conditions. Literature is mixed on the social profiles associated with resource-related risks. Using data from a household survey, we compare concerns about water shortage, climate change impacts on water supply, poor water quality, and flooding. We assess the combined influence of social and locational factors on each concern and variations across three valleys in northern Utah. Generalized linear mixed modeling is used, given the ordinal nature of most variables. Water shortage was the greatest concern, and female, older, nonwhite, and recreationally active respondents were generally more concerned about water issues than their counterparts. Education, income, and religious identity presented more complicated relationships with water concerns, with significant interaction effects with valley geography. This study has implications for improving public involvement in risk management and engendering support for future water policy and planning strategies to address these risks.     

Migration and Development? The Gendered Costs of Migration on Mexico's Rural “Left Behind”

Governments, civil society, and policymakers assert the potential of international migration to foster development and alleviate poverty. Often such claims are rooted in macroscale geopolitical analyses of migration and development, which mask the localized, uneven, and embodied ways family members “left behind” bear the costs and subsidize the U.S./Mexico (inter)national integration project. Informed by feminist geopolitics, this article demonstrates how the left behind disproportionately bear the hidden costs of neoliberal restructuring and migration. We draw upon Mexican Migration Project (MMP) ethnosurvey data to frame the narratives of migrant family members left behind. Narratives were constructed through in‐depth interviews conducted in rural Veracruz. We conclude that in the absence of geographically specific examinations of the hidden costs associated with neoliberal development and migration it is possible that “migration for development” programs and policies may exacerbate inequities that will perpetuate migration and further weaken Mexican origin communities.     

Giant Maps as Pedagogical Tools for Teaching Geography and Mathematics

Giant maps offer a potentially useful pedagogical tool for teaching mathematics and map skills. In this pilot study, giant maps were distributed to elementary schools in Colorado and New Hampshire and teachers were provided with guided activities designed to integrate mathematics and geography skills. In an assessment of student skills, it was found that there were improvements in map-use skills and that students improved in some skills more than others. Additionally, there were differences in gender; girls improved more in their scores for some skills and less than boys in others. The teaching benefits of giant maps merit additional investigation.