New Prionoglarididae from Burmese amber (Psocodea: Trogiomorpha: Prionoglaridetae)

One new genus with three new species of the family Prionoglarididae, Palaeosiamoglaris leinhardi Azar, Huang et Nel gen. et sp. nov.; P. burmica Azar, Huang et Nel sp. nov. and P. inexpectata Azar, Huang et Nel sp. nov. are characterised, illustrated and described from Cretaceous Burmese amber. Palaeosiamoglaris gen. nov. share several characters with the recent genus Siamoglaris Lienhard, 2004, endemic to the Oriental (Sino-Indian) Region. A new tribe Siamoglaridini Azar, Huang et Nel trib. nov. is established to accommodate the group Siamoglaris + Palaeosiamoglaris; the other Prionoglaridinae being attributed to Prionoglaridini. This discovery implicates a palaeobiogeographic repartition for this particular tribe (Siamoglarini) that is still the same currently. Most diagnostic features show a nearly stasis state, supporting the notion that these characters appeared at least by the early Cenomanian. A checklist of all prionoglaridids is given.     

Interspecies care and aging in a gorilla 2.0 world

Two key figures analyzed in Donna Haraway’s monograph, Primate Visions: Gender Race and Nature in The World of Modern Science (1989) warrant further analysis in the emerging cyber politics of environmental conservation. These figures are Koko, a female lowland gorilla born in the San Francisco Zoo and her companion Dr. Francine (Penny) Patterson, a developmental psychologist who taught Koko how to communicate with a modified form of American Sign Language (ASL). Nine years after Haraway’s initial analysis, Koko and Patterson became early examples of conservation-related Web 2.0 engagement with their unprecedented inter-species America Online chat room encounter with 7811 member participants. Today, Koko has a Twitter account (@kokotweets), a Facebook page, a YouTube channel and a website where users watch videos of Koko celebrating birthdays and donate to ‘distant’ conservation projects. One project site is a gorilla reserve in Cameroon and another is a former pineapple plantation turned private nature preserve in Maui, Hawai’i. Inspired by recent analytical work in animal geographies and feminist political ecology, this article explores complex landscapes of caring, aging and conservation in a time of proliferating social media engagement from colonized sites of enduring privilege. The article argues that new media adds layers of violence, disciplinary techniques and co-dependence to the aging bodies, caring practices and landscapes that Koko, Patterson and others inhabit in California and in the proposed physical spaces of a repurposed pineapple field in Maui.     

新世纪第一个五年测井技术的若干进展

新世纪测井技术迅速发展,为油气勘探与开发提供了多种技术手段和丰富的地层信息．本文对新世纪第一个五年测井技术的进展进行评述,重点分析电缆测井、随钻测井、地层测试等井筒探测技术的发展状况,介绍了一些最新的测井仪器．另外,对存储测井、井下永久传感器、取芯随测等刚刚推出的测井新技术也进行了介绍。     

The Research Status and Development Trends of Wind-Sand Engineering in China

The concept and category of wind-sand engineering were discussed in this paper. The development processes of wind-sand engineering in China were reviewed preliminarily. Based on different regional environments, wind-sand engineering research in our country can be divided into two parts: aeolian research of major engineering in desert areas, and aeolian research of major engineering in other areas with special environment. Further than that, aeolian research of major engineering in desert areas can be divided into 4 stages, and aeolian research of major engineering in other areas with special environment mainly focuses on tropical coastal areas, Tibet Plateau and gobi in arid areas. Our research suggests that the development trends of major wind-sand engineering can be summarized as the following aspects. \mathrm{①} Revealing principles of the wind-sand engineering shelter systems; \mathrm{②} Evaluating environmental effects of the major wind-sand engineering; \mathrm{③} Functions of the wind-sand engineering transforming from simple sand prevention to eco-economic types shelter systems; \mathrm{④} A kind of treatment technology with fabricated materials and equipped construction processes needs to be studied urgently, which can make sand prevention with rapid pace, high efficiency and high quality.     

某城市规划新区表层土壤重金属潜在生态风险评价

为评价某城市规划新区表层土壤质量,利用网格法采集表层土样1000件,分析8种重金属(Cd、 Cu、 Zn、 Ni、Cr、Pb、Hg、As)元素的含量,并分别运用污染负荷指数(PLI)和潜在生态危害指数(RI)评价研究区表层土壤中重金属的污染程度和危害等级。利用克里金插值法研究土壤PLI和RI的空间分布特征。结果表明:研究区内表层土壤重金属平均值均大于中国土壤背景值,Cd、Cu、Ni较为富集。研究区Cd和Cu元素为重度污染,Cd的生态危害性较强,87.90%的土样为重金属轻微污染,60.83%的土样为中等生态危害。污染较为严重和风险较强的地区主要位于研究区西南部河流两岸,Cu和Cd可能受到了人类活动的影响而偏高。     

Tidal modeling of the Hudson-Raritan estuary

Tidal flow characteristics in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary are studied with a two-dimensional, depth-averaged finite difference model. Rivers are modeled as one-dimensional channels with variable width and depth and are calculated as part of the two-dimensional calculations at no extra computational cost. An extensive comparison of numerical, tidal calculations with observational data than has previously appeared in the literature is presented. Computed velocity and tidal elevation fields compare well with observations. Comparison with observations at the Sandy Hook-Rockaway Point transect indicates that the barotropic tidal residual current contributes significantly to the overall steady circulation in the harbor. The residual current is mainly induced by the coastal geometry and bottom topography through the nonlinear inertia effects.     

Annual variation in the nocturnal nekton assemblage of a tropical estuary

A nocturnal demersal nekton assemblage was sampled fortnightly for two years at five sites in the Labu estuary using a 3 m beam trawl with a 3·2 cm mesh net. Forty-eight species were caught, totalling 31 458 individuals with the five most abundant species comprising over 95% of the catch. Using multiple regression techniques with Fourier transformations, the mean number of species, S, the mean abundance, N, and mean weight, W, were found to conform to a regular annual cycle with maxima in April and May. Seven of the 11 most abundant species demonstrated regular annual cycles of abundance. S, N and W were greatest in the wider, middle sites and lowest in a shallow, stagnant side branch of the estuary. Catch weights and abundances were significantly correlated with physical data.Salinity and temperature values in the estuary exhibited an annual cycle with maxima occurring in February/March. The annual thermal variation of surface water outside the estuary followed a similar cycle. The salinity at the mouth of the Markham River is lowest during January/February, which corresponds with the rainy season in the Markham River catchment. Significant annual variation existed between years in estuarine bottom salinity and salinity values in Labu Bay.Several species exhibited a greater variation in abundance and mass between years than within years. This supports the hypothesis that in the tropics between-year variation in coastal marine biotic communities is greater than within-year variation.     

Benthic-pelagic coupling and export of organic carbon from a tropical Atlantic continental shelf—Sierra Leone

An approximate carbon budget for the Sierra Leone River Estuary and adjacent inner continental shelf indicates that phytoplankton production is balanced by grazers only in the wet season estuary; on the continental shelf, and in the dry season estuary, phytoplankton production exceeds demand of consumer populations by 70–90%. Regional production is dominated by the dry season estuary where diatom blooms support large population of the phytophagous clupeid fish Ethmalosa fimbriata. It is suggested that as well as what is used in bacterial respiration, not quantified in the study, important amounts of inshore organic carbon production are available for export, or burial, or both, either in inshore mudbanks or at the shelf edge by slumping. This carbon budget for a tropical continental shelf having neither coral-reefs nor coastal upwelling appears to correspond with what is emerging as a generic distinction between shelves and open ocean ecosystems: surplus production on shelves, balance between producers and consumers in the open ocean.     

开拓西部旅游新天地——纪念徐霞客逝世360周年

本文系统概要地分析了徐霞客的学术思想,尤其是对徐霞客的旅游观念及其探险旅游和科学发现等作了论述。故此,文中提出了开拓西部旅游新天地的见解。     

NCDSN台站DIMAS系统中震相标识的再现

NCDSN台站的数字地震资料在PC机上通常使用DIMAS系统进行处理,当用户使用WGSNPLOT.EXE图形分析软件分析处理完一个地震,它不会像SUN工作站上使用的ARS系统那样能对处理过的波形及标识进行存储,以便需要时重新显示于屏幕上,本文在这方面作了一些探索,所开发的软件能使数字地震波形的标识重新显示在波形图上,使得再次分析使用变得简单易行。