The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization that operates the Ringling Museum of Art, Ca d’Zan, the Circus Museum, and the Historic Asolo Theater. My internship position was within the Registration office, which oversees the objects, both permanent and loaned, housed in these buildings. Throughout the internship it was my responsibility to assist in overseeing the management of the wide collection. This included monitoring the environment, preparing for exhibits, and helping with rights and reproductions. My primary project was working on photographing, cataloging, and storing the museum\u27s Cypriote collection, which had been tucked away in the depths of storage for decades. The following report includes an overview of the organization, a description of my internship, a SWOT analysis, a best practices overview, and recommendations for the museum

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization that operates the Ringling Museum of Art, Ca d’Zan, the Circus Museum, and the Historic Asolo Theater. My internship position was within the Registration office, which oversees the objects, both permanent and loaned, housed in these buildings. Throughout the internship it was my responsibility to assist in overseeing the management of the wide collection. This included monitoring the environment, preparing for exhibits, and helping with rights and reproductions. My primary project was working on photographing, cataloging, and storing the museum\u27s Cypriote collection, which had been tucked away in the depths of storage for decades. The following report includes an overview of the organization, a description of my internship, a SWOT analysis, a best practices overview, and recommendations for the museum

Spring bloom dynamics and zooplankton biomass response on the US Northeast Continental Shelf

This paper is not subject to U.S. copyright. The definitive version was published in Continental Shelf Research 102 (2015): 47-61, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2015.04.005.The spring phytoplankton bloom on the US Northeast Continental Shelf is a feature of the ecosystem production cycle that varies annually in timing, spatial extent, and magnitude. To quantify this variability, we analyzed remotely-sensed ocean color data at two spatial scales, one based on ecologically defined sub-units of the ecosystem (production units) and the other on a regular grid (0.5°). Five units were defined: Gulf of Maine East and West, Georges Bank, and Middle Atlantic Bight North and South. The units averaged 47×103 km2 in size. The initiation and termination of the spring bloom were determined using change-point analysis with constraints on what was identified as a bloom based on climatological bloom patterns. A discrete spring bloom was detected in most years over much of the western Gulf of Maine production unit. However, bloom frequency declined in the eastern Gulf of Maine and transitioned to frequencies as low as 50% along the southern flank of the Georges Bank production unit. Detectable spring blooms were episodic in the Middle Atlantic Bight production units. In the western Gulf of Maine, bloom duration was inversely related to bloom start day; thus, early blooms tended to be longer lasting and larger magnitude blooms. We view this as a phenological mismatch between bloom timing and the “top-down” grazing pressure that terminates a bloom. Estimates of secondary production were available from plankton surveys that provided spring indices of zooplankton biovolume. Winter chlorophyll biomass had little effect on spring zooplankton biovolume, whereas spring chlorophyll biomass had mixed effects on biovolume. There was evidence of a “bottom up” response seen on Georges Bank where spring zooplankton biovolume was positively correlated with the concentration of chlorophyll. However, in the western Gulf of Maine, biovolume was uncorrelated with chlorophyll concentration, but was positively correlated with bloom start and negatively correlated with magnitude. This observation is consistent with both a “top-down” mechanism of control of the bloom and a “bottom-up” effect of bloom timing on zooplankton grazing. Our inability to form a consistent model of these relationships across adjacent systems underscores the need for further research

Feedback on Feedback: An Analysis of L2 Writers’ Evaluations of Proofreaders

2014-11Most research into second language (L2) writers’ feedback preferences has been in the context of L2 writing classes with students responding to teachers’ feedback. The present study, however, sought to ascertain writers’ perceptions of corrective feedback provided by proofreaders, both native speakers (NSs) and nonnative speakers (NNSs) of English, recruited by an English language-check service in a Japanese graduate school. The aim of this piece of exploratory research was practical: to improve academic feedback through a deeper understanding of the student writers’ perceptions of different feedback styles and strategies. In the study, 15 students ranked the usefulness of the feedback provided by six anonymous proofreaders on the same sample of high-stakes writing. Students were also required to add comments to elucidate the rankings assigned. An analysis of the ranks and the writers’ holistic impressions suggested, amongst other things, that most writers preferred direct feedback over indirect, and were more averse to erroneous correcting of content than of language. The study also revealed that feedback provided by NNSs often outranked that given by NSs, although, partly because of the small sample size, no firm conclusions were drawn from this finding.departmental bulletin pape