Outward Journeys Must not be in the Past

Outward journeys must not be in the past was a series of signs and posters, installed in Preston’s transport hubs, which examined the city’s significant relationship with modernist transport information design from the late 1950s to late 1960s. The artworks reflect Cherry Tenneson’s fascination with the prevalence of modernist signage in the city, such as the original Swiss influenced signs in the bus station; the railway station’s still-prevalent British Rail corporate identity signs; and the standardised motorway signage originally developed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for the M6 Preston By-pass – the first motorway in the UK. Named after an error message on the National Rail website, the project emphasised the conflicting styles and messages which have developed in the city over time, and explored the role of typography within everyday urban experiences

San Antonio High School Food Justice Program: A Handbook and Evaluation of Edible Education

This senior environmental studies thesis explains and analyzes edible education through a food and gardening program at a continuation high school in Claremont, California. The first chapter situates the program-specific analysis by providing background information of the edible education movement, a history of the Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley, California, and an explanation of why food is a powerful teaching tool. The second chapter delineates the program by describing all of its components and compiling essential resources and teaching documents. The third chapter is based on interviews with 9 of 12 involved students and 7 teachers, and thoroughly explains the outcomes of the program for students, the high school at large, and the overall Claremont community. Overall, this work demonstrates the successes of edible education, the power of school gardening programs, and provides a useful resource for the continuation of the program

Winter ecology of the porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum

Tenneson, Cheryl. (1983). Winter ecology of the porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/172547

The Unionid Mussels of the Upper Iowa and Turkey River Watersheds

The Iowa driftless region occupies an area of about 9,000 km2 in the northeastern corner of Iowa and is drained by relatively old entrenched meandering streams. The Upper Iowa River and Turkey River are the largest of these streams. During the period from June, 1999 to October, 2000, a total of 193 sites were surveyed for mussels from the Upper Iowa River, the Turkey River, and their main tributaries. Surveys were conducted by hand using a 10 m bank-to-bank search at each site. Data analysis was facilitated using ArcView GIS. The presence of mussels was recorded at 75% of the sites, and live individuals were noted at 30% of the sites. Thirteen mussel species were recorded, with 5 or more species being found at 17% of the sites and 8 or more species at only 3% of the sites. Five of the species (Cylinder, Creek Heelsplitter, Squawfoot, Ellipse, and Fluted-shell) are listed as either threatened or endangered mussel species in Iowa, and no federally endangered mussels were found

Smokejumper Magazine, January 2013

This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: The CIA, Smokejumpers and B-17s, Development of Military Aviation Firefighting Systems (Jim Hickman), She Had the Look (Cameron Chambers), 1988 Alaska Paracargo Season (Mel Tenneson), Legacy/Retirement of Tony Loughton. Profiles Milford Preston, Doug Stinson, Alex Theios, and Jonathan L. Scott. Smokejumper Magazine continues Static Line, which was the original title of the NSA quarterly magazine.https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumper_mag/1081/thumbnail.jp

Protective factors that enhance teacher resilience in a private school in Johannesburg

Background: There is mounting empirical evidence that interacting with nature delivers measurable benefits to people which include physical health, cognitive performance, and psychological well-being. Aim: This study aimed at understanding and exploring how the power of nature and colleagues and principal support assist teachers to adapt and cope with stressors. Setting: The study was conducted in a private high school that uses the Cambridge Curriculum. Most of the students are from middle- and high-income households in the Roodepoort and Honeydew suburbs. Three male and eight female teachers participated in this study, with a mean age of 27 years and an age range between 24 years to 52 years. All the teachers were white, and they taught various subjects and they do not profess any particular religion. Methods: The study adopted a generic explorative qualitative design. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and incomplete sentences. Data were analysed using content analysis to arrive at the themes. Results: The themes that emerged during data analysis pointed out two major protective factors that enable teachers in this school to adapt and cope resiliently - the power of nature that surrounds the school (green space) and the principal and colleagues’ support in the school. Conclusion: Natural beauty that surrounds the school that resembled a park, as well as support of the principal and colleagues contributes teacher resilience in the school. Contribution: The findings from the study pointed out how school principal and colleagues could support teachers to cope and adapt to stressors, particularly the garden

Post fire vegetation monitoring system using Google Earth Engine

Using Google Earth Engine, our team built a Post Wildfire Vegetation Monitoring System. This system provides land managers regular systematic updates for areas burned by wildfire, including changes in vegetation cover, vegetation type, and cover of bare soil, for any time period that data is available (1984-Present). The system integrates operational and legacy Landsat data to produce land cover information at 30-meter spatial resolutions. The system is free and available online providing both and private land managers with near real time information that may be used to better identify, plan, budget for, and execute post wildfire rehabilitation projects including post wildfire harvest, reforestation and revegetation. The system will allow users to perform custom user-defined data summaries and statistics on their specific geographic area of interest by a polygon drawing tool or uploading a KML file. Custom tools are available for users to do analysis of land cover change between time periods and within and/or between one or more explicit areas within a fire to better track recovery of areas based from the full range of pre/post wildfire management actions. This presentation will describe the development of this system and provide examples of its use for recent wildfires in California

Creating near real-time alerts of illegal gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon using Synthetic Aperture Radar

Peru\u27s Southeastern Amazon deforestation trends can be attributed to alluvial gold mining. Illegal mining occurring in forestry concessions, national parks, and the territories of Indigenous People Organizations is of particular concern. We present a methodology to create near real-time alerts of deforestation caused by alluvial gold mining. A time series of Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data from February to December 2022 is created in Google Earth Engine (GEE) and assessed using Morton Canty\u27s Omnibus Q-test change detection algorithm. Resulting detections are validated with high-resolution optical imagery from Planet NICFI\u27s monthly basemaps and Planet Scope daily imagery. The alerts identify the location and timing of large areas (group pixels of \u3c1 ha) of forest loss due to gold mining activities within buffer zones of indigenous territories and protected areas. The overall accuracy of the forest loss analysis conducted with this change detection method was 99.98%, based on an independent accuracy assessment (table 2). This effort has resulted in a public web platform that displays the location of near real time alerts, so Peruvian enforcement agencies can more effectively allocate resources and staff to addressing active illegal mining operations. These results demonstrate the applicability of open-source SAR data to monitor forest loss over areas where cloud cover is more persistent and to improve tools that deliver timely, critical information to decision-makers. Future applications of our method could expand this approach to other drivers of deforestation