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Gould, Philip. "The Pocahontas Story in Early America." Prospects 24 (October 1999): 99–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300000314.
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Near the end of Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), Thomas Jefferson offers a notably ambivalent assessment of Captain John Smith: “To his efforts principally may be ascribed [the colony's] support against the opposition of natives. He was honest, sensible, and well-informed; but his style is barbarous and uncouth. His history, however, is almost the only source from which we derive any knowledge of the infancy of the state” (177). Such ambivalence registers the degree to which late 18th-century ideologies of civility and refinement mediated historical accounts of Virginia's colonial past, and it begins to suggest an overlooked context for reconsidering the cultural meaning of the Smith–Pocahontas story during this era. For the episode traditionally has been read in terms of race and “the birth of the nation” (Jenkins, 10). While influential critics of Smith have extolled his enterprising “genius” and his “doctrine of hard work and self–reliance,” revisionist critiques of Smith's version of American heroism manage only to reproduce the same interpretive categories. Indeed, to revisionists, the Pocahontas story instances an ethnocentrism endemic to colonial encounters: Smith fails to recognize the huskanaw ceremony (whereby he is made a werowance to Powhattan); and Pocahontas's “self-abandonment” prefigures the doctrine of Manifest Destiny.
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Briggs, R. D., and R. C. Lemin Jr. "Delineation of climatic regions in Maine." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 22, no. 6 (June 1, 1992): 801–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x92-109.
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As part of a project to develop a productivity-oriented site classification system for spruce and fir in Maine, multivariate analyses of meteorological data were used to partition the state into homogeneous climatic zones. Data were obtained for 63 weather stations reporting both temperature and precipitation in Maine during the period 1954–1983. Monthly means were computed for each variable over the period of record and summarized by four 3-month seasons. Eighty-two percent of the variation in the 37 variables was accounted for by the first three principal components. Cluster analysis identified eight homogeneous groups of weather stations. Results from the principal components analysis were spatially extrapolated across the state using stepwise regression to define the relationship between the first two principal components and the location variables latitude, longitude, and elevation. Principal component scores were predicted across the state along a grid composed of township line intersections. The Triangulated Irregular Network of ARCINFO, a geographic information system software package, was used to spatially summarize the predicted component scores into climagraphic maps. The combined results from cluster analysis and spatial extrapolation of the principal components analysis suggested the presence of four broad climatic regions, which were further subdivided into nine climatic zones. Overlap among the four regions and nine zones was evaluated with a jackknifed classification of a linear discriminant function. Ninety-four percent of the weather stations were correctly classified by climatic region, whereas 76% were correctly classified by climatic zone. The high degree of correspondence between climatic zones and biophysical regions reinforced results of the multivariate analyses.
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Zottoli, JD, JS Collie, and MJ Fogarty. "Measuring the balance between fisheries catch and fish production." Marine Ecology Progress Series 643 (June 11, 2020): 145–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps13316.
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Balanced harvesting has been proposed as a fisheries management strategy to mitigate the impacts of fisheries removal on ecosystem structure. One definition of balanced harvest is that all species should be harvested in proportion to their annual production. However, most marine ecosystems lack comprehensive production estimates necessary to empirically measure the degree of balance. We developed and tested 2 new methods for estimating fish biomass production at the species level with limited data requirements. Application of our techniques to 4 ecological production units in the northwest Atlantic (Mid-Atlantic Bight, Georges Bank, Gulf of Maine, and western Scotian Shelf) from 1991-2013 provided a direct estimate of 1.9 million t yr-1 of total fish production. The degree of balance between catch and production distributions at the species level, assessed using the proportional similarity index, ranged from 0.34 to 0.83 on a scale from near 0 to 1. Increased balance was positively associated with yield in the Gulf of Maine (Spearman’s, p = 0.04). Increased balance was negatively associated with an ecosystem impact indicator in the Gulf of Maine (Spearman’s, p = 0.03) and Mid-Atlantic Bight (Spearman’s, p = 0.02). These case studies provide some evidence of benefit to humans and reduced ecosystem harm from more balanced harvest. More importantly, we provide a unique empirical metric of balanced harvest at the species level, and develop potential indicators and methods for ecosystem-based fisheries management.
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Annis, Eric R., Carl J. Wilson, Robert Russell, and Philip O. Yund. "Evidence for thermally mediated settlement in lobster larvae (Homarus americanus)." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 70, no. 11 (November 2013): 1641–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2013-0060.
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We examined the potential for bottom temperatures ≤12 °C to inhibit successful recruitment of planktonic lobster postlarvae to the benthos. In laboratory trials, postlarvae held at 11 °C exhibited higher mortality, slower development, and reduced size increase at molt relative to postlarvae held at 13 °C. We sampled at field sites within Machias Bay, Maine (mean bottom temperature 12.39 °C, 46.1 degree-days ≥12 °C) and at the mouth of the bay (mean bottom temperature 11.57 °C, 5.1 degree-days ≥12 °C), where temperature was influenced by the cold Eastern Maine Coastal Current (EMCC). We found significantly higher settlement at the warm inshore site but, the abundance of competent planktonic postlarvae was not significantly different between sites, indicating a disconnect between postlarval abundance and settlement. Regional sampling of newly settled lobsters revealed a pattern of higher settlement at inshore sites extending across a broader coastal region impacted by the EMCC. Our results suggest that small differences in water temperature may shape settlement patterns through either behavioral avoidance of colder settlement sites or elevated postsettlement mortality of postlarvae settling at colder sites.
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Matsa, David A., and Amalia R. Miller. "Who Votes for Medicaid Expansion? Lessons from Maine's 2017 Referendum." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 44, no. 4 (April 12, 2019): 563–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/03616878-7530801.
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Abstract Context: In November 2017, Maine became the first state in the nation to vote on a key provision of the Affordable Care Act: the expansion of Medicaid. Methods: This study merged official election results from localities across Maine with Census Bureau and American Hospital Association data to identify characteristics of areas that support Medicaid expansion. Findings: Places with more bachelor's degree holders more often vote in favor, whereas those with more associate's degree graduates tend to vote against. Conditional on education rates, areas with more uninsured individuals who would qualify for expanded coverage tend to vote in favor, while those with more high-income individuals tend to vote against. Also conditional on education rates, greater hospital employment is associated with support for expansion, but the presence of other health professionals, whose incomes might decrease from expansion, is associated with less support. Conclusions: Voting patterns are mostly consistent with economic self-interest, except for the sizable association of bachelor's degree holders with support for Medicaid expansion. Direct democracy can shift Medicaid policy: extrapolating to other states, the model predicts that hypothetical referenda would pass in 5 of the 18 states that had not yet expanded Medicaid at the time of Maine's vote.
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Ludman, Allan, John T. Hopeck, and Henry N. Berry IV. "Provenance and paleogeography of post-Middle Ordovician, pre-Devonian sedimentary basins on the Gander composite terrane, eastern and east-central Maine: implications for Silurian tectonics in the northern Appalachians." Atlantic Geology 53 (March 16, 2017): 063–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.4138/atlgeol.2017.003.
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Recent mapping in eastern and east-central Maine addresses long-standing regional correlation issues and permits reconstruction of post-Middle Ordovician, pre-Devonian paleogeography of sedimentary basins on the Ganderian composite terrane. Two major Late Ordovician-Silurian depocenters are recognized in eastern Maine and western New Brunswick separated by an emergent Miramichi terrane: the Fredericton trough to the southeast and a single basin comprising the Central Maine and Aroostook-Matapedia sequences to the northwest. This Central Maine/Aroostook-Matapedia (CMAM) basin received sediment from both the Miramichi highland to the east and highlands and islands to the west, including the pre-Late Ordovician Boundary Mountains, Munsungun-Pennington, and Weeksboro-Lunksoos terranes. Lithofacies in the Fredericton trough are truncated and telescoped by faulting along its flanks but suggest a similar basin that received sediment from highlands to the west (Miramichi) and east (St. Croix).Deposition ended in the Fredericton trough following burial and deformation in the Late Silurian, but continued in the CMAM basin until Early Devonian Acadian folding. A westward-migrating Acadian orogenic wedge provided a single eastern source of sediment for the composite CMAM basin after the Salinic/Early Acadian event, replacing the earlier, more local sources. The CMAM, Fredericton, and Connecticut Valley-Gaspé depocenters were active immediately following the Taconian orogeny and probably formed during extension related to post-Taconian plate adjustments. These basins thus predate Acadian foreland sedimentation.Structural analysis and seismic reflection profiles indicate a greater degree of post-depositional crustal shortening than previously interpreted. Late Acadian and post-Acadian strike-slip faulting on the Norumbega and Central Maine Boundary fault systems distorted basin geometries but did not disturb paleogeographic components drastically.
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Anderson, Dennis S., and Ronald B. Davis. "The vegetation and its environments in Maine peatlands." Canadian Journal of Botany 75, no. 10 (October 1, 1997): 1785–805. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b97-893.
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This study is based on relevés from 96 peatlands representing the typologic, environmental, and geographic variation of Maine peatlands, and on peat pore-water chemistry at a representative set of 51 of these peatlands. We give optima and tolerances of pH, Ca, P, NO3-N, NH4-N, and influence of upper on lower vegetational strata for the 73 most common vascular plant species, excluding sedges, which are presented elsewhere. The program TWINSPAN differentiated 30 plant communities. Environments of the first seven TWINSPAN divisions differed largely by Ca, pH, P, NH4, Fe, microrelief, substrate depth, degree of humification, and climate. A canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) with forward selection entered pH, P, Na, Fe, Ca, Mg, and percent H2O as the minimum number of variables which best explains species variation. A CCA of the lower strata vascular plants demonstrated the importance of the upper strata (percent overstory) on species' distributions. Gradients of pH–alkalinity and percent overstory are primary in determining Maine's peatland vegetation. Other important gradients are percent H2O in upper peat, concentrations of lithic elements (P, Fe, Mn, Al, and Si) in pore water, and climate. Although these gradients partially covary, some of the variation in species' distributions can be attributed to independent aspects of individual gradients. Species richness across the range of peatland types is related to pH–alkalinity for vascular plants, and to percent H2O, microrelief, and percent overstory for bryophytes. Key words: plant communities, Maine, multivariate statistical analysis, peatlands, mires, vegetation.
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Bylinskaya, D. S., N. V. Zelenevsky, and D. V. Vasiliev. "ANATOMICAL AND TOPOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF THE LEFT CORONARY ARTERY OF THE HEART OF A MAINE COON CAT." International Journal of Veterinary Medicine, no. 3 (October 17, 2022): 170–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.52419/issn2072-2419.2022.3.170.
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The heart is the central and regulatory organ of the cardiovascular system, the study of the morphology of its bloodstream in humane and veterinary medicine is an important aspect for further diagnosis, prevention and treatment of heart pathologies. In all studied species, the heart is supplied with blood by the right and left coronary arteries, which, according to the species and breed features of the structure, can differ in the degree of their development. The study of the main branches of the coronary arteries and branches of the first and second order, together with their functional significance in the blood supply of a particular structure of the heart, is a topical area in modern veterinary morphology. The purpose of the study is to study the anatomical and topographic patterns of the left coronary artery of the heart of a Maine Coon cat. The object for the study was the corpses of Maine Coon cats at the age of three to five years. In total, five corpses of animals were studied, of which three cats (male) and two cats (females). The following research methods were used: fine anatomical preparation and making casts of heart vessels using Flexstep latex milk. In the course of the study, it was found that the blood supply to the heart of a Maine Coon cat occurs due to the right and left coronary arteries, the latter of which is dominant, from which it follows that this breed of cats has a left-coronal type of blood supply. In the region of the coronary sulcus, anastomotic branches depart from the branches of the left coronary artery, thanks to which the collateral path of blood supply to the heart of the Maine Coon cat closes. The interventricular septum of the heart is supplied with blood by the interventricular branch extending from the left coronary artery.
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Evans, Daniel M., W. Michael Aust, C. Andrew Dolloff, Ben S. Templeton, and John A. Peterson. "Eastern Hemlock Decline in Riparian Areas from Maine to Alabama." Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 28, no. 2 (June 1, 2011): 97–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/njaf/28.2.97.
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Abstract Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) in the Appalachian mountain range is threatened by the introduced hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae). Potential impacts on riparian systems are great because of eastern hemlock's role as a foundation species that influences site soil, vegetation, and stream characteristics. We installed permanent research sites at 49 locations in riparian areas, from Maine to Alabama, to survey eastern hemlock health, measure stand dynamics, and predict near-term forest composition without eastern hemlock. This report summarizes the initial stand measurements from summer of 2008. We found hemlock woolly adelgid present at 25 of 49 stands from Massachusetts to Georgia, and all of these stands had some degree of hemlock decline. New England states, Ohio, western Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Alabama had good hemlock health and no sign of hemlock woolly adelgid. Eighteen of the 49 sites had no nonhemlock conifer species in the overstory, and 30 of 49 sites had less than 5 m2 ha−1 of nonhemlock conifers. Without eastern hemlock, 25 of the stands would have more than 90% hardwood in the overstory, many of which are in the mid-Atlantic and southern states at sites dominated by shrubs in the understory such as Rhododendron maximum. Competition from shrubs may hinder stand regeneration after disturbance by hemlock woolly adelgid. On the basis of the abundance of hardwood species and lack of conifer species present in the overstory at many infested hemlock-dominated stands, these sites may convert to hardwood-dominated stands, which will affect terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem dynamics.
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Maguire, Douglas A., John C. Brissette, and Lianhong Gu. "Crown structure and growth efficiency of red spruce in uneven-aged, mixed-species stands in Maine." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28, no. 8 (August 1, 1998): 1233–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x98-093.
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Several hypotheses about the relationships among individual tree growth, tree leaf area, and relative tree size or position were tested with red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) growing in uneven-aged, mixed-species forests of south-central Maine, U.S.A. Based on data from 65 sample trees, predictive models were developed to (i)estimate the amount of foliage held by individual trees from sapwood cross-sectional area and (ii)define the relationship between stem volume growth and three variables: total foliage area, relative position in the stand, and the degree of past suppression. A model that included variables representing tree size (or relative social position) and degree of past suppression (live branch whorls per unit crown length) indicated that stem volume growth first increased but later decreased over leaf area when other variables were held constant. Growth efficiency declined with increasing tree leaf area, although greater height and diameter enhanced growth efficiency and greater past suppression diminished growth efficiency. The decline in growth efficiency with greater leaf area likely is attributable to one or several of the factors previously identified as contributing to growth declines in mature, even-aged stands.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Degree of Pocahontas (Maine)"
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Johnston, Emily Mae. "Success of First-Time Students in Associate Degree Programs at the University of Maine at Augusta." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2005. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/JohnstonEM2005.pdf.
Full textBooks on the topic "Degree of Pocahontas (Maine)"
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Reffeitt, Kenneth R. Centennial history of the Great Council of West Virginia, Degree of Pocahontas of the Improved Order of Red Men, 1902-2002. Huntington, WV: Great Council of West Virginia, Improved Order of Red Men, 2007.
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E, Davis Robert. History of the Improved Order of Red Men and Degree of Pocahontas, 1765-1988. [Waco, Tex.]: R.E. Davis, 1990.
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Educational, Krager. Krager's Guide to Degree Programs at Maine Colleges and Universities (2019). Independently Published, 2018.
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Lindsay, George W. Official History of the Improved Order of Red Men: Compiled under Authority from the Great Council of the United States by Past Great Incohonees George W. Lindsay of Maryland, Charles C. Conley of Pennsylvania, Charles H. Litchman of Massachusetts. Heritage Books, 2006.
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Bradford, Frederick Charles. Apple Varieties in Maine: A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the University of Maine in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Agriculture. Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association, 2021.
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Dorn, Charles. For the Common Good. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780801452345.001.0001.
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Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? What, exactly, is higher education good for? This book challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community college to the elite research university—in states from California to Maine—the book engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation's founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good? Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late eighteenth and early twenty-first centuries, the book illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education's dedication to the public good. Each ethos, long a part of American history and tradition, came to predominate over the others during one of the four chronological periods examined in the book, informing the character of institutional debates and telling the definitive story of its time. The book demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities—including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions—and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways.
Book chapters on the topic "Degree of Pocahontas (Maine)"
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Meghanathan, Natarajan. "Centrality Analysis of the United States Network Graph." In Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering, 312–23. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7598-6.ch023.
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The authors model the contiguous states (48 states and the District of Columbia) of the United States (US) as an undirected network graph with each state represented as a node and there is an edge between two nodes if the corresponding two states share a common border. They determine a ranking of the states in the US with respect to the four commonly studied centrality metrics: degree, eigenvector, betweenness, and closeness. They observe the states of Missouri and Maine to be, respectively, the most central state and the least central state with respect to all the four centrality metrics. The degree distribution is bi-modal Poisson. The eigenvector and closeness centralities also exhibit Poisson distribution, while the betweenness centrality exhibits power-law distribution. The authors observe a higher correlation in the ranking of vertices based on the degree centrality and betweenness centrality.
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Meghanathan, Natarajan. "Centrality Analysis of the United States Network Graph." In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition, 1746–56. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch152.
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We model the contiguous states (48 states and the District of Columbia) of the United States (US) as an undirected network graph with each state represented as a node and there is an edge between two nodes if the corresponding two states share a common border. We determine a ranking of the states in the US with respect to the four commonly studied centrality metrics: degree, eigenvector, betweenness and closeness. We observe the states of Missouri and Maine to be respectively the most central state and the least central state with respect to all the four centrality metrics. The degree distribution is bi-modal Poisson. The eigenvector and closeness centralities also exhibit Poisson distribution, while the betweenness centrality exhibits power-law distribution. We observe a higher correlation in the ranking of vertices based on the degree centrality and betweenness centrality.
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Secord, Theresa. "Journey from Geologist to Basket Maker." In Outsiders: Personal Stories of Marginalization and Perseverance in the Geosciences. Geological Society of America, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2024.1223(03).
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ABSTRACT With the exception of summer trips to visit my grandparents, I spent most of my growing-up years 150 miles away from my tribe, the Penobscot Indian Nation on Indian Island, Maine. I obtained a bachelor’s degree in earth science at the University of Southern Maine and spent three years in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I landed a summer job on a gold project crew with Mobil Minerals Division as I was finishing up my M.S. in economic geology. In 1980, the Penobscot Nation, together with the Passamaquoddy Tribe, regained 300,000 acres in what, at the time, was the largest land claim settlement in U.S. history, the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act. In 1984, I went to work for my tribe on the minerals assessment program. The fieldwork encompassed extensive soil surveys, geophysical surveys, and bedrock drilling. About a decade into my work for the tribe, my career began to change as the funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs ended and the minerals assessment on the trust lands was wrapping up. In 1993, I co-founded and headed the Indigenous arts, non-profit Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance (MIBA). This work would become my most rewarding and meaningful as it had a deep relationship to my own values system. In addition, I had become a serious basket maker and relied upon a network of other Indigenous practitioners. My evolution from a practicing geologist to an award-winning artist and Native American arts leader and advocate speaks to having a strong sense of identity and belief in myself. Throughout my career, I learned to observe my environment and listen to advice, but ultimately charted my own course.
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"Fish Habitat: Essential Fish Habitat and Rehabilitation." In Fish Habitat: Essential Fish Habitat and Rehabilitation, edited by Michele Dionne, Frederick T. Short, and David M. Burdick. American Fisheries Society, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.47886/9781888569124.ch29.
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<em>Abstract</em> .—In the Gulf of Maine region, projects to restore or create salt-marsh habitat to replace saltmarsh functions and values reduced or lost to tidal restriction are increasing. We assess fish utilization of marsh restoration and creation projects along the central Gulf of Maine coastline by addressing three questions: (1) how do fish assemblages in manipulated and reference marshes compare, (2) how do differences between manipulated and reference marshes change over time, and (3) how do fishes respond to different types of restoration? Fish utilization of restored and created marshes in New Hampshire and Maine (two created and four tidally restored marshes) is compared to adjacent reference marshes. The comparison of manipulated marshes with local reference marshes provides an internal standard for the monitoring of each restoration project, making it possible (1) to follow changes over time while accounting for natural variation and (2) to make valid comparisons about the magnitude and direction of changes between independent restoration projects. Our study provides the first density estimates for fish utilization of vegetated salt-marsh habitat in the Gulf of Maine. The highest fish densities from this study just overlap with the lowest fish densities reported from more southerly marshes. Overall, fish were distributed similarly among manipulated and reference marshes, and fish distribution did not change with time. Trends in the data suggest that fish utilize elevated marshes restored by dug channels to a lesser degree than impounded marshes restored by culverts. It appears that fish will readily visit restored and created marshes in assemblages similar to those found in reference marshes over the short term (one to five years post-restoration) but are subject to the influence of differences in tidal regime, access to marsh habitat, and vegetation density. In the large majority of cases, hydrologic restoration of tidally restricted marshes will improve a much larger area of fish habitat per unit cost than creation of new marsh and will not be subject to many of the constraints that limit the function of created marshes. The primary consideration in tidal restoration projects is not necessarily the cost of construction but the social, economic, and political issues that must be addressed. Often, tidally restricted marshes are in highly developed coastal areas where many individual property owners may perceive the increased tidal flow as a threat, even when flood hazard studies show that no such threat exists. In spite of this caution, thousands of hectares of coastal fish habitat can be improved through a concerted program to restore the hydrology of tidally restricted marshes in the Gulf of Maine.
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"Fish Habitat: Essential Fish Habitat and Rehabilitation." In Fish Habitat: Essential Fish Habitat and Rehabilitation, edited by Michele Dionne, Frederick T. Short, and David M. Burdick. American Fisheries Society, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.47886/9781888569124.ch29.
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<em>Abstract</em> .—In the Gulf of Maine region, projects to restore or create salt-marsh habitat to replace saltmarsh functions and values reduced or lost to tidal restriction are increasing. We assess fish utilization of marsh restoration and creation projects along the central Gulf of Maine coastline by addressing three questions: (1) how do fish assemblages in manipulated and reference marshes compare, (2) how do differences between manipulated and reference marshes change over time, and (3) how do fishes respond to different types of restoration? Fish utilization of restored and created marshes in New Hampshire and Maine (two created and four tidally restored marshes) is compared to adjacent reference marshes. The comparison of manipulated marshes with local reference marshes provides an internal standard for the monitoring of each restoration project, making it possible (1) to follow changes over time while accounting for natural variation and (2) to make valid comparisons about the magnitude and direction of changes between independent restoration projects. Our study provides the first density estimates for fish utilization of vegetated salt-marsh habitat in the Gulf of Maine. The highest fish densities from this study just overlap with the lowest fish densities reported from more southerly marshes. Overall, fish were distributed similarly among manipulated and reference marshes, and fish distribution did not change with time. Trends in the data suggest that fish utilize elevated marshes restored by dug channels to a lesser degree than impounded marshes restored by culverts. It appears that fish will readily visit restored and created marshes in assemblages similar to those found in reference marshes over the short term (one to five years post-restoration) but are subject to the influence of differences in tidal regime, access to marsh habitat, and vegetation density. In the large majority of cases, hydrologic restoration of tidally restricted marshes will improve a much larger area of fish habitat per unit cost than creation of new marsh and will not be subject to many of the constraints that limit the function of created marshes. The primary consideration in tidal restoration projects is not necessarily the cost of construction but the social, economic, and political issues that must be addressed. Often, tidally restricted marshes are in highly developed coastal areas where many individual property owners may perceive the increased tidal flow as a threat, even when flood hazard studies show that no such threat exists. In spite of this caution, thousands of hectares of coastal fish habitat can be improved through a concerted program to restore the hydrology of tidally restricted marshes in the Gulf of Maine.
Conference papers on the topic "Degree of Pocahontas (Maine)"
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Cote´, Mark A. "Replacing a Power Plant Control Room Simulation Laboratory for an Engineering Technology Program." In ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2010-37968.
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Industry-centered education has been an integral part of the educational program at Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) since the founding of the college in 1941. This has included extensive use of laboratories and cooperative education as part of all MMA academic programs. Employers, graduates, and potential students describe MMA’s “hands-on” focus, reflected in the laboratory and cooperative education experiences, to be one of the main advantages of an MMA education, including the Power Engineering Technology (PET) program. In 1993, the MMA Engineering Department decided to build on this strength for the PET program by adding a personal computer-based, power plant control room simulator laboratory. The simulators were integrated into the PET Capstone experience, a two-course, nine credit hour sequence, that included both individual and team projects. The simulators were used to provide additional realistic, “hands–on” training as the students completed their degree. Over the course of the past fifteen years, while the simulators have continued to be a valued tool for the PET Program, the simulators were reaching the end point of their viable use due to hardware obsolescence. Since the simulator software was hardware specific, it had become impossible to procure replacement hardware for the simulators. In 2008, it was decided to replace the simulators and new simulator hardware and software have been procured and will be integrated into the PET Program beginning in the fall 2010 semester. This paper will describe the process used to determine the scope of the replacement process, the parameters for the new simulation systems, the procedure for determining the systems selected, and the process of integrating these new resources, including the assessment methods using the simulators, into the PET Program.
Reports on the topic "Degree of Pocahontas (Maine)"
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Maps showing the distribution of chromium, molybdenum, and uranium in stream sediments, Sherbrooke and Lewiston 1 degree by 2 degrees Quadrangles, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. US Geological Survey, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/i1898a.
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Maps showing the distribution of copper, lead, and zinc in stream sediments, Sherbrooke and Lewiston 1 degree by 2 degrees Quadrangles, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. US Geological Survey, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/i1898b.
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Maps showing the distribution of tin, tungsten, arsenic, gold, and silver in nonmagnetic heavy-mineral concentrates derived from stream sediments, Sherbrooke and Lewiston 1 degree by 2 degrees Quadrangles, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. US Geological Survey, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/i1898c.
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