http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu/ Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for Black Swan, her debut collection of poems that mixes vernacular language with classical mythology, modern struggles with Biblical trials, and gives voice to women past and present. With her second, ]Open Interval[, nominated for the 2009 National Book Award, Van Clief-Stefanon "marries a wildness of vision with a lens-maker's precision." She is co-author, with Elizabeth Alexander, of the chapbook Poems in Conversation and a Conversation. She is currently working on a third collection of poetry, The Coal Tar Colors. She lives in Ithaca, New York and teaches at Cornell University.
Desalination issues in the United States; given by Kevin Price, Manager of the Water Treatment Engineering Research and Development Group, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Keywords: saline water conversion, saline water conversion plants, water purification Credits: producer:Water Resources Center Archives, sponsor:Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Dr. Alan Farahani (Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology, UC Berkeley) introduces teachers at the 2014 ORIAS summer teachers’ institute on Foodways in World History to new methods and theories in paleoethnobotany. An overview of the many ways in which archaeologists approach and understand the wide-ranging social, political, and environmental impacts of many peoples' commitment to sedentary, agricultural life in Southwest Asia from 7000 BCE onward. The presentation is illustrated with a case study from the archaeological site of Dhiban, Jordan, which has been the home of many communities for the past 3,000 year. Using paloethnobotany, or the archaeological study of human beings through the recovery of the plant remains they used, the relationships of people to each other as well as the world around them are revealed through the ways in which they carefully managed plants intended to become food desired by many.
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This video represents lightning strikes across the United States during all of 2011. The graphic images were created by David Romps, UC Berkeley atmospheric scientist and assistant professor of earth and planetary science. The data of lightning strikes was recorded by the National Lightning Detection Network at SUNY-Albany. (The video's soundtrack is NOT related to the research study.) Romps and colleagues predict a 50 percent increase in cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in the contiguous 48 states by 2100 as a result of global warming.
Romps, Seeley, Vollaro, and Molinari, "Projected increase in lightning strikes in the United States due to global warming," Science, vol. 346, 2014
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Statistics 131A, 001 - Spring 2015
Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Life Scientists - Fletcher H Ibser
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