Fernando Martins Peres: In Memoriam

In Memoriam-Professor Ajit K.Padhy

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Purple Martins in Oak Woodlands

Purple martins are cavity-nesting swallows that once nested fairly widely in California’s oak woodlands but are now rare in that habitat. The old oaks of the Tehachapi Range (southern Sierra Nevada) may now host the last martins that nest in oak woodlands, with approximately 100-200 pairs or about 15 percent of the California population. In summer of 2000, we found 57 nests in 46 valley and blu...

Memoriam.

George W. Housner, Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, emeritus, died after a short illness on 10 November 2008, just a few weeks before his 98th birthday. He was in the retirement home in Pasadena where he had lived for several years. For all of us who knew George, this marked the end of an era. Few people have guided and nurtured a field the way George led earthquake engineering over a per...

Fernando Martel García: Replication Proposal, Fernando Martel García, Ph.D., P0022014v01D

Overexploitation Carlos A. Peres

In an increasingly human-dominated world, where most of us seem oblivious to the liquidation of Earth’s natural resource capital (Chapters 3 and 4), exploitation of biological populations has become one of the most important threats to the persistence of global biodiversity. Many regional economies, if not entire civilizations, have been built on free-for-all extractive industries, and history ...