F.1.1 Current Wetland Area and Rates of Loss The ability to estimate soil carbon pools and fluxes in North American wetlands is constrained by the national inventories (or lack thereof) for Canada, the United States, and Mexico (Davidson et al., 1999). The National Wetland Inventory (NWI) program of the United States has repeatedly sampled several thousand wetland sites using aerial photographs...

Forty of us at the Foundation are taking forty days out of our routine over the next few months to participate in the 'Foundation in Education' course that is being facilitated by Rohit Dhankar of Digantar and a team of education thinkers. Recently we completed the first module of ten days at Jaipur and followed it up with the second module in Bangalore. The third module is slated to begin in M...

The SOS response, a conserved regulatory network in bacteria that is induced in response to DNA damage, has been shown to be associated with the emergence of resistance to antibiotics. Previously, we demonstrated that heterogeneous (HeR) MRSA strains, when exposed to sub-inhibitory concentrations of oxacillin, were able to express a homogeneous high level of resistance (HoR). Moreover, we showe...

Every person I have spoken to in the context of the controversy on “reservations” has agreed that as a nation, we must do everything that is required to achieve equality in our society. Not a single sensible person would deny the fact that for too long in our country, grossly unequal, inhuman and unjust treatment has been meted out to people based on socio-economic class and caste. It is a comp...

The number of wetlands existing in the United States since colonial settlement has declined rapidly. According to reports by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Tiner, 1984; Tiner et al., 1994; Wilen and Frayer, 1990; Dahl 1990; Dahl et al., 1991) and the National Wildlife Federation (Feierabend and Zelazny, 1987), it is believed that over 200 million acres of wetlands were present in the conte...

Inorganic aluminum (Al) concentrations are critical for defining the biological effects of acidification. The landscape's role in controlling the spatial variability of Al and its speciation has received only limited attention. We analyzed the speciation of stream Al at 14 sites within a 68 km2 boreal catchment during spring snowmelt, a period of episodic acidity. Three factors that influenced ...

The aim of HOR is to provide an informal forum to discuss all aspects of higher-order rewriting. The topics of the workshop include applications, foundations, frameworks, implementations , and semantics. HOR is a biannual meeting. The present volume provides final versions of six accepted contributed extended abstracts of talks selected for the workshop. HOR 2012 had also a tool session. The fo...

INTRODUCTION Wetlands are ecologically as well as economically important systems due to their high productivity, their nutrient (re)cycling capacities, and their prominent contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions. Being on the transition between terrestrial and—aquatic ecosystems, wetlands are buffers for terrestrial run off thereby preventing eutrophication of inland as well as coastal ...

CH4 column over the Amazon can occur some months prior to the peak in the water table (the measure used to characterise the ’wetland’). The parameterisation is then applied globally and used in the GEOS-CHEM atmospheric chemistry model. This work is highly relevant as many of the leading land surface models (e.g., the US Community Land Model (Riley et al., 2011), the Joint UK Land Environment S...