Skyrocketing housing costs in the U.S. have fueled research on gentrification, displacement, and neighborhood change, addressing how development processes impact low-income and working-class neighborhoods. Scholars have pointed to the importance of community-based knowledge in understanding the impact of gentrification at the neighborhood level (Chapple, Loukaitou-Sideris, Gonzalez, et al. 2017a; Chapple, Loukaitou-Sideris, Waddell, et al., 2017b) as well as how spatial knowledge informs organizing and activism of community-based organizations (Maharawal & McElroy, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(2):380–389, 2018; Fields, Journal of Urban Affairs, 37(2):144–165, 2015; Elwood 2006a, The Professional Geographer, 58(2):197–208, 2006b). Despite the increasing research, less has centered on the knowledge of community organizers and residents in gentrifying neighborhoods and how community-driven mapping contributes to understanding of neighborhood level change from gentrification. This article presents a case study of community-driven research, analysis, and organizing of the Northeast Los Angeles Alliance (NELAA) a community-based member collective organization in Northeast Los Angeles with support of its academic partner Occidental College. The case study illustrates how community-driven research tied to organizing in the form of “countermapping” challenges the dominant practice and narrative of top-down property-centered development (Mahawaral and McElroy 2018). Further, the case study illustrates new ways to incorporate community knowledge into understanding of gentrification, displacement, and neighborhood change by: (1) introducing community-based collectives as particular types of community-based organizations utilizing community mapping and GIS; and, (2) illustrating detailed changes at the block and neighborhood levels by recognizing community-driven research and mapping as a source of in-depth and spatially specific historical knowledge and community vision.
Tillage practice has received much attention due to its effects on greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural fields. The understanding of carbon mineralization associated with soil aggregates helps to explore the influence mechanisms of tillage practice on soil carbon dynamics. Total carbon and carbon mineralization rates associated with various sizes of soil aggregates under no-tillage and tillage treatments were studied with a volcanic ash soil. Total carbon content in microaggregates (<0.25 mm) was higher than that in macroaggregates (>0.25 mm) for both the no-tillage and tillage treatments, since microaggregates of the volcanic ash soil include more fine silts and clay particles absorbing more organic agents. The carbon mineralization rate and total carbon were highly correlated (R2 = 0.6552, P = 0.002) for both treatments, suggesting that soil aggregate size is an important factor to influence the carbon mineralization rate. The no-tillage system showed the advantage of improving soil structure for volcanic ash soil. A larger proportion of microaggregates with relatively high carbon mineralization might contribute to the greater carbon loss from tilled soils. Unlike aggregate size, short-term tillage showed no significant effects on carbon mineralization rates associated with aggregates in a specific size class. 相似文献
Investigations including a bathymetric survey, sonic prospecting, and vibrocoring were performed to understand the horizontal and vertical distribution of 137Cs in seabed sediments in shallow seas with depths less than 30 m near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Especially, features of 137Cs distributions in deeper sections of the seabed sediments were studied to evaluate the vertical heterogeneity of 137Cs distribution in the seabed sediments in shallow seas. The distribution area of the seabed sediments was less than half of the investigation area, and the locations of the seabed sediments were divided into flat and terrace-like seafloors based on their topographical features. The thicknesses of the seabed sediment layers were mostly <2 m. The 137Cs inventories in the seabed sediments varied from 13 ± 1 to 3,510 ± 26 kBq m?2, and continuous distributions of 137Cs at depths greater than 81 cm were observed. The 137Cs distributions were not uniform; however, the 137Cs inventories tended to be larger near the base of the steeper ascending slopes than in the terrace-like seafloors themselves. Based on the relationship between the 137Cs inventories and mean shear stress, features of the seafloor topography were inferred to be significant control factors governing the horizontal and vertical distribution of 137Cs in the seabed sediments. Rapid changes and multiple peaks in the vertical profile of the 137Cs distributions suggest that they are related to pulse input caused by heavy-rain events. Change in the 137Cs inventories with depth in this study are larger than those reported in previous studies, indicating earlier results of 137Cs inventories per unit in seabed sediments in shallow seas, especially near the river mouth, which drains a radiologically highly-contaminated basin, were underestimated. 相似文献
The Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner (OCTS) aboard the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS) can observe ocean color
and sea surface temperature (SST) simultaneously. This paper explains the algorithm for the OCTS SST product in the NASDA
OCTS mission. In the development of the latest, third version (V3) algorithm, the OCTS match-up dataset plays an important
role, especially when the coefficients required in the MCSST equation are derived and the equation form is adjusted. As a
result of the validation using the OCTS match-up dataset, the algorithm has improved the root mean square (rms) error of the
OCTS SST up to 0.698°C although some problems remain in the match-up dataset used in the present study. 相似文献
As basic research for the effect of heavy oil on the fish immune system, in this study, the number of leukocyte was counted in Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus, after exposure to heavy oil at a concentration of 30 g/8 L for 3 days. To compare the numbers of bacteria in the skin mucus between oil-exposed and control fish, viable bacteria were enumerated by counting colony forming unit (CFU). Compared with 5.79 ± 1.88 × 107 leukocytes/mL in the controls, the exposed fish demonstrated higher counts, averaging 1.45 ± 0.45 × 108 cells/mL. The bacterial numbers of control fish were 4.27 ± 3.68 × 104 CFU/g, whereas they were 4.58 ± 1.63 × 105 CFU/g in the exposed fish. The results suggest that immune suppression of the fish occurred due to heavy oil stressor, and bacteria could invade in the mucus, resulting in the increasing leukocyte number to prevent infectious disease. 相似文献
PALEOCEANOGRAPHY AND EVOLUTION OF THE CENO-TETHYS: MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FROM PELAGIC SEDIMENTS IN THE YARLUNG ZANGBO SUTURE ZONE, SOUTHERN TIBET 相似文献
Abundant Triassic radiolarian fossils were obtained from varicolored bedded cherts exposed in the Buruocang section near Jinlu village, Zedong, southern Tibet. The radiolarian‐bearing rocks represent fragmented remnants of the Neotethys oceanic sediments belonging to the mélange complex of the east part of the Yarlung‐Tsangpo Suture Zone. Two new middle Late Anisian radiolarian assemblages recognized from this section named Oertlispongus inaequispinosus and Triassocampe deweveri, respectively, are compared with those known from Europe, Far East Russia, Japan, and Turkey. These Anisian radiolarian fossils are the first reported in southern Tibet and the oldest radiolarian record within the Yarlung‐Tsangpo Suture Zone. They improve time constraints for the evolution of Neotethys in southern Tibet. 相似文献
An accurate prediction of ocean tides in southeast Alaska is developed using a regional, barotropic ocean model with a finite
difference scheme. The model skill is verified by the observational tidal harmonics in southeast Alaska including Glacier
Bay. The result is particularly improved in Glacier Bay compared to the previous model described by Foreman et al. (2000). The model bathymetry dominates the model skill. We re-estimate tidal energy dissipation in the Alaska Panhandle
and suggest a value for tidal energy dissipation of 3.4 GW associated with the M2 constituent which is 1.5 times the estimation of Foreman et al. (2000). A large portion of the M2 energy budget entering through Chatham Strait is dissipated in the vicinity of Glacier Bay. Moreover, it is shown that the
developed model has the potential to correct the ocean tide loading effect in geodetic data more efficiently than the model
of Foreman et al. (2000), especially around Glacier Bay. 相似文献
Seasonal and interannual variations in physicochemical properties were investigated in the neritic area of Sagami Bay, Kanagawa,
Japan, from December 2000 to December 2005. Physicochemical properties (i.e. temperature, salinity, density, dissolved oxygen
and dissolved inorganic nutrient concentration) revealed clear seasonal variations, which were similar to each other during
all 5 years. Temperature, salinity and dissolved inorganic nutrients showed rapid, drastic variations within a few days and/or
weeks. These variations are related to sea levels, principally due to the shifting effects of the Kuroshio Current axis: they
were strongly affected by the Kuroshio Water and other waters, when sea level difference was greater than ca. 35 cm and lower
than ca. 15 cm, respectively. Temperature difference (DFT) increased with sea level difference, and the difference of salinity and dissolved inorganic nutrients (NH4+-N, NO3−+NO2−-N, NH4++NO3−+NO2−-N, PO43−-P and SiO2-Si) increased and decreased with DFT, respectively. All these correlations are significant. Total dissolved inorganic nitrogen (N), phosphate (P) and silicate
(Si) revealed seasonal variations in the ranges of 0.57–16.08, 0.0070–0.91 and 0.22–46.38 μM, respectively. From the regression equations between these elements allowed the following relation to be obtained; Si:N:P
= 14.8:13.4:1. Dissolved inorganic nutrients were characterized by Si and/or P deficiency, especially in the upper layer (0–20
m depth) during summer. Single and/or combined elements are discussed on the basis of potential and stoichiometric nutrient
limitations, which could restrict phytoplankton (diatom) growth as a limiting factor. 相似文献
We report measurements of iron, nutrients, dissolved oxygen, humic-type fluorescence intensity and chlorophyll a concentrations in the coastal waters at the inflow (western) and outflow (eastern) ends of Tsugaru Strait (Japan) in June
2003 and 2004. Two different water masses (intensive eastward flow “subtropical Tsugaru Warm Current Water (TWCw)” and weak
westward flow “subarctic Oyashio Water (OW)”) were observed at the eastern end of the strait. TWCw at the southern part of
the eastern strait was vertically homogeneous with a uniform concentrations of iron (0.7–1.1 nM for labile dissolved Fe and
14–20 nM for total dissolvable Fe in 2003) as well as other chemical, biological and physical components throughout the water
column of 200 m due to strong vertical mixing in the strait. The degree of mixing in the Tsugaru Warm Current (TWC) is predominantly
affected by diurnal tidal current, which is strong during the period of tropical tides and weak during the period of equinoctial
ones. The especially strong vertical water mixing in 2003 is caused by large dissipation energy input due to the bottom friction
of passage-flow through the strait and tidal current. At the northern part of the eastern strait, the fresh surface layer
overlying the OW and the deep-bottom waters in 2003 contained large concentrations of dissolved iron, resulting from iron
supplied from river runoff and shelf sediments, respectively. These results suggest that the most important mechanism for
transporting iron in the strait is the strong vertical water mixing due to the tidal current, and that the iron sources in
the coastal waters are the organic-associated, iron-rich freshwater input into the surface water. 相似文献