(Re-)negotiating access: The politics of researching skills and knowledge for ‘sustainable communities’     

Julie Newton  Alex Franklin  Jennie Middleton  Terry Marsden 《Geoforum》2012,43(3):585-594

The last decade has witnessed a surge of interest in ‘sustainable communities’ within the UK. This has stimulated a plethora of research aimed at acquiring a better understanding of what ‘sustainable communities’ might look like and how they can be achieved. However, this has not been accompanied by a reflection and interrogation of the actual processes, challenges and politics of doing ‘sustainable communities’ research. This paper addresses this gap by highlighting the importance of paying attention to the on-going process of negotiating access when carrying out sustainability research at the community level. We draw on a recent study of skills and knowledge for ‘sustainable communities’ in Stroud Gloucestershire, UK, to illustrate the importance of sensitivity to social relationships throughout and beyond the research trajectory within sustainability research. Our experience raises important questions about the politics of research practices when doing sustainability research ‘with’ communities and the challenges associated with participatory approaches as a means to demonstrate research impact. We argue that in developing a fuller understanding of why and how different types of community level initiatives can contribute to the ‘sustainable communities’ agenda, greater consideration needs to be given to how these community practices can be better supported through the process of doing academic research.  相似文献   

Hekla 1947, 1845, 1510 and 1158 tephra in Finland: challenges of tracing tephra from moderate eruptions     

Maarit Kalliokoski  Esther Ruth Guðmundsdóttir  Stefan Wastegård 《第四纪科学杂志》2020,35(6):803-816

Several cryptotephra layers that originate from Icelandic volcanic eruptions with a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of ≤ 4 and tephra volumes of < 1 km³ have previously been identified in Northern Europe, albeit within a restricted geographical area. One of these is the Hekla 1947 tephra that formed a visible fall-out in southern Finland. We searched for the Hekla 1947 tephra from peat archives within the previously inferred fall-out zone but found no evidence of its presence. Instead, we report the first identification of Hekla 1845 and Hekla 1510 cryptotephra layers outside of Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Ireland and the UK. Additionally, Hekla 1158 tephra was found in Finland for the first time. Our results confirm that Icelandic eruptions of moderate size can form cryptotephra deposits that are extensive enough to be used in inter-regional correlations of environmental archives and carry a great potential for refining regional tephrochronological frameworks. Our results also reveal that Icelandic tephra has been dispersed into Finnish airspace at least seven times during the past millennium and in addition to a direct eastward route the ash clouds can travel either via a northerly or a southerly transport pathway.  相似文献   

Dowden,Hutchinson and Ross,distrib. by Sedimentary rocks,Albert V. Carozzi (Ed.), in: Benchmark Papers in Geology, 15, John Wiley,Chichester (1975), p. 468, £13.50     

Gerard V. Middleton 《Earth》1976,12(1):65

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On the Bur Gheluai H5 chondrite and other meteorites with complex exposure histories     

S. K. Vogt  D. Aylmer  G. F. Herzog  R. Wieler  P. Signer  P. Pellas  C. Fini  C. Tuniz  A. J. T. Jull  D. Fink  J. Klein  R. Middleton 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1993,28(1):71-85

Abstract— We present the ¹⁴C, ²⁶Al, ¹⁰Be, ³He, ⁴He, ²⁰Ne, ²¹Ne, ²²Ne, ³⁶Ar, ³⁸Ar, and ⁴⁰Ar concentrations and the track densities measured in up to 13 samples of the Bur Gheluai (H5) meteorite fall. Only a multi-stage exposure history can explain the data in a self-consistent way. Parameters for a model two-stage history obtained by simultaneous, least-squares fitting of the concentrations of ¹⁴C, ²⁶Al, ¹⁰Be, and ²¹Ne were: first stage duration ～10 Ma and radius >2 m; second stage duration ～0.6 Ma and radius 40–100 cm. Nominal one-stage ²¹Ne production rates (P₂₁) inferred from ²⁶Al in Bur Gheluai samples exceed those inferred from ¹⁰Be as expected for a meteorite with a complex history. Nonetheless, data for other meteorites indicate that multi-stage irradiations alone do not account for all the high reported values of P₂₁ based on ²⁶A***l: The equations describing the production of cosmogenic nuclides show that uncorrected shielding effects may also play a role. A compilation of ordinary, solar-gas-poor chondrites for which two-stage histories have been proposed includes many with short second stages but none with unambiguously long first stages (>0.2 Ga).  相似文献   

The 12th International Geological Congress, Toronto, 1913     

Gerard V. Middleton 《《幕》》2007,30(4):290-295

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Rhyolitic and dacitic component of the Askja 1875 tephra in southern and central Finland: first step towards a Finnish tephrochronology     

Maarit Kalliokoski  Stefan Wastegrd  Timo Saarinen 《第四纪科学杂志》2019,34(1):29-39

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A numerical study of island wake generated by an elliptical tidal flow     

Philippe Estrade  Jason H. Middleton 《Continental Shelf Research》2010

An idealized numerical study of the influence of a tidal flow around an island has been undertaken with ROMS. The study focusses on coastal island wakes which are mainly controlled by elliptical tidal current flows on shallow shelves. This model is typical of some isolated continental shelf islands. The model is forced by a semi-diurnal barotropic inertia gravity wave imposed on the four open boundaries of a rectangular domain and its propagation results in an elliptical tidal flow within the domain in which the circular island lies. The influence of the surrounding island bathymetry and of the ellipse shape has been studied both in two and three dimensions. In the island vicinity, the residual circulation patterns over a tidal period show alongshore flow divergence along the major axis and convergence along the minor axis. A thin tidal ellipse (i.e. with a large ratio between major and minor axes) leads to strong eddy activity periods in the lee of the island during the flood and ebb phases, with eddy dissipation phases in between. By contrast, an almost round ellipse (axis ratio nearly 1) leads to vorticity filaments which continuously progress around the island without eddy shedding. The presence of a topographic slope in the vicinity of the island strengthens the eddy activity. This study suggests that the tidal current rotation favors the development of the eddy rotating in the same direction and weakens the development of the second eddy. In three dimensions with a surrounding bathymetry, an intense upwelling occurs in a large area in the lee of the island and the vertical velocities are stronger with thinner ellipses. With a flat bottom the vertical motions are almost fully generated by convergence and divergence of the secondary flow. With a varying bottom topography, the vertical motions come from a combination of this mechanism with convergence and divergence of the depth averaged flow.  相似文献   

High-energy X-ray spectra of Seyferts and Unification schemes for active galactic nuclei     

Matthew Middleton  Chris Done  Nick Schurch 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,383(4):1501-1505

The Unified Model of active galactic nuclei (AGN) predicts that the sole difference between type 1 and 2 Seyfert galaxies nuclei is the viewing angle with respect to an obscuring structure around the nucleus. High-energy photons above 20 keV are not affected by this absorption if the column is Compton thin, so their 30–100 keV spectra should be the same. However, the observed spectra at high energies appear to show a systematic difference, with type 1 Seyfert galaxies having Γ∼ 2.1 whereas type 2 Seyfert galaxies are harder with Γ∼ 1.9. We estimate the mass and the accretion rate of Seyferts detected in these high-energy samples, and show that they span a wide range in   L / L _Edd  . Both black hole binary systems and AGN show a correlation between spectral softness and Eddington fraction, so these samples are probably heterogeneous, spanning a range of intrinsic spectral indices which are hidden in individual objects by poor signal-to-noise ratio. However, the mean Eddington fraction for the type 1 Seyfert galaxies is higher than for the type 2 Seyfert galaxies, so the samples are consistent with this being the origin of the softer spectra seen in type 1 Seyfert galaxies. We stress that high-energy spectra alone are not necessarily a clean test of Unification schemes, but that the intrinsic nuclear properties should also change with   L / L _Edd  .  相似文献   

Glacial geomorphology in Utsjoki, Finnish Lapland proposes Younger Dryas fault-instability     

Raimo Sutinen  Matti Piekkari  Maarit Middleton   《Global and Planetary Change》2009,69(1-2):16-28

Northern Fennoscandia has experienced high-magnitude postglacial fault (PGF) events, yet the role of seismic tremors in subglacial deformations and meltwater discharge has remained obscure. We studied glacial geomorphology in Utsjoki, Finnish Lapland, an area characterized by the Utsjoki drumlin field fanning out north and northeast to the Younger Dryas End Moraines (YDEMs) in northern Norway. Paleolandslides were common on fells (i.e. mountains shaped by Pleistocene glaciations) and were formed in nunatak position evidencing fault-instability in app. 11,900 calibrated (cal) BP. An anastomosing network of eskers was found throughout Utsjoki, and was probably generated through short-lived sliding bed stages during the discharge of subglacial lake(s). The formation of networks is different from time-transgressive evolution of single-ridged eskers in arborescent (treelike) systems. The most probable triggering mechanism for the meltwater outburst(s) was an earthquake tremor(s) associated with fault-instability during the late and post-Younger Dryas (YD). The alignment of the esker network was inconsistent with parallel-to-iceflow streamlining and the eskers erode or superimpose drumlins. Hence the esker network post-dates the streamlining. In some cases, hummocky (Pulju) moraine was observed to coexist with esker network and peculiar ‘kettle’ and ‘liquefaction’ features. We propose that glacio-seismotectonic events contributed not only to landslides but were also the primary force behind subglacial evolution of esker networks and possibly even hummocky moraine.  相似文献   

The CTIP Model with SuperDARN Electric Potential Patterns as Input: First Comparison of Modelled Ion Densities with Radio Tomography Observations     

E. L. Whittick  S. E. Pryse  H. R. Middleton  A. R. Lotinga  A. D. Aylward 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2009,104(1-4):45-49

In a recent development of the Coupled Thermosphere Ionosphere Plasmasphere (CTIP) model, electric potential patterns from the SuperDARN radar network are used as the input to drive the high-latitude ionospheric convection. Spatial images of the ionised atmosphere under conditions of IMF Bz negative given by the Aberystwyth University tomography experiments in Scandinavia and the UK are compared with model simulations for assessment of the model development. Results are presented showing broad agreement between the observations and the model.  相似文献