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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Adirondacks"”.
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“Reality" in the Adirondacks
This thesis project celebrates the Adirondacks and chronicles the challenges of summer employment with a focus on the social gap between employer and employee. Crafted in a creative non-fiction style the author discusses outdoor literature, location as influential in character development, and …
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Petrology and structure of the Glen Quadrangle, southeastern Adirondacks, NY
<p>An outcrop geologic map of The Glen quadrangle has been produced at a scale of 1:24,000. This quadrangle is composed of a sequence of Precambrian rocks which were deformed and recrystallized under clinopyroxene-garnet granulite facies conditions during late Precambrian time. Metasedimentary …
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The Rewilding of New York's North Country: Beavers, Moose, Canines and the Adirondacks
… century. Numbering fewer than ten in 1895, the Adirondacks’ remnant beaver population recolonized the region’s lakes, ponds, streams, and rivers over the next twenty-five years, assisted by the presence of prime habitat, a state-enforced moratorium on beaver trapping, and timely reinforcements. …
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The Rewilding of New York's North Country: Beavers, Moose, Canines and the Adirondacks
… century. Numbering fewer than ten in 1895, the Adirondacks’ remnant beaver population recolonized the region’s lakes, ponds, streams, and rivers over the next twenty-five years, assisted by the presence of prime habitat, a state-enforced moratorium on beaver trapping, and timely reinforcements. …
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Doing History in the Adirondacks: Interpreting the Park, the People, and the Landscape
<p>Occupying a large portion of Northern New York State, the Adirondack Park includes six million acres of public and private land that compromise over 85 % of all wilderness lands east of the Mississippi. Unique in many ways, the Adirondack Park remains a model for sustainable living and …
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Modeling the Effects of Acid Deposition and Natural Organic Acids on Surface Waters
… a delayed response in contrast to lakes in the Adirondacks in New York State which are responding relatively rapidly to decreases in acid deposition. In this dissertation, I used a biogeochemical model, PnET-BGC, as a tool to investigate the influence of acid deposition and watershed …
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Anorthositic sills of the southern Adirondack Mountains of New York state
… Moose Mountain Formations in the southern Adirondacks. The Wells Sill consists of a medium-grained gabbro forming the top and basal layers, and an inner core of anorthositic gabbro rimmed by a fine-grained chill margin called the Tenantville facies. The Speculator Sheet consists of gabbroic …
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Spatial Patterns of Mercury in Atmospheric Deposition, Soils and Lake Biota in the Adirondack Park, New York
… and bioaccumulation of Hg in the Adirondacks.</p> <p>Atmospheric Hg deposition was estimated using numerical modeling and limited field data. Mercury deposition to the coniferous forest, and deciduous forest during the leaf-on period was estimated as the sum of litterfall and …
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Recent two-feldspar, Ti-in-biotite, and garnet-biotite geothermometry of the Frontenac terrane and Adirondack Lowlands, Grenville Province, Canada and the United States
… boundary representing the welding of the Adirondacks onto the rest of the Precambrian core. In this study, to determine if or if not the BLSZ is a discontinuity, we used garnet-biotite, Ti-in-biotite, and two-feldspar geothermometry and we examined the geochemistry of Adirondack Lowlands …
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Effects of Acid Deposition and Changing Climate on the Hydrochemistry and Critical Loads of Watersheds in the Adirondack Region of New York
… that historically, stream water chemistry in the Adirondacks was variable, but inherently sensitive to acid deposition. Model projections suggest that simultaneous decreases in sulfate, nitrate and ammonium deposition are more effective in restoring stream ANC than individual decreases in sulfur …
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Changes in Diatom Assemblages in Adirondack (NY, USA) Reference Lakes Since Pre-Industrial Times
… consistent with recent changes in climate in the Adirondacks.
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Deposition and Fate of Atmospheric Mercury in Forested Landscapes of the Adirondack Park, NY
… and western sides of Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks. The 24 sample sites ranged from approximately 450-1450 m above sea level and covered three distinct forest types: deciduous/hardwood forest, spruce/fir conifer forest, and stunted growth alpine/fir forest. Throughfall Hg inputs and Hg …
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An Architecture of Path and Destination in the Land of Water, Forests, and Peaks
In 2015, I read an article about a proposed huts and trails system in the Adirondack Park. This is a 6 million acre forested, mountainous, and water logged preserve, that is also home to around 130,000 people. A huts and trails system such as the one proposed is typically aimed at recreational …
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Acidification and Climate Warming: Understanding the Impact of Multiple Anthropogenic Stressors on Adirondack (NY, USA) Lakes
Lakes in the Adirondack Park (NY, USA) are undergoing chemical recovery from acidification. There is now a pressing research need to define recovery targets for acid-impacted sites. Researchers attempting to designate such targets are hampered by two issues: 1) a lack of long-term monitoring data, …
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Developing Critical Loads and Dynamic Critical Loads for Acidification for Watersheds in the Adirondack region of New York and Great Smoky Mountain National Park (GRSM)
<p>Critical loads (CLs) and dynamic critical loads (DCLs) are important tools for the management of ecosystems that are impacted by high sulfate, nitrate and ammonium deposition. In this study, a biogeochemical model (PnET-BGC) was applied to 20 watersheds in the Adirondack region and 12 watersheds …