scholarly journals Deep-sea Coral Taxonomy Workshop, Colombia 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa Dueñas ◽  
Cristina Cedeño-Posso ◽  
Juan Sanchez ◽  
Santiago Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Deep Sea ◽  
Genetic Data ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Black Corals ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Western Caribbean ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Training Opportunities ◽  
Classification Database

Corals are some of the conspicuous taxa in deep-sea ecosystems. Yet, characterizing coral diversity is difficult and requires a combination of both morphological and genetic data. Many leading coral taxonomy experts are close-to retirement or have already retired. It is now imperative that the hands-on expertise that these taxonomists have – much of which is not captured in manuscripts or books – is transferred to the next generation. The Deep-Sea Coral Taxonomy Workshop, funded by a Lounsbery award from the Deep-Sea Biology Society, aimed to provide a training opportunities and build taxonomic capacity in Colombia and Latin America. Workshop participants examined the deep-sea coral diversity of the southern western Caribbean, a poorly explored region. The three-day workshop was based mainly on hands-on activities focused on octocorals and black corals, and included introductory talks to the taxonomy of these groups and identification activities using specimens. Thanks to the workshop, it was possible to review and update the classification database of the Makuriwa Marine Natural History Museum collection. Additionally, four new species from the families Clavulariidae, Plexauridae and Gorgoniidae were identified and will be described in the near future.

The evolution of response and management training at the FEMA Center for Domestic Preparedness

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Amanda Stewart, MS ◽  
Roy Marlow, MA ◽  
Denis Campeau, MS ◽  
Tony Russell, MA, MBA ◽  
Jeffrey Ryan, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Federal Emergency Management Agency ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Short History ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Training Opportunities ◽  
Training Provider

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) was established in 1998 and is now 20 years old. In its short history, the CDP has significantly evolved the relevance and responsiveness of its courses and its capability to provide high-fidelity, hands-on training, and exercises to meet the demanding needs of today’s responders. This article discusses the basis of need for a competent, responder training program; the genesis of the CDP as a no-cost provider of responder training for state, local, tribal, and territorial responders; describes the current training opportunities available to responders; previews emerging training opportunities that are under development or envisioned in the very near future; and provides insight to the future progression of the CDP as it continues to expand and evolve its role as FEMA’s premiere, responder focused, hands-on training provider.

A study of the role and educational needs of ophthalmic specialist nurses

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (14) ◽  
pp. 858-864
Author(s):  
Pornjittra Rattanasirivilai ◽  
Amy-lee Shirodkar
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Standards Of Care ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Specialist Nurses ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Training Opportunities

Aims: To explore the current roles, responsibilities and educational needs of ophthalmic specialist nurses (OSNs) in the UK. Method: A survey of 73 OSNs ranging from band 4 to band 8 was undertaken in May 2018. Findings: 73% of OSNs undertake more than one active role, with 59% involved in nurse-led clinics; 63% felt formal learning resources were limited, with 63% reporting training opportunities and 21% reporting time as major barriers to further training. More than 38% emphasised hands-on clinic-based teaching had a greater impact on their educational needs. Some 64% were assessed on their skills annually and 59% felt confident with their skill set. Conclusion: The Ophthalmic Common Clinical Competency Framework provides a curriculum and assessment tools for OSNs to use as a structure to maintain clinical skills and knowledge. Eye departments should use this as guidance to target learning needs and improve standards of care to meet the changing needs of society.

scholarly journals Editorial. Yes, Please - Both Crafts and Digital Tools in Basic Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liv Merete Nielsen ◽  
Janne Beate Reitan
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Qualified Teachers ◽  
Hands On ◽  
The Future ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Near Future

The Ludvigsen Committee (Ludvigsen-utvalget), which aims to assess primary and secondary educational subjects in terms of the competence Norwegian society and its working life will need in the future, has published an interim report entitled Pupils’ Learning in the School of the Future – A Knowledge Foundation (Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, 2014). The committee wrote the following about arts and crafts: “That subject will contribute to personal development and simultaneously strengthen opportunities to participate in a democratic society, which can be seen as a desire to protect both individual-oriented and community-oriented training. The breadth of the subject can restrict the ability to delve into individual topics” (NOU 2014: 7, 2014, p. 89, our translation from Norwegian). This will be an important challenge for the team in the near future. The committee shall submit their principal report by June 2015.Practical work with materials must not be removed from primary school. It should be required that qualified teachers are employed on the lower grades. Practical/hands-on work can give the trades a boost, encourage students to choose vocations and prevent dropouts in vocational education programmes. We need skilled craftsmen in the future, and good teaching in Arts & Crafts in compulsory education could provide an important basis for both future craftsmen and customers of good craftsmen.

scholarly journals A catalogue of Coleoptera specimens with potential forensic interest in the Goulandris Natural History Museum collection

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Maria Dimaki ◽  
Maria Anagnou-Veroniki ◽  
Jason Tylianakis
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Forensic Entomology ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
History Museum

This paper presents a catalogue of the Coleoptera specimens in the Goulandris Natural History Museum collection that have potential forensic interest. Forensic entomology can help to estimate the time elapsed since death by studying the necrophagous insects collected on a cadaver and its surroundings. In this paper forty eight species (369 specimens) are listed that belong to seven families: Silphidae (3 species), Staphylinidae (6 species), Histeridae (11 species), Anobiidae (4 species), Cleridae (6 species), Dermestidae (14 species), and Nitidulidae (4 species). The aim of this paper is to present this collection and its importance for studying forensic entomology.

Records and Archives Management Education and Training Opportunities in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Md. Maidul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Electronic Systems ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Hands On ◽  
National University ◽  
Affiliated Colleges ◽  
Training Opportunities ◽  
And Training

The main aim of this chapter is to contextualize the records and archives management (RAM) education and training opportunities in Bangladesh with a view to identify the opportunities and challenges ahead in this endeavour. Some public and private universities and National University affiliated colleges and institutions are providing RAM education and National Library, National Archives, National Museum of Bangladesh, etc. are providing RAM training opportunities hands on practice in Bangladesh. The author discusses the current curriculum of different academia and need for RAM education and training opportunities as a subset of information management, with an acknowledged impact on the systematic and efficient management of Bangladeshi institutions. The author shows how the focus of RAM have shifted over the recent past from the archival management of unwanted documents, to the management of electronic systems, giving records managers an equal standing with other professionals in the field of information management or knowledge management. The result reveals that training opportunities on RAM have increased the professionals' development in Bangladesh. The author feels this chapter may encourage more such research on RAM system in Bangladesh and beyond.

Modern Tasman Sea surface reservoir ages from deep-sea black corals

2014 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 207-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimée F. Komugabe ◽  
Stewart J. Fallon ◽  
Ronald E. Thresher ◽  
Stephen M. Eggins
Keyword(s):  
Deep Sea ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Black Corals ◽  
Tasman Sea ◽  
Surface Reservoir

scholarly journals The London Workshop on the Biogeography and Connectivity of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Glover ◽  
Thomas Dahlgren ◽  
Sergio Taboada ◽  
Gordon Paterson ◽  
Helena Wiklund ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Sea ◽  
Synthetic Data ◽  
Resource Exploitation ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Genetic Studies ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Dna Taxonomy ◽  
Joint Programming ◽  
Vast Area ◽  
Molecular Biogeography

Recent years have seen a rapid increase in survey and sampling expeditions to the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) abyssal plain, a vast area of the central Pacific that is currently being actively explored for deep-sea minerals (ISA, 2016). Critical to the development of evidence-based environmental policy in the CCZ are data on the biogeography and connectivity of species at a CCZ-regional level. The London Workshop on the Biogeography and Connectivity of the CCZ was convened to support the integration and synthesis of data from European Union (EU) CCZ projects, supported by the EU Managing Impacts of Deep-Sea Resource Exploitation (MIDAS) and EU Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans (JPI Oceans) projects. The London Workshop had three clear goals: (1) To explore, review and synthesise the latest molecular biogeography and connectivity data from across recent CCZ cruises from both contractor and academia-funded projects; (2) To develop complementary and collaborative institutional and program-based academic publication plans to avoid duplication of effort and ensure maximum collaborative impact; (3) To plan a joint synthetic data publication highlighting key results from a range of planned molecular biogeography/connectivity publications. 32 participants attended the workshop at the Natural History Museum in London from 10-12 May 2016. Presentations and discussions are summarised in this report covering (1) overviews of current CCZ environmental projects, (2) policy and industry perspectives, (3) synthesis of DNA taxonomy and biogeography studies, (4) summaries of the latest population genetic studies, (5) summaries of the latest broader morphological context, (6) an overview of publication and proposal plans to maximise collaborative opportunities and finally a series of workshop recommendations.

The near future of the deep-sea floor ecosystems

2010 ◽  
pp. 334-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig R. Smith ◽  
Lisa A. Levin ◽  
Anthony Koslow ◽  
Paul A. Tyler ◽  
Adrian G. Glover
Keyword(s):  
Deep Sea ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
Near Future

scholarly journals New species of black corals (Cnidaria:Anthozoa: Antipatharia) from deep-sea seamounts and ridges in the North Pacific

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4868 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-559
Author(s):  
DENNIS M. OPRESKO ◽  
DANIEL WAGNER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
The North ◽  
Black Corals ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Species Descriptions ◽  
The North Pacific

Three new species of antipatharian corals are described from deep-sea (677–2,821 m) seamounts and ridges in the North Pacific, including Antipathes sylospongia, Alternatipathes venusta, and Umbellapathes litocrada. Most of the material for these descriptions was collected on expeditions aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer that were undertaken as part of the Campaign to Address Pacific Monument Science, Technology, and Ocean Needs (CAPSTONE). One of the main goals of CAPSTONE was to characterize the deep-sea fauna in protected waters of the U.S. Pacific, as well as in the Prime Crust Zone, the area with the highest known concentration of commercially valuable deep-sea minerals in the Pacific. Species descriptions and distribution data are supplemented with in situ photo records, including those from deep-sea exploration programs that have operated in the North Pacific in addition to CAPSTONE, namely the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL), the Ocean Exploration Trust (OET), and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). 

Cenozoic Benthic Foraminifera Case Histories of Paleoceanographic and Sea-Level Changes

1982 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 107-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth G. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Benthic Foraminifera ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
Planktonic Foraminifera ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Reasonable Degree ◽  
Near Future ◽  
And Sea Level

Since the inception of their use in commercial micropaleontology, benthic foraminifera have proven to be eminently useful in the solution of geological problems. The utilitarian credentials of benthic foraminifera in estimating paleodepths from marsh through neritic environments with a reasonable degree of accuracy and to indicate approximate ages (viz. subdivision of series/epochs) have been established in both commercial and academic applications. Benthic foraminifera are generally more resistant to dissolution than planktonic foraminifera, and have wide distributions; many taxa have restricted stratlgraphic ranges, making them suitable for correlation and paleo-environmental studies. Yet, three problems have tended to limit the utility of benthic foraminifera: 1) there is a lack of uniformity in taxonomy (Boltovskoy, 1980; Douglas & Woodruff, 1982); 2) attempts to erect zonal schemes using benthic foraminifera have resulted in boundaries which are later proven to be diachronous relative to planktonic zonatlons (e.g. the California provincial stages, Poore, 1976); and 3) attempts to interpret paleodepths from deep-sea benthic foraminifera have produced widely-varying results. One could perhaps conclude, as Boltovskoy (1965a) did over a decade ago, that these problems indicate “…the near future of this science is rather bleak.”

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