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BIRDCHAT for Thursday, April 17, 2008
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Subject: RFI
From: "Bob Cirillo" <rcirillo(AT)cableone.net>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 9:45am
We are leaving for Veracruz, Mexico on April 23, 2008 to do some birding.
Has anyone had experience birding in this area who would be willing to share
information on where to go? Following birding there for several days we
will drive to Oaxaca, Mexico hoping to bird along the way. Any suggestions
for birding in these areas would be appreciated.
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Subject: FW: RFI
From: "Bob Cirillo" <rcirillo(AT)cableone.net>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 9:51am
Oops! Forgot to put in name, etc. - Bob Cirillo, rcirillo(AT)cableone.net, Sun
City, AZ, USA
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From: Bob Cirillo [mailto:rcirillo(AT)cableone.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:36 AM
To: 'birdchat(AT)listserv.arizona.edu'
Subject: RFI
We are leaving for Veracruz, Mexico on April 23, 2008 to do some birding.
Has anyone had experience birding in this area who would be willing to share
information on where to go? Following birding there for several days we
will drive to Oaxaca, Mexico hoping to bird along the way. Any suggestions
for birding in these areas would be appreciated.
BirdChat Guidelines: http://www.ksu.edu/audubon/chatguidelines.html
Archives: http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdchat.html
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Subject: Green Desert Landscapes and Monsoon season
From: "Richard Cimino" <rscimino(AT)earthlink.net>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 8:37pm
This is FYI for birders who live or frequent the Sky Islands of Southeast
Arizona and north.
Monsoon as we know well, delivery southern hemisphere species for our study
and enjoyment.
North American Monsoon System (NAMS): Ecohydrology of Seasonally-Green
Desert Landscapes
Presented by Enrique R. Vivoni
Candidate for the Ecohydrology faculty position, with joint appointment as
Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment
MONDAY, APRIL 21st, 2008
12:15 - 1:15 PM
Yang & Yamazaki Environment & Energy Bldg.
Room 111, Red Atrium
473 Via Ortega
Enrique Vivoni is Associate Professor of Hydrology in the Department of
Earth and Environmental Science at New Mexico Institute of Mining and
Technology. This special seminar features a candidate for faculty position
potentially in CEE, EESS, or EcoEvo, with the Woods Institute for the
Environment.
The seasonality of ecohydrological processes in arid and semiarid regions
is a critical source of temporal variability primarily induced through
changes in precipitation. In water-limited monsoon regions, fairly rapid
hydroclimatic transitions can lead to a seasonally-green desert landscape
during the summer period. Little is currently known on ecohydrological
processes in these settings and their potential role in land-atmosphere
interactions, ephemeral runoff production and alluvial basin recharge. In
this talk, we discuss the North American Monsoon System (NAMS) and its
impact on seasonal changes in precipitation, soil moisture, vegetation and
streamflow response in regions characterized by complex terrain. In our
analysis, we utilize data sets obtained from intensive field campaigns, a
long-term hydrometeorological and flux tower network, remotely-sensed
observations, and analysis from numerical modeling of atmospheric and
watershed processes. Our studies illustrate the strong seasonal and
interannual variability of ecohydrological processes, the concurrent
effects of land surface vegetation on precipitation recycling, the
topographic controls on hydrologic conditions and ecosystem processes and
the relations between precipitation pulses, plant dynamics and surface heat
fluxes. We then discuss the implications of ecohydrological interactions on
regional climate and water resources along the US-Mexico border. The
dramatic latitudinal gradient in NAMS provides an organizing principle for
future studies on the distribution of seasonally-varying ecohydrological
processes in southwestern North America.
Richard Cimino
Pleasanton, Alameda County, Cal.
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Subject: ADMIN: Copyright
From: "Chuck & Jaye Otte" <otte2(AT)cox.net>
Date: 17 Apr 2008 9:18pm
Good evening BirdChatters!
I hope spring migration is reaching your area - Kansas is feeling the first
real wave of migrants and seldom has a spring and spring migration been so
welcome!
In the past couple of months we have had several occasions when copyrighted
material has been posted to BirdChat.
From the BirdChat guidelines, which can be found at:
http://www.ksu.edu/audubon/chatguidelines.html
"Posting of copyrighted material for which the poster does not own the
copyright (e.g. newspaper or magazine articles) is not allowed. If you think
that the BirdChat subscribers need to read such material, please send a brief
message to the list, indicating the topic and including the URL (web address)
for the material."
Copyright laws are often misunderstood and I am certainly no copyright lawyer.
However, simply giving credit to the source is not adequate. The BirdChat
guidelines are very specific, is you do not own the copyright or if you do not
have explicit written permission from the copyright owner, do not post the
article or written work to BirdChat. There is no doubt that those who posted
copyrighted material to BirdChat did not do so with malice in mind nor in the
attempt to make money. But that doesn't change the fact that you should not be
posting copyrighted material to BirdChat. And in each case, the subscriber
sending the message received a kind little message from the listowners.
As the guidelines state, if you think it is something worth reading, tell us
what it is and paste the URL into the message. If this situation were to get
out of control, BirdChat could be shut down. While that might give the
listowners more time to go birding, none of us would like to see BirdChat shut
down!
So for future messages, if you are getting ready to paste something into a
BirdChat message that is from any other source, don't! And if you have any
question as to whether you should post something - please ask the listowners.
That's what we're here for!!
Good birding!
Chuck Otte
BirdChat co-listowner
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Junction City Kansas USA 66441
785-238-8800
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