Morro da Mangueira: inter-ilhas poéticas

Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar práticas relacionais visando à verificação de lugares que são/foram capazes de gerar e/ou garantir interações sociais a partir de narrativas mnemônicas, propondo novos enlaces. Utilizamos o método da pesquisa ação no qual a captação da informação se dá de forma coletiva, participativa e ativa. Destacamos o processo de aproximação à comunidade da Mangueira, a constituição de um mapeamento sobre os pontos de encontro entre moradores e destes com pessoas de fora do morro, e a reativação do jornal comunitário Bate Boca experiência que se efetivou através de diferentes ações colaborativas. Verificamos a relevância dos espaços de convivência para os mangueirenses: a conformação e a sedimentação de laços relacionais entre os moradores são experiência compartilhada nos lugares. Estes são a base onde às inter-relações podem se efetivar e onde são gerados os sentimentos de pertença e reconhecimento. As intervenções de urbanização, de segurança e de ordem pública alteram ou eliminam de forma drástica esses lugares e, portanto, das relações que estão ali consolidadas. Essas mudanças trouxeram à tona lembranças de outros espaços significativos que sucumbiram na comunidade

Climatic factors associated with phytoplankton community succession during and after the 1977 drought for the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary [abstract]

Principal coordinates analysis and multiple regression analysis were used to determine the environmental factors associated with the decline in phytoplankton production during and after the 1977 drought for the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary. Physical, chemical and biological data were collected semimonthly or monthly during the spring-summer between 1973 and 1982 from 15 sampling sites located throughout the Bay-Delta. A decline in phytoplankton community diversity and density during the 1977 drought and subsequent years (1978 through 1981) was described using principal coordinates analysis. The best multiple regression which described the changes in phytoplankton community succession contained the variables water temperature, wind velocity and ortho-phosphate concentration. Together these variables accounted for 61 percent of the variation in the phytoplankton community among years described by principal coordinates analysis. An increase in water temperature, wind velocity and ortho-phosphate concentration within the Bay-Delta, beginning in June 1976 and continuing through 1981, was demonstrated using weighted moving averages. From the strong association between phytoplankton community succession and climatic variables it was hypothesized that the decline in phytoplankton production during and after the 1977 drought was associated with climatic changes within the northeast Pacific.

Climatic controls on diatom succession at Elk Lake, Minnesota [abstract]

EXTRACT (SEE PDF FOR FULL ABSTRACT): Sediment traps placed in the profundal region of Elk Lake, north central Minnesota during the 1979 spring and 1983-84 fall and spring seasons monitored seasonal diatom production for two climatically distinctive periods.