CATARINA 2012-Leg 1 - CTD-O2 Data report

The CATARINA Leg1 cruise was carried out from June 22 to July 24 2012 on board the B/O Sarmiento de Gamboa, under the scientific supervision of Aida Rios (CSIC-IIM). It included the occurrence of the OVIDE hydrological section that was performed in June 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010, as part of the CLIVAR program (name A25) ), and under the supervision of Herlé Mercier (CNRSLPO). This section begins near Lisbon (Portugal), runs through the West European Basin and the Iceland Basin, crosses the Reykjanes Ridge (300 miles north of Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, and ends at Cape Hoppe (southeast tip of Greenland). The objective of this repeated hydrological section is to monitor the variability of water mass properties and main current transports in the basin, complementing the international observation array relevant for climate studies. In addition, the Labrador Sea was partly sampled (stations 101-108) between Greenland and Newfoundland, but heavy weather conditions prevented the achievement of the section south of 53°40’N. The quality of CTD data is essential to reach the first objective of the CATARINA project, i.e. to quantify the Meridional Overturning Circulation and water mass ventilation changes and their effect on the changes in the anthropogenic carbon ocean uptake and storage capacity. The CATARINA project was mainly funded by the Spanish Ministry of Sciences and Innovation and co-funded by the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional. The hydrological OVIDE section includes 95 surface-bottom stations from coast to coast, collecting profiles of temperature, salinity, oxygen and currents, spaced by 2 to 25 Nm depending on the steepness of the topography. The position of the stations closely follows that of OVIDE 2002. In addition, 8 stations were carried out in the Labrador Sea. From the 24 bottles closed at various depth at each stations, samples of sea water are used for salinity and oxygen calibration, and for measurements of biogeochemical components that are not reported here. The data were acquired with a Seabird CTD (SBE911+) and an SBE43 for the dissolved oxygen, belonging to the Spanish UTM group. The software SBE data processing was used after decoding and cleaning the raw data. Then, the LPO matlab toolbox was used to calibrate and bin the data as it was done for the previous OVIDE cruises, using on the one hand pre and post-cruise calibration results for the pressure and temperature sensors (done at Ifremer) and on the other hand the water samples of the 24 bottles of the rosette at each station for the salinity and dissolved oxygen data. A final accuracy of 0.002°C, 0.002 psu and 0.04 ml/l (2.3 umol/kg) was obtained on final profiles of temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen, compatible with international requirements issued from the WOCE program.

Creative nonfiction : Granta 104

A 1000-word review of Granta 104 - Fathers : The Men Who Made Us (Allen & Unwin, 2009)

A preference-based semantics for CTD reasoning

In [8] the authors developed a logical system based on the definition of a new non-classical connective ⊗ capturing the notion of reparative obligation. The system proved to be appropriate for handling well-known contrary-to-duty paradoxes but no model-theoretic semantics was presented. In this paper we fill the gap and define a suitable possible-world semantics for the system for which we can prove soundness and completeness. The semantics is a preference-based non-normal one extending and generalizing semantics for classical modal logics.

Sapientia, 1972, Vol. XXVII, nº 104 (Índice general)

Contenido: Índice general de autores y materias. Año I, 1946 – Año XXV, 1970

Diário da Constituinte [gravação de vídeo] : [programa n. 104]

Mulheres opinam sobre o aborto. Narrador descreve dados da Organização das Nações Unidas - ONU, segundo os quais no Brasil são feitos 10% dos abortos do mundo . Aparecida Shumaher, do Conselho Nacional de Defesa da Mulher, diz que o aborto é questão de responsabilidade ética da mulher, cabendo a ela decidir. Dom Antonio C. de Queiroz, Secretário Geral da Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil (CNBB), afirma que a igreja é radicalmente contra o aborto. Leonor Nunes de Paiva, da OAB-RJ, defende que a mulher deve ter o direito de interromper a gestação. Diz também que a OAB-RJ entende o aborto como assunto para a legislação ordinária. Deputados da Assembleia Nacional Constituinte (ANC) consideram que o aborto não é matéria constitucional. José Paulo Bisol (PMDB-RS) afirma que o aborto deve ser tratado no Código Penal, não na Constituição. Eunice Michilis (PFL-AM) sugere o aborto apenas nos casos de estupro, gravidez de alto risco e má formação fetal que leve a uma vida vegetativa. Lídice da Mata (PC do B-BA) defende que a descriminalização do aborto refletiria a busca de articular a lei com os acontecimentos da sociedade e que, para evitar o aborto no Brasil, é preciso implementar políticas de planejamento familiar.

Influence of aniline on Daphnia magna Straus [Translation from: Trudy Saratov.Otdeleniya GosNIORKh 13 102-104, 1975]

Experiments were carried out by the method of direct effect of the tested substance on increase of biomass (1,2). Daphnia magna was cultured under laboratory conditions.The author concludes that concentrations of aniline from 5000 to 0.1 mg/1 appear acutely lethal. The disturbance of feeding, reproduction, the disorganization of the nervous system, speak of the toxicity of the substance.