Shadows : Re-visualising the shark. Developing a framework for hybrid photography in the illumination of nonhuman animal and ecological perspectives at Heron Island and Gladstone, Great Barrier Reef

This study investigated how and to what degree “hybrid photography”—the simultaneous use of indexical and fictional properties and strategies— innovates the representation of animals within animalcentric, ecocentric frameworks. Design theory structured this project’s Practice-led, Visual research methodology framework. Grounded theory processes articulated emerging categories of hybrid photography through systematically and comparatively treating animal photography works for reflexive analysis. Design theory then applied and clarified categories, developing practice that re-visualised shark perspectives as new ecological discourse. Shadows, a creative practice installation, realised a full-scale photographic investigation into shark and marine animal realities of a specific environment—Heron Island and Gladstone, Great Barrier Reef—facing ecological crisis from dredging and development at Gladstone Harbour. Works rendered and explored hybrid photography’s capacity for illuminating nonhuman animals, in particular, sharks, and comprise 65% of this project’s weighting. This exegetical paper offers a definition, strategies and evaluation of hybrid photography in unsettling animal perspectives as effective ecological discourse, and comprises 35%.

A arte na igreja do Convento de Santa Maria do Carmo de Lisboa,1389/1755: contributos para o seu estudo cripto-histórico

Tese de mestrado, Arte, Património e Teoria do Restauro, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2010

Arqueologia Urbana em Lisboa: o Convento do Carmo entre os séculos XIV e XIX

No estágio desenvolvido na intervenção arqueológica em curso na área envolvente ao Convento do Carmo, em Lisboa, foi possível recolher abundante espólio que ajuda a compreender a sua ocupação desde o período medieval aos nossos dias. O relatório que aqui se apresenta pretende abordar, numa fase prévia e de âmbito generalizado, a problemática das intervenções preventivas em contexto urbano, partindo para o caso específico do Convento do Carmo. As observações feitas na zona tardoz do convento durante os trabalhos de escavação lançaram as bases para a escolha de um conjunto cerâmico como objecto de estudo. A existência, na fachada Este, de algumas marcas de canteiro com vestígios de pigmento vermelho permitiu teorizar sobre a hipótese de parte da fachada ter sido aterrada não muito tempo após a sua construção. Foi com base nessa hipótese que se optou por estudar a cerâmica recolhida no depósito [1298]/[705], sedimento que assentava parcialmente no alicerce do monumento.

Indenture between Andrew Heron and Charles Donaldson

Indenture (vellum) between Andrew Heron of Niagara Township and Charles Donaldson of Niagara Township concerning a portion of the estate of the late Colonel John Butler consisting of Three Mile Creek Farm - indenture no. 2135. This document is water damaged and wrinkled. Part of the document is missing. March 1, 1845.

Letter to Mr. Robert Nelles from Robert Heron

Letter to Mr. Robert Nelles from Robert Heron regarding 10 pounds, 12 shillings and 6 pence that Mr. Heron owes to Mr. Nelles. He is asking for 6 weeks of indulgence as he is not able to make the payment at present, Aug. 7, 1849.

Changes in heron and egret populations on the Laurentian Great Lakes and connecting channels, 1977-2009

Canadian and U.S. federal wildlife agencies completed four decadal surveys, spanning the years 1977 to 2009, to census colonial waterbirds breeding on the Great Lakes and adjoining bodies of water. In this paper, we reports abundance, distribution, and general population trends of three species: Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), Great Egret (Ardea alba), and Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias). Estimates of nest numbers ranged from approximately 4000-6100 for the Black-crowned Night-Heron, 250-1900 for the Great Egret, and 3800-6400 for the Great Blue Heron. Average annual rates of change in nest numbers between the first (1977) and fourth (2008) census were −1% for the Black-crowned Night-Heron, +23% for the Great Egret, and −0.27% for the Great Blue Heron. Across the 30-year census, Black-crowned Night-Heron estimates decreased in U.S. (−57%) but increased (+18%) in Canadian waters, Great Egret nests increased 1381% in Canadian waters with a smaller, but still substantial increase in the number of nests at U.S. colonies (+613%), and Great Blue Heron numbers increased 148% in Canadian waters and 713% in U.S. waters. Although a single factor cannot be clearly linked to changes observed in each species’ distribution, hydrological variation, habitat succession, nest competition with Double-crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus), and land use changes likely all contributed. Management activities should support both breeding and foraging conditions including restoration of early successional habitats and anticipate continued northward expansions in the distributions of these waterbirds.