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We live at the intersection of two unprecedented ages. The first is of information and ubiquitous computing. The second is the Anthropocene – a new geological age characterized by exponentially negative and rapid impacts of human activities on earth's nature systems. I leverage the architecture of the information age to counter the Anthropocene.
Twitter: @lucasjoppa
I am a scientist at Microsoft Research where I work on computational techniques for monitoring, modeling, and managing earth's natural environments. In 2015 I co-founded the Nature + Computing group, a diverse collection of scientists drawn from Microsoft Research who develop and apply the tools of data science to scientific data and whose research interests are focused on the study of nature.
I am committed to using the tools of computer science to tackle some of the hardest challenges in environmental sustainability, including conserving biodiversity, ensuring robust food systems, and mitigating climate change. I lead Microsoft Research's engagements on environmental sustainability, and my work includes aspects of what makes Microsoft Research so special - from artificial intelligence and machine learning to software and hardware development.
Advisory Roles, Partnerships, Fellowships, Awards
I developed and lead Microsoft's partnership with the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, serving on the IUCN Red List Committee and chairing the Red List Informatics Working Group. I am the 'Advisor on Science and Innovation' at the United Nations Environmental Program - World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP-WCMC), and, through the Ecological Society of America, am a member of the US steering committee for the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Previously I served on the scientific advisory boards for the European Biodiversity Observation Network, the Global Environmental Facility, and for Natural England.
I am currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent's Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology (DICE) and an Honorary Conservation Fellow at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). In 2013 I received the Society for Conservation Biology's 'Early Career Award', and in 2015 shared their 'Lifetime Achievement Award' with all the past and present members of the IUCN Red List Committee.
I co-founded the Technology for Nature initiative, an early online effort with a mission to rapidly scale up the global conservation response through technology innovations and have been involved in many subsequent efforts to do just that.
I hold a bachelor's degree in Wildlife Ecology and Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, completed my PhD in Ecology from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, and am a former Peace Corps volunteer (Malawi).
Click here for Free and Open Access to Recent Science Policy Forum 'Filling in biodiversity threat gaps' by Joppa et al.
Conservation: Data Deluge or Drought? - World Wildlife Fund Fuller Symposium Keynote
Conservation: Data Deluge or Drought? - World Wildlife Fund Fuller Symposium Panel
US Department of Agriculture Innovation Challenge
Microsoft Technology Fair - CSPAN
NIMBioS - NSF Career Path seminar
Madingley Model: A new tool for conservation science
Innovation at Microsoft Research - Bloomberg TV
Connecting Environmental and Computer Science - MSR Luminaries Series Interview
A Prediction Engine for the Planet - MSRC ResearchNext Keynote
Film, Identify, Track, Tag, Sense, Fly - MSR TechFest Demo
Technology for Nature - 2013 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibit Interview
Technology for Nature - 2013 MSRC ResearchNext
Interview with eNCA News (South Africa) on Mataki devices
Geo-Database Applications at the Speed of Thought - 2013 MSRC ResearchNext Demo (Piero Visconti)
Microsoft - IUCN Red List Partnership Press Conference (starts at 00:02:10)
New Tools for Environmental Science - MSR Connections Lecture (starts at 00:02:30)
MS Internal Only
For A(dvertising) to E(nvironment) - MSRC Technical Advisory Board Keynote
Can We Defy Nature's End? - MSRC Internal Lecture
Unraveling Darwin's Tangled Bank
Troubling Trends in the Use of Scientific Software (Science Magazine podcast, starts at 00:13:00)
Popular Writing
Beware the Black Box of Scientific Software (Scientific Computing Magazine)
Protect a sixth of the land, protect two thirds of the species (The Conversation)
Electronic Eyes in the Wild (Rolex Awards)
A Wild Success: The Endangered Species Act at 40 (link takes you to book download)
Catching up with... (UW Madison CALS Magazine)
Microsoft Media Coverage
Microsoft News Center - Research predictions for 2016 and 2026
Microsoft News Center - Conservation in the Cloud
Microsoft Fire Hose - Royal Visit
Microsoft Fire Hose - Aichi Targets
Microsoft Enterprise Insights - Mapping Endangered Species
Science @ Microsoft - How many species?
Inside Microsoft Research - MSR Luminaries
Inside Microsoft Research - Royal Society
Inside Microsoft Research - Aichi Targets
Inside Microsoft Research - Animal Tracking
Inside Microsoft Research - IUCN Partnership
- Matthew J. Smith, Drew W. Purves, Lucas N. Joppa, Stephen Emmott, Vassily Lyutsarev, Christopher Bishop, Paul I. Palmer, Ben Calderhead, and Mark Vanderwel, Exposing variation in climate change risk assessment, AGU, 6 October 2015.
- Matthew J. Smith, Sadia E. Ahmed, Drew W. Purves, Stephen Emmott, Lucas N. Joppa, Silvia Caldararu, Piero Visconti, and Tim Newbold, Enabling joined-up decision making with geotemporal information , AGU, 6 October 2015.
- Senjuti Basu Roy, Sihem Amer-Yahia, and Lucas Joppa, ECCO-A Framework for Ecological Data Collection and Management Involving Human Workers, in Extending Database Technology, March 2015.
- Piero Visconti, Michel Bakkenes, Daniele Baisero, Thomas Brooks, Stuart HM Butchart, Lucas Joppa, Rob Alkemade, Moreno Di Marco, Luca Santini, Michael Hoffmann, and others, Projecting global biodiversity indicators under future development scenarios, in Conservation Letters, March 2015.
- Sebastián Martinuzzi, Volker C Radeloff, Lucas N Joppa, Christopher M Hamilton, David P Helmers, Andrew J Plantinga, and David J Lewis, Scenarios of future land use change around United States' protected areas, in Biological Conservation, vol. 184, pp. 446–455, Elsevier, March 2015.
- Stuart L Pimm and Lucas N Joppa, How Many Plant Species are There, Where are They, and at What Rate are They Going Extinct?, in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, vol. 100, no. 3, pp. 170–176, March 2015.
- Sonia Kéfi, Eric L Berlow, Evie A Wieters, Lucas N Joppa, Spencer A Wood, Ulrich Brose, and Sergio A Navarrete, Network structure beyond food webs: mapping non-trophic and trophic interactions on Chilean rocky shores, in Ecology, vol. 96, no. 1, pp. 291–303, Ecological Society of America, March 2015.
- Sadia E Ahmed, Greg McInerny, Kenton O'Hara, Richard Harper, Lara Salido, Stephen Emmott, and Lucas N Joppa, Scientists and software–surveying the species distribution modelling community, in Diversity and Distributions, February 2015.
- Stuart HM Butchart, Martin Clarke, Robert J Smith, Rachel E Sykes, Jörn PW Scharlemann, Mike Harfoot, Graeme M Buchanan, Ariadne Angulo, Andrew Balmford, Bastian Bertzky, others, and lucas joppa, Shortfalls and solutions for meeting national and global conservation area targets, in Conservation Letters, February 2015.
- Jurriaan M De Vos, Lucas N Joppa, John L Gittleman, Patrick R Stephens, and Stuart L Pimm, Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction, in Conservation Biology, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 452–462, January 2015.
- Stuart L Pimm, Sky Alibhai, Richard Bergl, Alex Dehgan, Chandra Giri, Zoë Jewell, Lucas Joppa, Roland Kays, and Scott Loarie, Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity, in Trends in ecology & evolution, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 685–696, Elsevier Current Trends, January 2015.
- Lucas N Joppa, Stuart HM Butchart, Michael Hoffmann, Steve P Bachman, H Resit Akçakaya, Justin F Moat, Monika Böhm, Robert A Holland, Adrian Newton, Beth Polidoro, and others, Impact of alternative metrics on estimates of extent of occurrence for extinction risk assessment, in Conservation Biology, January 2015.
- John R Matchett, Philip B Stark, Steven M Ostoja, Roland A Knapp, Heather C McKenny, Matthew L Brooks, William T Langford, Lucas N Joppa, and Eric L Berlow, Detecting the influence of rare stressors on rare species in Yosemite National Park using a novel stratified permutation test, in Scientific reports, vol. 5, Nature Publishing Group, January 2015.
- Lucas N Joppa, Technology for nature conservation: An industry perspective, in Ambio, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 522–526, Springer Netherlands, January 2015.
- Piero Visconti, Michel Bakkenes, Robert J Smith, Lucas Joppa, and Rachel E Sykes, Socio-economic and ecological impacts of global protected area expansion plans, in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, vol. 370, no. 1681, pp. 20140284, The Royal Society, January 2015.
- sadia ahmed, Greg McInerny, Kenton O'Hara, Richard Harper, Lara Salido, Stephen Emmott, and Lucas Joppa, Scientists and software – surveying the species distribution modelling community, in Diversity and Distributions, Wiley, January 2015.
- Matthew J. Smith, Stephen Emmott, Drew W. Purves, Lucas N. Joppa, and Vassily Lyutsarev, Joined-up Planetary Information, in the Cloud and on Devices, 15 December 2014.
- Piero Visconti and Lucas Joppa, Building robust conservation plans, in Conservation Biology, October 2014.
- Jonas Geldman, Lucas N Joppa, and Neil Burgess, Mapping Change in Pressure Globally on Land and within Protected Areas, in Conservaton Biology, July 2014.
- Miguel Lurgi, Nuria Galiana, Bernat C López, Lucas Joppa, and Jose M Montoya, Network complexity and species traits mediate the effects of biological invasions on dynamic food webs, in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 2, pp. 36, July 2014.
- Sean Sloan, Clinton N Jenkins, Lucas N Joppa, David LA Gaveau, and William F Laurance, Remaining natural vegetation in the global biodiversity hotspots, in Biological Conservation, vol. 177, pp. 12–24, Elsevier, July 2014.
- Mindy M Syfert, Lucas N Joppa, Matthew J Smith, David A Coomes, Steven P Bachman, and Neil A Brummitt, Using species distribution models to inform IUCN Red List assessments, in Biological Conservation, Elsevier, June 2014.
- Matthew J. Smith, Paul I. Palmer, Drew W. Purves, Mark C. Vanderwel, Vassily Lyutsarev, Ben Calderhead, Lucas N. Joppa, Christopher M. Bishop, and Stephen Emmott, Changing how Earth System Modelling is done to provide more useful information for decision making, science and society., in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, American Meteorological Society, February 2014.
- SL Pimm, CN Jenkins, R Abell, TM Brooks, JL Gittleman, LN Joppa, PH Raven, CM Roberts, and JO Sexton, The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection, in Science, vol. 344, no. 6187, pp. 1246752, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2014.
- Akiko Haruna, Alexander Pfaff, Sander van den Ende, and Lucas Joppa, Evolving protected-area impacts in Panama: impact shifts show that plans require anticipation, in Environmental Research Letters, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 035007, IOP Publishing, 2014.
- Tim Newbold, Jörn PW Scharlemann, Stuart HM Butchart, Ça\ugan H Şekercio\uglu, Lucas Joppa, Rob Alkemade, and Drew W Purves, Functional traits, land-use change and the structure of present and future bird communities in tropical forests, in Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2014.
- Mark J Costello, Brett Houlding, and Lucas N Joppa, Further evidence of more taxonomists discovering new species, and that most species have been named: response to Bebber et al.(2014), in New Phytologist, vol. 202, no. 3, pp. 739–740, 2014.
- Smith, M.J., Joppa, L., Purves, D., Vanderwel, M., Lyutsarev, V., Emmott, and S., The financial value of uncertainty in terrestrial carbon, American Geophysical Union, 9 December 2013.
- Lucas Joppa, Piero Visconti, C.N. Jenkins, and S.L. Pimm, Achieving the Convention on Biological Diversity's Goals for Plant Conservation, in Science, vol. 341, pp. 1100-1103, American Association for the Advancement of Science, September 2013.
- Eric L. Berlow, Roland A. Knapp, Steven M. Ostoja, Richard J. Williams, Heather McKenny, John R. Matchett, Qinghua Guo, Gary M. Fellers, Patrick Kleeman, Matthew L. Brooks, and Lucas Joppa, A Network Extension of Species Occupancy Models in a Patchy Environment Applied to the Yosemite Toad (
Anaxyrus canorus), in PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. e72200, Public Library of Science, August 2013.
- Lucas N Joppa, Greg McInerny, Richard Harper, Lara Salido, Kenji Takeda, Kenton O'Hara, David Gavaghan, and Stephen Emmott, Troubling Trends in Scientific Software Use, in Science, vol. 340, no. 6134, pp. 814–815, American Association for the Advancement of Science, May 2013.
- Lucas N. Joppa, David Gavaghan, Richard Harper, Kenji Takeda, and Stephen Emmott, Optimizing Peer Review of Software Code - Response, in Science, vol. 341, pp. 236-237, 2013.
- Bernardo BN Strassburg, Agnieszka E Latawiec, Anna Creed, Nga Nguyen, Gilla Sunnenberg, Lera Miles, Andrew Lovett, Lucas Joppa, Ralph Ashton, Jörn PW Scharlemann, and others, Biophysical suitability, economic pressure and land-cover change: a global probabilistic approach and insights for REDD+, in Sustainability Science, pp. 1–13, Springer Japan, 2013.
- L.N. Joppa and R Williams, Modeling the Building Blocks of Biodiversity, in PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. e56277, 2013.
- Clinton N. Jenkins, Stuart L. Pimm, and Lucas N. Joppa, Global Patterns of Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity and Conservation, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 2013.
- Lucas Joppa, Piero Visconti, Clinton Jenkins, and Stuart Pimm, Achieving the convention on biological diversity's goals for plant conservation, in Science, 2013.
- L.N. Joppa, D.L. Roberts, and S.L. Pimm, Taxonomy that matters: Response to Bacher, in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2012.
- Joppa and L.N., Population change in and around protected areas, in Ecological Anthropology, 2012.
- Joppa and L.N., Ecosystem Services: Free lunch no more, in Science, 2012.
- L.N. Joppa and J. Hutton, Trophy Lion Hunting in West Africa, in Biological Conservation, 2012.
- S. Kefi, E. Berlow, E. Wieters, S. Navarrete, O. Petchey, S. Wood, A. Boit, L.N. Joppa, K. Lafferty, R. Williams, N. Martinez, B. Menge, C. Blanchette, A. Iles, and U. Brose, Integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs, in Ecology Letters, 2012.
- B.R. Sheffers, L.N. Joppa, S.L. Pimm, and W.F. Laurance, What we know and don't know about Earth's missing biodiversity, in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2012.
- D. Hoffman, D. Fay, and L.N. Joppa, Human Migration to Park Edges: Case Studies Critique Findings from Global-level Statistical Analysis, in Conservation and Society, vol. In Press, 2011.
- S.N. Higgins, M.J Vander Zanden, L.N. Joppa, and Vadeboncoeur Y, Simultaneous top-down and bottom up control of phytoplankton biomass in lakes: the role of invasive dreissenid mussels and phosphorus, in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, vol. In Press, 2011.
- L.N. Joppa, D.L. Roberts, N. Myers, and S.L. Pimm, Biodiversity hotspots house the majority of missing species., in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011.
- Lucas N. Joppa and Richard J. Williams, The influence of single elements on nested community structure, in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2011.
- G. Forero-Medina, L.N. Joppa, and S.L. Pimm, Thermal tolerance, range expansion, and status of tropical amphibians: Reply to Catenazzi, in Conservation Biology, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 426-427, 2011.
- L.N. Joppa, D.L. Roberts, and S.L. Pimm, The population ecology and social behaviour of taxonomists., in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2011.
- L.N. Joppa and A. Pfaff, Re-assessing The Forest Impacts of Protection: The challenge of non-random location & a corrective method. , in Annual Review of Ecological Economics, vol. 1185, pp. 135-149, 2010.
- L.N. Joppa, S.R. Loarie, and A. Nelson, Measuring population growth around tropical protected areas: current issues and solutions, in Tropical Conservation Science, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 117-121, 2010.
- L.N. Joppa and A. Pfaff, Global Protected Area Impacts, in Proceedings Of The Royal Society B, pp. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.1713, 2010.
- S.L. Pimm, C. Jenkins, L.N. Joppa, D. Roberts, and G. Russell, How many endangered species remain to be discovered in Brazil?, in Natureza & Conservação, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 71-77, 2010.
- L.N. Joppa, J. Montoya, R. Sole, J. Sanderson, and S.L. Pimm, On nestedness in ecological networks, in Evolutionary and Ecology Research, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 35-46, 2010.
- G. Forero-Medina and L.N. Joppa, Colombia's protected area network: representativeness of global and national conservation priorities, in PLoS ONE, vol. 5, no. 10, 2010.
- L.N. Joppa, C.K. Williams, G.S. Casper, and S.A. Temple, Environmental factors affecting sampling success of artificial cover objects, in Herpetological Conservation and Biology, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 143-148, 2010.
- G. Forero-Medina, L.N. Joppa, and S.L. Pimm, Constraints to elevational range shifts as climate changes, in Conservation Biology, pp. doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01572.x, 2010.
- L.N. Joppa, D.L. Roberts, and S.L. Pimm, How Many Species of Flowering Plants Are There?, in Proceedings Of The Royal Society B, pp. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1004, 2010.
- L.N. Joppa and A. Pfaff, High & Far: How the world's protected areas have avoided threat., in PLoS ONE, vol. 4, no. 12, pp. e8273, 2009.
- Joppa and L.N., An ecologist calls for a citizen-science 'Wiki', in Nature, vol. 459, no. 4, pp. 619, 2009.
- L.N. Joppa, J. Bascompte, J. Montoya, R. Sole, J. Sanderson, and S.L. Pimm, Reciprocal specialization does not structure ecological networks., in Ecology Letters, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 961-969, 2009.
- C. Jenkins and L.N. Joppa, Considering protected area categories in conservation analyses., in Biological Conservation, vol. 143, no. 1, pp. 7-8, 2009.
- L.N. Joppa, S.R. Loarie, and S.L. Pimm, On population growth near protected areas, in PLoS ONE, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. e4279, 2009.
- C. Jenkins and L.N. Joppa, Expansion of the Global Protected Area System, in Biological Conservation, vol. 142, no. 10, pp. 2166-2174, 2009.
- R.S. Schick, J.S. Clark, S.R. Loarie, F. Colchero, B.D. Best, A. Boustany, D.A. Conde, P.N. Halpin, L.N. Joppa, and C.M. McClellan, Understanding movement data and movement processes: what is the state of the art?, in Ecology Letters, vol. 11, no. 12, pp. 1138-1150, 2008.
- L.N. Joppa, S.R. Loarie, and S.L. Pimm, On the protection of protected areas, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), vol. 105, no. 18, pp. 6673-6678, 2008.
- S.R. Loarie, L.N. Joppa, and S.L. Pimm, Satellites miss environmental priorities: A response to Loveland et al. and Kark et al. , in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 183-184, 2008.
- M.J. Vander Zanden, L.N. Joppa, B.C. Allen, S. Chandra, D. Gilroy, Z. Hogan, J.T. Maxted, and J. Zhu, Designating Hucho taimen fishery management zones in Mongolia based on simulation of spawning dates., in Ecological Applications, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 2281-2289, 2007.
- S.R. Loarie, L.N. Joppa, and S.L. Pimm, Satellites miss environmental priorities., in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 630-632, 2007.
- L.N. Joppa and S.A. Temple, Use of upland habitat by the Butler's gartersnake (Thamnophis butleri)., in Chicago Herpetological Bulletin, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 221-227, 2005.


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Ski to the Sea : The First Expedition to Climb and Ski Down the Slopes of Montague Island in Alaska's Prince William Sound Brings the Adventurers in Touch with Steep Slopes and Awakening Bears
gorman, stephen, The World and I
We motor across the smooth glacial waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound, heading into Zaikof Bay at the eastern end of Montague Island, where the island splits like whale flukes. Ahead, an incisor-sharp peak rises, raking the sky. It is around 10:30 p.m., but this far north the mid-April sky holds an ethereal light, and the big mountain is awash in a rich purple cast. But what lures our eyes is the peak's immaculate west face, pitching sheer and clean straight down from the summit like a giant headwall.
As our two boats cruise quietly toward the head of the bay, the big engines rumbling softly, most of us gather up on the flying bridges for a better view. We're tracing potential ski lines down the face and pointing out approach routes when our chatter is suddenly interrupted by a loud whooshing sound. My friend Rich Rayhill points, then whispers, "Orcas!"
I turn and look. Suddenly the glossy surface a few yards away is slashed by a five-foot-high, black dagger of a dorsal fin, and then another and another. The black-and-white killer whales rise and sink, slicing through the silky water. There are perhaps thirty whales of all ages, from six-foot calves to thirty-foot patriarchs. Fully aware of us and curious, they approach the vessels as they feed and play for an hour or more. Then, as if at some signal, they turn east as one, swim off into the sound, and vanish.
It has been a day for whales. Earlier in the afternoon, after threading Upper Passage on Knight Island, we entered a realm of cetacean feeding and frolicking. At all points of the compass, we saw whales rising and sounding, their giant flukes standing out sharply against the snowy mountains beyond. For hours we drifted, watching the immense creatures breach and spout, the misty vapor of their exhalations hanging in the air.
Our expedition--the first to climb and ski one of Montague Island's many nameless peaks--originated several years ago. A fisherman had pulled his 42- foot trawler, the Alexandra, alongside my sea kayak during a long crossing in a remote part of the sound. My group and his crew were the only human beings in hundreds, if not thousands, of square miles, and when he offered a lift, I thought, Why not? He introduced himself as Brad von Wichman, and as we cruised we talked about sea kayaking, then somehow got on to skiing.
"If you love ski mountaineering, you should see this place in the spring," Brad said, urging me to return when the snowpack was measured in meters and the steep white slopes plunged straight into the cobalt sea.
Prince William Sound is renowned as a sea kayaker's utopia. This 15,000- square-mile arm of the Pacific Ocean, with its labyrinthine network of glacially carved fjords, is watched over by breathtaking mountains thrusting thousands of feet into the sky. The sound's 3,500-mile-long coastline reaches deep into the snowy recesses of the Chugach and Kenai Ranges. The skiing in these peaks is virtually unexplored: there are no roads here, and the sound is enormous--the size of my home state of New Hampshire. To access these mountains, you need a boat.
When Brad and I parted, I took a last look at the Alexandra and thought, "Hell, we could base ourselves aboard that boat and ski anywhere we wanted!"
Island destination
So here we are on a bright Alaskan wilderness morning, with not one boat but two. The Alexandra and Brad's 58-foot charter boat Babkin serve as our transportation and floating base camps in the wilderness. In addition we have two inflatable, motorized Zodiac skiffs for accessing the shore and eight sea kayaks for apres-ski paddling.
Banking the skiff in graceful arcs to avoid chunks of floating ice, Brad steers toward open water. As it cuts a furrow across the placid surface, I grab my ball cap with one hand and shade my eyes with the other.
Looking ahead, I study our destination for the day. …

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Wyoming County Court Notes, 10/13/2012
Wyoming County Court notes appear each week in The Times-Tribune.
- Lee R. Reeves and Cheryl L. Reeves to Jeffrey D. Martin, a property in Monroe Twp. for $110,000.
- Steven A. Reymann and Terri D. Reymann to Raymond W. Harris, a property in Tunkhannock Twp. for $160,000.
- Yvonne J. Rowlands, Yvonne J. Canfield and Jeffrey F. Canfield to Jeremy Shoemaker, a property in Tunkhannock Twp. for $139,000.
- Christina Robinson, Christina R. Fenton and Chris Fenton, to Del A. Howell, a property in North Branch Twp. for $83,000.
- William Howell to Richard L. Williams, a property in Braintrim Twp. for $1,500.
- Jean Hager and Eileen Hager, attorney-in-fact, to Brandon S. White, a property in Tunkhannock Twp. for $67,840.
- Wyoming County Sheriff Brian Cucura to Federal National Mortgage Association, a property in Washington Twp. for $1,135.88.
Estates Filed
- Ralph E. Corby, late of Eaton Twp., letters testamentary to Phillip A. Corby, executor, c/o attorney Anthony P. Litwin III, 24 East Tioga St., Tunkhannock, PA 18657.
- Benjamin Watson Ryan, Factoryville, to Kathryn Esther Vail, Factoryville.
- Joshua Allarue Wood, Wyalusing, to Mary Rita Deininger, Wyalusing.
- Paul James Conklin, Greenfield Twp., to Jennifer Lynn Clark, Dalton.
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I have a Dahon Vitesse D7HG (2011) and wanted to get a front luggage for it. Unfortunately, the one I have found that really seems to fit my needs is the Brompton's C-bag, but I don't really know if can manage to get it installed in my Dahon.
From what I managed to check the Brompton has two holes in the front frame, while my Dahon has three holes. My hope is that two of the holes from Dahon will fall in the same distance as the holes in the Brompton Front Carrier Block (Part# QFCBA). But I am not so sure...at least I haven't found anyone that actually used this block on a Dahon.
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Traveling again, but this time rented a bike.
Went on the shop ride today, 25 miles just shy of an 18 pace. Wimpy, I know, but what a joy it was to get on the bike and RIDE on this road trip! I really hate being away from home, but the anticipation and the ride and the afterglow have made today a first rate day!
I find out every day I get on my bicycle just how much it benefits me to ride - and instead of regretting the 25 years I didn't ride I look forward to riding until they wheel me off to the old folks home (in fact, a ride in November starts and finishes at said old folks home, converted to a funky hotel and bar in Oregon).
I get to ride another 40 tomorrow, and maybe two or three 25+ in the evenings during the week depending on weather (folks don't ride in the rain here in Alabama). Wow.
Again, I am just amazed how my attitude is changed by being able to ride. It isn't just the exercise, but from the first spin of the crank I feel like I am free of the daily crap and am getting to eat up the fun.
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The 25th Annual Arc Golf Tournament, held on Monday, May 18, 2015 at the Country Club of St. Albans was a major success! The weather was gorgeous for our 200 golfers and volunteers. Thanks to the generosity of our players and donors, the Arc raised $250,000 for the agency and the people we support!
For the first time in the event's history, the hole-in-one shot contest was won by golfer Kerry Auer, who was awarded a Camaro from Johnny Londoff Chevrolet.
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After a day on the links concluded, golfers were treated to a silent auction and awards reception. The highlight of the event was the drawing for a golfer's dream trip for two to Scotland. The winner: Jim Curran.
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Designed with great attention to detail, this hotel is among the top establishments in the southern Black Forest and the High-Rhine areas. It lies directly above Tiengen's pedestrian zone and enjoys a very central and yet peaceful setting. The railway station is only a 2 minute walk away. There are 40 parking spaces free of charge right on the doorstep.
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In this town, movie premieres have been relegated to mostly "tastemaker screenings," those organized at small downtown theaters with small after-parties. So the fact that "Bad Teacher," a new relatively-low budget comedy that opens Friday, starring the big-budget cast of Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake and Jason Segal, had a splashy premiere at the Ziegfeld means something. (The movie is written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky.)
In the film, as the title suggests, Ms. Diaz, who flew in from London, where she has been filming a caper called "Gambit," plays a teacher who doesn't really care to give it her all. She drinks during class and thinks showing movies like "Lean on Me," "Stand and Deliver," and "Dangerous Minds" is equivalent to an education. In one particular sequence, she spreads poison ivy on an unsuspecting colleague's apple.
(Meanwhile, over on 42nd Street, "Cars 2" was having its first big media screening. Lots of kids foaming at the mouth for this sequel; they couldn't care less that the racecar driver Jeff Gordon and his family were among them. Mr. Gordon voices a car in the movie.)
The "Bad Teacher" after-party took place downtown at the Bowery Hotel. It was decorated with inexpensive tokens from the film: apples everywhere; spiral notebooks, and VHS copies of the aforementioned films. Those VHS copies disappeared quicker from tables than the spiral notebooks, which makes you realize that people will take anything from a party even if they have no use for them. Who uses a VCR anymore, anyway? Especially if you're in the kind of community that gets invited to a movie premiere.
It's interesting, however, to see who comes to a movie premiere in New York these days. Yes, the cast was around, including Mr. Timberlake, followed around by a bodyguard; Ms. Diaz, in one of those micro-skirts she has been sporting lately to who knows what effect, and Lucy Punch, who plays Ms. Diaz's nemesis, in a form-fitting Joseph Altuzarra dress.
There were also semi-celebs like Kirstie Alley (looking particularly svelte), Ralph Macchio and Weird Al Yancovic, who has been promoting his new album "Alpocalypse" and said he enjoyed "Bad Teacher." And then, for whatever reason, but mostly because people seem to invite them, were four of the Real Housewives of New York.
"We loved the movie," said Jill Zarin, kibitzing with her husband, Bobby. "Loved it. It's going to be huge. I'm going to start tweeting about it as soon as I leave the party." It is amazing to think that Ms. Zarin's tweets would persuade someone to see a particular comedy, but in this noisy and packed media landscape one has to assume that every little bit helps.
Lately it's hard to find an after-party without an after-after party and "Bad Teacher" had one, sponsored by William Morris Endeavor on the roof of the Gramercy Park Hotel. Mr. Timberlake and Ms. Punch were there, as were Mr. Eisenberg and Mr. Stupnitsky and their friends and family. There were also mini-grilled cheese sandwiches that went quickly.
Is the after-after party something that only happens in New York? And how does one know when the after-party ends and the after-after party begins? How does one know when the after-after party should end at all? Do people, as R. Kelly sings, still go to the hotel lobby after the party? These are the metaphysical questions we ponder on a nightly basis.
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Cultural Stratigraphy at Mezhirich, an Upper Palaeolithic Site in Ukraine with Multiple Occupations
Soffer, Olga, Adovasio, James M., Kornietz, Ninelj L., Velichko, Andrei A., Gribchenko, Yurij N., Lenz, Brett R., Suntsov, Valeriy Yu., Antiquity
The later Palaeolithic sites on the East European plain are celebrated for their solid buildings constructed of mammoth bones. Were these permanent settlements, occupied all the year round? Or were they seasonally occupied, in a land where winters are harsh? Stratigraphic explorations at Mezhirich, and excavation of the empty space between the buildings, leads to a decisive interpretation.
The Upper Palaeolithic record of Eastern Europe - replete with spectacular mammoth-bone dwellings and multiple features, including storage pits - is well known to professional and lay audiences [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED]. It includes at least 13 sites such as Dobranichevka, Eliseevichi, Gontsy, Mezin, Mezhirich, and Yudinovo, which cluster near the valleys of the Dniepr and Desna rivers and their tributaries, also such outliers as Milovice near the Dyje in Moravia, and Anosovka II and Kostenki II on the Don in Russia (Soffer 1985; Svoboda et al. 1996). Radiocarbon assays from these sites, predominantly on burnt mammoth bone and teeth - a less than optimal medium - date their occupation to a period between some 22,000 and 12,000 b.p. (Svezhentsev 1993; Svoboda et al. 1996). Although they do show some regional differences, their lithic inventories are all assigned to the poorly defined Eastern Gravettian techno-complex.
The sheer size of some of these sites, together with the abundance of their features and the wealth of their inventories has led many scholars to see them as fully settled Palaeolithic villages occupied by sizeable communities on a year-round basis (e.g. Bibikov 1969; Klima 1983; Pidoplichko 1969; Shovkoplyas 1965). Pidoplichko (1969: 148), using meat weight estimates, postulated that Dobranichevka was occupied for 8 years, Gontsy for 9, Mezin for 8, and Mezhirich for 20 years. Other researchers, citing the presence of particular taxa at the sites that were presumably harvested in different seasons, have argued for year-round sedentism as well (e.g. Kornietz et al. 1981). These conclusions use untested assumptions including that:
* all of the dwellings were occupied at the same time
* all the osteological remains resulted from active hunting which gave the hunters access to the animal protein.
They also disregard the fact that the storage of food by freezing in dug-in pits erases the direct tie between the season of procurement and the season of consumption (Soffer 1989).
Finally, seeing these sites as sedentary villages occupied for a decade or two also stands in stark contrast to the thinness of the cultural layers reported from these purportedly single-layer sites where their thickness averages c. 10 cm (for full discussion see Soffer 1985).
In this paper we report the results of our macro- and micro-stratigraphic studies at one of these sites - Mezhirich - which clearly documents repeated seasonal re-occupation rather than year-round sedentism.
The site of Mezhirich
The site, found in the centre of the Mezhirich village (49 [degrees] 38 [minutes] N, 31 [degrees] 24 [minutes] E), is located in the Kanev raion, Cherkassy oblast' in Ukraine, some 160 km (100 miles) directly south of the capital city of Kyiv. A suite of radiocarbon dates on osteological remains indicates that Mezhirich was occupied around 15,000 years ago (Svezhentsev 1993).
Cultural remains here are found in calcareous loess at the depth of 2.7-3.4 m. below the present-day surface, which, in turn, lies at the height of c. 98 m above the level of the Baltic sea (Gladkikh & Kornietz 1978). Geomorphological studies indicate that at the time of occupation the site sat on a promontory of the second terrace which sloped gently towards the confluence of the near-by Ros' and Rossava rivers. Macrostratigraphic work, which shows cultural remains associated with embryonic soil formation, coupled with palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, shows that people occupied the site during one of the milder interstadials, possibly the Trubchevskij, which followed the Last Glacial Maximum (Velichko et al. …


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How Colors May Affect Your Productivity and Success
Colors are everywhere and their impact on us shouldn't be under-estimated. Our nervous system requires input and stimulation. And color choice is the best way to help it.
Colors can change our mood, make us work or feel tired – imagine, your room colors may be the reason for your bad productivity or lower creativity! The human eye sees about 7,000,000 colors.
Certain colors and color relationships can irritate, cause headaches, or make you feel sick. Other colors and color combinations are healing and soothing.
Consequently, the appropriate use of color can maximize productivity, minimize visual fatigue, and relax the whole body. Here are some basics to start from:
|Physical background
|Effect on productivity
|Thermal / warm colors (stimulate and raise blood pressure)
|Red raises blood pressure, increases breathing, heart rate and central nervous system functioning
|Makes people feel hungry; subconsciously symbolizes dominance
|Makes people more cautious and detail-oriented; => Make people's work more accurate
|Cool colors (calm, ease inflammation, and lower blood pressure)
|Blue lowers blood pressure, the pulse rate and body temperature
|Least appetizing; calming
|Boosts creativity
|Green in the center of the spectrum has a stabilizing effect on the human system as a whole.
|Relieves stress, makes you calmer
|Researchers have also found that green can improve reading ability
Now, just a few details to support the data listed in the table:
It may look weird that while making you more energetic and excited, this color also makes you more productive and attentive to details. This phenomenon is explained the following way:
"When you feel that the situation you are in is problematic," said Norbert Schwarz, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, "you are more likely to pay attention to detail, which helps you with processing tasks but interferes with creative types of things."
By contrast, when people are calm, balanced and in a happy mood, they are more creative and less analytic. Hence if you need to get more creative, blue is the right choice for you. Blue also suppresses appetite, so if you have bad time concentrating because of the frequent breaks for some snacks, surround yourself with blue and you will get more organized.
Want to see for yourself, compare then: Which one looks more delicious?
Which one makes you more relaxed / energetic?
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The title seems to have used "effect" where "affect" would be more in line with the content of the article.
now the title has 'affect' ?
nice try correcting grammar, but "effect" is indeed the correct use here.
No, it's not. Not when the commenter left that note at least. It was simply corrected before you commented, deciding to criticize them. You can see it in the URL — the original title was used to generate the permalink using "effect," and changing it after the title correction would have screwed up incoming links and such so it was left alone. Don't be so quick to criticize. (And yes, I know this is a reply to an older comment.)
Sorry, but "effect" is a noun; so "affect," a verb, would be correct.
Yes, we've established that and it's been corrected in the page title. Thanks. As noted previously we didn't change it in the permalink because it would have affected incoming links at the time, giving visitors a "page not found" error.
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To really prove the point that color affects how appetizing something is, you should really have two identical photos of a food but shown in different colors.
Here there are other factors other than just color that make the rice appear less appetizing than the strawberries: the uninspired composition of the image, the seaweed skin, and the fact that they kind of look like maggots …
Yes, traditionally scents do affect your productivity. Read up on aromatherapy to know more. I'm a writer and often use essential oils. For example, if it's a cold day and I'm sluggish and having difficulty concentrating I will burn some rosemary essence in an oil burner. If I'm very tense and this is impeding my work then I'll turn to lavender, and so on.
This is so much true! And not only about edible products, but also about consumption products. Thanks for the interesting read on a fresh topic.
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Not very detailed is it? Never the less I did change my computers desktop to red. I'm such a procrastinator I'm even thinking of painting an office wall red. That will put off any "real" office work for half a day or more!
I'm trying to think of where I've seen something more useless than this "study" and its advice. Nothing comes to mind. Has anyone seen offices colored in any of the three primary colors of light? And does anyone believe that red, the color of blood, increases appetite more than other colors? Or that blue lowers appetite? Dieters would be painting their entire environment blue. Personally, I found the brown and blue concoctions more appetizing than the close-up of strawberries. I also found the red photo with the melting gel tower more relaxing than the blue photo with the vivid flower-like (shuriken-like?) image on a white dust background. Of course, I could be atypical in regards to color.
The skeptic in me says this type of information doesn't pass the BS detector test.
i can think of something more useless. spending the time to write a full paragraph to spite someone's research. oh, i'm an art consultant and there are plenty of offices with bright blue red orange green and yellow walls. maybe the lack of color in yours is giving you a bad attitude
Orange is bad. Really bad. I used to work in a place with orange/yellow patterned rugs and orange striped walls. I can't think of a more unpleasant environment. It made people narky. Someone obviously thought it would keep us awake. Like work isn't bad enough in the first place. 😛 Now, blue, I can work around, all mellow and yet productive.
Orange makes me sick. If it was neon kind of red mostly orange color I would want to throw-up, get dizzy, irritated, and feel very week. I would feel that way anywhere 20 mins to 2 hrs depending of exposure. I've always been that way. Don't know why???? Any Ideas???
Ann whats your last name i need to site u for a project.
Ann Smarty
Ann, I really need your last name also. I need to cite it for a paper. It would help a lot.
Interesting. I'll try to look at blue objects from now on when lunchtime feels too far away…
Ann –
The NYTimes article mis-quoted the study and hence a lot of people thought this information applies to room colors. The study involved people looking at a computer screen for a study on the impact of colors on the response to ads. This response cannot be applied to room colors. Screen colors, print ad colors and uniform colors are not the same as room colors in terms of response. Paint an office red and you will be hungry, restless and bouncing off the walls – NOT more focused.
Great post. Really good material about different colors. I just would like to emphasize one point. No matter what color you use – use it reasonable. Too much domination of whatever color can have an opposite effect – it can cause stress.
Best Regards
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Why is it that yellowish room makes me sick and sometimes i vomit, certain greens and blue makes my stomach upset to
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Out of those three, blue makes me feel productive and focused, red makes me think sex and food, and green makes me relax.
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One thousand pounds of uncut heroin. Street value: a quarter of a billion dollars. New York's baddest dealer is a preening hustler named St. James Livingston, and his latest scheme will make the French Connection smuggling operation look small-time. The shipment is coming in through a Cuban diplomatic mission, and when it arrives Livingston he won't just make a fortune. He'll make history. Only John Bolt stands in his way.
Narcotics agents aren't supposed to ride horses. But today John Bolt is tailing a drug courier in Central Park, and in two feet of snow, horseback is the only way to ride. When he hears the pop-pop-pop of a .32 pistol, he knows his man is dead. Bolt charges to the scene, and the gunmen open fire. They kill his horse, and Bolt avenges the animal. As one of the killers bleeds into unconsciousness, he says they were sent by Apache.
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I didn't like any of their starters. I remember when I got Sapphire as a child, it was when I first discovered I could just trash my starter Pokemon. I hated all of them. It was the first time I saw ugly starters, and I never again had high hopes for them- and I was never pleasantly surprised. The designs never got worse than Gen III, but they didn't get much better. Chimchar and Oshawott were fairly cute, but their final stages were nearly as ugly as the Hoenn starters'.
Johto were my favorite. The only generation where I couldn't decide which one I liked best because I loved them all. I initially decided Cyndaquil to be my starter on my Crystal, but when I got Soulsilver where Ninetales was available I chose Totodile. Chikorita was a bad choice because of the first gym and the Sprout Tower.
Anyhow, Cyndaquil is my favorite starter because Typhlosion is the only final starter stage I truly love.
(My opinions are solely on the design. If we are talking stats, I think Unova was worst.)
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Here we sit in Dulles airport waiting. Our first flight has been delayed and already, the virtue of patience is in play. It's hard for teens to embrace change, so imagine the fun of explaining to 10 kids that their flight has already been delayed twice. Patience is a virtue that we'll be learning a lot about. I'm thankful for the delay, it gives me some time to really give over our trip to the Lord. So here we sit waiting and growing in virtue with every moment.
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 576 pages.
"How the Earth Turned Green should be required reading for all pre-service biology teachers and on the bookshelf of all K–16 science instructors," writes reviewer Marshall D. Sundberg, for "Armstrong uses plant evolution, in the broad sense, to demonstrate how to teach the big ideas of science underlying the evolution of life on Earth. ... His refreshing wit and straightforward commentary lead the reader through an evolutionary explanation of why a predominant color of earth is green."
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goolia replied on
Kate did not kill her father - she's innocent!! (i kid, i kid). Nice analysis on the show, though.
I wasn't as bothered that Sayid was a former Iraqi Republican Guard (ie: the bad guy). And maybe that's just my ignorance...but I found it somewhat refreshing (in this political climate) to have someone representative of the Iraqi military who, over the last few years, we were able to get to know "personally". I found him to be the most interesting (and quite frankly, the hottest) character on the show. I cried when he died.
Anyways...I feel a little silly even talking about the show...I just love it so much it's hard for me to look at it from a feminist point of view. So thank you for doing it for me and allowing me to appreciate it's ups and downs.
Thanks for reading and
Rachel McCarthy... replied on
Thanks for reading and commenting, Julia! Much appreciated.
<i>I found him to be the most interesting (and quite frankly, the hottest) character on the show. I cried when he died. </i>
Oh yes, I love Sayid. I think that he is a wonderful character. I just think that there are problematic aspects of his character with regard to race.
<i>I just love it so much it's hard for me to look at it from a feminist point of view. </i>
I actually am having kind of a similar problem with season six. At some point I stopped analyzing and I am just kind of going through it.
goolia replied on
I just re-read what i wrote..."i just love it so much it's hard for me to look at it from a feminist point of view"...wow, that sounds stupid. I can still love something and question it at the same time. I need to pull my head out of the clouds. Ironically, this is the exact conversation i had with my tea-bagger mother last night regarding my criticism of united states foreign policy and immigration laws. she said, "i'm scared you're a socialist. i don't understand why you hate the united states". not like it matters, but i'm a historian and i'm paid to protect, analyze, and interpret the history of this land. Sorry, I know it's a bit off topic but I just want to scream.
Don't beat yourself up
Rachel McCarthy... replied on
Don't beat yourself up Julia! We all need time to decompress and take a break from feminist analysis. :)
I have the same problems
Cara Kulwicki replied on
I have the same problems reasonably responding to critiques of Sayid as Julia does. I just love him too much! It's my knee-jerk reaction to say "yes, he was a torturer! But they portrayed him as human, as someone who's not a soulless best or an evil enemy!" or "yeah, he was a hitman, but he did it to protect his friends, and not for selfish reasons!"
And then I always have to step back and remind myself that just because I like something doesn't mean it's not problematic. Or, that just because I think they did a relatively good job with a scenario they placed the character in doesn't mean that placing the character in that scenario wasn't stereotypical and unimaginative and problematic and quite possibly racist. Just like how, when the problem of casting Sayid is pointed out, I always want to say "but Naveen Andrews <i>is</I> Sayid! No one else could have played him as well!" I have to remind myself that just because Andrews has been utterly brilliant in the role doesn't mean that it wasn't really rather shitty to give a character a specific ethnicity that plays a fairly central role in his characterization, and then not really care about the ethnicity of the actor in casting.
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Deadly Surveillance (1991)
A Canadian production from 1991, Deadly Surveillance concerns two police officers investigating a series of killings linked to drugs. The main suspect is the attractive lover of one of the cops, and the obvious tensions flare.
Directed By: Paul Ziller
Rated: R
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Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense
Release Date: June 1, 1991
DVD Release Date: December 19, 1991


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Updated on: 07/21/2015
Update Notes
Updated on: 07/21/2015
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