Introduction to special section: Coastal Ocean Observatories

Introduction to special section: Coastal Advances in Shelf Transport

[1] The Coastal Ocean Advances in Shelf Transport (COAST) program conducted an interdisciplinary study of coastal upwelling off central Oregon during summer 2001. Two intensive field efforts during May–June and August 2001 were coordinated with ocean circulation, ecosystem, and atmospheric modeling of the region. A primary goal was to contrast the coastal ocean response to wind forcing in a reg...

Introduction to the Special Section

Human Ecology Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2009 © Society for Human Ecology The collection of articles for this special section is primarily the result of a symposium organized by Dr. Tom Dietz that took place at the XIV International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology. The symposium as well as this collection of papers represents a unique cross-section of scholars at various stages in thei...

Introduction to the Special Section

ystem identification refers broadly to the problem of developing empirical mathematical models of systems based on excitation and response measurements. Such models are useful for enhancing physical understanding; analyzing system properties; and performing simulation, prediction, filtering, state estimation, monitoring, and fault diagnosis as well as control. Practical interest in system ident...

Introduction to the Special Section

I F we consider Zuse’s Plankalktil the first programming language, research on computer languages is about half a century old now. During this period, languages have always been in the mainstream of computer science research. The focus of the research has perhaps shifted somewhat from efficiency (1950s) to expressivity (196Os), portability (197Os), and handling complexity (198Os), but the inter...

Introduction to the Special Issue: Coastal GIS