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In the Shadow of the Moon: Planning an Eclipse Expedition
(Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2019)
Traveling as a group to see the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse was a once in a lifetime experience for the sixteen members of an eclipse expedition from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. I had the pleasurable ...
Birds, Bees--and Cookies? Great Plains Bioclimatology Observations during the Total Solar Eclipse of 21 August 2017
(Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2019)
Our overall field team dedicated five personnel to observing meteorological and biotic aberrations during the August 2017 total solar eclipse on the high plains of Nebraska and Wyoming. We regularly recorded both visual ...
An Exploratory Study of How a Community Involvement Program Can Benefit Both Schmeeckle Reserve and Potential Participants
(College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2013-05)
This research aimed to explore how a community involvement program can meet the needs of Schmeeckle Reserve and address the motivations and barriers to involvement among potential participants. Schmeeckle Reserve, a 280-acre ...
Conversation Analysis and Ethnomethodology: the Centrality of Interaction
(Sage., 2010)
The paper summarizes the theoretical and methodological principles of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, two approaches which focus on the understanding of social action as it is produced by participants themselves. ...
License to ILL: Do Patrons Rely on Interlibrary Loan Too Much?
(Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians, 2019-04-18)
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Library fills nearly half of its interlibrary-loan article requests internally. The library owns the article, but the patron can’t — or won’t — find it. Is this problematic or positive? ...
‘‘Occasional’ Drinking: Some uses of a non-standard temporal metric in primary care assessment of alcohol use'
(Hampton Press, Inc., 2012)
In this article we focused on two fundamentally different ways that patients’ alcohol usage is described or formulated. Generally doctors work to elicit a standardized rate of use metric (e.g., ‘six drinks per week’). ...
Toward an interdisciplinary field: Language and social interaction research at the University of California, Santa Barbara
(Hampton Press, Inc., 2010)
Language and social interaction (LSI) has now come of age as a research strand within Communication. This chapter is about a graduate program in LSI whose home is in a sociology department. We begin with a few notes about ...