Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - 2:42 pm
On Thursday, November 26, 2020, Koral Nichols Murdoch, loving wife, mother of two children, grandmother of eight grandchildren, and great-grandmother of three great-grandchildren passed away at the age of 82.
Koral was born on March 21, 1938, in the family homestead (circa 1796) in Galilee NY, just outside of Ogdensburg, NY, to Willard and Susan (Dewey) Nichols, and was the oldest of seven children. She grew up on the family farm in Ogdensburg until 1956 when she attended the St. Lawrence Academy Nursing School. She earned her Nursing certification in the Spring of 1958 and began working in Syracuse.
She met her husband, James (Larry) Murdoch, a U.S. Air Force Sergeant attending the language school at Syracuse University, at a dance in December 1958. A quick romance ensued, and Koral and Larry were engaged by the end of January and married on May 23, 1959. The newlyweds moved to Germany in mid-1959, on Larry’s assignment to Bremerhaven
Eight Geographers Honored for Service, Teaching, Scholarship Published December 15, 2020
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WASHINGTON,D.Câ¦.The American Association of Geographers (AAG) announced the recipients of its 2021 AAG Honors, the highest honors bestowed on its members. Among them is Dr. Carol Harden, University of Tennessee Knoxville, who has received the AAG Lifetime Achievement Honors.
Dr. Harden, a leading figure in contemporary physical geography and environmental science, is recognized for her career of over a half-century in research, teaching, and service to the profession and the discipline. She is one of the top U.S. physical geographers working in Latin America, and among the leading field-oriented physical geographers. Her Latin American research has focused on soil erosion and land-use impacts, particularly in the Andean region. Exerting tremendous influence across the entire discipline, Harden has played key roles at the NationalAcademies of Science, Engineering,
Higher risk of West Nile virus infection in low-income urban neighborhoods in Baltimore
In Baltimore, Maryland, people living in low-income urban neighborhoods are more at risk of contracting West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne disease, than people living in more affluent neighborhoods. So reports a new study published in the
Journal of Medical Entomology.
Lead author Sarah Rothman, a graduate student in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at the University of Maryland College Park, says, Our study is the first in Baltimore to document how West Nile virus infection in mosquitoes varies relative to neighborhood socioeconomics. Knowing where mosquito abundances are high, and what diseases they carry, can help focus surveillance and management programs where they re needed most.
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IMAGE: Graduate student Kaitlin Saunders checks a mosquito trap in Baltimore, Maryland. Collected mosquitoes were tested for pathogens that could spread to people. view more
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In Baltimore, Maryland, people living in low-income urban neighborhoods are more at risk of contracting West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne disease, than people living in more affluent neighborhoods. So reports a new study published in the
Journal of Medical Entomology.
Lead author Sarah Rothman, a graduate student in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at the University of Maryland College Park, says, Our study is the first in Baltimore to document how West Nile virus infection in mosquitoes varies relative to neighborhood socioeconomics. Knowing where mosquito abundances are high, and what diseases they carry, can help focus surveillance and management programs where they re needed most.
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A graduate student researcher with the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command has presented a model for the development of quieter drones using high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
CFD is a method that provides a qualitative (and sometimes even quantitative) prediction of fluid flows. The new model, proposed by
Miranda Costenoble, is based on obtaining the parameters of the aircraft’s airfoil boundary layers the airflow near the surface of the rotor blade’s airfoils using CFD.
The US Army wants their small drones to be quieter for surveillance tasks so they can be deployed in dense areas without the risk of being discovered. “If the adversary is aware that they’re being surveilled, they might shoot the sUAS down or hide from it,” Costenoble said.