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  • Beyond glacier-wide mass balances: parsing seasonal elevation change into spatially resolved patterns of accumulation and ablation at Wolverine Glacier, Alaska

  • Lucas Zeller, Daniel McGrath, Louis Sass, Shad O'Neel, Christopher McNeil, Emily Baker
  • Journal:
    Journal of Glaciology / Volume 69 / Issue 273 / February 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 June 2022, pp. 87-102
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  • We present spatially distributed seasonal and annual surface mass balances of Wolverine Glacier, Alaska, from 2016 to 2020. Our approach accounts for the effects of ice emergence and firn compaction on surface elevation changes to resolve the spatial patterns in mass balance at 10 m scale. We present and compare three methods for estimating emergence velocities. Firn compaction was constrained by optimizing a firn model to fit three firn cores. Distributed mass balances showed good agreement with mass-balance stakes (RMSE = 0.67 m w.e., r = 0.99, n = 41) and ground-penetrating radar surveys (RMSE = 0.36 m w.e., r = 0.85, n = 9024). Fundamental differences in the distributions of seasonal balances highlight the importance of disparate physical processes, with anomalously high ablation rates observed in icefalls. Winter balances were found to be positively skewed when controlling for elevation, while summer and annual balances were negatively skewed. We show that only a small percent of the glacier surface represents ideal locations for mass-balance stake placement. Importantly, no suitable areas are found near the terminus or in elevation bands dominated by icefalls. These findings offer explanations for the often-needed geodetic calibrations of glaciological time series.

  • Introduction: Collecting in the Digital Age

  • Edited by Johannes Endres, University of California, Riverside, Christoph Zeller, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book:
    Collecting in the Twenty-First Century
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 July 2022
    Print publication:
    13 May 2022, pp 1-37

  • Summary

    THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED to the concept of “collecting” and its shifting meanings in a digital context. It explores in what ways individual collectors and collecting institutions such as archives, museums, and libraries have espoused various forms of data processing; it offers insights into the practice of collecting as a cultural phenomenon and how this practice changes in an era in which computers are ubiquitous and the Internet dominates our time; and it discusses what is being collected in the digital domain, why digital objects are different from non-digital ones, and what it means when we “collect data.” Its essays and case studies examine the practice of collecting in a digital context from the perspectives of art historians, media and cultural-studies scholars, preservationists, museum theorists, librarians, and computer scientists.

    The Western idea of “collection” signifies an intentional and selective accumulation of like elements, may they be physical objects or ideas and experiences. The all-encompassing meaning of “collecting,” correspondingly, ranges from shopping lists to address books, from remembering days past to focusing on the here and now, and from sorting comestibles to tracking debts. Almost unfathomable in its breadth, “collecting” requires conceptual framing to avoid its use as an imprecise, hollowedout metaphor. Such frames have been outlined in the past to think about “collecting,” but they failed to capture the idea of collecting in all its multifaceted manifestations. As a result, each of these preliminary and heterogenous frames exist largely in isolation from one another. For example, psychologists point to the prominent role of collecting in the development of the self and stress the mirroring of subjects and collected objects; historians emphasize the sociopolitical circumstances in which collecting rose to prominence among cultural elites; and economists investigate the significance of collecting in consumer societies, considering the cycles of “acquisition, possession, and disposition” of goods that constitute and dissolve what is called a “collection.” Each of these unique conceptual frameworks, however, introduces an additional feature of collecting, namely the role of influential agents—members of the nobility, wealthy merchants, naturalists, curators, gallery owners, librarians, and archivists— who began to collect for the benefit of the collection.

Collecting in the Twenty-First Century
  • From Museums to the Web
  • Edited by Johannes Endres, Christoph Zeller
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 July 2022
    Print publication:
    13 May 2022
  • An interdisciplinary volume of essays identifying the impact of technology on the age-old cultural practice of collecting, as well as the opportunities and pitfalls of collecting in the digital era.

A Companion to the Works of Grimmelshausen
  • With contributions by Italo Michele Battafarano , Dieter Breuer , Shannon Keenan Greene , Klaus Haberkamm , Peter Hess , D. Menhennet , Christoph E. Schweitzer , Andreas Solbach and Rosmarie Zeller
  • Edited by Karl F. Otto
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    27 April 2017
    Print publication:
    13 December 2002
  • Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (ca. 1621-1676) is the most significant (and still readable) author of seventeenth-century German novels. His Abenteuerlicher Simplicius Simplicissimusremains the one German novel of its time that has attained the stature of "world literature": its unique mix of violent action and solitary reflection, its superlative humor, its realistic portrayalof a peasant turned soldier turned hermit has made it the longest-running bestseller in German literature. Read by students and scholars in comparative literature, history, and German, and by those interested in the development of the picaresque novel in Europe, the work and its "Continuations" have increasingly occupied scholars around the world, who have in recent years shown it to be a work ofsubtle structure and characterization, bearing the imprint of the most advanced political thinking of the time, and showing the influences of some of the most significant works of world literature, including Cervantes' Don Quixote and Barclay's Argenis. This volume of essays by leading Grimmelshausen scholars from Germany, the United States, and England provides analyses of significant topics in his life and works, including questions of genre, structure, satire, allegory, narratology, political thought, religion, morality, humor, realism, and mortality.
    Contributors: Christoph E. Schweitzer, Italo Michele Battafarano, Klaus Haberkamm, Rosmarie Zeller, Andreas Solbach, Dieter Breuer, Lynne Tatlock, Peter Hess, Shannon Keenan Greene, and Alan Menhennet.

    KarlF. Otto is Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania and has written extensively on German Baroque literature.

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