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Jim Head Presents “Exploring the Antarctic Dry Valleys”
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The above photo is of Jim Head and two students in the Antarctic landscape. On Thursday, November 21 in the Digital Scholarship Lab, Jim Head will talk about exploring the remote and extremely cold Antarctic Dry Valleys and what challenges this presents for scientists and students.
Jim Head has spent five field seasons in the Antarctic. His talk will touch on the reasons for persevering through months of camping in sub-zero temperatures as well as outlining how one gets to the United States base in McMurdo and then by helicopter to the Dry Valleys. He will also share some of the scientific returns from these Antarctic missions and how they’re related to global climate change and understanding the climate history of the planet Mars.
Bio: Jim Head is the Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at Brown University. He earned an undergraduate degree from Washington and Lee University (BS, 1964) and received his PhD from Brown University in 1969. From 1968 to 1972, while serving at NASA Headquarters (Bellcomm, Inc.), he participated in the selection of landing sites for the Apollo program, in training Astronaut crews in geology and surface exploration, in planning and evaluating the package of experiments to be deployed on the Moon, in mission operations in Houston during lunar surface exploration, and in preliminary analysis of the lunar samples returned by the Astronauts. His research centers on the study of geological processes that form and modify the surfaces, crusts and lithospheres of planets, how these processes vary with time, and how such processes interact to produce the historical geological record preserved on the planets. He has been an investigator on numerous missions, including the missions to Venus, Jupiter, and Mars.
Title: Exploring the Antarctic Dry Valleys
Date: November 21, 2013
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Digital Scholarship LabContact: Mark Baumer | 401-863-3642
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Updates From Around the Library
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Here are a few recent highlights from some of the Library’s various blogs:
- The John Hay Library Renovation Blog has an update of how the renovation process is going. According to the post, “The construction…is progressing on schedule.”
- Brown Curio has an in-depth look at the Thomas Alexander Tefft architectural drawings which are part of the Brown Archival and Manuscript Collections Online.
- Over at The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Blog there is an update about the acquisition of a print entitled, “Storming of Monte Video, Feby 3rd 1807.”
- The Hall-Hoag Collection Blog has a new post showcasing some more of its dissenting and extremist propaganda.
- Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) has just launched their new site and on their blog there’s news of a collaboration between CDS, Professor Jim Green, and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
- The Health Sciences Library Update Blog has a short post about a new Global Health Resource Guide that’s been created.
- Image Collections in the Brown Library is another great resource. Unfortunately, this is only available to the Brown community. Culinary art fans should check out the latest post.
- And if you haven’t already, be sure to read through Mobile Apps For Scholarship Blog. There are a lot of great materials and resources discussed.
Contact: Mark Baumer | 401-863-3642
- The John Hay Library Renovation Blog has an update of how the renovation process is going. According to the post, “The construction…is progressing on schedule.”
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Don Waters Presents “Digital Humanities and Scholarly Communications”
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Donald J. Waters—Program Officer for Scholarly Communications and Information Technology at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—will be giving a talk on Digital Humanities in the Digital Scholarship Lab (Rockefeller Library) on November 15 at 4 p.m.
Waters is interested in the convergence of digital technologies with humanistic inquiry and how this introduces fresh collaborations, new sets of research, and pedagogical practices into the process of advancing understanding of the human condition.
In this talk, Waters will probe the following questions:
What are the digital humanities?
How are they constituted?
How can they best be integrated into academic institutions, as centers of research and learning?
This talk is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Location: Digital Scholarship Lab
Date: November 15, 2013
Time: 4 p.m.