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Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than
250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any
terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish
communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich
foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the
waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget
Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of
the region's ecological complexities. Focusing on the area south of
Port Townsend and between the Cascade and Olympic mountains,
Williams uncovers human and natural histories in, on, and around
the Sound. In conversations with archaeologists, biologists, and
tribal authorities, Williams traces how generations of humans have
interacted with such species as geoducks, salmon, orcas, rockfish,
and herring. He sheds light on how warfare shaped development and
how people have moved across this maritime highway, in canoes, the
mosquito fleet, and today's ferry system. The book also takes an
unflinching look at how the Sound's ecosystems have suffered from
human behavior, including pollution, habitat destruction, and the
effects of climate change. Witty, graceful, and deeply informed,
Homewaters weaves history and science into a fascinating and
hopeful narrative, one that will introduce newcomers to the
astonishing life that inhabits the Sound and offers longtime
residents new insight into and appreciation of the waters they call
home. A Michael J. Repass Book
From trilobites near the Idaho border and primitive horses on the
Columbia Plateau to giant bird tracks near Bellingham and curious
bear-like beasts on the Olympic Peninsula, fossils across
Washington State are filled with clues of past life on Earth. With
abundant and well-exposed rock layers, the state has fossils dating
from Ice Age mammals only 12,000 years old back to marine
invertebrates more than 500 million years old. In Spirit Whales and
Sloth Tales, renowned paleontologist Elizabeth A. Nesbitt teams up
with popular science writer David B. Williams to offer a
fascinating, richly illustrated tour through more than a half
billion years of natural history. Following an introduction to key
concepts, twenty-four profiles—each featuring a unique plant,
animal, or environment—tell the incredible stories of individual
fossils, many of which are on display in Washington museums. The
spectacular paleontology of Washington is brought to life with
details of the fossils' discovery and extraction, their place in
geological time, and the insights they provide into contemporary
issues like climate change and species extinction.
Residents and visitors in today's Seattle would barely recognize
the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the
city grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its
topography to accommodate their changing visions. In Too High and
Too Steep, David B. Williams uses his deep knowledge of Seattle,
scientific background, and extensive research and interviews to
illuminate the physical challenges and sometimes startling hubris
of these large-scale transformations, from the filling in of the
Duwamish tideflats to the massive regrading project that pared down
Denny Hill. In the course of telling this fascinating story,
Williams helps readers find visible traces of the city's former
landscape and better understand Seattle as a place that has been
radically reshaped. Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af51FU8hHLI Too High and Too Steep
was made possible in part by a grant from 4Culture's Heritage
Program.
From its early days in the 1950s, the electron microanalyzer has
offered two principal ways of obtaining x-ray spectra: wavelength
dispersive spectrometry (WDS), which utilizes crystal diffraction,
and energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS), in which the x-ray
quantum energy is measured directly. In general, WDS offers much
better peak separation for complex line spectra, whereas EDS gives
a higher collection efficiency and is easier and cheaper to use.
Both techniques have undergone major transformations since those
early days, from the simple focusing spectrometerand gas
proportional counter of the 1950s to the advanced semiconductor
detectors and programmable spectrometersoftoday.
Becauseofthesedevelopments, thecapabilities and relative merits of
EDS and WDS techniques have been a recurring feature of
microprobeconferences for nearly40 years, and this volume
bringstogetherthepapers presented at the Chuck Fiori Memorial
Symposium, held at the Microbeam Analysis Society Meeting of 1993.
Several themes are apparent in this rich and authoritative
collection of papers, which have both a historical and an
up-to-the-minute dimension. Light element analysis has long been a
goal of microprobe analysts since Ray Dolby first detected K
radiation with a gas proportional counter in 1960. WDS techniques
(using carbon lead stearate films) were not used for this purpose
until four years later. Now synthetic multilayers provide the best
dispersive elements for quantitative light element analy sis-still
used in conjunction with a gas counter.
Naturalist and Seattle native David Williams offers his original
perspectives on the wonder and resilience of nature in and around
the Northwest's greatest population center. Illustrated by
hand-drawn maps, Williams's writings are interesting, intelligent,
and challenging at a personal level. He approaches the notion that
his beloved city, as hip and urbane as it is, remains a wild place
on the Northwest landscape-in the quarried rock of the historical
buildings, in the branches of a pocket-sized city park, in the
twists and turns of a stream that has been abused by polluters,
hedged in by lawns, and buried under expressways. And yet it is a
living thing, worthy of rescue. Williams looks beyond the skyline,
beyond the postcard views of the Emerald City, and into its wild
heart. Praise for The Seattle Street-Smart Naturalist: Like
suddenly acquiring X-ray vision . . . Who knew that there was so
much fascinating natural history crawling, flying, sprouting,
flowing, drizzling, cawing, accreting, and sliding within the city
limits of Seattle? Every page, every paragraph of Williams's book
brought me revelations-not to mention the sheer pleasure of keeping
company with such a sharp and enthusiastic writer. - David Laskin
Author of The Children's Blizzard and Braving the Elements A
passion for nature and the love of a chosen city combine seamlessly
in David Williams's sharp-eyed ramble through Seattle. These
beautifully told "field notes" of this inspired urban naturalist
bring to life our streets and hills, our downtown edifices and
suburban green pockets, on levels infinitely more profound than the
everyday. - Ivan Doig Author of This House of Sky Raised in
Seattle, David Williams is a general naturalist with a bachelor's
degree in geology. As a Park Ranger and educator, he has taught
natural history both in the field and in the classroom and has
written widely on the topic for the last decade. He has written for
Sunset, the Seattle Times, High Country News, National Parks, and
Geotimes. Other books include A Naturalist's Guide to Canyon
Country and Grand Views of Canyon Country, and he has contributed
to Insight Guides: Seattle and Caves, Cliffs, and Canyons.
From its early days in the 1950s, the electron microanalyzer has
offered two principal ways of obtaining x-ray spectra: wavelength
dispersive spectrometry (WDS), which utilizes crystal diffraction,
and energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS), in which the x-ray
quantum energy is measured directly. In general, WDS offers much
better peak separation for complex line spectra, whereas EDS gives
a higher collection efficiency and is easier and cheaper to use.
Both techniques have undergone major transformations since those
early days, from the simple focusing spectrometerand gas
proportional counter of the 1950s to the advanced semiconductor
detectors and programmable spectrometersoftoday.
Becauseofthesedevelopments, thecapabilities and relative merits of
EDS and WDS techniques have been a recurring feature of
microprobeconferences for nearly40 years, and this volume
bringstogetherthepapers presented at the Chuck Fiori Memorial
Symposium, held at the Microbeam Analysis Society Meeting of 1993.
Several themes are apparent in this rich and authoritative
collection of papers, which have both a historical and an
up-to-the-minute dimension. Light element analysis has long been a
goal of microprobe analysts since Ray Dolby first detected K
radiation with a gas proportional counter in 1960. WDS techniques
(using carbon lead stearate films) were not used for this purpose
until four years later. Now synthetic multilayers provide the best
dispersive elements for quantitative light element analy sis-still
used in conjunction with a gas counter."
During the last four decades remarkable developments have taken
place in instrumentation and techniques for characterizing the
microstructure and microcomposition of materials. Some of the most
important of these instruments involve the use of electron beams
because of the wealth of information that can be obtained from the
interaction of electron beams with matter. The principal
instruments include the scanning electron microscope, electron
probe x-ray microanalyzer, and the analytical transmission electron
microscope. The training of students to use these instruments and
to apply the new techniques that are possible with them is an
important function, which. has been carried out by formal classes
in universities and colleges and by special summer courses such as
the ones offered for the past 19 years at Lehigh University.
Laboratory work, which should be an integral part of such courses,
is often hindered by the lack of a suitable laboratory workbook.
While laboratory workbooks for transmission electron microscopy
have-been in existence for many years, the broad range of topics
that must be dealt with in scanning electron microscopy and
microanalysis has made it difficult for instructors to devise
meaningful experiments. The present workbook provides a series of
fundamental experiments to aid in "hands-on" learning of the use of
the instrumentation and the techniques. It is written by a group of
eminently qualified scientists and educators. The importance of
hands-on learning cannot be overemphasized.
Residents and visitors in today's Seattle would barely recognize
the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the
city grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its
topography to accommodate their changing visions. In Too High and
Too Steep, David B. Williams uses his deep knowledge of Seattle,
scientific background, and extensive research and interviews to
illuminate the physical challenges and sometimes startling hubris
of these large-scale transformations, from the filling in of the
Duwamish tideflats to the massive regrading project that pared down
Denny Hill. In the course of telling this fascinating story,
Williams helps readers find visible traces of the city's former
landscape and better understand Seattle as a place that has been
radically reshaped. Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af51FU8hHLI Too High and Too Steep
was made possible in part by a grant from 4Culture's Heritage
Program.
Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a
major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building
stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any
assembled by plate tectonics. In Stories in Stone, he takes you on
explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like
swirled pink-and-black taffy, a gas station made of petrified wood,
and a Florida fort that has withstood three hundred years of
attacks and hurricanes, despite being made of a stone that has the
consistency of a granola bar. Williams also weaves in the cultural
history of stone, explaining why a white fossil-rich limestone from
Indiana became the only building stone used in all fifty states;
how in 1825, the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument led to
America's first commercial railroad; and why when the same kind of
marble used by Michelangelo clad a Chicago skyscraper it warped so
much after nineteen years that all 44,000 panels of it had to be
replaced. This love letter to building stone brings to life the
geology you can see in the structures of every city.
This profusely illustrated text on Transmission Electron Microscopy
provides the necessary instructions for successful hands-on
application of this versatile materials characterization technique.
The new edition also includes an extensive collection of questions
for the student, providing approximately 800 self-assessment
questions and over 400 questions suitable for homework assignment.
Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than
250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any
terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish
communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich
foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the
waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget
Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of
the region’s ecological complexities. Focusing on the area south
of Port Townsend and between the Cascade and Olympic mountains,
Williams uncovers human and natural histories in, on, and around
the Sound. In conversations with archaeologists, biologists, and
tribal authorities, Williams traces how generations of humans have
interacted with such species as geoducks, salmon, orcas, rockfish,
and herring. He sheds light on how warfare shaped development and
how people have moved across this maritime highway, in canoes, the
mosquito fleet, and today’s ferry system. The book also takes an
unflinching look at how the Sound’s ecosystems have suffered from
human behavior, including pollution, habitat destruction, and the
effects of climate change. Witty, graceful, and deeply informed,
Homewaters weaves history and science into a fascinating and
hopeful narrative, one that will introduce newcomers to the
astonishing life that inhabits the Sound and offers longtime
residents new insight into and appreciation of the waters they call
home. A Michael J. Repass Book
This text is a companion volume to Transmission Electron
Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science by Williams and
Carter. The aim is to extend the discussion of certain topics that
are either rapidly changing at this time or that would benefit from
more detailed discussion than space allowed in the primary text.
World-renowned researchers have contributed chapters in their area
of expertise, and the editors have carefully prepared these
chapters to provide a uniform tone and treatment for this exciting
material. The book features an unparalleled collection of color
figures showcasing the quality and variety of chemical data that
can be obtained from today's instruments, as well as key pitfalls
to avoid. As with the previous TEM text, each chapter contains two
sets of questions, one for self assessment and a second more
suitable for homework assignments. Throughout the book, the style
follows that of Williams & Carter even when the subject matter
becomes challenging-the aim is always to make the topic
understandable by first-year graduate students and others who are
working in the field of Materials Science Topics covered include
sources, in-situ experiments, electron diffraction, Digital
Micrograph, waves and holography, focal-series reconstruction and
direct methods, STEM and tomography, energy-filtered TEM (EFTEM)
imaging, and spectrum imaging. The range and depth of material
makes this companion volume essential reading for the budding
microscopist and a key reference for practicing researchers using
these and related techniques.
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