ABSTRACT To better understand dense fog events in the midwestern United States, a fog climatology was developed that examines the surface weather conditions at dense fog onset and during dense fog events, in relationship to fog duration. Surface airways hourly observations for the...

ABSTRACT.- A metapopulation is any set of populations that are patchily distributed and potentially connected by dispersal. This broad definition includes classical, mainland-island, source-sink, patchy and non-equilibrium metapopulations. To ensure long-term regional population viability in a fragmented landscape we need a better understanding...

"But you don't look American." "Where are you really from?" "Where were your parents born?" I've heard this overseas, both in Europe and in places like Afghanistan and India, and I've heard it here in New York, but only from visitors. My black hair, dark...

Discusses how different people used the land in the American Mid-west, from early native Americans to the industrial age.

Considers how midwestern agriculture impacts the American economy. Questions what would happen to the United States economy if agriculture in the region ceased to exist. Describes the geography of the Great Lakes Basin.