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Formation of Lobate Debris Aprons on Mars: Assessment of regional ice sheet collapse and debris-cover armoring

Published: Jan 1, 2013 Author(s): Fastook, James L., Head, James W., Marchant, David R. Abstract: Lobate debris aprons (LDA) are lobate-shaped aprons surrounding scarps and isolated massifs that are concentrated in the vicinity of the northern Dichotomy Boundary on Mars. LDAs have been interpreted as (1) ice-cemented talus aprons undergoing viscous flow, (2) local debris-covered alpine-like glaciers, or (3) […]

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Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Security and Management

Published: Jan 1, 2013 Author(s): Arabnia, Hamid R., Daimi, Kevin, Grimaila, Michael R., Liszka, Kathy, Markowsky, George,Solo, Ashu M.G. Abstract: The International Conference on Security and Management, or SAM, is an “annual comprehensive security conference dealing with all aspects of security. It is a leading international opportunity for computer and network security professionals and users to investigate innovative ideas and outcomes, […]

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Ice-sheet model sensitivities to environmental forcing and their use in projecting future sea level (the SeaRISE project)

Published: Jan 1, 2013 Author(s): Abe-Ouchi, Ayako, Aschwanden, Andy, Bindschadler, Robert A., Fastook, James L.,Granzow, Glen, Greve, Ralf, Gutowski, Gail, Herzfeld, Ute, Jackson, Charles, Johnson, Jesse, Khroulev, Constantine, Levermann, Anders, Lipscomb, William H., Martin, Maria A., Morlighem, Mathieu,Nowicki, Sophie, Parizek, Byron R., Pollard, David, Price, Stephen F., Ren, Diandong, Saito, Fuyuki,Sato, Tatsuru, Seddik, Hakime, Seroussi, Helene, Takahashi, Kunio, Walker, Ryan, Wang, Wei Li Abstract: Ten ice-sheet models are used to study sensitivity of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to […]

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Deploying a Multi-Interface RESTful Application in the Cloud

Erik Albert and Sudarshan Chawathe. Deploying a Multi-Interface RESTful Application in the Cloud. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Data Management in Cloud, Grid and P2P Systems (Globe-2013). Prague, Czech Republic. August 26–29, 2013. Abstract: This paper describes the design, implementation, and deployment of an application server whose primary infrastructure is an elastic cloud of servers. […]

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CIS welcomes cooperating faculty

CIS is delighted to welcome five new cooperating professors. David Hiebeler and Andre Khalil join us from from Department of Mathematics, and Bruce Segee and Yifeng Zhu from Electrical and Computing Engineering. This provides yet more proof that CIS is the hub of things computational at Orono.

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Guest Speaker Stu Rich from Penbay Solutions

This week’s guest speaker was Stu Rich from Penbay Solutions who spoke on Extending GIS into the Built Environment: Emerging Trends and Patterns. View the presentation at http://connect.maine.edu/p56437319/

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Laura Toma Guest Presentation

A guest presentation was made in the regular department seminar by Laura Toma from the Department of Computer Science at Bowdoin College on Monday 14 March 2011. Laura talked about “An Edge Quadtree for External Memory”. See http://connect.maine.edu/p71678377/

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Professor Onsrud Honored by UCGIS

From a nationwide call for nominations, Professor Harlan Onsrud of the University of Maine was among six individuals to be honored as a Fellow by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). UCGIS is a non profit organization of seventy universities and other research institutions dedicated to expanding and strengthening geographic information science. The […]

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