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This first comprehensive review of airborne measurement principles covers all atmospheric components and surface parameters.It describes the common techniques to characterize aerosol particles and cloud/precipitation elements, while also explaining radiation quantities and pertinent hyperspectral and active remote sensing measurement techniques.

Biological differences between the sexes influence not only individual health but also public health, biomedical research, and health care. The Institute of Medicine held a workshop March 8-9, 2010, to discuss sex differences and their implications for translational neuroscience research, which bridges the gap between scientific discovery and application.

The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious-or more fraught with paradox-than in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A constructive response, and a welcome intervention, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to conduct an interdisciplinary dialogue that provokes and instructs even as it bridges the science/culture divide. Individual essays address issues raised by the science, politics, and history of race, evolution, and identity; genetically modified organisms and genetic diseases; gene work and ethics; and the boundary between humans and animals. The result is an entree to the complicated nexus of questions prompted by the power and importance of genetics and genetic thinking, and the dynamic connections linking culture, biology, nature, and technoscience. The volume offers critical perspectives on science and culture, with contributions that span disciplinary divisions and arguments grounded in both biological perspectives and cultural analysis. An invaluable resource and a provocative introduction to new research and thinking on the uses and study of genetics,Genetic Nature/Cultureis a model of fruitful dialogue, presenting the quandaries faced by scholars on both sides of the two-cultures debate.

Originating from a series of workshops held at the Alaska Forum of the Fourth International Polar Year, this interdisciplinary volume addresses a host of current concerns regarding the ecology and rapid transformation of the arctic. Concentrating on the most important linked social-ecological systems, including fresh water, marine resources, and oil and gas development, this volume explores opportunities for sustainable development from a variety of perspectives, among them social sciences, natural and applied sciences, and the arts. Individual chapters highlight expressions of climate change in dance, music, and film, as well as from an indigenous knowledge-based perspective.

After decades of focusing on the mother's role in parenting, family studies researchers have turned their attention to the role of the father in parenting and family development. The results shed new light on childhood development and question conventional wisdom by showing that beyond providing the more traditional economic support of the family, fathers do indeed matter when it comes to raising a child. Stemming from a series of workshops and publications sponsored by the Family and Child Well-Being Network, under the federal fatherhood initiative of the National Institute of Child Health and Development, this comprehensive volume focuses on ways of measuring the efficacy of father involvement in different scenarios, using different methods of assessment and different populations. In the process, new research strategies and new parental paradigms have been formulated to include paternal involvement. Moreover, this volume contains articles from a variety of influences while addressing the task of finding the missing pieces of the fatherhood construct that would work for new age, as well as traditional and minority fathers. The scope of this discussion offers topics of interest to basic researchers, as well as public policy analysts. Contents: Foreword. R.D. Day, M.E. Lamb, Conceptualizing and Measuring Father Involvement: Pathways, Problems, and Progress. R.D. Parke, S. Coltrane, S. Borthwick-Duffy, J. Powers, M. Adams, W. Fabricius, S. Braver, D. Saenz, Assessing Father Involvement in Mexican-American Families. L. Clarke, M. O'Brien, Father Involvement in Britain: The Research and Policy Evidence. W. Marsiglio, Studying Fathering Trajectories: In-Depth Interviewing and Sensitizing Concepts. J.H. Pleck, J.L. Stueve, A Narrative Approach to Paternal Identity: The Importance of Parental Identity: \"Conjointness.\" D.C. Dollahite, A Narrative Approach to Exploring Responsible Involvement of Fathers With Their Special-Needs Children. S.S. Chuang, M.E. Lamb, C.P. Hwang, Internal Reliability, Temporal Stability, and Correlates of Individual Differences in Paternal Involvement: A 15-Year Longitudinal Study in Sweden. S. Gavazzi, A. Schock, A Multimethod Study of Father Participation in Family-Based Programming. C. Yang, C.H. Hart, D.A. Nelson, C.L. Porter, S.F. Olsen, C.C. Robinson, S. Jin, Fathering in a Beijing, Chinese Sample: Associations With Boys' and Girls' Negative Emotionality and Aggression. K. Pasley, S.L. Braver, Measuring Father Involvement in Divorced, Nonresident Fathers. M.J. Carlson, S.S. McLanahan, Early Father Involvement in Fragile Families. R.D. Day, A. Acock, Youth Ratings of Family Processes and Father Role Performance of Resident and Nonresident Fathers. K.M. Harris, S. Ryan, Father Involvement and the Diversity of Family Context. B.A. McBride, S.J. Schoppe, M-H. Ho, T.R. Rane, Multiple Determinants of Father Involvement: An Exploratory Analysis Using the PSID-CDS Data Set. A.S. Fuligni, J. Brooks-Gunn, Measuring Mother and Father Shared Caregiving: An Analysis Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics--Child Development Supplement. G.L. Fox, M.L. Benson, Violent Men, Bad Dads? Fathering Profiles of Men Involved in Intimate Partner Violence. V.L. Gadsden, J. Fagen, A. Ray, J.E. Davis, Fathering Indicators for Practice and Evaluation: The Fathering Indicators Framework. N. Cabrera, K. Moore, J. Bronte-Tinkew, T. Halle, J. West, J. Brooks-Gunn, N. Reichman, J. Teitler, K. Ellingsen, C.W. Nord, K. Boller, The DADS Initiative: Measuring Father Involvement in Large-Scale Surveys.