Texas SAR Chapter Officers Report: Sunday, January 17, 2021 (open access)

Texas SAR Chapter Officers Report: Sunday, January 17, 2021

Document containing a list of officers for each Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution chapter. Personal information for each officer has been redacted.
Date: January 17, 2021
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution
System: The UNT Digital Library
NSFDEB-NERC: Collaborative Research: Wildlife corridors: do they work and who benefits? (open access)

NSFDEB-NERC: Collaborative Research: Wildlife corridors: do they work and who benefits?

Data management plan for the grant, "NSFDEB-NERC: Collaborative Research: Wildlife corridors: do they work and who benefits?" Research on the impact of wildlife corridors using genetics as the measure of effectiveness. The study will use 20 independent landscapes to quantify how corridor traits affect gene flow, and will use non-flying mammals as focal species because they are strongly affected by fragmentation. The research team hypothesizes (1) a strong non-linear decline in success (gene flow) with corridor length, reflecting the skewed distribution of dispersal distances within species; (2) success will drop steeply as corridor width falls below a threshold, with the threshold determined by species traits; and (3) species that are bigger, are habitat specialists, or have greater dispersal abilities (relative to brain size or reproductive rate) will benefit more from corridors. Testing these hypotheses will allow generalization to a wide range of mammal species not included in this project. It will use highly flexible Random Forest models to answer the overarching question: What landscape traits (e.g., corridor width, degree of human disturbance) and species traits (mobility, affinity to particular land cover types) are associated with effective corridors?
Date: 2021-01-15/2023-12-31
Creator: Gregory, Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Dewey Holden, January 8, 2021 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Dewey Holden, January 8, 2021

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Dewey A. Holden. Holden joined the Navy Coast Guard on December 15, 1941. He was stationed in Mobile, Alabama and served aboard the HMS Larkspur (K82). In 1942, he was assigned to bosun mate training at Manhattan Beach, New York. Later, Holden was assigned to Picket Boat #3836 in New Orleans, LA. He transported bar pilots and ship supplies from the Gulf of Mexico up through the Mississippi River to stations located in Southwest Pass and South Pass. He speaks of the activity and threat of German submarines in this area during late 1942. He continued this service throughout the war, and was discharged on October 26, 1945.
Date: January 8, 2021
Creator: Holden, Dewey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dietrich Braun, January 1, 2021 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Dietrich Braun, January 1, 2021

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Dietrich Braun. Braun was born in Germany in 1932 and resided there during the war. He tells of housing and shortages during the war years. At age six, Braun was recruited into the Hitler Youth. At the conclusion of the war, his father, a German Rocket scientist, was selected to be a part of Operation Paperclip, a secret United States intelligence program that brought him to the United States. In November of 1946, Braun and his remaining family were smuggled into the US, aboard USNS Henry Gibbins (T-AP-183), to join his father at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base through 1951.
Date: January 1, 2021
Creator: Braun, Dietrich
System: The Portal to Texas History
Generating pathogen- / pest-resistant non-GMO cotton through targeted genome editing of oxylipin signaling pathways (open access)

Generating pathogen- / pest-resistant non-GMO cotton through targeted genome editing of oxylipin signaling pathways

Data management plan for the research grant "Generating pathogen- / pest-resistant non-GMO cotton through targeted genome editing of oxylipin signaling pathways."
Date: 2021-01-15/2024-01-14
Creator: Ayre, Brian G.; McGarry, Roisin C. & Shah, Jyoti
System: The UNT Digital Library
The USS Stark Memorial Award Scoring Sheet (open access)

The USS Stark Memorial Award Scoring Sheet

Scoring sheet for the USS Stark Memorial Award, filled out by David Kinsey of the McKinney Chapter of the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution (TXSSAR).
Date: January 28, 2021
Creator: Kinsey, David
System: The UNT Digital Library