Bard College

LIGO Detector Characterization in the Second and Third Parts of the Fourth Observing Run

Abstract LIGO detector characterization efforts enabled the confident detection of gravitational waves from hundreds of compact binary coalescences during the fourth observing run. Reliable production of high quality detector data and rapid noise mitigation efforts allow the extr...

Peripheral Modernisms – Editor's Roundtable

Alys Moody and Stephen J. Ross are the editors of one of the most recent collection of modernist writings: Global Modernists on Modernism: An Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020). This collection features translations of works associated with modernism in Latin America, the Cari...

"The New Era of Tech-Enabled Traceability": Tensions between the FDA’s Data Governance Vision and the Lived Realities of Food Producers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Food Traceability Rule, promulgated as part of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), requires agri-food supply chain stakeholders (stakeholders) —including farmers, fishers, retail workers, and others—to maintain detailed tracking...

Rapid data quality investigations of gravitational-wave events with the Data Quality Report Builder toolkit

Abstract We present the Data Quality Report Builder toolkit, DQRbuild, a suite of data quality tools that have been developed to vet gravitational-wave events in preparation for the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run. We explain the main functionality and the many scientific t...

Rapid Estimation of Global Sea Surface Temperatures From Sparse Streaming In Situ Observations

Abstract Reconstructing high‐resolution sea surface temperatures (SST) from staggered SST measurements is essential for analyzing earth system processes. However, when SST measurements are sparse, the resulting inferred SST fields are rather inaccurate. Here, we show that Sparse...

Attraction to water and polarization in dragonflies and damselflies along a light pollution gradient

Abstract Aquatic insects, like odonates, rely on polarized light as a visual cue to locate water bodies for reproduction. However, artificial polarization from light pollution can lead them into ecological traps. This study investigates odonate preference for polarized light cues...

Wavelength Requirements for Life Detection via Reflected Light Spectroscopy of Rocky Exoplanets

Searching for signs of life is a primary goal of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). However, merely detecting oxygen, methane, or other widely discussed biosignatures is insufficient evidence for a biosphere. In parallel with biosignature detection, exoplanet life detection...

Beef resource intensity reflects exceptional parental feed needs that resist technological improvement

Beef is the most resource-intensive mass-consumed human food. This holds for greenhouse gas emissions, cropland, rangeland, and nitrogenous fertilizer use, and feed consumption per g meat, g protein, or calorie. Why is beef so exceptional, even compared to other meat producers li...