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 [[https://arcticresearch.wordpress.com/category/blogs-from-the-field/plant-invasions-in-the-subarctic-mountains/|plant invasions in the subarctic mountains]] [[https://arcticresearch.wordpress.com/category/blogs-from-the-field/plant-invasions-in-the-subarctic-mountains/|plant invasions in the subarctic mountains]]
 {{ :fieldnotes_eos:fieldnotes-infosheet2018.pdf |FieldNotes Infosheet}} {{ :fieldnotes_eos:fieldnotes-infosheet2018.pdf |FieldNotes Infosheet}}
 +[[https://fieldnotes.hybridmatters.net/posts/seven-senses-on-the-land-ssotl|Hybrid Matters - Seven Senses on the Land (2015)]]
  
 =====Ecology of the Senses===== =====Ecology of the Senses=====
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 All organisms perceive and react to certain sensory data as signs, carriers of significance picked up in their own perceivable surrounding or Umwelt. This concept was introduced by Jakob von Uexküll during the early 20th century and became the foundation of the current field of biosemiotics. The semiosphere is then the sphere in which sign processes operate in the set of all interconnected Umwelten. All organisms perceive and react to certain sensory data as signs, carriers of significance picked up in their own perceivable surrounding or Umwelt. This concept was introduced by Jakob von Uexküll during the early 20th century and became the foundation of the current field of biosemiotics. The semiosphere is then the sphere in which sign processes operate in the set of all interconnected Umwelten.
 As hunters, herders, gatherers, artists, and scientists, we will come together to experience, explore and inventory carriers of significance in, often radically, different, subjective worlds within the larger electric and magnetic fields in which we are all ‘suspended.’ Inspired by von Uexküll who anticipated many computer science ideas, especially in the field of robotics and theories of embodied cognition, we are guided by the question how these signals interact and interfere within our sphere to enable effective communication and navigation between and among organisms and their environment. As hunters, herders, gatherers, artists, and scientists, we will come together to experience, explore and inventory carriers of significance in, often radically, different, subjective worlds within the larger electric and magnetic fields in which we are all ‘suspended.’ Inspired by von Uexküll who anticipated many computer science ideas, especially in the field of robotics and theories of embodied cognition, we are guided by the question how these signals interact and interfere within our sphere to enable effective communication and navigation between and among organisms and their environment.
-<q>“The eyeless tick finding his way to the top of the blade of grass through his skin’s sensitivity to light”, and birds migrating over long distances using the Earth magnetic field in navigation; the masters who can show us novel interfaces to expand our semiosphere and intersubjective knowledge.</q> 
  
 //Judith van der Elst is an anthropologist/archaeologist specialized in humanistic approaches in the geosciences. Her work focuses on understanding multimodal perception of the land, through merging embodied learning, sensing technologies, and ubiquitous computing within a biosemiotic framework.// //Judith van der Elst is an anthropologist/archaeologist specialized in humanistic approaches in the geosciences. Her work focuses on understanding multimodal perception of the land, through merging embodied learning, sensing technologies, and ubiquitous computing within a biosemiotic framework.//
  
-Spatial Ontology: an ontology for respresenting spatial concepts, anatomical axes, gradients, regions, planes, sides, and surfaces. These concepts can be used at multiple biological scales and in a diversity of taxa, including plants, animals and fungi. The BSPO is used to provide a source of anatomical location descriptors for logically defining anatomical entity classes in anatomy ontologies. +**Spatial Ontology**: an ontology for respresenting spatial concepts, anatomical axes, gradients, regions, planes, sides, and surfaces. These concepts can be used at multiple biological scales and in a diversity of taxa, including plants, animals and fungi. The BSPO is used to provide a source of anatomical location descriptors for logically defining anatomical entity classes in anatomy ontologies. 
 [[https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/BSPO|bioportal]] [[https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/BSPO|bioportal]]
 [[https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~port/teach/103/sign.symbol.short.html|Icon, Index & Symbol]] [[https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~port/teach/103/sign.symbol.short.html|Icon, Index & Symbol]]
  
 welcome to the group list for Surfing the Semiosphere hosted by Judith van der Elst. welcome to the group list for Surfing the Semiosphere hosted by Judith van der Elst.
-On this list are: 
 [[jvandere@icloud.com|Judith van der Elst]], {{ :fieldnotes_eos:intro-judith.pdf |}} [[jvandere@icloud.com|Judith van der Elst]], {{ :fieldnotes_eos:intro-judith.pdf |}}
 [[bjorn.kroger@helsinki.fi|Björn Kröger]], {{ :fieldnotes_eos:intro-bjoern.pdf |}} [[bjorn.kroger@helsinki.fi|Björn Kröger]], {{ :fieldnotes_eos:intro-bjoern.pdf |}}
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-=====research=====+=====Research Question=====
 What is happening with the ages-old bacteria that are set free from the gletsjers of the permafrost? What is happening with the ages-old bacteria that are set free from the gletsjers of the permafrost?
 Besides the horror stories of invasive virusses... Besides the horror stories of invasive virusses...
 The simplest definition of permafrost is ground that has been frozen for at least two years.  The simplest definition of permafrost is ground that has been frozen for at least two years. 
 The top few inches (up to a few feet) of the permafrost is what’s known as the “active layer.” This topsoil does thaw with yearly seasonal changes, and is home to a thriving ecosystem. The top few inches (up to a few feet) of the permafrost is what’s known as the “active layer.” This topsoil does thaw with yearly seasonal changes, and is home to a thriving ecosystem.
-\\ 
  
-=====tundra=====+ 
 +=====Tundra=====
 **Tundra** is a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term tundra comes through Russian тундра (tûndra) from the Kildin Sami word тӯндар (tūndâr) meaning "uplands", "treeless mountain tract". Tundra vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs, sedges and grasses, mosses, and lichens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra. **Tundra** is a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term tundra comes through Russian тундра (tûndra) from the Kildin Sami word тӯндар (tūndâr) meaning "uplands", "treeless mountain tract". Tundra vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs, sedges and grasses, mosses, and lichens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra.
 +{{gallery>:pollutionsensor:lichen}}
 +The word "tundra" usually refers only to the areas where the subsoil is permafrost, or permanently frozen soil. Permafrost tundra includes vast areas of northern Russia, Canada and northern Sapmi and is home to several peoples who are mostly nomadic reindeer herders, such as the Nganasan, the Nenets and the Sami.
 +During the summer, the permafrost thaws just enough to let plants grow and reproduce, but because the ground below this is frozen, the water cannot sink any lower, and so the water forms the lakes and marshes found during the summer months.
 +Most of Antarctica is too cold and dry to support vegetation, and most of the continent is covered by ice fields. However, some portions of the continent, particularly the Antarctic Peninsula, have areas of rocky soil that support plant life. The flora presently consists of around 300–400 lichens, 100 mosses, 25 liverworts, and around 700 terrestrial and aquatic algae species, which live on the areas of exposed rock and soil around the shore of the continent. 
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 +Plants in the sub-tundra: Ferns, Meadowsweet, Raspberry, Achilea millefolium, Angelica
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-=====text: MOMENTS OF ENLICHENMENT=====+=====MOMENTS OF ENLICHENMENT=====
  
 Riding waves Riding waves
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