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  In the Memory of the Map : A Cartographic Memoir

  Christopher J. Norment

  Throughout his life, maps have been a source of imagination and wonder for Christopher Norment. Mesmerized by them since the age of eight or nine, he found himself courted and seduced by maps, which served functional and allegorical roles in showing him worlds that he might come to know and helping him understand worlds that he had already explored.

  Maps may have been the stuff of his dreams, but they sometimes drew him away from places where he should have remained firmly rooted. In the Memory of the Map explores the complex relationship among maps, memory, and experience—what might be called a “cartographical psychology” or “cartographical history.” Interweaving a personal narrative structured around a variety of maps, with stories about maps as told by scholars, poets, and fiction writers, this book provides a dazzlingly rich personal and intellectual account of what many of us take for granted.

  A dialog between desire and the maps of his life, an exploration of the pleasures, utilitarian purposes, benefits, and character of maps, this rich and powerful personal narrative is the matrix in which Norment embeds an exploration of how maps function in all our lives. Page by page, readers will confront the aesthetics, mystery, function, power, and shortcomings of maps, causing them to reconsider the role that maps play in their lives.

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  Characterization of Six Watersheds of Wayne County, New York

  Joseph C. Makarewicz and Theodore W. Lewis

  Wayne County Soil and Water Conservation District has a long history of working to keep soil and nutrients on the land and out of the water. Much of this work has focused on Sodus Bay and Port Bay (Makarewicz and Lewis 1989, 1990; Makarewicz et al. 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994; White et al. 2002). However, little is known about the environmental status of other major creeks in Wayne County away from the coastal area of Lake Ontario. As a result, the Wayne County Water Quality Coordinating Committee (WQCC) recommended a study to evaluate nutrient and soil loss from six watersheds and their creeks [Canandaigua Outlet, Glenmark (Sodus) Creek, Crusoe Creek, Black Brook, Red Creek East, and Red Creek West] not previously assessed. The purpose of the monitoring program was to collect water quality data in order to quantify the concentration and loading of nutrients and suspended sediments transported from these creeks and to evaluate the environmental health of each creek. In addition, the data serve as a database to make informed water quality management decisions, including the development of a watershed management plan, and as a benchmark of discharge and nutrient data to measure the success of future remediation efforts and to begin a data set that would lead to a priority listing of water quality goals.

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  Oak Orchard Creek Watershed : The Location of Sources of Pollution, Annual Loss of Nutrients and Soil to Lake Ontario, and a Test of Effectiveness of Zone Tillage as a Best Management Practice

  Joseph C. Makarewicz and Theodore W. Lewis

  Oak Orchard Creek watershed : the location of sources of pollution, annual loss of nutrients and soil to Lake Ontario, and a test of effectiveness of zone tillage as a best management practice. May 2009

  A report to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Orleans County Soil and Water Conservation District.

  Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-56).

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  Return to Warden's Grove : Science, Desire, and the Lives of Sparrows

  Christopher J. Norment

  By Christopher Norment.

  Based on three seasons of field research in the Canadian Arctic, Christopher Norment’s exquisitely crafted meditation on science and nature, wildness and civilization, is marked by bottomless prose, reflection on timeless questions, and keen observations of the world and our place in it. In an era increasingly marked by cutting-edge research at the cellular and molecular level, what is the role for scientists of sympathetic observation? What can patient waiting tell us about ourselves and our place in the world?

  His family at home in the American Midwest, Norment spends months on end living in isolation in the Northwest Territories, studying the ecology of the Harris’s Sparrow. Although the fourteenth-century German mystic Meister Eckhardt wrote, “God is at home, we are in the far country,” Norment argues that an intellectual, emotional, and spiritual “far country” can be found in the lives of animals and arctic wilderness. For Norment, “doing science” can lead to an enriched aesthetic and emotional connection to something beyond the self and a way to develop a sacred sense of place in a world that feels increasingly less welcoming, certain, and familiar.

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  Water Quality of Long, Cranberry, Buck and Round Ponds 1993 -1994

  Joseph C. Makarewicz and Gregory G. Lampman

  Long, Buck and Cranberry Ponds have very high concentrations of total phosphorus and chlorophyll .a; that is, they have high levels of a nutrient that stimulates the growth of microscopic and macroscopic plants. This results in an overabundance of microscopic plant life as indicated by the exceedingly high chlorophyll levels observed. Long Pond appears to be the most productive followed by Buck Pond and then Cranberry Pond. Round Pond has relatively low chlorophyll and phosphorus levels compared to the other ponds. R.ound Pond does not appear to be impacted by cultural eutrophication. Compared to nearby Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and Conesus Lake, Long, Buck and Cranberry Ponds are hypereutrophic. These results suggest that Long, Buck and Cranberry Ponds are receiving excessive amounts of nutrients from either the watershed or through auto-fertilization or both. Point and non-point sources of nutrients within the watershed should be identified through stress stream analysis (i.e. segment analysis of the stream) as a prelude to remedial action and the establishment of best management practices. The shallowness of these ponds does not preclude the problem of wind generated mixing of the phosphorus laden seditnents (i.e. auto-fertilization) after any remediation.

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  Stress Stream Analysis of a Sub-Watershed of Conesus Lake: South McMillan Creek

  Joseph C. Makarewicz, Theodore W. Lewis, and Livingston County Planning Department

  Stress stream analysis of a sub-watershed of Conesus Lake. July 1994.

  Prepared for the Livingston County Planning Department, Mount Morris, N.Y.

  Includes bibliographical references (leave 12)

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  Stress Stream Analysis of Two Sub-Watersheds of Conesus Lake

  Joseph C. Makarewicz; Theodore W. Lewis; and Livingston County, NY Planning Department

  Stress stream analysis of two sub-watersheds of Conesus Lake. July 1993.

  Prepared for the Livingston County Planning Department, Mount Morris, N.Y.

  Includes bibliographical references (leaves 12-13)

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  The Conesus Lake Book : A Guide to Reducing Water Pollution at Home

  Joseph C. Makarewicz and Livingston County Planning Department

  Developed by Joseph Makarewicz and the Livingston County Planning Department.

  "Modified from the Bay book: citizens program for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. [and] Lake book: a guide to reducing water pollution at home."

  "April, 1991."

  Bibliography: p. 39.