Anderson Young

Psychological Sense of Community and Group Cohesion on Wilderness Trips.

Aprimary purpose of many wilderness trip programs is the development of positive interpersonal relationships and group experiences that lead to enhanced sense of community among group members (Mitten, 1999). Although there is anecdotal evidence to support the development of sense of community on wilderness trips, there is little empirical evidence to support this conclusion. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively examine the factors that contribute to or detract from wilderness trip participants’ perceived sense of community.

A Qualitative Exploration of Sense of Community through Reflective Journals during Wilderness Outdoor Education Curricula

There has been repeated encouragement in the literature for researchers to examine the various mechanisms that make up group experiences in outdoor education contexts. As a result, positive sense of community is often one of the implicit or explicit goals of programs and organizations that utilize outdoor settings to deliver educational and/or therapeutic programs. The purpose of this study was to understand how participants understand and experience sense of community formation during participation on outdoor education curricula (OEC) programs. Qualitative data, in the form of 124 participant trip journals, were analyzed and revealed two core themes illuminating sense of community structure and process. Implications for theory, research, and practice are discussed.

The Majorana Zero-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay Experiment White Paper

The Majorana Collaboration: Brown University, Providence, RI Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM New Mexico State University, Carlsbad, NM Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC University of Chicago, Chicago, IL University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN University of Washington, Seattle, WA