Kim Allen

• PhD
• Research Assistant at North Carolina State University

Marine industries, such as offshore petroleum, minerals, fisheries, transportation, tourism, defence, etc., introduce sound underwater, changing marine soundscapes, ranging from shallow coastal to deeper offshore regions. Concern about potential noiseimpacts on marine fauna has led to numerous underwater recordings and bioacoustic studies. Prior to...

Naturally constrained environments like bays and lakes are frequently used for water sports activities. While the sound of motorized vessels is rather well understood, non-motorized activities have received less investigation. Ten water sports activities (swimming backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle; snorkelling with fins; kicking a...

When humans take to the water, they generate sound. This is helpful for the detection, classification, localisation and tracking of certain activities for purposes of border security, health and safety of offshore industrial development, environmental management, etc. The most commonly measured acoustic quantity is pressure. Vector quantities relat...

The rapidly growing field of coaching has permeated a variety of social science disciplines over the last 40 years, including social work. Because social work continues to evolve in its service to diverse populations with wide-ranging needs, its flexibility has allowed for the inclusion of a variety of progressive treatment approaches such as coach...

Good communication is the staple of a happy, healthy family. Chapter 8 reviews literature on family communication, effective communication techniques (including reflective listening), and a review of solution-focused communication approaches. The use of powerful questions and how asking a series of questions can help the client clarify or discover...

You may wonder, why another book on coaching? While the field of coaching and science of coaching is growing (Grant AM, Int Coach Psychol Rev 6(1):84–99, 2011), there is a gap of literature and books designed to educate life coaches dealing with family life issues such as relationship coaching, parent coaching, and coaching for families with specia...

Family and parent coaches do best with an understanding of family science to ground their work in helping families change. This chapter covers family science theory and how those theories can be applied to family coaching. The primary focus on this chapter is of Family Life Education (FLE). FLE is one professional area of family science, and family...

The present study explored the impact of online communication and social networking sites on military spouses as they experienced a deployment of their spouse. Qualitative data were collected through one-on-one, semi-structured Skype interviews with ten married military spouses from Eastern North Carolina. Phenomenological data analysis revealed th...

The quality of romantic relationships that parents maintain has an impact on their children. Emerging adult children base their relationships on similar values and/or opposing beliefs of their parental romantic relationships (Underwood & Rosen, 201138. Underwood, M. K., & Rosen, L. H. (2011). Romantic relationships in adolescents. Social Developmen...

Although there is a rich history of collaboration and distinction among family practitioners, to remain progressive, the domains of family practice must continue to evolve based on the current practices of family professionals. Recently, family coaching (FC) has captured the professional attention of practitioners as another collaborative yet disti...

Limiting environmental impacts of marine industrial operations and mitigating hazardous encounters between humans and marine fauna have become increasingly important as anthropogenic activity expands. To this end, significant effort has been made to develop sonar imaging of fauna and to increase detection and identification ranges. A Tritech Gemini...

Child welfare professionals (CWPs) have historically been ignored as a potential delivery system of relationship and marriage education (RME). Based on a sample of 1015 CWPs from two states, the current study shows that CWPs believe promoting healthy couple and marital relationships is relevant to the families they serve and their work, and that th...

The literature surrounding fragile families, low-income, unwed couples that are expecting a baby or that are new parents, is quickly expanding as there is a growing interest in understanding demographics, barriers to marriage, desire to marry, and patterns of relationships. This is due in large part to the federal government's healthy marriage init...

This chapter explores the concept of volunteer demographics from three perspectives. First it describes volunteer demographics in the United States for 2010 as well as selected demographic trends since 1974. Then the chapter approaches volunteer demographics from the perspective of human development across the life span, with accompanying critical...

As North Carolina FCS celebrates its 100-year centennial, it is time to reflect. For a century, FCS professionals have helped families apply research-based knowledge and principles. This article describes how American families have changed and how we have met those changes in our Extension roles. We also challenge FCS professionals to view the chan...

Extension has long been successful at recruiting and serving diverse audiences, and with the rapid growth of Latino families across the United States, many Extension professionals are discovering an increased need to recruit and serve Latinos. This article shares successful recruitment strategies incorporated in a project that recruited low-income...

The loan of cultural property between nations brings economic and cultural benefits. It advances the goals of cultural diplomacy, enhances international appreciation of cultural diversity and generates worldwide interest in the careers of individual artists, inventors and creators and the ideas, people and movements that have shaped history. Intern...