We summarize a recent multi-institutional collaboration in digital field scholarship involving four liberal arts colleges: Davidson College, Lewis & Clark College, Muhlenberg College, and Reed College. Digital field scholarship (DFS) can be defined as scholarship in the arts and sciences for which field-based research and concepts are significant, and digital tools support data collection, analysis, and communication; DFS thus gathers together and extends a wide range of existing scholarship, offering new possibilities for appreciating the connections that define liberal education. Our collaboration occurred as a sandbox, a collective online experiment using a modified WordPress platform (including mapping and other advanced capabilities) built and supported by Lewis & Clark College, with sponsorship provided by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education. Institutions selected course-based DFS projects for fall 2012 and/or spring 2013. Projects ranged from documentary photojournalism to home energy efficiency assessment. One

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This article describes the installation of a water quality early warning system (EWS) at the Laredo (Texas) Jefferson Water Treatment Plant. The system provides protection of critical national infrastructure, specifically water and infrastructure at the treatment plant, with the designed purpose of protecting the plant against accidental and intentional contamination by harmful materials and pollutants. It also provides protection to water customers by evaluating water distributed from the plant for potentially harmful contamination or toxins. The article provides an overview of the following topics: system concepts and principles; EWS functions; building blocks of the EWS including cameras, radio frequency identification (RFID), water quality sensors, and SIG controller; data consolidation and transmission; integrated data‐monitoring platform; post‐action review; baseline facility and process analysis; other uses of an EWS; and, extended sensor complements in the future.

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Apply It! • Health and fitness professionals working with children and adolescents should first understand normal growth, maturation, and development (the “business of growing up”) when considering the implementation and effect of lifestyle behaviors. • Fundamental movement skills provide the foundation or building blocks for developing confidence and competency in sports, games, play, and physical activity and, along with developing muscular fitness, should be the focus of youth physical development. • Along with physical activity, sleep and nutrition also serve as a polypill for optimal growth, maturation, and development. Youth programs should provide education and intervention on these key behaviors as well. • Quality instruction and supervision of youth programs should include assessment and monitoring of growth and maturation, fundamental movement skill acquisition, physical performance, injury prevention, nutrition, sleep, and psychosocial well-being.