한국과 이란의 현대시 비교 연구 : 김소월과 쏘흐럽 쎄패흐리 작품을 중심으로

Yousefi, Fatemeh 韓國外國語大學校 敎育大學院 2011 국내석사

A Comparative Study on Modern Korean and Persian Poetry -With the Focus on Kim, So-wol and Sohrab Sepehri's Poems- Fatemeh Yousefi Major in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language Graduate School of Education Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Poetry is aesthetic, evocative and understandable across time and culture and is a unique medium for human expression and is like underground rivers that run through our lives and relationships giving us messages that shape our perceptions. This is the first research on Modern Korean and Persian Poetry and the purpose of this study is to analyze the different features and point of views that are presented in both Korean and Persian Modern Poetry. Furthermore looking at the poems side by side, I analyzed the modern poetry historical backgrounds of the two countries , the two poets characteristics of modern poetry , life time, poetic language, the realm of poetry ,similarities and differences which are the subjects taken into account. Both Kim,So-wol(1902-1934) and Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980)are counted among the best poets in the history of both modern korean and persian literature and they stand in a unique position. So far ,their poems have been etched in korean and persian people's minds and hearts as a few of the most beautiful and familiar poems. The Literary works of two poets are seemingly plain and simple but actually have profound implications and remain in the minds and hearts of the people of now and will so in the future. Actually they both attempt to make a difference through their works. Their literary style is simple and without pretension and verses are written in a way very close to spoken language. The Korean Poet Kim, So-wol's work is so popular and beloved in Korea. He used nature and simplicity ,directness ,and terse phrasing for good effect and many of his poems were set to music. Kim, So-wol's poems are noteworthy for their lyrical elegance, loneliness and separation and the relation between old ways and new generations. The Persian poet talks about the relationship between the nature and human spirit and turns around the general idea of re discovering and returning to the nature and appreciating its beauty and serenity instead of ruining it. He loved nature and referred to it frequently and said "Beauty means the loving interpretation of forms". My study focused on two poets who lived in the same era but different culture and history and in the end I hope that this research between the two countries will continue and be much more activated in the future.

A Study on Emancipation and Social Participation of Women in the Middle East : With the Focus on the Historical Trace

Yousefi, Fatemeh Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Graduate Sch 2014 국내박사

A Study on Emancipation and Social Participation of Women in the Middle East : With the Focus on the Historical Trace This dissertation which consists of 5 chapters including the introduction and conclusion, analysis the emancipation and social participation of women in the Middle East with the focus on the historical trace. The objective of this dissertation is to explore the emancipation and social participation of women and acknowledging that higher status of women can be achieved through their share in education, economic life and political participation. Islam, which this thesis concentrates upon, will provide a fair evaluation of what Islam contributed toward the restoration of woman’s dignity and rights in the Middle Eastern societies. This research will stress a theme within the general view and analysis on historical and social status of women within the historical trace to the advent of Islam and in the meantime, a comparative study of the women's status under different social systems. In short, this discussion adduce how Islam emancipated women and gave rights to them both in the past and present and this will enable the reader to appreciate the great serious rendered by Islam in raising women's status legally and socially. This research insisted and asserted that the Holy Quran at that time of its revelation took a long step towards improving the condition of women and restoring their human rights. The Quran revived the rights of women as a human being and a man's partner in humanity, introducing Fatimah and her special role. Viewed historically, it is evident that Islam draws on many sources of belief and practice. It is, of course, futile to attempt an acceptable universal definition of the beliefs and practices of any living religion, and Islam, like all religions that claim universal validity, is best viewed as an ongoing, ever changing, living tradition. The Sassanian rulers of Persia, the last of the non-Muslim dynasties, had adopted Zoroastrianism as the national religion. It remained so for about 1000 years, until the Persian defeat by the Muslim Arabs. Based on historical perspective and with the Arab Islamic conquest of Persia, and the Iranian contribution to Islam, it is important to understand the relevant aspects of the Safavid conversion to Shia Islam that marks a new era in the Persian history and the establishment for the first time in may centuries, a unified dynastic state. The Safavids brought certain important new features and Shiism brought a second important feature, and that is differentiation from all the neighbors. By means, the gradual and important facts and process of women's core features and social participation in the Middle East with variations has been discussed and the last part contains the Arab Spring and the new awakening among the related countries and describing women in the Islamic world and demonstrating how truly different these views are, and proposing the idea and how each can be used as a tool to promote reform and gradual and slow change in Iran and the Middle East. It has been proven that when a society's women are well educated and prosperous, the society as a whole only stands to gain. The common themes is that muslim women have made some progress but still face hurdles for more progress to empowerment and social participation. The subject of women’s empowerment and social activity is a large one to be written briefly and it is a challenge neither in Iran nor in the MENA region. Women are conscious of their power and potential and are overcoming the social suppression that in many different ways has been imposed upon them through the centuries. With understanding that education is an essential tool in growth and empowerment women are trying to promote their positions in the society through high education.

STABILITY AND SAFETY ANALYSIS OF PURE AMMONIA FLAMELESS COMBUSTION : AS ENERGY SUPPLY FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION

Yousefi Rizi Hossein Ali 국민대학교 일반대학원 2023 국내박사

Ammonia plays a fundamental role in the decarbonization industry. Ammonia is used as feedstock to make fertilizer with high efficiency. By replacing fossil fuels with zero-carbon renewable energy sources, such as ammonia and hydrogen, greenhouse gas emissions can be prevented and reduced. Hydrogen production in the transition to a green industry requires renewable feedstock sources and zero carbon energy. Ammonia is the most effective carrier of hydrogen and is used to generate hydrogen in the cracking process. This is done in the presence of catalysts and at high temperatures. The use of ammonia as a fuel can provide the energy needed for thermochemical processes without contributing to the emission of greenhouse gases. But there are some obstacles to be overcome for industrial and commercial ammonia combustion applications, including ammonia combustion instability, high NOx emissions, safety, and efficiency challenges. An empirically based method is applied in a laboratory setting to flat flameless combustor to assess combustion instability. Research innovations include characterization of pure ammonia flameless combustion and emissions components, ammonia risk assessment and safety analysis. Spectrum analysis of the light emitted by NH2, NH, OH, NO, NO2, N2O species from ammonia flameless combustion, measured in the UV-VIS regions. The uniform temperature distribution of ammonia flameless combustion throughout the volume of a 2.5kw flat burner measured at various distances from the nozzle and depth at the equivalence of 0.2-1.2, and O2 % 3 and 1 atm. According to this experiment, ammonia combustion can continue even under extremely lean flameless conditions, with an equivalence ratio of 0.2. The NOx emissions of pure ammonia flameless combustion are a function of equivalence ratios ϕ, as at fuel rich condition (ϕ= 1.15), showing the lowest NOx emissions (40 ppm) as a significant result. The conditions of the heat input were 2.5kW. To test combustion stability, we adjusted the equivalence ratios in a variety of ways. The results indicated that combustion remained stable. Reducing NOx requires controlling heat, equivalence ratios, and oxygen content (O2%). It is demonstrated in this study that flameless combustion is being used in conjunction with internal recirculation of hot flue gas to improve combustion stability, decrease NOx emissions, and reduce ammonia residues in exhaust gases to address the safety and efficiency challenges associated with ammonia combustion. Based on a quantitative risk assessment Yousefi dissertation method applied to safety evaluation, a process safety assessment of ammonia flameless combustion shows a lower risk of explosion, NOx emissions and unburned toxic gases being released. To develop ammonia as a fuel, it is important to increase its safety and efficiency as a sustainable and green energy source. As a sustainable and green energy source for hydrogen production, ammonia is being investigated as a fuel and is being developed to increase its safety and efficiency. Keywords: Ammonia, flameless combustion, emission spectroscopy, stability, safety, quantitative risk assessment method applied to safety evaluation, a process safety assessment of ammonia flameless combustion shows a lower risk of explosion, NOx emissions and unburned toxic gases being released. To develop ammonia as a fuel, it is important to increase its safety and efficiency as a sustainable and green energy source. As a sustainable and green energy source for hydrogen production, ammonia is being investigated as a fuel and is being developed to increase its safety and efficiency. 암모니아는 탈탄소화 산업에서 근본적인 역할을 합니다. 암모니아는 고효율 비료를 만들기 위한 공급원료로 사용됩니다. 화석 연료를 암모니아, 수소 등 탄소 제로 재생 에너지원으로 대체함으로써 온실가스 배출을 방지하고 줄일 수 있습니다. 녹색 산업으로 전환하는 과정에서 수소를 생산하려면 재생 가능한 공급원료와 탄소 제로 에너지가 필요합니다. 암모니아는 가장 효과적인 수소 운반체이며 분해 공정에서 수소를 생성하는 데 사용됩니다. 이는 촉매 존재 및 고온에서 수행됩니다. 암모니아를 연료로 사용하면 온실가스 배출에 기여하지 않고 열화학 공정에 필요한 에너지를 제공할 수 있습니다. 그러나 암모니아 연소 불안정성, 높은 NOx 배출, 안전 및 효율성 문제를 포함하여 산업 및 상업용 암모니아 연소 응용 분야에는 극복해야 할 몇 가지 장애물이 있습니다. 본 연구에서는 경험적 기반 방법이 연소 불안정성을 평가하기 위해 평평한 무화염연소기에 대한 실험실 환경에 적용됩니다. 연구 혁신에는 순수한 암모니아 무화염연소 및 배출 성분의 특성화, 암모니아 위험 평가 및 안전 분석이 포함됩니다. 암모니아 무화염연소에서 NH2, NH, OH, NO, NO2, N2O 종에 의해 방출되는 빛의 스펙트럼 분석을 UV-VIS 영역에서 측정했습니다. 2.5kw 플랫 버너의 부피 전체에 걸쳐 암모니아 무화염연소의 균일한 온도 분포는 노즐로부터의 다양한 거리와 0.2-1.2 및 O2 % 3 및 1 atm 등가의 깊이에서 측정되었습니다. 이 실험에 따르면 당량비가 0.2 인 매우 희박한 무화염조건에서도 암모니아 연소가 계속될 수 있습니다. 순수 암모니아 무화염연소의 NOx 배출은 연료 풍부 조건(ψ= 1.15)에서와 같이 등가비 ψ 의 함수이며, 가장 낮은 NOx 배출(40ppm)을 중요한 결과로 보여줍니다. 입열량 조건은 2.5kW 로 하였다. 연소 안정성을 테스트하기 위해 다양한 방법으로 당량비를 조정했습니다. 결과는 연소가 안정적으로 유지됨을 나타냅니다. NOx 를 줄이려면 열, 당량비 및 산소 함량(O2%)을 제어해야 합니다. 이 연구에서는 암모니아 연소와 관련된 안전성 및 효율성 문제를 해결하기 위해 연소 안정성을 향상시키고 NOx 배출을 줄이며 배기 가스의 암모니아 잔류물을 줄이기 위해 뜨거운 연도 가스의 내부 재순환과 함께 화염 없는 연소가 효과적인 것으로 입증되었습니다. 안전성 평가에 적용된 정량적 위험 평가 방법을 바탕으로 암모니아 무화염연소의 공정 안전성 평가에서는 폭발, NOx 배출 및 미연 독성 가스 방출 위험이 더 낮은 것으로 나타났습니다. 암모니아를 연료로 개발하려면 지속 가능한 친환경 에너지원으로서 안전성과 효율성을 높이는 것이 중요합니다. 수소 생산을 위한 지속 가능한 녹색 에너지원인 암모니아는 연료로 연구되고 있으며 안전성과 효율성을 높이기 위해 개발되고 있습니다.

Imaging and Quantification of Microcirculatory Network within Tissue Beds in vivo using Optical Coherence Tomography

Yousefi, Siavash University of Washington 2014 해외박사(DDOD)

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) which is an imaging modality based on Michelson interferometry of near-infrared broadband light has become one of the standard imaging modalities in ophthalmology and intravascular cardiology. In this thesis, we have developed tools and techniques to visualize quantify OCT angiography for translational applications. First, a clutter removal is proposed to suppress static and slowly moving tissue structures from moving red blood cells (RBCs) within the tissue. Then, RBC flow and relative flux is estimated using spectral estimation techniques. Then, a segmentation technique is developed to quantify lymphatic vessels within the tissue structures that appear as transparent tubular structures. Similar method based on Hessian filters is generalized to segment blood vessels for further quantification in OCT angiography. Finally, we utilize the developed tools and techniques for translational applications of OCT and OCT angiography for wound healing and studying complications of microvascular network induced by injection of cosmetic dermal fillers at capillary level. All of the above techniques are non-invasive, label-free, three-dimensional and in vivo..

Molecular Spectroscopy: A Study of Molecules in Earth and Planetary Atmospheres

Yousefi Atshgah, Mahdi ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Old Dominion Unive 2020 해외박사(DDOD)

The four most abundant isotopologues (N2O,15NNO, N15NO, and NN18O) of nitrous oxide have been measured in the Earth's atmosphere by infrared remote sensing with the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) Fourier transform spectrometer. These satellite observations have provided a near global picture of N2O isotopic fractionation. The relative abundance of the heavier isotopologues increase with altitude and with latitude in the stratosphere as the air becomes older. Near global 85°S-85°N atmospheric measurement of carbonyl sulfide (OCS), including the minor OC34S and O13CS isotopologues, were made by the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier transform spectrometer (ACE-FTS) in low Earth orbit. ACE-FTS data provide volume mixing ratio (VMR) profiles of OCS, OC34S and O13CS from 8 km in troposphere up to 31 km in the stratosphere. The global zonal and seasonal distributions of OCS isotopologues were studied. OCS observations made with the MkIV balloon-borne Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) are also presented. The results indicate a slight enrichment of OC34S and a significant enrichment of O13CS as the altitude increases. The contribution of OCS to the background Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol Layer (SSA) is discussed and ACE-FTS data indicate that OCS is a major contributor.Vibration-rotation line lists for AlF, Al35Cl and Al37Cl have been prepared in their ground electronic states (X1Σ+). Experimental rotational and ro-vibrational lines were employed to calculate a potential energy surface (PES) by direct potential fitting. The PES was used to calculate ro-vibrational energy levels. Born-Openheimer Breakdown (BOB) corrections were included in the energy level calculations for AlCl. Ro-vibrational energy levels were calculated for the ν=0 to ν=11 vibrational levels and up to Jmax=200 for the rotational levels. Dipole moment functions (DMFs) covering the range of the PES turning points were calculated for AlCl and AlF by ab initio methods and used to determine line intensities. Partition functions for temperatures up to 3000 K were calculated. AlF and AlCl have been detected in circumstellar envelopes and are predicted to occur in cool stellar and sub-stellar atmospheres.A new line list for the A2Σ+-X2Π electronic transition of OH has been calculated. Line positions have been taken from the literature and refitted with Western's PGOPHER program. Line intensities were calculated using a new ab initio Transition Dipole Moment Function (TDMF) obtained with Molpro 2012. The new TDMF and the potential functions from LeRoy's RKR program have been used as input to LeRoy's LEVEL program in order to calculate Transition Dipole Moment Matrix Elements (TDMMEs). These matrix elements were transformed from Hund's case (b) to Hund's case (a) as required for the PGOPHER program. The line list was calculated with PGOPHER for bands with ν՛=0-4 in the A2Σ+ state and ν՛՛= 0-9 for the X2Π state.Methane (CH4) spectra in the ν3 band near 3.3 μm were measured for 0 Torr, 50 Torr, 150 Torr, 240 Torr, 320 Torr, and 400 Torr pressure of added hydrogen. The spectra were recorded using a high-resolution Fourier transform spectrometer. The CH4 spectra were measured at 5 different temperatures from room temperature up to ~1100 K. A multi-spectrum non-linear least square fit method was used to determine the line parameters at each temperature. Voigt lineshape functions were used to determine the broadening and shifting of methane lines in the P and R branches. Additionally, Hartmann-Tran lineshape functions (quadratic Speed-Dependent Hard Collision, qSDHC, including line mixing) were used to measure speed dependent line shifting. Temperature-dependence of coefficients were determined from a fit of line parameters as function of temperature. Finally, the dependence of pressure broadening (γ0) and shift (δ0) parameters on the rotational quantum number (J) was studied.

Determinants of Cord Blood DNA Methylation Variability in a Mexican-American Birth Cohort

Yousefi, Paul Darius University of California, Berkeley ProQuest Disser 2016 해외박사(DDOD)

Epigenetic mechanisms, particularly DNA methylation, are a possible link between environmental and biological determinants of health. As the DNA methylome undergoes rearrangement in utero and is susceptible to environmental insults, it may be a mechanism explaining the developmental origins of human disease with public health importance. However, the epidemiologic studies needed to identify the role DNA methylation plays mediating environmental exposure disease risk still face several obstacles. This dissertation addresses knowledge gaps impeding the rigorous adoption of genome-scale measures of site-specific DNA methylation, like the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 (450K) BeadChipRTM, into epidemiologic study designs. We then investigate the impact of prenatal exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) on DNA methylation of children at birth. PBDEs are a class of flame retardant chemicals widely used in U.S. consumer products over the last 40 years that have previously been associated with adverse neurobehavioral outcomes, obesity, and other effects. Specifically, we aimed to: 1) Identify and minimize sources of technical variation for site-specific DNA methylation measured by 450K BeadChip assay in epidemiologic studies 2) Characterize sources of biological variation due to host factors (e.g. blood cell composition and sex) in measures of whole blood DNA methylation at birth 3) Determine whether prenatal exposure to PBDEs is associated with differential methylation patterns of CpG sites in umbilical cord blood. Our results identified that the newly proposed All Sample Mean Normalization (ASMN) procedure performed consistently well, both at reducing batch effects and improving replicate comparability compared to several other leading normalization methods. It can be successfully implemented in epidemiologic studies to enhance 450K DNA methylation data preprocessing. In our examination biological variation, we found that a standard approach in epigenome-wide analysis -- minfi white blood cell composition estimation -- did not correlate well with white cell counts from newborns (rho = -0.05 for granulocytes; rho = -0.03 for lymphocytes), but improved substantially (rho = 0.77 for granulocytes; rho = 0.75 for lymphocytes) in older children likely due to increasing similarity with minfi's adult reference data as children aged. This suggests that minfi may not currently be appropriate for analysis involving newborns or young children. Additionally, results on DNA methylation differences by sex identified 3,031 differentially methylated positions (DMPs) and 3,604 sex-associated differentially methylated regions (DMRs) on autosomes that were mostly hypermethylated in girls compared to boys. Our hits were significantly enriched for gene ontology terms related to nervous system development and behavior. Finally, we investigated the impact of exposure to PBDEs during the highly susceptible prenatal period on DNA methylation of Mexican-American children enrolled in the Center for Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas (CHAMACOS) at birth. We identified between 6 and 48 DMRs in umbilical cord blood associated with different measures of prenatal PBDE exposure. BDE's-47, -99 and ?4BDE had fewer (from 6 to 9), mostly hypomethylated DMRs. Prenatal BDE-100 and -153 levels were associated with more DMRs (11 and 48 respectively) and the majority hypermethylated. The PBDE-DMRs we found were located in genes (e.g. NRBP1, CDH9, NTN1, S100A13) involved in biologically relevant functions (including axon guidance and tumor suppression) given the health effects observed in association with BDE exposure to date.

Stable invariant subspaces, reflexivity, and BMO

Yousefi, Hassan University of New Hampshire 2005 해외박사(DDOD)

In the first part of the thesis we obtain some new results in Hadwin's general version of reflexivity and apply them in the classical cases. We prove that the image of any C*-algebra under any bounded unital homomorphism into B(W) is approximately reflexive, where W is a Banach space. We also introduce two new versions of reflexivity, approximate algebraic reflexivity and asymptotic reflexivity, and study their properties. In the second part of the thesis we construct a general setting in which functions of bounded mean oscillation (BMO) and vanishing mean oscillation (VMO) can be studied. In this setting we prove a version of the John-Nirenberg theorem and a version of Sarason's characterization of VMO as the closure of the uniformly continuous functions in BMO. We also prove that VMO is never complemented in BMO. In the third part of the thesis we study the stable invariant subspaces of Hilbert-space operators. We prove that if T is an operator on an infinite dimensional Hilbert space whose spectrum and essential spectrum are both connected and whose Fredholm index is only 0 or 1, then the only nontrivial norm-stable invariant subspaces of T are the finite dimensional ones. We also characterize norm-stable invariant subspaces of any weighted unilateral shift operator.

Optimum airspace design with air traffic controller workload-based partitioning

Yousefi, Arash George Mason University 2005 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation proposes an Air Traffic Controller (ATC) workload based methodology for optimum airspace partitioning. Initially, we define a set of airspace metrics for analytical modeling of the ATC cognitive workload and airspace complexity. We use a large-scale, fast-time simulation to model the current sectors in five Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCCs) and compute the airspace metrics for each sector. These metrics are then used to calculate ATC workload and traffic complexity during various time intervals. Sectors are then ranked based on their traffic complexity and we show that the defined metrics are able to identify the complex sectors. Having a reasonable ATC workload modeling technique, we decompose the U.S. national airspace into three layers using altitude ranges based on operational levels of low, high, and ultra-high airspace. Each layer is further tiled into 2,566 hexagonal cells (hex-cells) with 24 nautical mile sides. These hex-cells are assumed to be finite elements of airspace and ATC workload is modeled for each hex-cell using various airspace metrics. We apply visualization techniques to analyze the spatial and temporal distribution of the controller workload and to identify congested periods of the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). Having the workload values for each hex-cell during the congested periods, we develop clustering algorithms using optimization theory to cluster hex-cells and partition the airspace to ARTCCs and sectors. We first partition the airspace to ARTCCs and define the optimum boundaries for different number of ARTCCs. Then the partitioning is continued within each ARTCC to construct optimum sector boundaries. This dissertation concentrates on simulation as a means to evaluate cognitive workload for the elements of airspace regardless of current sector and ARTCC boundaries. The only apriori inputs are the location of current ARTCC facilities and airports, the demand profiles for each city pair, and the filed routes. The proposed grid-based optimization methodology enables the inclusion of a wide range of objective functions and constraints. This research should be of interest to both airspace design engineers and air transportation policy makers.

Development of a fluorescent antibody for sensitive detection of breast cancer biomarker

YOUSEFI RIZI SHIMA 홍익대학교 대학원 2023 국내석사

The advanced clinical stage of breast cancer causes a lower survival rate even though the survival rate in the early stages is relatively high. Thus, the development of a rapid and easy-to-access diagnostic method is needed. In this study, a single chain Fv (scFv) type antibody fragment that binds to HER2, a transmembrane protein overexpressed on breast cancer cells, was generated. The scFv was converted to a Quenchbody by site specifically labeling the scFv using fluorescent dye through a maleimide thiol reaction. The Quenchbody could detect a picomolar order of HER2 in a few minutes, and its signal to background ratio of fluorescent intensity was higher than a fluorescence scFv generated through a conventional fluorescent dye conjugating method. The Quenchbody can be used as a probe for detecting and imaging breast cancer cells for point of care diagnosis of breast cancer. 유방암은 질환 발생 초기 단계에서는 생존율이 상대적으로 높지만 병기가 진행될수록 생존율이 낮아진다. 따라서 쉽고 간편하게 사용 가능한 진단 방법의 개발이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 유방암 세포에서 과발현되는 막관통 단백질인 HER2 에결합하는 single chain Fv (scFv) 형태의 항체 단편을 생성하였다. Maleimide thiol 반응을 통해 형광 색소를 사용하여 scFv 를 부위 특이적으로 라벨링하여 scFv 를 Quenchbody 로 전환하였다. Quenchbody 는 피코몰 단위의 HER2 를 수분 이내에 검출하였고, 그 singal to background 비는 기존의 형광색소 라벨링법을 통해 생산한 형광 scFv 보다 높았다. 이는 Quenchbody 가 유방암 현장 진단을 위한 유방암 세포 검출 및 시각화를 위한 프로브로 사용될 수 있음을 시사하였다.

How We Wear Water: Creative Learning for Sustainability

Movahed, Neda Yousefi ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Arizona State Univ 2020 해외박사(DDOD)

In this multi-media dissertation, water is used metaphorically to equate the process of learning with embracing change. Paradigm shifts needed for sustainability require transformative learning where one is open to being shaped by new knowledge and experience. Properties of water – such as molecular bonding and phase changes – uncover lessons for humans’ adaptability. Given that human bodies are comprised mostly of water – what implications exist for human capacity to similarly undergo continuous change? An arts- based research methodology is practiced to produce a four-chapter project. Artistic methods of data collection and communication retain subjective complexity of lived experiences central to learning processes. Each chapter is prepared for a target audience and addresses widening scales of creative learning for sustainability. Chapter one is a narrative ethnography that focuses on a personal creative process for sustainability learning. Chapter two is a co- authored journal that covers creative learning tools and design principles for sustainable classrooms. Chapter three is an open-access and adaptive, online toolkit that shares creative methods to cultivate curiosity and critical contemplation. Chapter four is an interactive showcase event that explores how water can inform and inspire individual and collective learning for sustainability. This four-chapter project addresses the power of creative learning for sustainability at the personal, familial, formal classroom, informal online learning community, and public scales. Arts-based methods harness aesthetic power, welcome subjective complexity, and allow multiple meanings to be interpreted from research results. This multi- media project stretches the conventional structure of sustainability dissertations. The bridge between the arts and sciences is strengthened as this project shows synergies between these two ways of knowing. This research invites what can be learned from the wisdom of water – to both change and be changed by circumstances.