In February 2009, Science Daily reported that the Southern Indian Ocean is becoming less effective at absorbing carbon dioxide due to changes to the regions climate which include higher wind speeds.

* Feldman, Glenn, “ Southern Disillusionment with the Democratic Party: Cultural Conformity and the ‘ the Great Melding ’ of Racial and Economic Conservatism in Alabama during World War II ,” Journal of American Studies 43 ( Aug. 2009 ), 199 – 230.

* Richard White, " Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, D. C ." Southern Spaces, 16 April 2009

( 2009 ) The Cerro Rojo Site ( LA 37188 ) -- A Large Mountain-Top Ancestral Apache Site in Southern New Mexico.

" Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, & Biotechnology " Southern Spaces ( 2009 ) online

* Wood, W. Kirk, “ History and Recovery of the Past: John C. Calhoun and the Origins of Nullification in South Carolina, 1819 – 1828 ,” Southern Studies, 16 ( Spring – Summer 2009 ), 46 – 68.

* Margaret D. Bauer, " An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: ' Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads '", Southern Spaces, 28 May 2009. http :// southernspaces. org / 2009 / interview-tim-gautreaux-cartographer-louisiana-back-roads

Mitochondrial DNA sequences in 2009 have identified five distinct California sea lion populations: the US or Pacific Temperate stock, the Western Baja California or Pacific Tropical stock, and the Southern, Central, and Northern Gulf of California stocks.

In May 2009, a unique and unusual settlement regarding Chaim Soutine's iconic painting entitled Piece de Boeuf ( Piece of Beef c. 1923 ) was approved by Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the Southern District of New York.

* John Egerton, " Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville ," Southern Spaces, 4 May 2009, southernspaces. org

Charlaine Harris ' The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels and its television adaptation, the HBO series True Blood ( 2nd season, aired in summer 2009 ), feature maenads in the characters of Callisto and her television representation, Maryann, respectively.

* Lowe, Nancy, " Single Centers of Creation ", Southern Spaces, 30 November 2009.

Four Class 319 trains had been transferred from Southern in December 2008 and the last four followed in March 2009, from which point all Class 319 sets were available for use on Thameslink.

First Capital Connect acquired 23 new four-coach Class 377 sets during 2009, on sublease from Southern, to be used on the Thameslink route for additional capacity and also to allow some of the Class 319 trains to be released for use on the Catford Loop service to Sevenoaks, now jointly operated with Southeastern under Key Output 0 of the Thameslink Programme.

* Jack Temple Kirby ( 1938 – 2009 ), historian of the Southern United States, who was awarded the Bancroft Prize for his 2006 book Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South.

In John Shuttleworth's Southern Softies ( 2009 ).

In October 2009, Central Railroad Company of Indianapolis pursued a leasing agreement to operate the east – west line with Norfolk Southern Railway in Blackford County.

* " Southern Discomfort ", By Wendy Lesser Bookforum ( Feb / Mar 2009 ).

* Wood, Amy Louise, " They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama ", Southern Spaces, 27 April 2009.

Image: Southern Cornville 2009_BL. jpg | Southern Cornville from Loy Hill 2009

Federally, Lake Wildwood is located in California's 4th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 11 and is represented by Republican Tom McClintock who, until 2009 represented Ventura County, in Southern California, in the California State Legislature.

Because of a top 10 % ranking in per capita and one of the shortest commutes in Southern California, the city was chosen in 2009 by Forbes as one of the top 25 towns to live well in America.

* Esther Duflo, Director of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009 MacArthur Fellow, 2010 Clark Medal winner, advocate for field experiments.

Poverty has significantly fallen among Americans under 18 years old from 23 % in 1964 down to less than 17 %, although it has risen again to 20 % in 2009.

In November 2009 the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, a beneficiary agency of the UJA-Federation of New York, partnered with Masbia in the opening of a kosher soup kitchen on Coney Island Avenue.

Poverty is reducing as percentage of population but still over 200 million are very poor as of 2009.

The city takes pride in having the least poverty incidence among urban centers in the Visayas and Mindanao, according to the 2009 Small Area Estimates ( SAE ) of Poverty done by the National Statistical Coordination Board ( NSCB ).

In response to the almost 60 % poverty rate in Jewish Williamsburg, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, a beneficiary agency of the UJA-Federation of New York, partnered with Masbia in the opening of a 50-seat kosher soup kitchen on Lee Avenue in November 2009.

KUOW 94. 9 FM Weekday: Thomas Pogge on Poverty and Global Justice, April 17, 2009, at http :// www. kuow. org / program. php? id = 17344

He has published many books, including Poverty from the Wealth of Nations ( Macmillan, 2000 ), Governments and Markets in Economic Development Strategies ( Praeger: 1989 ), Is There An Islamic Problem ( Kuala Lumpur: The Other Press, 2004, republished in 2007 as Challenging the New Orientalism, IPI: 2007 ), and most recently, Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism ( Palgrave Macmillan: 2009 ).

The 2009 Human Development Report used the percentage of people lacking functional literacy skills as one of the variables to calculate the Human Poverty Index in developed countries.

* 2009: The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights ( W. W. Norton & Co .): ISBN 0-393-33700-6, translated in French, German, Finnish, Dutch, Italian, Korean, and special South Asia edition by Viva, New Delhi.

File: Poverty Point female figurines HRoe 2009. jpg | Figurines from Poverty Point

* Harris, Tim, " Spare Change Reflection ", University of Washington, course H A & S 350A " Street Newspapers, Poverty and Homelessness ", Spring 2009.

In February 2009, NumbersUSA was called a nativist organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center's report " The Nativist Lobby "-though the SPLC also conceded that there is no evidence of racism on behalf of Roy Beck or his organization.

* Prahalad, CK ( 2009 ) Fortune at the Base of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits

* Prahalad, CK ( 2009 ) Fortune at the Base of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits

File: Poverty Point clay utensils HRoe 2009. jpg |< center > Clay cooking utensils, Poverty Point

File: Poverty Point female figurines HRoe 2009. jpg |< center > Clay female figurines, Poverty Point

File: Poverty Point gorgets atlatl weights HRoe 2009. jpg |< center > Carved gorgets and atlatl weights, Poverty Point

2009 dealt with Genocide and Ethnic Conflict while spring 2010 focused on Poverty in the United States.