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O-Zone: Institutional Repositories And The Ontario Scholars Portal, Alan Darnell

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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What Do We Need From Our Digital Librarians?, Michael Breaks

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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The Green And Gold Roads To Maximizing Research Access And Impact, Steve Harnad

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Institutional Repositories And Desktop Silos, Art Rhyno

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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R&D @ Laval University Library - Archimede And Etds, Guy Teasdale

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Technical Intelligence In An S-T Organization: A Perspective From An Information End-User, Blaise Champagne

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Strategy And Change Management In Delft University Of Technology Library, Kees Konings

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Competencies For The Big Picture: The 8rs Canadian Library Human Resources Study, Ernie Ingles

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Tapping The Global Information Base To Build An Innovative Knowledge Society, Arthur J. Carty Dr

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Innovation Is In The Eye Of The Beholder, Janine Schmidt

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Research Support Services At Upc Libraries, Roser Gomez, Marta Lopez, Anna Rovira

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Beyond Information Access: The Information Specialist's Role In Extracting, Analysing And Packaging S&T Intelligence To Support Innovation, Jean Archambeault

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Building Scholarly Information Infrastructure Through Partnership, Alex Byrne

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Creating An Institutional Repository For Massive Datasets - A Statement Of The Problem And An Assessment Of The Challenges And Opportunities, James L. Mullins

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Irel - The Irish Research Electronic Library, Paul Sheehan

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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The Future Of Higher Education., Alberto Amaral

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Reverse Engineering Using Optical Constants, Nathan Powell

Utah Space Grant Consortium

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Restoration Of German Gulch Creek And A Vision For Fisheries Restoration In The Silver Bow Creek Watershed, Pat Munday, George Grant

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

The German Gulch Watershed Restoration Project will benefit the Silver Bow Creek watershed, complement Superfund remedy and restoration, and enhance recreational opportunities for local residents. Midway between Butte and Anaconda, German Gulch Creek is a major tributary of Silver Bow Creek that was heavily placer mined about 100 years ago. Restoring and protecting natural resources in German Gulch is a key element in maximizing aquatic habitat and recreational opportunities in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin.

This restoration project has four objectives:

1. Insure connectivity between German Gulch Creek and Silver Bow Creek;
2. Restore and protect habitat for native Westslope cutthroat …

Water Quality Modeling For Watershed Management In The Clark Fork And Bitterroot River Basins, Michael Kasch, David Clark

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

Water quality models are being used to predict nutrient concentrations in the Clark Fork and Bitterroot Rivers. The modeling will support the activities of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and the Tri-State Water Quality Council including Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies and the Clark Fork River Voluntary Nutrient Reduction Program (VNRP). The TMDL studies and the VNRP are meant to reduce nutrient pollution from point and nonpoint sources to these rivers. The models were built using public domain programs for rivers and watersheds.

A stream and river model, the Enhanced Stream Water Quality Model (QUAL2E), is being used …

20 Years Of Water Quality Status & Trends In The Clark Fork-Pend Oreille Watershed, 1984-2004, John Babcock, Bruce Anderson, Gary Ingman, Vicki J. Watson

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

This paper summarizes a basin-wide trends analysis of water quality data collected in the Clark Fork-Pend Oreille watershed from 1984-2004. The subject data were collected by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (formerly MDHES) from 1984-1996 and by the Tri-State Water Quality Council from 1998 to the present. This study describes how nutrients, heavy metals and attached algae levels vary in time and space in the Clark Fork-Pend Oreille watershed. Nutrient constituents include total phosphorus, total nitrogen, soluble reactive phosphorus, and total soluble inorganic nitrogen. Heavy metal constituents include total recoverable fractions of copper and zinc. Attached algae biomass is …

Proposed Restoration Actions At The Clark Fork River Milltown Sediments Operable Unit, Doug Martin, Gary Decker, Pat Saffel

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

Restoration options for the Clark Fork and Blackfoot River near Milltown Dam are becoming a reality following EPA’s December 2004 Record of Decision to remove the Milltown Dam. The State of Montana’s Natural Resource Damage Program and Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, in consultation with US Fish & Wildlife Service and the Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes, is preparing the floodplain and river channel designs that will be integrated with EPA’s remedial activities. The State’s May 2003 draft conceptual restoration design plan, which is based on natural channel design philosophy, received substantial public support. The State is now using 2004 …

Restoration Efforts On Lost Creek, Upper Clark Fork Basin, Mike Sanctuary, Eric Reiland, Aaron Penvose

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

Lost Creek is a third order stream entering the upper Clark Fork River near Warm Springs, Montana. Lost Creek’s water quality and habitat issues include nutrient loading, excessive sedimentation, habitat and flow alterations, channelization, loss of woody riparian vegetation, and fish passage barriers. Among all tributaries, Lost Creek is the largest contributor of nitrogen to the upper Clark Fork River above Deer Lodge. The Tri-State Council’s Clark Fork River voluntary nutrient reduction program lists Lost Creek as the number one priority among non-point nutrient sources in the upper Clark Fork River basin. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is undertaking a …

Considering Natural Vegetation Development Processes In Restoration Planning For Western Montana Ecosystems, Thomas Parker, Sarah Flynn

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

Revegetation is often part of restoration projects that involve rivers, streams, roads, unstable slopes, mine reclamation, and re-naturalization of agricultural lands. Because vegetation can develop without human intervention, understanding how plant communities develop naturally in different settings can help determine which revegetation methods, if any, are best for a particular restoration project. Some processes are inseparable from plant community development, including alluvial bar development in some river channels, hydroperiod in wetlands, ice and beaver action along rivers, source/transport/deposition zonation in translational landslides, organic matter accumulation in soils, and salt or nutrient accumulation near roads and industrial areas. Considering different vegetation …

Build It And They Will Come: Early Monitoring Results From Nevada Spring Creek Restoration, Ryen Anderson, Ron Pierce, Don Peters

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

Nevada Spring Creek is a tributary to Nevada Creek, an impaired tributary of the Blackfoot River. Nevada Spring Creek has been the focus of several restoration projects from 1990-2004. The goal of restoration work was to restore habitat conditions suitable for native trout, specifically westslope cutthroat trout (Oncoryhnchus clarki lewisi) and to improve downstream water quality and reduce thermal stress in Nevada Creek and the Blackfoot River. Restoration of four miles of Nevada Spring Creek took place in several stages, and utilized a variety of methods including complete channel reconstruction, instream wood placement, gravel addition, shrub plantings, sod mat stacking, …

Comparison Of Historic & Proposed Channel Patterns At The Confluence Of The Clark Fork & Blackfoot Rivers Near Milltown, Montana, Karen Williams

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

The planform, or pattern, of a river represents how channel form adjusts in a horizontal plane. Channel planform is a continuum ranging from straight to meandering to braided, and is a function of sediment load, sediment size, and channel slope. Meander geometry describes the length, amplitude, and radius of curvature of a meander bend of a river. These characteristics are related to the width and dominant discharge of the river.

Conceptual restoration plans for the Clark Fork and Blackfoot Rivers through the Milltown area have been proposed by the State of Montana. These plans recommend a single thread channel, with …

The Blackfoot Community Project: Partnerships For Valley-Wide Land Conservation, Caroline Byrd, Steven Kloetzel

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

The Nature Conservancy in partnership with the Blackfoot Challenge is purchasing up to 88,000 acres of Plum Creek Timber Company lands in the Blackfoot River Valley. According to a plan developed through extensive community involvement, the lands will then be transferred to public land management agencies including the US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, MT Fish Wildlife and Parks and Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (State lands). Other lands will be sold to private landowners with conservation easements. "The Blackfoot Community Project" is very ambitious in its scope and is one of the largest land deals ever …

Nitrate In The Waters Of The Clark Fork Basin--Special Focus On Butte's Summit Valley, John Lafave

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

The Summit Valley is a 60-square mile alluvium-filled intermontane basin located in southwest Montana. The valley is bounded on the south and east by the Continental Divide, is home to the city of Butte, and is drained by Blacktail and Silver-Bow Creeks. Alluvium, derived from the granitic rocks that frame the valley, and fractured bedrock along the valley margin yield sufficient water for domestic purposes.

Reconnaissance ground-water sampling in the Summit Valley revealed elevated nitrate concentrations (greater than 2.0 mg/L) in the alluvial and bedrock aquifers. A review of the valley’s recent and historic ground-water analyses shows that 64 percent …

Fishery & Watershed Restoration Efforts In The Ninemile Watershed: Potential, Progress, And Opportunity, Scott Spaulding

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

Fire, landscape-scale management projects and proposals, and regulatory drivers (TMDL) present a unique opportunity for aquatic restoration in the Ninemile drainage. The Ninemile drainage is an important fish production tributary to the middle Clark Fork. Yet is has an extensive legacy of both public and private management that has reduced and limits native fish production. Currently, Westslope cutthroat trout are distributed throughout many tributary watersheds and the upper mainstem Ninemile, but bull trout are only incidental. Non-native salmonids are also established in portions of the watershed. Channel, floodplain, and water temperature modifications from agriculture and valley development (lower 2/3 of …

Watershed Planning In The Pend Oreille River Basin In Washington, Bryony Stasney

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

The Pend Oreille River watershed in northeastern Washington State is also referred to as Water Resource Inventory Area (WRIA) 62. WRIA 62 encompasses about 1,300 square miles but only represents about five percent of the total Pend Oreille River drainage basin. The Pend Oreille River, one of the major sub-basins of the Columbia River, drains the Clark Fork – Pend Oreille watershed which spans about 26,000 square miles and includes the fourth and fifth largest lakes in the United States: Flathead Lake in Montana and Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho, respectively.

In accordance with Washington’s Watershed Planning Act (Chapter 90.82 …

Metal-Specific Effects On Stream Macroinvertebrates--Physiological And Ecological Approaches, Daniel Cain, James Carter, D. B. Buchwalter, Samuel Luoma

Clark Fork Symposium Archives

The success of remediation of mining wastes in the upper Clark Fork River (CFR) will be measured by mitigation of metal exposures and reduction of risk to biological communities. Dissolved Cu concentrations at most sites in the upper 90 km of the CFR have declined during the period 1993-2002. Annual trends in benthic macroinvertebrate assemblage data indicate that in-stream ecological conditions have improved, also. Despite the general similarity in those patterns, correlation in year-to-year Cu exposure and changes in the benthos within sites is weak. These simple relationships are probably confounded by other factors acting on the benthos. Additionally, interpretation …