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Fluvial Terraces And Post-Glacial River Incision Along The Farmington And Housatonic Rivers In Southern New England, Amberlee Nicoulin
Fluvial Terraces And Post-Glacial River Incision Along The Farmington And Housatonic Rivers In Southern New England, Amberlee Nicoulin
Master's Theses
River terraces are landforms that result from hydraulic responses associated with Quaternary climate and base-level changes, as well as tectonic and geomorphic processes. They can be used to interpret paleo–river levels along longitudinal profiles and assist in revealing the processes of river incision and knickpoint migration. This study uses fill and cut-fill river terraces as markers of river incision to address lithology controls on the transient response of watersheds to baselevel and climatic changes along the Farmington and Housatonic Rivers in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
This study utilized Geographic Information System (GIS) to extract longitudinal river profiles and compile datasets for …
Utilization Of Crowdsourced Maps In Catastrophic Disasters, Makiko Hong
Utilization Of Crowdsourced Maps In Catastrophic Disasters, Makiko Hong
Master's Theses
Crowdsourced data, the collective messages from citizens through social media like Twitter® or Facebook®, have been increasingly recognized as a vital information source in a catastrophic disaster. Because there is often insufficient emergency personnel to gather situational information during a big disaster, the crowdsourced data can offer a supplemental means for data collection or dissemination immediately after the disaster. In addition, crowdsourced maps can empower citizens with their involvement.
In the Haiti earthquake of 2010, crowdsourced data was first used to create a web map application to aid the humanitarian effort. With some success in Haiti, these crowdsourced maps have …