Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons^™

Utilizing A Multi-Technique, Multi-Taxa Approach To Monitoring Wildlife Passageways On The Bennington Bypass In Southern Vermont, Mark A. Bellis, Scott D. Jackson, Curtis R. Griffin, Paige S. Warren, Alan O. Thompson

Scott D. Jackson

Roadways affect wildlife habitat disproportionate to the area of land they occupy while impacting wildlife directly through direct loss of habitat, road mortality and disruption of movement. Roadways indirectly impact wildlife by isolating populations and disrupting gene flow and metapopulation dynamics. A variety of strategies have been used with mixed success to mitigate the impacts of transportation systems on wildlife. Underpasses are commonly used to facilitate movement of wildlife across roadways in Europe, Australia, Canada and the U.S. Through 2005, 460 terrestrial and 300 aquatic crossing structures have been identified throughout the United States but only a small portion of …

Nasa’S S'Cool Program, Rob Snyder

STEM Earth Central

NASA's S'COOL program gives students an opportunity to provide "ground truth" measurements to help NASA verify that data collected by CERES (Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System) instruments. The CERES instrumentation has been launched into polar obits on three satellites

Eratosthenes' Proportion - Measure The Diameter Of The Earth, Stephen E. Schneider

STEM Earth Central

Objective: To use a midday shadow on or close to the day of an Equinox to calculate Earth’s Polar Circumference.

True Scale Solar System Models, Stephen E. Schneider

STEM Earth Central

Objectives:

To construct a true scale model of the solar system

To understand the size of Earth relative to the Solar System

To comprehend the sizes of planets versus the spaces between them

Planet Longitudes, Stephen E. Schneider

STEM Earth Central

Objectives:

To apply the concept of Longitude to the location of planets in their orbits.

To predict what planets can be seen in the night sky on any date.

Measuring Carbon Dioxide With Btb, Stephen E. Schneider

STEM Earth Central

No abstract provided.

Ozone: What Is It?, Stephen E. Schneider

STEM Earth Central

No abstract provided.

Map The Campus With Gps, Richard Yuretich, Rob Snyder

STEM Earth Central

Objective: To use a Global Positioning System device to collect data in order to construct a campus map.

Note: These instructions are for a Garmin 72 GPS. Refer to the GPS Basics document, the manual, or an on-line manual at http://www.garmin.com/products/gps72/ for additional information

Water Hammer Dissipation In Pneumatic Slug Tests, David Ostendorf, Don J. Degroot, Philip J. Dunaj

David Ostendorf

We model and measure the dissipation of water hammer induced by well casing and water elasticity with rapid valve opening at the start of a pneumatic slug test. The higher-frequency water hammer can obscure slower, aquifer-controlled, underdamped oscillations of the rigid water column, so a quantitative description of the elastic motion improves the ability of a slug test to calibrate the aquifer permeability k. Internal friction attenuates the water hammer, subject to a known headspace pressure at the air/water interface and equilibrium pressure at the top of the well screen. An analytical elastic solution is presented and matched to an …