Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter, November 2014, 2014 University of Northern Iowa
Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter, November 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Iowa Waste Reduction Center.
Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter
Inside this Issue:
--- A Checklist for Finishing the Year Strong
--- The Construction and Demolition Project: What We Learned
--- Countdown to America Recycles Day
--- Industry News
Restoration Of Bison (Bison Bison) To Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, A Feasibility Study, 2014 United States National Park Service
Restoration Of Bison (Bison Bison) To Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, A Feasibility Study, Daniel S. Licht
United States National Park Service: Publications
Executive Summary
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is a 3,057-acre park located in western Nebraska. The unit is comprised of northern mixed-grass prairie vegetation, typical of the Northern Great Plains. Weather, fire, and grazing are generally considered to be the ecological drivers of prairie ecosystems and critical for prairie health. However, grazing has essentially been absent since the 1960s. In 2014, a Department of the Interior report explicitly listed the park as a high priority for bison restoration. This report evaluates the feasibility, management options, benefits, and challenges of restoring bison to Agate Fossil Beds National Monument.
A potential bison …
Garbage On The Green Report 2014 Summary Report, 2014 University of North Florida
Garbage On The Green Report 2014 Summary Report, James Taylor, Caitlin Kengle
Garbage on the Green Reports
Garbage on the Green is a waste auditing program developed by the UNF Environmental Center in 2007, with support from Physical Facilities. The audit was designed to gain a better understanding of UNF’s solid waste stream and to improve the overall diversion rate. The program corresponds with UNF’s plan to reduce its overall environmental footprint.
Planning For Adaptation To Climate Change: Lessons From The Us National Wildlife Refuge System, 2014 Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Planning For Adaptation To Climate Change: Lessons From The Us National Wildlife Refuge System, Robert L. Fischman, Vicky J. Meretsky, Alexei Babko, Michael Kennedy, Lei Liu, Michelle Robinson
Articles by Maurer Faculty
US national wildlife refuges have recent, detailed management plans illustrating the state of planning for climate-change adaptation in protected areas. Discussion of and prescriptions for addressing climate change increased in refuge plans between 2005 and 2010 but decreased in 2011. The plans respond to some climate-change impacts on biodiversity and call for monitoring but with little clarity regarding how to act on monitoring results and scant attention to future changes in phenology and community composition. The threats posed by sea-level rise generated the best-developed plan prescriptions. Examples of excellent prescriptions provide models for future planning. Some decision-support tools, such as …
2014 Future Earth Young Scientists Conference On Integrated Science And Knowledge Co-Production For Ecosystems And Human Well-Being, 2014 Singapore Management University
2014 Future Earth Young Scientists Conference On Integrated Science And Knowledge Co-Production For Ecosystems And Human Well-Being, Ivy Shiue, Et. Al.
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Effective integration in science and knowledge co-production is a challenge that crosses research boundaries, climate regions, languages and cultures. Early career scientists are crucial in the identification of, and engagement with, obstacles and opportunities in the development of innovative solutions to complex and interconnected problems. On 25–31 May 2014, International Council for Science and International Social Science Council, in collaboration with the International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists and Institute for New Economic Thinking: Young Scholars Initiative, assembled a group of early career researchers with diverse backgrounds and research perspectives to reflect on and debate relevant issues around ecosystems and human …
Protein Recycling In Bering Sea Algal Incubations, 2014 Old Dominion University
Protein Recycling In Bering Sea Algal Incubations, Eli K. Moore, H. Rodger Harvey, Jessica F. Faux, David R. Goodlett, Brook L. Nunn
OES Faculty Publications
Protein present in phytoplankton represents a large fraction of the organic nitrogen and carbon transported from its synthesis in surface waters to marine sediments. Yet relatively little is known about the longevity of identifiable protein in situ, or the potential modifications to proteins that occur during bloom termination, protein recycling and degradation. To address this knowledge gap, diatom-dominated phytoplankton was collected during the Bering Sea spring blooms of 2009 and 2010, and incubated under darkness in separate shipboard degradation experiments spanning 11 and 53 d, respectively. In each experiment, the protein distribution was monited over time using shotgun proteomics, …
Efficacy Of Plastic Mesh Tubes In Reducing Herbivory Damage By The Invasive Nutria (Myocastor Coypus) In An Urban Restoration Site, 2014 Portland State University
Efficacy Of Plastic Mesh Tubes In Reducing Herbivory Damage By The Invasive Nutria (Myocastor Coypus) In An Urban Restoration Site, Trevor R. Sheffels, Mark D. Sytsma, Jacoby Carter, Jimmy D. Taylor
Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations
The restoration of stream corridors is becoming an increasingly important component of urban landscape planning, and the high cost of these projects necessitates the need to understand and address potential ecological obstacles to project success. The nutria (Myocastor coypus) is an invasive, semi-aquatic rodent native to South America that causes detrimental ecological impacts in riparian and wetland habitats throughout its introduced range, and techniques are needed to reduce nutria herbivory damage to urban stream restoration projects. We assessed the efficacy of standard Vexar® plastic mesh tubes in reducing nutria herbivory damage to newly established woody plants. The study was conducted …
Goomig Farmlands Development Baseline Water Quality In The Lower Keep River, 2014 Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia
Goomig Farmlands Development Baseline Water Quality In The Lower Keep River, D L. Bennett, Richard J. George Dr
Resource management technical reports
In 2008 the Ord Irrigation Expansion Project was approved by the Western Australian Government to develop irrigated agriculture on the Weaber Plain. By mid-2014 construction of almost all of the water supply, drainage, access, monitoring and other infrastructure for the 7400ha Goomig Farmlands development had substantially been completed. An important concern is the effect the Goomig Farmlands development may have on the water quality of the downstream lower Keep River aquatic environment, particularly as it relates to threatened species that inhabit or may inhabit the area. Possible increases in salinity, nutrients, suspended sediment, heavy metals and farm chemicals delivered in …
Composition Of Secondary Organic Aerosols, 2014 Concordia University - Portland
Composition Of Secondary Organic Aerosols, Ryan Caylor, Felisha Imholt, Matthew E. Wise, John Shilling
Matthew E. Wise
Combining Observations And Numerical Model Results To Improve Estimates Of Hypoxic Volume Within Chesapeake Bay, Usa, 2014 Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Combining Observations And Numerical Model Results To Improve Estimates Of Hypoxic Volume Within Chesapeake Bay, Usa, A. J. Bever, M. A.M. Friedrichs, C. T. Friedrichs, M. E. Scully
Presentations
No abstract provided.
The Development And The Capabilities Of The Community Sediment Transport Modeling System (Cstms) For The York River Estuary, Virginia, 2014 Virginia Institute of Marine Science
The Development And The Capabilities Of The Community Sediment Transport Modeling System (Cstms) For The York River Estuary, Virginia, Danielle Tarpley, K. Fall, Courtney K. Harris, Carl T. Friedrichs
Presentations
No abstract provided.
Potential Effects Of Changing Climate On The Physical, Chemical, And Biological Characteristics Of Alpine Lakes, Uinta Mountains, Utah, Usa, 2014 The University of Western Ontario
Potential Effects Of Changing Climate On The Physical, Chemical, And Biological Characteristics Of Alpine Lakes, Uinta Mountains, Utah, Usa, Shirley Ngai
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Relationships between climate variables, lake characteristics and diatom community composition were determined for five lakes in the Uinta Mountains, Utah (USA) from spring 2010 to autumn 2013 to provide information to help predict the effects of climate change on lake ecosystems. Surface water temperatures increased with decreasing elevation although microclimates affected this relationship. Deeper water temperatures increased or stayed the same with increasing elevation, probably due to greater transparency or convective heating. Total phosphorus (TP) and chl a concentrations decreased in the spring/summer with warmer fall/winter temperatures, and nitrates in the spring increased with increased fall/winter precipitation. A significant correlation …
Remote Sensing And Ground-Based Weather Forcing Data Analysis For Streamflow Simulation, 2014 CUNY City College
Remote Sensing And Ground-Based Weather Forcing Data Analysis For Streamflow Simulation, José Alberto Infante Corona, Tarendra Lakhankar, Soni M. Pradhanang, Reza Khanbilvardi
Publications and Research
Hydrological simulation, based on weather inputs and the physical characterization of the watershed, is a suitable approach to predict the corresponding streamflow. This work, carried out on four different watersheds, analyzed the impacts of using three different meteorological data inputs in the same model to compare the model’s accuracy when simulated and observed streamflow are compared. Meteorological data from the Daily Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN-D), National Land Data Assimilation Systems (NLDAS) and the National Operation Hydrological Remote Sensing Center’s Interactive Snow Information (NOHRSC-ISI) were used as an input into the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) hydrological model and …
The Fierce Green Fire: Vol 5 Issue 8, 2014 Wofford College
The Fierce Green Fire: Vol 5 Issue 8, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program
The Fierce Green Fire
No abstract provided.
Applied Remote Sensing For Archaeological Excavation Preparation Conducted In Northern Alabama, 2014 University of Alabama in Huntsville
Applied Remote Sensing For Archaeological Excavation Preparation Conducted In Northern Alabama, Travis Rael
Von Braun Symposium Student Posters
No abstract provided.
Demonstration Of Iss-Dataset For Image Fusion With New Landsat Imagery, 2014 University of Alabama in Huntsville
Demonstration Of Iss-Dataset For Image Fusion With New Landsat Imagery, Jeanné Le Roux
Von Braun Symposium Student Posters
No abstract provided.
Detection Of Power Outages And Recovery Following Disaster Events: The Chilean Earthquake Of 1 April 2014, 2014 University of Alabama in Huntsville
Detection Of Power Outages And Recovery Following Disaster Events: The Chilean Earthquake Of 1 April 2014, Tony Cole
Von Braun Symposium Student Posters
No abstract provided.
Inventory Of Alabama Irrigated Acreage Based On Naip Imagery, 2014 University of Alabama in Huntsville
Inventory Of Alabama Irrigated Acreage Based On Naip Imagery, Roger Allen
Von Braun Symposium Student Posters
No abstract provided.
Optimization Of An Integrated Uav Imaging System For Agricultural Applications, 2014 University of Alabama in Huntsville
Optimization Of An Integrated Uav Imaging System For Agricultural Applications, Nishanth Goli
Von Braun Symposium Student Posters
No abstract provided.
Impact Of Desert Dust And Biomass Burning On The Radiative Budget Of The Sahel, 2014 University of Alabama in Huntsville
Impact Of Desert Dust And Biomass Burning On The Radiative Budget Of The Sahel, Christopher Phillips
Von Braun Symposium Student Posters
No abstract provided.