Sharks Aren’T The Only Fish To Be Afraid Of… A Survey Of Serranidae Species Of Genus Aethaloperca, Anyperodon, Cephalopholis, Epinephelus, And Plectropomus On Chumbe Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, 2014 SIT Study Abroad
Sharks Aren’T The Only Fish To Be Afraid Of… A Survey Of Serranidae Species Of Genus Aethaloperca, Anyperodon, Cephalopholis, Epinephelus, And Plectropomus On Chumbe Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Kimberly D. Nesbitt
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
A census as well as behavioral analysis of six grouper (Serranidae) species was conducted on Chumbe Island off the coast of Unguja, Zanzibar, Tanzania during October and November 2014. The six species were counted, divided into size classes, and behavioral notes were taken on the individuals observed on both the western drop-off of Chumbe Island’s reef as well as the back, shallower reef. Results showed that larger individuals, as well as species that grow larger, inhabit the deeper waters of the drop-off, while smaller species and juveniles inhabit the shallower back reef. The Brown Marbled (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus) and …
Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter, October 2014, 2014 University of Northern Iowa
Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter, October 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Iowa Waste Reduction Center.
Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter
Inside this Issue:
--- New Food Waste Project Begins
--- Cost and Energy Savings Recognized through Compressed Air Pilot Project
--- Calendar
--- Industry News
บทบรรณาธิการ, 2014 Chulalongkorn University
ความเสื่อมสภาพของแม่น้ำกับคุณภาพชีวิตชุมชนริมฝั่งแม่น้ำลี้, 2014 Chulalongkorn University
ความเสื่อมสภาพของแม่น้ำกับคุณภาพชีวิตชุมชนริมฝั่งแม่น้ำลี้, สามารถ ใจเตี้ย
Environmental Journal
No abstract provided.
ถ่านชีวภาพ : วัสดุปรับปรุงคุณภาพดินและเพิ่มผลผลิตทางการเกษตร, 2014 Chulalongkorn University
ถ่านชีวภาพ : วัสดุปรับปรุงคุณภาพดินและเพิ่มผลผลิตทางการเกษตร, เสาวนีย์ วิจิตรโกสุม, เปรมสุดา จิ๋วนอก
Environmental Journal
No abstract provided.
ปริมาณและปัจจัยที่มีผลต่อการใช้ไฟฟ้าในโรงแรม...ก้าวแรกในการจัดการก๊าซเรือนกระจกจากการท่องเที่ยวของประเทศไทย, 2014 Chulalongkorn University
ปริมาณและปัจจัยที่มีผลต่อการใช้ไฟฟ้าในโรงแรม...ก้าวแรกในการจัดการก๊าซเรือนกระจกจากการท่องเที่ยวของประเทศไทย, สุวจี แตงอ่อน
Environmental Journal
No abstract provided.
40 ปี แห่งการสถาปนา สถาบันวิจัยวิจัยสภาวะแวดล้อม จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย, 2014 Chulalongkorn University
40 ปี แห่งการสถาปนา สถาบันวิจัยวิจัยสภาวะแวดล้อม จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย
Environmental Journal
No abstract provided.
For Want Of Water, A Will: Community Participation In The Development Of A Potable Water Project In Melio, Cameroon, 2014 SIT Study Abroad
For Want Of Water, A Will: Community Participation In The Development Of A Potable Water Project In Melio, Cameroon, Morgan Yucel
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
By taking the water system in Melio-Baleveng, Cameroon as a case study for investigation, this paper explores the successes and challenges of community participation in water project development. Essential for life, and critical for the productivity of populations, potable water remains a scarce resource in developing countries. Facing a failure of government action and a dire need for potable water, the community of Melio partnered with the non-profit Breaking Ground in 2013 to realize a water project. A year after the project’s completion, water still flows from the fountains, but the project’s future remains uncertain as the impoverished community struggles …
Feasibility Of A Mangrove-Based Carbon Business In Makoba Bay, Unguja, Zanzibar, 2014 SIT Study Abroad
Feasibility Of A Mangrove-Based Carbon Business In Makoba Bay, Unguja, Zanzibar, Janice Liang
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Mangrove ecosystems, along with other coastal vegetation, have tremendous potential to be abundant carbon sinks. With the prospect of carbon sequestered in coastal ecosystems starting to be explored in carbon credit markets, this study attempts to assess the feasibility of a mangrove-based carbon business in Makoba Bay, Unguja, Zanzibar. An aboveground carbon estimation demonstrates that the mangrove forest of Makoba Bay is a recovering ecosystem, but has the potential to be initiated into a program such as REDD+ in the future. Social surveys in both Makoba Bay and Chwaka Bay also indicate that a number of improvements would have to …
A Crude Awakening: The Relationship Between Petroleum Exploration And Environmental Conservation In Western Uganda, 2014 SIT Study Abroad
A Crude Awakening: The Relationship Between Petroleum Exploration And Environmental Conservation In Western Uganda, Kristina Ericson
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
In this study the researcher aims to explore the emerging oil and natural gas processes in the Republic of Uganda and the potential impacts that such exploration will generate upon Uganda’s biodiversity and local livelihoods. The researcher will approach this topic through extensive research on emerging and current legal frameworks pertaining to Uganda’s natural environment, and through practicum-based research via leading non-profit organizations in Uganda.
During the research process the researcher worked as a Student Research Intern with International Alert. International Alert is an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that works to promote peace building and conflict resolution in over thirty …
Environmental Education In Amman, 2014 SIT Study Abroad
Environmental Education In Amman, Sara Lyrnn Green
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This research addresses environmental education in public and private schools in Amman, Jordan and what is being done to expand environmental awareness by both schools and the government. This study’s methodology is comprised of interviews with teachers and government employees as well as analysis of material culture. The research finds that environmental education is priority for schools and the government, but that more can be done in expanding environmental awareness. This study points out barriers to environmental education in schools with the hope that these will be addressed and improved.
The Mechanical And Social Feasibility Of Using Biogas To Fuel An Essential Oil Distillation Unit In The Rural Commune Of Ankarimbelo, Madagascar, 2014 SIT Study Abroad
The Mechanical And Social Feasibility Of Using Biogas To Fuel An Essential Oil Distillation Unit In The Rural Commune Of Ankarimbelo, Madagascar, Hannah Nesser
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
The rural commune of Ankarimbelo is located on the edge of the Ikongo Rainforest Corridor in southeastern Madagascar. The commune’s remote location, an increasing population, and the prohibition of farming in the rainforest corridor have contributed to extreme poverty. In an attempt to mitigate these effects, the Malagasy NGO Ny Tanintsika has implemented an essential oils distillation plant as an alternative livelihood project. While the project may provide needed income to local populations, thereby diverting destructive agriculture practices such as tavy, or slash-and-burn agriculture, the distillation of essential oils still requires that firewood be burned. Over the course of …
A Regression Approach For Estimation Of Anthropogenic Heat Flux Based On A Bottom-Up Air Pollutant Emission Database, 2014 Kongju National University
A Regression Approach For Estimation Of Anthropogenic Heat Flux Based On A Bottom-Up Air Pollutant Emission Database, Sanghyun Lee, Stuart A. Mckeen, David J. Sailor
Mechanical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations
A statistical regression method is presented for estimating hourly anthropogenic heat flux (AHF) using an anthropogenic pollutant emission inventory for use in mesoscale meteorological and air-quality modeling. Based on bottom-up AHF estimated from detailed energy consumption data and anthropogenic pollutant emissions of carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) in the US National Emission Inventory year 2005 (NEI-2005), a robust regression relation between the AHF and the pollutant emissions is obtained for Houston. This relation is a combination of two power functions (Y = aXb) relating CO and NOx emissions to AHF, giving a determinant …
The Atmosphere Can Be A Source Of Certain Water Soluble Volatile Organic Compounds In Urban Streams, 2014 South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
The Atmosphere Can Be A Source Of Certain Water Soluble Volatile Organic Compounds In Urban Streams, Scott J. Kenner, David A. Bender, James F. Pankow, John S. Zogorski
Chemistry Faculty Publications and Presentations
Surface water and air volatile organic compound (VOC) data from 10 U. S. Geological Survey monitoring sites were used to evaluate the potential for direct transport of VOCs from the atmosphere to urban streams. Analytical results of 87 VOC compounds were screened by evaluating the occurrence and detection levels in both water and air, and equilibrium concentrations in water (C-w(s)) based on the measured air concentrations. Four compounds (acetone, methyl tertiary butyl ether, toluene, and m- & p-xylene) were detected in more than 20% of water samples, in more than 10% of air samples, and more than 10% of detections …
First Record Of The Tropical House Gecko Hemidactylus Mabouia (Moreau De Jonnès, 1818) In Texas, 2014 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
First Record Of The Tropical House Gecko Hemidactylus Mabouia (Moreau De Jonnès, 1818) In Texas, Alejandro Fierro-Cabo, August Rentfro
School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations
Invasions of the tropical house gecko Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnes, 1818) in the tropical Americas are well documented. While this gecko has been reported as well established and expanding its range in Florida, here we document the first record in the United States outside of this state. We detected a small reproducing population in Cameron County, Brownsville, Texas. We expect a rapid colonization of buildings by this species in southern Texas. We consider that this potential invasion poses novel obstacles to the continued presence of the earlier invasive Mediterranean gecko Hemidactylus turcicus (Linnaeus, 1758) across Texas
Hyperspectral Measurements Of Wet, Dry And Saline Soils From The Mcmurdo Dry Valleys: Soil Moisture Properties From Remote Sensing, 2014 Jackson School of Geoscieces
Hyperspectral Measurements Of Wet, Dry And Saline Soils From The Mcmurdo Dry Valleys: Soil Moisture Properties From Remote Sensing, Joseph S. Levy, Anne Nolin, Andrew G. Fountain, James W. Head
Geology Faculty Publications and Presentations
Soil moisture is a spatially heterogeneous quantity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica that exerts a large influence on the biological community and on the thermal state of Dry Valleys permafrost. The goal of this project was to determine whether hyperspectral remote sensing techniques could be used to determine soil moisture conditions in the Dry Valleys. We measured the spectral reflectance factors of wetted soil samples from the Dry Valleys under natural light conditions and related diagnostic spectral features to surface layer soil moisture content. Diagnostic water absorption features in the spectra at 1.4 mu m and 1.9 mu …
The Effects Of Simulated Spermophilus Franklinii Burrowing On Prairie Soil Invertebrate Communities, 2014 Governors State University
The Effects Of Simulated Spermophilus Franklinii Burrowing On Prairie Soil Invertebrate Communities, Nicholas G. Brown
All Student Theses
Burrowing of subterranean mammals can have ecological effects on overlying vegetation, invertebrate communities, and surrounding soil characteristics. Franklin’s ground squirrel (Spermophilus franklinii) is a declining, tunneling mammal species previously found throughout Central Illinois. Preference for natural tallgrass prairie habitat with loose soil marks Illinois as the southern extreme of their range. Through urbanization and agricultural practices this species’ population numbers have declined dramatically in southern and central Illinois. This study looks at the effects simulated Franklin’s ground squirrel burrows have on soil invertebrate composition, abundance, and diversity by comparing effects of the presence/exclusion of burrows, animals, and their …
The Effect Of Income On Health After Hurricane Katrina, 2014 Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Effect Of Income On Health After Hurricane Katrina, Jang Wook Lee
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
There is a large literature that documents a positive correlation between income and a variety of measures of good health. This correlation may reflect causality in both directions and may also reflect omitted "third variables" that are positively related to income and health. In my dissertation, I employ an exogenous negative shock to income due to a natural disaster to estimate the true causal impact of income on health. The shock I will use is Hurricane Katrina, which severely damaged counties in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana in August 2005. I use these treatment counties and a variety of alternative sets …
Science Identity Transformations Through Place-Based Teaching And Learning In The Natural World, 2014 Graduate Center, City University of New York
Science Identity Transformations Through Place-Based Teaching And Learning In The Natural World, Amy Defelice
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation includes three main components related through a sociocultural lens of identity transformation. The first component describes the Field Studies program for ninth grade students at Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment (BASE High School), and explores how outdoor settings and place-based pedagogies can be used to enhance urban students' science identities. Student researchers took digital photographs of their Field Studies experiences and met in cogenerative dialogues with me, their teacher, where we shared our reflections. The second component explains students' experiences and reactions to a week-long place-based geoscience program held over spring break at Prospect Park. This …
Planetary Improvement: Discourses And Practices Of Green Capitalism In The Cleantech Space, 2014 Graduate Center, City University of New York
Planetary Improvement: Discourses And Practices Of Green Capitalism In The Cleantech Space, Jesse Adam Goldstein
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
There is money to be made in saving the planet. A whole host of actors, such as investors, entrepreneurs, engineers, and policy makers have mobilized around our ecological problems, seeking to innovate new `green' and `clean' technologies that can serve a rapidly changing environment. The presumption that such technologies are both necessary and necessarily profitable anchors visions of a `green' capitalism that can and must be brought into existence.
However, just as free markets have never been all that free, why should we presume that green capitalism would be all that green? Instead of attempting to arbit whether or not …