Sfa Weather Station-February 2014, 2014 Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, Stephen F. Austin State University
Sfa Weather Station-February 2014, Arthur Temple College Of Forestry And Agriculture, Stephen F. Austin State University
Weather Station Data
No abstract provided.
Pathways To Sustainability Careers: Building Capacity To Solve Complex Problems, 2014 Portland State University
Pathways To Sustainability Careers: Building Capacity To Solve Complex Problems, Jennifer H. Allen, Fletcher Beaudoin, Elizabeth Lloyd-Pool, Jacob Sherman
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
Many of the central sustainability challenges facing society today—climate change, social inequality, and resource degradation, to name a few—are socially complex, politically fraught, and imperfectly understood. To be able to effectively engage in addressing such “wicked problems,” individuals need a mixture of content knowledge and soft skills that enable them to critically analyze these challenges from a systems perspective, develop creative solutions, communicate effectively, and work collaboratively with others who may not share common views. Such skill sets and abilities are also more generally valuable in navigating personal, organizational, and societal complexities. Portland State University’s (PSU) Pathways to Sustainability Careers …
The Influence Of Recurrent Modes Of Climate Variability On The Occurrence Of Winter And Summer Extreme Temperatures Over North America, 2014 Portland State University
The Influence Of Recurrent Modes Of Climate Variability On The Occurrence Of Winter And Summer Extreme Temperatures Over North America, Paul C. Loikith, Anthony J. Broccoli
Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations
The influence of the Pacific–North American (PNA) pattern, the northern annular mode (NAM), and the El Ni~no–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on extreme temperature days and months over North America is examined. Associations between extreme temperature days and months are strongest with the PNA and NAM andweaker for ENSO. In general, the associationwith extremes tends to be stronger onmonthly than daily time scales and for winter as compared to summer. Extreme temperatures are associated with the PNAandNAMin the vicinity of the centers of action of these circulation patterns; however, many extremes also occur on days when the amplitude and polarity of these …
Ecodevelopment, Gender, And Empowerment: Perspectives From India’S Protected Area Communities, 2014 Gettysburg College
Ecodevelopment, Gender, And Empowerment: Perspectives From India’S Protected Area Communities, Ruchi Badola, Monica V. Ogra, Shivani C. Barthwal
Environmental Studies Faculty Publications
Book abstract:
Feminism has re-shaped the way we think about equality, power relations and social change. Recent feminist scholarship has provided new theoretical frameworks, methodologies and empirical analyses of how gender and feminism are situated within the development process.Global Perspectives on Gender and Space: Engaging Feminism and Development draws upon this framework to explore the effects of globalization on development in diverse geographical contexts. It explores how women’s and men’s lives are gendered in specific spaces as well as across multiple landscapes.
Ecological Homogenization Of Urban Usa, 2014 Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Ecological Homogenization Of Urban Usa, Peter M. Groffman, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Neil D. Bettez, J. Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, Christopher Neill, Kristen C. Nelson, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Diane E. Pataki, Colin Polsky, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Meredith K. Steele
Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations
A visually apparent but scientifically untested outcome of land-use change is homogenization across urban areas, where neighborhoods in different parts of the country have similar patterns of roads, residential lots, commercial areas, and aquatic features. We hypothesize that this homogenization extends to ecological structure and also to ecosystem functions such as carbon dynamics and microclimate, with continental-scale implications. Further, we suggest that understanding urban homogenization will provide the basis for understanding the impacts of urban land-use change from local to continental scales. Here, we show how multi-scale, multi-disciplinary datasets from six metropolitan areas that cover the major climatic regions of …
Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter, February 2014, 2014 University of Northern Iowa
Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter, February 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Iowa Waste Reduction Center.
Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter
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Roundup Ready Nation: The Political Ecology Of Genetically Modified Soy In Argentina, 2014 Graduate Center, City University of New York
Roundup Ready Nation: The Political Ecology Of Genetically Modified Soy In Argentina, Amalia Leguizamon
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation is a case study of agrarian transformation in an agro-export society, Argentina. I study the process of adoption of the technological package of genetically modified (GM) soy in the Argentine countryside, its socio-ecological consequences, and Argentines' responses to it. In particular, this research addresses Argentina's unique situation of being a developing country that has positively embraced the biotechnology of GM seeds as a key accumulation strategy without the emergence of major contestation against GM soy monocropping. In order to answer the puzzle of quiescence, I look at how power relations structure access to social and environmental goods and …
Tree Cover Mapping For Assessing Greater Sage-Grouse Habitat In Eastern Oregon, 2014 Portland State University
Tree Cover Mapping For Assessing Greater Sage-Grouse Habitat In Eastern Oregon, Eric M. Nielsen, Matthew D. Noone
Institute for Natural Resources Publications
We used a predictive model to map canopy cover of vegetation over seven feet in height ("tall woody vegetation") at 30-meter resolution over nearly 29 million acres within and adjacent to the range of the greater sage-grouse in Oregon (Figure 1). Texture measures computed at various resolutions from color-infrared aerial photography provided the main source of predictor data used to produce the map. Canopy cover was treated as a categorical variable using six cover classes: absent (cover class C0), present at less than 4% (C1), 4 – 10% (C2), 10 – 20% (C3), 20 – 50% (C4), and 50% and …
Use Of Nanoparticles In Disinfection Of Desalinated Water In United Arab Emirates, 2014 United Arab Emirates University
Use Of Nanoparticles In Disinfection Of Desalinated Water In United Arab Emirates, Laila Masoud Rashid Al-Issai
Theses
United Arab Emirates (UAE) as well as most Gulf Countries depends mostly on desalinated sea water as the main source of drinking water. The drinking water disinfection process has been routinely carried out since the turn of the century to destroy pathogenic organisms and prevent waterborne diseases. When chemical disinfection is applied before or after desalination, a number of harmful compounds are formed posing potential risks to the health of human or aesthetic quality of drinking water. As such, a tremendous number of studies have been conducted to identify new alternative methods of disinfecting water without formation of harmful Disinfection …
Shoreline Evolution: Charles City County, Virginia, 2014 Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Shoreline Evolution: Charles City County, Virginia, Donna A. Milligan, Christine Wilcox, C. Scott Hardaway Jr.
Reports
Charles City County is situated along the upper reaches of the James River (Figure 1). Because the County’s shoreline is continually changing, determining where the shoreline was in the past, how far and how fast it is moving, and what factors drive shoreline change will help define where the shoreline will be going in the future. These rates and patterns of shore change along Chesapeake Bay’s estuarine shores will differ through time as winds, waves, tides and currents shape and modify coastlines by eroding, transporting and depositing sediments. The purpose of this report is to document how the shore zone …
Practicing Environmental Etiquette In Utah's Deserts, 2014 Utah State University
Practicing Environmental Etiquette In Utah's Deserts, Jordan Burningham, Roslynn Brain
Environment and Society Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Long-Term Warming And The Size And Phenology Of Long Island Sound Plankton, 2014 Graduate Center, City University of New York
Long-Term Warming And The Size And Phenology Of Long Island Sound Plankton, Edward Rice
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In coastal ecosystems with decades of eutrophication and other anthropogenic stressors, the impact of climate change on planktonic communities can be difficult to detect. A time-series of monthly surface water temperatures in the Central Basin of Long Island Sound (LIS) from the late 1940s until 2012 indicates a warming rate of 0.03°C per year, with recent summer temperatures increasing most consistently. During this warming trend, the proportion of chlorophyll produced by smaller phytoplankton and flagellates appears to be higher during warmer summer and fall months, enabling an increase in annual chlorophyll despite static nutrient levels. The phenology of phytoplankton and …
Suburban Heat Islands: The Influence Of Residential Minimum Lot Size Zoning On Surface Heat Islands In Somerset County, New Jersey, 2014 Graduate Center, City University of New York
Suburban Heat Islands: The Influence Of Residential Minimum Lot Size Zoning On Surface Heat Islands In Somerset County, New Jersey, Jennifer Renee Cox
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The process of suburbanization blurs regional bounds, forms mega-regions and fosters the expansion of multifaceted environmental problems, such as the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Defined by differences in air- and surface- temperature between rural and urban areas, UHI is the result of the characteristics of urbanization which modify the land surface condition, urban geometry, thermal properties of construction materials, anthropogenic heat and air pollution, which increase storage and re-radiation of heat to the atmosphere. Climate change is predicted to worsen the UHI effect. Hence, the objective of this research to characterize the UHI effect as it pertains to suburban …
Numerical Study Of Canopy Flows In Complex Terrain, 2014 Graduate Center, City University of New York
Numerical Study Of Canopy Flows In Complex Terrain, Xiyan Xu
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Canopy flow plays a substantial role in regulating atmosphere-biosphere exchanges of mass and energy. The worldwide FLUXNET has been developed to quantify the net ecosystem exchange of mass and energy through fluid dynamics in and above vegetation canopy using tower-based eddy covariance (EC) technique. However, EC measurements are subject to advection errors in complex terrain, particularly during nights when atmospheric stability is strong. Because EC measurements are one-dimensional (1D), three-dimensional (3D) air movement, CO2 transport, and temperature variation around the instrumented tower are unknown. We employ a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model to investigate the impact on CO2 transport of …
Phylogeny And Population Genetics Of The Endangered Dwarf Bear-Poppy, Arctomecon Humilis Coville (Papaveraceae) Using Microsatellite Markers, 2014 Graduate Center, City University of New York
Phylogeny And Population Genetics Of The Endangered Dwarf Bear-Poppy, Arctomecon Humilis Coville (Papaveraceae) Using Microsatellite Markers, Joshua Simpson
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The genus Arctomecon (Papaveraceae) is comprised of three narrowly endemic rare species that are largely restricted to gypsum soils of the eastern Mojave Desert. The small, remaining populations of these species have become increasingly isolated by urban development and habitat fragmentation. Arctomecon humilis is federally listed as endangered due to its limited distribution within a ~15 km radius of an actively expanding city. Organizations involved with land management and conservation have called for greater insight into the genetic variation and population structure of the remaining subpopulations as they make important decisions regarding where to focus their efforts and resources.
The …
Responses Of Hydrological Processes And Water Quality To Land Use/Cover (Lulc) And Climate Change In A Coastal Watershed, 2014 University of California, Davis
Responses Of Hydrological Processes And Water Quality To Land Use/Cover (Lulc) And Climate Change In A Coastal Watershed, Ruoyu Wang
Ruoyu Wang
Climate Change, Resource And Infrastructure Use: Emerging Regional And International Law Issues, 2014 William & Mary Law School
Climate Change, Resource And Infrastructure Use: Emerging Regional And International Law Issues, Rudiger Tscherning, Francis Botchway, Muna Mustafa H A Al-Marzouqi
ELPR Annual Symposium
No abstract provided.
Wastewater Treatment And Management At Oil Shale Plants, 2014 Water Purification Associates, Cambridge, Mass.
Wastewater Treatment And Management At Oil Shale Plants, R. E. Hicks, R. F. Probstein, I. Wei, D. S. Farrier, J. Lotwala, T. E. Phillips
Irvine W. Wei
Laboratory tests have shown that the major wastewater streams produced during oil shale retorting can in principle be treated to a quality suitable for reuse within the plant. The wastewater stream condensed from the retort gases, here called the gas condensate, contains primarily dissolved gases (NH3, CO2 and some H2S) and organics as contaminants. In batch stripping tests it was found that the organics, which may be present at concentrations of up to 5,000 mg/l measured as COD, are volatile and can be stripped along with the ammonia down to about 500 mg/l COD. Retort waters, or wastewater streams that …
The Winds Of Change: The Political Ecology Of Renewable Energy Transition In Vermont, 2014 New Jersey Institute of Technology
The Winds Of Change: The Political Ecology Of Renewable Energy Transition In Vermont, Jill Mcnulty Clegg
Theses
This research presents a case study of renewable energy transition (RET) in Vermont, illustrated by a recently completed commercial wind project in the Lowell Mountains. Preliminary analysis maps out the current political landscape of Vermont’s RET – its stakeholders, political climate, and important policy advances. Subsequent analysis focuses on the relationship between RET and the unique aspects of Vermont’s institutions, culture, and communities. Important elements of this analysis include the ways that community groups form a vital link between citizens and the State, the unique opportunities and challenges presented by Vermont’s pastoral land perception and activist heritage, and the way …
Innovations In State-Level Solar Energy Policy : Motivating Community Investment In Resiliency, 2014 New Jersey Institute of Technology
Innovations In State-Level Solar Energy Policy : Motivating Community Investment In Resiliency, Sarah Katheryn Gentile
Theses
Community-level resilience in the face of climate change is critical for New Jersey. Through a review of current literature, evidence is provided that a majority of work being done with respect to climate-change planning is taking place at the local level. On the basis of case-study analyses, three community renewable energy projects are examined as well as two policy tools that are helping to facilitate development of local capacity to generate renewable energy. The best elements of these initiatives are extracted and form the basis of a policy discussion intended to encourage local level generation of renewable energy, thereby increasing …