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Downstream Hydrochemistry And Irrigation Water Quality Of The Syr Darya, Aral Sea Basin, South Kazakhstan, Bagdat Satybaldiyev, Baimurat Ismailov, Nurbek Nurpeisov, Kairat Kenges, Daniel D. Snow, Arindam Malakar, Omirzhan Taukebayev, Bolat Uralbekov

Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute: Faculty Publications

New hydrochemical measurements from the Syr Darya provide insights into factors affecting the composition and quality of a major freshwater source replenishing the Aral Sea. This river is heavily used for power and irrigation and crosses territories of four Central Asia republics. It is intensely managed, draining several major tributaries, many reservoirs, and numerous irrigation distribution systems and canals. Analysis of seasonal changes in dissolved ion concentrations using geochemical diagrams, elemental ratios, statistical correlation, and equilibrium modeling allowed the characterization of mineral formation processes that control the dissolved chemical composition. Measured water hydrochemistry and composition type differs substantially from previous …

Occurrence Of Radionuclides And Hazardous Elements In The Transboundary River Basin Kyrgyzstan–Kazakhstan, Mariya A. Severinenko, Vladimir P. Solodukhin, Bekmamat M. Djenbaev, The National Academy Of Science Of The Kyrgyz Republic G. Lennik, Baktiyar T. Zholboldiev, Daniel D. Snow

Nebraska Water Center: Faculty Publications

Important for irrigation, the transboundary river basin between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan is vulnerable to geochemical and anthropogenic sources of pollution. The use of water use indices, together with measurements of the elemental and radionuclide composition of the water and bottom sediments, provides a means for evaluating the continued use of the water from this region. Recent monitoring shows the highest concentrations of hazardous contaminants include lead and thorium contained in the bottom and banks of the Kichi-Kemin River. These contaminants are likely remnants of an accidental spill at the Aktyuz tailing dump in 1964. The specific activity of the Th-232 …

Hydrological Modeling For The Impact Of Predicted Climate Change And Urbanization: A Case Study Of The Lower Mississippi River Basin, Amelie E. Lagarde

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Mississippi River Basin is the United States’ largest watershed and consists of many subbasins. Each subbasin has hydrological processes including flow rate, evapotranspiration, and groundwater flow. It is important to understand how these processes change through shifts in weather, time, and land use. This study uses the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to predict how changes in temperature, rainfall, and land use can change hydrological processes responses. This study concludes that, for the studied subbasin, a high representative concentration pathway (RCP) will result in lower flow rates and ground water flow as well as higher evapotranspiration by the …

Projected Long-Term Climate Trends Reveal The Critical Role Of Vapor Pressure Deficit For Soybean Yields In The Us Midwest, Wenguang Sun, David Fleisher, Dennis Timlin, Chittaranjan Ray, Zhuangji Wang, Sahila Beegum, Vangimalla Reddy

Nebraska Water Center: Faculty Publications

Extreme climate events including heat waves and droughts are projected to become more frequent under future climate change conditions. However, the mechanisms between soybean yields and climate factors, specifically involving variable rainfall and high heat episodes, are still unclear, particularly with respect to spatial trends in the United States (US) Midwest. A recently modified version of the model GLYCIM was used to evaluate rainfed soybean production across 12 states at a 10 km spatial resolution for three time periods (2011–2020, 2051–2060, 2091–2099) under Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios 4.5 and 8.5. Results showed that except for the northernmost Midwest counties, …

Flood Risk Data For Highway Projects, Nabil Ghalayini

Purdue Road School

This presentation will provide project managers and engineers with a clear understanding of available FEMA Risk MAP flood hazard data to better inform project design. This presentation will broadly define flood risk, review the FEMA flood risk database as a source of risk parameters, contrast the regulatory Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) with Risk MAP depth and probability grids, and highlight the variability of risk within the SFHA.

Pan-Arctic Soil Moisture Control On Tundra Carbon Sequestration And Plant Productivity, Donatella Zona, Peter M. Lafleur, Koen Hufkens, Beniamino Gioli, Barbara Bailey, George Burba, Eugénie S. Euskirchen, Jennifer D. Watts, Kyle A. Arndt, Mary Farina, John S. Kimball, Martin Heimann, Mathias Göckede, Martijn Pallandt, Torben R. Christensen, Mikhail Mastepanov, Efrén López-Blanco, Albertus J. Dolman, Roisin Commane, Charles E. Miller, Josh Hashemi, Lars Kutzbach, David Holl, Julia Boike, Christian Wille, Torsten Sachs, Aram Kalhori, Elyn R. Humphreys, Oliver Sonnentag, Gesa Meyer, Gabriel H. Gosselin, Philip Marsh, Walter C. Oechel

Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute: Faculty Publications

Long-term atmospheric CO₂ concentration records have suggested a reduction in the positive effect of warming on high-latitude carbon uptake since the 1990s. A variety of mechanisms have been proposed to explain the reduced net carbon sink of northern ecosystems with increased air temperature, including water stress on vegetation and increased respiration over recent decades. However, the lack of consistent long-term carbon flux and in situ soil moisture data has severely limited our ability to identify the mechanisms responsible for the recent reduced carbon sink strength. In this study, we used a record of nearly 100 site-years of eddy covariance …

Importance Of Snowmelt On Soil Nitrate Leaching To Groundwater – A Model Study, Sahila Beegum, Arindam Malakar, Chittaranjan Ray, Daniel D. Snow

Nebraska Water Center: Faculty Publications

The movement of nitrate to surface water bodies during snow accumulation and melting has been extensively studied, but there are only limited studies on the influence of snow processes on nitrate leaching to groundwater. The present study investigated the impact of snow processes on nitrate leaching to groundwater based on a simulation modeling approach using HYDRUS-1D. HYDRUS-1D model has a temperature threshold-based snow model in addition to water, solute, and heat simulation components. The snow component in HYDRUS-1D was previously not applied to snow simulation studies since the method does not consider a detailed physical and process-based representation of snow …

Time Domain Reflectometry Waveform Interpretation With Convolutional Neural Networks, Zhuangji Wang, Shan Hua, Dennis Timlin, Yuki Kojima, Songtao Lu, Wenguang Sun, David Fleisher, Robert Horton, Vangimalla R. Reddy, Katherine Tully

Nebraska Water Center: Faculty Publications

Interpreting time domain reflectometry (TDR) waveforms obtained in soils with non-uniform water content is an open question. We design a new TDR waveform interpretation model based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that can reveal the spatial variations of soil relative permittivity and water content along a TDR sensor. The proposed model, namely TDR-CNN, is constructed with three modules. First, the geometrical features of the TDR waveforms are extracted with a simplified version of VGG16 network. Second, the reflection positions in a TDR waveform are traced using a 1D version of the region proposal network. Finally, the soil relative permittivity values …

Globally Scalable Approach To Estimate Net Ecosystem Exchange Based On Remote Sensing, Meteorological Data, And Direct Measurements Of Eddy Covariance Sites, Ruslan Zhuravlev, Andrey Dara, André Luís Diniz Dos Santos, Oleg Demidov, George Burba

Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute: Faculty Publications

Despite a rapid development of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for carbon removal in recent years, the methods for evaluating NBS still have certain gaps. We propose an approach based on a combination of remote sensing data and meteorological variables to reconstruct the spatiotemporal variation of net ecosystem exchange from eddy-covariance stations. A Lagrangian particle dispersion model was used for upscaling satellite images and flux towers. We trained data-driven models based on kernel methods separately for each selected land-cover class. The results suggest that the proposed approach to quantifying carbon exchange on a medium-to-large scale by blending eddy covariance flux data with …

Role Of Social Determinants Of Health In Differential Respiratory Exposure And Health Outcomes Among Children, Jagadeesh Puvvula, Jill A. Poole, Yeongjin Gwon, Eleanor G. Rogan, Jesse E. Bell

Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute: Faculty Publications

Background Attributes defining the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) are associated with disproportionate exposures to environmental hazards and differential health outcomes among communities. The dynamics between SDoH, disproportionate environmental exposures, and differential health outcomes are often specific to micro-geographic areas.

Methods This study focused on children less than 20 years of age who lived in Douglas County, Nebraska, during 2016–2019. To assess the role of SDoH in differential exposures, we evaluated the association between SDoH metrics and criteria pollutant concentrations and the association between SDoH and pediatric asthma exacerbations to quantify the role of SDoH in differential pediatric asthma outcomes. …

Nebraska Water Center Annual Report 2023, Nebraska Water Center, Daugherty Water For Food Global Institute

Nebraska Water Center: Administrative Materials

The report's highlights updates including the water sciences laboratory, AltEn contamination monitoring and the Know your well project.

Implementation Of Digital Twins For Small Water Systems, Aidan Gill

Theses and Dissertations--Civil Engineering

The main objective of this thesis is to develop a working digital twin for a small water system in central Kentucky which will serve as a general format for other similar systems in the region wishing to implement digital twins for operator support. While the benefit of having a calibrated hydraulic and water quality model is widely understood, small distribution systems tend to not have the same financial and economic means to properly support these tools. Creation of a digital twin using this methodology provides a means for operators to predict pressure, flows, chlorine residuals, and total trihalomethane (TTHM) concentrations …

Projecting Low Flow Indices To Climate Change Using Cmip6 For The Upper Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand, Chantharath Yos

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Human activities are impacting climate change. This is expected to cause a decrease in average runoff, leading to more frequent, longer, and more severe low-flow episodes at the catchment scale. Low-flow conditions can affect ecology, water quality, and water supply. The upper Chao Phraya River basin (CPRB) in Thailand has seen significant development and has experienced the effects of climate change. There is a critical question in the study of this region. Therefore, this study aims to develop low-flow indices, improve understanding of low-flow conditions, and assess the impacts of climate change on these indices. To assess the impact of …

Using Modflow To Assess Groundwater Storage Enhancement Via A Floodplain Infiltration Basin, Lindsay Henning

All Master's Theses

Delaying groundwater discharge into rivers until it is critically needed during baseflow conditions provides promise for lowering elevated stream temperatures and improving habitat for aquatic species. Increasing groundwater storage may accomplish this in locations where excess spring runoff can be captured and allowed to infiltrate into the subsurface for later beneficial use, a process known as Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR). Here, MAR via an infiltration basin is considered at a site along the Teanaway River in central Washington State. The effects of simulated ephemeral ponds of sizes varying from 554 m³ to 2430 m³ (0.449 acre-feet to 1.97 …

Labile Carbon And Soil Texture Control Nitrogen Transformation In Deep Vadose Zone, Lidong Li, Jordan Shields, Daniel D. Snow, Michael Kaiser, Arindam Malakar

Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute: Faculty Publications

Understanding transient nitrogen (N) storage and transformation in the deep vadose zone is critical for controlling groundwater contamination by nitrate. The occurrence of organic and inorganic forms of carbon (C) and nitrogen and their importance in the deep vadose zone is not well characterized due to difficulty in sampling and the limited number of studies. We sampled and characterized these pools beneath 27 croplands with different vadose zone thicknesses (6–45 m). We measured nitrate and ammonium in different depths for the 27 sites to evaluate inorganic N storage. We measured total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), hot-water extractable organic carbon (EOC), soil …

Effects Of Coastal Structures On The Shoreline Change In Phan Thiet Bay, Vietnam, Hoai Thi Phuoc Pham

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This thesis examined the effects of coastal structures on shoreline change in Phan Thiet Bay, Vietnam from 1988 to 2021. This thesis explored two key objectives; that were the investigation of historical shoreline changes and the effects of structures on shoreline based on the comparison of simulated shorelines with and without structures by using GENESIS model. Moreover, the SWAN model was used for simulating wave data which is an important input for the GENESIS model. From the shoreline evolution results, it was found that the land loss rate ranged from 0.9 to 8.7 ha/year in 1988 to 2016, while this …

Projections Of Drought Indices Under Climate Change In The Upper Chao Phraya River Basin, Pech Ponleu

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Climate change significantly impacts water resource management by intensifying the variability and frequency of extreme events like droughts. This study aims to understand drought processes and assess climate change impacts on drought in the Upper Chao Phraya River basin. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and Standardized Streamflow Index (SSI) of 3-, 6- and 12-month accumulation periods were estimated for historical from 1985 to 2014, near future (NF) from 2025 to 2054 and far future (FF) from 2070 to 2099 periods. Using GCMs from CMIP6 (MPI-ESM1-2-L, IPSL-CM6A-LR, and GFDL-CM4), bias-corrected via quantile mapping, we found good agreement with observed rainfall data. …

การเคลื่อนที่ของตะกอนในแม่น้ำสายหลักของลุ่มน้ำเจ้าพระยาตอนบน, เมธาฤทธิ์ แนมสัย

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาการเคลื่อนที่ของตะกอน ในแม่น้ำสายหลักของลุ่มน้ำเจ้าพระยาตอนบน ประกอบด้วย แม่น้ำปิง วัง ยม และน่าน ในการศึกษาได้ใช้ข้อมูลอุทกวิทยาย้อนหลัง ตั้งแต่ปี 2464 ถึง 2562 และข้อมูลสำรวจการไหลของน้ำและตะกอนในปี 2561 และ 2562 การวิเคราะห์การเคลื่อนที่ของตะกอนในแม่น้ำแต่ละสายได้ใช้วิธีการทางสถิติทั่วไป วิธี Mann-Kendall (MK) และวิธีโค้งทับทวี (DMC) ผลการศึกษา พบว่า ปริมาณตะกอนรายปีเฉลี่ยที่สถานีอุทกวิทยาใกล้ทางออกลุ่มน้ำของแม่น้ำปิง (สถานี P.17) วัง (สถานี W.4A) ยม (สถานี Y.16) และน่าน (สถานี N.67) ประมาณ 0.82, 0.26, 0.35 และ 1.88 ล้านตัน/ปี ตามลำดับ โดยการเคลื่อนที่ของตะกอนในแม่น้ำทั้ง 4 สาย ส่วนใหญ่เคลื่อนที่ในลักษณะแขวนลอยเป็นหลัก ยกเว้นแม่น้ำปิงด้านท้ายน้ำของเขื่อนภูมิพลที่เคลื่อนที่เป็นตะกอนท้องน้ำ ผลการศึกษาความผันแปรในเชิงเวลาของปริมาณตะกอนรายปี พบว่า หลายสถานีมีแนวโน้มลดลง ได้แก่ สถานี P.1 ของแม่น้ำปิง สถานี W.16A, W.1C และ W.23 ของแม่น้ำวัง สถานี N.5A, N.7A, N.8A และ N.67 ของแม่น้ำน่าน และแม่น้ำเจ้าพระยา ที่สถานี C.2 ในทางกลับกันที่สถานี Y.1C และ Y.16 ของแม่น้ำยมกลับมีแนวโน้มเพิ่มขึ้น ส่วนผลการศึกษาความผันแปรของปริมาณตะกอนในเชิงตำแหน่ง แสดงให้เห็นว่า ปริมาณตะกอนรายปีเฉลี่ยเพิ่มขึ้นตามระยะทางจากต้นน้ำไปยังท้ายน้ำ อย่างไรก็ตามปริมาณตะกอนในแม่น้ำยมและแม่น้ำวังมีการลดลงในแม่น้ำตอนล่างใกล้ทางออกของลุ่มน้ำ ผลการศึกษายังพบว่าการก่อสร้างเขื่อนภูมิพล กิ่วลม แม่จาง กิ่วคอหมา และฝายแม่ยม ไม่ได้ส่งผลอย่างมีนัยสำคัญต่อปริมาณตะกอนในแม่น้ำใกล้ทางออกลุ่มน้ำของแม่น้ำปิง วัง และยม ในขณะที่ใกล้ทางออกลุ่มน้ำของแม่น้ำน่านมีปริมาณตะกอนเพิ่มขึ้นหลังจากการก่อสร้างเขื่อนสิริกิติ์ แต่ปริมาณตะกอนกลับลดลงหลังจากการก่อสร้างเขื่อนทดน้ำนเรศวรและเขื่อนแควน้อยบำรุงแดน นอกจากนี้ยังพบว่า ปริมาณตะกอนที่สถานี C.2 หลังจากการสร้างอาคารชลศาสตร์ขนาดใหญ่ทั้ง 8 แห่ง ลดลงเพียง 31 เปอร์เซ็นต์ของปริมาณตะกอนก่อนก่อสร้างเขื่อนภูมิพล …

Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge, Bryce Towne, Ethan Andrews, Carter Moore, Andrew Sobel

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge is a competition held by the National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) that challenges students to create a hydraulically powered vehicle to compete in four different races over two days. The vehicle has to be fully powered by hydraulics, with human power (such as pedaling) being used to move the hydraulic fluid. Electronics and pneumatics can be used to control the flow of the hydraulic oil. Vehicles also must have an energy storage device to take advantage of regenerative braking. The final competition was at the Norgren facility in Colorado from April 12th to April 14th. …

Hydraulic Computations For Stepped Concrete Overlays Of Embankment Dams, Tony L. Wahl, Sherry L. Hunt, Kem C. Kadavy, Henry T. Falvey

Protections Conference

One method for rehabilitating and modernizing embankment dams is the addition of a concrete overlay that protects the embankment and allows floods to pass safely over the dam. Roller compacted concrete is commonly used, which makes it practical to use a stepped construction that also enhances energy dissipation. Analysis of flow conditions over such structures requires computation of aerated flow and its effects on flow depth, training wall design, and energy dissipation. This paper describes Spillway Pro, an energy-based water surface profile calculation tool for smooth spillway chutes (Wahl et al. 2019), recently improved to also analyze stepped chutes. The …