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National Development And The Sustainability Of Mining In The Atacama Desert, Chile, Dakota Soleil Osgood Jan 2023

National Development And The Sustainability Of Mining In The Atacama Desert, Chile, Dakota Soleil Osgood

Capstone Collection

As climate change continues to intensify on a global scale, efforts have been made to implement renewable energies and progressive technologies. These tools are critical in the shift towards a more sustainable practice, and yet analysis of localized impacts from the development of these mechanisms is inadequate. Chile has been and continues to be a leading country in mineral extraction, with an economic history founded in the mining industry. The establishment of mining in Chile as a progressive tool has aided the social and economic development of the nation. Consequences of mining extraction, however, include intensive environmental degradation, human rights …


Comments On The Draft Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Clark Tailings Consolidated Waste Management Area Site Investigation Quality Assurance Project Plan (Qapp) (Dated June 17, 2022), Nikia Greene Jan 2023

Comments On The Draft Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Clark Tailings Consolidated Waste Management Area Site Investigation Quality Assurance Project Plan (Qapp) (Dated June 17, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Approval For Quality Assurance Project Plan, 2023, Butte Mine Flooding Operable Unit And Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit, Private Well Monitoring Program, Dated November 2022, Nikia Greene Jan 2023

Approval For Quality Assurance Project Plan, 2023, Butte Mine Flooding Operable Unit And Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit, Private Well Monitoring Program, Dated November 2022, Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Comments For The Draft Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit, 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling Ur-34 Site Evaluation Summary Report (November 22, 2022), Nikia Greene Jan 2023

Comments For The Draft Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit, 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling Ur-34 Site Evaluation Summary Report (November 22, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Approval Letter For The Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling – Minnie Irvine (Ur-01) Site Evaluation Summary Report (Dated November 14, 2022), Nikia Greene Jan 2023

Approval Letter For The Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling – Minnie Irvine (Ur-01) Site Evaluation Summary Report (Dated November 14, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Residential Metals Abatement Program – Interior School Dust - Remedial Action Work Plan (Rawp) – East Middle School (Dated December 8, 2022), Nikia Greene Jan 2023

Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Residential Metals Abatement Program – Interior School Dust - Remedial Action Work Plan (Rawp) – East Middle School (Dated December 8, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Comments For The Draft Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit, 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling Ur-30 Site Evaluation Summary Report (November 22, 2022), Nikia Greene Jan 2023

Comments For The Draft Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit, 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling Ur-30 Site Evaluation Summary Report (November 22, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Comments For The Draft Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit, 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling Ur-40 Site Evaluation Summary Report (April 11, 2022), Nikia Greene Jan 2023

Comments For The Draft Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit, 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling Ur-40 Site Evaluation Summary Report (April 11, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Queer Ecologies: A Final Syllabus/Zine Product Of Our Independent Study, Yeh Seo Jung, Ray Craig Jan 2023

Queer Ecologies: A Final Syllabus/Zine Product Of Our Independent Study, Yeh Seo Jung, Ray Craig

Crossings: Swarthmore Undergraduate Feminist Research Journal

This zine is the product of our independent study course Queer Ecologies, which is an exploration of bio-social systems using a queer and feminist theoretical lens. We aim to look critically at knowledge formation and construct alternative visions for more just and sustainable relationships between science, nature, and ourselves. While queer theory most directly interrogates the normative structure of heterosexuality both in humans and in biology more broadly, these studies include analyses of hierarchy, power, and value. Queer Ecology can be used to examine phenomena such as climate change, extinction, pollution, species hierarchies, agricultural practices, resource extraction, and human population …


The Water, Ji Kim Jan 2023

The Water, Ji Kim

Open Educational Resources

Water is everywhere, thus, we tend to take it for granted. However, access to clean water has been inequitable; climate change is threatening the sea water level, causing the acidification of ocean water. In this project, we will investigate the environmental and social issues related to clean water and its impacts on our life by reading articles, watching videos, and exploring activities.


Residential Metals Abatement Program Investigation Summary Report (Non-Residential Parcels – Indoor Dust) Ramsay Elementary School, Environmental Resource Management (Erm) Jan 2023

Residential Metals Abatement Program Investigation Summary Report (Non-Residential Parcels – Indoor Dust) Ramsay Elementary School, Environmental Resource Management (Erm)

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Residential Metals Abatement Program Investigation Summary Report (Non-Residential Parcels – Indoor Dust) Monroe Head Start Preschool, Environmental Resource Management (Erm) Jan 2023

Residential Metals Abatement Program Investigation Summary Report (Non-Residential Parcels – Indoor Dust) Monroe Head Start Preschool, Environmental Resource Management (Erm)

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Residential Metals Abatement Program Investigation Summary Report (Non-Residential Parcels – Indoor Dust) Butte Central Elementary And Middle School, Environmental Resource Management (Erm) Jan 2023

Residential Metals Abatement Program Investigation Summary Report (Non-Residential Parcels – Indoor Dust) Butte Central Elementary And Middle School, Environmental Resource Management (Erm)

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Residential Metals Abatement Program Investigation Summary Report (Non-Residential Parcels – Indoor Dust) Butte High School, Environmental Protection Agency Jan 2023

Residential Metals Abatement Program Investigation Summary Report (Non-Residential Parcels – Indoor Dust) Butte High School, Environmental Protection Agency

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Residential Metals Abatement Program Investigation Summary Report (Non-Residential Parcels – Indoor Dust) Ramsay Elementary School, Environmental Resource Management (Erm) Jan 2023

Residential Metals Abatement Program Investigation Summary Report (Non-Residential Parcels – Indoor Dust) Ramsay Elementary School, Environmental Resource Management (Erm)

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Residential Metals Abatement Program Investigation Summary Report (Non-Residential Parcels – Indoor Dust) Margaret Leary Elementary School, Environmental Resource Management (Erm) Jan 2023

Residential Metals Abatement Program Investigation Summary Report (Non-Residential Parcels – Indoor Dust) Margaret Leary Elementary School, Environmental Resource Management (Erm)

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Draft Final 2023 Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Borrow Amendment Work Plan, Pioneer Technical Services, Inc. Jan 2023

Draft Final 2023 Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Borrow Amendment Work Plan, Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Hitting Two Birds With One Emissions-Based Maintenance Stone – A Literature Review On Improving Overall Productivity Of Underground Diesel Fleets, Johannes Deon Swanepoel, Jennifer Hines, Vinod Gopaldasani, Brian Davies Jan 2023

Hitting Two Birds With One Emissions-Based Maintenance Stone – A Literature Review On Improving Overall Productivity Of Underground Diesel Fleets, Johannes Deon Swanepoel, Jennifer Hines, Vinod Gopaldasani, Brian Davies

Journal of Sustainable Mining

Many industries regard occupational health and safety as a core value and an integral component to maintaining high productivity, and, thus, shareholder value. Diesel fleets’ engine maintenance is instrumental in ensuring affected workplaces meet production requirements while controlling health and safety hazards that these fleets introduce to the workplace. This systematic literature review focuses on production and occupational health and safety advantages associated with the implementation and adherence to an emissions-based maintenance (EBM) program. The literature review was conducted across eight databases relevant to workplace health and engineering. To be eligible for inclusion, the publication had to contain maintenance interventions …


Research On Vibration-Based Early Diagnostic System For Excavator Motor Bearing Using 1-D Cnn, Dorjsuren Yandagsuren, Tatsuki Kurauchi, Hisatoshi Toriya, Hajime Ikeda, Tsuyoshi Adachi, Youhei Kawamura Jan 2023

Research On Vibration-Based Early Diagnostic System For Excavator Motor Bearing Using 1-D Cnn, Dorjsuren Yandagsuren, Tatsuki Kurauchi, Hisatoshi Toriya, Hajime Ikeda, Tsuyoshi Adachi, Youhei Kawamura

Journal of Sustainable Mining

In mining, super-large machines such as rope excavators are used to perform the main mining operations. A rope excavator is equipped with motors that drive mechanisms. Motors are easily damaged as a result of harsh mining conditions. Bearings are important parts in a motor; bearing failure accounts for approximately half of all motor failures. Failure reduces work efficiency and increases maintenance costs. In practice, reactive, preventive, and predictive maintenance are used to minimize failures. Predictive maintenance can prevent failures and is more effective than other maintenance. For effective predictive maintenance, a good diagnosis is required to accurately determine motor-bearing health. …


Not A Waste: Wastewater Surveillance To Enhance Public Health, Anna Gitter, Jeremiah Oghuan, Anuja Rajendra Godbole, Carlos A. Chavarria, Carlos Monserrat, Tao Hu, Yun Wang, Anthony W. Maresso, Blake M. Hanson, Kristina D. Mena, Fuqing Wu Jan 2023

Not A Waste: Wastewater Surveillance To Enhance Public Health, Anna Gitter, Jeremiah Oghuan, Anuja Rajendra Godbole, Carlos A. Chavarria, Carlos Monserrat, Tao Hu, Yun Wang, Anthony W. Maresso, Blake M. Hanson, Kristina D. Mena, Fuqing Wu

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Domestic wastewater, when collected and evaluated appropriately, can provide valuable health-related information for a community. As a relatively unbiased and non-invasive approach, wastewater surveillance may complement current practices towards mitigating risks and protecting population health. Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater programs are now widely implemented to monitor viral infection trends in sewersheds and inform public health decision-making. This review summarizes recent developments in wastewater-based epidemiology for detecting and monitoring communicable infectious diseases, dissemination of antimicrobial resistance, and illicit drug consumption. Wastewater surveillance, a quickly advancing Frontier in environmental science, is becoming a new tool to enhance public health, improve …


Microplastics And Tire Wear Particles In South Carolina Coastal Waters: Sources, Pathways, And Toxicity, John E. Weinstein Jan 2023

Microplastics And Tire Wear Particles In South Carolina Coastal Waters: Sources, Pathways, And Toxicity, John E. Weinstein

Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


The Future Of Pandemics: Land Use Controls As Means Of Preventing Zoonotic Disease, Bailey Andree Jan 2023

The Future Of Pandemics: Land Use Controls As Means Of Preventing Zoonotic Disease, Bailey Andree

Pace International Law Review

Zoonotic diseases are increasing in frequency as climate change worsens around the world, with the recent COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the inadequate mechanisms in place to counteract disease spread. This article reviews various zoonotic diseases and their patterns of spread, highlighting land use change as the key driver of disease to demonstrate the need for legal intervention. International land use law is a little-developed subsect of environmental law that holds the key to combating this disease spread, and this article proposes solutions through this legal lens. Land use techniques which may be used to combat disease spread include conservation laws, setback …


Identifying Factors To Develop And Validate A Heat Vulnerability Tool For Pakistan – A Review, Salman Muhammad Soomar, Sarmad Muhammad Soomar Jan 2023

Identifying Factors To Develop And Validate A Heat Vulnerability Tool For Pakistan – A Review, Salman Muhammad Soomar, Sarmad Muhammad Soomar

Department of Emergency Medicine

Objective: This review will provide better insight into developing and validating a heat vulnerability assessment tool for Pakistan.
Methods:
A literature search was done to identify studies onon heat vulnerability assessment published from January 2012 to January 2021 (10 years). Online databases PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of science were used for the literature search.
Results:
Heat vulnerability can be evaluated by some specific determinants that have heat-related health events, including social, economic, environmental, housing, and geographical factors.
Conclusion:
This tool will identify heat vulnerability risks and mitigate morbidity and mortality.


Boundary Spanning In The Context Of Stakeholder Engagement In Collaborative Water Management, Mark E. Burbach, Weston M. Eaton, Jodi L. Delozier Jan 2023

Boundary Spanning In The Context Of Stakeholder Engagement In Collaborative Water Management, Mark E. Burbach, Weston M. Eaton, Jodi L. Delozier

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Boundary spanners are individuals able to reach across organizational borders to build relationships and interconnections to help better manage complex problems. What is not clear, however, are the skills that allow boundary spanners to cross diverse scales, sectors, and organizations. To address this gap, we use a qualitative case study approach to examine evidence for how boundary spanning skills are implemented in the context of stakeholder engagement for addressing water challenges in agricultural settings. We employ a hybrid deductive-inductive thematic analysis approach to examine interview data collected with 25 stakeholder participants as well as direct observation of engagement behavior. Interview …


Cop 15 - Can We Meet Biodiversity Goals & Targets?, Andrew N. Rowan, Kathleen Rowan Jan 2023

Cop 15 - Can We Meet Biodiversity Goals & Targets?, Andrew N. Rowan, Kathleen Rowan

WellBeing News

The 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity was held in two parts (in Kunming, China, in October 2021 and in Montreal, Canada, in December 2022). One primary goal for COP15 was the development of a Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) covering the coming decade (from 2023 through 2030). The GBF produced by the participating countries at COP15 included four long-term global goals for 2050 linked to the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity, along with 23 global targets for immediate action and completed by 2030. One outcome of the negotiations was the identification of the need …


Ecological Complexity And Avoiding Pest Resurgence: Intuitions From Mathematical Ecology, Theresa Ong, John H. Vandermeer Jan 2023

Ecological Complexity And Avoiding Pest Resurgence: Intuitions From Mathematical Ecology, Theresa Ong, John H. Vandermeer

Dartmouth Scholarship

Pest resurgence is defined by a predictable increase in pests following declines resulting from the implementation of pest management practices. This phenomenon is notorious; familiar in biblical references to cyclical plagues of locust and discussions of pesticide treadmills, where pests resurge following the evolution of pesticide resistance. Targeted “silver-bullet” approaches, whether chemical, mechanical, biological, or genetic in nature, apply a reductionist lens toward the removal of a specific target pest, often ignoring ecological context, by application of said silver-bullet. In this review article, we cover how past and recent developments in theoretical ecology and complex systems dynamics provide a general …


Silver Bow Creek Butte Area Npl Site Fall Semi-Annual 2022 Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Interim Site-Wide Surface Water Monitoring Data Report. Consent Decree- Civil Action No. Cv 89-039-Bu-She, Josh Bryson Jan 2023

Silver Bow Creek Butte Area Npl Site Fall Semi-Annual 2022 Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Interim Site-Wide Surface Water Monitoring Data Report. Consent Decree- Civil Action No. Cv 89-039-Bu-She, Josh Bryson

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Final 2018 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling – Bonanza (Ur-09) Site Evaluation Summary Report. (Dated November 14, 2022), Nikia Greene Jan 2023

Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Final 2018 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling – Bonanza (Ur-09) Site Evaluation Summary Report. (Dated November 14, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling – Ur-39 Site Evaluation Summary Report., Pioneer Technical Services, Inc. Jan 2023

Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling – Ur-39 Site Evaluation Summary Report., Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Re: Approval Of Quality Assurance Project Plan, 2023 [Qapp] – Butte Mine Flooding Operable Unit, Long-Term Monitoring Program; Dated November 30, 2022, Nikia Greene Jan 2023

Re: Approval Of Quality Assurance Project Plan, 2023 [Qapp] – Butte Mine Flooding Operable Unit, Long-Term Monitoring Program; Dated November 30, 2022, Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.