Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
-
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (12389)
- Utah State University (2961)
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1903)
- Montana Tech Library (1897)
- China Coal Technology and Engineering Group (CCTEG) (1822)
-
- Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia (1734)
- University of Colorado Law School (1646)
- Chulalongkorn University (1444)
- University of Kentucky (1363)
- Portland State University (1351)
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (999)
- City University of New York (CUNY) (900)
- University of South Florida (697)
- Old Dominion University (684)
- SIT Graduate Institute/SIT Study Abroad (668)
- Montclair State University (614)
- Clemson University (602)
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (598)
- Louisiana State University (536)
- South Dakota State University (499)
- Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School (489)
- Edith Cowan University (460)
- University of Texas at El Paso (368)
- Chapman University (357)
- International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (357)
- World Maritime University (353)
- Western Kentucky University (343)
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (297)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (297)
- Wofford College (287)
- Keyword
-
- Western Australia (1129)
- Climate change (1051)
- Sustainability (928)
- Water quality (756)
- United States (661)
-
- Groundwater (572)
- Conservation (521)
- Environment (478)
- 2014 International Conference on Hydroinformatics HIC (464)
- California (428)
- Priority Soils (416)
- Agriculture (387)
- Water (373)
- Drought (365)
- Climate (354)
- Colorado (352)
- Natural resources (332)
- Utah (312)
- Gas (306)
- Remote sensing (305)
- Management (296)
- Energy (292)
- Invasive species (278)
- Salinity (276)
- Ecology (275)
- Hydrology (250)
- Biodiversity (249)
- Nebraska (249)
- And Energy; Structural Materials; Sustainability (248)
- Energy Systems; Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment; Environmental Monitoring; Mining Engineering; Oil (248)
- Publication Year
- Publication
-
- Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site (1884)
- Coal Geology & Exploration (1822)
- School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications (1733)
- United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications (1625)
- Thai Environment (1027)
-
- Reports (728)
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations (627)
- Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection (627)
- World of Coal Ash Proceedings (580)
- United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications (519)
- Theses and Dissertations (515)
- The Prairie Naturalist (483)
- Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings (478)
- International Conference on Hydroinformatics (464)
- Theses (427)
- UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones (426)
- United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications (426)
- School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications (422)
- LSU Master's Theses (378)
- USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations (370)
- Arkansas Water Resources Center Technical Reports (367)
- School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research (367)
- Open Access Theses & Dissertations (360)
- All Peer-Reviewed Publications (357)
- S.C. Water Resources Conference (336)
- Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4 (334)
- Memorandum (316)
- All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023 (305)
- Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations (298)
- Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version) (297)
- Publication Type
Articles 10861 - 10890 of 52741
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
Present Situation And Prospects Of Coal-Derived Gas Exploration And Development In Shanxi Province, Gong Jieli, Li Guofu, Li Dehui, Liu Liangliang, Wang Zheng, Xu Yun, Wang Xuchao
Present Situation And Prospects Of Coal-Derived Gas Exploration And Development In Shanxi Province, Gong Jieli, Li Guofu, Li Dehui, Liu Liangliang, Wang Zheng, Xu Yun, Wang Xuchao
Coal Geology & Exploration
Coal-derived gas includes coalbed methane(CBM), shale gas and tight sandstone gas. CBM development is of practical significance to ensure coal mine safety, increase clean energy supply, improve regional energy consumption structure, and promote the clear water and blue sky program, which is more in line with the national strategic requirements of developing green energy, achieving carbon neutrality and peaking carbon dioxide emissions. Shale gas and tight sandstone gas are of great significance to improve China’s energy structure and achieve the goal of carbon neutrality and peaking carbon dioxide emissions. Based on the comprehensive analysis of the beneficial exploration and successful …
Effects Of The Agglomerated Fracturing Fluid On The Transportation Of Pulverized Coal And Its Mechanism, Song Jinxing, Shi Junke, Liu Jianzhuang
Effects Of The Agglomerated Fracturing Fluid On The Transportation Of Pulverized Coal And Its Mechanism, Song Jinxing, Shi Junke, Liu Jianzhuang
Coal Geology & Exploration
During the drainage process, the pulverized coal moves with the carrier fluid in supporting fractures, resulting in the blockage of the fractures and then a decrease in the permeability of the coal reservoir and the conductivity of the supporting fractures. For the purpose of exploring the effects of the properties of the agglomerated fracturing fluid on the transportation of pulverized coal and its mechanism, the coal samples from Urumqi Hedong Mining Area in southern Junggar Basin coalfield are selected as the research object, with distilled water, active water fracturing fluid(1.5%KCl), and agglomeration fracturing fluid(1.5%KCl+0.05%AN) as the carrier fluids. Through the …
Evaluation Of Coalbed Methane Extraction Effect Based On 3d Geological Modeling Technology: An Example Of Sihe Mine In Jincheng City, Jiang Zaibing, Yang Jianchao, Li Yong, Pang Tao
Evaluation Of Coalbed Methane Extraction Effect Based On 3d Geological Modeling Technology: An Example Of Sihe Mine In Jincheng City, Jiang Zaibing, Yang Jianchao, Li Yong, Pang Tao
Coal Geology & Exploration
Three-dimensional geological modeling can intuitively and visually evaluate the effect of coalbed methane(CBM) dynamic drainage, and provide guidance for subsequent adjustments to development plans. With the help of 3D geological modeling software, No.3 Coal Seam of west-second panel is taken as the research object. A geological model that can reflect the spatial geometric changes and structural characteristics of coal seams, and the dynamic changes of coal reservoir attribute parameters is established based on the analysis of geological and productivity data and numerical simulation, to realize the dynamic evaluation of the CBM extraction effect in the study area. The constructed three-dimensional …
Geochemical Characteristics And Significance Of Water Produced By Coalbed Methane Wells In Lu’An Mining Area, Hua Mingguo, Tian Lin, Zhang Yan, Li Jia, Cao Yongheng
Geochemical Characteristics And Significance Of Water Produced By Coalbed Methane Wells In Lu’An Mining Area, Hua Mingguo, Tian Lin, Zhang Yan, Li Jia, Cao Yongheng
Coal Geology & Exploration
Hydro-geochemistry analysis is an important method for CBM exploration and development research. In this paper, the distribution characteristics of salinity, H/O stable isotope and ion concentration in sample water was investigated, and the optimal CBM development area was analyzed by the characteristics of regional structural distribution and the CBM development history. The testing water was from the No.3 CBM well of the Shanxi Formation Permian system in the Lu’an Mining area in the south-central part of Qinshui Basin. The results show that there are three high salinity areas in the mining area, with an average groundwater salinity of 2 000-3200 …
Characteristics Of Roof Water Inflow And Control Technology For High Intensity Mining In Dongsheng Mining Area，Shenfu Coalfield, Xu Feng, Jin Dewu, Yang Maolin, Wang Shidong, Huang Huan, Dang Yakun
Characteristics Of Roof Water Inflow And Control Technology For High Intensity Mining In Dongsheng Mining Area，Shenfu Coalfield, Xu Feng, Jin Dewu, Yang Maolin, Wang Shidong, Huang Huan, Dang Yakun
Coal Geology & Exploration
In view of the threat of roof water disasters in coal mining in western China, the water inflow data of 50 working faces are counted in Dongsheng Mining Area of Shenfu Coalfield, and five typical water inflow characteristics are summarized, which are dynamic recharge-led sustained growth type, the increasing first and then stabilizing type with “dynamic-static” reserves acting together, continuous stability of micro inflow, differential hydrogeological conditions locally prominent type, and the increasing first and then decreasing type dominated by static reserves. According to the law of each type of water inrush, the corresponding ideas and measures of water disaster …
Water Inrush Warning System Of Deep Limestone In Panxie Mining Area Based On Multi-Source Data Mining, Bi Bo, Chen Yongchun, Xie Hao, An Shikai, Xu Yanfei
Water Inrush Warning System Of Deep Limestone In Panxie Mining Area Based On Multi-Source Data Mining, Bi Bo, Chen Yongchun, Xie Hao, An Shikai, Xu Yanfei
Coal Geology & Exploration
Under the long-term water-rock interaction, the hydrochemical composition of deep limestone water in each aquifer is different. Such factors as crustal movement and mining influence have led to the hydraulic connection between aquifers. Major water inrush accidents often occur when the deep high-pressure limestone water bursts into the mine with the shallow limestone water as a channel. On the basis of water level data of 182 surface hydrological observation holes in nine coal mines in Panxie Mining Area of Huainan Coalfield from 2015 to 2018, and the temporal and spatial law of water level change of each hydrological observation hole …
Mechanical Properties And Acoustic Emission Characteristics Of Sandstone Under Natural And Saturated Conditions, Zhang Yin, Li Zhe, Song Shikang, Zhao Yi, Li Hao
Mechanical Properties And Acoustic Emission Characteristics Of Sandstone Under Natural And Saturated Conditions, Zhang Yin, Li Zhe, Song Shikang, Zhao Yi, Li Hao
Coal Geology & Exploration
In order to study the mechanical properties and acoustic emission (AE) characteristics of sandstone with different grain sizes in the process of damage and failure under saturated and natural conditions, we carried out uniaxial compression tests and AE tests on three kinds of sandstone under saturated and natural conditions to study the mechanical properties and AE characteristics under the uniaxial stress state. The test results show that the average compressive strength of coarse-grained sandstone, medium-grained sandstone, and fine-grained sandstone are 54.23 MPa, 53.56 MPa, 59.46 MPa respectively under natural conditions, and 35.62 MPa, 31.79 MPa and 29.10 MPa under saturated …
The Reflected Radio Wave Method For Detecting Coal Seam Faults In Mining Face, Gu Huanqi, Wu Rongxin, Shen Guoqing, Hu Ze
The Reflected Radio Wave Method For Detecting Coal Seam Faults In Mining Face, Gu Huanqi, Wu Rongxin, Shen Guoqing, Hu Ze
Coal Geology & Exploration
Mine radio wave exploration can be used for coal seam geological structure exploration. With its advantages of portability and good effect, it has become a conventional and necessary means for coal seam geological structure exploration. At present, the energy attenuation of radio wave signal in coal seam is fast, and the transmission radio wave detection of working face is restricted in large width coal seam. On this basis, the radio wave reflection exploration method of coal seam working face is proposed. Firstly, the electric model of two-dimensional coal measure strata is constructed by numerical simulation to analyze the field strength …
Detection Performance Of The Azimuthal Electromagnetic Wave Logging Instrument At Coal-Rock Interface In Horizontal Wells, Zhang Yi, Kang Zhengming, Feng Hong, Han Xue, Li Fei, Li Xin
Detection Performance Of The Azimuthal Electromagnetic Wave Logging Instrument At Coal-Rock Interface In Horizontal Wells, Zhang Yi, Kang Zhengming, Feng Hong, Han Xue, Li Fei, Li Xin
Coal Geology & Exploration
The advance and accurate identification of coal-rock interfaces is one of the key technologies to realize intelligent mining, improve mining efficiency and reduce cost. Azimuthal electromagnetic wave logging has achieved good results in lithologic interface identification of petroleum logging, but the identification of coal-rock interface is seldom studied. For the purpose of studying the applicability and detection performance of azimuthal electromagnetic wave in the coalfield logging environment, the one-dimensional generalized reflection coefficient method is used to calculate the magnetic field component, and the fast Hankel transform is used to accelerate the integral calculation speed. What is more, the effects of …
Development Of A Methane Concentration Monitoring Sensor In Underground Boreholes Of Coal Mines, Cong Lin
Development Of A Methane Concentration Monitoring Sensor In Underground Boreholes Of Coal Mines, Cong Lin
Coal Geology & Exploration
At present, during underground drilling operations in coal mines, the methane concentration monitoring system can only reflect the total drainage volume of methane at the borehole, and cannot observe the effect of methane drainage of a certain section of the borehole. With the increase of the borehole depth for underground methane drainage, the effect of methane drainage changes greatly along the length of the borehole. There is a big difference in the effective extraction radius at different hole depths, leading to greater difficulty in arranging the boreholes for methane extraction, and increased uncertainty. In response to this problem, a methane …
Acoustic Emission Characteristics And Fracture Response Behavior Of Hard Rock-Like Material Under Influence Of Loading Rate, Zhang Zekun, Song Zhanping, Cheng Yun, Huo Runke, Song Wanxue, Wang Kuisheng, Wang Tong, Yang Tengtian, Liu Wei
Acoustic Emission Characteristics And Fracture Response Behavior Of Hard Rock-Like Material Under Influence Of Loading Rate, Zhang Zekun, Song Zhanping, Cheng Yun, Huo Runke, Song Wanxue, Wang Kuisheng, Wang Tong, Yang Tengtian, Liu Wei
Coal Geology & Exploration
For the purpose of clarifying the correlation between Acoustic Emission(AE) and rupture response characteristics and loading rate in the failure and instability of hard rocks, uniaxial compression tests and acoustic emission tests were conducted on hard rock-like material samples at different loading rates to analyze the characteristics of mechanical parameters, AE phenomena and rupture response characteristics of hard rock-like material, and to obtain the early warning information of the rock failure based on the information on AE parameters. The results show that the peak strength, elastic modulus and peak strain of hard rock-like material have the loading rate effect. The …
Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Npl Site, Trec Inc., A Woodard And Curran Company
Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Npl Site, Trec Inc., A Woodard And Curran Company
Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site
No abstract provided.
Comment Letter For: Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Draft Final Quarterly Operations And Maintenance Report Butte Treatment Lagoons System – Second Quarter 2021 (Dated September 21, 2021), Nikia Greene
Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site
No abstract provided.
Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Npl Site, Trec Inc., A Woodard And Curran Company
Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Npl Site, Trec Inc., A Woodard And Curran Company
Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site
No abstract provided.
Landslide Detection In The Himalayas Using Machine Learning Algorithms And U-Net, Sansar Raj Meena, Lucas Pedrosa Soares, Carlos H. Grohmann, Cees Van Westen, Kushanav Bhuyan, Ramesh P. Singh, Mario Floris, Filippo Catani
Landslide Detection In The Himalayas Using Machine Learning Algorithms And U-Net, Sansar Raj Meena, Lucas Pedrosa Soares, Carlos H. Grohmann, Cees Van Westen, Kushanav Bhuyan, Ramesh P. Singh, Mario Floris, Filippo Catani
Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research
Event-based landslide inventories are essential sources to broaden our understanding of the causal relationship between triggering events and the occurring landslides. Moreover, detailed inventories are crucial for the succeeding phases of landslide risk studies like susceptibility and hazard assessment. The openly available inventories differ in the quality and completeness levels. Event-based landslide inventories are created based on manual interpretation, and there can be significant differences in the mapping preferences among interpreters. To address this issue, we used two different datasets to analyze the potential of U-Net and machine learning approaches for automated landslide detection in the Himalayas. Dataset-1 is composed …
Removing Confederate Statues, Now What?: Sustainability And Reimagining Space, Tonya Thames Taylor
Removing Confederate Statues, Now What?: Sustainability And Reimagining Space, Tonya Thames Taylor
Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations
Professor tonya thames-taylor, History - Removing Confederate Statues, Now What?: Sustainability and Reimagining Space
Paradigm Versus Paradox On The Prairie: Testing Competing Stream Fish Movement Frameworks Using An Imperiled Great Plains Minnow, Zachary D. Steffensmeier, Maeghen Wedgeworth, Lauren Yancy, Noah Santee, Shannon K. Brewer, Joshuah S. Perkin
Paradigm Versus Paradox On The Prairie: Testing Competing Stream Fish Movement Frameworks Using An Imperiled Great Plains Minnow, Zachary D. Steffensmeier, Maeghen Wedgeworth, Lauren Yancy, Noah Santee, Shannon K. Brewer, Joshuah S. Perkin
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
Background: Movement information can improve conservation of imperiled species, yet movement is not quantified for many organisms in need of conservation. Prairie chub (Macrhybopsis australis) is a regionally endemic freshwater fish with unquantified movement ecology and currently considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act. The purpose of this study was to test competing ecological theories for prairie chub movement, including the colonization cycle hypothesis (CCH) that posits adults must make upstream movements to compensate for downstream drift at early life stages, and the restricted movement paradigm (RMP) that describes populations as heterogeneous mixes of mostly stationary …
Approval Of The Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou), Revised Draft Final Interim 2022 Site-Wide Surface Water Quality Assurance Project Plan (Qapp) (Dated January 28, 2022), Nikia Greene
Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site
No abstract provided.
Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Draft Final Insufficiently Reclaimed Sites – Field Sampling Plan (Fsp) Bres No. 16 – Curry (Dated January 12, 2022), Nikia Greene
Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site
No abstract provided.
Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Draft Final Insufficiently Reclaimed Sites – Field Sampling Plan (Fsp) Bres No. 30 – Atlantic-1 (Dated January 12, 2022), Nikia Greene
Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site
No abstract provided.
The Search For Earth's Oldest Ice, John Higgins
The Search For Earth's Oldest Ice, John Higgins
Sustainability Seminar Series
Over the past eight hundred thousand years, glacial–interglacial cycles oscillated with a period of one hundred thousand years (‘100k world’1). Ice core and ocean sediment data have shown that atmospheric carbon dioxide, Antarctic temperature, deep ocean temperature, and global ice volume correlated strongly with each other in the 100k world2–6. Between about 2.8 and 1.2 million years ago, glacial cycles were smaller in magnitude and shorter in duration (‘40k world’7). Proxy data from deep-sea sediments suggest that the variability of atmospheric carbon dioxide in the 40k world was also lower than in the 100k world8–10, but we do not have …
Anthropogenic Impacts On The Glowworm Cave, Waitomo, New Zealand: A Microclimate Management Approach, Chris Hendy, David J. Merritt, Shannon Corkill
Anthropogenic Impacts On The Glowworm Cave, Waitomo, New Zealand: A Microclimate Management Approach, Chris Hendy, David J. Merritt, Shannon Corkill
International Journal of Speleology
Waitomo Glowworm Cave is a highly visited cave where the highlight is viewing the bioluminescence display of a large colony of glowworms. The visitation levels result in the build-up of anthropogenic CO2, to the extent that it could cause corrosion of speleothems. The cave experiences chimney-effect ventilation with air flowing either upward or downward through the main cave chambers depending on air density differences between the cave and the outside environment. Lack of airflow leads to CO2 build-up; however, unrestricted airflow can draw in cool, dry air which is harmful to the glowworms. Consequently, airflow is managed …
The Role Of Place Attachment And Situated Sustainability Meaning-Making In Enhancing Student Civic-Mindedness: A Campus Farm Example, Brandon H. Sorge, Francesca A. Williamson, Grant A. Fore, Julia L. Angstmann
The Role Of Place Attachment And Situated Sustainability Meaning-Making In Enhancing Student Civic-Mindedness: A Campus Farm Example, Brandon H. Sorge, Francesca A. Williamson, Grant A. Fore, Julia L. Angstmann
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
This research explores the role that place attachment and place meaning towards an urban farm play in predicting undergraduate students’ civic-mindedness, an important factor in sustainability and social change. In 2017 and 2018, three STEM courses at a private university in the Midwest incorporated a local urban farm as a physical and conceptual context for teaching course content and sustainability concepts. Each course included a four to six-week long place-based experiential learning (PBEL) module aimed at enhancing undergraduate STEM student learning outcomes, particularly place attachment, situated sustainability meaning-making (SSMM), and civic-mindedness. End-of-course place attachment, SSMM, and civic-mindedness survey data were …
Green Consumption Under Carbon-Orientated: Connotation, Transmission Mechanism And Countermeasures, Hongchun Zhou, Zuoting Shi
Green Consumption Under Carbon-Orientated: Connotation, Transmission Mechanism And Countermeasures, Hongchun Zhou, Zuoting Shi
Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)
As the proportion of consumption to GDP increases and its role in stimulating economic growth in China, the impact of residents' consumption has apparently become increased on resources, the environment and carbon dioxide emissions. Production is for consumption, and consumption in turn promotes production; consumption determines production and also guides the direction and development trend of production. Green consumption is not only a consumer's responsibility, but also higher requirements for producers:the entire process from raw material procurement, product production and transportation, product use, second product recycling, and final disposal must be low-carbon standards. It is very significant important to promote …
Alert To The Migration Of Air Pollution And Carbon Emission To Northwest China, Guiqian Tang, Yuting Liu, Wenkang Gao, Yinghong Wang, Tao Song, Mengtian Cheng, Yuesi Wang
Alert To The Migration Of Air Pollution And Carbon Emission To Northwest China, Guiqian Tang, Yuting Liu, Wenkang Gao, Yinghong Wang, Tao Song, Mengtian Cheng, Yuesi Wang
Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)
Air pollutants have strong homology with greenhouse gases and are closely related to fossil fuel combustion. The high-intensity energy use in the eastern region of China has turned this region into a hot area of carbon dioxide emission and heavy air pollution in the past. Since the implementation of the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Air Pollution, the adjustment of industrial structure and the improvement of terminal treatment technology have been driving the succession of key species of air pollution and the spatio-temporal distribution of greenhouse gases in China. This paper analyzes the trend in major air …
Perspective On Challenges In Accurately Estimating Remaining Carbon Budget For Climate Targets Of Paris Agreement, Tianjun Zhou, Xiaolong Chen
Perspective On Challenges In Accurately Estimating Remaining Carbon Budget For Climate Targets Of Paris Agreement, Tianjun Zhou, Xiaolong Chen
Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)
In 2015, by signing up to the Paris Agreement on climate change, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) parties pledged to keep global temperatures "well below" 2℃ above pre-industrial levels and to "pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5℃". Limiting warming to 1.5℃/2℃ requires strictly limiting the total amount of carbon emissions between now and the end of the century. Global mean surface temperature has already witnessed a 1℃ more warming since the pre-industrial era and the cumulative anthropogenic CO2 emission has reached around 2 390 Gt CO2. An accurate estimation of the …
The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 12 Issue 11, Wofford College. Department Of Environmental Studies
The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 12 Issue 11, Wofford College. Department Of Environmental Studies
The Fierce Green Fire
No abstract provided.
Reducing Adverse Impacts Of Amazon Hydropower Expansion, Alexander S. Flecker, Qinru Shi, Rafael M. Almeida, Héctor Angarita, Jonathan M. Gomes-Selman, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Suresh A. Sethi, Steven A. Thomas, N Leroy Poff, Bruce R. Forsberg
Reducing Adverse Impacts Of Amazon Hydropower Expansion, Alexander S. Flecker, Qinru Shi, Rafael M. Almeida, Héctor Angarita, Jonathan M. Gomes-Selman, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Suresh A. Sethi, Steven A. Thomas, N Leroy Poff, Bruce R. Forsberg
School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications
Proposed hydropower dams at more than 350 sites throughout the Amazon require strategic evaluation of trade-offs between the numerous ecosystem services provided by Earth's largest and most biodiverse river basin. These services are spatially variable, hence collective impacts of newly built dams depend strongly on their configuration. We use multiobjective optimization to identify portfolios of sites that simultaneously minimize impacts on river flow, river connectivity, sediment transport, fish diversity, and greenhouse gas emissions while achieving energy production goals. We find that uncoordinated, dam-by-dam hydropower expansion has resulted in forgone ecosystem service benefits. Minimizing further damage from hydropower development requires considering …
A Review Of The Impacts Of Invasive Wild Pigs On Native Vertebrates, Matthew T. Mcdonough, Stephen S. Ditchkoff, Mark D. Smith, Kurt C. Vercauteren
A Review Of The Impacts Of Invasive Wild Pigs On Native Vertebrates, Matthew T. Mcdonough, Stephen S. Ditchkoff, Mark D. Smith, Kurt C. Vercauteren
United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications
The wild pig (Sus scrofa) is a successful invasive species that has become well established outside of its native range in Eurasia. The invasive wild pig is the result of released or escaped domesticated livestock becoming feral, or Eurasian boar introduced for hunting purposes. The global spread of wild pigs has recently been exacerbated in some areas, such as the USA, by anthropogenically assisted dispersal. Once established in novel ecosystems, wild pigs have the potential to have significant negative impacts on the ecosystem, and the scientific literature is replete with examples. It is generally accepted that wild pigs …
Black Carbon And Organic Carbon Dataset Over The Third Pole, Shichang Kang, Yulan Zhang, Pengfei Chen, Junming Guo, Qianggong Zhang, Zhiyuan Cong, Susan Kaspari, Lekhendra Tripathee, Tanguang Gao, Hewen Niu, Xinyue Zhong, Xintong Chen, Zhaofu Hu, Xiaofei Li, Yang Li, Bigyan Neupane, Fangping Yan, Dipesh Rupakheti, Chaman Gul, Wei Zhang, Guangming Wu, Ling Yang, Zhaoqing Wang, Chaoliu Li
Black Carbon And Organic Carbon Dataset Over The Third Pole, Shichang Kang, Yulan Zhang, Pengfei Chen, Junming Guo, Qianggong Zhang, Zhiyuan Cong, Susan Kaspari, Lekhendra Tripathee, Tanguang Gao, Hewen Niu, Xinyue Zhong, Xintong Chen, Zhaofu Hu, Xiaofei Li, Yang Li, Bigyan Neupane, Fangping Yan, Dipesh Rupakheti, Chaman Gul, Wei Zhang, Guangming Wu, Ling Yang, Zhaoqing Wang, Chaoliu Li
Geological Sciences Faculty Scholarship
The Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings, also known as the Third Pole, play an important role in the global and regional climate and hydrological cycle. Carbonaceous aerosols (CAs), including black carbon (BC) and organic carbon (OC), can directly or indirectly absorb and scatter solar radiation and change the energy balance on the Earth. CAs, along with the other atmospheric pollutants (e.g., mercury), can be frequently transported over long distances into the inland Tibetan Plateau. During the last decades, a coordinated monitoring network and research program named “Atmospheric Pollution and Cryospheric Changes” (APCC) has been gradually set up and continuously operated …