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Social Vulnerability To Large Wildfires In The Western Usa, Palaiologos Palaiologou, Alan A. Ager, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Cody Evers, Michelle A. Day

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Federal land managers in the US can be informed with quantitative assessments of the social conditions of the populations affected by wildfires originating on their administered lands in order to incorporate and adapt their management strategy to achieve a more targeted prioritization of community wildfire protection investments. In addition, these assessments are valuable to socially vulnerable communities for quantifying their exposure to wildfires originating on adjacent land tenures. We assessed fire transmission patterns using fire behavior simulations to understand spatial variations across three diverse study areas (North-central Washington; Central California; and Northern New Mexico) to understand how different land tenures …

Eps 202-451: Society, Technology And Environment, Michael Bonchonsky

Chemistry, Environmental and Forensic Science Syllabi

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Eps 202-453: Society, Technology And Environment, Michael Bonchonsky

Chemistry, Environmental and Forensic Science Syllabi

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Nrsm 427.01: Advanced Water Policy, Brian C. Chaffin

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

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Wild 180.01: Careers In Wildlife Biology, Chad J. Bishop

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

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Et Tu, Picoides? Understanding Why Bird Names Change, R. Peter Dorn, Howard E. Horne, Michael D. Collins

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

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Using Single-Cell Sorting, Fish And 13c-Labeling To Cultivate And Assess Carbon Substrate Utilization Of ‘Aigarchaeota’ And Other Novel Thermophiles, Damon Kurtis Mosier

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

‘Aigarchaeota’, a deeply branching lineage in the domain Archaea with no cultivated representatives, includes both thermophilic and hyperthermophilic microorganisms that reside in terrestrial and marine geothermal environments. The ‘Aigarchaeota’ consists of at least nine proposed genus-level groups that have been confirmed via 16S rRNA sequencing, with ‘Aigarchaeota’ Group 1 (AigG1) being the focus of this study. Based on cultivation-independent genomic data available from several AigG1 members in Great Boiling Spring (GBS), NV, and Yellowstone National Park, 22 different types of growth media were designed and tested for their ability to support growth of AigG1. One of these cultures, G1-10, was …

Bacterial Community Structure In Anaerobic Digesters Of A Full Scale Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant - Case Study Of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Munawwar A. Khan, Noorun N. Ashar, Arpitha G. Ganesh, Naushad Rais, Sultan M. Faheem, Shams T. Khan

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© 2019, International Centre for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems SDEWES. All rights reserved. A highly complex microbial community involved in anaerobic sludge digesters plays vital roles in sludge treatment. The data on microbial ecology is important to accomplish efficient operation of the anaerobic digesters. This study is aimed at monitoring the bacterial community of three full-scale anaerobic digesters of a full-scale municipal wastewater treatment Plant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Fluorescent in-situ hybridization technique was applied to identify the bacterial groups and quantitative polymerase chain reaction to compare the richness of bacterial and archaeal domain. Results …

Adoption Of Agricultural Conservation Practices In The United States: Evidence From 35 Years Of Quantitative Literature, L. S. Prokopy, K. Floress, J. G. Arbuckle, S. P. Church, Francis R. Eanes, Y. Gao, B. M. Gramig, P. Ranjan, A. S. Singh

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Copyright © 2019 Soil and Water Conservation Society. All rights reserved. This is a comprehensive review of all published, quantitative studies focused on adoption of agricultural conservation practices in the United States between 1982 and 2017. This review finds that, taken as a whole, few independent variables have a consistent statistically significant relationship with adoption. Analyses showed that variables positively associated with adoption include the farmer self-identifying primarily as stewardship motivated or otherwise nonfinancially motivated, environmental attitudes, a positive attitude toward the particular program or practice, previous adoption of other conservation practices, seeking and using information, awareness of programs or …

September 2019 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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Addressing Climate Change Scepticism Through The Sonic Arts, Cissi Tsang

Sound Scripts

This paper discusses the continued denial of climate change despite overwhelming scientific evidence and agreement, through viewing climate change as a “hyperobject”—that is, a concept of such massive temporal and spatial dimensions that it defies traditional understanding. One of the challenges of the scientific community is to combat such scepticism through new ways of framing information, and the sonic arts offers an alternative presentation of truth through its ability to create emotional and narrative rapport, and also humanise esoteric information. This paper will focus on various methods of communicating climate change data aurally—such as sonification of data, and ecoacoustic methods …

Academic Department Indicators, 2018-2019, Uno Office Of Instituional Effectiveness

Academic Department Indicators

The audience is the Academic Planning Council (APC), college and department heads, and faculty. The purpose is to report instructional productivity measures useful for making comparisons and observing trends. Selected departmental information in this report is submitted annually to the Delaware Study, a National Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity.

This Instructional Productivity information corresponds to the UNO state- and tuition-funded budget. The Supplemental Information at the end of the document provides counts and statistics for campus-wide programs embedded in most colleges. Only Dual Enrollment instruction is excluded from the productivity report since it is a fee-based instructional program for …

Key Elements Of Environmental Justice In The Geothermal Power Plant Resistance Movement, Priyo Fajar Santoso, Bevaola Kusumasari

Jurnal Politik

Geothermal energy is currently considered as an environmentally friendly, renewable energy source. However, based on empirical data from various countries, geothermal energy production often results socioecological losses for the host community. Various environmental justice movements have emerged to protect environment by protestesting and providing a counter discourse against the dominant perception that geothermal energy is renewable and environmentally friendly. As Indonesian government put more effort to develop more geothermal power thermal across the country, more reactions also emerge and surprisingly include the critical one. This article aims to look at one of the critical reaction from community to counter the …

Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter, September 2019, University Of Northern Iowa. Iowa Waste Reduction Center.

Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter

Contents:

--- Meet the IWRC's New Hire - Bret Lang
--- September's Green Brewery Feature
--- Paint Tracker- Free Online Program
--- EPA Waste Pharmaceutical Compliance Assistance Workshops

Commmunity, Ecology, And Modernity: Faunal Analysis Of Skútustaðir In Mývatnssveit, Northern Iceland, Megan Hicks

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation examines the archaeofaunal remains from Skútustaðir, a middle to high-status farm in Mývatnssveit, Northern Iceland, to understand the experience of rural communities and their ecologies during Iceland’s transition from regulated colonial exchange to a capitalist economy during the 17^th through 19^th centuries. Archaeofaunal analysis is used to reconstruct changes in the ways that people herded, hunted, and fished, providing insights into how they managed their local environments for subsistence and novel contexts of exchange. In addition to archaeofaunal analysis, primary textual sources are explored to assess how the Skútustaðir household and its rural community mobilized long-term …

Estimation Of Streamflow With Incomplete Soil Dataset In Krasioa Basin Using Soil-Landscape Evaluation Approach And Swat Model, Isared Kakarndee, Ekasit Kositsakulchai

Applied Environmental Research

Data on soil properties are indispensable for process-based hydrological modeling. Soil information of Thailand is primarily provided by the Land Development Department (LDD), nevertheless soil property data are available only in arable land whose slope is less than 35%. The steep-slope land was generally labeled as Slope Complex (SC), there is no informationavailable. This paper demonstrated the application of soil-landscape evaluation approach for predicting the missing properties of soil which resulted on enhancement of model performance in streamflow estimation in Krasioa Basin by the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model. The physical properties of soil-soil thickness, fraction of soil …

Analysis Of Environmental Performances Of Ferritization Method For The Treatment Of Copper-Ammonia Wastewater Under The Optimized Condition Via Rsm, Kanokporn Supong, Parnuwat Usapein, Pirapan Polburee

Applied Environmental Research

Copper-ammonia wastewater from industrial processes is an important form of hazardous waste that can contaminate water resources. The conventional hydroxide precipitation method used to remove copper complexes produces a large volume of unstable precipitates which still require further treatment. Ferritization is a powerful technique to remove bivalent cations from wastewater in the form of metal ferrites. This method is highly efficient in removal of metal complex ions; in addition, sludge resulting from this method is stable. The objective of this study was to investigate optimum conditions for ferritization using Response Surface Methodology (RSM). After optimal conditions were determined, the environmental …

Effect Of Synthesized Conditions Of Cu-K-Oms-2 On Toluene Oxidation Performance, Chatkamol Kaewbuddee, Narong Chanlek, Kitirote Wantala

Applied Environmental Research

The objective of this study was to optimize synthesis conditions for the Cu-K-OMS-2 hydrothermal process. The effects of ageing temperature, ageing time and amount of copper(Cu) dopant were considered via using the Box-Behnken design (BBD) method to characterizethe conditions for gaseous toluene degradation. In the models studied, the independent variables were ageing temperature (55-145ºC), ageing time (6-18 h) and amount of Cu dopant (2-6% mole). The quadratic model fitted very well with the experimental data (15 runs), which showed a higher value of R2(0.98) and adjusted R2(0.95), confirming that the model can explain the results successfully. Ageing temperature was found …

Source And Health Risk Assessment Of Some Heavy Metals In Non-Certified Organic Rice Farming At Nakhon Nayok Province, Thailand, Porntiwa Satachon, Sasithorn Keawmoon, Patcharida Rengsungnoen, Sirikul Thummajitsakul, Kun Silprasit

Applied Environmental Research

Heavy metals contamination is a problem in some non-certified organic rice farms that do not have buffer zones. Soil monitoring is therefore required to estimate the potential risk of such organic products. The objectives of the present study are to determine the extent of heavy metal contamination, sources of contamination and assessment of non-carcinogenic health risks to local consumers. Concentrations of toxic heavy metals were determined in soil and rice grain to assess the bioaccumulation factor. The health risk assessment was analyzed following Target Hazard Quotients (THQ) and the Hazard Index (HI). Sources of heavy metal contamination were determined by …

Cyborgs For Environmental Justice: East Asian American Stories From The 1991 People Of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, Lisa Ng

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The goal of this paper is threefold: to serve as an oral history archive of the East Asian American experience at the 1991 People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to analyze the role of East Asian Americans in the Environmental Justice Movement (EJM), and to fill an ideological and political vacuum that exists in East Asian American communities. This work analyses the experiences of East Asian Americans who were present at the 1991 People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit--an event scholars have attributed to igniting the EJM. The paper argues that East Asian Americans act as “Cyborgs”—both as their ascribed …

Wallaby Early Science − V. Askap Hi Imaging Of The Lyon Group Of Galaxies 351, B. Q. For, Lister Staveley-Smith, Tobias Westmeier, M. Whiting, S. -H. Oh, Baerbel Koribalski, Juan P. Madrid

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present an HI study of the galaxy group LGG 351 using Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind Survey (WALLABY) early science data observed with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). LGG 351 resides behind the M 83 group at a velocity range (cz) of ∼3500–4800 km s−1 within the rich Hydra-Centaurus overdensity region. We detect 40 sources with the discovery of a tidally interacting galaxy pair and two new HI sources that are not presented in previous optical catalogues. 23 out of 40 sources have new redshifts derived from the new HI data. This study is the largest …

Join Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity September 10 And 17, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Stable Carbon Isotope Signature Of Particulate Organic Matter In The Southwestern Sumatran Waters Of The Eastern Indian Ocean, Wahyudi A'An Johan, Afdal Afdal, Meirinawati Hanny

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

The Southwestern Sumatran Waters of the Eastern Indian Ocean are known to be affected by the South Java Current and the South Equatorial Counter Current. Many studies have been carried out in relation to upwelling and the Indonesian Through Flow. However, there has been no systematic study into the properties of the particulate organic matter in the Southwestern Sumatran Waters. Therefore, the organic matter in these waters in terms of its origin is unknown. As part of the Widya Nusantara Expedition 2015 research cruise, this study aimed to examine the stable isotope ?13C signature of particulate organic matter (POM), especially …

An Integrated Approach To Determine Interactive Genotoxic And Global Gene Expression Effects Of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes (Mwcnts) And Benzo[A]Pyrene (Bap) On Marine Mussels: Evidence Of Reverse ‘Trojan Horse’ Effects, Audrey Barranger, Graham A. Rance, Yann Aminot, Lorna J. Dallas, Susanna Sforzini, Nicola J. Weston, Rhys W. Lodge, Mohamed Banni, Volker M. Arlt, Michael N. Moore, James W. Readman, Aldo Viarengo, Andrei N. Khlobystov, Awadhesh N. Jha

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Sju Convocation 2019, Corey Shouse

Administration Lectures and Events

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Research On The Planning Of Ships’ Routeing System In The Eastern Bohai Waters, Wenyu Lyu

Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)

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Safety Assessment Based On Fahp For Marine Traffic Of Important Channel Waters, Qiang Liu

Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)

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Pollution Causes And Prevention Measures In Bohai Sea, Yiqiao Wang

Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)

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Three A&S Faculty Named M.A.C Academic Leadership Development Fellows, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Studying The Impact On Urban Health Over The Greater Delta Region In Egypt Due To Aerosol Variability Using Optical Characteristics From Satellite Observations And Ground-Based Aeronet Measurements, Wenzhao Li, Elham Ali, Islam Abou Al-Magd, Moustafa Mohamed Mourad, Hesham El-Askary

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

This research addresses the aerosol characteristics and variability over Cairo and the Greater Delta region over the last 20 years using an integrative multi-sensor approach of remotely sensed and PM10 ground data. The accuracy of these satellite aerosol products is also evaluated and compared through cross-validation against ground observations from the AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) project measured at local stations. The results show the validity of using Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors on the Terra and Aqua platforms for quantitative aerosol optical depth (AOD) assessment as compared to Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), Sea-viewingWide Field-of-view …