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Enhancing Soil Texture And Bulk Density Mapping Using Soil Grids And Machine Learning: A Comparative Analysis With Observed Data, Aram Ali, Ismael O. Ismael, Hewa T. Mustafa, Diman Krwanji, Akram O. Esmail Oct 2024

Enhancing Soil Texture And Bulk Density Mapping Using Soil Grids And Machine Learning: A Comparative Analysis With Observed Data, Aram Ali, Ismael O. Ismael, Hewa T. Mustafa, Diman Krwanji, Akram O. Esmail

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Digital soil mapping plays a crucial role in understanding soil variability and informing sustainable land management practices. This study focuses on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), evaluating the accuracy of SoilGrids, a global-scale soil mapping initiative, and exploring the efficacy of machine learning algorithms in refining soil properties estimations. The aim of this research was to assess and represent the physical parameters of soils effectively by comparing ground truth soil sampling data with data obtained from SoilGrids regarding clay, silt, and sand fractions and bulk density. Comparative analyses were conducted between ground truth soil sampling data and SoilGrids predictions, …


The Utah Statesman, October 28, 2024, Utah State University Oct 2024

The Utah Statesman, October 28, 2024, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.


Adaptation To The Effects Of Suburbanization And Drought In Central Massachusetts, Troy Hill, Colin Polsky Oct 2024

Adaptation To The Effects Of Suburbanization And Drought In Central Massachusetts, Troy Hill, Colin Polsky

The Geographical Bulletin

Central Massachusetts receives more than 1100 mm of precipitation each year on average, with little inter-annual variation. Despite this, water supply shortfalls have become increasingly common, demanding responses (adaptations) from community water systems. This paper examines the process of adapting to drought in a ten-town study area. A grounded theory approach to data collection and analysis was used. Methods consisted of archival work and interviews, which investigated how structural and agent-based forces affect adaptation to drought. Suburbanization revealed itself as a major stress on water systems, jeopardizing and complicating efforts to adjust to water shortages. Structural forces and local actors …


Pengaruh Larangan Ekspor Karang Hias Terhadap Kondisi Terumbu Karang Di Indonesia, Fitrian Dwi Cahyo, Muhammad Halley Yudhistira Oct 2024

Pengaruh Larangan Ekspor Karang Hias Terhadap Kondisi Terumbu Karang Di Indonesia, Fitrian Dwi Cahyo, Muhammad Halley Yudhistira

Jurnal Kebijakan Ekonomi

Indonesia has the largest coral population in the world, contributed as the world’s second largest ornamental corals exporter after Japan. Coral trade sparked the issues of habitat destruction, illegal trade, and coral health problems has prompted the government to banning of ornamental coral export. This study aims to find an empirical evidence does the policies mentioned above affect the condition of coral reefs in Indonesia. The author uses the Fixed-Effect Model on the Difference in Difference regression equation whose result show that export banning of ornamental corals does not significantly affect the condition of coral reefs in Indonesia.


The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 15 Issue 3, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program Oct 2024

The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 15 Issue 3, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program

The Fierce Green Fire

No abstract provided.


Expanding Sustainability Perspectives With Poster Art And Dakota Language, Communications And Marketing Oct 2024

Expanding Sustainability Perspectives With Poster Art And Dakota Language, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

No abstract provided.


New Materialism And Public Lands: Opportunities For Human And Nonhuman Interactions At Petroglyph National Monument, Madilynn M. Nolen Oct 2024

New Materialism And Public Lands: Opportunities For Human And Nonhuman Interactions At Petroglyph National Monument, Madilynn M. Nolen

Geography ETDs

Petroglyph National Monument (PETR) resides at the intersection of geology, urban development, and environmental preservation. As the site of convergence for these complex systems, this National Park site is an example of what kinds of interactions occur between humans and nonhumans and how these interactions mediate our broader understanding of material world. This project utilizes literature from more-than-human geographies and new materialism to examine how these interactions inform the management strategies of PETR. Through the interviews of 15 Volunteers-in-Parks and a focus group of five PETR employees, this project investigates what nonhuman entities are present on and around the monument, …


Conquer And Prevail Issue 174 October 24 2024, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications Oct 2024

Conquer And Prevail Issue 174 October 24 2024, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Conquer and Prevail Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Montana Kaimin, October 24, 2024, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula Oct 2024

Montana Kaimin, October 24, 2024, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.


Prakash ‘24, Mcmillan ‘25 Attend Forbes Under 30 Summit, Jeffery Woodard Oct 2024

Prakash ‘24, Mcmillan ‘25 Attend Forbes Under 30 Summit, Jeffery Woodard

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.


Spartan Daily, October 23, 2024, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2024

Spartan Daily, October 23, 2024, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2024

Volume 163, Issue 26


Campus Assembly Minutes 10/22 & 10/24/2024, Campus Assembly Oct 2024

Campus Assembly Minutes 10/22 & 10/24/2024, Campus Assembly

Campus Assembly

No abstract provided.


Umn Morris Students Lead Campus Tree Survey Project, Communications And Marketing Oct 2024

Umn Morris Students Lead Campus Tree Survey Project, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

No abstract provided.


San Diego Collaboration For Conservation: Sustaining The Region's Legacy Of Biodiversity Conservation, Tessa Tinkler, Darbi Berry, A-Bel Gong, Bryan Cardenas, Daniela Olguin, Connelly Meschen, Eo Hanabusa Oct 2024

San Diego Collaboration For Conservation: Sustaining The Region's Legacy Of Biodiversity Conservation, Tessa Tinkler, Darbi Berry, A-Bel Gong, Bryan Cardenas, Daniela Olguin, Connelly Meschen, Eo Hanabusa

Environment

We are living through significant environmental, social, political, and economic challenges. These challenges have strained our communities and humanbuilt systems, as well as our interconnected habitats, wildlife, and natural systems. Lack of adequate infrastructure to withstand natural disasters and climate change, as well as historical and presentday inequities in resources across neighborhoods, are examples of the multifaceted and interconnected threats contributing to the accelerated loss of our rich biodiversity. This natural abundance is integral to our region’s health, history, and continued prosperity.


Returning To The Globe Regional Student Symposia After A 4-Year Pandemic Pause: Evaluation Of The 2023 Globe Srs, Eleanor M. Jaffee, Globe U.S. Coordination Office Oct 2024

Returning To The Globe Regional Student Symposia After A 4-Year Pandemic Pause: Evaluation Of The 2023 Globe Srs, Eleanor M. Jaffee, Globe U.S. Coordination Office

Publications and Media

No abstract provided.


The Utah Statesman, October 21, 2024, Utah State University Oct 2024

The Utah Statesman, October 21, 2024, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.


The Echo: October 21, 2024, Taylor University Oct 2024

The Echo: October 21, 2024, Taylor University

2024-2025 (Volume 112)

No abstract provided.


Navigating Past The Tragedy Of The Commons, Maximilian Theriot, Walter E. Block Oct 2024

Navigating Past The Tragedy Of The Commons, Maximilian Theriot, Walter E. Block

Journal of New Finance

Privatization of environmental resources is a promising approach for mitigating the tragedy of the commons. The present paper focuses on the impact and theoretical underpinnings of privatization within economic structures. The first part lays out a strong ethical case against state ownership, rooted in the belief that the state's claim to ownership inherently involves coercion, which likens taxation to theft due to its compulsory nature. The second part provides evidence that privatization leads to enhanced profitability and efficiency across sectors. The third part discusses the necessity of robust corporate governance and legal reforms post-privatization to ensure environmental protections are not …


Refereed Research - Religiosity And Sociality As Sources Of Resilience For Women Subsistence Entrepreneurs During The Pandemic, Rozina Akther Oct 2024

Refereed Research - Religiosity And Sociality As Sources Of Resilience For Women Subsistence Entrepreneurs During The Pandemic, Rozina Akther

Subsistence Marketplaces

This study examines challenges faced by subsistence women entrepreneurs during COVID-19, the crisis of 2020, and their resilience in addressing the circumstances. The results of qualitative interviews with 13 subsistence marketplace women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh are presented in this article. In the current study, two themes are found to best capture the experiences and resilience of women business owners in the subsistence marketplaces. Furthermore, the study provides important insights from informant interviews, showing how women business owners navigate their operations during a pandemic. It highlights attributes such as relational strength and faith in a higher power that contribute to their …


Revealing The Stories Of A Place: Designing Curricula On An Island, Ariel Cornett, Delandrea Hall, Kathryn L. Haughney, Cynthia C. Massey, Amanda Wall, Kania Greer Oct 2024

Revealing The Stories Of A Place: Designing Curricula On An Island, Ariel Cornett, Delandrea Hall, Kathryn L. Haughney, Cynthia C. Massey, Amanda Wall, Kania Greer

Teaching Social Studies in the Peach State

Ossabaw Island is a Georgia barrier island, accessible solely by boat and protected from development through a public-private partnership between a foundation and the state. This site has the potential to serve as a primary resource for inspiration, education, and lifelong learning. Our study illuminates how one pre-service teacher (PST) and six teacher educators (TEs) experienced an immersive site visit to this local learning environment. We highlight the importance of experiencing places first-hand and using sources (e.g., oral histories) to make content connections. Additionally, the immersive site visit experience allowed us to collaboratively brainstorm place-based curricular units.


The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 15 Issue 2, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program Oct 2024

The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 15 Issue 2, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program

The Fierce Green Fire

No abstract provided.


2024.10.17 - Academic/Student Affairs, Enrollment, And Technology Committee Meeting Minutes, Northeastern Illinois University Board Of Trustees Oct 2024

2024.10.17 - Academic/Student Affairs, Enrollment, And Technology Committee Meeting Minutes, Northeastern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees - 2024

Meeting materials for the NEIU Academic/Student Affairs, Enrollment and Technology Committee


Identifying Invasive Species Sightings From Geoai-Validated Social Media Posts, Nathan Fox, Derek Van Berkel Oct 2024

Identifying Invasive Species Sightings From Geoai-Validated Social Media Posts, Nathan Fox, Derek Van Berkel

I-GUIDE Forum

The spread of invasive species requires scalable monitoring techniques to help guide management and conservation strategies. Here, we explore the potential of GeoAI for the rapid validation of invasive species sightings through social media data. We utilized the Flickr API to retrieve 23,000 images from posts that contained the names of 72 invasive species across various taxonomic categories within the contiguous USA. Then using BioCLIP, a computer vision model capable of identifying over 450,000 species, we assessed whether these posts genuinely contained the species that the user tagged. Results varied, with some species like the European Starling showing high match …


The Impact Of Explaining Vegetarian Meal Requests On The Affective Responses And Perceptions Of Meat Eaters, Emma Howard, Kate Laffan Dr Oct 2024

The Impact Of Explaining Vegetarian Meal Requests On The Affective Responses And Perceptions Of Meat Eaters, Emma Howard, Kate Laffan Dr

Articles

Social situations can present challenges for those looking to reduce or avoid eating meat. In an experimental vignette study with a large representative sample of 1,117 UK-based meat eaters, we explore affective responses to requests for vegetarian meals and perceptions of those making the request across four social situations: a BBQ, a pub, a restaurant dinner, and a dinner party. We examine moderators of these perceptions including whether the requester presents themselves as vegetarian or a meat restrictor and whether they cite health, environmental or no motives for their request. Overall, we find that these moderators have a greater impact …


Oregon State Rank Assessment For Warner Basin Tui Chub (Siphateles Bicolor Ssp. 15), Eleanor P. Gaines, Jesse Laney Oct 2024

Oregon State Rank Assessment For Warner Basin Tui Chub (Siphateles Bicolor Ssp. 15), Eleanor P. Gaines, Jesse Laney

Institute for Natural Resources Publications

Oregon state conservation status assessment for Warner Basin tui chub (Siphateles bicolor ssp. 15) using NatureServe methodology, 2024.


The Pivotal Role Of Evaporation In Lake Water Isotopic Variability Across Space And Time In A High Arctic Periglacial Landscape, Pete D. Akers, Ben Kopec, Eric S. Klein, Hannah Bailey, Jeffrey M. Welker Oct 2024

The Pivotal Role Of Evaporation In Lake Water Isotopic Variability Across Space And Time In A High Arctic Periglacial Landscape, Pete D. Akers, Ben Kopec, Eric S. Klein, Hannah Bailey, Jeffrey M. Welker

Michigan Tech Publications

Rapidly changing climate is disrupting the High Arctic's water systems. As tracers of hydrological processes, stable water isotopes can be used for high quality monitoring of Arctic waters to better reconstruct past changes and assess future environmental threats. However, logistical challenges typically limit the length and scope of isotopic monitoring in High Arctic landscapes. Here, we present a comprehensive isotopic survey of 535 water samples taken in 2018 and 2019 of the lakes and other surface waters of the periglacial Pituffik Peninsula in far northwest Greenland. The δ18O, δ2H, and deuterium-excess values of these samples, representing 196 unique sites, grant …


Generation Of Coastal Area Dems Using Oblique Stereo Imagery From Non-Metric Cameras With Sfm Techniques, Mona Hajiesmaeeli, F. Antonio Medrano, Philippe Tissot Oct 2024

Generation Of Coastal Area Dems Using Oblique Stereo Imagery From Non-Metric Cameras With Sfm Techniques, Mona Hajiesmaeeli, F. Antonio Medrano, Philippe Tissot

I-GUIDE Forum

This study focuses on the the development of a method to create Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) for forecasting coastal inundation, a critical tool in the face of rising sea levels and extreme weather events. The study utilizes oblique stereo imagery captured with non-metric cameras, focusing on the area adjacent to Horace Caldwell pier in Port Aransas, Texas. The methodology involves the strategic placement of two Amcrest Ultra4K non-metric cameras on an elevated structure at the pier entrance. These cameras, positioned 8 meters above the ground and 20 meters apart, capture images at varying nadir angles high oblique (65 degrees), oblique …


Advancing Stem Cell Technologies For Conservation Of Wildlife Biodiversity., Ashlee M Hutchinson, Ruth Appeltant, Tom Burdon, Qiuye Bao, Rhishikesh Bargaje, Andrea Bodnar, Stuart Chambers, Pierre Comizzoli, Laura Cook, Yoshinori Endo, Bob Harman, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Thomas Hildebrandt, Marisa L Korody, Uma Lakshmipathy, Jeanne F Loring, Clara Munger, Alex H M Ng, Ben Novak, Manabu Onuma, Sara Ord, Monique Paris, Andrew J Pask, Francisco Pelegri, Martin Pera, Ryan Phelan, Benyamin Rosental, Oliver A Ryder, Woranop Sukparangsi, Gareth Sullivan, Nicole Liling Tay, Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Shawn Walker, Antonia Weberling, Deanne J Whitworth, Suzannah A Williams, Jessye Wojtusik, Jun Wu, Qi-Long Ying, Thomas P Zwaka, Timo N Kohler Oct 2024

Advancing Stem Cell Technologies For Conservation Of Wildlife Biodiversity., Ashlee M Hutchinson, Ruth Appeltant, Tom Burdon, Qiuye Bao, Rhishikesh Bargaje, Andrea Bodnar, Stuart Chambers, Pierre Comizzoli, Laura Cook, Yoshinori Endo, Bob Harman, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Thomas Hildebrandt, Marisa L Korody, Uma Lakshmipathy, Jeanne F Loring, Clara Munger, Alex H M Ng, Ben Novak, Manabu Onuma, Sara Ord, Monique Paris, Andrew J Pask, Francisco Pelegri, Martin Pera, Ryan Phelan, Benyamin Rosental, Oliver A Ryder, Woranop Sukparangsi, Gareth Sullivan, Nicole Liling Tay, Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Shawn Walker, Antonia Weberling, Deanne J Whitworth, Suzannah A Williams, Jessye Wojtusik, Jun Wu, Qi-Long Ying, Thomas P Zwaka, Timo N Kohler

Faculty Research 2024

Wildlife biodiversity is essential for healthy, resilient and sustainable ecosystems. For biologists, this diversity also represents a treasure trove of genetic, molecular and developmental mechanisms that deepen our understanding of the origins and rules of life. However, the rapid decline in biodiversity reported recently foreshadows a potentially catastrophic collapse of many important ecosystems and the associated irreversible loss of many forms of life on our planet. Immediate action by conservationists of all stripes is required to avert this disaster. In this Spotlight, we draw together insights and proposals discussed at a recent workshop hosted by Revive & Restore, which gathered …


Why We Need A Constitutional Right To Healthy Environment In Canada Oct 2024

Why We Need A Constitutional Right To Healthy Environment In Canada

Fordham Environmental Law Review

The increasing demand for constitutional recognition of the right to a healthy environment (‘RTHE’) has been a matter of public concern and debate in many countries, including Canada.2 This paper asks, will a constitutional RTHE within the Canadian Constitution add any value when statutes already exist to protect the environment (and thereby health)? The present environmental statutes work towards protecting the environment, and by protecting the environment, public health can be protected.3 Together, both of them form a ‘healthy environment’, ie., an environment that fosters a healthy life.4 This paper will argue that there is additional value in recognizing a …


Memories Of Black Gold: Populist Narratives Of Memory Politics Justifying The Polish Coal Industry, Yvonne Pan Oct 2024

Memories Of Black Gold: Populist Narratives Of Memory Politics Justifying The Polish Coal Industry, Yvonne Pan

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

This paper examines narratives incorporating memory politics used by right-wing populists (RWPs) to justify their support for Poland’s coal industry despite contradictory factors. Using theories of populist memory politics, this research examines coal’s role in Polish history and RWP political rhetoric involving the coal industry. It concludes that Polish RWPs narrate the coal industry as a force against foreign oppression, drawing upon a paradigm where the Polish nation is the victim of a series of historical oppressors. This victim-perpetrator relationship is projected onto the modern Poland-EU relationship, with the latter cast as the current prospective oppressor. The coal industry is …