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Numerical Groundwater Flow Modeling In The Wakal River Basin, India, Himadri Biswas

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Increasing dependence on groundwater in the Wakal River basin, India, jeopardizes water supply sustainability. A numerical groundwater model was developed to better understand the aquifer system and to evaluate its potential in terms of quantity and replenishment. Potential artificial recharge areas were delineated using landscape and hydrogeologic parameters, Geographic Information System (GIS), and remote sensing.

Groundwater models are powerful tools for recharge estimation when transmissivity is known. Proper recharge must be applied to reproduce field-measured heads. The model showed that groundwater levels could decline significantly if there are two drought years in every four years that result in reduced recharge, …

South Florida Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network Jan. - Mar. 2008 Quarterly Report For Sfwmd Contract 4600000352, Joseph N. Boyer, Henry O. Briceño

SERC Research Reports

No abstract provided.

The 2008 Terrestrial Vegetation Of Biscayne National Park Fl, Usa Derived From Aerial Photography, Ndvi, And Lidar, Pablo L. Ruiz, Patricia A. Houle, Michael S. Ross

SERC Research Reports

Established as a National Park in 1980, Biscayne National Park (BISC) comprises an area of nearly 700 km2 , of which most is under water. The terrestrial portions of BISC include a coastal strip on the south Florida mainland and a set of Key Largo limestone barrier islands which parallel the mainland several kilometers offshore and define the eastern rim of Biscayne Bay. The upland vegetation component of BISC is embedded within an extensive coastal wetland network, including an archipelago of 42 mangrove-dominated islands with extensive areas of tropical hardwood forests or hammocks. Several databases and vegetation maps describe these …

Annual Summary Quality Assessment Report For The Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network, Ruth Justiniano, Joseph N. Boyer, Henry O. Briceño

SERC Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2007 Cumulative Annual Report For The Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network, Joseph N. Boyer, Henry O. Briceño

SERC Research Reports

This report summarizes the existing data from the FIU Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network for calendar year January 1 – December 31, 2007. This includes water quality data collected from 28 stations in Florida Bay, 22 stations in Whitewater Bay, 25 stations in Ten Thousand Islands, 25 stations in Biscayne Bay, 49 stations on the Southwest Florida Shelf (Shelf), and 28 stations in the Cape Romano-Pine Island Sound area. Each of the stations in Florida Bay were monitored on a monthly basis with monitoring beginning in March 1991; Whitewater Bay monitoring began in September 1992; Biscayne Bay monthly monitoring began …

2007 Cumulative Annual Report For The Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network, Joseph N. Boyer, Henry O. Briceño

SERC Research Reports

This report summarizes the existing data from the FIU Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network for calendar year January 1 – December 31, 2007. This includes water quality data collected from 28 stations in Florida Bay, 22 stations in Whitewater Bay, 25 stations in Ten Thousand Islands, 25 stations in Biscayne Bay, 49 stations on the Southwest Florida Shelf (Shelf), and 28 stations in the Cape Romano-Pine Island Sound area. Each of the stations in Florida Bay were monitored on a monthly basis with monitoring beginning in March 1991; Whitewater Bay monitoring began in September 1992; Biscayne Bay monthly monitoring began …

2007 Cumulative Annual Report For The Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network (Agreement 4600000352), Joseph N. Boyer, Henry O. Briceño

SERC Research Reports

No abstract provided.

South Florida Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network Jan. - Mar. 2007 Quarterly Report For Sfwmd Contract 4600000352, Joseph N. Boyer, Henry O. Briceño

SERC Research Reports

No abstract provided.

South Florida Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network July - Sept. 2007 Quarterly Report For Sfwmd Contract 4600000352, Joseph N. Boyer, Henry O. Briceño

SERC Research Reports

No abstract provided.

South Florida Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network Apr. - June 2007 Quarterly Report For Sfwmd Contract 4600000352, Joseph N. Boyer, Henry O. Briceño

SERC Research Reports

No abstract provided.

South Florida Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network Oct. - Dec. 2007 Quarterly Report For Sfwmd Contract 4600000352, Joseph N. Boyer, Henry O. Briceño

SERC Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Airborne Laser Scanning Quantification Of Disturbances From Hurricanes And Lightning Strikes To Mangrove Forests In Everglades National Park, Usa, Keqi Zhang, Marc Simard, Michael S. Ross, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Patricia Houle, Pablo L. Ruiz, Robert Twilley, Kevin R.T. Whelan

Department of Earth and Environment

Airborne light detection and ranging (LIDAR) measurements derived before and after Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma (2005) were used to quantify the impact of hurricanes and lightning strikes on the mangrove forest at two sites in Everglades National Park (ENP). Analysis of LIDAR measurements covering 61 and 68 ha areas of mangrove forest at the Shark River and Broad River sites showed that the proportion of high tree canopy detected by the LIDAR after the 2005 hurricane season decreased significantly due to defoliation and breakage of branches and trunks, while the proportion of low canopy and the ground increased drastically. Tall …

Sea Level Rise Map Projections, Peter Harlem

Sea Level Rise Collection

A presentation of maps illustrating the percentage of land surface remaining at varying sea level rise from 1ft - 12ft in Miami-Dade County.

2008 Annual Report Of The Water Quality Monitoring Project For The Water Quality Protection Program Of The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Joseph N. Boyer, Henry O. Briceño

SERC Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Tropical Deforestation, Community Forests, And Protected Areas In The Maya Forest, David Barton Bray, Elvira Duran, Victor Hugo Ramos, Jean-Francois May, Alejandro Velazquez, Roan Balas Mcnab, Deborah Barry, Jeremy Radachowsky

Department of Earth and Environment

Community forests and protected areas have each been proposed as strategies to stop deforestation. These management strategies should be regarded as hypotheses to be evaluated for their effectiveness in particular places. We evaluated the community-forestry hypothesis and the protected-area hypothesis in community forests with commercial timber production and strict protected areas in the Maya Forest of Guatemala and Mexico. From land-use and land cover change (LUCC) maps derived from satellite images, we compared deforestation in 19 community forests and 11 protected areas in both countries in varying periods from 1988 to 2005. Deforestation rates were higher in protected areas than …