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Electricity Rates For The Zero Marginal Cost Grid, Helen Lo, Seth Blumsack, Paul Hines, Sean Meyn
Electricity Rates For The Zero Marginal Cost Grid, Helen Lo, Seth Blumsack, Paul Hines, Sean Meyn
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Faculty Publications
The electricity industry is rapidly changing: costs are increasingly dominated by capital and technology is turning loads into resources. This is similar to the early days of the Internet. Building on rate-structures used in the communications industry, utilities of the future should offer customers a portfolio of service contract options that provide a signal to the utility regarding the type and amount of infrastructure that should be deployed.
Social Media Usage Patterns During Natural Hazards, Meredith T. Niles, Benjamin F. Emery, Andrew J. Reagan, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Christopher M. Danforth
Social Media Usage Patterns During Natural Hazards, Meredith T. Niles, Benjamin F. Emery, Andrew J. Reagan, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Christopher M. Danforth
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Faculty Publications
Natural hazards are becoming increasingly expensive as climate change and development are exposing communities to greater risks. Preparation and recovery are critical for climate change resilience, and social media are being used more and more to communicate before, during, and after disasters. While there is a growing body of research aimed at understanding how people use social media surrounding disaster events, most existing work has focused on a single disaster case study. In the present study, we analyze five of the costliest disasters in the last decade in the United States (Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, two sets of tornado outbreaks, …
Application Of Unmanned Aircraft System (Uas) For Monitoring Bank Erosion Along River Corridors, Scott D. Hamshaw, Tayler Engel, Donna M. Rizzo, Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne, Mandar M. Dewoolkar
Application Of Unmanned Aircraft System (Uas) For Monitoring Bank Erosion Along River Corridors, Scott D. Hamshaw, Tayler Engel, Donna M. Rizzo, Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne, Mandar M. Dewoolkar
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Faculty Publications
Excessive streambank erosion is a significant source of fine sediments and associated nutrients in many river systems as well as poses risk to infrastructure. Geomorphic change detection using high-resolution topographic data is a useful method for monitoring the extent of bank erosion along river corridors. Recent advances in an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) and structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry techniques allow acquisition of high-resolution topographic data, which are the methods used in this study. To evaluate the effectiveness of UAS-based photogrammetry for monitoring bank erosion, a fixed-wing UAS was deployed to survey 20 km of river corridors in central Vermont, …