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Understanding Patterns and Impacts of Electricity Quality and Access in Northern India
(2019-04-26)Indians have suffered from rolling outages and blackouts even as millions of citizens have gained access to electricity in recent years, which has led to concerns about electricity quality and its impacts. We conducted an ... -
Reforming the Land and Water Conservation Fund: An Outdoor Recreation Analysis
(2019-04-26)Outdoor recreation in the U.S. provides economic, social, and health benefits to participants. This study provides evidence for why the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) should be funded, now that it has been permanently ... -
Evaluating Current Knowledge and Future Directions of Visual Cues as Bycatch Reduction Technologies in Passive Net Fisheries
(2019-04-26)Fisheries bycatch is consistently identified as a leading cause of population decline for many species of sea turtles, seabirds, and marine mammals. Many of these species rely primarily, or in part, on visual cues to perceive ... -
Effectively Communicating about Risks from Soil Contamination
(2019-04-26)The goal of this study was to provide recommendations for a social marketing campaign in order to educate North Carolina community gardeners about the implications and health effects associated with soil contamination, empowering ... -
Assessment of Sea Turtle Rehabilitation in North Carolina
(2019-04-26)As is the case with all sea turtle species, the five species that occur within North Carolina waters are listed as either threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Due to their endangered/threatened ... -
A Generalized Framework for CBA of Asbestos Bans with Case Study in Colombia
(2019-04-26)Asbestos is a group of fibrous minerals that can cause serious cancers and other negative health effects, usually decades after exposure. While the future health impacts of today’s asbestos use have become clear over the ... -
A Network and Landscape Analysis of Environmental and Diversity Organizations in Durham and Orange Counties, North Carolina
(2019-04-26)The American environmental movement has a legacy of excluding marginalized groups from organizational decision-making and natural spaces. Awareness of this discrepancy has gained traction in the past few decades, with an ... -
Association of mercury exposure with blood pressure among adults near artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru.
(2019-04-26)There have been few studies investigating the association between mercury exposure and blood pressure, with inconsistent results. In this study, the association between hair mercury concentration with mean arterial pressure ... -
Will Data Centers Have Enough Water? Quantifying Water Security for Data Service Centers
(2019-04-26)Data centers use considerable amounts of water in comparison to other industries because water is a key component in their cooling systems that are used to maintain optimal temperatures for their servers. Since these servers ... -
Energy Storage and Solar for New Peaking Capacity in North Carolina
(2019-04-26)Solar power paired with battery energy storage is increasingly presented as an alternative to traditional natural gas combustion turbine technology for providing power during times of very high demand. This analysis uses ... -
Essential Reliability Service Requirements from Utility-scale Solar and Wind in Bulk Power Markets
(2019-04-26)For decades, the inherent provision of Essential Reliability Services (ERS) by central, dispatchable generators led to an abundance of frequency and voltage support, such that planners and operators of the U.S. Bulk Power ... -
Poison to Protein: The Case for Edible Cottonseed
(2019-04-26)The United States cotton production market generated 7 billion dollars in 2017, with cottonseed making up about 1 billion dollars of that amount. Although cottonseed accounts for nearly 14% of revenues earned by farmers, ... -
Developing a Strategic Framework for Sustainability Investments in Real Estate
(2019-04-26)The Master’s project “Developing a Strategic Framework for Sustainability Investments in Real Estate” is a continuation of its predecessor project titled “Financially Viable Sustainability Solutions for multi-family sector” ... -
Bridging Hydrology, Ecology, and Reservoir Management to Address Environmental Flow Specifications from Dams in a Changing Climate
(2019-04-26)Water resource management has altered the natural flow regime of rivers around the globe. Buffers to environmental risk and uncertainty, dams balance competing demands for water storage and release for human needs. While ... -
A Case Study of GreenToGo in Durham, North Carolina
(2019-04-26)The goal of the GreenToGo program in Durham, North Carolina is to provide the shared customers of GreenToGo and local Durham restaurants with an environmentally-conscious option for carryout food containers. This report ... -
Analyzing the Role of Vessel-Based Tourism on Masking on Antarctic Humpback Whales: A Petition for Management Solutions for Underwater Noise and Regulation of Antarctic Tourism
(2019-04-26)Ocean physics has been capitalized by marine life who have evolved the use of sound sensory modality for interacting with their environment. Marine animals use sound to forage, reproduce, communicate, navigate, and avoid ... -
Are Higher Exposures to Flame Retardant Chemicals Associated with Papillary Thyroid Cancer?
(2019-04-26)Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) occurrence has been significantly increasing throughout the world, and particularly in the US, for several decades. At the same time the use of flame retardants (FR) chemicals has increased, ... -
Unexpected Alliances: Biodiversity conservation through Payments for Ecosystem Services, Protected Areas, and Sustainable Timber Management in three regions of Mexico
(2019-04-26)Our research investigated biodiversity conservation through three strategies – payments for ecosystem services (PES), protected areas, and sustainable timber management (STM) – and their interactions with each other and ... -
A long-term temporal analysis of heavy metal concentrations in seabird feathers with implications for overgeneralized trophic dynamics
(2019-04-26)Anthropogenic deposition and natural cycling of heavy metal can impact ecosystem function: They can accumulate in marine sediment layers and remain there for long periods of time. As these metals accumulate and move through ... -
Sea Stack Frequency & Sediment Supply Along the California Coast
(2019-04-26)The vast majority of the world’s coastlines are rocky, with California’s coastline being no exception. These coastline types, and more specifically the California coast, exhibit a number of diverse morphologies including ...
