Browsing by Subject "hydrology"
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A mathematical model to assist phytoremediation management and evaluation
(2020-04-22)Phytoremediation is the use of plants and their associated microbes for environmental cleanup. The use of phytoremediation for soil cleanup faces a number of challenges of which leaching of soil contaminants below the rooting ... -
A Mobile App to Estimate Sky View Factor
(2016-04-28)Assessing the sky view factor or the intensity of solar radiation that a place receives is valuable to various walks of life. A solar engineer would want to know the intensity a place can garner to decide whether or not ... -
Calibrating single-ended fiber-optic Raman spectra distributed temperature sensing data.
(Sensors (Basel), 2011)Hydrologic research is a very demanding application of fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing (DTS) in terms of precision, accuracy and calibration. The physics behind the most frequently used DTS instruments are considered ... -
Changing Waters: Trends in Central Appalachian Streamflow in the Presence of Mountaintop Mining
(2016-04-29)Mountaintop mining (MTM) became popular in the 1970s in Central Appalachia and today remains the dominant form of coal mining in the region (Ross et al., 2016). Approximately 6-7% of the Appalachian Coalfield Region in West ... -
Ecological restoration of rich fens in Europe and North America: from trial and error to an evidence-based approach.
(Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc, 2015-02)Fens represent a large array of ecosystem services, including the highest biodiversity found among wetlands, hydrological services, water purification and carbon sequestration. Land-use change and drainage has severely damaged ... -
INCORPORATING RIPARIAN BUFFER METRICS INTO THE USGS SOUTHEAST SPARROW MODEL
(2009-04-24)Riparian zones serve an important role in the ecological landscape. They serve as habitat for wildlife, prevent erosion, and act as buffers to help reduce and filter the amount of pollutants entering surface waters. The ... -
Quantifying and Prioritizing Opportunities for Canal Backfilling in Louisiana
(2014-04-25)Canal backfilling-degrading and replacing the spoil adjacent to canals-has a wide range of potential benefits for the restoration of Louisiana coastal wetlands, but is not incorporated into current coastwide-scale restoration ... -
Shorebird response to spatiotemporal variability in non-tidal wetlands in the Sacramento Valley
(2018)Over 50% of Western Hemisphere shorebird species are in decline due to ongoing habitat loss and degradation. Many shorebird species require flooded habitat to rest and feed during migratory movements spanning thousands of ... -
Spatial and Temporal Scaling in Ecohydrology: A Case Study of Soil Greenhouse Gas Fluxes From a Subalpine Catchment
(2017)Global climate change is largely due to human induced increases in the emission of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Although this fact does not directly motivate this research, it does set the backdrop for the impressive ... -
The biogeochemistry of carbon across a gradient of streams and rivers within the Congo Basin
(Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2014-04)Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and inorganic carbon (DIC, pCO2), lignin biomarkers, and theoptical properties of dissolved organic matter (DOM) were measured in a gradient of streams and rivers within the Congo Basin, with ...
