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Integrated Land Use and Environmental Models
A Survey of Current Applications and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume is the result of an invited symposium titled "Integrated Land-Use and Environmental Models: A Survey of Current Applications and Research" that was held in October 2000 at Arizona State University. The idea for the symposium arose from a belief held by many academics that we...
Apollo Mission Control
The Making of a National Historic Landmark
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
This book describes the history of this now iconic room which represents America’s space program during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and early Space Shuttle eras. It is now a National Historic Landmark and is being restored to a level which represents the day the flight control teams...
by Ali Haidar Sulaiman
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This thesis focuses on the very high Mach number shock wave that is located sunward of Saturn's strong magnetic field in the continuous high-speed flow of charged particles from the Sun (the solar wind). The author exploits the fact that the Cassini spacecraft is the only orbiter in a unique parameter...
Specimen Banking
Environmental Monitoring and Modern Analytical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
M.J. Schwuger The Environmental Specimen Bank is a repository of representative environ mental specimens for safe long-term storage over decades and centuries without any chemical change in the constituents. It represents the modern form of a systematically designed collection which will permit...
by Vertika Shukla, Rajesh Bajpai, D.K. Upreti
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
The book embodies the detailed account about unique symbionts i.e. LICHENS in ecosystem monitoring. The first chapter deals with unique characteristics features of lichens which facilitate their survival in extreme climates and makes them an ideal organism for ecosystem monitoring. Biosynthesis...
Avoiding Carbon Apocalypse Through Alternative Energy
Life After Fossil Fuels
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This important book lays bare the dangers of global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions stemming from fossil fuel use, and proposes pathways toward mitigation. A discussion of the current main uses of fossil fuels acts as a basis for presenting viable, economically sound alternatives. The author...
by Jakob Deller
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The thesis presents a tool to create rubble pile asteroid simulants for use in numerical impact experiments, and provides evidence that the asteroid disruption threshold and the resultant fragment size distribution are sensitive to the distribution of internal voids. This thesis represents an important...
Engineering Aspects of Geologic CO2 Storage
Synergy between Enhanced Oil Recovery and Storage
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This timely book explores the lessons learned in and potentials of injecting supercritical CO2 into depleted oil and gas reservoirs, in order to maximize both hydrocarbon recovery and the storage capacities of injected CO2.
The author provides a detailed discussion of key engineering parameters...
Woodlands
A Disappearing Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
Australia's little known woodlands once covered huge areas of the eastern side of our continent. Woodlands are distinguished from forests by the fact that their canopies do not touch, tree heights are usually lower and they usually have a grassy understorey. They support a fascinating and diverse array...
Forest Pattern and Ecological Process
A Synthesis of 25 Years of Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Forest Pattern and Ecological Process is a major synthesis of 25 years of intensive research about the montane ash forests of Victoria, which support the world's tallest flowering plants and several of Australia's most high profile threatened and/or endangered species. It draws together major insights...
Hydrology
Principles and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The book comprises nine chapters, with seven core chapters dealing in detail with the basic principles and processes of the main hydrological components of the water cycle: precipitation, interception, evaporation, soil water, groundwater, streamflow and water quality. It takes a broadly non-mathematical...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Arsenic in drinking water derived from groundwater is arguably the biggest environmental chemical human health risk known at the present time, with well over 100,000,000 people around the world being exposed. Monitoring the hazard, assessing exposure and health risks and implementing effective remediation...
by Ajay Kumar Jha
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
This book provides information on proper underground mine ventilation in order to detail its importance in maintaining safe, productive, healthy and effective underground environments at all times for employees. The text covers correct design, implementation and maintenance of mine ventilation through...
Health Effects of Ambient Air Pollution
How safe is the air we breathe?
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Health Effects of Ambient Air Pollution provides the reader with an overview of the health effects of air pollution in human subjects. The majority of the book is devoted to the discussion of the health effects of common widespread air pollutants regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...