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Hamilton, Stephen K. "Stable isotopes in ecology and environmental science." Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28, no. 2 (June 2009): 516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1899/0887-3593-028.002.0516.

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Grey, Jonathan. "Stable Isotopes in Ecology and Environmental Science." Freshwater Biology 54, no. 2 (September 22, 2008): 434–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01876.x-i1.

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Beerling, D. J., K. Lajtha, and R. H. Michener. "Stable Isotopes in Ecology and Environmental Science." Journal of Animal Ecology 64, no. 4 (July 1995): 540. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/5661.

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Golley, Frank B. "Deep Ecology from the Perspective of Environmental Science." Environmental Ethics 9, no. 1 (1987): 45–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics19879115.

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Murray-White, James. "Critical Political Ecology – the Politics of Environmental Science." Comparative Sociology 6, no. 1-2 (2007): 236–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156913307x208159.

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Newby, Howard. "Ecology, amenity and society: social science and environmental change." Town Planning Review 61, no. 1 (January 1990): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/tpr.61.1.v277t47222145018.

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Frontani, Heidi Glaesel. "Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science (review)." Southeastern Geographer 45, no. 1 (2005): 145–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sgo.2005.0001.

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ISHIKAWA, Mikiko. "Science & Dream Roadmap in the Fields of Ecology and Environmental Science." TRENDS IN THE SCIENCES 20, no. 3 (2015): 3_12–3_14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5363/tits.20.3_12.

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Bixler, R. Patrick. "The political ecology of local environmental narratives: power, knowledge, and mountain caribou conservation." Journal of Political Ecology 20, no. 1 (December 1, 2013): 273. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v20i1.21749.

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Political ecology seeks to address notable weaknesses in the social sciences that consider how human society and the environment shape each other over time. Considering questions of ideology and scientific discourse, power and knowledge, and issues of conservation and environmental history, political ecology offers an alternative to technocratic approaches to policy prescriptions and environmental assessment. Integrating these insights into the science-policy interface is crucial for discerning and articulating the role of local resource users in environmental conservation. This paper applies political ecology to addresses a gap in the literature that exists at the interface of narratives of local environmental change and local ecological knowledge and doing so builds a nuanced critique of the rationality of local ecological knowledge. The ways that we view nature and generate, interpret, communicate, and understand the "science" of environmental problems is deeply embedded in particular economic, political, and ecological contexts. In interior British Columbia, Canada, these dynamics unfold in one of the most rigorously documented examples of the negative effect of anthropogenic disturbance on an endangered species – declining mountain caribou population. Science notwithstanding, resource users tell narratives of population decline that clearly reflect historical regularities deeply embedded in particular economic, political, and ideological constructions situated in local practices. This research assesses these narratives, discusses the implications, and explores pathways for integrating local knowledge and narratives into conservation science and policy. A more informed understanding of the subjectivities and rationalities of local knowledges can and should inform conservation science and policy.Keywords: Political ecology, local ecological knowledge, narrative, environmental change, environmental management, British Columbia, Rangifer tarandus caribou.

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King, Graham, George McDonic, Timothy O'Riordan, and Christopher Wood. "Ecology, amenity and society: social science and environmental change: comments." Town Planning Review 61, no. 1 (January 1990): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/tpr.61.1.l80n6g140u33m034.

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Loman, Karen L. "The impact of an experiential science program on fourth-grade students' knowledge of and feelings about ecological science /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9904878.

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Zapata, Martha J. Zapata. "Spatial and temporal variability in aquatic-terrestrial trophic linkages in a subtropical estuary." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1515139504483898.

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Pokhrel, Lok R., Phillip R. Scheuerman, and Brajesh Dubey. "Evaluation of Experimental Design Options in Environmental Nano-Science Research." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2874.

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Evaluation of Experimental Design Options in Environmental Nano-Science Research As an experimental research design plays a pivotal role in executing a research problem, it is imperative of a researcher to develop a suitable and sound research design. Utilizing robust statistical methods can further enhance the study power and thus allow drawing a logical conclusion. The same holds true for basic environmental science research, including research related to the effects of engineered nanomaterials in the environment.

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Meurk, Carla Siobhan. "Causally Appropriate Graphical Modelling for Time Series with Applications to Economics, Ecology and Environmental Science." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Mathematics and Statistics, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1152.

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I apply the GMTS approach to graphical modelling of time series to data sets from economics, ecology and environmental science. This approach improves on traditional approaches to modelling insofar as it selects the most parsimonius model. I improve on this approach by removing some redundancies in the GMTS approach. However, a bias in terms of which links are selected means that it is unlikely that this model will select the best causal model.

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Pinkerton, Jeramy John. "Predicting the Potential Distribution of Two Threatened Stream Fish Species in Northeast Ohio." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461189304.

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Dinneen, Nathan. "Ranges of consideration: crossing the fields of ecology, philosophy and science studies." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3292/.

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Environmental issues are often complex with many different constituents operating according to a broad range of communication techniques. In order to foster negotiations, different perspectives need to be articulated in lucid ways sensitive to various viewpoints and circumstances. In my thesis I investigate how certain approaches to environmental discourse effect dialogue and negotiation. My first two chapters focus on environmental problems surrounding rangeland ecology along the U.S./Mexico border; whereas the last two chapters explore more theoretical conflicts concerning the philosophy of nature. Throughout the thesis I show the significance of nonhumans (prairie dogs, cattle, biological assessment sheets, environmental laws, etc.) in the human community. Only by considering the roles of nonhumans do we broaden and enrich the conversation between ourselves concerning environmental issues.

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Snyder, Emma M. "Baseline Assessment of Dynamic Properties and Soil Resilience at Lawrence Woods State Nature Preserve." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1387362944.

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Bryan, Jenelle Sue. "Environmental science curriculum for eleventh through twelfth grade classes." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1508.

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Glenn, Steven W. "Alpine Biological Soil Crusts in theWashington North Cascades| a Distribution Study at Select Sites Across a Precipitation Gradient." Thesis, Prescott College, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3712344.

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One of the least researched phenomena within the alpine regions of mountain biomes is the combination of primitive plants, algae, fungi, and lichens that are generally referred to as biological soil crusts. Sites containing well-developed biological soil crusts were examined in a variety of alpine, non-forested, vegetated landscapes in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, USA. For each site, data were recorded for percent ground cover of biological soil crusts, slope aspect, and slope gradient of the terrain where the crust communities were located. For all of the sites, biological soil crusts were common, with a percent ground cover median of 29% and a range of 11% to 73%. The arrangement of the biological soil crusts on all sites was quite similar: all were clumped, as opposed to single, and random, as opposed to uniform. All of the soil crusts were found on soil exposed to direct sunlight. Few, if any, crusts were found in the shade of heavy forbs, or forest, or under accumulations of organic litter. When biological soil crusts were found associated with higher-order vegetation, it was with sparse graminoids, ericaceous woody shrubs, and stunted or krummholz Pinaceae trees. The biological soil crusts from this study exist on all locally undisturbed soil slope-gradients from 0% to almost 100%, and occurred on all aspects except for those in the Southwest quadrant. This study contains an extended literature review for desert and high latitude circumpolar crusts, as well as alpine biological soil crusts. Studies of biological soil crusts in subalpine and alpine environments are not common; it is hoped that this study will stimulate more research interest in these often overlooked pioneer biotic communities.

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Kivalov, Sergey Nikolayevich. "Whole-Canopy Net Ecosystem Exchange and Water Use Efficiency in an Intermittent-Light Environment - Dynamic Approach." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10842781.

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An observed 20-30% increase in forest net ecosystem exchange ( NEE) on partly cloudy days is often attributed to there being more uniform canopy illumination by diffuse radiation when clouds are present. However, the sky on such days is typically populated by fair-weather cumulus clouds, bringing dynamically changing shadow-to-light conditions on the order of minutes to the forest, with radiation alternating from 1000 W m^-2 in the clear sky to less than 400 W m^-2 in under-cloud shadows. These dynamically changing conditions cannot be investigated by the conventional time-averaged eddy-covariance flux method, which requires nearly steady-state turbulent conditions over much longer 20-30-min periods in order for the fluxes to converge to stationary values. We examine the “true” dynamics of the whole-canopy response to the light change by using a practical ensemble-flux method applied to eddy-covariance flux measurements from two distinct forest ecosystems: Harvard Forest (HF, 42.53°N, 72.17°W), temperate mid-latitude forest near Petersham, Massachusetts, USA, and Tapajós National Forest (LBA, 2.86°S, 54.96°W), an Amazonian evergreen tropical forest near Santarem, Pará, Brazil. Using the rapid change in radiative flux that occurs during the transition from cloud-induced shadow to light as a reference starting point, we combine sets of conditional illumination-change shadow-to-light and light-to-shadow transition events characteristic of cumulus-cloud conditions and parametrize distributions of light and shadow durations and rates of light change of the radiative-flux time series for different cloud conditions reported by standard weather stations. We investigate the sensitivity of the dynamics of forest response to the illumination transitions initiated by these conditional events, and identify an unexpected transient NEE maxima when NEE increases above the clear-sky steady-state equilibrium values (NEE_eq) within the first 10 min of the light period after the shadow-to-light transition, that we hypothesize to be a physiological forest response to the abrupt light change due to presence of the intercellular CO₂ pool in the leaf tissues. Overall NEE builds up during the sunlit periods, but in shadow heat and water stresses are reduced, thus increasing the water use efficiency (WUE). To conduct this analysis, we obtain similarity criteria for realizations defined by conditional events to combine them into the ensembles. With 300 similar realizations grab-sampled at 1-s intervals, we can reliably estimate (≤ 5% standard error) dynamic ensemble fluxes resolved on a 5-s time scale. By the successful application of the first-order system of the delay differential equations with the exponential approach-to-equilibrium solutions, we are able to justify the utility of the “Big-Leaf”-model approach to describe whole-canopy fluxes and provide the dynamic parametrizations of the “Big-Leaf” Active Thermal Layer as well as of the Transient Internal Layer above both forests when the light switches on after the cloud pass. By combining results of sensitivity analysis with modelled solutions applied to the real day-long fluctuating-light time series, we show that the variable light during fair-weather clouds (Shadow period duration < 100 s, Light period duration ≥ 300 s) is responsible for an increase in NEE above the NEE_eq of 15-25% for HF and 10-15% for LBA. This indicates that there is a fluctuating-light NEE-enhancement mechanism that can be considered to be a viable alternative to the existing hypothesis of a diffuse-radiation NEE-enhancement mechanism on partly-cloudy days. We show that on such days Diffuse Fraction can be linearly-related to Cloudiness estimated using the shadow-to-light change in a conditional-event radiative-flux ratio, connecting these two NEE-enhancement mechanisms. Combination of increased NEE with the relatively high plateau in WUE allows forests to operate efficiently in partly-cloudy conditions with maxima located in the Cloudiness range [0.1-0.3] and Diffuse-Fraction range [0.35-0.6], suggesting forest adaptations to the preferred lighting conditions and fair-weather cloudiness.

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Books on the topic "Ecology|Environmental science"

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Anderson, Stanley H. Environmental science. 4th ed. New York: Macmillan Pub. Co., 1993.

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Anderson, Stanley H. Environmental science. 3rd ed. Columbus: Merrill Pub. Co., 1987.

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Swinbank, Liz. Techniques in ecology and environmental science. Barton,Cambridge: Daniels Publishing, 1991.

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Environmental science. 2nd ed. Fort Worth: Saunders College Pub., 1994.

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Arms, Karen. Environmental science. Philadelphia: Saunders College Publishing, 1990.

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Arms, Karen. Environmental science. Philadelphia: Saunders College Publishing, 1990.

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Environmental science. Philadelphia: Saunders College Pub., 1990.

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Singh, Y. K. Environmental science. New Delhi: New Age International (P) Ltd., Publishers, 2006.

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Art, Henry Warren. The Dictionary of ecology and environmental science. Edited by Art Henry Warren. New York: H. Holt, 1993.

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Michener, Robert, and Kate Lajtha, eds. Stable Isotopes in Ecology and Environmental Science. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470691854.

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Book chapters on the topic "Ecology|Environmental science"

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Marticke, Hans-Ulrich. "Environmental Law and the Science of Ecology." In Eco Targets, Goal Functions, and Orientors, 395–413. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58769-6_27.

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Oswald Spring, Úrsula. "On Ecology and Global Environmental Change." In Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, 467–79. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94712-9_19.

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Robin, Libby, and Mike Smith. "Science in place and time: archaeology, ecology and environmental history." In Animals of Arid Australia, 188–96. P.O. Box 20, Mosman NSW 2088, Australia: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/fs.2007.049.

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Kumar, Adarsh. "Atmospheric Electrical Conductivity Measurements During Monsoon Period at a Semi-Urban Tropical Station of Northern India." In Emerging Issues in Ecology and Environmental Science, 1–9. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99398-0_1.

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Garg, Abhinav, Priyanka Sharma, Gufran Beig, and Chirashree Ghosh. "Temporal Mount in Air Pollutants Allied with Religious Fiesta: Diwali, Festival of Lights." In Emerging Issues in Ecology and Environmental Science, 11–25. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99398-0_2.

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Thakur, Monika. "Mushrooms as a Biological Tool in Mycoremediation of Polluted Soils." In Emerging Issues in Ecology and Environmental Science, 27–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99398-0_3.

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Saxena, Pallavi, and Chirashree Ghosh. "Establishing Correlation Between Abiotic Stress and Isoprene Emission of Selected Plant Species." In Emerging Issues in Ecology and Environmental Science, 43–65. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99398-0_4.

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Sharma, Guncha, and Chirashree Ghosh. "Microplastics: An Unsafe Pathway from Aquatic Environment to Health—A Review." In Emerging Issues in Ecology and Environmental Science, 67–72. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99398-0_5.

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Sinha, Surbhi, Abhinav Srivastava, Tithi Mehrotra, and Rachana Singh. "A Review on the Dairy Industry Waste Water Characteristics, Its Impact on Environment and Treatment Possibilities." In Emerging Issues in Ecology and Environmental Science, 73–84. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99398-0_6.

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Ramanathan, Sundar, and R. B. Lal. "Physicochemical Treatment of Research Laboratory Wastewater: A Case Study." In Emerging Issues in Ecology and Environmental Science, 85–98. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99398-0_7.

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Conference papers on the topic "Ecology|Environmental science"

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Nedbaev, D. N., S. V. Nedbaeva, O. V. Goncharova, N. M. Nedbaev, and O. P. Sinelnikova. "METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR INCLUDING YOUTH IN SOLVING THE ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES OF THE AGRICULTURAL COMPLEX." In INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION. DSTU-Print, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23947/itno.2020.301-305.

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The article analyzes the problems of economics and ecology of the agro-industrial complex of the Krasnodar Region. It is concluded that the rapidly changing conditions for the development of the agricultural sector require a search for ways to improve training, a new system of environmental education, and new technologies for including young people in solving the environmental problems of the agricultural sector. On the example of the Krasnodar Region, modern traditional and innovative methods and technologies (Olympiad movement, involvement in research work, regional competitions, information and communication technologies, interactive technologies, projective technologies, etc.) of the formation of an ecological culture of Youth are considered.

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Bone, Elisa, Richard Greenfield, Gray Williams, and Bayden Russell. "Creating a digital learning ecosystem to facilitate authentic place-based learning and international collaboration – a coastal case study." In ASCILITE 2020: ASCILITE’s First Virtual Conference. University of New England, Armidale, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14742/ascilite2020.0147.

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Authentic, place-based experiential learning is essential for students of ecology, whilst an understanding of broader human impacts is necessary for effective conservation efforts. Creating future environmental leaders requires fostering such understanding whilst building transferable skills in collaboration, communication and cultural competence. Mobile technologies and collaborative digital tools can connect students across broad geographic locations, allowing them to share experiences and build a common understanding of global environmental challenges. Within this concise paper, we report on the initial stages and proposed next steps in building a learning ecosystem, consisting of a digital platform and embedded tools, to facilitate undergraduate learning in coastal ecology across universities in Australia, Hong Kong and South Africa. Using here a framework guided by design-based research (DBR), we discuss the design and development of these digital tools in context, and their proposed integration into upper undergraduate science curricula across locations.

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BURYAN, Roman, Ingrida CHEMERYS, and Valeriia CHEMERYS. "EVALUATION OF ECOLOGICAL PHYSIOLOGICAL STATES OF STUDENTS BY GAS-DISCHARGE VIZUALISATION METHOD." In Conference for Junior Researchers „Science – Future of Lithuania“. VGTU Technika, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/aainz.2018.006.

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Nowadays, there is a need for a systematic ecobiological approach to the human body understood as a selfregulating adaptive system. Considering the multi-level structure of living organisms, a promising method is gas-discharge visualization (GDV), which allows to visualize the distribution of energy flow in biological objects and is considered the most recent approach to understanding the functioning of living organisms and identifying the state of their functional systems under the influence of various environmental factors. The article describes the mechanisms of bioelectric research, analyzes the possibilities of using the gas-discharge visualization method in environmental research. The initial data of the students studied was based on the estimation of the state of the physiological systems of their bodies depending on age and gender. In addition, the influence of socioecological factors on the physiological state of students, in particular the influence of listening to music and smoking, was estimated. It can be concluded that the GDV-visualisation method is promising in environmental studies, in particular in the human ecology, when the influence of a number of factors on the state of the organism is studied.

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Neal, Alan. "Winfrith: Life After Decommissioning — Nuclear Site to Science and Technology Park." In ASME 2003 9th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2003-4639.

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UKAEA’s Winfrith site was built in the late 1950’s to undertake research and development into electricity generation from nuclear power. Pioneering scientific and technical work was carried out which resulted in a better understanding of nuclear issues, particularly nuclear safety. At its peak, Winfrith employed 2000 staff and at one time had nine operational nuclear reactors. The most noticeable landmark being the Steam Generating heavy Water Reactor (SGHWR) which, when in operation, provided the National Grid with enough electricity for a small town. In the early 1990’s the UK Government wound down its programme of nuclear R&D, and work started on restoring the environment of the Winfrith site by the progressive removal of the nuclear facilities. Winfrith has always been considered to be one of three key sites in Dorset for development of quality employment, and the site management, with the support of the DTI, decided to undertake a programme of environmental restoration that retained appropriate buildings and infrastructure systems that could be put to alternative long term use. To date, successes have been achieved in both the decommissioning work and also the establishment of tenants. All the fuel has been removed from the nuclear reactors and five reactors have been completely dismantled. Decontamination of other facilities has been completed. A notable example of this work is the return of a fuel fabrication building to a green field site. Another example was the decommissioning of a building that contained gloveboxes, and laboratories equipped with high efficiency filtered ventilation systems. This building was decommissioned, the area of land containing it delicensed, and the building leased to non-nuclear tenants. This thorough, painstaking process involved the use of recently developed industry techniques and required close working with the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII). The tenant base is growing and at the end of 2002 there are 40 different companies resident on site with employee numbers ranging from 1 to several hundreds with a total of ∼ 1000 staff. In addition, the UKAEA programme employs ∼ 500 as staff and contractors. The larger tenants include QinetiQ and DSTL (both from the former Defence Evaluation and Research Agency), the Natural Environment Research Council’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and RWE Nukem. The progressive decommissioning work continues and as UKAEA retreats across the site, from east to west, the non-nuclear research and development businesses move in. The range of work established at Winfrith provides a focus for its further development as a scientific and technical centre of excellence. Facilities have been created in partnership with the local council for small and start-up businesses, while strong links are being encouraged with universities that have an interest in areas such as environmental research. Together they will form a vital part of the commercial community, stimulating growth through technical interaction and innovation.

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Ghalichi, Narmin Shahin, and Gillian Roehrig. "The Role of Coherent Research-Based Curricular Unit in Mediating Students’ Integrated Vision of Human Impact on the Environment." In Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head17.2017.5489.

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The ongoing development of the high school ecology curricular unit presented in this proposal is a response to the new tide of educational reforms in the United States. This curricular unit represents an attempt to frame K-12 science curriculum around three dimensions: crosscutting concepts, disciplinary core ideas and scientific practices recently released in the report on a Framework for New K-12 Science Education (National Research Council, 2012). Integration of three dimensions into the development of agriculture-related curricular unit reflects complexity and logic inherent in science education facilitating deeper conceptual understanding. The development of this curricular unit takes place under the initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project and explores the efficacy of the agriculture-related unit on students’ integrated vision of the human impact on natural systems. Research project seeks to recognize the characteristics that identify research-based curriculum (Clements, 2007). The interdisciplinary nature of this project has the potential to investigate how close adherence to features identifying research-based curriculum can support the development of coherent curricular unit mediating students’ integrated vision of environmental issues. Mediation results of this nature have larger implications on future efficacy studies of curriculum intervention.

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Robinson, Stefanie L., and Jennifer A. Mangold. "Implementing Engineering and Sustainability Curriculum in K-12 Education." In ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2013-66693.

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Introducing students to engineering concepts in early education is critical, as literature has shown that students’ degree of comfort and acceptance of science and technology is developed very early on in their education. While introducing engineering as a potential profession in K-12 classrooms has its own merits, it has also proven itself to be useful as a teaching tool. Engineering can lend itself to concepts that can engage students in critical thinking, problem solving, as well as the development of math and science skills. In engineering higher education there has been an increased focus on industrial ecology and sustainability in order to help students understand the environmental and social context within today’s society. The authors of this paper discuss the importance of these attributes when introducing engineering to K-12 students. Engineering and sustainability are not two mutually exclusive concepts, but sustainability should be considered throughout the practice of the engineering discipline. The ADEPT (Applied Design Engineering Project Teams) program at the University of California, Berkeley was established to design and deploy a standards-based engineering curriculum for middle schools and high schools (grades 6–12) designed to integrate mathematics and science concepts in applied engineering projects, inspire secondary students, and strengthen the classroom experience of current and future faculty in math, science, and engineering. This paper discusses the importance of introducing engineering and sustainability in K-12 classrooms. Example modules that were developed through the ADEPT program are presented as well as a set of recommendations that were designed as a guideline for educators to incorporate engineering and sustainability in K-12 classrooms. While the module discussed here was designed for middle school students, the curriculum and criteria recommended can be adapted to primary and secondary education programs.

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"User-Generated Geospatial Meteorology Map Prototype." In InSITE 2019: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Jerusalem. Informing Science Institute, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4257.

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Aim/Purpose: This project aims to prototype the functionality of a user-generated geospatial meteorology map. This includes the design and implementation of a database driven website with a public and a password protected admin component, in addition to database, web server and hardware components. Background: Previous research described and assessed the feasibility of a system in which end-users generate environmental data and examined the quality of the data provided. We sought to distill the minimum essential use-cases to achieve the required functionality, based on preexisting and original theorization, and then implement them in a functional prototype. Contribution: The possible value of this potential information system, both as a dataset for metrology, climatology, ecology, as well as other fields of research, and also as an end-user web service for highly accurate weather reports, has been noted by previous researchers. The specific contribution of this project is to, by the implementation of a functional prototype, establish that a smart device can remotely generate geopositioned weather reports, which can be accepted by a central server and displayed on a public world map. Findings: Through the implementation of the project, we were able to assess the quality of the use-cases outlined. We found the project was a functional information system, with each public server-side and hardware competent interfacing cor-rectly, most limitations resulting from the scope of the project. Impact on Society: This would unlock the possibility of the next step towards the full realization of the theoretical information system: a limited real world rollout. Future Research: As this project outlines and implements the minimum use-cases required to this system, future research would ideally involve the limited real-world rollout of the system and asses the quality of the data provided. Further research could also be conducted on data quality assurance strategies, both at the point end-user device sensors and broad-scale error correction.

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Wang, Li. "Research on Environmental Ecology in Contemporary Landscape Design." In 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2017). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.112.

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Wei, J. H., L. D. Liu, L. Zhang, J. Sun, and C. C. Pan. "Pollination Ecology of Commelina Communis (Commelinaceae)." In International Workshop on Environmental Management, Science and Engineering. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0007562805390544.

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An, Hongchang. "Understanding Managerial Ecology and Its Applications." In 2010 International Conference on Challenges in Environmental Science and Computer Engineering. IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cesce.2010.115.

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Reports on the topic "Ecology|Environmental science"

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Schloegel, J. J., and K. A. Rader. Ecology, environment, and 'big science' : an annotated bibliography ofsources on environmental research at Argonne National Laboratory, 1955 - 1985. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), December 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/885500.

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