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Schultz, Lynn L. "Agricultural Land Use, Watershed Characteristics, and Hydrological Forces Contributing to the Impairment of a Shallow Lake in the Western Corn Belt Ecoregion." Thesis, Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10254675.

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<p> The Lake Titlow watershed (approximately 35,000 acres) in south-central Minnesota is part of the Minnesota River Basin. The lake is listed in the draft 2010 Clean Water Act Section 303d for nutrient pollution, eutrophication, and biological indicators for impairment of aquatic life and recreational use. Over 90 percent of pre-settlement wetlands are currently drained for agricultural land use. The Lake Titlow watershed is over 80 percent row crops and land use is implicated as a primary cause of impairment in the lake. </p><p> Water samples were collected from the Lake Titlow tributaries

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Nelson, Stacy A. C. "Error Analysis in Tidal Wetland Inventory Change Detection: Comparison of Historical Mapped Wetlands of the Achilles Quadrangle between 1976 to 1989." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539617686.

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Melville, Alaina Diane. "Assessment of a Mycorrhizal Fungi Application to Treat Stormwater in an Urban Bioswale." Thesis, Portland State University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10142122.

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<p> This study assessed the effect of an application of mycorrhizal fungi to stormwater filter media on urban bioswale soil and stormwater in an infiltration-based bioswale aged 20 years with established vegetation. The study tested the use of commercially available general purpose biotic soil blend PermaMatrix<sup> ®</sup> BSP Foundation as a treatment to enhance Earthlite™ stormwater filter media amelioration of zinc, copper, and phosphorus in an ecologically engineered structure designed to collect and infiltrate urban stormwater runoff before it entered the nearby Willamette Rive

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Baker, Ted W. "Water Quality Impacts from Agricultural Land-Use in the Karst Groundwater Basin of Qingmuguan, Chongqing, China." TopSCHOLAR®, 2008. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/37.

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Karst regions are composed of soluble rock, often limestone, which leads to the formation of fissures, sinkholes and water flow conduits such as caves. Pollutants in karst waters tend to be quickly directed and concentrated into these subsurface conduits. As a result of this and other factors, water resources are especially sensitive to contamination and pollution in karst areas. Pollutant concentrations going into fluvial systems travelling through the subsurface in karst areas are often very similar to the concentrations arriving at outlets such as springs. Areas connected by karst conduit f

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Malone, Melanie. "Using Critical Physical Geography to Map the Unintended Consequences of Conservation Management Programs." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3639.

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A variety of conservation trends have gained and lost favor throughout the years in agriculture, with U.S. Farm Bills often influencing what conservation practices are implemented by farming communities throughout the U.S. This dissertation focuses on the unintended consequences of conservation management practices in the Fifteenmile Watershed of Wasco County, Oregon. Specifically, I seek to address how farmer enrollment in various conservation techniques, loosely defined as no-till agriculture, has affected soil and water quality through the increased use of herbicide, and subsequently render

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Buie, John Cary. "Relative Risk Assessment for Cape Hatteras National Seashore." W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539617707.

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Hall, Veronica. "Addressing Water Resource Issues In Barbados Through An Isotopic and Atmospheric Characterization of Precipitation Variability." TopSCHOLAR®, 2014. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1356.

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Numerous studies have analyzed isotopic variation of meteoric and dripwater in karst environments for paleoclimate reconstructions or aquifer recharge capacity. What is poorly understood is how the isotopic signal of δ18O and δ2H is transferred through the hydrologic cycle based upon storm type, frequency, intensity, and teleconnection activity in the tropical karst areas. At Harrison’s Cave, Barbados, a Hobo Onset event data logger was attached to a tipping bucket rain gauge to count the tips and record the total rainfall every 10 minutes. In the cave a Hobo data logger was used to record rel

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Klein, Josefin. "Water resource sensitivity from a Mediterranean perspective : Using a hydrological model to explore the combined impacts of climate and land-water management changes." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för naturgeografi och kvartärgeologi (INK), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94691.

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Future water supplies will be affected by both climate change and altered land-water management. In the Mediterranean region, an expected warming and drying together with increased water withdrawal in key tourist destinations will put further pressure on already scarce water resources. In this study, a scenario analysis was conducted to explore the combined impacts of climate and land-water management changes in an 89 km2 watershed upstream of Navarino Environmental Observatory, southwestern Greece. A simple process-based hydrological model based on the Thornthwaite-Mather water balance proced

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Åberg, Amanda. "Rice yields under water-saving irrigation management : A meta-analysis." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för naturgeografi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-146786.

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Water scarcity combined with an increasing world population is creating pressure to develop new methods for producing food using less water. Rice is a staple crop with a very high water demand. This study examined the success in maintaining yields under water-saving irrigation management, including alternate wetting and drying (AWD). A meta-analysis was conducted examining yields under various types of water-saving irrigation compared to control plots kept under continuous flooding. The results indicated that yields can indeed be maintained under AWD as long as the field water level during the

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Kozlowski, Michelle A. "Environmental Justice in Appalachia: A Case Study of C8 Contamination in Little Hocking, Ohio." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1338415979.

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La, Frenierre Jeff David. "Assessing the Hydrologic Implications of Glacier Recession and the Potential for Water Resources Vulnerability at Volcan Chimborazo, Ecuador." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1402593347.

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Nedvidek, Daniel C. "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Regulatory Stormwater Monitoring Protocols on Groundwater Quality in Urbanized Karst Regions." TopSCHOLAR®, 2014. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1407.

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Non-point pollution from stormwater runoff is one of the greatest threats to water quality in the United States today, particularly in urban karst settings. In these settings, the use of karst features and injection wells for stormwater management results in virtually untreated water being directed into the karst aquifer. Currently, no policies exist specifically to provide water quality protections to karst environments. This study utilized a combination of karst stormwater quality data, along with survey data collected from MS4 Phase II communities, and an analysis of current federal, local,

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Friedle, Christina Marie. "Forest Resource Use, Land-Use, and Ecotourism in the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras." PDXScholar, 2005. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2228.

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The Río Pláttano Biosphere Reserve, a tropical rainforest reserve in the northeastern corner of Honduras, is home to several subsistence-based indigenous groups, including the Miskito, Pech and Garifuna, as well as the non-indigenous Ladinos. Communities within the reserve depend on forest resources, swidden agriculture, marine resources and/or small-scale ranching as the foundations for local economies. Regulations placed on these subsistence practices, after establishment of the biosphere reserve in 1980, have created unique and new pressures and resulted in a blend of traditional and innova

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Vanderhoff, Sean M. "Multiple Storm Event Impacts on Epikarst Storage and Transport of Organic Soil Amendments in South-Central Kentucky." TopSCHOLAR®, 2011. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1128.

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The groundwater in agricultural karst areas is susceptible to contamination from organic soil amendments and pesticides. During major storm events during 2011, dye traces were initiated using sulphorhodamine-B, fluorescein and eosine in a groundwater recharge area where manure was applied to the ground. Fecal coliform samples were collected from significant storm events from January-September 2011. Water samples and geochemical data were collected every four hours before, during, and between the storm events from a waterfall in Crumps cave flowing from the known recharge area to track the tran

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Baize, David. "A “Drastic” Evaluation of the Ground-Water Pollution Potential of Karst Terrain: Lost River Ground-Water Basin, Warren County, Kentucky." TopSCHOLAR®, 1990. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1889.

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Karst terrains, such as the Lost River Karst Ground-Water Basin, are extremely vulnerable to ground-water contamination. Seven physical factors: depth to water, recharge, aquifer media, soil media, topography, impact of the vadose zone, and hydraulic conductivity, are evaluated using the DRASTIC system to determine the ground-water pollution potential of the study area. A numerical value is calculated for each of the seven factors, and a map layer for each factor is produced. These layers are then “added” together to produce a DRASTIC ground-water pollution potential map. The effectiveness of

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Miralha, Lorrayne. "ACCOUNTING FOR SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION IN MODELING THE DISTRIBUTION OF WATER QUALITY VARIABLES." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/55.

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Several studies in hydrology have reported differences in outcomes between models in which spatial autocorrelation (SAC) is accounted for and those in which SAC is not. However, the capacity to predict the magnitude of such differences is still ambiguous. In this thesis, I hypothesized that SAC, inherently possessed by a response variable, influences spatial modeling outcomes. I selected ten watersheds in the USA and analyzed them to determine whether water quality variables with higher Moran’s I values undergo greater increases in the coefficient of determination (R²) and greater decreases in

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Lyles, Frank. "Climate Change Adaptation for Southern California Groundwater Managers: A Case Study of the Six Basins Aquifer." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/172.

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Groundwater has been very important to the economic development of Southern California, and will continue to be a crucial resource in the 21st century. However, Climate Change threatens to disrupt many of the physical and economic processes that control the flow of water in and out of aquifers. One groundwater manager, the Six Basins Watermaster in eastern Los Angeles and western San Bernardino Counties, has developed a long-term planning document called the Strategic Plan that mostly fails to address the implications of Climate Change, especially for local water supplies. This thesis presents

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Ly, Thuy M. "Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater in Vietnam: An Overview and Analysis of the Historical, Cultural, Economic, and Political Parameters in the Success of Various Mitigation Options." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/41.

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Although arsenic is naturally present in the environment, 99% of human exposure to arsenic is through ingestion. Throughout history, arsenic is known as “the king of poisons”; it is mutagenic, carcinogenic, and teratogenic. Even in smaller concentrations, it accumulates in the body and takes decades before any physical symptoms of arsenic poisoning shows. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the safe concentration of arsenic in drinking water is 10 µg/L. However, this limit is often times ignored until it is decades too late and people begin showing symptoms of having been poi

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Gathongo, Njoroge Ikonye. "Validating Local Interpretations of Land Cover Changes at Mt. Kasigau, Kenya." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1344617761.

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Patrick, Nathan A. "Evaluating Near Surface Lapse Rates Over Complex Terrain Using an Embedded Micro-Logger Sensor Network in Great Basin National Park." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1403203851.

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Davis, Rachel H. "Changing social norms| California friendly gardens in Long Beach, CA." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1604877.

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<p> The Lawn to Garden Program incentivizes replacing front yard turf grass with California Friendly gardens in Long Beach, CA. The Long Beach Water Department introduced the program in 2009 as a means of water conservation and since that time 2% of the City’s single-family homes have successfully completed the program. As of the end of 2014, 3,461 applications had been submitted, but only 1,849 Lawn to Garden projects had been completed, a success rate of 53% and withdrawal rate of 47%. This study seeks to identify some of the factors that contribute to the program’s high withdraw

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Wigmore, Oliver Henry Wigmore. "Assessing Spatiotemporal Variability in Glacial Watershed Hydrology: Integrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Field Hydrology, Cordillera Blanca, Peru." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1471854919.

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Sarna-Wojcicki, Daniel Reid. "Scales of Sovereignty| The Search for Watershed Democracy in the Klamath Basin." Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3733338.

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<p> This dissertation examines the politics of knowledge in collaborative watershed governance institutions of the Klamath River Basin of Northern California and Southern Oregon. The waters of the Klamath are shared between farmers, fisherfolk, indigenous communities, hydro-electric facilities and one of the most biologically diverse eco-regions in the United States. Since 1986, the watershed has provided the primary spatial unit for resolving resource conflict by coordinating agency and citizen science, guiding integrated resource management and cultivating a shared sense of place and belongi

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Caesar, Nicole Owusua. "Managing Regional Water Resources Amidst Rapid Urbanization in Southwest Florida: A Case Study." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5196.

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Experts and organizations involved in freshwater resources management have emphasized the importance of long-term urban resource planning and management that considers the tight coupling which exists between human - nature - technology systems. The resistance of contemporary urban growth efforts to consider resource carrying capacities and ecosystem requirements has led to costly unintended consequences including the deterioration of natural capital and their associated ecosystem services, and the degradation of water resource flows. As these problems continue to worsen, resource experts have

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Eduful, Michael K. "Access to Safe Water Supply: Management of Catchment for the Protection of Source Water in Ghana." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7501.

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This study investigates provisions made within institutional and regulatory frameworks of water resources management to enhance multi-stakeholder relationships and the challenges of maintaining those relationships, and implications of water resources management for rural communities in the Densu River basin, Ghana. The primary objectives of this study were four fold, these are to: i) review the existing regulatory framework and how it promotes or hinders multi-stakeholder relationships within the catchment area; ii) examine multi-stakeholder relationships to identify challenges in promoting ef

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Singh, Jagdeep. "Beyond Waste Management : Challenges to Sustainable Global Physical Resource Management." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-186517.

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Current physical resource management (PRM) was investigated in a global perspective in this thesis, to gain a deeper understanding of its implications in a sustainability perspective. In particular, the main challenges to the current PRM system and the kinds of systemic changes needed for sustainable PRM were examined. In five separate studies, different theoretical and practical challenges to current PRM approaches were analysed. A descriptive literature review, causal loop diagrams and semi-structured interviews were performed to gather qualitative and quantitative inferences. Perspectives f

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Adjei, Cornelius Owusu. "Citizen Action, Power Relations and Wetland Management in the Tampa Bay Urban Socio-ecosystem." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3942.

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Wetlands are vital ecosystems that provide ecological, economic and social benefits to societies. In the Tampa Bay region in West Central Florida, a growing population has put immense pressure on wetlands. The situation has not gone unnoticed in the public domain with concerns raised about the need to formulate policies that would protect them. However, it has been difficult to ascertain the level of citizen involvement in the decision making process. This study aimed at investigating whether the perceptions and concerns of citizens drove them to influence local water policy. Questionnaires we

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Fox, Jason. "A Tourism Impact Index for Water-Based Natural Attractions Field-Tested in Subarctic and Maritime Climates." TopSCHOLAR®, 2019. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3140.

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Tourism in cold and cool-climate regions is largely characterized by recreational and sightseeing activities at water-based natural attractions such as beaches, coastal cliffs, and waterfalls. While the economic benefits of the tourism industry can contribute to a sustainable future for these regions, the environmental implications of a hastilydeveloped industry cannot be ignored given that cold-climate and cool-climate landscapes are at risk of rapid environmental change from a warming climate and other environmental concerns. This study consisted of the development of the Tourism Impact Inde

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Di, Perno Norman J. (Norman Joseph). "Physico-chemical and resource management options for a Canadian leather retanner." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60020.

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Leather tanning, one of mankind's oldest industries, is in a time of environmental transition. Traditionally a "wet" industry, many processes result in pollution loads which are not acceptable in today's legislative environment. For this study, the largest Canadian Retanner, located outside of Montreal, Quebec, allowed its processes and associated waste products and loads to be characterized. A physico-chemical treatment regime, utilizing precipitation, coagulation, and flocculation technology, was then proposed and implemented on the laboratory level. The results were positive, but the solid

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Sinha, Rajib. "Systems Modeling Approaches to Physical Resource Management : An Industrial Ecology Perspective." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-191327.

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Many of the present problems that we are facing arise as unanticipated side-effects of our own actions. Moreover, the solutions implemented to solve important problems often create new problems. To avoid unintended consequences, understanding complex systems is essential in devising policy instruments and in improving environmental management. Thus, this thesis investigated systems modeling approaches to under- stand complex systems and monitor the environmental performance of management actions. The overall aim of the work was to investigate the usefulness of different systems modeling approa

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Hannerz, Fredrik. "Making water information relevant on local to global scale : the role of information systems for integrated water management /." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm university, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7431.

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Klingel, Heidi M. "Developing a physical effectiveness monitoring protocol for aquatic organism passage restoration at road-stream crossings." Thesis, Colorado State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1558242.

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<p> Two US Forest Service draft monitoring protocols are used to assess the effectiveness of design channels at road-stream crossings by comparing their physical channel dimensions to those in the natural channel. Level II physical monitoring is a time intensive, quantitative and statistically based procedure for assessing effectiveness at selected sites. Level I physical monitoring is a less detailed, rapid procedure limited to a few simple measurements and observations for assessing effectiveness at a large number of sites. Study objectives were to: 1) test and refine the field methods

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Rodreiguez-Calderon, Cielomar. "Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Erosional and Depositional Processes: Physical and Biological Controls in the York River, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539617897.

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Sulistioadi, Yohanes Budi. "Satellite Altimetry and Hydrologic Modeling of Poorly-Gauged Tropical Watershed." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1382544894.

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Boeder, Michael Karl. "Oxygen Demand Trends, Land Cover Change, and Water Quality Management for an Urbanizing Oregon Watershed." PDXScholar, 2006. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2236.

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In-stream aquatic habitat depends on adequate levels of dissolved oxygen. Human alteration of the landscape has an extensive influence on the biogeochemical processes that drive oxygen cycling in streams. Historic datasets allow researchers to track trends in chemical parameters concomitant with urbanization, while land cover change analysis allows researchers to identify linkages between water quality trends and landscape change. Using the Seasonal Kendall's test, I examined water quality trends in oxygen demand variables during the mid-1990s to 2003, for twelve sites in the Rock Creek sub-wa

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Wehrmann, Zachary M. "An Analysis of Planform Changes of the Upper Hocking River,Southeastern Ohio, 1939-2013." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1438185759.

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Clark, Charlette Michelle. "Investigation of perceptions of environmental management systems and its perceived importance in a corporation undergoing ISO 14001 certification." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0718101-130804/restricted/clarkc0807a.pdf.

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Oglesby, Jonathan Le Mar. "An Adaptive Visual Learning Approach for Waterborne Disease Prevention in Rural West Africa." TopSCHOLAR®, 2016. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1581.

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Depleted water supplies, along with industrial and human waste, are driving a world water crisis that poses a growing risk to food markets, energy production, political stability, and human health (Global Water Security 2012). One obvious example of the this crisis is the more than 1 billion people who obtain their drinking water from contaminated sources (WHO/UNICEF 2006; Clasen et al. 2008). With a projected increase of 1.3 billion people between now and 2050, Africa will add more to the global population than any other world region (Haub and Kaneda 2013). For this research, visual learning

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Kirk, Johnathan. "Hydroclimatic Variability and Contributing Mechanisms during the Early 21st Century Drought in the Colorado River Basin." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1500480359156882.

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Cole, Timothy. "Physical Properties of Tar Sand Tailings that Influence Their Ability to Sustain Plant Growth." TopSCHOLAR®, 1985. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1900.

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The mining of bituminous sandstone rock for the purpose of extracting bitumen has created a need for reclamation. One such mine is located in northern Logan County. Their mining operation involves removing large sections of sandstone, which is impregnated with bitumen, and crushing it to sand-sized material. The sand-sized material is then mixed with organic solvents which extract the bitumen. Once separated, the bitumen is stored for future refinement and the spent sand is stockpiled for later disposal. The spent sands or waste material are referred to as tar sand tailings. These tailings hav

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Boglaienko, Daria. "Capture and Densification of Floating Hydrophobic Liquids by Natural Granular Materials." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3261.

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Densification and submergence of floating crude oil is proposed as a novel oil spills treatment method. Surface application of dry granular materials (e.g., quartz sand, limestone) on top of a floating oil layer increases the density of the floating oil phase/granule mixture and leads to formation of relatively large and stable aggregates with significant amounts of captured oil. The aggregates separate from the floating hydrophobic phase and settle by gravity. Implementation of this method will reduce the impact radius of a spill and its mobility, preventing direct contamination of beaches, c

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Giri, Atanu. "Development of Photocatalysts Supported on Graphitic Carbon Nitride for the Degradation of Organic Water Pollutants." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5692.

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Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) heterojunction composites with the semiconducting metal oxides, CeO2, ZnO and TiO2 are prepared in situ by co-calcination of the precursor materials or by a solvothermal method. The structural, morphological and the optical properties of the prepared materials are studied using various microscopy and spectroscopy techniques. The synthesized composite materials, CeO2/g-C3N4, ZnO/g-C3N4 and TiO2/g-C3N4 are more efficient in the photocatalytic degradation of the water pollutants indigo carmine (IC) and atrazine than the pure metal oxide, g-C3N4, or their physical

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Hall, Bryan, University of Western Sydney, Faculty of Science and Technology, and School of Science. "A review of the environmental resource mapping system and a proof that it is impossible to write a general algorithm for analysing interactions between organisms distributed at locations described by a locationally linked database and physical properties recorded within the database." THESIS_FST_SS_Hall_B.xml, 1994. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/750.

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The Environmental Resource Mapping System (E-RMS) is a geographic information system (GIS) that is used by the National Parks and Wildlife Service to assist in management of national parks. The package is available commercially from the Service and is used by other government departments for environmental management. E-RMS has also been present in Australian Universities and used for academic work for a number of years. This thesis demonstrates that existing procedures for product quality and performance have not been followed in the production of the package and that the package and therefore

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Turner, Chloe Michele. "Soil chemical properties dynamics in glacial moraines across a chronosequence: Breiðamerkurjokull outwash plane, Iceland." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1525601525183877.

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Wilson, Phillip J. "Surface Mining in Van Buren County, Iowa: History and Consequences." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1332357832.

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Kunneke, Maria Magdalena. "Die vestiging van gemeenskapsgedrewe geīntegreerde opgvanggebiedbestuur : die Veldwachtersrivier opvanggebied." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49929.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch, 2004.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa is a semi-arid country with an average annual rainfall of 197mm, in comparison with the international average of 860mm per year, of which the available freshwater sources are currently being utilised virtually completely. The water restrictions in the Western Cape during the summer of 2000/2001 and of 2001/2002 are sufficient evidence of this. This threatening water shortage holds far-reaching consequences for the socio-economic development of the country if an active effort is not made to manage the water resources in a

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Dodd, Brandon M. "Experimental Evaluation of Uranyl Transport into Mesoporous Silica Gel using Fluorescence." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5336.

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This research investigated parameters that can affect the use of nanoporous silica gel as a media for accumulating a detectable amount of uranium. The unique fluorescence of the Uranyl (UO22+) ion was used to evaluate the transport kinetics and accumulation within silica gel in a static fluid and under pressure driven flow. The addition of fluid flow decreased the time constant from on the order of an hour to approximately 2s with a very low fluid velocity of 0.36cm/s. The 0.36cm/s fluid velocity was found to be the critical velocity above which there was no gain in time constant. A table top

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Conley, Gary D. "Examining the Cover and Composition of the Successional Vegetation Mosaic of Pre-SMCRA Mined Landscapes in Southeast Ohio." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1357751096.

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Landrum, Carla. "MAPPING AND DECOMPOSING SCALE-DEPENDENT SOIL MOISTURE VARIABILITY WITHIN AN INNER BLUEGRASS LANDSCAPE." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/pss_etds/34.

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There is a shared desire among public and private sectors to make more reliable predictions, accurate mapping, and appropriate scaling of soil moisture and associated parameters across landscapes. A discrepancy often exists between the scale at which soil hydrologic properties are measured and the scale at which they are modeled for management purposes. Moreover, little is known about the relative importance of hydrologic modeling parameters as soil moisture fluctuates with time. More research is needed to establish which observation scales in space and time are optimal for managing soil moist

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Weber, Annalisa D. "Rule-Adherence Within the Mountain Gorilla Tourism Industry." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1431016645.

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