Documents about River Basin
Tumminello
Montclair, SYMPOSIUM 2008
Excerpt: ... Passaic River Basin Passaic River April 1984 Flood Summary History of Flooding and Flood Damage Reduction An Update for 2008 Passaic River Basin Facts 983 square mile basin ~50,000 people live in 100-year floodplain with 20,000 homes, businesses, & public buildings in 35 communities Main Stem & major tributaries 100 year floodplain covers 40,000 acres (~60 mi2) of which half is fully developed One of the most densely developed floodplains on the eastern seaboard Three Topographic Areas - Upper and Lower Valleys and Central Basin - Central Basin - contains major wetland complexes including the Great Swamp Black/Hatfield/Troy/Great Piece Meadows/Bog & Vly Complex Passaic River Basin Floodplain Today NOT SHOWN - BASIN FLOODWARNING SYSTEM - LIMITED FLOODWAY BUYOUT Current as of October 2008 Passaic River Basin - Flooding History Equivalent to 100 year flood - most of basin was undeveloped Passaic River Basin - Flooding History 1945 1968 Passaic River Basin - Floo ...
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jan_23_2009
Toledo, BIO 464
Excerpt: ... Keywords from January 23, 2009, BIO 464 Student Presentations Note to all BIO 464 students: This is the what do I have to know for presentations by your fellow biodiversitarians. Be able to define all terms and where pertinent to your own case study, to explain how the relevant term is applied in your own case study example. Qian Long: Yangtze River Basin Floodplain Lotic vs Lentic Benthic Food Web and Food Web Connectance Omnivory Detritus Annual Flooding Darlene DeSouza Kenya Endemism Biodiversity Hotspot Frugivore Guild Structural Complexity Cross-Taxon congruence Model Lucas Parreiras Atlantic Coast of Brazil Criteria for designation as a Biodiversity Hotspot Latitudinal Effects on Biodiversity Keystone Species and effects of their removal Susanna Gafarova Lake Baikal (Siberia, Russia) Endemic Neoendemic Paleoendemic Pelagic Food Web Benthic Food Web Adaptive Radiation Flock Phylogenetic Species ...
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surface2
University of Texas, GK 12
Excerpt: ... High School Lesson Plan #3 COURSE(S): Algebra I; Mathematical Modeling with Applications; Environmental Studies; Aquatic Sciences; Geology, Meteorology, and Oceanography; US History Since Reconstruction; World Geography Studies TOPIC: Water Availability, Usage and Future Demand in Texas TITLE: Water: On the Surface and in the Ground OVERVIEW: The student will understand that water resources include both surface water and ground water. The student will study a Texas river basin and a major Texas aquifer. The student will map information and write a short report. TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS: Algebra I (b) Foundations for functions: knowledge and skill and performance descriptions. (1) The student understands that a function represents a dependence of one quantity on another and can be described in a variety of ways. Following are performance descriptions. (B) The student gathers and records data, or uses data sets, to determine functional (systematic) relationships between quantities. (D) The student r ...
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Amidon2,
Montclair, SYMPOSIUM 2008
Excerpt: ... The Non-Tidal Passaic River Basin Nutrient TMDL Thomas W. Amidon and James F. Cosgrove, Jr. (P.E.) Omni Environmental, Princeton, New Jersey A presentation was provided at the Second Passaic River Symposium in 2006 that described the development of a phosphorus TMDL for the non-tidal Passaic River basin , which was based on technical studies performed by Najarian & Associates and Omni Environmental. The TMDL has since been finalized, proposed, and adopted by NJDEP on April 24, 2008. This presentation focuses on the site-specific criteria established by NJDEP, the integration of the Wanaque Reservoir TMDL analysis with the Passaic River TMDL analysis, and the final outcomes in terms of point and nonpoint source phosphorus reductions. Watershed modeling analyses were performed to assess the impact of point and nonpoint source reductions on dissolved oxygen, phosphorus concentrations, and chlorophyll-a in streams throughout the system. Most of the streams in the Passaic River Basin are not very sensitive to decre ...
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CWAP4
Maryland, EFC 4
Excerpt: ... Blue River Basin Case Study Innovative Financing Techniques for Watershed Management July 1, 2001 Blue River Basin Background The Blue River Basin drains about 630 square miles of land including all of the City of Springfield and portions of Douglass, Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson Counties. 1990 Total Basin Population: 1,473,000 Land uses breakdown: Urban 42% Forest 29% Agriculture 28% Demographics The Eastern portion of the Basin is home to the Springfield Regional Airport and consists primarily of urban and suburban, commercial, and industrial land uses. The majority of the Basin's citizens live in the rapidly growing eastern portion, although the City of Springfield continues to suffer population loss. The western portion of the Basin has primarily rural residential and agricultural uses on gently rolling land. The Blue River Basin has an estimated population of 1,473,000. The Basin's population increased by 20% between 1980 and 1990 and continues to expand rapidly at about a 5% annual gr ...
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NCDandDZ
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IB 102
Excerpt: ... e Nitrogen fixation Denitrification Nitrogen fertilizer Nitrous oxide *Nitrogen *Phosphorus *Carbon 2. Eutrophication Nutrient load in Gulf of Mexico (N & P) * Eutrophication * Dead Zone Neuse River Basin (North Carolina, N) 3. Remediation and rehabilitation - How are wetlands used to rehabilitate polluted land? Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant ...
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Seminar_List_April_27
Washington, ATMOS 211
Excerpt: ... ATMS 210 Extra Credit Seminars Week of April 27 to May 1, 2009 Peter Bisson, USDA Forest Svc/Pacific NW Research Station Title: Climate change and fish in the Pacific Northwest: Case study of the Snoqualmie River basin Date: Tuesday, April 28 Time: 8:30 pm Location: 223 Anderson Lilian (Na'ia) Alessa, University of Alaska and University of Arizona Title: Why socially constructed climate change may make us vulnerable Date: Tuesday, April 28 Time: 1:30 pm Location: UW Fisheries Science Bldg, Room 203 Seminar information: http:/cses.washington.edu/cig/outreach/seminarfiles/2009seminars/alessa042809abs.shtm Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Chair and Chairman, Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Title: Internalizing Climate Change: How Responding to Climate Change Can Lead to a New Era of Progress and Prosperity Date: Wednesday, April 29 Time: 7:00 pm registration, 7:30 Program Location: Pacific Science Center, Eames Theater, 200 Second Ave. Abstract at: http:/64.78.54.220/calendar.cfm?even ...
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HydroDays2008Abstract
Colorado, CADSWES 2
Excerpt: ... An Analysis of Hydrologic Variability Sensitivity in the Colorado River Basin James Prairie1, Carly Jerla1, Russell Callejo1 1 Bureau of Reclamation, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Abstract Reclamation has historically depended on the observed natural flow record to model the effects of hydrologic variability in their long-term planning studies. Understanding there are limitations to this assumption Reclamation recently developed five sets of alternate future natural flow scenarios that include parametric and nonparametric stochastic scenario generation techniques as well as data from two recent paleo reconstructions completed within the Colorado River Basin . The observed natural flow record has traditionally been resampled with the nonparametric Index Sequential Method (ISM) to assess the effect of natural variability. In addition to the future inflow scenario generated with this method and data, the ISM was used to resample the two recently published paleo reconstructions pertaining to the Colorado R ...
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geog 370 - article presentation
UNC, GEOG 370
Excerpt: ... 1. The Study of Excess Nitrogen in the Neuse River Basin "A Landscape Level Analysis of Potential Excess Nitrogen in EastCentral North Carolina, USA" Paper by C.T. Garten Jr. and T.L. Ashwood. 2003. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 146. (14): 321 Presented by Harrison Miller, Environmental Studies, Geog 370, 26 February 2008 2. Assessment of potential excess nitrogen under different land cover categories Problem: Excess nitrogen (N) contributes to aquatic eutrophication (excessive nutrients in a body of water that cause various problems) and elevated concentrations of nitrate in ground water. This study attempted to understand the distribution, the determinants, and the seasonality of potential excess N in terrestrial ecostystems at the landscape scale. Hypothesis: If N inputs exceed N outputs, then the difference represents N at risk of loss from the landscape to surface receiving waters and groundwaters. 3. Methods 1.) Acquistition of land cover data from remote sensing 2.)Develo ...
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cropland
Iowa State, MR 0526
Excerpt: ... Farm Futures, IL 05-23-06 Cropland Erosion Declined 43% Over Past 20 Years USDA study showed Missouri and the Souris-Red-Rainy/Upper Mississippi River Basin s showed the most significant reductions in erosion levels. Farm Futures staff Total soil erosion on cultivated and non-cultivated cropland in the U.S. decreased 43% between 1982 and 2003, sheet and rill erosion decreased 42%, and wind erosion decreased 44%, according to USDA's National Resources Inventory, a statistical survey of natural resource conditions and trends on non-federal land. Nationwide, sheet and rill erosion, which is the removal of layers of soil by rainfall and runoff, on cropland dropped from 4 tons per acre per year in 1982 to 2.6 tons per acre per year in 2003. Wind erosion rates also dropped from 3.3 to 2.1 tons per acre per year. The data also shows that 72% of the nation's cropland was eroding below soil loss tolerance rates, compared to 60% in 1982. Highly Erodible Land being cropped is down to about 100 million acres, compared to ...
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Crosby_CorpsEngineers
Clemson, WATERFORUM 2007
Excerpt: ... Savannah District US Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District hartcoml.ppt 1 Savannah District Presentation for the Savannah River Forum Clemson University April 6, 2007 Presented by Mr. Leroy Crosby, Mobile/Savannah Planning Center hartcoml.ppt 2 Savannah District Comprehensive Water Resources Study Savannah River hartcoml.ppt 3 for the Agenda Savannah District Where We Have Been Authority Current Actions Basin Water Issues Current Direction hartcoml.ppt 4 Savannah River Basin Comprehensive Savannah District Hartwell Dam & Lake SC Richard B. Russell Dam & Lake J. Strom Thurmond Dam & Lake New Savannah Bluff Lock & Dam GA Augusta N Savannah hartcoml.ppt 5 Comprehensive Water Resources Study for the Savannah River Basin Savannah District Where We Have Been: Activities Leading to the Study Drought Coordination - 1980s and now Meetings of GA & SC Water Resources Agencies EPA Savannah River Watershed Project New Study Authority WRDA 96 Sec 414 Drought Plan Up ...
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Ganges(2008)
University of Texas, CE 397
Excerpt: ... idence, this final religious act may be administered. The Rivers The GBM basin encompasses approximately 1.7 million km2, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Tibetan China. The headwaters of the Ganges and Brahmaputra originate in the Tibetan China area of the Himalayan mountain range. The Ganges River flows southwest into India, turns southeast joining with many major tributaries. After flowing into Bangladesh, the Ganges joins with the Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers to flow into the Bay of Bengal as the Meghna (Padma) River. With a historical average annual flow rate of 424 BCM, one might assume water quantity to be a non-issue in the Ganges River basin , however seasonal rains and snow melt dictate otherwise. The summer wet season, kharif, and winter dry season, rabi, initiate much of the controversy among neighboring states, India and Bangladesh. From the headwaters, the Brahmaputra flows east through the southern area of Tibetan China. The river then flows south into eastern India, turns south ...
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456
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, NRES 456
Excerpt: ... Course Schedule - Spring 2005 Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences 456 Integrative Ecosystem Mgmt Credit: 3 hours. (NRES 356) Examines ecological and human dimensions of ecosystem management through case studies of environmental management settings such as the Greater Yellowstone, Pacific Northwest, Great Lakes, and Mississippi River Basin ecosystems. Capstone course for seniors in natural resource disciplines. Prerequisite: Senior standing; IB 203 or NRES 219 and ACE 100 or ECON 102. CRN 38867 Type lecturediscussion Section AE1 Time 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM Days TR Location room 107 Animal Sciences Laboratory Instructor McIsaac, G Page 1 - Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Spring 2005 ...
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erosion
Iowa State, MR 0526
Excerpt: ... 6 tons per acre per year in 2003. Wind erosion rates also dropped from 3.3 to 2.1 tons per acre per year. The data also shows that 72 percent of the nation's cropland was eroding below soil loss tolerance rates, compared to 60 percent in 1982. Highly Erodible Land (HEL) being cropped is down to about 100 million acres, compared to 124 million acres in 1982. HEL cropland acreage eroding above soil loss tolerance rates declined 35 percent. Non-HEL cropland acreage eroding above soil loss tolerance rates decreased 45 percent between 1982 and 2003. The Missouri and the Souris-Red-Rainy/Upper Mississippi River Basin s -approximately 50 percent of our nation's cropland - experienced the most significant reductions in total erosion from 1982 to 2003. In the Missouri River Basin , which includes sections of Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming, and all of Nebraska, the average rate of soil erosion fell 3 tons per acre per year. The Souris-Red-Rainy/Upper Mississi ...
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LaPlata(2008)
University of Texas, CE 397
Excerpt: ... The La Plata River Basin CE397 Transboundary Water Resources Tina Stanard March 6, 2008 Region The La Plata River basin is the second largest river basin in South America (to the Amazon) and the fifth largest in the world with an area over 3.1 million km2. The basin includes part of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay and all of Paraguay. The river basin , shown in Figure 1, has four main rivers: the Paran, the Paraguay, the Uruguay and the La Plata River. The Paran River is the largest in terms of sub-basin area and discharge. The La Plata River (or Rio de la Plata) is an estuary formed at the confluence of the Paran and Uruguay Rivers, and it opens to the Atlantic Ocean. It is estimated that 57 million cubic meters of silt are carried into the estuary each year. The shipping channel from the Atlantic to Buenos Aires must be dredged constantly. Figure 1: Overview of La Plata River Basin The climate of this region is very moderate and humid, which sustains the large amount of agriculture. Rainfed ...
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Howe_NRLCpresentation
Colorado, WWA 2005
Excerpt: ... Establish True Basin-Wide Institutions: The Return to the River Basin as the Unit of Management. Professor Chuck Howe Environment & Behavior Program Institute of Behavioral Science University of Colorado-Boulder Resume of Main Points There is a long history of focusing on the river basin as the unit of planning and management. There is also a long history of dividing the river basin up among political jurisdictions. Costs of failing to focus on the river basin are rising sharply. There are win-win steps that can take us in the direction of the river basin . Ref: Howe, The Return to the River Basin ,Jour. Contemporary Water Research & Education, May, 2005. Steps Toward Basin-Wide Cooperation and Management. History of states cooperation in basin-wide institutions: states collaborate when purpose is well-focused. Remote sensing extends potential scope of basin management & allows all parties to monitor withdrawals, storage, etc., increasing trust and enforcement of ag ...
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tutorial-overlayanalysis
Hudson VCC, GEOG 204
Excerpt: ... ndaries CadastralPublands_CONSPUB Conserved public lands Ecologic Information EcologicHabitat_HOTSPOTS Biologically important sites 5. Start ArcMap and use the Add Data icon to add the basin boundaries layer (water_wbd8vt_poly.shp) to your map document (note, you may need to use the Connect to Folder icon in the Add Data dialog menu to connect to your zoo directory for the first time). Right click on the shape file in the table of contents and select Open Attribute Table. Examine the column headers for the list of attributes associated with the river basin s. 1 Uploading point data from text files 1. Navigate to the class website (www.uvm.edu/~bwemple/geog204) and save the two textfiles (precipstations.txt and gagestations.txt) to your zoo directory directory by right clicking on the file names and selecting save link target as . . These files contain records for the precipitation stations used in our regression analysis and for the stream gaging stations monitored by the USGS. Each file contains latitude ...
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Amazon(2008)
University of Texas, CE 397
Excerpt: ... Amazon River CE397 Transboundary Water Resources Spring 2008 Eusebio Ingol Current Situation Amazon River basin has a surface around 6.2 million km2 which is shared by Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Surinam, and Guyana. From this total area, the 58 % is located in the Brazilian part. Amazon River is one of the most important rivers in the world, with an average discharge of 210,000 m3 per second; being the largest in the worlds rivers in terms of the volume, six times that the Congo River. It has more 1,100 tributaries; 17 of them present lengths over 1,000 km such Maranon, Purus, Madeira, Negro, Tapajos, Madre de Dios, Huallaga, between others. The origin of the Amazon River is in the Peruvian Andes. Since its source until mouth in the Atlantic Ocean from Brazil, it has a length of 6500 km. Figure 1 Location of the Amazon river Basin The wide of the main river oscillate from 1.5 km to 10 km in normal periods. However, in rainy season, the width can reach up 40 km with an average depth of 40 m. ...
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Mekong(2008)
University of Texas, CE 397
Excerpt: ... The Mekong River Basin C E 397 Transboundary Water Resources February 26th, 2008 Michele Stewart The Region: The Mekong River is a major river in Southeast Asia. It begins in China, flowing through Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia before finally emptying into the South China Sea. It is the eighth largest river in the world in terms of flow, discharging nearly 475 billion cubic meters per year into the sea. The Mekong River, approximately 4,500 km in length, also holds the position of the longest river in Southeast Asia, as well as that of the 12th longest river in the world. The geographical location of the Mekong River can be seen below, in Figure 1. Figure 1: The Mekong Basin a dna emiTkciuQ rosserpmoced .erutcip siht ees ot dedeen era The river is divided into two distinct sections: the Upper Mekong Basin and the Lower Mekong Basin. The Upper Mekong, approximately 2,000 km in length, begins at the rivers source and transforms into the Lower Mekong just below the point where the river for ...
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L21-Snow
Texas San Antonio, EES 5053
Excerpt: ... resolution MOD10C1 Monthly snow CMG 0.05 resolution MOD10CM Source: Hall, 2004 Level 2, 500-m swath product of California and the western U.S., October 31, 2004 MOD10_L2: MODIS true-color image (left - bands 1, 4, 3) and snow map (right) Source: Hall, 2004 MOD10A1: Daily Tile Snow Map Snow in northern Italy - March 29, 2002 snow cloud MOD09 bands 1,4,3 (Surface Reflectance Product) MOD10A1 (Snow Daily Tile Product) Source: Hall, 2004 Daily snow albedo product (MOD10A1) 500-m resolution Snow albedo swaths - North America Nov. 22, 2003 Nov. 27, 2003 Albedo (%) Klein, 2003 Source: Hall, 2004 MOD10A2: 8-day Composite Tile Snow Map Western North America - April 23, 2002 MOD09 bands 1,4,3 (Surface Reflectance Product) MOD10A2 (Snow 8-Day Tile Product) Source: Hall, 2004 MOD10A1 snow product represents an improvement over the NOHRSC operational snow product in many areas Missouri River basin Columbia River basin From Maurer et al. (2003) Source: Hall, 2004 Upper Rio Grand Bas ...
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ENVS3600.notes.10.29
Western Michigan, ENVS 360
Excerpt: ... Ryan Franchi Lecture Notes 10/29/07 The Kalamazoo River basin is the 6th largest watershed in the lower peninsula of Michigan, and until recently, the Kalamazoo River was one of the most heavily polluted rivers in the nation. Many nearby communities have relied heavily on the Kalamazoo River for industrial purposes since local industrial activity peaked during World War I, although the city of Kalamazoo relies much less on the river than others. Bil Gilbert, a local resident and naturalist, was the first to write about the Kalamazoo river and its state of pollution (date unknown.) 1950s Peak of pollution deposition. 350,000 pounds of pollutants dumped into river per year. 1980s After passing of CERCLA legislation, river runs cleaner than before and has more life, but still a toxic waste dump. -2 solutions to problem: removal of sediments/replacement with clean substrate or remediation of site via biological processes. K-zoo river must have sediment removed. Currently 1,300 national priority sites ...
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