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Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling – Ur-30 Site Evaluation Summary Report., Pioneer Technical Services, Inc. May 2023

Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling – Ur-30 Site Evaluation Summary Report., Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Assessing Equity Of Green Infrastructure Strategies To Address Heat Vulnerability In Los Angeles Sustainable City Planning, Sophia N. La Herran May 2023

Assessing Equity Of Green Infrastructure Strategies To Address Heat Vulnerability In Los Angeles Sustainable City Planning, Sophia N. La Herran

Master's Projects and Capstones

Urbanization has brought about many undesirable environmental changes, with extreme heat and urban heat island (UHI) effect being some of the most significant. In addition to the challenge of UHI effect and increase of extreme heat events, heat also disproportionately affects different types of urban populations with higher populations of minority and low-income residents, who are more exposed and have limited capacity to adapt to extreme. The increased vulnerability to heat faced by socially vulnerable communities can be linked to the inequalities in neighborhood level exposure to extreme heat events, underlying health conditions, workplace conditions, housing quality, and other lasting …


Desalination: Adapting To A Changing Climate And An Increasing Demand For Freshwater, Rebecca A. Acosta May 2023

Desalination: Adapting To A Changing Climate And An Increasing Demand For Freshwater, Rebecca A. Acosta

Master's Projects and Capstones

The state of California is just one place in the world that is experiencing an increasing demand for freshwater while also experiencing increasingly hotter conditions and longer periods of drought. There are a number of plants slated for development in the state of California but have been met with resistance from the public with concerns regarding their impacts to the surrounding marine environments. This paper provides background on desalination plants, provides evidence for a potential indicator species, identifies potential impacts to marine environments, and addresses stakeholder concerns and perceptions around desalination plants.


Climate Change Impacts To Oil Spill Risk And Assessing California's Preparedness, Adeline L. Ford May 2023

Climate Change Impacts To Oil Spill Risk And Assessing California's Preparedness, Adeline L. Ford

Master's Projects and Capstones

This report investigates the possibility that climate change could increase the risk of oil spills in California. The primary climate change impact reviewed is the increasing severity of storms and extreme weather events. Natural disasters can be the initiating cause of technological accidents and the increasing severity or frequency of intense storms may increase the likelihood of an oil spill from refineries, extraction/drilling rigs, or oil in transport. A literature review of climate adaptation strategies and storm intensity predictions was completed to determine if severe storm events are expected to increase in intensity or frequency. A review of oil spill …


Clean Energy At The Crossroads Of America: An Integrated Resource Plan For Northern Indiana Public Service Company, Llc (Nipsco), Saad Z. Khan, Shend Boshnjaku May 2023

Clean Energy At The Crossroads Of America: An Integrated Resource Plan For Northern Indiana Public Service Company, Llc (Nipsco), Saad Z. Khan, Shend Boshnjaku

Master's Projects and Capstones

This paper outlines an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for the Indiana electric utility company, NIPSCO, looking forward to the year 2050 and evaluating different pathways to net zero emissions from the power generation sector. It is a plan for the future, identifying the most cost-effective and reliable mix of resources to meet the energy needs of NIPSCO's customers and reaching decarbonization goals by mid-century.


Community Microgrids As An Equitable Climate Resilience And Adaptation Strategy In California, Savanna Olivia Smith May 2023

Community Microgrids As An Equitable Climate Resilience And Adaptation Strategy In California, Savanna Olivia Smith

Master's Projects and Capstones

Climate change summons more extreme and frequent weather events that threaten communities’ access to power. Without power, businesses lose revenue, essential services are limited, people are exposed to extreme temperatures, and lives are lost. California has adopted microgrids as a solution to costly power outages, electrification needs, and renewable energy goals. This work evaluates the adoption of microgrids as an equitable climate resilience and adaptation strategy through a geospatial analysis of California’s resilience investment needs, a case study analysis of 9 existing tribal and rural microgrids, and a gap analysis of California and federal policies and incentive programs. Programs like …


Offshore Wind Energy And Seabird Collision Vulnerability In California, Whitney Grover May 2023

Offshore Wind Energy And Seabird Collision Vulnerability In California, Whitney Grover

Master's Projects and Capstones

California has ambitious clean energy goals designed to help mitigate the worst outcomes of climate change. Offshore wind is an important part of the solution to meet California’s clean energy goals, but has potential negative impacts on the marine environment. As offshore wind energy is new to California, this paper reviews and synthesizes existing literature from other parts of the world, looking at the real and theoretical risk of seabird collision with offshore wind turbines. Learnings from existing offshore wind projects in the U.K. as well as theoretical and modeled risk assessments are applied to California’s plans to determine the …


Composite Climate Risk Exposure In High-Emitting California Industries, Nicholas M. Graves May 2023

Composite Climate Risk Exposure In High-Emitting California Industries, Nicholas M. Graves

Master's Projects and Capstones

The correlation of anthropogenic carbon emissions and changes in the global climate system is unequivocal. Governments are enacting policy from the local, state, federal, and international levels that present major transition risks for businesses. In parallel, legacy emissions are already causing discernible changes in the climate system via increased frequencies of drought, wildfire, flooding, and extreme heat; these changes present material physical risks to existing business infrastructure. Taken together, these risks form the foundation of proposed regulations for climate risk disclosure by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Existing literature has not provided an at-scale screening methodology for climate …


Considerations For The Use Of Mycorrhizal Fungi Inoculants In Coal Mine Reclamation And Reforestation In Appalachia: A Guide Of Best Practices And Management Recommendations, Cole Hansen Reistrup May 2023

Considerations For The Use Of Mycorrhizal Fungi Inoculants In Coal Mine Reclamation And Reforestation In Appalachia: A Guide Of Best Practices And Management Recommendations, Cole Hansen Reistrup

Master's Projects and Capstones

Nearly all terrestrial plants form symbiotic relationships with mycorrhizal fungi. These beneficial soil microbes support plant health by increasing plants’ access to nutrients and water, protecting them from pathogens, improving soil properties, and more. A challenge to restoring forests on coal mined land in Appalachia is that mine soils are often degraded in a number of ways, including lacking mycorrhizal fungi, which makes mine soils difficult for trees to grow upon. Substantial improvements to coal mine reforestation success have been made since the development of the Forestry Reclamation Approach in 2005 that provides guidelines for how to create a suitable …


Sustainability Analysis: Large-Scale Desalination Implications For Coastal California, Elizabeth H. Whitford May 2023

Sustainability Analysis: Large-Scale Desalination Implications For Coastal California, Elizabeth H. Whitford

Master's Projects and Capstones

In response to prolonged drought, desalination is gaining popularity as an alternative water production method for fresh water. However, water desalting technology poses concerns; the process is energy intensive, creates brine waste, and has the potential to damage sensitive coastal ecosystems. Significant research is available on the technological, economic, and energy efficiency aspects of desalination, while only a small percentage of the current literature focuses on environmental impacts. This research analyzes the desalination literature holistically in terms of both energy consumption and environmental impacts by conducting 1) a historical and current state review of the sector, 2) a technology analysis …


Stormwater To Groundwater: How California Can Increase Groundwater Storage And Build Climate Resilience., Emily M. Perales May 2023

Stormwater To Groundwater: How California Can Increase Groundwater Storage And Build Climate Resilience., Emily M. Perales

Master's Projects and Capstones

California is predicted to have more intense and frequent changes in weather patterns within the next 50 years. Historical and current groundwater use for residential and agricultural use is unsustainable and is creating significant deficits in groundwater aquifers throughout the state. To better adapt to potential damages caused by atmospheric rivers, better stormwater management and capture could increase California’s Climate adaptability. This study is focused on the means and methods to capture stormwater and increase groundwater recharge. Nature-based infrastructure (NBI), or Green Infrastructure (GI), has been used in urban areas throughout the country to mitigate harmful stormwater effects by replicating …


Increasing Access And Sustainability For Camping Along The Bay Area Ridge Trail, Hannah F. Bartee May 2023

Increasing Access And Sustainability For Camping Along The Bay Area Ridge Trail, Hannah F. Bartee

Master's Projects and Capstones

The Bay Area Ridge Trail (Ridge Trail) is a long-distance, multi-use trail that connects parks and open space on the ridge lines encircling the San Francisco Bay (Bay). Like the Pacific Crest Trail and Appalachian Trail, the Ridge Trail offers continuous travel through protected natural areas, but this trail is unique as it is located in a densely populated metropolitan area. The trail is currently incomplete, with gaps where the trail does not connect. The Ridge Trail also lacks the number and distribution of overnight accommodations needed to support a full circumnavigation of the Bay. Addressing gaps in the current …


Fair Signposting Profile, Herbert Van De Sompel, Martin Klein, Shawn Jones, Michael L. Nelson, Simeon Warner, Anusuriya Devaraju, Robert Huber, Wilko Steinhoff, Vyacheslav Tykhonov, Luc Boruta, Enno Meijers, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Mark Wilkonson May 2023

Fair Signposting Profile, Herbert Van De Sompel, Martin Klein, Shawn Jones, Michael L. Nelson, Simeon Warner, Anusuriya Devaraju, Robert Huber, Wilko Steinhoff, Vyacheslav Tykhonov, Luc Boruta, Enno Meijers, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Mark Wilkonson

Computer Science Faculty Publications

[First paragraph] This page details concrete recipes that platforms that host research outputs (e.g. data repositories, institutional repositories, publisher platforms, etc.) can follow to implement Signposting, a lightweight yet powerful approach to increase the FAIRness of scholarly objects.


Understanding Neutrophil Dynamics During Covid-19 Infection, Quiyana M. Murphy May 2023

Understanding Neutrophil Dynamics During Covid-19 Infection, Quiyana M. Murphy

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


An Ode Model For Investigating The Sleep-Pain Relationship In Sickle Cell Disease, Quindel Jones, Angela M. Reynolds, Cecelia Valrie, Reginald Mcgee, Rebecca Segal May 2023

An Ode Model For Investigating The Sleep-Pain Relationship In Sickle Cell Disease, Quindel Jones, Angela M. Reynolds, Cecelia Valrie, Reginald Mcgee, Rebecca Segal

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


Stochastic Gradient Descent Method For A Parameter Identification Problem In Elasticity Imaging, Basca Jadamba May 2023

Stochastic Gradient Descent Method For A Parameter Identification Problem In Elasticity Imaging, Basca Jadamba

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


Mathematical Modeling Of Immune Response To Sars-Cov-2, Hwayeon Ryu May 2023

Mathematical Modeling Of Immune Response To Sars-Cov-2, Hwayeon Ryu

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


The Mandelbrot Set For Networks, Templates And Mutated Systems, Anca R. Radulescu May 2023

The Mandelbrot Set For Networks, Templates And Mutated Systems, Anca R. Radulescu

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


Appearance Of Multistability And Hydra Effect In A Discrete-Time Epidemic Model With Ricker Growth, Laura F. Strube, Shoshana Elgart, Lauren Childs May 2023

Appearance Of Multistability And Hydra Effect In A Discrete-Time Epidemic Model With Ricker Growth, Laura F. Strube, Shoshana Elgart, Lauren Childs

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


Intermittent Synchronization In Gamma-Band Neural Oscillations, Anh Nguyen, Leonid L. Rubchinsky May 2023

Intermittent Synchronization In Gamma-Band Neural Oscillations, Anh Nguyen, Leonid L. Rubchinsky

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


Evaluating A Temperature-Dependent Mosquito Population Model, Morgan H. Jackson, Elizabet Estallo, Cheng Ly, Michael Robert May 2023

Evaluating A Temperature-Dependent Mosquito Population Model, Morgan H. Jackson, Elizabet Estallo, Cheng Ly, Michael Robert

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


Coffee Break, Coffee May 2023

Coffee Break, Coffee

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


Modelling The Ability Of Mass Drug Administration To Interrupt Soil-Transmitted Helminth Transmission: Community-Based Deworming In Kenya As A Case Study, Stacey Smith? May 2023

Modelling The Ability Of Mass Drug Administration To Interrupt Soil-Transmitted Helminth Transmission: Community-Based Deworming In Kenya As A Case Study, Stacey Smith?

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


Lunch Provided, Lunch May 2023

Lunch Provided, Lunch

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


Analytical Approach For Monitoring The Behavior Of Patients With Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma At Different Stages As A Function Of Time, Aditya Chakaborty Dr, Chris P. Tsokos Dr May 2023

Analytical Approach For Monitoring The Behavior Of Patients With Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma At Different Stages As A Function Of Time, Aditya Chakaborty Dr, Chris P. Tsokos Dr

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


A Novel Family Of Chain Binomial Models To Investigate Correlated Vaccination And Infection Rates In Sveirs Epidemic Dynamics, Divine Wanduku May 2023

A Novel Family Of Chain Binomial Models To Investigate Correlated Vaccination And Infection Rates In Sveirs Epidemic Dynamics, Divine Wanduku

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


Studying The Effect Of Western Diet On Atherosclerosis Risk Factors, Eric L. Scott May 2023

Studying The Effect Of Western Diet On Atherosclerosis Risk Factors, Eric L. Scott

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


Modeling The Immune Response To Immunotherapy And Triple Negative Breast Cancer In Mice, Dayton J. Syme, Angelica Davenport, Yun Lu, Anna G. Sorace, Nicholas G. Cogan May 2023

Modeling The Immune Response To Immunotherapy And Triple Negative Breast Cancer In Mice, Dayton J. Syme, Angelica Davenport, Yun Lu, Anna G. Sorace, Nicholas G. Cogan

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


Parameter Estimation For Covid-19 Svird Model Using Predictor-Corrector Algorithm, Alejandra D. Herrera Reyes, Susan Rogowski, Diana White, Alexandra B. Smirnova, Ruiyan Luo, Yena Kim May 2023

Parameter Estimation For Covid-19 Svird Model Using Predictor-Corrector Algorithm, Alejandra D. Herrera Reyes, Susan Rogowski, Diana White, Alexandra B. Smirnova, Ruiyan Luo, Yena Kim

Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

No abstract provided.


4d Flow Pattern Of The Longest Cave In The Eastern Alps (Schönberg-Höhlensystem, Totes Gebirge), Lukas Plan, Eva Kaminsky, Pauline Oberender, Clemens Tenreiter, Maximilian Wimmer May 2023

4d Flow Pattern Of The Longest Cave In The Eastern Alps (Schönberg-Höhlensystem, Totes Gebirge), Lukas Plan, Eva Kaminsky, Pauline Oberender, Clemens Tenreiter, Maximilian Wimmer

International Journal of Speleology

The Schönberg-Höhlensystem (SBH) is not only the longest cave system in the Eastern Alps (length 156 km, depth 1061 m), but a significant proportion of the passages have developed on or just below two surfaces that dip 1.7° to the NE. These so-called "speleogenetic phases" are rarely developed in caves of the Northern Calcareous Alps and have not yet been confirmed by detailed morphological mapping. Furthermore, the deep parts of the cave offer the possibility to study the active epiphreatic zone for a distance of 1.6 km. Detailed morphological mapping shows that the main level at about 1500 m a.s.l. …