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Title: A GIS-BASED EXPERT SYSTEM TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF WETLAND CLASSIFICATION
Author: Deng, Jing
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Wetlands play a critical role in our natural environment, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion and flooding, and protecting biodiversity. To better protect wetland systems, a comprehensive knowledge of their spatial distribution is...

Title: A Macro-Level Analysis of Traffic and Pedestrian Safety in Urban Areas
Author: Najaf, Pooya
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, City planning
Description: The main objective of this research is to examine the effect of city-level urban characteristic, such as urban form and trip generation factors, on traffic safety in general and pedestrian safety in particular. For this purpose, the information fo...

Title: An Examination of the Impact of Urbanization on Stream Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
Author: ROUX, ANTHONY
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Ecology, Human ecology--Study and teaching, Entomology
Description: The "Urban Stream Syndrome" is a term that refers to a group of predictable negative impacts to stream ecosystems due to the alteration of the natural hydrologic regime that is associated with urbanization. These negative impacts include increases...

Title: Dissolved Organic Carbon and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon along an Urbanization Gradient in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: Kiker, Taylor
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Hydrology
Description: Streams and rivers are an integral component of the freshwater carbon cycle as they provide the lateral transport of carbon from terrestrial environments to the ocean. Urbanization is one of the fastest growing land uses and it has major impacts o...

Title: Dynamic and Conditionally Activated Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles
Author: Chandler, Morgan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience
Description: Programmed interactions of nucleic acids—including DNA and RNA—orchestrate genetic expression and downstream cellular processes at every level. The structures of nucleic acids rely on their sequences, which include traditional Watson-Crick base pa...

Title: EVALUATING POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS IN URBAN STREAMS BASED ON PRECIPITATION, NETWORK OF STORMWATER BMPs, AND IMPERVIOUS COVER
Author: Venugopal, Manish
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Environmental engineering, Water resources development--Management
Description: The increase in impervious surfaces accompanying urban development in the recent decade has caused an increase in the volume of stormwater runoff and pollutant loads flowing downstream to receiving waters. In response to increased volumes of impai...

Title: Evaluating the Efficacy of Whole-Watershed Stream Restoration: Implications for Groundwater Storage, Water Quality, and Suspended Solids in a Piedmont Urban Forest Watershed
Author: Petitt, Destini
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Hydrology, Geochemistry, Ecology
Description: The quality and quantity of water in degraded watersheds (i.e.: watersheds undergoing changing land-use, urbanization, agricultural use) may be impaired compared to undisturbed forested watersheds. To enhance the ecosystem function of impaired wat...

Title: Evaluating the Role of Rain Garden Soils in Nutrient Processing of Stormwater Runoff in Charlotte, NC
Author: Starnes, Cody
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences
Description: As urbanization increases, Best Management Practices (BMPs) are used to reduce pollutants otherwise released to streams. Rain gardens are a type of BMPs that are vegetated depressions with highly permeable soil to treat urban runoff. These structu...

Title: Finite Element Modeling of A Pier-On-Bank Bridge Scour
Author: Chavan, Vidya Subhash
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Scour is a critical condition change for a bridge hydraulic system, especially during storms and subsequent flooding. Caused by swiftly moving water, scours remove sand and soil, creating holes surrounding a bridge pier compromising the integrity ...

Title: Isotope hydrology and sustainability of High Plains groundwater in northeastern New Mexico
Author: Blumenberg, Victoria
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Water resources development--Management, Hydrology
Description: Observable increases in depth to water in wells throughout the High Plains Aquifer have led to growing concerns regarding the sustainability of groundwater in the High Plains region. Previous studies have pointed to overuse and the presence of pal...

Title: LIMIT THEOREMS FOR RANDOM EXPONENTIAL SUMS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS TO INSURANCE AND THE RANDOM ENERGY MODEL
Author: Erturk, Huseyin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Statistics
Description: In this dissertation, we are mainly concerned with the sum of random exponentials. Here, the random variables are independent and identically distributed. Another distinctive assumption is the number of variables in this sum is a function of the c...

Title: Multi-sensor Remote Sensing for Understanding the Interacting Environmental Disturbances of Forest Fire and Plant Disease
Author: He, Yinan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Forests are increasingly affected by a variety of environmental disturbances, including emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and wildfire, which have caused extensive tree mortality in forest biomass worldwide. Those two types of disturbances may i...

Title: Pre-restoration baseflow dissolved nutrient dynamics in an urban forested headwater system, Charlotte NC
Author: Wickliff, Ella
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Water resources development--Management, Hydrology
Description: Headwaters provide ecosystem services for humans such as clean water, recreational opportunities, nutrient removal, and biodiversity. Baseline stream nutrient and TSS concentrations and loadings are valuable water quality characteristics to quanti...

Title: Principals' Perceptions Of Resource Adequacy For Addressing Childhood Obesity
Author: Floyd, Otis
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Obesity in children
Description: ABSTRACTOTIS HENRY FLOYD. The perceptions of the K-12 principals on resource adequacy for professional development addressing student obesity (Under the direction of DR.RICHARD G. LAMBERT). With the rapid expanse in childhood obesity and the schoo...

Title: Quantification of In-Stream and Riparian Denitrification Potential and Environmental Drivers of Denitrification Following Stream Restoration in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina
Author: Welsh, Molly
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Environmental sciences, Hydrology
Description: Agricultural streams are subject to considerable disturbance including channelization, erosion, and sedimentation. Fertilizer is often applied to agricultural fields in excess of crop demand, and nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) can be transported ...

Title: Relationship between saprolite-hosted groundwater chemistry, baseflow, and weathering depth at Redlair Observatory, a critical zone research site on the North Carolina Piedmont
Author: Horgan, Julianna
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Geology, Hydrology
Description: Crystalline bedrock weathering profiles in the southern Piedmont terrane have thicker soils and gentler slopes than mountainous terranes with their thin soils and steep slopes. The objective of this study was to understand watershed-scale baseflow...

Title: Removal of Metals from Highway Stormwater Runoff Using Enhanced Filtration Media Amendments
Author: Bryan-Scaggs, Kaitlynn
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Environmental sciences, Water resources development--Management
Description: Stormwater runoff can introduce contaminants including heavy metals, chloride, and phosphorus compounds, which can have negative impacts on receiving waters. Stormwater filtration systems can offer successful and cost-effective reduction of stormw...

Title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HYDROLOGIC AND MACROINVERTEBRATE METRICS ALONG AN URBANIZATION GRADIENT IN PIEDMONT HEADWATER STREAMS
Author: Black, Rebecca
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Ecology, Hydrology
Description: Urban streams are characterized by altered hydrographs, increased nutrient concentrations, altered geomorphology, and decreased biodiversity. This study asked how the hydrologic flow regime impacts stream macroinvertebrates in Piedmont headwater s...

Title: Watershed-Scaled Modeling Methodologies for Estimating Highway Stormwater TMDLs
Author: Meng, Zhaochun
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering
Description: Highway networks represent a type of linear land use crossing streams and sensitive water bodies. Stormwater runoff generated from highway surface has long received much attention due to the presence of a variety of contaminants, such as sediments...