Environmental Impact Statements Need To Be Made Easier To Decipher
...g professor, and Mona Prabhu, a graduatestudent in landscape architecture, wrote that "not only did the EISmaterials fail to communicate an adequate level of understanding to thestudents as a whole, they also failed to communicate an adequate understandingto the very best readers." As a follow-up study, as ye...Penn State Wetlands Project Seeks Scientific Evaluation Criteria
... C. Andrew Cole, affiliate assistant professor of landscape architecture, designed to discover how wetlands function, including how wetlands change over time and how human disturbances affect their natural progression. "You always need more information to improve on the designs of the future," Brooks sa...A Phoenix From A Ring Of Fire Is A Pattern For The Recovery Of Mount St. Helens
... again. "But gradually, as we saw at Krakatau, the landscape stabilizes, more and more plants grow, and they stabilize the surface and hold back the water. Then it feeds on itself, and revegetation continues." The parallels between the two volcanoes might seem to be affected by their different g...Roadsides Benefit From Waste, UF Researchers Say
...atic improvement in turf growth," Miller said. DOT landscape architect Gary Henry said roadside vegetation is necessary because it ensures the structural integrity of the roadbed by preventing soil erosion and keeping asphalt from crumbling. He said the news that roadside composting looks promising is welcome....Purdue Study Finds Prehistoric Couch Potato
...saurs may have had more abundant food sources or a landscape that favored ambushing, factors that could have reduced the pressure to become more active. "Whatever the reason, the fact that they eventually did catch up with the northern dinosaurs suggests that there was an optimal level of respiratory efficienc...10,000-Year-Old Clues Suggest Future Forest Changes
...ave other implications for the forest industry and landscape as more drought-resistant Douglas fir trees beginto replace western red cedar and hemlock. "We are likely to have more forest fires of increased severity. Cedar is especially susceptible to fire and drought. In fact there is evidence to show cedar is...Biologist Experiments With His Own Front Yard
...ed with no apology. They are part of the "natural" landscape in Arizona, he explains, and the termites they attract are truly fascinating social animals. Beyond the possibilities for science, Alcock also has deeper reasons for making his yard the way itis. "The idea that urban environments are load...Urban Residents Rebut Argument That Tree Removal Enhances Safety
... in them," said William C. Sullivan, a professorof landscape architecture in the U. of I. department of natural...ment Research Laboratory, and Magdalena Bacaicoa,a landscape architect now working in France. The researchers also interviewed police and housing administrators...Will Global Change Increase Fire Activity In The Mediterranean Basin?
...M, Paterna Spain, will argue, based on his studyof landscape pattern using a GIS, that land use changes, in particular cropabandonment -resulting in a greater landscape homogeneity- and the introductionof flammable species such as the pine, have contributed to increase...Liquid Crystals Light Up Simple Chemical Test
... an inch-squareglass plate, creating a microscopic landscape of gentle, parallel hillsand valleys. Within that landscape they placed a field of molecular receptors witha particular affinity for the target antibodies. Now ...Invasive Weeds Pose Major Threat To American Landscape
... the march of non-nativeplants across the American landscape is so pervasive that the unique differencesof regional plant communities are blurring. Their report, "Invasive Plants:Changing the Landscape of America," is a systematic attempt, involving 17partner agencies, to define the seriousness of the problem....Health Effects Of Consuming Alcohol, Dairy Foods, And Iron-Fortified Products ToBe Debated
...l provide an industryperspective of the regulatory landscape and economic effects of getting a healthclaim approved by the FDA, followed by a discussion of the National DairyCouncil's potential pursuit of a health claim for dairy foods. Iron deficiency anemia is the most prevalent nutritional disorder...Potential Solutions For Gulf of Mexico's "Dead Zone" Explored
...7;Ecotechnology establishes some degree of natural landscape betweenhuman activity and waterways,” Mitsch said. Riparian zones, belts ofvegetation next to a waterway, and wetlands both serve as filtering systems.Each essentially “cleans” runoff water of fertilizer by-products. Hypoxia happens w...Montana And Other Scientists Report On Life In The Ice
...c DryValleys. It's a desiccated, rocky, desertlike landscape that looks like thesurface of Mars except not as red. The air temperature is about that of atypical freezer. "When [British explorer R.F.] Scott came walking down these valleys I'msure he never thought there was something alive," Priscu said....As The City Goes, So Goes The World: Symposium At ESA Meeting To Examine The Ecology Of Cities
...rganize resources, conditions, andspecies over the landscape with far-reaching impacts on the ecological processesof natural areas surrounded by a city or suburb. Specifically, she will addressthe connection between abundant deer food in suburban residential areas and thedestruction of adjacent forests by flo...USGS To Present Diverse Research At ESA Annual Meeting
...ion that is fine-tuned to veryspecific habitat and landscape considerations. ("Effects of Haying Conservation... try to resolve some questions about theeffects of landscape alterations on vole populations. Hypotheses about theeffects of habitat fragmentation on population ...Putting A Price Tag On Pollution
...e software will be able todraw on regional soiland landscape information gathered by space satellites, Ghanem says. If a siteis already tainted bypollutants, his methods will help the land owner and public officials predictwhere and howquickly the contamination will move if it is not cleaned up. Ghanem b...ASU Professor Helps In Fight To Protect Japanese Pika Habitat
... on the tunnel that he says will shredthe pristine landscape and destroy a diverse ecosystem. In doing so, thegrassroots movement hopes to establish stricter laws in protectingwilderness areas and specify the pika as a natural monument. Although Mt. Daisetsu was designated as a national park in 1934 the Japane...Did Fur Trappers Trigger Landscape Changes?
...ther research isneeded, but Brushsays, "This whole landscape could have been quite different under the influenceof the beaverpopulation." To explore this and other hypotheses, Brush and her students are collectingsedimentsamples by driving an auger into the earth in places where moisture is likely tohave ......s H31E, H32C Recent research has demonstrated that landscape changes and vegetation dynamics have an influence on weather and climate that is at least as significant as what would be caused by a doubling of greenhouse gases. Dr. Roger Pielke of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and his panel will re...