Geomorphology of a thermo-erosion gully, Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada1This article is one of a series of papers published in this CJES Special Issue on the theme of Fundamental and applied research on permafrost in Canada.2Polar Continental Shelf Project Contribution 043-11.

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 979-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Etienne Godin ◽  
Daniel Fortier
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Water Flow ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Snow Accumulation ◽  
Main Channel ◽  
Ground Temperature ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Bylot Island ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Length And Area

A thermo-erosion gully has been monitored in the valley of glacier C-79 on Bylot Island since 1999. The main channel of the gully reached 390 m in length a few months after its initiation and grew between 38 and 50 m/year over the following decade, for an overall approximated average of 75 m/year. In 2009, the total gully length and area, including the main and relict channels, were 2500 m and 25 000 m2, respectively. Gullies affect snow accumulation, and therefore ground temperature, local water flow, and drainage. Sinkholes, gully heads, pools, baydzherakhi, tunnels, and collapses were grouped as a function of time since gully formation in that area. Sinkholes and tunnels were formed every year after gully inception, and baydzherakhi were found in 3–10 year old sections of the gully. Stabilization of the gully floor and sides took about a decade.

scholarly journals Managed Aquifer Recharge for Water Resilience

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dillon ◽  
Enrique Fernández Escalante ◽  
Sharon B. Megdal ◽  
Gudrun Massmann
Keyword(s):  
International Association ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Managed Aquifer Recharge ◽  
Aquifer Recharge ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Acceptable Solution ◽  
Local Water

Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is part of the palette of solutions to water shortage, water security, water quality decline, falling water tables, and endangered groundwater-dependent ecosystems. It can be the most economic, most benign, most resilient, and most socially acceptable solution, but frequently has not been implemented due to lack of awareness, inadequate knowledge of aquifers, immature perception of risk, and incomplete policies for integrated water management, including linking MAR with demand management. MAR can achieve much towards solving the myriad local water problems that have collectively been termed “the global water crisis”. This special issue strives to elucidate the effectiveness, benefits, constraints, limitations, and applicability of MAR, together with its scientific advances, to a wide variety of situations that have global relevance. This special issue was initiated by the International Association of Hydrogeologists Commission on Managing Aquifer Recharge to capture and extend from selected papers at the 10th International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge (ISMAR10) held in Madrid, Spain, 20–24 May 2019.

scholarly journals Water Quality of Freshwater Ecosystems in a Temperate Climate

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 2643
Author(s):  
Piotr Klimaszyk ◽  
Ryszard Gołdyn
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Freshwater Ecosystems ◽  
Temperate Climate ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Quality Of Water ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Water Ecosystems ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Water is the substance that made life on Earth possible. It plays a key role in both the individual and population development of all species. Water is also a critical resource for humans as populations continue to grow and climate change affects global and local water cycles. Water is a factor limiting economic development in many regions of the world. Under these conditions, good water quality becomes an extremely important factor that determines its economic utility, including water supply, recreation, and agriculture. Proper water quality maintenance of freshwater ecosystems is also very important for preserving biodiversity. The quality of water depends on many factors, the most important of which are related to human impact on water ecosystems, especially the impact of various pollutants from municipal economy, industry and agriculture. Hydrotechnical changes, such as river damming, drainage processes and water transport between catchments also have a significant impact. Water quality is also dependent on the impact of natural conditions connected, e.g., with climate, catchment, water organisms and their interactions within the food-webs, etc. This Special Issue consists of fourteen original scientific papers concerning different problems associated with the water quality of freshwater ecosystems in a temperate climate. Most of the articles deal with the relations between water quality and the structure of ecosystem biocenoses. The conclusion of these articles confirms the fact that the deterioration of water quality has a direct impact on the quantitative and qualitative structure of biocenoses. This is accompanied by a decline in biodiversity and the disappearance of rare plant and animal species. They also draw attention to the particular importance of internal physical and chemical differentiation within the aquatic ecosystem, both in horizontal and vertical dimensions. The problem of ensuring proper ecological conditions and good quality of water in freshwater aquatic ecosystems is also raised, and methods for the restoration of water bodies are presented. The majority of the research presented in this Special Issue was carried out in Central Europe, and one of the papers concerns the area of West Africa—the edge of temperate climate zone.

scholarly journals Editorial for the Special Issue “Innovative and Applied Research on Platinum-Group and Rare Earth Elements”

Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 493
Author(s):  
Maria Economou-Eliopoulos ◽  
Federica Zaccarini ◽  
Giorgio Garuti
Keyword(s):  
Rare Earth ◽  
Rare Earth Elements ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Mineral Exploration ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Platinum Group

This Special Issue “Innovative and Applied Research on Platinum-group and Rare Earth Elements” is dedicated to the work and memory of Demetrios Eliopoulos, IGME (Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration), Greece who passed away on 19 April 2019 [...]

Hydrological Environment in Subsurface Steep Slope - Groundwater Flow Passageway on Slope Behind Kiyomizudera -

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junko Nakaya ◽  
◽  
Kazunari Sako ◽  
Shunsuke Mitsutani ◽  
Ryoichi Fukagawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Groundwater Flow ◽  
Water Flow ◽  
Slope Failure ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Steep Slope ◽  
Ground Temperature ◽  
Mountain Slope ◽  
Anomalous Temperature ◽  
Hydrological Environment

The hydrological environment must be understood before water flow can be adequately controlled to prevent slope failure without impacting unduly on the hydrological mountain slope environment. We conducted field studies to determine current sites and measurement of ground temperature 1 meter deep to clarify groundwater flow passageways on the slope behind the cultural heritage temple Kiyomizudera in Kyoto. Results showed anomalous temperature 1 meter deep bands on the slope and several springs that are extensions of these bands. Several of these bands coincide with terrain deformations such as gullies and slope failure scars indicating the probability of relationships between groundwater flow and topological deformation.

Applying Transdisciplinary Research Strategies to Understanding and Eliminating Health Disparities

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Basic Science ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Social Inequities

This overview for the special issue of Health Education & Behavior on “Health Disparities and Social Inequities” briefly outlines the transdisciplinary (TD) approach to research and examines the scope of TD science. The need to embrace basic science as well as several domains of applied research is discussed along the TD “pipeline” from discovery to development to delivery to policy. The overview concludes with selected examples of the emerging TD science of disparities. One central challenge for a TD approach is the need to strengthen what is being called “the science of dissemination” along with improving the “dissemination of evidence-based science.”

scholarly journals Buoyancy-driven effects on turbulent diffusivity induced by a river plume in the southern Brazilian shelf

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael André Ávila ◽  
Paulo H. R. Calil
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Vertical Mixing ◽  
River Estuary ◽  
River Plume ◽  
La Plata ◽  
Plume Region ◽  
Freshwater Plumes ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Gradient Ratio

Abstract. Freshwater plumes are important flow structures that influence the dynamics and water properties of coastal regions and continental shelves. Turbulence in plume regions is mainly driven by shear instabilities at the interface between plume and oceanic waters, which, in turn, depend on the geometry and outflow of a specific plume region. The Southern Brazilian Shelf presents a highly variable hydrographic distribution modulated by the seasonal wind variation and the freshwater discharge from the La Plata River estuary, which has a significant impact on the continental shelf circulation. This buoyant plume creates strong density gradients and interacts with local water masses resulting in a complex hydrographic pattern. In this study, high resolution hydrography and microstructure measurements were obtained in order to verify the effect of freshwater stratification on vertical mixing in this highly dynamic continental shelf. Results show that the plume is highly stable at southern portions of the shelf, as density displacements, or Thorpe displacements, δT, heat diffusivity, KT, buoyancy flux, Bf, and density gradient ratio, Rp are reduced when compared to the northern areas. Moreover, hydrographic data suggests that the large-scale La Plata River plume has a dynamic mid-field region due to instabilities generated when reaching the shelf break.

scholarly journals Coastal Vulnerability and Mitigation Strategies: From Monitoring to Applied Research

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 2594
Author(s):  
Pasquale Contestabile ◽  
Diego Vicinanza
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Coastal Vulnerability ◽  
Special Issue

This paper intends to offer the readers an overview of the Special Issue on Coastal Vulnerability and Mitigation Strategies: From Monitoring to Applied Research. The main focus of this Special Issue is to provide the state-of-the-art and the recent research updates on the sustainable management strategies for protecting vulnerable coastal areas. Based on 28 contributions from authors from 17 different countries (Australia, China, Ecuador, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, UK, USA), an ensemble of interdisciplinary articles has been collected, emphasizing the importance of tackling technical and scientific problems at different scales and from different point of views.

scholarly journals Methods of determination of morphological indicators in hydrological calculations in the design of roads and road structures

2021 ◽  
Vol 264 ◽  
pp. 02014
Author(s):  
Barno Salimova ◽  
Abdukhaxxor Tulyaganov ◽  
Raykhan Khakimova ◽  
Pokizakhon Muslimova
Keyword(s):  
Water Flow ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Main Channel ◽  
Methods Of Determination ◽  
Engineering Problems ◽  
Maximum Water ◽  
Basin Area

In solving the engineering problems in the practice of different specialties, in the design of roads and roads, structures, determining the physiographic conditions of the same regional areas: basin area (F), height (Z), average square difference of basin height (s), slope (J), parameters such as the length of the main channel in the basin (L), the width of the maximum water flow in the basin (V) and its depth (h), that is the determination of the calculated values of morphological indicators, performed using a large-scale map. It allows to estimate the amount of physical-geographical and morphological indicators, analyze their interrelationships, reveal the regions' physical-geographical laws, use them in hydrological calculations in the basin, and determine their values, to apply them in solving engineering problems.

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