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Assessing the Impact of Changing Climate on Agriculture in Missouri and the use of Crop Insurance as Adaptation Strategy (1980-2010)
(2015)
Climate change and climate variability affect all sectors of the environment, but agriculture is the most impacted because food production is highly sensitive to weather. The impact of changing climate is evident in the increase in extreme events...
Multiscale Study of the Interactions between Climate, Land Use, and Agricultural Productivity in Western Sahel: A Case Study of Chad
(2014-09-30)
coordinates of that area are: North 14.403, West 10.815, East 24.219, and South 7.328. Agricultural productivity country summary data for Chad was obtained from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Other data sets, including...
Scientific Evidence on the Environmental and Health Effects of Land Application of Biosolids
(2015-08-12)
The study is an objective evaluation of the controversy on whether the practice
of land application of biosolids for soil enrichment and restoration poses significant harm
to the environment, human and animal health. ...
Characterizing Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Urban Runoff Potential Using the HEC-GeoHMS Model
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
on the Missouri side. Because of Urbanization, agricultural and forested areas within the watershed are decreasing, causing increasing rates of potential runoff. Researching runoff rates caused by LULC has not been thoroughly conducted on the Blue River and its...
New applications of STEPL watershed modeling of CAFO feedlot runoff and implications of surface water impacts
(2015-07-27)
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) cattle feedlot runoff is hydrologically modeled using the Spreadsheet Tool for Estimating Pollutants Load (STEPL). STEPL estimates the annual nutrient load of nitrogen and ...
Effect of Earthquake and Human Migration on Land Cover and Mass Wasting from The 2010 Haiti Earthquake
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
landslide events and how they were affected by human migration in Haiti. The result shows that the mass wasting events increased yearly. In conclusion, there was no obvious change in forested land after the earthquake while agriculture, and grass land showed...
Biomass Burning and Its Relationship with Water Cycle Dynamics of the Chari-Logone Catchment of Lake Chad Basin
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
The present study investigates the effect of biomass burning on the water cycle dynamics of the Chari-Logone catchment, which is the primary water source of Lake Chad, in central sub-Saharn Africa, providing approximately ...
A Comparison Study of Grace-Based Groundwater Modeling for Data-Rich and Data-Scarce Regions
(2014-09-30)
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) modeling in water resources is
an emerging field in hydrology. Investigation of groundwater change using remote sensing
data helps overcome data limitation at a regional ...
Paleolimnological Analysis of Sediment Cores from Guana Island Pond, Guana Island, The British Virgin Islands
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Shallow sediment cores extracted from three locations in Guana Island Pond were
analyzed using multiple paleolimnological techniques, including sediment description, grain
size analyses, X-Ray Fluorescence, elemental ...