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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"US Army Corps of Engineers"”.
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Predicting marina slip renter trip spending at US Army Corps of Engineers lakes
… (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Park, Recreation and Tourism Resources, 2010
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Leveraging the US Army Corps of Engineers Public-Private Partnerships (P3) Pilot Program to Promote Equitable Outcomes from Local Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Projects
As the negative impacts of a rapidly changing climate continue to exacerbate structural inequities across all sectors and scales, U.S. communities and citizens are increasingly at risk of physical, economic, and environmental harms. Directed federal investment in climate mitigation can reduce …
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Behavior and Flexure Analysis of Balsa Wood Core Sandwich Composites: Experimental, Analytical and Finite Element Approaches
The load-deflection behavior of a US Army Corps of Engineers available sandwich plates in three-point bending with glass phenolic facings and balsa wood core is being investigated under room and elevated temperatures. Test data on bending rigidity, critical interfacial failure (skin-to-core …
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Survey Techniques to Examine Morphological Evolution of Coastal Regions
… to the low-tide water line on the Outer Banks of North Carolina at the US Army Corps of Engineers Field Research Facility in Duck. The 22,500 m2 area of interest was surveyed daily by a walker carrying a GPS-equipped backpack and occasionally with a lidar equipped drone. Surveys of the northern …
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Cross-Institutional Collaboration and Exhibit Making: “On the Gold Mountain: Chinese Mining History and Heritage of Idaho” at the Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology
<p>The Gold Rush, which brought many new immigrant communities to the American West, made a permanent impact on American culture by prompting the development of many Western towns. However, the Chinese immigrant mining population in the Boise, Idaho area has had little museum representation despite …
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Environmental restoration in the Atchafalaya Basin : boundaries and interventions
… This makes it the largest distributary of the Mississippi. In this thesis, I will review the ways in which the Atchafalaya Basin is described as a complex system by the two agencies that are responsible for its management, the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Louisiana Department of …
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Advanced Undersepage Analyses for Levees
The events of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 prompted the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to commission studies to identify the failure mechanisms of levees and I-walls. This involves updating of the current USACE Engineering Manual (EM) 1110-2-1913, "Design and Construction of Levees," which uses …
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A Framework for Assessing Lower-Bound Bearing Capacity of Sandy Coastal Sediments from Remotely Sensed Imagery
… site characterization. Commercial satellite data offers high resolution (~25-200 cm), increased spatial coverage on the order of kilometers, short revisit times leading to high temporal coverage, and allows for data to be analyzed rapidly and remotely without the need for physical site access. …
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Finite element modeling of contaminant transport through confined disposal facilities
The US Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for regular dredging of shipping channels which produces about 300 million yd³ of dredged sediments annually. Many of these sediments have to be contained within confined disposal facilities (CDFs) due to the presence of heavy metals, PCB’s and other …
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Development of a long-term, multimetric structural health monitoring system for a historic steel truss swing bridge
… is ageing, with many bridges approaching the end of their design life. The situation is so dire that the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the nation’s bridges a grade of “C+” in the 2013 edition of their “Report Card on America’s Infrastructure.” In fact, at the end of 2011, nearly a …
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Sediment Transport Analyses and Development of a Hydraulic Computer Model for Desiging a Stable Vegetated Channel at Lost Lake
The erosion and transport of mine tailings containing arsenic is occurring at several locations within the Lost Lake watershed in the vicinity of Nevada City, California. The source of the tailings is the abandoned Lava Cap Mine which is a Superfund Site under the jurisdiction of Region 9 of the …
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Little Buoys, Big Ocean: Observations of Wave-Driven Transport of Buoyant Objects in the Nearshore and Marginal Ice Zone
A variety of objects drift on the ocean surface, including plastics, sea ice, search and rescue targets, oil, and marine organisms. Accurately predicting their trajectories is essentialfor both scientific and operational applications. The processes that drive the transport of these objects, …
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Influence of fire and habitat on the removal of invasive plant seeds by granivores in longleaf pine savannas
Invasions of fire-dependent ecosystems by exotic woody plant species can disrupt fire cycles and alter successional trajectories. Prescribed fire is an important tool for managing such ecosystems, yet the role of top-down processes in mediating fire effects on invasion remain poorly understood. …