A groundbreaking, high-tech research project could not only save the watershed of the C.C. Cragin Reservoir â but boost the odds forest restoration projects can save forested communities like Payson and Show Low from the next megafire.
The $198,000 project involves use of remote-sensing LiDAR systems to figure out how many trees of what types and sizes timber companies can harvest to restore a healthy forest. Moreover, the tool can help answer a host of questions from watershed yields to the mysterious movements of Mexican spotted owls.
âThere are almost endless applications of how we can use this data to inform our understanding of forest structure, wildlife, watersheds, wildfires â you name it,â said lead researcher Elvy Barton, who is both a researcher for Salt River Project and an adjunct faculty member at Northern Arizona Universityâs Ecological Research Institute.
Waverider Buoy Research Project to Measure How Extreme Storms & Wave Heights will Impact the Coast
22nd December 2020
The wave buoy is deployed in Brandon Bay on the 1, December 2020
A research project led by coastal and ocean scientists in NUI Galway and the Marine Institute involves the deployment of a combination of smart buoys and time-lapse imaging to measure storm impacts and support the development of coastal flood and erosion defences.
The project, Brandon Bay on the Dingle Peninsula, Co Kerry, involves:
A new waverider buoy provided by Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland to measure wave height, wave direction, wave period, surface currents, and water temperature as well as storm impact
Mon, 21 Dec, 2020 - 07:00 It s a new game now : Cork infectious disease expert very supportive of UK to Ireland travel ban
The Government has imposed a 48-hour ban on travel from Britain to Ireland, which came into effect at midnight. File photo.
Amy Nolan & Cate McCurry
A Cork expert in infectious diseases has said he is “relieved” at and “very supportive” of the Government’s decision to temporarily ban travel from Britain to Ireland following fears over the spread of a new strain of Covid-19.
The Government has imposed a 48-hour ban on travel from Britain to Ireland, which came into effect at midnight.
Solution to Europe s Broken Rivers Identified in Research Involving UCC
17th December 2020
An EU project involving University College Cork (UCC) team of researchers has identified thousands of large dams and a myriad of weirs, culverts, fords, sluices and ramps
Credit: Amber International
Europe has some of the most fragmented rivers in the world with at least 1.2 million instream barriers, according to a newly published study.
An EU project involving University College Cork (UCC) team of researchers has identified thousands of large dams and a myriad of weirs, culverts, fords, sluices and ramps as the main culprit of fragmentation .
It calculates that there are at least 0.74 barriers per kilometre of stream in Europe, and has recorded same in what it describes as the first comprehensive pan- European barrier inventory .
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Spend time in any of the world s great forests and you ll start seeing the trees as immense pillars holding the heavens aloft while firmly anchored in the earth. It s as much fact as sentiment. Trees really do link the ground to the sky by exchanging energy and matter between the soil and the atmosphere. Researchers believe that understanding this connection could provide both a wealth of scientific insight into ecosystems and practical applications that address challenges such as water resource conservation and management.
A recent study led by UC Santa Barbara s Marc Mayes investigates how patterns in tree water loss to the atmosphere, tracked with satellite imagery, relates to groundwater supplies. The results validate at landscape-wide scales ideas that scientists have proposed based on decades of research in labs and greenhouses. What s more, the techniques lend themselves to an accurate, efficient way of monitoring groundwater resources over large areas. The findings