Screening of energy efficient technologies for industrial buildings' retrofit

This chapter discusses screening of energy efficient technologies for industrial buildings' retrofit

The application of remote sensing to resource management and environmental quality programs in Kansas

The activities of the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) Program during the period April 1, 1982 through Marsh 31, 1983 are described. The most important work revolved around the Kansas Interagency Task Force on Applied Remote Sensing and its efforts to establish an operational service oriented remote sensing program in Kansas state government. Concomitant with this work was the upgrading of KARS capabilities to process data for state agencies through the vehicle of a low cost digital data processing system. The KARS Program continued to take an active role in irrigation mapping. KARS is now integrating data acquired through analysis of LANDSAT into geographic information systems designed for evaluating groundwater resources. KARS also continues to work at the national level on the national inventory of state natural resources information systems

Applicability of satellite remote sensing for detection and monitoring of coal strip mining activities

The author has identified the following significant results. Large areas covered by orbital photography allows the user to estimate the acreage of strip mining activity from a few frames. Infrared photography both in color and in black and white transparencies was found to be the best suited for this purpose

An annotated list and searchable database of works for trumpet and piano by living american composers

One of the hallmarks of a trumpet player’s performing experience is the thrill of playing solo works for trumpet and piano. Many of the works for solo trumpet and piano regularly performed today have long been considered canonical, and given the history of the trumpet, tend to be European in origin, and representative of past compositional trends and pedagogical approaches. Numerous players seek out works written by newer composers to include on solo recitals and juries. However, this is often a difficult endeavor to undertake, as the majority of existing trumpet repertoire databases and search engines contain older works. The purpose of this project was to create an online, searchable database of compositions written for trumpet and piano by living American composers. The site, www.trumpet-rep.org, was created as a resource for trumpet players of all ages and ability levels, as well as music educators, to serve as a guide for choosing appropriate repertoire. The trumpet-rep database can be searched by composer’s name and gender, composition title, range, and number of movements. Other search categories such as the technical challenges/requirements, additional equipment needed, duration of the work, and links to supplementary information for each work are also provided with the search results. Currently, the database includes more than 90 compositions written by 36 composers. This project is ongoing, and works will continue to be added to the database beyond completion of this document

A Statistical Measure of a Population's Propensity to Engage in Post-Purchase Online Word-of-Mouth

The emergence of online communities has enabled firms to monitor consumer-generated online word-of-mouth (WOM) in real-time by mining publicly available information from the Internet. A prerequisite for harnessing this new ability is the development of appropriate WOM metrics and the identification of relationships between such metrics and consumer behavior. Along these lines this paper introduces a metric of a purchasing population's propensity to rate a product online. Using data from a popular movie website we find that our metric exhibits several relationships that have been previously found to exist between aspects of a product and consumers' propensity to engage in offline WOM about it. Our study, thus, provides positive evidence for the validity of our metric as a proxy of a population's propensity to engage in post-purchase online WOM. Our results also suggest that the antecedents of offline and online WOM exhibit important similarities.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/088342306000000169 in the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org

Decision Support System for Evaluating Rural Water Supply Infrastructure Scenarios

This paper seeks to develop a methodology that will be useful for rural water districts in assessing the future of their water systems infrastructure. In particular, the use of free water simulation software and publicly available data on population, roads, and terrain present rural water systems with the opportunity to analyze their existing distribution system and forecast where problems are likely to occur. This methodology will allow various alternatives (such as consolidation with a neighboring system, or pipe upgrades) to be evaluated and the costs of implementing these alternatives to be explored. Finally, different avenues for funding the associated costs can be summarized and presented to the community, including the steps needed to apply for popular grant and loan programsRural Water, Infrastructure, Simulation, EPANET, Community/Rural/Urban Development, R53, R58,

Water resources assessment of the Cimarron River and evaluation of water quality characteristics at the Maxwell National Wildlife Refuge

During the second week of June 2010, the UNM Masters of Water Resources students, staff, and collaborators studied the Cimarron River watershed from its head waters above Eagle Nest Lake to its confluence with the Canadian River near Taylor Springs, NM, and the Maxwell National Wildlife Refuge(NWR)near Maxwell, NM. The investigation included measuring flows and water quality characteristics at 34 surface water sites in the two study areas. The main objectives of the study were to conduct a river assessment of the Cimarron River and evaluate water quality characteristics and playa lake sediment chemistry at the Maxwell NWR. It is expected that this report will serve as a basis for future research on the hydrology, water quality, and to a lesser extent, the socioeconomic characteristics of the river and its watershed and the Maxwell NWR. The report is divided into two sections, the first section describes the work done on the Cimarron River watershed and the second section describes work done at the Maxwell NWR. The Cimarron River watershed drains 1,032 square miles and is located on the eastern slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northeastern New Mexico, originating in mountains with elevations over 12,000 feet above sea level. The Cimarron River then flows eastward onto the eastern plains of New Mexico, draining into the successively larger Canadian and Arkansas Rivers, which ultimately flow into the Mississippi River. The principal source of water supply in the watershed is surface water, and most is used for agricultural activities consisting of irrigation and livestock watering. Drinking water is supplied almost entirely by ground water except for the communities of Cimarron, Miami and Springer. Raton, located outside of the watershed, also supplements its drinking water supply with surface water from the Cimarron watershed. Six reaches of the Cimarron River and one reach of Rayado Creek were subjected to intensive evaluation using EPAs Environmental Monitoring Assessment Program (EMAP) protocol. Data was collected and analyzed concerning the hydrology, geomorphology, riparian vegetation, human impacts, benthic macroinvertebrates, and water quality. In addition, flow measurements and water quality samples were taken at 24 other locations within the basin. This assessment found generally high quality conditions of the river and riparian environment throughout the Cimarron River. This conclusion was supported by the type and diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates, by channel geomorphic criteria, and by water quality measurements. Electrical conductivity, an indirect measure of salinity, was found to increase as the river flows onto the eastern plains; the source was not identified. The water in the river is hard and is dominated by calcium, magnesium and sulfate ions. It is recognized that this assessment was done near the peak of spring runoff; it is likely that low flow conditions later in the summer will present environmental stresses to the system. Low but measurable concentrations of nitrates were found throughout the watershed with the highest concentrations occurring in samples collected near a residential area and golf course in Cieneguilla Creek near the town of Angel Fire. Recommendations are included for further studies to quantify stream flows and diversions in the watershed to gain a better understanding of water use. Information is also needed on the 7 seasonal concentrations of chemical constituents in the river and its tributaries to understand the impact of development, especially that associated with non-residential vacation homes and potential development of coal bed methane. The water quality in lakes and irrigation ditches at the Maxwell NWR was of generally high quality and dominated by calcium, magnesium and sulfate salts. Salt crust collected on the surface of a dry playa lake contained high concentrations of calcium, magnesium, sodium, and sulfate ions. Slightly elevated selenium concentrations were detected in sediment samples collected from a playa lake at the refuge. However, selenium concentrations in lake water and irrigation ditch samples were less than 1 μg/L.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wr_fmr/1004/thumbnail.jp

Wagon Tracks Volume 35, Issue 1 (November 2020)

Contents 2 On the Cover: Sending Them Off: Kit Carson and the Utes: 1843. by Ron Kil 4 Insights from your President 5 Joanne’s Jottings 7 Trail News, Education and Jr. Wagon Master 8 2021 Symposium by Dr. Michael L. Olsen and Harry C. Myers 13 SFTA Awards and Hall of Fame 16 The Diary of Pedro Ignacio Gallego: Meeting Becknell 25 Preservation Efforts on the Santa Fe Trail by Jere L. Krakow 10 The Story behind the Painting, continued 11 Historical Painting: Taking Your Best Shot by Ruth Friesen 31 Book Review: Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters, compiled by Susan Lee Ward. Reviewed by Ruth Friesen 32 Chapter Reports 33 Membership Form 36 Calenda

Estimating Highway Pavement Damage Costs Attributed to Truck Traffic

Kansas is one of the leaders in meat production in the United States. In the southwest Kansas region, there are more than three hundred feed yards and several of the biggest meat processing plants in the nation. Heavy trucks (e.g., tractor-trailers) have been used primarily for transporting processed meat, meat byproducts, grain, and other related products. With the continuous growth of these industries, there will be more trucks on highways transporting meat and meat-related products in southwest Kansas. These trucks cause noteworthy damage to Kansas highway pavements, which in turn leads to more frequent maintenance actions and ultimately more traffic delays and congestion. The primary objective of this research was to estimate the highway damage costs attributed to the truck traffic associated with the processed meat (beef) and related industries in southwest Kansas. The researchers developed a systematic pavement damage estimation procedure that synthesized several existing methodologies including Highway Economic Requirements System (HERS) and American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) methods. In this research project, the highway section of US 50/400 between Dodge City and Garden City in Kansas was selected and its pavement data were collected for analysis. Outcomes of this research will be beneficial for the selection of cost-effective transportation modes for the meat processing and related industries in southwest Kansas. It will also help government agents to assess highway maintenance needs and to set up maintenance priorities. Meanwhile, the analysis results will be valuable for the determination of reasonable user costs. Based on findings of this research, recommendations on the selection of transportation modes are provided and promising future research tasks are suggested as well. PowerPoint presentation attached below as Related File. Link to Webinar video: http://vimeo.com/3739719