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Application of Oxygen to Treat Waste from Military Field Installations: An Evaluation of an Activated Sludge Process Employing Downflow Bubble Contact Aeration
U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, Preventive Medical Research Branch Contract DADA 17-72-C-2154Center for Water and the Environmen
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Establishment of Operational Guidelines for Texas Coastal Zone Management: Final Report on Water Needs and Residual Management
National Science Foundation Research Applied to National Needs Program Grant No. GI-34870X, Office of the Governor of Texas Division of Planning Coordination Interagency Cooperation Contract No. IAC (74-75)-0685Center for Water and the Environmen
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Uptake and Utilization of Amino Acids During Anaerobic Digestion
U.S. Public Health Service Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control Grant WP-00083-03Center for Water and the Environmen
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Special Report II: A Non-Linear Programming Model for Evaluating Water Supply Policies in the Texas Coastal Zone
National Science Foundation Research Applied to National Needs Program Grant No. GI-44363, Office of the Governor of Texas Division of Planning Coordination Interagency Cooperation Contract No. IAC (74-75)-1001Center for Water and the Environmen
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Design Guides for Biological Wastewater Treatment Processes: Performance of Biological Treatment Processes
Federal Water Quality Administration Grant No. WPRD 178-01-68Center for Water and the Environmen
The RESET project: constructing a European tephra lattice for refined synchronisation of environmental and archaeological events during the last c. 100 ka
This paper introduces the aims and scope of the RESET project (. RESponse of humans to abrupt Environmental Transitions), a programme of research funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (UK) between 2008 and 2013; it also provides the context and rationale for papers included in a special volume of Quaternary Science Reviews that report some of the project's findings. RESET examined the chronological and correlation methods employed to establish causal links between the timing of abrupt environmental transitions (AETs) on the one hand, and of human dispersal and development on the other, with a focus on the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic periods. The period of interest is the Last Glacial cycle and the early Holocene (c. 100-8 ka), during which time a number of pronounced AETs occurred. A long-running topic of debate is the degree to which human history in Europe and the Mediterranean region during the Palaeolithic was shaped by these AETs, but this has proved difficult to assess because of poor dating control. In an attempt to move the science forward, RESET examined the potential that tephra isochrons, and in particular non-visible ash layers (cryptotephras), might offer for synchronising palaeo-records with a greater degree of finesse. New tephrostratigraphical data generated by the project augment previously-established tephra frameworks for the region, and underpin a more evolved tephra 'lattice' that links palaeo-records between Greenland, the European mainland, sub-marine sequences in the Mediterranean and North Africa. The paper also outlines the significance of other contributions to this special volume: collectively, these illustrate how the lattice was constructed, how it links with cognate tephra research in Europe and elsewhere, and how the evidence of tephra isochrons is beginning to challenge long-held views about the impacts of environmental change on humans during the Palaeolithic. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.RESET was funded through Consortium Grants awarded by the Natural Environment Research Council, UK, to a collaborating team drawn from four institutions: Royal Holloway University of London (grant reference NE/E015905/1), the Natural History Museum, London (NE/E015913/1), Oxford University (NE/E015670/1) and the University of Southampton, including the National Oceanography Centre (NE/01531X/1). The authors also wish to record their deep gratitude to four members of the scientific community who formed a consultative advisory panel during the lifetime of the RESET project: Professor Barbara Wohlfarth (Stockholm University), Professor Jørgen Peder Steffensen (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen), Dr. Martin Street (Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Neuwied) and Professor Clive Oppenheimer (Cambridge University). They provided excellent advice at key stages of the work, which we greatly valued. We also thank Jenny Kynaston (Geography Department, Royal Holloway) for construction of several of the figures in this paper, and Debbie Barrett (Elsevier) and Colin Murray Wallace (Editor-in-Chief, QSR) for their considerable assistance in the production of this special volume.Peer Reviewe
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Inventory of Waste Sources in the Coastal Zone
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Application of Oxygen to Treat Waste from Military Field Installations
U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, Preventive Medical Research Branch Contract DADA 17-72-C-2154Center for Water and the Environmen
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Performance of the Contact Stabilization Process
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration Demonstration Grant No. WPRD 178-01-68Center for Water and the Environmen
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The Ultrahigh Rate In-Depth Multilayered Filtration of Raw Municipal Wastewater
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration Grant 5T2-WP-183-03Center for Water and the Environmen
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