Review of Circulation Studies and Modeling in Casco Bay [2011 Casco Bay Circulation Modeling Workshop Presentation]

Applied Science Associates (ASA) was contracted by the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership (CBEP) to prepare a report reviewing the state of knowledge of circulation in Casco Bay, discussing relevant hydrodynamic modeling approaches and supporting observation programs. A summary of the final report of this study (the present document) was presented at a two day, Casco Bay Circulation Modeling Workshop held on May 18-19, 2011 at the Eastland Park Hotel, Portland, Maine. At the conclusion of the workshop a brief consensus summary was prepared and provided in this report

Population dynamical behavior of non-autonomous Lotka-Volterra competitive system with random perturbation

In this paper, we consider a non-autonomous stochastic Lotka-Volterra competitive system dxi(t) = xi(t)[(bi(t)¡ nPj=1aij (t)xj (t))dt+¾i(t)dBi(t)], where Bi(t) (i = 1; 2; ¢ ¢ ¢ ; n) are independent standard Brownian motions. Some dynamical properties are discussed and the su±cient conditions for the existence of global positive solutions, stochastic permanence, extinction as well as global attractivity are obtained. In addition, the limit of the average in time of the sample paths of solutions is estimated

EBEC Phase II Wind Energy Project Feasibility Study: ASA Project 10-060, Final Report

Subsequent to the Phase I preliminary wind energy feasibility and siting study EBEC contracted again with ASA to perform a Phase II study with the scope of performing a detailed feasibility study of developing a project at the Tiverton site. The detailed study, presented herein, evaluated the project size and layout options, siting considerations, procurement and development considerations, ownership structures, financing opportunities, and legislation considerations. The results are presented as four different options for EBEC to act as owner, developer and operator, evaluating the associated development cost and potential revenue streams as well as a third party developer owned and operated project and the associated assumed project description and revenue stream