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Predicting Water Quality Improvements Resulting From Alternative Hydraulic Management Strategies in a Canal System Using HEC-RAS 4.1.0
Get PDFThe Butternut Feeder Canal (BFC) is an underutilized, low-gradient, 3200-m long subsection of the Old Erie Canal. It is characterized by shallow, subcritical flow and significant stormwater inputs. Aesthetic water quality problems during summer periods adversely affect recreational use. Increased flow and specific conductivity, with commensurate decrease in water temperature, indicate BFC is gaining groundwater in some sections. A HEC-RAS model was developed to assess alternative strategies to divert water into the BFC from its original freshwater source to improve water quality. While flushing the BFC with fresh water would temporarily improve aesthetic water quality during the low flow period, adverse environmental impacts on the naturalized habitat of source water would result from excessive diversion rates
Beyond the Screen: How Women\u27s Use of Social Media is Changing the Ideological American Wilderness Landscape
Get PDFAmerican wilderness is a unique and socially constructed landscape. I argue that current wilderness perceptions are perpetuated by tourism, which profits off wilderness as ripe with risk and uncertainty. This in turn creates wilderness as a gendered, masculine space commonly perceived as “authentic wilderness”, but where women are often invisible or seen as ill-suited within. Through surveys and interviews with women active in wilderness recreation and on social media, it was found that women’s use of Facebook, Instagram, and Blogs, increases empowerment and promotes participation in activities through constraints negotiation and contributes to the deconstruction of conventional gender expectations. Women’s only Facebook groups, more specifically, offered safe spaces of support and community for active participants and also those who have not yet participated in wilderness spaces. Social media use actively increases women’s physical and visual presence in wilderness spaces, challenging the assumption that their place is outside of wilderness
New Urbanism as an Urban Design Framework: A Critical Analysis
Get PDFCertain policies and practices have led to the creation of sprawl in American cities. The New Urbanist design framework was created to address the consequences of sprawl and deteriorating cities. This study tests the applicability of the New Urbanist framework as a redevelopment tool in an existing community and describes how the framework interacts with the design process. The investigation uses the New Urbanist principles in the design of Downtown East, a proposed neighborhood in Syracuse, NY. The study reveals that the scale of Downtown East and other factors prevent the breadth of the New Urbanist framework from being fully addressed. However, this limitation does not prevent New Urbanism from contributing to the creation of good community. Also revealed is the importance for the designer to understand and adapt the New Urbanist principles in a conceptual manner rather than adhering to the formulaic nature of the principles
THE URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACCORDS: AN ANALYSIS OF MUNICIPAL SUSTAINABILITY PLANS IN NEW YORK STATE
No full textUrban sustainable development is broadly supported and yet still not achieved, despite more than two decades of attention and advocacy. The City of San Francisco in collaboration with one important international body, the United Nations Environment Programme, has articulated an initiative meant to stimulate sustainable development, called the Urban Environmental Accords (UEA). This thesis explores the UEA’s uptake within New York State, and the ways in which the UEA serves to influence action. My research methods consisted of key informant interviews, questionnaires, and analysis of municipal comprehensive plans. One finding is that varied approaches were used to by case study municipalities to adopt the best practices, and these include: the implementation of goals, policy instruments, factors contributing to and impeding progress, identifying and discussing transferability, and strategies for advancing progress of policy approval and implementation. The research revealed that unique social, political and economic factors played a crucial role in the adoption of the best practices in each of the case studies. This information provides further knowledge to be utilized by municipalities for better creation, adoption, and implementation of sustainable development principles
Currently room 107 Walters
No full textA humidity controlled room in Walters Hall (currently room 107)
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Pulp and Paper mill
No full textThree male students working in the Pulp and Paper mill
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Walters Hall very newly completed, dirt, no grass
No full textA view of a newly completed Walters Hall with no dirt of grass and a Caucasian male walking down the stairs
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John E Unbehend left in labcoat
No full textJohn E Unbehend wearing a lab-coat (on the left) speaking with a group of males in a lab
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Another student using elrepho brightness and opacity tester in lab 209B Walters Hall
No full textA white, male student using a elrepho brightness and opacity tester in lab 209B of Walters Hall
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Paper Science Engineering students completing lab experiments
No full textTwo male Paper Science Engineering students completing a lab experiment
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