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United States Department of Energy Grand Junction Office Report PGJ/F-020(82)
No full textFrom Introduction: "The Grand Canyon Quadrangle (2º), northwestern Arizona (Fig. 1), was evaluated to identify geologic environments and delineate areas that exhibit characteristics favorable for uranium deposits.
2006 Author Recognition Bibliography
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La vie d'Henri V, comte de Chambord, racontée aux ouvriers et aux paysans (Onzième éd. revue, augmentée et ornée d'une belle photographie) / par un enfant du peuple [C.-J. Grand]
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Toward Fiscal Sustainability in the New Economy: A Case Study of Grand Rapids, Michigan
No full textFiscal stress has confronted many American cities during the past six years, as global economic restructuring and reduced inter-governmental transfers undermined traditional revenue sources. Consequently, city governments have scrambled to implement fiscal policies that support core services within the constraints of available resources. The City of Grand Rapids, Michigan is examined as a case study of a Midwestern core city that is in the process of shifting from unsustainable to sustainable fiscal policies. Ultimately, the author concludes, the City should be able to achieve sustainability without relying upon outside resources (i.e., inter-governmental transfers, joint service provision, or large-scale privatization), although obtaining such resources obviously would be beneficial. From a fiscal standpoint, this conclusion challenges the notion that core cities lack the internal capacity to meet their most critical challenges
The Grand Rapids Public Museum: What’s In A Building?
No full text“The Grand Rapids Public Museum has provided educational and community opportunities to the local area before and after 1937, however, a split was made from amateurism to professionalism with the procurement of a permanent building in 1937.
Lower Grand River Watershed Management Plan
No full textA Watershed Management Plan (WMP) considers many aspects of water usage and functions, and coordinates them into a comprehensive plan for managing the activities that govern how our natural resources are utilized or viewed. A WMP is developed to provide direction and prioritize how resources are used for the management, protection, or restoration of a watershed. A watershed approach is ideal for managing water resources since they cross jurisdictions and political boundaries. Often this fluid nature of water is overlooked or taken for granted. Water flows over the ground and picks up pollutants before reaching a lake, stream, wetland, or river. This same water is used for irrigation, swimming, aquatic life, and drinking. The Lower Grand River WMP takes into account the many needs that water resources must meet and composes a vision for the future.
This watershed project chose to focus on the portion of the Grand River Basin below the Looking Glass River confluence, near the City of Portland. This portion of the basin was referred to as the Lower Grand River Watershed (LGRW). Rather than following traditional guidelines for WMP development, the LGRW project produced a guidance document for creating WMPs for subwatersheds. The LGRW is intended to be used as a catalyst for developing other WMPs. One of the goals of this project is to develop a watershed organization that can serve as an umbrella for existing watershed management efforts or help establish future subwatershed groups. This WMP will be highly useful in the planning stage for future watershed projects.
A report to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1995 discovered that certain barriers to successful watershed planning exist depending on the scale of the project. The report discovered that large watershed projects often had difficulty coordinating local governments and setting water quality goals for the diverse problems that face large geographic areas. Conversely, small watershed projects lacked the scope to address regional problems and sometimes worsened conditions in other areas. The report recommends a solution to this paradox by planning on both scales. Large scale or basin-wide planning is needed to establish regional goals and objectives and small units are needed at the implementation phase (Adler, 1995).
The LGRW project is using this approach to design and implement the WMP. At the large scale, the project has produced a mission statement and vision. Goals and objectives are broad and encompass the needs of the diverse stakeholder groups. Implementation of the WMP is expected on the subwatershed level, by those closest to the problem. Small watershed projects that result from this project will be able to use the tools and information in this WMP to design and implement cost-effective solutions to local water quality problems
Grand-averaged vocal responses by group.
No full textGrand-averaged vocal responses to upward (top) and downward (bottom) pitch shifts for the a) opposing, b) following, and c) non-varying groups (blue line represents pre-training responses, red line represents post-training responses).</p
Preliminary Investigation of the Extent of Sediment Contamination in the Lower Grand River
No full textA preliminary investigation of the nature and extent of sediment contamination in the lower Grand River was performed. Three areas in the lower Grand River exceeded sediment quality guidelines for heavy metals and selected organic chemicals. The locations and parameters of concern are listed below:
Harbor Island (G20). Exceeds sediment PEL values for chromium, lead, nickel, and DDE in the top core section. Deeper core sections were extensively contaminated with heavy metals.
Spring Lake (G6). Exceeds sediment PEL values for chromium, lead, cadmium, nickel, and DDE.
Grand Haven (G12). Exceeds sediment PEL values for chromium and nickel. The sediments at this location exhibited a statistically significant level of toxicity to amphipods when compared to the control
Diabetes, Grand Rapids Restaurants and Hospitality and Tourism Research?
No full textThis work-in-progress paper outlines the instructional approach that is being used with a new Hospitality and Tourism Research course introduced into the Grand Valley State University hospitality and tourism management curriculum (Winter 2012). The course, which is at the Junior-Senior level, is intended to provide students with; an understanding of the relationship between general theory and applied research; the purposes and applications, procedures, constraints and management of applied research; and to help students compare and contrast quantitative and qualitative research. Twenty-two students have registered for the course. In the sections of this paper that follow a conceptual framework for instruction; the methods used in instruction; and how transformational learning will be assessed are outlined
First Post Office in Grand Forks, ca.1870
No full textPhotograph of the log cabin that was the first post office in Grand Forks, it belonged to Nicholas Hoffman. The building stood on the site of 711 Reeves Drive. Stanford C. Cady was the first postmaster of the city, he is credited for naming Grand Forks. He used the English derivative of the French term La Grandes Forches . Photo dates back to 1970\u27s. (Description taken from back of photograph.)https://commons.und.edu/gf-city-photos/1260/thumbnail.jp
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