A Regionally Based Energy End‐Use Strategy: Case Studies from Centre County,Pennsylvania*     

Deborah Feder 《The Professional geographer》2004,56(2):185-200

The production and use of fossil fuels and nonrenewable electricity creates many forms of environmental degradation. To reduce degradation, this research suggests an energy strategy based on energy end‐use analysis and regional geography. Energy end‐use analysis and regional geography are used to match renewable energy resources with site‐specific, end‐use needs. Fieldwork conducted within Centre County, Pennsylvania, demonstrates that small‐scale solar, wind, and micro‐hydropower resources could displace a proportion of household electricity use. Such an approach meets energy end‐use needs, while conserving fossil fuels and reducing environmental degradation.  相似文献   

Centrifuge modeling of load-deformation behavior of rocking shallow foundations   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Sivapalan Gajan  Bruce L. Kutter  Justin D. Phalen  Tara C. Hutchinson  Geoff R. Martin 《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》2005,25(7-10):773-783

Shallow foundations supporting building structures might be loaded well into their nonlinear range during intense earthquake loading. The nonlinearity of the soil may act as an energy dissipation mechanism, potentially reducing shaking demands exerted on the building. This nonlinearity, however, may result in permanent deformations that also cause damage to the building. Five series of tests on a large centrifuge, including 40 models of shear wall footings, were performed to study the nonlinear load-deformation characteristics during cyclic and earthquake loading. Footing dimensions, depth of embedment, wall weight, initial static vertical factor of safety, soil density, and soil type (dry sand and saturated clay) were systematically varied. The moment capacity was not observed to degrade with cycling, but due to the deformed shape of the footing–soil interface and uplift associated with large rotations, stiffness degradation was observed. Permanent deformations beneath the footing continue to accumulate with the number of cycles of loading, though the rate of accumulation of settlement decreases as the footing embeds itself.  相似文献   

Early growth of the last Cordilleran ice sheet deduced from glacio-isostatic depression in southwest British Columbia, Canada     

John J. Clague  Duane Froese  Ian Hutchinson  Karen M. Simon 《Quaternary Research》2005,63(1):53-59

Relative sea level at Vancouver, British Columbia rose from below the present datum about 30,000 cal yr B.P. to at least 18 m above sea level 28,000 cal yr B.P. In contrast, eustatic sea level in this interval was at least 85 m lower than at present. The difference in the local and eustatic sea-level positions is attributed to glacio-isostatic depression of the crust in the expanding forefield of the Cordilleran ice sheet during the initial phase of the Fraser Glaciation. Our findings suggest that about 1 km of ice was present in the northern Strait of Georgia 28,000 cal yr B.P., early during the Fraser Glaciation.  相似文献   

The Consumer Society and the Postmodern City by David B Clarke     

Deborah Leslie 《Area》2006,38(2):221-222

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用ANUDEM建立水文地貌关系正确DEM的方法研究   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

杨勤科  Tim R. McVicar  Mike Hutchinson  李领涛 《测绘科学》2006,31(6):155-157,148

针对区域尺度的径流、水土流失定量评价和植被适宜性评价等研究工作需要,利用1∶25万数字地形图和ANUDEM软件,对黄土丘陵区中等分辨率水文地貌关系正确DEM建立方法进行了研究。结果表明该方法所建立的DEM,可以正确反映地貌梁、沟结构及其与流水线网络的关系,对地形描述的能力优于TIN方法建立的DEM;利用ANUDEM和1∶25万地形图插值建立黄土丘陵区DEM的三个主要参数分别为分辨率50或100,计算迭代次数40,第二糙率系数0.8。  相似文献   

Risk considerations for crown pillar stability assessment for mine closure planning   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

D. Jean Hutchinson  C. Phillips  G. Cascante 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2002,20(1):41-64

Evaluation of the long-term surface stability of crown pillars overlying underground mines is an important component of mine closure planning. The definition of a crown pillar, as well as a brief discussion of the assessment of the probability and consequence of crown pillar failure are given in this paper. Techniques for stability assessment using mechanistic, empirical and numerical simulation techniques are discussed. Consequence assessment is discussed, but is still subjective and difficult to quantify. Where crown pillars are suspected to be marginally stable or unstable either at the time of the investigation or over the long term, and where the consequence of failure is medium to high, the closure plan for the site must include proposed rehabilitation alternatives. Selection of the optimum solution depends largely upon financial considerations, but also upon the common public expectation that the result of mine closure planning be a permanent solution that does not restrict public access or future land use on the site.  相似文献   

Using logistic regression to merge mineral resource databases     

Deborah J. Shields  Stella W. Todd 《Natural Resources Research》1998,7(1):53-61

The purpose of this project was to develop and test a methodology for determining the likelihood that mineral resource location records from two nationwide mineral resource information databases represent the same site. The long-term goal is to create a comprehensive database by merging the Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS) of the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Mineral Availability System/Mineral Industry Location System (MAS/MILS) of the U.S. Bureau of Mines (now part of the Geological Survey). Part of that process involves linking records for the same site from each database. Match probabilities were estimated using a logistic regression of mineral resource location attributes, derived from known matched (cross-referenced) and known unmatched randomly sampled mineral site pairs from within the conterminous United States (n=10,000). Model accuracy was assessed using a randomly sampled test dataset, not used in logistic model development (n=4,000). Probability distributions were similar between the development and test datasets. The overall agreement beyond chance was good for the test data set using the kappa statistic. Classification accuracy was 89.6% for known matched site pairs and 84.0% for known unmatched site pairs based on a probability threshold of 0.50 for a match. Distributions of attributes were similar between the development and test datasets. This classification method is a viable approach for estimating match probabilities between database records.  相似文献   

A natural resource damage assessment model for coastal and marine environments     

Thomas A. Grigalunas  James J. Opaluch  Deborah French  Mark Reed  Dean Knauss 《GeoJournal》1988,16(3):315-321

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Land remote sensing technology and methodology     

Charles F. Hutchinson 《Climatic change》1986,9(1-2):149-166

Remote sensing is a tool for gathering information about the Earth's surface and monitoring how it changes. A large number of remote sensing systems have been developed that exploit different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum and that produce data in different formats at varying scales and costs. These data may be acquired for virtually any place on Earth. A body of manual and automated techniques have evolved for processing and interpreting remote sensing data. The selections of a remote sensing system and of the techniques by which data are processed are driven by information requirements of varying detail and constrained by cost.  相似文献   

A literary geography of Soweto     

Deborah Hart 《GeoJournal》1986,12(2):191-195

Humanist inspired literary geography offers one avenue of enquiry into the study of place. Its prime intention is to untangle the subjective, personalised construction and connotations of place meaning. African literature offers a rich source of information into the black urban experience. The presentation focuses upon the literary interpretation of Soweto, South Africa's largest black township. The Sowetan environment emerges as a landscape of placelessness in which the overwhelming emphasis by white and black writers alike is upon relating appalling conditions in an austere and hostile environment.  相似文献